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Nathan Whelan, EEOB Associate Professor and Director of the Museum of Biological Diversity, received an award from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) that will support work on the…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Casey Pennock, secured an additional $230K under his 5-year cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation. His work will inform recovery efforts of threatened and…
From Andes to the dry diagonal: phylogenomics and trait evolution elucidate the radiation of cacti in South American drylands.
Monique Romeiro-Brito, Flávia M. Lanna, Milena C. Telhe, Bryan C…
Rapid and repeated evolution of increased competitive ability in a global invader
Dávid U. Nagy, Ragan M. Callaway, S. Luke Flory, Christopher D. Barratt, Walter Durka, Ylva Lekberg, Marilia S…
Ecological stability of zooplankton communities in changing arctic lakes over three decades
Casey A. Pennock, Gary P. Thiede, Phaedra Budy, Anne Giblin, Chris Luecke, George W. Kling. Ecology…
From Data to Discovery: Characterizing the Scope and Limitations of Seedling Trait Studies in the U.S. With the EPiC Database
Nia M Johnson, Leah J Lenzo, Amelia G Renner, Sofia M A Al‐Shayeb,…
A multi-model framework for evaluating and partitioning environmental change impacts on fish population dynamics: a case study with Lake Erie Yellow Perch
Luoliang Xu, George C Brooks, Rujia Bi,…
Two new species of the subgenus Aliolus Say of the genus Eubazus Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from the United States
Cheng-jin Yan, Zhenhua Zu, Cornelis van Achterberg, Sufeng…
EEOB Professor, Stu Ludsin, gave the first plenary address at the 2026 American Fisheries Society (AFS) meeting in Columbus. Watch the video on Vimeo website. His introduction and presentation…
From collection trays to AI-ready data: An operational framework for automated batch entomological specimen processing
East, Alyson & Rayeed, S M & Campolongo, Elizabeth & Cain, Nathan & Earl,…
The convergent evolution of the pelvic suction cup: A unique key innovation in spiny-finned fishes
Emily P. Mcfarland, Aline P. M. Medeiros, Carmen D. R. Pedraza-Marrón, Lily C. Hughes, Stacy…
Beyond phoresy: ecological patterns, effects of host attributes, and temporal variation in mites...
Maria Beatriz Nunes-Souza, Maria Eduarda Barbosa Almeida, Erika Luiza dos Santos Torres, Hans…
Jeanne Serb, Professor and Chair of EEOB was recently featured on the Voices of Excellence podcast. She discussed how eyes evolved independently across animals, and outlined her research…
Determining ecological niche overlap between reservoir Blue Catfish and other sport fishes using stable isotopes and stomach contents
Jacob L Bentley , Stephen M Tyszko , Joseph D Conroy , Stuart…
Guest-ant social parasites avoid conflict with social hosts using venom signaling
Matthew R. Boot ,Kyle S. Sozanski, Mazie Davis, Ian M. Hamilton, Rachelle M. M. Adams .2026. PLoS One 21(8):…
From Andes to the dry diagonal: phylogenomics and trait evolution elucidate the radiation of cacti in South American drylands
Monique Romeiro-Brito, Flávia M. Lanna, Milena C. Telhe, Bryan C…
Integration promotes morphological innovation in deep-sea anglerfishes (Eupercaria: Lophiiformes)
HoWan Chan , Elizabeth C Santos , Kory M Evans. Evolution, qpag139, DOI: 10.1093…
Functional traits explain responses of Appalachian birds to vertical and horizontal forest structure
Trevor Roberts, Marta A Jarzyna, Chenyang Wei, Colin P Sweeney, Hikaru Keebler, Daniel Fink,…
Mandy Slate and Steve Hovick were awarded a grant from the EPA for "Enhancing wetland mitigation outcomes through symbiotic soil interactions."
Congratulations, Mandy & Steve!
Jenn Hellmann was awarded an NSF grant for "Vertical transmission of horizontally-acquired social information: Implications for transgenerational plasticity.”
Congratulations, Jenn!
Tracing early life stress in human molar morphology: Associations between linear enamel hypoplasia and maxillary first molar form
Erin C. Blankenship-Sefczek, Alan H. Goodman, Mark Hubbe, John P…
Revisiting a random model of lateral gene transfer in phylogenetics
Laura Kubatko, Simone Linz, Kristina Wicke. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2607.14653
Processes such as incomplete lineage sorting …
Integrating Science and Management to Improve Seed-Based Restoration
Laura C. Shriver, Jared D. Huxley, Samuel E. Jordan, Amy J. Symstad, Lesley A. DeFalco, John B. Bradford, Todd C. Esque,…
High quality genome for the threatened Louisiana Pearlshell Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
Samantha A Donohoo, Nathan V Whelan. Journal of Molluscan Studies, Volume 92, Issue 3, September…
Comment on “Assessing the potential for Smallmouth Bass population establishment in Grand Canyon”
Charles B Yackulic, Drew E Eppehimer, Lindsey A Bruckerhoff, Anna Amidon, Kevin R Bestgen,…
Assessing the Evolutionary Potential of Endangered Populations Using Genomic Analyses of Selection in Ecologically Important Gene Regions
Peri E Bolton, Drew R Schield, Daphne Kaur, H Lisle Gibbs…
Recognition of unfamiliar predators in domestic horses through only visual predator cues
Hofacker, R., Sebunia, N., Pihlblad, J., & Benderlioglu, Z. 2026. PLOS ONE, 21(7), e0349298. DOI: 10.1371…
EEOB Senior Lecturer, Zeynep Benderlioglu, and a team of undergraduate researchers from the Undergraduate Research Lab™ had their PLOS One journal article, Recognition of unfamiliar…
Repeated evolutionary turnover of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosins
Christina M. Harvey, Eric R. Schuppe, Michael S. Brainard, Matthew J. Fuxjager, James B. Pease. Proc. R. Soc. B (2026) 293 …
EEOB Associate Professor, James Pease, and recent lab graduate, Christina Harvey, were featured in an Ohio State news article for their newest publication, Repeated evolutionary turnover of…
EEOB Professor, Stuart Ludsin, was featured in an Arts and Sciences Voices of Excellence podcast recently. He discussed his research and the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory - Ohio Division of…
Ohio State News highlighted a recent Ecological Indicators publication by EEOB Ph.D. student, Seth Drake, EEOB assistant professors, Casey Pennock and Lindsey Bruckerhoff, and EEOB…
We have specimens at home: efficacy comparison of methods for genomic DNA capture in fluid-preserved crayfish specimens
Jesse R. Wallace, Quinton M. Skelly, Bryan C. Carstens, Marymegan Daly…
Managing for resilience with ecological structure: Portfolio effects in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Kayla RS Hale, Timothy J Fernandes, Reilly F O'Connor, Charlotte A Ward, Kevin Cazelles, Joey R…
Who stays, who leaves? Recreational fishing responses to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie
Yining Wu, Brent L. Sohngen, Stuart A. Ludsin. Ecological Economics, Volume 249, 2026, 109123, ISSN 0921…
Neural dynamic N-mixture model: a deep learning framework to infer demographic rates from count data
François Leroy 1, Marta A. Jarzyna. 2026. DOI: 10.32942/X23979
AbstractChanges in…
Beyond Flat Labels: Level-Restricted Contrastive Learning for Hierarchical Fine-Grained Vision Classification
Zhiyuan Tao, Srikumar Sastry, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Net Zhang,…
Cross-Modal Corroboration for Annotation-Free Wildlife Monitoring
Bharath Pillai, Varun Viswapriyan, Christopher Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Jenna Kline.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.21613
Genomic and physiological changes in a sexually selected and frugivorous bird radiation
Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Yasuka Toda, Meng-Ching Ko, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Robert J. Driver, Peri E…
Water quality improvements correspond with increased human use and occurrence of fish, aquatic insects, and freshwater mussels
Seth A. Drake, Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff, Robert Miltner, Nathaniel F…
Corrected identity of the alien sea anemone Cereus pedunculatus (Pennant, 1777) (Actiniaria: Sagartiidae) in South Africa
Miranda N. Andersen, Marymegan Daly, Tamara B. Robinson. Zootaxa, 5821 (4)…
FAIR^2 Drones: An AI-Ready Standard for Cross-Domain Wildlife Drone Datasets
Jenna Kline, Kilian Meier, Vandita Shukla, Edouard G. A. Rolland, Elena Iannino, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, Constanza…
EEOB PhD candidate David Hibler's work was recently featured in the American Institute of Stress' Combat Stress magazine spring issue! David's work focuses on using beekeeping as a…
Widespread Variation in Retinochrome Spectral Absorbance Across Scallop Phylogeny
Kyle E. McElroy, Anna K. G. Ward, Jorge A. Audino, Jeanne M. Serb. 2026. Molecular Ecology 35, no. 11: e70390. DOI…
Fire-survival strategies of first-year acacia seedlings
Arjun B. Potter, Charles D. Luchagula, Shira Mitchell, Nicholas Kortessis, James Pease, T. Michael Anderson. 2026. Journal of Ecology, 114,…
A Model of Subordinate Helping Decisions Under Varying Levels of Uncertainty
R Layne Gaynor, Ian M Hamilton. 2026. Behavioral Ecology, arag057, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arag057.
AbstractIn many…
Environmental and demographic mechanisms underlying population dynamics provide relative stability in an island songbird
James C. Mouton, Mario Pesendorfer, Nathan J. Hostetter, Scott A. Morrison,…
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a stronger inhibitor of overwintering dormancy than urban warming in mosquitoes
Lydia R. Fyie, Megan E. Meuti, Frances Sivakoff, Maria A. Fiorta, Mary M…
Leveraging Latent Visual Reasoning in Silence
Dongyao Zhu, Zhen Wang, Xi Xiao, Han Jiang, Saeed Vahidian, Wei-Lun Chao, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su, Raju Vatsavai, Jianyang Gu. 2026. DOI: 10.48550…
Ocular and extraocular expression of opsins reveals evolutionary trends underlying visual and non-visual functions in bivalves (Pteriomorphia)
Jorge A. Audino, Kyle E. McElroy, Jeanne M. Serb,…
Bank-dwelling beavers contribute to the wood regime in a dryland river
Casey A. Pennock, William W. Macfarlane, Phaedra Budy, Julianne Scamardo, Daniel C. White. 2026. Ecology107(5): e70396. DOI:…
EEOB associate professor, Rachelle Adams' proposal on using ants as biosensors has been selected for funding by Women & Philanthropy. She and her team are researching how ants' ability to detect…
OSU News has featured EEOB associate professor, John Hunter's recent Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology article on tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs and its…
Building Resilience in Dryland Ecosystems: A Climate Adaptation Strategy Menu for Pinyon–Juniper Woodlands
Jesse E. Gray, Mandy Slate, Alyson S. Ennis, Courtney L. Peterson, John B. Bradford, Adam…
The Effect of Heterospecific Song and Anthropogenic Sound on the Development of Life History Traits in a Field Cricket
Troy A. Bowers, Susan N. Gershman. 2026. Ethology1–11. DOI: 10.1111/eth.70077…
A new species of Salfacarus (Acari: Notostigmata) from South Africa with comparative notes on the genus
Ma. Magdalena Vázquez, Hans Klompen, Nancy E. Hernández-Magaña. Systematic and Applied…
An Ecological Dipole in North American Mast-Eating Small Mammal Dynamics
Jessica H. Barton, Ivy V. Widick, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Courtenay Strong, Marta A. Jarzyna, Jalene M. LaMontagne. 2026…
The Undergraduate Research Lab™ Spring 2026 Funding, Jobs, and Scholarships Newsletter for all OSU undergraduates is now available on the ArcGIS Story Maps site.
Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals
Lukas Picek, Timm Haucke, Lukáš Adam, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Lasha Otarashvili, Kostas Papafitsoros, Tanya Berger-Wolf,…
Overlooked pathways into ecology and implications for representation, identity, and retention: A focus group analysis
Ariel Rawson, Becky Mansfield, Carmen R. Cid, Amy E. Kulesza, Maria N. Miriti…
EEOB graduate student, Devan Mathie, was named the 2026 Center for Life Sciences Education (CLSE) Outstanding Lab & Recitation Instructor. This honor celebrates his sustained excellence in…
Advantages of experiential legacies are determined by interaction of environment and life history: A matrix-model approach
L. Zoe Almeida, Elizabeth A. Marschall. Ecological Modelling, Volume 517,…
Seasonality of Functional Distinctiveness in Global Avifauna
Marta Jarzyna, Reymond Miyajima, André Bellvé, Trevor Fristoe, James Mouton. 2026. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9247363/v1
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Corallorhiza striata is the first example of a pseudocopulatory orchid in North America and an instance of “double deception” in fully mycoheterotrophic plants
John V. Freudenstein, Craig…
Madison VonDeylen, a PhD student in the Meuti lab, won the Graduate School's Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) for the second year in a row!
View the entire list of recipients on the…
Joey Jaros, an EEOB PhD student in the Hovick Lab, won the ASC Graduate Student Award for Mentoring! Joey's feedback stated "...you’re making a profound impact on the student experience. The…
EEOB's Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) was recently featured in Axios Columbus. Nathan Whelan, the director of the museum, was quoted and also featured in the article. The…
John Hunter, Associate Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State Newark campus, discusses his research in the evolution, paleoecology, and…
Open letter: A call to integrate plant regeneration into sustainability science and policy
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Angelino Carta, Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Magda…
Spatial Patterns of Intraspecific Genetic Diversity Follow no General Rule Across Climatic and Geographic Gradients
Matthew O Moreira, Maria J Paúl, André V Liz, Ana C Carnaval, Bryan C Carstens,…
Adaptive Capacity of Freshwater Organisms in North America: Current Understanding and Future Applications
H. S. Embke, K. M. Alofs, D. O. Bunnell, C. Caudill, C. Chu, C. Dunn, K. Fogelman, S…
EEOB professors, Tanya Berger-Wolf and Stu Ludsin, are among 4 Ohio State University scientists elected to 2025 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. The…
Ecology and Reproduction of Bunodeopsis in Tropical Northwestern Atlantic Seagrass Ecosystems
Isabel A. M. Pen, Luisa F. Dueñas, Juan Armando Sánchez, Diana Carolina Vergara-Flórez, Carlos E…
Feeding ecology of Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish in Ohio reservoirs
Jacob L Bentley , Stephen M Tyszko , Stuart A Ludsin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, vqag002, DOI: 10.1093…
Tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs: implications for parental care in Maiasaura
John P. Hunter, Christine M. Janis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 690…
Tracking Phenological Status and Ecological Interactions in a Hawaiian Cloud Forest Understory using Low-Cost Camera Traps and Visual Foundation Models
Anirudh Potlapally, Luke Meyers, Yuyan Chen,…
The perceptual and spatial architecture of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies
Christopher Lawrence, Michelle Ramirez, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Owen McMilan, Daniel Rubenstein. doi: 10.64898…
Surviving the Squeeze: Genomic Analysis of a Successful Invasion by European Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis) in North America (Ohio, USA)
Emily R Bode, Andrew J Mason, Peri E Bolton, Ken…
Spatiotemporal environmental gradients shape early life stage fish densities, assemblage structure, and growth in river-reservoir ecosystems
Justin Furby and Casey A. Pennock. Canadian Journal of…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Robin Bagley, has been selected to receive a 2025-2026 ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award! This award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas -…
EEOB graduate alumna, Naava Schottenstein, was recently awarded the 2026 Remarkable Woman of the Year-Central Ohio, sponsored by NBC4i. Naava earned a Ph.D. in 2020 from The Ohio State University,…
EEOB assistant professor, Mandy Slate, was recently quoted in an article by National Public Radio discussing a new effort that seeks to protect specific types of plants. "Creating this…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Jenn Hellmann, was recently awarded a Department of Defense grant for her work, Predicting paternal resilience: mitigating intergenerational consequences of paternal…
Fire history and frequency alter arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal traits, community dynamics, and symbioses
Jacob R. Hopkins, Kristian Harris, and Alison E. Bennett. 2026. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2026…
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
François Leroy, Marta A. Jarzyna, and Petr Keil. Science, 26 Feb 2026, Vol 391, Issue 6788, pp. 917-9
Chronic predation risk induces sex-specific effects in behavior but does not induce long-term oxidative damage
Michaela M. Rogers, Jennifer K. Hellmann. doi: 10.64898/2026.02.23.707534
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The latest paper from Marta Jarzyna, Francois Leroy, and collaborator Petr Keil, entitled Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Preservation biases in the fossil record distort species ecological niche and distribution models
André M. Bellvé, Val J. P. Syverson, Jessica L. Blois, Marta A. Jarzyna. Ecography, 2026: e08085…
Invasion potential of nonnative fishes through a large western dam into an iconic and vulnerable ecosystem
Barrett Friesen, Casey A. Pennock & Phaedra Budy. Hydrobiologia (2026). DOI: 10.1007…
Braden DeMattei, a doctoral student in EEOB was recently named the recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s 2026 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. The…
Analysis of genomic data leads to an improved understanding of the phylogeny and biogeography of yellow bats
Sydney K Decker, Loren K Ammerman, Bryan C Carstens. 2026. Journal of Mammalogy,…
Putting the ‘Adaptive’ in Adaptive Monitoring: From Fast Data to Meaningful Ecological Change
Laura J Pollock, Pedro Henrique Pereira Braga, Christopher R. Florian, Katherine Hébert , Jenna Kline,…
Molecular data and museum collections reframe Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea) diversity and conservation priorities...
Nathan V. Whelan, Annika Baldwin, Jeffrey T. Garner, Paul D. Johnson…
Jim Hood and Stu Ludsin, EEOB faculty at in the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, were both recently awarded Ohio Department of Higher Education Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative (ODHE HABRI)…
Dr. Chenyang Wei earned first place in the postdoctoral competition of the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) for his talk, Space Birding: AI Meets Community Science. The 3MT was…
The Museum of Biological Diversity is excited to announce the Open House is back! The 2026 Open House will take place at the museum on March 28 from 10 am to 3 pm. This event is free and open to…
Megalomyrmex milenae Transcriptome Reveals a Complex Venom Cocktail
Kyle S Sozanski 1,†, Guilherme R Coelho 1,2,†, Marcela Akemi Ishihara 3, Alonso Delgado 1,4, Rachelle M M Adams. Toxins…
Updated chronologies for North American small mammal fossil localities in the Neotoma Paleoecology Database
Val J. P. Syverson, Simon J. Goring, Nicola Cullen, Marta A. Jarzyna, André M. Bellvé,…
John Hunter, an associate professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State Newark, has published an invited commentary in Proceedings of…