PUBLICATIONS

 

In Review

Lorenz DJ, Nieto-Lugilde D, Blois JL, Fitzpatrick MC, Williams JW (submitted) Downscaled and debiased climate simulations for North America from 21,000 years ago to 2100AD.


Maguire KC, Nieto-Lugilde D,  Blois JL, Fitzpatrick MC, Williams JW, Ferrier S, Lorenz DJ (submitted) Controlled comparison of species- and community-level models across novel climates and communities.


Nieto-Lugilde D, Maguire KC, Blois JL, Williams JW, Fitzpatrick MC (submitted) Community-level modeling: Theory, recent advances, and applications.


Johnston MR, Elmore AJ, Mokany K, Fitzpatrick MC. (submitted) Field-measured variables outperform derived alternatives in stream biodiversity models.


Katzner TE, Nelson DM, Braham MA, Doyle JM, Fernandez NB, Duerr AE, Bloom PH, Fitzpatrick MC, Miller TA, Culver RCE, Braswell L DeWoody JA (submitted) Continental-scale consequences of local-scale renewable energy development.


In press

Pylant C, Nelson DM, Fitzpatrick MC, Gates JE, Keller SR (in press) Geographic origin and population dynamics of bats killed at wind-energy facilities. Ecological Applications


2015

Fitzpatrick MC, Keller SR (2015) Ecological genomics meets community-level modeling of biodiversity: Mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation. Ecology Letters 18:1-16 Faculty of 1000


Nieto-Lugilde D, Maguire KC, Blois JL, Williams JW, Fitzpatrick MC (2015) Close agreement between pollen-based and forest inventory-based models of vegetation turnover. Global Ecology & Biogeography 24: 905–916


Maguire KC, Nieto-Lugilde D, Fitzpatrick MC, Williams JW, Blois JL (2015) Modeling species and community responses to past, present, and future episodes of climatic and ecological change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 46: 343-368


Gibb H et al. (2015) Climate regulates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 282: 20150418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0418


2014

Gavin DG et al. (2014) Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models, and phylogeography. New Phytologist 204:37-54


Ferrari J, Preisser EL, Fitzpatrick MC (2014) Modeling the spread of invasive species using dynamic network models. Biological Invasions 16:949-960


Landesmann WJ, Nelson DM, Fitzpatrick MC (2014) Soil properties and tree species drive beta-diversity of soil bacterial communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 76:201-209


2013

Fitzpatrick MC, Sanders NJ, Normand S, Svenning JC, Ferrier S, Gove A, Dunn RR (2013) Environmental and historical imprints on beta-diversity: Insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 280: 1768 (R scripts and data) Faculty of 1000


Blois JL, Zarnetske PL, Fitzpatrick MC, Finnegan S (2013) Climate change and the past, present, and future of biotic interactions. Science 341:499-504


Fitzpatrick MC, Gotelli NJ, Ellison AM (2013) Maxent vs. Maxlike: Empirical comparisons with ant species distributions. Ecosphere 4:art55 (R scripts and data)


Blois JL, Williams JW, Fitzpatrick MC, Jackson ST, Ferrier S (2013) Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 110:9374-9379


Elmore AJ, Julian JP, Guinn SM, Fitzpatrick MC (2013) Potential Stream Density in Mid-Atlantic U.S. Watersheds. PLoS ONE 8(8): e74819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074819


Blois JL, Williams JW, Fitzpatrick MC, Ferrier S, Veloz S, He F, Lui Z, Manion G, Otto-Bliesner B (2013) Modeling the climatic drivers of spatial patterns in vegetation composition since the Last Glacial Maximum. Ecography 36: 460-473


Record S, Fitzpatrick MC, Finley A, Veloz S, Ellison AE (2013) Should species distribution models account for spatial autocorrelation? A test of model projections across eight millennia of climate change. Global Ecology & Biogeography 22: 760-771 (R scripts and data)


2012

Fitzpatrick MC, Preisser EL, Porter A, Elkinton J, Ellison AE (2012) Modeling range dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes: Invasion of the hemlock woolly adelgid in eastern North America. Ecological Applications 22:472-486 (R scripts and data)


Broennimann 0*, Fitzpatrick MC*, Pearman P*, Petit-Pierre B, Pellissier L, Yoccoz NG, Thuiller W, Fortin M-J, Randin C, Zimmermann N, Graham C, Guisan A (2012) Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data. Global Ecology & Biogeography 21:481-497 *Co-first author (R scripts)


Dunn RR, Fitzpatrick MC (2012) Every Species is an Insect (or Nearly So): On insects, climate change, extinction and the biological unknown. Invited chapter in Hannah L (ed) Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change. Island Press. Purchase from Amazon.


2011

Fitzpatrick MC, Sanders NJ, Ferrier S, Longino JT, Weiser MD, Dunn RR (2011) Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America. Ecography 34:836-847


Fitzpatrick MC (2011) Understanding the distribution of life on Earth in an age of phylogenetic systematics (book review). Landscape Ecology 26:1049-1050


Jenkins CN, Andersen AN, Arnan X, Brühl CA, Cerda X, Ellison AM, Fisher BL, Fitzpatrick MC, Gotelli NJ, Gove AD, Lattke JE, Lessard JP, McGlynn TP, Menke SB, Parr CL, Philpott SM, Sanders NJ, Weiser MD, Dunn RR (2011) Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants. Diversity & Distributions 17:652–662


Belote T, Prisley S, Jones R, Fitzpatrick MC, de Beurs K. (2011) Forest productivity and tree diversity relationships depend on ecological context within mid-Atlantic and Appalachian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 261:1315–1324


Turner JL, Fitzpatrick MC, Preisser EL (2011) Simulating the dispersal of hemlock woolly adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) in the temperate forest understory. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 141:216–223 (R code and data)


Conn C, Claggett S, Drake B, Dunn J, Fitzpatrick MC, Hairston-Strang A, Inouye D, Limpert D, Miles W, Samson D, Sprague E (2011) Forests and terrestrial ecosystems. In Boicourt K and Johnson ZP (eds) Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Maryland’s Vulnerability to Climate Change, Phase II: Building societal, economic, and ecological resilience. (LARGE FILE ~31MB)


2010

Fitzpatrick MC, Preisser EL, Porter A, Elkinton J, Waller LA, Carlin BP, Ellison AE (2010) Ecological boundary detection using Bayesian areal wombling. Ecology 91:3448–3455 (R/WinBUGS scripts and data)


Svenning JC, Fitzpatrick MC, Normand S, Graham CH, Pearman PB, Iverson LR, Skov F (2010) Geography, topography, and history affect realized-to-potential tree species richness patterns in Europe. Ecography 33:1070-1080; Faculty of 1000; US_IALE Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology - Honorable Mention 2012


2009

Fitzpatrick MC, Preisser E, Ellison AE, Elkinton J (2009) Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations. Ecological Applications 19:1673-1679 (R scripts)


Fitzpatrick MC, Hargrove WW (2009) The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:2255–2261


Gove A, Fitzpatrick MC, Majer JD, Dunn RR (2009). Dispersal traits linked to range size through range location, not dispersal ability in Western Australian angiosperms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:596-606


Dunn RR, Agosti D, Andersen AN, Bruhl CA, Cerda X, Ellison AM, Fisher BL, Fitzpatrick MC, Gibb H, Gotelli NJ, Gove AD, Guenard B, Janda M, Kaspari M, Laurent EJ, Lessard JP, Longino JT, Majer JD, Menke SB, McGlynn TP, Parr CL, Philpott SM, Pfeiffer M, Retana J, Suarez AV, Vasconcelos HL, Weiser MD, and Sanders NJ (2009) Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12: 324-333


Ingwell L, Brady J, Fitzpatrick MC, Maynard B, Casagrande R, Preisser E (2009). Intraspecific variation in Tsuga canadensis foliar chemistry. Northeastern Naturalist 16:585-594


Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Fitzpatrick MC, Carlton CE, Pogue MR, Parker CR, Simons TR (2009) A diversity of elevational diversity gradients. In Data mining for global trends in mountain biodiversity Edited by Körner C and Spehn E (Invited)


2008

Fitzpatrick MC, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2008) Datasets matter, but so do evolution and ecology: A response to Peterson and Nakazawa. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 562-565


Fitzpatrick MC, Gove AD, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR (2008) Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: The Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14:1337-1352


Serveiss V, Catanzaro D, Fitzpatrick MC, Hargrove WW, Eskew D (2008) Predicting future introductions of nonindigenous species to the Great Lakes. National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC. EPA/600/R-08/066F


2007

Fitzpatrick MC, Weltzin JF, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR (2007) The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range? Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 24-33


Sanders NJ, Weltzin JF, Crutsinger GM, Fitzpatrick MC, Nuñez MA, Oswalt CM, Lane KE (2007) Insects mediate the interactive effects of propagule supply and resource availability . Ecology 88: 2383-2391

Dunn RR, Sanders NJ, Fitzpatrick MC, Laurent E, Lessard J-P and 22 co-authors. (2007) Global ant biodiversity and biogeography – a new database and its possibilities. Myrmecologische Nachrichten (Myrmecological News) 10: 77-83


Sanders NJ, Lessard J-P, Dunn RR, Fitzpatrick MC (2007) Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 640-649


2005

Fitzpatrick MC, Weltzin JF (2005) Ecological niche models and the geography of biological invasions: A review and a novel application. Invited chapter in Inderjit (ed) Invasive plants: Ecological and agricultural aspects. Birkhauser-Verlag AG, Basal, Switzerland


Fitzpatrick MC, Weltzin JF (2005) Characterizing ecosystem response to climate variability (book review). Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:600-601