PEER REVIEWED

2023

Jenny, L, Shapiro, L, Pierce, NE, Davis, CC, Davies, TJ, Meineke, EK. Herbivory is widespread across species in the Cucurbita genus. American Journal of Botany. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.16126

2022

Meineke, EK, Eng, DS, Karban, R. Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14328 pdf

Book Review: Meineke, EK. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. American Entomologist. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmac044

Book Chapter: Meineke, EK+, Youngsteadt, E+, Lippey, MK, Baldock, KCR. Terrestrial Invertebrates. In: Urban Biodiversity, eds: Myla Aronson, Charles Nilon, In Press +Contributed equally

Azevedo-Schmidt, L., Meineke, EK, Currano, ED. Insect herbivory within modern forests is greater than fossil localities due to human influence. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2202852119 pdf

Daru, BH, Willis, CG, Meineke, EK, Ronk, A, Zobel, M, Pärtel, M, Antonelli, A, Davies, TJ, Davis, CC. Biotic invasions drive the widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27186-8 pdf

Santangelo, JS + 247 others. Global urbanization drives parallel environmental and evolutionary change. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.abk0989 pdf

2021

Meineke, EK+, Daru, BH+. Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.08.003 +contributed equally pdf

Meineke, EK, Davis, CC, Davies, TJ. Phenological sensitivity to temperature mediates herbivory. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15600. pdf

Ossola, A, Cadenasso, M, Meineke, EK. Valuing the role of time in urban system science and ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.620620. pdf

2020

Soltis, PS, Nelson, G, Zare, A, and Meineke, EK. Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology. Applications in Plant Sciences; 8(6); doi: 10.1002/aps3.11371. pdf

Meineke, EK, Tomasi, C, Yuan, S, Pryer, KM. Applying machine learning to investigate long-term insect-plant interactions preserved within digitized herbarium specimens. Applications in Plant Sciences; 8(6); doi: 10.1002/aps3.11369. pdf

Pryer, KM, Tomasi, C, Wang, X, Meineke, EK, Windham, MD. Assessing the utility of computer vision for discriminating among closely related horsetails (Equisetum) using herbarium specimen images. Applications in Plant Sciences; 8(6); doi: 10.1002/aps3.11372. pdf

Pearson, KD, Nelson, G, Aronson, MFJ, Bonnet, P, Brenskelle, L, Davis, CC, Denny, EG, Ellwood, ER, Goëau, H, Heberling, JM, Joly, A, Lorieul, T, Mazer, SJ, Meineke, EK, Stucky, BJ, Sweeney, P, White, AE, Soltis, PS. Machine learning using digital herbarium specimens to accelerate phenological research. BioScience; doi: 10.1093/biosci/biaa044. pdf

Adams, BJ, Li, E, Bahlai, CA, Meineke, EK, Brown, BV. Both local and landscape-scale variables shape flying insect diversity in an urban environment. Ecological Applications; 30(4). doi: 10.1002/eap.2089. pdf

Hedrick, BP, Heberling, M+, Meineke, EK+, Turner, KG+, Grassa, CJ, Kennedy, J, Clarke, J, Cook, J, Edwards, SV, Davis, C. Digitization and the future of natural history collections. BioScience, 2020; doi: 10.1093/biosci/biz163. +Contributed equally pdf

2019

McGlynn, TP+, Meineke, EK+, Bahlai, CA, Li, E, Hartop, EA, Adams, BJ, and Brown, BV. Thermal gradients account for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019; 286(1912). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1818. +Contributed equally pdf

Lucas, JM, Madden, AA, Penick, CA, Epps, MJ, Marting, PR, Stevens, JL, Fergus, DJ, Dunn, RR, Meineke, EK. Azteca ants maintain unique microbiomes across functionally distinct nest chambers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019; 286(1908). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1026. pdf

Meineke, EK. Book Review: Innumerable insects: the story of the most diverse and myriad animals on earth. American Entomologist, 2019; 65(3): 205-206. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmz053. (Invited) link

Daru, BH, Kling, ML, Meineke, EK, van Wyk, A. Temperature controls phenology in continuously flowering Protea species of subtropical Africa. Applications in Plant Sciences, 2019; 7(3): e1232. doi: 10.1002/aps3.1232. (Invited) Special Issue: “Emerging Frontiers in Plant Phenology” pdf

Meineke, EK+, Davies, TJ+, Daru, BH, , Davis, CC. Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019; 374: 20170386. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0386. +Contributed equally pdf

Meineke, EK & Davies, TJ. Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019; 374: 20170393. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0393. pdf

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Meineke, EK, Classen, AT, Sanders, NJ, Davies, TJ. Herbarium specimens reveal increasing herbivory over the past century. Journal of Ecology, 2019; 107(1): 105-117. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13057. pdf

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This paper was shortlisted for the Harper Prize for the best paper in Journal of Ecology by an early career researcher.

2018

Meineke, EK, Davis, CC, Davies, TJ. The unrealized potential of herbaria for global change biology. Ecological Monographs, 2018; 88(4). doi: 10.1002/ecm.1307. pdf

Recognized as a “Top cited” article for 2018- 2019 in Ecological Monographs.

Meineke, EK & Frank, SD. Water availability drives tree growth responses to herbivory and warming. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018; 55(4). doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13130. pdf (Included in special issue “Urban Ecosystems” after publication)

Meineke, EK. Book Review: The Structure & Dynamics of Human Ecosystems: Toward a Model for Understanding and Action. Quarterly Review of Biology, 2018; 93(2). pdf

Terando, AJ, Youngsteadt, E, Meineke, EK, and Prado, SG. Accurate near surface air temperatures are necessary to gauge large-scale ecological responses to global change. Response to Ashcroft (2017). Ecology and Evolution, 2018; 8, doi: 10.1002/ece3.3972. pdf

2017

Terando, AJ, Youngsteadt, E, Meineke, EK, and Prado, SG. Ad hoc instrumentation methods in ecological studies produce highly biased temperature measurements. Ecology and Evolution, 2017; 7, doi: 10.1002/ece3.3499. pdf

Meineke, EK, Holmquist, AJ *, Wimp, GM, and Frank, SD. Changes in spider community composition are associated with urban temperature, not herbivore abundance. Journal of Urban Ecology, 2017; 3(1), doi:10.1093/jue/juw010. pdf

Before 2017

Meineke, EK, Youngsteadt, E, Dunn, RR, and Frank, SD. Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2016; 283, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1574. pdf  Featured in Nature as a Research Highlight

Meineke, EK, Dunn, RR, and Frank, SD. Early pest development and loss of biological control are associated with urban warming. Biology Letters, 2014; 10(11), doi: 10.1098/resbl.2014.0586. pdf

Meineke EK, Dunn RR, Sexton JO, and Frank SD. 2013. Urban warming drives insect pest abundance on street trees. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8(3), doi:10.1371.journal.pone.0059687. pdf  Featured in PLoS Collection: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change and in top 10% most cited articles in PLoS ONE

*Undergraduate mentee