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S. K. Morgan Ernest
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 77
Citations - 5959
S. K. Morgan Ernest is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Abundance (ecology). The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 73 publications receiving 5220 citations. Previous affiliations of S. K. Morgan Ernest include Texas Tech University & Utah State University.
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Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology.
TL;DR: It is argued that a synthetic understanding of size-abundance relationships will result from more detailed analyses of individual patterns and from careful consideration of how and why the patterns are related.
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Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
Felisa A. Smith,S. Kathleen Lyons,S. K. Morgan Ernest,Kate E. Jones,Dawn M. Kaufman,Tamar Dayan,Pablo A. Marquet,James H. Brown,John P. Haskell +8 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that it could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time.
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Complex Species Interactions and the Dynamics of Ecological Systems: Long-Term Experiments
TL;DR: Research programs in U.S. desert shrubland and pinyon-juniper woodland have shown that some environmental perturbations can cause wholesale reorganization of ecosystems and other changes may be buffered because of the compensatory dynamics of complementary species.
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Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments.
TL;DR: Three data sets on long-term trends in taxonomic richness and composition are examined and suggest that while species composition may be highly variable and change substantially in response to environmental change, species diversity is an emergent property of ecosystems that is often maintained within narrow limits.
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An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
Nathan Myhrvold,Elita Baldridge,Benjamin Chan,Dhileep Sivam,Daniel L. Freeman,S. K. Morgan Ernest,S. K. Morgan Ernest +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a normalized and consolidated database of up to 29 life-history parameters, containing at least one life history parameter for 21 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles, was created.