Publications

Yanco, Scott W., Christian Rutz, Briana Abrahms, Nathan W. Cooper, Peter P. Marra, Thomas Mueller, Brian C. Weeks, Martin Wikelski, and Ruth Y. Oliver. 2025. “Tracking Individual Animals Can Reveal the Mechanisms of Species Loss.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(1):10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.008

Yanco, Scott W., Ruth Y. Oliver, Fabiola Iannarilli, Ben S. Carlson, ..., and Ivan Pokrovsky. 2024. “Migratory Birds Modulate Niche Tradeoffs in Rhythm with Seasons and Life History.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(41):e2316827121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2316827121.

Wikelski, Martin, Michael Quetting, John Bates, Tanya Berger‐Wolf, ..., Ruth Y. Oliver, ..., and Roland Kays. 2024. “Introducing a Unique Animal ID and Digital Life History Museum for Wildlife Metadata.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(10):1777–88. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14407.

Oestreich, William K., Ruth Y. Oliver, Melissa S. Chapman, Madeline C. Go, and Megan F. McKenna. 2024. “Listening to Animal Behavior to Understand Changing Ecosystems.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39(10):961–73.

Parker, Evan J., Sarah R. Weiskopf, Ruth Y. Oliver, Madeleine A. Rubenstein, and Walter Jetz. 2024. “Insufficient and Biased Representation of Species Geographic Responses to Climate Change.” Global Change Biology 30(7):e17408. doi:10.1111/gcb.17408.

Oliver, Ruth Y., Melissa Chapman, Diego Ellis-Soto, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, Francesca Cagnacci, Jed Long, Matthias-Claudio Loretto, Robert Patchett, and Christian Rutz. 2024. “Access to Human-Mobility Data Is Essential for Building a Sustainable Future.” Cell Reports Sustainability 1(4).

Oliver, Ruth Y., Melissa Chapman, Nathan Emery, Lauren Gillespie, Natasha Gownaris, Sophia Leiker, Anna C. Nisi, David Ayers, Ian Breckheimer, and Hannah Blondin. 2024. “Opening a Conversation on Responsible Environmental Data Science in the Age of Large Language Models.” Environmental Data Science 3:e14.

Ellis-Soto, Diego, Ruth Y. Oliver, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, Urška Demšar, Brett Jesmer, Jed A. Long, Francesca Cagnacci, Federico Ossi, Nuno Queiroz, and Mark Hindell. 2023. “A Vision for Incorporating Human Mobility in the Study of Human–Wildlife Interactions.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 7(9):1362–72.

Oliver, Ruth Y., Fabiola Iannarilli, Jorge Ahumada, Eric Fegraus, Nicole Flores, Roland Kays, Tanya Birch, Ajay Ranipeta, Matthew S. Rogan, Yanina V. Sica, and Walter Jetz. 2023. “Camera Trapping Expands the View into Global Biodiversity and Its Change.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378(1881):20220232. doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0232.

Jetz, Walter, Grigori Tertitski, Roland Kays, Uschi Mueller, Martin Wikelski, Susanne Åkesson, ..., Ruth Y. Oliver, ..., and Cheryl Zook. 2022. “Biological Earth Observation with Animal Sensors.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37(4):293–98. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.011.

Thomson, Diane M., A. Kathryn McEachern, Emily L. Schultz, Kenneth Niessen, Dieter Wilken, Katherine Chess, Lauren F. Cole, Ruth Y. Oliver, Jennifer D. Phillips, and Acadia Tucker. 2022. “Diverse Native Island Flora Shows Rapid Initial Passive Recovery after Exotic Herbivore Removal on Santa Rosa Island, California.” Biological Invasions 24(6):1635–49. doi:10.1007/s10530-022-02735-4.

Oliver, Ruth Y., Carsten Meyer, Ajay Ranipeta, Kevin Winner, and Walter Jetz. 2021. “Global and National Trends, Gaps, and Opportunities in Documenting and Monitoring Species Distributions.” PLoS Biology 19(8):e3001336.

Davidson, Sarah C., Gil Bohrer, Eliezer Gurarie, Scott LaPoint, Peter J. Mahoney, Natalie T. Boelman, ..., Ruth Y. Oliver, ..., and Mark Hebblewhite. 2020. “Ecological Insights from Three Decades of Animal Movement Tracking across a Changing Arctic.” Science 370(6517):712–15. doi:10.1126/science.abb7080.

Oliver, Ruth Y., Peter J. Mahoney, Eliezer Gurarie, Nicole Krikun, Brian C. Weeks, Mark Hebblewhite, Glen Liston, and Natalie Boelman. 2020. “Behavioral Responses to Spring Snow Conditions Contribute to Long-Term Shift in Migration Phenology in American Robins.” Environmental Research Letters 15(4):045003.

Ahumada, Jorge A., Eric Fegraus, Tanya Birch, Nicole Flores, Roland Kays, Timothy G. O’Brien, Jonathan Palmer, Stephanie Schuttler, Jennifer Y. Zhao, Walter Jetz, Margaret Kinnaird, Sayali Kulkarni, Arnaud Lyet, David Thau, Michelle Duong, Ruth Y. Oliver, and Anthony Dancer. 2020. “Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet.” Environmental Conservation 47(1):1–6. doi:10.1017/S0376892919000298.

Oliver, Ruth Y., Daniel P. W. Ellis, Helen E. Chmura, Jesse S. Krause, Jonathan H. Pérez, Shannan K. Sweet, Laura Gough, John C. Wingfield, and Natalie T. Boelman. 2018. “Eavesdropping on the Arctic: Automated Bioacoustics Reveal Dynamics in Songbird Breeding Phenology.” Science Advances 4(6):eaaq1084. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaq1084.

Taylor, Benton N., Angelica E. Patterson, Moyosore Ajayi, Rachel Arkebauer, Karen Bao, Natalie Bray, Robert M. Elliott, Paul P. G. Gauthier, Jessica Gersony, Rebecca Gibson, Marceau Guerin, Sara Lavenhar, Caroline Leland, Léo Lemordant, Wenying Liao, Jerry Melillo, Ruth Y. Oliver, Case M. Prager, William Schuster, Naomi B. Schwartz, Christa Shen, Katherine Pavlis Terlizzi, and Kevin L. Griffin. 2017. “Growth and Physiology of a Dominant Understory Shrub, Hamamelis Virginiana , Following Canopy Disturbance in a Temperate Hardwood Forest.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research 47(2):193–202. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2016-0208.

Magney, Troy S., Jan U. H. Eitel, Kevin L. Griffin, Natalie T. Boelman, Heather E. Greaves, Case M. Prager, Barry A. Logan, Guang Zheng, Lixia Ma, Elizabeth A. Fortin, Ruth Y. Oliver, and Lee A. Vierling. 2016. “LiDAR Canopy Radiation Model Reveals Patterns of Photosynthetic Partitioning in an Arctic Shrub.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 221:78–93. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.02.007.