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Posted: Aug 05, 2025 - 12:00pm

Here are some of the publications from June-July that are authored by UNM Biology's faculty, staff, and students:

Anderegg, W.R.L., Blanchard, L., Anderson, C. et al. Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests. Nature 643, 1214–1222 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09116-6

Balk, M.A., Pardi, M.I., Tomé, C.P., Ø. Pedersen, R., Grady, J.M., Kathleen Lyons, S., Harding, L.E., Westover, M.L., Schroeder, K., Brown, J.H. and Smith, F.A. (2025), Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism. Ecography e07966. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07966

Bergsten, J., Nylander, J.A.A., Ospina, O.E., Lemmon, A.R. & Miller, K.B. (2025) Whole genome shotgun phylogenomics resolve the diving beetle tree of life. Systematic Entomology, 1–35. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12685

Cobos, M.E., Dunnum, J.L., Armién, B. et al. Selecting Sites for Strategic Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens: A Case Study in Panamá. EcoHealth (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-025-01731-z

Dara S. Yiu et al. Kelp forest loss and emergence of turf algae reshapes energy flow to predators in a rapidly warming ecosystem. Sci. Adv. 11, eadw7396(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adw7396

Denham, S. O., Browning, D. M., Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., Scott, R. L., Dalzell, B., Flerchinger, G. N., Clark, P. E., Goslee, S., Hoover, D. L., Litvak, M., Maritz, M., Huggins, D., Phillips, C. L., Prueger, J., Alfieri, J., Bracho, R., Silveira, M., & Whippo, C. W. (2025). Utility of near-surface phenology in estimating productivity and evapotranspiration across diverse ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Quality, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.70043

Fallon Kendra, Abatzoglou John T., Hurteau Matthew D., Butz Ramona J., Buchanan Beth, Pierce Jennifer, McNamara James, Cattau Megan, Seydi Seyd Teymoor, Sadegh Mojtaba (2025) A novel methodology to assess fuel treatment effectiveness: application to California’s forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 34, WF24220. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24220

Garcia BJ and I. Salinas, “ Is That Lymphocyte Aggregate a Tertiary Lymphoid Organ? Lymphoid Structures in Teleost Fish and the Challenges of Using Mammalian Definitions Across Vertebrate Phylogeny,” Immunological Reviews 332, no. 1 (2025): e70044, https://doi.org/10.1111/imr.70044

Hedberg, C.P. and Smith, F.A. (2025), Unraveling the role of environmental and anthropogenic drivers in shaping global patterns in mammal diversity. Ecography e07674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07674

Matula E, Korstvedt R, Takacs-Vesbach C, Aranda N, McKnight D. Characterizing the variability of Chlorophyta from McMurdo Dry Valley streams. Antarctic Science. Published online 2025:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102025000203

McCullough, J. M., DeCicco, L. H., Boseto, D., Moyle, R. G., & Andersen, M. J. (2025). What Is an Eared Nightjar? Ultraconserved Elements Clarify the Evolutionary Relationships of Eurostopodus and Lyncornis Nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae). Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v4i1.10183

Morales Chaya GN, Mubarak Hussain Syed. Cell cycle-dependent cues regulate temporal patterning of the Drosophila central brain neural stem cells. bioRxiv 2025.01.16.629716; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.629716

Oduor, N.A., Kariuki, D.W., Mkoji, G.M. et al. Evidence for persistent multilocus genotypes of Biomphalaria pfeifferi in a natural population in Kenya, with implications for transmission of Schistosoma mansoni. Parasites Vectors 18, 235 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06881-1

Ostrow EN, Lukas J Musher, Kevin Winker, Peter M Mattison, Christopher C Witt, Robert G Moyle, Last Glacial Maximum diversification implicated by continent-wide population structure in an avian top predator, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), Evolution, 2025;, qpaf129, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf129

Ostrow EN, Lukas J Musher, Kevin Winker, Peter M Mattison, Christopher C Witt, Robert G Moyle, Last Glacial Maximum diversification implicated by continent-wide population structure in an avian top predator, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), Evolution, 2025;, qpaf129, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf129

Paul DL, Cody W Thompson, Lizette Arroyo, Germán Botto Nuñez, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Jocelyn P Colella, Joseph A Cook, Michael V Cove, Jacqueline Dearborn, Noé U de la Sancha, Katrina Derieg, Jonathan L Dunnum, Adam W Ferguson, Kendall Fitzgerald, Courtney Foat, Lexi E Frank, Kurt Galbreath, Destiny F Gonzalez, Rebecca K Hawkins, Tommy Herrera, Alexander Hey, Andrew G Hope, Angela D Hornsby, Daniel Ibanez, Oliver Keller, Dianna Krejsa, Kailey Mahoney, Jason Malaney, Molly M McDonough, Thomas C McElrath, Verity Mathis, Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Ilana Mosley, Nicté Ordóñez-Garza, Kendra Phelps, Roy N Platt, Josh Pletcher, Hilary H Rinsland, Charles E Rupprecht, Kelly A Speer, Laura Steger, Nathan Upham, Richard Allen White, Ben J Wiens, Litsa Wooten, Pamela S Soltis, Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness, BioScience, 2025;, biaf035, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf035

Pennance, T., Tennessen, J.A., Spaan, J.M. et al. Genes linked to schistosome resistance identified in a genome-wide association study of African snail vectors. Nat Commun 16, 6918 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61760-8

Quiroga-Carmona, M., S. Liphardt, N. M. Bautista, et al. 2025. “ Species Limits and Hybridization in Andean Leaf-Eared Mice (Phyllotis).” Ecology and Evolution 15, no. 7: e71783. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71783

Rudgers JA, Catherine A. Gehring, D. Lee Taylor, M. Dylan Taylor, Y. Anny Chung. 2025. Integration of plant–soil feedbacks with resilience theory for climate change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.001

Russell M, Alex Webster, Carl Abadam, Katelin Fisher, Stephanie Campbell, Carmen Atchley, Kana Radius, Paris Eisenman, Ashley Apodaca-Sparks, Astrid Gonzaga, Rui Liu, Patrick Hudson, Anjali Mulchandani. 2025. Influence of particulate matter air quality on water quality of atmospheric water harvesting. Water Research, Volume 286, 124213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.124213

Salazar-Hamm, P.S.; Shrum Davis, S.; Catalán-Dibene, J.; Romero-Olivares, A.L.; Edge, K.; Bartlow, A.W.; Natvig, D.O.; Gorris, M.E. The Epidemiology of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) and the Disease Ecology of Coccidioides spp. in New Mexico (2006–2023). Pathogens 2025, 14, 607. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens14060607

Sampson, J.M., Mikolajova, K.J., Zimmerly, K.M. et al. Marsupial Ig genomics revisited and the potential role of retroelements in the limited number of heavy chain isotypes. BMC Biol 23, 215 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02327-3

Turnley, B.D., Kazenel, M.R., Wright, K.W. et al. Traits and functional diversity of a bee assemblage are linked to aridity. Oecologia 207, 96 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05732-1

Willson, K.G. and Hurteau, M.D. (2025), Trees in Fire-Maintained Forests Have Similar Growth Responses to Drought, but Greater Stomatal Conductance Than Trees in Fire-Excluded Forests. Glob Change Biol, 31: e70284. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70284

Willson, Kevin G.; Hurteau, Matthew D. 2025. Growth and stomatal conductance patterns among trees in fire-maintained and fire-excluded forests before, during, and after multiyear drought events. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2025-0029

Yan, Y., C. Xu, Y. Hautier, et al. 2025. “ Extreme Drought Decreases the Stability of Above- but Not Below-Ground Productivity Across Eurasian Steppes.” Global Change Biology 31, no. 6: e70303. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70303.

Zhang SM, Adema CM, Habib MR, Lekired A, Posavi M, et al. (2025) Complexity of schistosome vector bulinine snails in Kenya: Insights from nuclear genome size variation, complete mitochondrial genome sequence, and morphometric analysis. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 19(7): e0013305. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013305

For a full list of our department's publications, visit our Zotero Library

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