T. Dallas

The paper creates VIRION, a comprehensive database of vertebrate-virus associations, and demonstrates its utility for studying microbiology, ecology, and evolution.

This study compares and validates predictive models to prioritize sampling of bat hosts for betacoronaviruses, finding ecological trait-based models outperform network methods.

The paper examines how summer drought affects the predictability of local extinctions in a butterfly metapopulation, finding that drought reduces the informativeness of traditional covariates.

The paper critiques Osorio-Olvera et al. 2020's support for the abundant niche-centre hypothesis in North American birds, arguing that methodological choices influenced their conclusions.

This paper analyzes 1300 ecological networks from the mangal.io database to assess their spatial and biome coverage, revealing fragmentation and biases that hinder global synthesis and climate change forecasting.