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Recovery from extreme desiccation enhanced by humid air and elevated CO2 in a widespread desert plant
Seth C. Boffa, Lloyd R. Stark, Casey M. Schine, Mandy L. Slate, John C. Brinda, Jenna T. B…
Reimagining Scientific Discovery: Collective Intelligence Through the Convergence of Citizen Science and Computational Systems
Saiph Savage, Lea Shanley, Lucy Fortson, Corey Jackson, Kevin…
Each semester, EEOB's undergraduate research lab prepares a university‑wide newsletter highlighting current funding opportunities, research jobs, internships, and scholarships available to…
How Tough a Passage? Nonnative Fish Entrainment Survivability at a Major Dam in the Western USA
Barrett Friesen, Casey A. Pennock, Phaedra Budy. 2026. DOI: 10.1002/rra.70188
AbstractThe…
Temporal links in avian migration schedules across the annual cycle
Brlík, Vojtěch; Procházka, Petr; Rushing, Clark; Storch, David; Schmaljohann, Heiko; Bulla, Martin; Skinner, Aaron; Jahn, Alex;…
Chronic Predation Risk Induces Sex-Specific Effects in Behavior but Does Not Induce Long-Term Oxidative Damage in the Threespined Stickleback
Michaela M. Rogers, Jennifer K. Hellmann. 2026…
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…