Sean McHugh
@sean_w_mchugh
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WUSTL PhD student interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, biogeography, niche evolution, and natural history. Huge herp nerd. he/him.
St Louis, Mo
Joined January 2022
Back from a fantastic #Evol2024 meeting in Montreal, and I’m very pleased to officially talk about this project again, now published in @ScienceAdvances
New research proposes that groups of birds with early origins associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction experienced rapid evolutionary changes across their genomes and physiology. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: https://t.co/1hXdXU6dT0
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Check out our latest paper, in which we explore how Bergmann's (body size variation) and Allen's rules (beak size variation) interact synergically in birds along temperature gradients. @WUSTL, @UTAustin, @unicomplutense, @UniBarcelona, @IRBioUB. https://t.co/ySXGi4o0eB
nature.com
Nature Communications - Birds can adapt to temperature gradients by changing body size (Bergmann’s rule) or bill size (Allen’s rule), but many groups don’t conform to these...
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I’m excited to share a new preprint that I wrote with @landismj! A tutorial is available at https://t.co/cTJ1xMo5pI. Feel free to DM or email for more info! 🧵 https://t.co/1FO7RBHZLt
biorxiv.org
The spatial and environmental features of regions where clades are evolving are expected to impact biogeographic processes such as speciation, extinction, and dispersal. Any number of regional...
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Happy to share a new pre-print with Sonal Singhal, @fieldpalaeo @phylonatworks @sean_w_mchugh J. R. Shipley @EliotITMiller @RKimball_UF @EdwardLBraun1 Alex Dornburg, @tomopfuku Richard Prum @Friedman_Lab and @evoblackrim 🧵 @UMichEEB @UMichPaleo
https://t.co/5anC4NogLi
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Species distribution models (SDMs) require many complex decisions which often lack best practices. @BLeroyEcology establishes new best practices for presence-only SDMs https://t.co/Nn5WHUvLGh
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BePhyNE is currently available on github as an R package https://t.co/p4jpbZPNC1 to install and use please follow the available vignette on how to install the package and use the method. Comments welcome. 3/3
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Bayesian Method for Environmental Phylogenetic Niche Estimation in R - sean-mchugh/BePhyNE
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By analyzing jointly, evolution can inform niche and niche can inform the evolutionary model, rather than being a two step process. This means that we can estimate niche and uncertainty, even for species that are data deficient, or even have no occurrence data! 2/3
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New preprint on my Master's work with @pseudacris, @Analyssi, and Emma White! https://t.co/ZNhBaLRzEK on jointly estimating species niches and multivariate BM underlying niche evolution directly from occurrence data. 1/3
biorxiv.org
When studying how species will respond to climatic change, a common goal is to predict how species distributions change through time. Environmental niche models (ENMs) are commonly used to estimate a...
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Assessing Bayesian Phylogenetic Information Content of Morphological Data Using Knowledge from Anatomy Ontologies https://t.co/NhqbnYB3IT
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