A. Michelle Lawing

Appalachian State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(32), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(25), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(24), Amphibian and Reptile Biology(19), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(13)

Publications86 total

Conservation biology: Fossils inform the future
Current Biology·2025Open Access
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological, and climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework
Palaeontology·2025Open Access
commecometrics: an R package for trait-environment modelling at the community level
Biodiversity Data Journal·2025Open Access
Evolutionary increases in body size are linked to female pelvis evolution in response to habitat rather than reproduction
Journal of Anatomy·2025
commecometrics: Ecometric Models of Trait–Environment Relationships at the Community Level
2025Open Access
Working together: gut microbe-microbe interactions shape host inflammation
Infection and Immunity·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Integrating ensemble habitat suitability models to guide conservation strategies for the endangered Houston toad Anaxyrus houstonensis
Endangered Species Research·2025Open Access
Sexual Dimorphism in Dispersal Traits for the Highly Invasive Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Ichthyology & Herpetology·2025
ppgm: PaleoPhyloGeographic Modeling of Climate Niches and Species Distributions
2024Open Access
Ecometric models of small mammal hypsodonty can estimate paleoprecipitation across eastern Africa
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Fossil snakes of the Penny Creek Local Fauna from Webster County, Nebraska, USA, and the first record of snakes from the Early Clarendonian (12.5-12 Ma) of North America
Palaeontologia Electronica·2024Open Access
Ophidian physique: the capacity of middle trunk vertebral shape for quantitative taxonomic delimitation in snakes
2023Open Access
Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna occurred in the middle Pleistocene
Nature Communications·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Assessing Impact of Domestic and Non-Native Species on Trait-Environment Relationships Using Hypsodonty and Precipitation Since the Late Pleistocene
Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History·2023Open Access
Pleistocene Disruption of Trait-Environment Relationships Informs the Future Conservation of African Megafauna
Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History·2023Open Access
The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 26 citedOpen Access
Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities: Dataset
Figshare·2023Open Access
A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data
iScience·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity
Science·2022· 101 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

P. David Polly(13), Rachel A. Short(8), Jesse M. Meik(7), Jussi T. Eronen(5), Leila Siciliano‐Martina(5), Jessica E. Light(5), Jason J. Head(4), Jessica L. Blois(4), Jenny L. McGuire(4), Rhonda Struminger(4), Jill Zarestky(4), Emı́lia P. Martins(3), Lauren Vilen(3), Edward Davis(2), Mikael Fortelius(2), Jan Schnitzler(2), Nils Chr. Stenseth(2), Adrian A. Castellanos(2), Gary Voelker(2), Robert N. Coulson(2)