EECB Book Clubs
If you are interested in organizing an EECB book club
please contact the EECB Chair, Dr. Bob Thomson and/or the
EECB grad reps. All, including faculty and staff, are very
welcome to participate.
Scientific writing,
publishing and reviewing—a guide for students
As a follow-up to the 30 October 2015 Evoluncheon (Drs.
Mark Hixon and Rob Toonen), a link is provided here to Mark's extremely useful 2004
co-authored paper "Scientific writing, publishing and
reviewing—a guide for students" published in the
Ecological Society of America Bulletin. And here is a link to former EECB
faculty member Dr. Chris Lepczyk's 2011 paper "A
beginner's guide to reviewing manuscripts in ecology and
conservation" published in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.
A selection
of new publications by EECB faculty and students in 2025
(including research undertaken by former students while in
EECB)
Altenberg, L. 2025. Evolutionary computation.
Elsevier Reference Module in Life Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00171-3
Arca, J.H., Bradley, G.A., Gantenbein, L.M., Schumaker,
L.H., Amasol-Tanoura, R.A., Catlin, A.C., Edwards, S.A.,
Faria, S.F., Fuentes-Ayala, M., Haiges, A.M., Hart, H.E.,
Herrera, A.K., Karlin, P.J., Rife, I.T., Sannomiya, N.,
Thai, K.N., Velasquez, E.J., Williams, C.B., Moon, H.E.
& Porter, M.L. 2025. Genome sequence of Microbacterium
phage Casino. Microbiology Resource Announcements.
Jun 9: e00018-25.
Balick, M.J., Plunkett, G.M., Wahe, J.-P., Dovo, P.,
Wahe, M., Ranker, T.A., Ramik, D.M., Doro, T.
& Harrison, K.D. 2025. Plants, People and Culture in
Tafea Province, Vanuatu. NYBG Press, New York. Vol. 1, 449
p., Vol. 2, 518 p.
Beckstrom, T.B., Bunnell, A.. Maaz, T.M., Kantar,
M.B., Deenik, J.L., Glazer, C.T., Sadowski, P.
& Crow S.E. 2025. Mid‐infrared spectroscopy and
machine learning improve accessibility of Hawaiʻi soil
health assessment. Soil Science Society of America
Journal, 89(3), e70081.
Bryant, G., Kantar, M., Wang, K.-H., Uyeda, J.,
Ahmad, A. & Radovich, T. 2025. Identification of
promising heirloom tomato varieties for production in
Hawaii. HortTechnology 35(2): 241-248.
Burden, J., Maaz, T.M., Coffman, M., Chirinda, N.,
Leonard, S.A. & Kantar, M. 2025. Economic
feasibility of Agrivoltaic Systems for sustainable
small-scale farming. Food and Energy Security 14(4):
e70110.
Campbell, Q., Bedford, J.A., Yu, Y.,
Halpin-McCormick, A., Castaneda-Alvarez, N., Runck, B.,
Neyhart, J., Ewing, P., Ortiz-Barrientos, D., Gao, L.,
Wang, D., Chapman, M.A., Rieseberg, L.H. & Kantar,
M.B. 2025. Agricultural landscape genomics to
increase crop resilience. Plant Communications 6(2):
101260.
Campbell, Q., Castañeda-Álvarez, N., Domingo,
R., Bishop-von Wettberg, E., Runck, B., Nandkangré,
H., Halpin-McCormick, A., Fumia, N., Neyhart, J.,
Kilian, B., Wambugu, P., Nyamongo, D., Hübner, S., Sitar,
S., Thompson, A., Rieseberg, L., Gore, M.A. & Kantar,
M.B. 2025. Prioritizing parents from global
genebanks to breed climate-resilient crops. Nat. Clim.
Chang. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02333-x
Chang, C-T., Madigan, D.J., Carlisle, A.B., Wallsgrove,
N., Nakamura, I., Nyegaard, M., Allain, V., Drazen, J.C.,
Chiang, W.-C. & Popp, B.N. 2025. Integrating
isoscapes and amino acid δ15N analyses to reveal migration
patterns and habitat use of molids in the western Pacific
Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 235:103492
Chavez J.F.G., Krushelnycky, P.D., Barton,
K.E. & Drake, D.R. 2025. Breeding system
and pollination of Dubautia menziesii
(Asteraceae), a self-incompatible Hawaiian alpine shrub.
Flora 152683. [in press]
Cowie, R.H. (Editor) 2025. Newsletter of
the IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group. Issue 33, 73 p.
https://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle_33.pdf
Cowie, R.H., Bouchet P. & Fontaine, B. 2025.
Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth
Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen. Trends in
Ecology & Evolution 40(8): 722-723.
Dixon, S.L., Jorissen, H., Hulver, A.M., Welter, J., Toonen,
R.J., Consortium, R., Madin, J.S. & Grottoli,
A.G. 2025. Technology solutions for overcoming the coral
recruitment bottleneck. Environmental Science &
Technology In press.
Dowd, M.H., Assad, V.E., Cazares-Nuesser, A.E., Drazen,
J.C., Goetze, E., White, A.E. & Popp, B.N. 2025.
Deep-sea mining discharge: implications for midwater food
web dynamics. Nature Communications In press.
Fumo, J.T., Nichols, P.K., Ely, T.D.,
Marko, P.B., Moran, A.L., Powell, B.S.,
Williams, T.M., Kosaki, R.K., Smith, C.M., Lopes,
K.H., Jr., Smith, J.E., Spalding, H.L., Krueger-Hadfield,
S.A., McDermid, K.J., Hauk, B.B., Morioka, J., O’Brien,
K., Kennedy, B., Leliaert, F., Fujii, M.T., Nelson, W.A.,
Draisma, S.G.A. & Sherwood, A.R. 2025. A predictive
framework for identifying source populations of non-native
marine macroalgae: Chondria tumulosa in the
Pacific Ocean. PeerJ 13: e19610.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19610
Fumia, N., Dudley, N., Jones, T., Dobbs, J.,
Stewart, J. & Kantar, MB. 2025. Acacia
koa seedling disease tolerance and vigor driven by
breeding orchard size. Frontiers in Plant Science 16:
1544491.
Griffin, C.D., Ezenwa, V.O. & Cowie, R.H.
2025. Insights into the biology of the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus
cantonensis. Parasites & Vectors 18: 163.
Grottoli, A.G., Dixon, S.L., Hulver, A.M., Bardin, C.E.,
Lewis, C.J., Suchocki, C.R., R3D Consortium & Toonen,
R.J. 2025. Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light
Array (UZELA): a technology solution to enhance
zooplankton abundance and coral feeding in bleached and
non‐bleached corals. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
23(3): 201-211.
Grottoli, A., Hulver, A.M., Toonen, R.J.,
Vega-Thurber, R., Schmeltzer, E., Kuffner, I.B., Barott,
K., Baums, I., Castillo, K., Donahue, M., Eirin-Lopez, J.,
Felis, T., Ferrier-Pages, C., Harrison, H., Heron, S.,
Huang, D., Humanes, A., Kenkel, C., Krueger, T., Madin,
J., et al. 2025 Future directions for coral bleaching
research. BioScience 75(7): 585–598.
Hale, I., Koebernick, J., Hershberger, J., Rife, T.,
Arbelaez, J.-D., Anderson, N., Bekkerman, A., Bohn, M.,
Bourland, F., Burke, T., Chee, P., Evans, K., Fumia,
N. et al. [15 additional authors] & Kantar,
MB. 2025. Sustaining public plant breeding programs
across generations. Crop Science, 65, e70094.
Halpin-McCormick, A., Campell, Q., Negrao, S.,
Morrell, P.L., Hübner, S., Neyhart, J.L. & Kantar,
M.B. 2025. Environmental genomic selection to
leverage polygenic local adaptation in barley landraces.
Communications Biology 8, 618.
Halpin-McCormick, A., de Silva, A.S., Sherrill, T.,
Corpuz, B.L., Kambic, L., Lucas, S. et al. [14
additional authors] & Kantar, M.B. 2025.
Virus incidence in Hawaiian heritage sweetpotato. Plant
Heath Progress. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-12-24-0164-S
Halpin-McCormick, A., Maaz, T.M., Kantar, M.B., Barton,
K.E., Masalia, R.R., Law, K. & Kuntz, E.J. 2025.
Species distribution of Cannabis sativa: past,
present and future. PLoS ONE 20(3): e0306007.
Halpin-McCormick, A., Thompson, R., Clarke, R.C., Neyhart,
J. & Kantar, M.B. 2025. Dissecting
genotype-environment interactions with functional
implications for parental selection in Cannabis Breeding.
Journal of Heredity. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf048
Heinen, J.H., Drake, D.R., McConkey, K.R., Hume,
J.P., Alber, S., Ando, H., Baider, C., Bellingham, P.,
Case, S.B., Chimera, C.G., Florens, F.B.V.,
Gonzalez-Castro, A., Heleno, R., Hervias-Parejo, S., Hruska,
A.M., Imada, C.T., Nogales, M., Rogers, H., Rumeu,
B., Strasberg, D., Traveset, A., Valido, A., Watanabe, K.,
Wotton, D., Yoshikawa, T., Rahbek, C. & Borregaard,
M.K. 2025. Introductions rather than extinctions drive
shifts in seed dispersal ability in 111 island
plant-frugivore communities. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122:
e2423438122.
Hoban, M.L., Hurley, K.K., Reardon, K., Skillings, D.J.,
Timmers, M.A. & Toonen, R.J. 2025.
Cryptobenthic crab assemblages are more distinct across a
90 m depth gradient than 2500 km of shallow marine habitat
in the Hawaiian archipelago. Scientific Reports 15(1):
27419.
Huerlimann, R., Wee, H.B., Alves dos Santos, M., Kise,
H., Mizuyama, M., Dudoit, A.A., Jamodiong, E., Satoh, N.,
Soong, G.Y., Kurihara, H. & Toonen, R.J. 2025.
Shifts in coral reef holobiont communities in the high-CO2
marine environment of Iōtorishima Island. PLoS Climate
4(7): e0000665.
Iglesias, S.P., Santidrián Tomillo, P., Fazzari, L., Proctor,
T.L., Santoro Pérez, C.M., Valverde-Cantillo, V. &
Robinson, N.R. 2025. Growth rates of the epibiotic barnacle
Chelonibia testudinaria reveal habitat use of
pre-nesting green turtles in Costa Rica. Marine Biology 172:
121.
Jury, C.P., Bahr, K.D., Cros, A., Dobson, K.L., Freel, E.B.,
Graham, A.T., McLachlan, R.H., Nelson, C.E., Price, J.T.,
Rocha de Souza, M., Shizuru, L., Smith, C.M.,
Sparagon, W., Squair, C., Timmers, M.A., Tran, T., Vicente,
J., Webb, M.K., Yamase, N.H., Grottoli A.G., & Toonen,
R.J. 2025. Experimental coral reef communities
transform yet persist under mitigated future ocean warming
and acidification. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 121(45): e2407112121.
Kantar, M., Ewing, P., Bančič, J., Fumia, N.,
Garba, I., Jamshidi, S. et al. 2025. Computational design
for more engaged, impactful, and dynamic agricultural
research. Crop Science 65: e70034.
Kim, K.M., Lizano, A.M.D., Toonen, R.J. &
Ravago‐Gotanco, R. 2025. Genomic divergence of sympatric
lineages within Stichopus cf. horrens (Echinodermata:
Stichopodidae): insights on reproductive isolation inferred
from SNP markers. Ecology and Evolution 15(4): e71283.
Kraft, D.W., Conklin, E.E., Freel, E.B., Hutchinson, M.,
Spaet, J.L., Toonen, R.J., Forsman, Z.H., Grant,
M.I., Filmalter, J.D., Hyde, J.R. Gulak, S.J. & Bowen,
B.W. 2025. Global stock structure of the Silky shark (Carcharhinus
falciformis, Carcharhinidae) assessed with
high-throughput DNA sequencing. PeerJ 13: e19493.
Lee, A., Daniels, B.N., Hemstrom, W., López, C., Kagaya, Y.,
Kihara, D., Davidson, J.M., Toonen, R.J., White, C.
& Christie, M.R. 2025. Genetic adaptation despite high
gene flow in a range‐expanding population. Molecular Ecology
34(15): e17511.
López, C., Daniels, B.N., Freel, E.B., Lee, A., Davidson,
J.M., White, C., Christie, M.R. & Toonen, R.J. 2025.
Climate-driven range expansion via long-distance larval
dispersal. Marine Ecology Progress Series 753: 73-84.
Marra-Biggs, P., Brown, E.K., Ochavillo, D.G., Green,
A.L., Lawrence, A., Tramonte, C., Vaeoso, V., Moffitt, I.,
Schnurle, K., Molina, N. & Toonen, R.J. 2025.
Status and trends of giant clam populations demonstrate the
effectiveness of village-based protection in American Samoa.
PeerJ 13: e20290.
McClain, C.R., Webb, T.J., Heim, N.A., Knope, M.L.,
Monarrez, P. & Payne, J.L 2025. Size Bias in the
Documentation of Marine Biodiversity. Oikos 25(1): e10828.
McClain, C.R., Heim, N.A., Knope, M.L., Monarrez,
P.M., Payne, J.L., Trindade Santos, I. & Webb, T.J.
2025. MOBS 1.0: A database of interspecific variation in
marine organismal body size. Global Ecology and Biogeography
34(6): e70062.
Meyer, W.M., III & Cowie, R.H. 2025. Biology and
impacts of Pacific Island invasive species. 17. Lissachatina
fulica, the giant African snail (Mollusca:
Achatinidae; Achatininae). Pacific Science 79(1): 1-35.
Miller, L.C., Romero-Romero, S., Popp, B.N. &
Drazen, J.C. 2025. Niche partitioning among abyssal
deposit-feeding echinoderms is linked to mobility and gut
microbiota. Marine Ecology Progress Series In press.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14947
Montoya-Pimolwatana, M., McClellan Maaz, T., Kantar, M.
et al. [38 additional authors] & Nguyen, N.H.
2025. Seedling growth rate and root traits in the maize
Nested Association Mapping (NAM) panel. BMC Research Notes
18, 206.
Najarian, B.P.C., Faccenda, K. & Barton,
K.E. 2025. A Century of vegetation change on an
offshore islet. Pacific Science, 79(1), 37-53.
Nichols, P.K. & Marko, P.B. 2025. No
pump, no problem: evaluating passive eDNA sampling for
marine biomonitoring of a nuisance macroalga. PeerJ. 13:
e19939. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19939
Nichols, P.K., Vimond, C.M. & Marko,
P.B. 2025. Simple passive environmental DNA
samplers for marine biomonitoring in resource-limited
programs. Current Protocols 5: e70186.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.70186
Nichols, P.K., Fraiola, K.M.S., Sherwood, A.R.,
Hauk, B.B., Lopes, K.H., Jr., Davis, C.A., Fumo, J.T.,
Counsell, C.W.W., Williams, T.M., Spalding, H.L. & Marko,
P.B. 2025. Navigating uncertainty in environmental
DNA detection of a nuisance marine macroalga. PLoS ONE
20(2): e0318414.
Nunley, R.M., Rutkowski, E.C., Toonen, R.J. &
Vicente, J. 2025. Potential transoceanic dispersal of Geodia
cf. papyracea and six new tetractinellid
sponge species descriptions within the Hawaiian reef
cryptofauna. PeerJ 13: e18903.
Porter, M.L. 2025. At the edge of darkness: a
framework for the evolution of visual systems in dim
light. Functional Ecology Online early.
Proctor, T.L., Chase, A.N. & Robinson, N.J.
2025. First description of suspected biofluorescent
patterns in Mesoamerican tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi:
Phrynidae). Journal of Arachnology. In press.
Proctor, T.L., Durr, C.E., Sinclair, E.M.,
Paladino, F.V. & Honarvar, S. 2025. Nine years of
leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea hatching
and emergence success on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.
Endangered Species Research 56: 145–158.
Proctor, T.L., Fatungase, F., Barquero Leiva,
J.A., Durr, C.E. & Paladino, F.V. 2025. Tiny patch,
big value: a small dry forest patch supports conservation
in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Ecology and Evolution 15:
e71972.
Proctor, T.L., Rathnasiri, P. & Honarvar, S.
2025. Preliminary data on saltwater crocodiles, Crocodylus
porosus Schneider, 1801, and an updated assessment
of threats in the Nilwala River, Matara, Sri Lanka.
Herpetology Notes 18: 361–363.
Redelinghuys, S., Emami-Khoyi, A., Matcher, G., Teske,
P.R., Heltai, M., Csányi, S., Toonen, R.J. &
Porri, F. 2025. Gut microbial diversity and genome-wide
variation of the Cape Sea urchin (Parechinus angulosus)
across a thermal gradient. Austral Ecology In press.
Rife, I.T., Sannomiya, N., Thai, K.N., Williams, C.B.,
Arca, J.H., Bradley, G.A., Gantenbein, L.M., Schumaker,
L.H., Amasol-Tanoura, R.A., Catlin, A.C., Edwards, S.A.,
Faria, S.F., Fuentes-Ayala, M., Haiges, A.M., Hart, H.E.,
Herrera, A.K., Karlin, P.J., Velasquez, E.J., Moon, H.E.
& Porter, M.P. 2025. Genome Sequence of Arthrobacter
Phage Sourignavong. microPublication Biology
10.17912/micropub.biology.001462.
Rothfels, C.J., Lee, J., Sundue, M.A., Smith, A.R.,
Kasameyer, A., Gross, J., Holman, G. et al. (T.A.
Ranker one of 68 contributors). 2025. The
PteridoPortal: a publicly accessible collection of over
three million records of extant and extinct pteridophytes.
Applications in Plant Sciences 13: e70003.
Rouhbakhsh, A., Wright, A.N. & Ferguson, J.M.
2025. Ecological interactions drive a power-law
relationship between group size and population density in
social foragers. Ecology Letters 28: e70111
Schilithz, A.G., Barbosa, K.P., Cowie, R.H.,
Mota, E.M., Barbosa, H.S. & Thiengo, S.C. 2025.
Redescription of Asolene meta (Ihering, 1915) from
the São Francisco basin, Brazil (Caenogastropoda,
Ampullariidae). Zoologia 42: e24034.
Schoepf, V., Grottoli, A.G., McLachlan, R.H., Price,
J.T., Jury, C.P., Toonen, R.J., De Carlo, E.H.
& McCulloch, M.T. 2025. Coral calcification mechanisms
across a natural environmental mosaic in Hawai'i.
Limnology and Oceanography 70(8): 2223-2238.
Sirimalwatta, N., Wolf, P.G., Rowe, C.A., Ranker,
T.A., Wood, K.R., Sundue, M.A. & Morden,
C.W. 2025. Uncovering the genetic diversity of Adenophorus
tripinnatifidus Gaudich. (Polypodiaceae), a
Hawaiian Islands endemic fern. Pacific Science. In press.
Singhakarn, C., Toonen, R.J. & Work, T.M.
2025. Gram staining reveals diverse bacterial associations
in coral cell-associated microbial aggregates in the
Pacific Ocean. PeerJ 13: e19867.
Steigerwald, E., Paetsch. J., Drück, D., Fritsch, J.,
Klaka, M., Knope, M.L., Kennedy, S.R., Gillespie,
R.G. & Krehenwinkel, H. 2025. Of islands on islands:
natural habitat fragmentation drives microallopatric
differentiation in the context of distinct biological
assemblages. Environmental DNA 7(2): e70091.
Subedi, S., Kechchour, A., Kantar, M., Sharma, V.
& Runck, B.C. 2025. Can gridded real‐time weather data
match direct ground observations for irrigation
decision‐support? Agrosystems, Geosciences &
Environment 8(2), e70100.
Toonen, R.J., Iacchei M.J. & Bowen,
B.W. 2025. Marine Biogeography. In: Encyclopedia of
Evolutionary Biology 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, In press.
Oxford: Academic Press.
Torres, W.I., Holstein, D.M., Putnam, H.M., Edmunds,
P.J., Puritz, J.B., Toonen, R.J. & Hench, J.L.
2025. Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected
coral subpopulations. Theoretical Ecology 18(1): 6.
van Aswegen, M., Szabo, A., Currie, J.J., Stack, S.H.,
Straley, J., Neilson, J., Gabriele, C., Cates, K., Baker,
C.S., Steel, D., Pack, A.A., West, K.L., Hofmann, N., Toonen,
R.J., Loockerman, C., Sullivan, F.A., Cheeseman, T.,
Sharpe, F. & Bejder, L. 2025. Body mass and energetic
cost of growth in humpback whales. Marine Ecology Progress
Series In press.
Vicente, J., Rutkowski, E., Lavrov, D.V., Martineau, G.,
Timmers, M. & Toonen, R.J. 2025. Integrative
taxonomy of introduced Haplosclerida and four new species
from Hawaiʻi. Zootaxa 5566(2): 243-272.
von Wettberg, E.J., Robinson-Banks, C., Chakraborty, D.,
Getahun, T., Bakir, M., Sassi, Gi, Hart, J.A., Kretzler,
B., Layegh-Nikravesh, N., Kantar, M.B. et al.
2025. But does it taste good? A plea to consider the
importance of flavor in managing plant genetic resources.
Plants People Planet https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70016
White, C., Tett, P., Kushner, D.J., Beas, R., Zacherl,
D., Lonhart, S.I., Lorda, J., Roy, S., Toonen, R.J.,
Christie, M., Daniels, B., Lee A., & Lopez, C. 2025.
Tracking cohorts over time using size-frequency population
survey data to estimate individual growth. Ecosphere In
press.
Wishingrad, V., Shizuru, L.E., Takata, K., Montgomery,
A.D., Wagner, D., Bowen, B.W. & Toonen,
R.J. 2025. Hawaiian black coral (Antipatharia)
complete mitochondrial genomes have limited phylogenetic
signal for taxonomic resolution of species. PeerJ 13:
e18731.
Wright, M.G., Au, M.G., Gatti, I., Salehi, J.,
Spencer, C.R., Allin, P., Mafra-Neto, A. 2025. Demographic
analysis of behavioral reactions of African bush elephants
to a synthetic honey bee alarm pheromone blend. Wildlife
Biology e01419. doi: 10.1002/wlb3.01419
Xiao, S-M., ..., Drake, D.R., ..., 115 authors.
2025. Analogous environments across the tropics have similar
levels of tree species alpha diversity. National Science
Review nwaf465. Accepted manuscript.
https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf465
Xu, K.-W., Deng, M.-D, Zhou, L., Shang, H., Zhang, L., Li,
C.-X., Rothfels, C.J., Lorence, D., Wood, K.R, Ranker,
T.A., Lu, N.T., Zhou, X.-M., Knapp, R., He, Z.-R.,
Yan, Y.-H., Gao, X.-F. & Zhang, L.-B. 2025. Phylogeny
and biogeography of the fern genus Hymenasplenium (Aspleniaceae),
with special reference to island speciation. Journal of
Systematics and Evolution Online early.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13194 (#108)
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