• Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity 

      Yasuhara, Moriaki; Wei, Chih-Lin; Kucera, Michal; Costello, Mark John; Tittensor, Derek P.; Kiessling, Wolfgang; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; Tabor, Clay; Feng, Ran; Baselga, Andrés; Kretschmer, Kerstin; Kusumoto, Buntarou; Kubota, Yasuhiro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A major research question concerning global pelagic biodiversity remains unanswered: when did the apparent tropical biodiversity depression (i.e., bimodality of latitudinal diversity gradient [LDG]) begin? The bimodal LDG ...
    • Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages. 

      Chao, Anne; Kubota, Yasuhiro; Zelený, David; Chiu, Chun-Huo; Li, Ching-Feng; Kusumoto, Buntarou; Yasuhara, Moriaki; Thorn, Simon; Wei, Chih-Lin; Costello, Mark; Colwell, Robert K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We develop a novel class of measures to quantify sample completeness of a biological survey. The class of measures is parameterized by an order q ≥ 0 to control for sensitivity to species relative abundances. When q = 0, ...
    • Time machine biology : cross-timescale integration of ecology, evolution, and oceanography 

      Yasuhara, Moriaki; Huang, Huai-Hsuan May; Hull, Pincelli; Rillo, Marina C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Tittensor, Derek P.; Kučera, Michal; Costello, Mark; Finnegan, Seth; O’Dea, Aaron; Hong, Yuanyuan; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; McKenzie, N. Ryan; Doi, Hideyuki; Wei, Chih-Lin; Kubota, Yasuhiro; Saupe, Erin E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet, ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long-term baselines, greater insight into the ...