Google Scholar profile for Morgan W. Tingley and most recent publications
Email: mtingley[at]ucla.edu for reprints not posted here
In Press and 2023
Tonelli, B.A., Youngflesh, C., and Tingley, M.W. (2023). Geomagnetic disturbance associated with increased vagrancy in migratory landbirds. Scientific Reports 13, 414. [link]
Neate‐Clegg, M.H.C., and Tingley, M.W. (2023). Adult male birds advance spring migratory phenology faster than females and juveniles across North America. Global Change Biol 29. [link]
2022
Youngflesh, C., Saracco, J.F., Siegel, R.B., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). Abiotic conditions shape spatial and temporal morphological variation in North American birds. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1860–1870. [link]
Pendleton, D.E., Tingley, M.W., Ganley, L.C., Friedland, K.D., Mayo, C., Brown, M.W., McKenna, B.E., Jordaan, A., and Staudinger, M.D. (2022). Decadal‐scale phenology and seasonal climate drivers of migratory baleen whales in a rapidly warming marine ecosystem. Global Change Biol. [link]
Shuman, J.K., Balch, J.K., Barnes, R.T., Higuera, P.E., Roos, C.I., Schwilk, D.W., Stavros, E.N., Banerjee, T., Bela, M.M., Bendix, J., 69 others, Tingley, M.W., A. Tohidi, A. T. Trugman, M. Turetsky, J. M. Varner, Y. Wang, T. Whitman, S. Yelenik, X. Zhang (2022). Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene. PNAS Nexus 1. [link]
Sandor, M.E., Elphick, C.S., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). Extinction of biotic interactions due to habitat loss could accelerate the current biodiversity crisis. Ecol Appl, e2608. [link]
Grames, E.M., Montgomery, G.A., Boyes, D.H., Dicks, L.V., Forister, M.L., Matson, T.A., Nakagawa, S., Prendergast, K.S., Taylor, N.G., Tingley, M.W., D. L. Wagner, T. E. White, P. Woodcock, and C. S. Elphick. (2022). A framework and case study to systematically identify long‐term insect abundance and diversity datasets. Conservation Sci Pract 4. [link]
Ramesh, V., Gupte, P.R., Tingley, M.W., Robin, V.V., and DeFries, R. (2022). Using citizen science to parse climatic and land cover influences on bird occupancy in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecography 2022. [link]
Spence, A.R., LeWinter, H., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) physiological response to novel thermal and hypoxic conditions at high elevations. J Exp Biology 225. [link]
Nimmo, D.G., Andersen, A.N., Archibald, S., Boer, M.M., Brotons, L., Parr, C.L., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire. Diversity and Distributions 28, 350.
Spence, A.R., Rankin, E.E.W., and Tingley, M.W. (2021). DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds. Ornithology 139, 1–14. [link]
Stillman, A.N., Caiafa, M.V., Lorenz, T.J., Jusino, M.A., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). DNA metabarcoding reveals broad woodpecker diets in fire-maintained forests. Ornithology 139. [link]
Jones, G.M., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook. Divers Distrib 28, 386–403. [link]
Burgio, K.R., Carlson, C.J., Bond, A.L., Rubega, M.A., and Tingley, M.W. (2022). The two extinctions of the Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis. Bird Conserv Int 32, 498–505. [link]
2021
Youngflesh, C., Socolar, J., Amaral, B.R., Arab, A., Guralnick, R.P., Hurlbert, A.H., LaFrance, R., Mayor, S.J., Miller, D.A.W., & Tingley, M.W. 2021. Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5, 987–994. [link]
Stillman, A.N., Lorenz, T.J., Siegel, R.B., Wilkerson, R.L., Johnson, M., and Tingley, M.W. (2021). Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire. Behav Ecol 33, arab106. [link]
Loverin, J.K., Stillman, A.N., Siegel, R.B., Wilkerson, R.L., Johnson, M., and Tingley, M.W. (2021). Nestling provisioning behavior of Black‐backed Woodpeckers in post‐fire forest. J Field Ornithol 92, 273–283. [link]
Zhou, Y., Tingley, M.W., Case, M.F., Coetsee, C., Kiker, G.A., Scholtz, R., Venter, F.J., & Staver, A.C. (2021). Woody encroachment happens via intensification, not extensification, of species ranges in an African savanna. Ecol Appl. [link]
Spence, A.R., & Tingley, M.W. 2021. Body size and environment influence both intraspecific and interspecific variation in daily torpor use across hummingbirds. Functional Ecology, 35, 870–883. [link]
Stillman, A.N., Lorenz, T.J., Fischer, P.C., Siegel, R.B., Wilkerson, R.L., Johnson, M., & Tingley, M.W. 2021. Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist in response to variation in fire characteristics. Journal of Animal Ecology. [pdf]
Herder, E.A., Spence, A.R., Tingley, M.W., & Hird, S.M. 2021. Elevation correlates with significant changes in relative abundance in hummingbird fecal microbiota, but composition changes little. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 534. [link]
Wells, H.L., Letko, M., Lasso, G., Ssebide, B., Nziza, J., Byarugaba, D.K., Navarrete-Macias, I., Liang, E., Cranfield, M., Han, B.A., Tingley, M.W., Diuk-Wasser, M., Goldstein, T., Kreuder Johnson, C., Mazet, J.A.K., Chandran, K., Munster, V.J., Gilardi, K., & Anthony, S.A. 2021. The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution, 7, veab007. [link]
Montgomery, G.A., M.W. Belitz, R.P. Guralnick, & M.W. Tingley. 2021. Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:513. [link]
Steen, V.A., M.W. Tingley, P.W.C. Patton, & C.S. Elphick. 2021. Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12:216–226. [link]
Montaño-Centellas, F., B.A. Loiselle, & M.W. Tingley. 2021. Ecological drivers of avian community assembly along a tropical elevation gradient. Ecography, 44:574–588. [link]
Zipkin, E.F., Zylstra, E.R., Wright, A.D., Saunders, S.P., Finley, A.O., Dietze, M.C., Itter, M.S., & Tingley, M.W. 2021. Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19:30–38. [pdf]
Rollinson, C.R., Finley, A.O., Alexander, M.R., Banerjee, S., Dixon Hamil, K.-A., Koenig, L.E., Locke, D.H., DeMarche, M., Tingley, M.W., Wheeler, K., Youngflesh, C., & Zipkin, E.F. 2021. Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19:66–72. [pdf]
2020
Bressler, S.A., E.S. Diamont, M.W. Tingley, & P.J. Yeh. 2020. Nests in the cities: adaptive and non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and convergence in an urban bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20202122. [pdf]
Kelly, L.T., K.M. Giljohann, …, M.W. Tingley, & L. Brotons. 2020. Fire and Biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Science 370:eabb0355. [pdf] [press]
Spence, A.R. & M.W. Tingley. 2020. The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate-induced range shifts. Ecography 43:1571–1590. [pdf] [video abstract [press]
Kass, J.M., M.W. Tingley, T. Tetsuya, & F. Koike. 2020. Co-occurrence of invasive and native carnivorans affects occupancy patterns across environmental gradients. Biological Invasions 22:2251–2266. [link]
Tingley, M.W., C.P. Nadeau, & M.E. Sandor. 2020. Multi‐species occupancy models as robust estimators of community richness. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11:633–642. [link]
Tingley, M.W., A.N. Stillman, R.L. Wilkerson, S.C. Sawyer, & R.B. Siegel. 2020. Black-backed woodpecker occupancy in burned and beetle-killed forests: Disturbance agent matters. Forest Ecology and Management 445:117694. [pdf]
Montgomery, G.A, R.R. Dunn, R. Fox, E. Jongejans, S.R. Leather, M.E. Saunders, C.R. Shortall, M.W. Tingley, & D.L. Wagner. 2020. Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out. Biological Conservation, 241:108327. [link]
Cole, J.S., R.B. Siegel, H.L. Loffland, E.A. Elsey, M.W. Tingley & M. Johnson. 2020. Plant selection by bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in montane riparian habitat of California. Environmental Entomology, 49:220–229. [link]
2019
Steen, V.A., C.S. Elphick, & M.W. Tingley. 2019. An evaluation of stringent filtering to improve species distribution models from citizen science data. Diversity and Distributions 25:1857–1869. [pdf]
Stillman, A.N., R.B. Siegel, R.L. Wilkerson, M. Johnson, C.A. Howell, & M.W. Tingley. 2019. Nest site selection and nest survival of Black-backed Woodpeckers after wildfire. Condor: Ornithological Applications 121:duz039. [pdf] [press]
. 2019. An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews using keyword co‐occurrence networks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. [link]
Macklem, D.C., A.M. Helton, M.W. Tingley, J.M. Dickson, & T.A.G. Rittenhouse. 2019. Stream salamander persistence influenced by the interaction between exurban housing age and development. Urban Ecosystems. [link]
Russo, N.J., C.S. Elphick, N.P. Havill, & M.W. Tingley. 2019. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for the hemlock woolly adelgid. Biological Invasions 21:1585–1599. [pdf] [press]
Cole, J.S., R.B. Siegel, H.L. Loffland, M.W. Tingley, E.A. Elsey & M. Johnson. 2019. Explaining the birds and the bees: deriving habitat restoration targets from multi-species occupancy models. Ecosphere 10:e02718. [pdf]
Stillman, A.N., R.B. Siegel, R.L. Wilkerson, M. Johnson, & M.W. Tingley. 2019. Age-dependent habitat relationships of a burned-forest specialist emphasise the role of pyrodiversity in fire management. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:880–890. [link] [press]
Siegel, R.B., S.A. Eyes, M.W. Tingley, J.X. Wu, S.L. Stock, J.R. Medley, R.S. Kalinowski, A. Casas, M. Lima-Baumbach & A.C. Rich. 2019. Short-term resilience of Great Gray Owls to a megafire in California, USA. Condor: Ornithological Applications 121:duy019. [link] [press, more press]
2018
Cheng, W., R.C. Kendrick, F. Guo, S. Xing, M.W. Tingley, & T.C. Bonebrake. 2018. Complex elevational shifts in a tropical lowland moth community following a decade of climate change. Diversity and Distributions. [link]
Tingley, M.W., A.N. Stillman, R.L. Wilkerson, C.A. Howell, S.C. Sawyer, & R.B. Siegel. 2018. Cross-scale occupancy dynamics of a postfire specialist in response to variation across a fire regime. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:1484–1496. [link]
Si, X., M.W. Cadotte, Y. Zhao, H. Zhou, D. Zeng, J. Li, T. Jin, P. Ren, Y. Wang, P. Ding, & M.W. Tingley. 2018. The importance of accounting for imperfect detection when estimating functional and phylogenetic community structure. Ecology 99:2103–2112. [link]
Parker, T.H., S.C. Griffith, J.L. Brontsein, F. Fidler, S. Foster, H. Fraser, W. Forstmeier, J. Gurevitch, J. Koricheva, R. Seppelt, M.W. Tingley, & S. Nakagawa. 2018. Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:929–935. [link, preprint]
La Sorte, F.A., C.A. Lepczyk, J.L. Burnett, A.H. Hurlbert, M.W. Tingley, & B. Zuckerberg. 2018. Opportunities and challenges for big data ornithology. Condor 120:414–426. [link]
Srinivasan, U., P.R. Elsen, M.W. Tingley, & D.S. Wilcove. 2018. Temperature and competition interact to structure Himalayan bird communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20172593. [link]
Newman, E.A., J.B. Potts, M.W. Tingley, C. Vaughn, & S.L. Stephens. 2018. Chaparral bird community responses to prescribed fire and shrub removal in three management seasons. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:1615–1625. [link]
2017
Socolar, J.B., P.N. Epanchin, S.R. Beissinger & M.W. Tingley. 2017. Phenological shifts conserve thermal niches in North American birds and reshape expectations for climate-driven range shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:12976–12981. [link] [covered here, here and here]
Batt, R.D., J.W. Morley, R.L. Selden, M.W. Tingley, & M.L. Pinsky. 2017. Gradual changes in range size accompany long-term trends in species richness. Ecology Letters 20:1148-1157. [link]
Tingley, M.W., J.B.C. Harris, F. Hua, D.S. Wilcove, & D.L. Yong. 2017. The pet trade’s role in defaunation. Science, 356:916. [link]
Loffland, H.L., J.S. Polasik, M.W. Tingley, E. Elsey, C. Loffland, G. LeBuhn, R.B. Siegel. 2017. Bumble Bee Use of Post-fire Chaparral in the Central Sierra Nevada. Journal of Wildlife Management, 81:1084-1097. [link]
Burgio, K.R., C.J. Carlson, & M.W. Tingley. 2017. Lazarus ecology: Recovering the distribution and migratory patterns of the extinct Carolina parakeet. Ecology and Evolution. [link (open)]
Mayor, S.J, R.P. Guralnick, M.W. Tingley, J. Otegui, J.C. Withey, S.C. Elmendorf, M.E. Andrew, S. Leyk, I.S. Pearse, & D.C. Schneider. 2017. Increasing asynchrony between arrival of migratory birds and spring green-up. Scientific Reports, 7:1902. [link (open)]
[covered here, here, and here]
Elsen, P.R., M.W. Tingley, R. Kalyanaraman, K. Ramesh, & D.S. Wilcove. 2017. The role of competition, ecotones, and temperature in the elevational distribution of Himalayan birds. Ecology, 98:337-348. [link]
O’Connor, K.M., L.R. Nathan, M.R. Liberati, M.W. Tingley, J.C. Vokoun, & T.A.G. Rittenhouse. 2017. Camera Trap Arrays Improve Detection Probability of Wildlife: Investigating Study Design Considerations Using an Empirical Dataset. PLoS ONE, 12:e0175684. [link (open)]
Tingley, M.W. 2017. Turning Oranges into Apples: Using detectability correction and bias heuristics to compare imperfectly repeated observations. In Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research (A. Shavit & A.M. Ellison, Eds.), pp. 215-233. Yale University Press.
Harris, J.B.C., M.W. Tingley, F. Hua, D.L. Yong, J.M. Adeney, T.M. Lee, W. Marthy, D.M. Prawiradilaga, C.H. Sekercioglu, Suyadi, N. Winarmi, and D.S. Wilcove. 2017. Measuring the impact of the pet trade on Indonesian birds. Conservation Biology, 31:394-405. [link]
2016
Tingley, M. W., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Wilkerson, R., Howell, C., & Siegel, R. 2016. Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283:20161703. [link] [media]
Russo, N.J., C.A.S.-J. Cheah, and M.W. Tingley. 2016. Experimental evidence for branch-to-bird transfer as a mechanism for avian dispersal of the hemlock woolly adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae). Environmental Entomology, 45:1107-1114. [link] [media]
Tingley, M.W., R.L. Wilkerson, C.A. Howell, and R.B. Siegel. 2016. An integrated occupancy and space‐use model to predict abundance of imperfectly detected, territorial vertebrates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7:508-518. [link]
Siegel, R.B, M.W. Tingley, R.L. Wilkerson, C.A. Howell, M. Johnson, and P. Pyle. 2016. Age structure of Black-backed Woodpecker populations in burned forests. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 133:69-78. [pdf]
2015
Elsen, P.R. & M.W. Tingley. 2015. Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5. [link]
[Media coverage here]
Wu, J.X., R.B. Siegel, H.L. Loffland, M.W. Tingley, et al. 2015. Diversity of Great Gray Owl nest sites and nesting habitats in California. Journal of Wildlife Management, 79: 937-947.
Rowe, K.C., K.M.C. Rowe, M.W. Tingley, et al. 2015. Spatially heterogeneous impact of climate change on small mammals of montane California. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20141857. [link]
2014
Tingley, M.W., E.S. Darling, and D.S. Wilcove. 2014. Fine- and Coarse-filter Conservation Strategies in a Time of Climate Change. The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology – Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1322: 92-109. [link]
Souther, S., M.W. Tingley, V.D. Popescu, D.T.S. Hayman, M.E. Ryan, T.A. Graves, B. Hartl, and K. Terrell. 2014. Biotic impacts of energy development from shale: research priorities and knowledge gaps. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12: 330-338.
[Read it here, with supplemental material here]
[Covered here and here, with our commentary here]
La Sorte, F.A., M.W. Tingley, and A.H. Hurlbert. 2014. The role of urban and agricultural areas during avian migration: an assessment of within-year temporal turnover. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23: 1225-1234. [link]
Iknayan, K.J., M.W. Tingley, B.J. Furnas, and S.R. Beissinger. 2014. Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29: 97-106. [link]
Kurz, D.J., A.J. Nowakowski , M.W. Tingley , M.A. Donnelly , and D.S. Wilcove. 2014. 2014. Forest-land use complementarity modifies community structure of a tropical herpetofauna. Biological Conservation, 170: 246-255. [link]
Siegel, R.B., P. Pyle, J.H. Thorne, A.J. Holguin, C.A. Howell, S. Stock, and M.W. Tingley. 2014. Vulnerability of birds to climate change in California’s Sierra Nevada. Avian Ecology and Conservation, 9: 7. [link]
Tingley, M.W., R.L. Wilkerson, M.L. Bond, C.A. Howell, and R.B. Siegel. 2014. Variation in Home-range Size of Black-backed Woodpeckers. Condor: Ornithological Applications, 116(3): 325-340. [link]
Siegel, R.B., R.L. Wilkerson, M.W. Tingley, and C.A. Howell. 2014. Roost sites of the Black-backed Woodpecker in burned forest. Western Birds, 45: 296-303. [pdf]
McGrann, M.C., M.W. Tingley, J.H. Thorne, D.L. Elliott-Fisk, and A.M. McGrann. 2014. Heterogeneity in avian richness-environment relationships along the Pacific Crest Trail. Avian Ecology and Conservation, 9(2): 8.
2013
Tingley, M.W., L.D. Estes, and D.S. Wilcove. 2013. Comment: Climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature, 500: 271-272. [link]
Tingley, M.W. and S.R. Beissinger. 2013. Cryptic loss of montane avian richness and high community turnover over 100 years. Ecology, 94: 598-609. [pdf]
Bond, M.L., D.E. Lee, R.B. Siegel, and M.W. Tingley. 2013. Diet and home range size of California spotted owls in burned forest. Western Birds, 44: 114-126. [pdf]
2012
Tingley, M.W., M.S. Koo, C. Moritz, A.C. Rush, and S.R. Beissinger. 2012. The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges. Global Change Biology, 18: 3279–3290. [link]
Monahan, W.B. and M.W. Tingley. 2012. Niche tracking and rapid establishment of distributional equilibrium in the House Sparrow show potential responsiveness of species to climate change. PLoS ONE, 7: e42097. [pdf]
Shultz, A.J., M.W. Tingley, and R.C.K. Bowie. 2012. A century of avian community turnover in an urban green space in northern California. Condor, 114: 258-267. [link]
Pre-2012
Tingley, M.W., W.B. Monahan, S.R. Beissinger, and C. Moritz. 2009. Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106: 19637-19643. [link]
Tingley, M.W. and S.R. Beissinger. 2009. Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24: 625-633. [link]
Tingley, M.W., D.A. Orwig, R. Field, and G. Motzkin. 2002. Avian response to removal of a forest dominant: consequences of hemlock woolly adelgid infestations. Journal of Biogeography, 29: 1505-1516. [pdf]