Alex L. Pigot

This study shows that speciation history influences sympatric species richness in birds, with older clades having higher richness due to longer time for species to accumulate in sympatry.

The paper quantifies the risk of functional misalignment in North American forests under future climate conditions using trait-based analysis of forest inventory data.

This study shows that butterfly visible and near-infrared reflectance respond differently to temperature and UV radiation, with phylogeny influencing trait-environment relationships.

Across 1281 bird assemblages and 3696 species, land-use change lowers functional redundancy and resistance to simulated extinctions despite lower vulnerability, hitting frugivores and invertivores hardest.

This study projects declines in plant-frugivore interaction diversity under climate change, with potential mitigation through bird dispersal and dietary flexibility.

This study shows that bird beak and body shapes are constrained by biophysical trade-offs, leading to specialized forms and faster evolutionary turnover at the extremes of morphospace.