PUBLICATIONS

“Nearly every great discovery in science has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer.”

- Paul A. Meglitsch -

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Biotic interactions drive many macro-ecological patterns across deep time, and these can be detected with quantitative methods.

Biotic interactions drove coexistence of mammals until the Pleistocene extinctons of large mammals.

Human impacts affected the ranges of mammals differently in the last 10,000 years, driving large mammals away from preferred habitats and facilitating the expansion of small mammals.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2022

Keller A, Ankenbrand M, Bruelheide H, Dekeyzer S, Enquist B, Erfanian M, Falster D, Gallagher R, Hammock J, Kattge J, Leonhard S, Madin J, Maitner B, Neyret M, Onstein R, Pearse W, Poelen J, Salguero-Gómez R, Schneider FD, Tóth AB, Penone C. 2022. Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Fraser D, Villaseñor A, Tóth AB, Balk MA, Eronen JT, Gotelli NJ, Amatangelo KL, Barr WA, Behrensmeyer AK, Davis M, Du A, Faith JT, Graves GR, Jukar AM, Looy CV, McGill BJ, Miller JH, Pineda-Muñoz S, Potts R, Shupinski AB, Soul LC, Lyons SK. 2022. Profound late Quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Nature Communications.

2021

Keil P, Wiegand T, Tóth AB, McGlinn DJ and Chase JM, 2021. Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity. Ecological Monographs, in Press.

Pineda-Munoz S, Wang Y, Lyons SK, Tóth AB, & McGuire JL. 2021. Mammal species occupy different climates following the expansion of human impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(2).

2020

Pineda-Munoz S, Jukar AM, Tóth AB, Fraser D, Du A, Barr WA, Amatangelo KL, Balk MA, Behrensmeyer AK, Blois JL , Davis M, Eronen JT , Gotelli NJ, Looy CV, Miller JH, Shupinski AB, Soul LC, Villaseñor A, Wing S, Lyons SK. 2021. Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography 44(1), pp.56-66

Fraser D, Soul LC, Tóth AB, Balk MA, Eronen JT, Pineda-Muñoz S, Shupinski AB, Villaseñor A, Barr WA, Behrensmeyer AK, Du A, Faith JT, Gotelli NJ, Graves GR, Jukar AM, Looy CV, Miller JH, Potts R, Lyons SK. 2020. Investigating biotic interactions in deep time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

2019

Tóth AB, Lyons SK, Barr WA, Behrensmeyer AK, Blois JL, Bobé R, Davis M, Du A, Eronen JT, Faith JT, Fraser D, Gotelli NJ, Graves GR, Jukar AM, Miller JH, Pineda-Muñoz S, Soul LC, Villaseñor A, Alroy J. 2019. Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. Science. 365(6459), pp. 1305-1308. doi: 10.1126/science.aaw1605

2016

Lyons SK, Miller JH, Amatangelo KL, Behrensmeyer AK, Bercovici A, Blois JL, Davis M, DiMichele WA, Du A, Eronen JT, Faith JT, Graves GR, Jud N, Labandeira CC, Looy CV, McGill B, Patterson D, Pineda-Muñoz S, Potts R, Riddle B, Terry RC, Tóth AB, Ulrich W, Villaseñor A, Wing SL, Anderson H, Anderson J, and Gotelli NJ. 2016. Reply to How foreign is the past. Nature 538, doi:10.1038/nature20097.

Lyons SK, Miller JH, Tóth AB, Amatangelo KL, Behrensmeyer AK, Bercovici A, Blois JL, Davis M, DiMichele WA, Du A, Eronen JT, Faith JT, Graves GR, Jud N, Labandeira CC, Looy CV, McGill B, Patterson D, Pineda-Muñoz S Potts R, Riddle B, Terry RC, Ulrich W, Villaseñor A, Wing SL, Anderson H, Anderson J, and Gotelli NJ. 2016. Reply to Questioning Holocene community shifts. Nature 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19110

Lyons SK, Amatangelo KL, Behrensmeyer AK, Bercovici A, Blois JL, Davis M, DiMichele WA, Du A, Eronen JT, Faith JT, Graves GR, Jud N, Labandeira CC, Looy CV, McGill B, Miller JH, Patterson D, Pineda-Muñoz S Potts R, Riddle B, Terry RC, Tóth AB, Ulrich W, Villaseñor A, Wing SL, Anderson H, Anderson J, Waller, D. and Gotelli NJ. 2016. Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts. Nature 529:80-82. doi:10.1038/nature16447

Žliobaitė I, Rinne J, Tóth AB, Mechenich M, Liu L, Behrensmeyer AK, and Fortelius M. 2016. Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems. PNAS, 113(45), pp. 12751–12756. doi:10.1073/pnas.1609409113.

2014

Blois JL, Gotelli NJ, Behrensmeyer AK, Faith JT, Lyons SK, Williams J, Amatangelo KL, Bercovici A, Du A, Eronen JT, Graves GR, Jud N, Labandeira CC, Looy CV, McGill B, Patterson D, Potts R, Riddle B, Terry RC, Tóth AB, Villaseñor A, and Wing SL. 2014. A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary. Ecography 37(11):1095-108.

Tóth AB, Lyons SK, and Behrensmeyer AK. 2014. A century of change in Kenya’s mammal communities: Increased richness and decreased uniqueness in six protected area. PLoS One 9(e93092). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093092

Tóth AB, Lyons SK, and Behrensmeyer AK. 2014. Mammals of Kenya's protected areas from 1888 to 2013. Ecology 95, pp. 1711–1711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-2118.1

Miller JH, Behrensmeyer AK, Du A, Lyons SK, Patternson D, Tóth AB, Villaseñor A, Kanga E, Reed D. 2014. Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya). Paleobiology 40(4), pp. 560-583.

2012

Micancin JP, Tóth AB, Anderson R, and Mette JT. 2012. Sympatry and syntopy of the Cricket Frogs Acris crepitans and A. gryllus in southeastern Virginia, USA, and decline of A. gryllus near the northern edge of its range. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 7(3), pp 276-298.