Tyler C. Coverdale

TL;DR: DNA metabarcoding was used to quantify diet breadth, composition, and overlap for seven abundant LMH species (six wild, one domestic) in semiarid African savanna, suggesting that LMH diversity may be more tightly linked to plant diversity than is currently recognized.

TL;DR: A multifaceted dataset to quantify coastal trends and examine the role of economic growth in China's coastal degradation since the 1950s revealed positive relationships between most impacts and GDP across temporal and spatial scales, often lacking dropping thresholds.

TL;DR: This paper showed that termite-induced heterogeneity interacts with scale-dependent feedbacks to produce vegetation patterns at different spatial grains, suggesting that termites may help stabilize ecosystems under global change.

TL;DR: It is found that the localized depletion of top predators at sites accessible to recreational anglers has triggered the proliferation of herbivorous crabs, which in turn results in runaway consumption of marsh vegetation, suggesting that overfishing may be a general mechanism underlying the consumer-driven die-off of salt marshes spreading throughout the western Atlantic.

TL;DR: A general theoretical foundation for self-organization of social-insect colonies is provided, validated using data from four continents, which demonstrates that intraspecific competition between territorial animals can generate the large-scale hexagonal regularity of these patterns.