Benjamin Shipley

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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I am broadly interested in the geography of species distributions and how communities and species organize across space and time. During my Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology, I examined patterns of mammalian endemism (small-ranged species) across the globe, linking them to the traits of the species, environmental factors like topography, and changes in environment through time. At Oxford, I am currently studying the long-term relationship between richness and occupancy, using several paleontological and neontological datasets. 

 

Shipley, B.R., McGuire, J. L. 2024. The environmental conditions of endemism hotspots shape the functional traits of mammalian assemblages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In press.

Whitford, A., Shipley, B.R., McGuire, J. L. 2024. The influence of background points on presence-background species distribution models. Ecological Modelling 488:110604. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110604.

Shipley, B.R., McGuire, J. L. 2023. Disentangling the drivers of continental mammalian endemism. Global Change Biology 29:2421–2435. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16628.

Lauer, D.A., Shipley, B.R., McGuire, J.L. 2023. Habitat and not topographic heterogeneity constrains the range sizes of African mammals. Journal of Biogeography 50:846-857. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14576.

McGuire, J.L., Shipley, B.R. 2022. Dynamic priorities for conserving species. Science. 376(6597):1048-1049. doi: 10.1126/science.abq0788.

Shipley, B.R., McGuire, J. L. 2021. Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities. Biological Conservation 265:109403. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109403

Shipley, B.R., Bach, R., Do, Y., Strathearn, H., McGuire, J.L., Dilkina, B. 2021. megaSDM: integrating dispersal and time-step analyses into species distribution models. Ecography 44:1-12. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05450

Wang, Y., Shipley, B.R., Lauer, D.A., Pineau, R.M., McGuire, J.L. 2020. Plant biomes demonstrate that landscape resilience today is the lowest it has been since end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions. Global Change Biology 26(10):5914-5927. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15299

Brigham, L.M., Allende, L. M., Shipley, B.R., Boyd, K.C., Higgins, T.J., Kelly, N. Keepers, K.G., Pogoda, C.S., Lendemer, J.C., Tripp E.A., Kane, N.C. 2018. Genomic insights into the mitochondria of 11 eastern North American species of Cladonia. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 3:508-512. doi:  10.1080/23802359.2018.1463827

 

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