Jordan Karubian

Dec 10, 2024 | biorxiv.org | KuanJui Su |Jordan Karubian |Annelise Blanchette |Alanna J Frick

AbstractLead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. Identifying organisms that can serve as biomonitors of lead contamination and models to understand mechanisms of lead tolerance is therefore an important goal.

Nov 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | H. Anderson |Jordan Karubian |Katherine Rompf

1 INTRODUCTION Seed dispersal can benefit plants by reducing intraspecific competition and increasing escape from predators and pathogens that concentrate near parental plants (Connell, 1971; Janzen, 1970). In many systems, frugivorous birds act as ecosystem engineers by influencing plant recruitment at multiple levels. For example, birds may increase plant establishment by moving seeds away from parent plants into areas more favorable to their germination and recruitment (Wenny & Levey, 1998).

Aug 23, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jordan Karubian |Luis F. Carrasco |Luís Carrasco |Alison Ke |Evaristo Cedeño

1 INTRODUCTION Habitat conversion is the primary driver of modern terrestrial biodiversity loss (Newbold et al., 2015), causing local extinctions by decreasing population sizes, increasing population isolation, and, in turn, increasing the influence of stochastic events (Brooks et al., 2002; Wiens, 1992). Understanding how to conserve biodiversity in human-modified landscapes is therefore critical to mitigating the ongoing biodiversity crisis (Kremen & Merenlender, 2018).