Vaughn Shirey

University of Southern California — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

14h-index716citations69works5.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(38), Plant and animal studies(26), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(21), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(7), Remote Sensing in Agriculture(6)

Publications69 total

Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths
Nature Reviews Biodiversity·2026
Digitisation of historical specimens from the Hog Island Audubon Camp Natural History Collection, Maine
Biodiversity Data Journal·2026Open Access
Twenty years (2000–2020) of butterfly monitoring data across the contiguous United States
Scientific Data·2025Open Access
Toward a global repository of insect traits ( <scp>GRIT</scp> )
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Day versus night and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Lepidoptera
2025Open Access
The urban tree of life: quantifying relationships between body size and urban tolerance for more than 30,000 plant and animal species
2025Open Access
iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research
BioScience·2025· 28 citedOpen Access
Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence
Current Biology·2025Open Access
Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence
Current Biology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
50 years of invertebrate conservation under the United States Endangered Species Act—history and threats to species
Frontiers in Conservation Science·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis
Nature Reviews Biodiversity·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Review for "Identifying sites with high biodiversity value using filtered species records from a biodiversity information facility"
2024
Deep computer vision reveals the mediation of thermal-melanism and body size by precipitation and sex in a threatened alpine butterfly, <i>Parnassius smintheus</i>
2024Open Access
Rising minimum temperatures contribute to 50 years of occupancy decline among cold‐adapted Arctic and boreal butterflies in North America
Global Change Biology·2024· 14 cited
Reliable estimation of butterfly flight period phenology from occurrence records
2024Open Access
Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem
Scientific Reports·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
Climate change-induced degradation of expert range maps drawn for kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and long-standing current and future sampling gaps across the Americas
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robert Guralnick(9), Elise A. Larsen(8), Leslie Ries(8), Vijay Barve(6), Pedro Cardoso(6), Laura Melissa Guzman(6), Naresh Neupane(6), Marta A. Jarzyna(5), Michael W. Belitz(5), Tyler M. Rippel(5), Charles Minsavage-Davis(5), Gina M. Wimp(5), Akito Y. Kawahara(4), Jomar D. Hinolan(4), Micael Itliong(4), Mark Arcebal K. Naive(4), Naomi E. Pierce(4), David J. Lohman(4), Corey T. Callaghan(4), Jayme M. M. Lewthwaite(4)