Publications & Press
2023
Oswald JA, Smith BT, Allen JM, Guralnick RP, Steadman DW, LeFebvre MJ. 2023. Changes in parrot diversity after human arrival to the Caribbean, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(41):e2301128120 | doi:10.1073/pnas.2301128120
Popular Press: FLMNH, Forbes
Delsol N, Stucky BJ, Oswald JA, Cobb CR, Emery KF, Guralnick RP. 2023. Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early Post-Columbian cattle in the Americas. Scientific Reports 13:12444.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Levey DJ, Poulsen JR, Schaeffer* AP, Deochand* ME, Oswald JA, Robinson SK, Londoño GA. 2023. Wild Mockingbirds distinguish among familiar humans. Scientific Reports 13:10259.
LeFebvre MJ, Mychajliw AM, Harris GB, Oswald JA. 2023. Historical DNA from an unidentified 19th century paratype reveals genetic continuity of a Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) population across the past 500 years. Biology Letters 19 (4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0566
Popular Press: Seven Days VT (Cartoon!)
2022
Delsol N, Stucky BJ, Oswald JA, Reitz EJ, Emery KF, Guralnick RP. Analysis of the earliest complete mtDNA genome of a Caribbean colonial horse (Equus caballus) from 16th century Haiti. PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270600
Popular Press: National Geographic, Popular Science, IFLScience
2021
Oswald JA, Roth B, Faske T, Allen A, Mestre C, Rivers-Pankratz, Van Norman K, Guralnick R. 2021 Population genomics of Monadenia
(Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae) land snails reveals structuring but gene-flow across distinct species and morphotypes. Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01410-w
Belitz MW, Barve V, Doby JR, Hantak MM, Larsen EA, Li D, Oswald JA, Sewnath N, Walters M, Barve N, Brenskelle L, Gardner N, Earl K, Guralnick RP, Stucky BJ. 2021 Climate drivers of adult insect activity are conditioned by life history traits. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13889
Gutiérrez-Zuluaga AM, González-Quevedo C, Oswald JA, Terrill RS, Pérez-Emán JL, Parra JL. 2021. Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations of Diglossa brunneiventris are not sister lineages. Ornithology, ukab015.
Oswald JA, Terrill RT, Stucky BJ, LeFebvre MJ, Steadman DW, Guralnick RP, Allen JM. 2021. Ancient DNA from the extinct flightless Haitian cave-rail (Nesotrochis steganinos) suggests biogeographic connection of the Caribbean and Old World. Biology Letters 17: 20200760.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Daijiang L, Barve N, Brenskelle L, Earl K, Barve V, Belitz M, Doby J, Hantak M, Oswald JA, Stucky B, Walters M, Guralnick R. 2021. Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration. Global Change Biology 27(4): 892-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15461.
2020
Steadman DW and Oswald JA. 2020. New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132(1):91-103.
Oswald JA, Allen JM, LeFebvre MJ, Stucky BJ, Folk RA, Albury NA, Morgan GS, Guralnick RP, Steadman DW. 2020. Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia. Scientific Reports. 10: 1373.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Barve VV, Brenskelle L, Li D, Stucky BJ, Barve NV, Hantak MM, McLean BS, Paluh DJ, Oswald JA, Belitz M, Folk R, Guralnick RP. 2020. Methods for broad-scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(1): e11315.
2019
Franklin, J, Majure LC, Encarnación Y, Clase T, Almonte-Espinosa H, Landestoy M, Kratter AW, Oswald JA, Soltis DE, Terrill RS, Steadman DW. 2019. The changing ecological communities along an elevation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest on Hispaniola (Sierra Martín Garcia, Dominican Republic). Biotropica. 00:1–15. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12707
Oswald JA, Steadman DW, Franklin, J. 2019. Unexpected limb proportions in a Pleistocene island population of Eastern Meadowlark (Aves: Sturnella magna) from the Bahamas. Caribbean Naturalist. No. 68.
Oswald JA, Allen JM, Witt KE, Folk RA, Albury NA, Steadman DW, Guralnick RP. 2019. Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume 140, 106576.
Popular Press: FLMNH, Cosmos
Oswald✢ JA, Harvey✢ MG, Remsen† RC, Foxworth* DU, Cardiff SW, Dittmann DL, Brumfield RT. 2019. Trans-oceanic colonization and introgressive hybridization in a genus of vagile waterbirds (Aves; Plegadis). Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.150
2018 & older
Oswald, J. A. and D. W. Steadman. 2018. The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 135: 359–377.
Oswald, J. A., Overcast, I., Mauck III, W. M., Andersen, M. J., and B. S. Smith. 2017. Isolation with asymmetric gene flow during the nonsynchronous divergence of dry forest birds. Molecular Ecology 26, 1386–1400. doi: 10.1111/mec.14013
Oswald, J. A., Harvey M. G., Remsen*, R. C.,Foxworth*, D. U., Cardiff, S. W., Dittmann, D. L., Megna, L., Carling, M. D., and R. T. Brumfield. 2016. Willet be one species or two?: A genomic view of the evolutionary history of Tringa semipalmata. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 133(4):593-614
Press/blogs: Birdwatching: Why the Willet should be split into two species
Zucker*, M. R., Harvey, M. G., Oswald, J. A., Cuervo, A., Derryberry, E., and R. T. Brumfield. 2016. The Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Phaeomyias murina) is a species complex that includes the Cocos Flycatcher (Neostriccus ridgwayi), an island form that underwent a population bottleneck. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 101:294-302. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.031
Oswald, J. A. Steadman, D. W., Burleigh, J. G., Robinson, S. K., and A. W. Kratter. 2016. Historical climatic variability and geographic barriers as drivers of community composition in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12605
Oswald, J. A. and D. W. Steadman 2015. The changing diversity and distribution of dry forest passerine birds in northwestern Peru since the last ice age. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132:836-862.
Popular Press:
LiveScience, IFLScience!, AOU/COS, NBC News
Steadman, D. W., Oswald, J. A., and A. D. Rincón. 2015. The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics. Quaternary Research 83 (3): 555–564. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2015.02.001
Oswald J. A. and D. W. Steadman. 2011. Late Pleistocene Birds of Sonora, Mexico. Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, Paleogeography. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.020
Popular Press: FLMNH Outreach Video, Science Daily
*Undergraduate or high school student, ✢ contributed equally
2023
Oswald JA, Smith BT, Allen JM, Guralnick RP, Steadman DW, LeFebvre MJ. 2023. Changes in parrot diversity after human arrival to the Caribbean, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(41):e2301128120 | doi:10.1073/pnas.2301128120
Popular Press: FLMNH, Forbes
Delsol N, Stucky BJ, Oswald JA, Cobb CR, Emery KF, Guralnick RP. 2023. Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early Post-Columbian cattle in the Americas. Scientific Reports 13:12444.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Levey DJ, Poulsen JR, Schaeffer* AP, Deochand* ME, Oswald JA, Robinson SK, Londoño GA. 2023. Wild Mockingbirds distinguish among familiar humans. Scientific Reports 13:10259.
LeFebvre MJ, Mychajliw AM, Harris GB, Oswald JA. 2023. Historical DNA from an unidentified 19th century paratype reveals genetic continuity of a Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) population across the past 500 years. Biology Letters 19 (4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0566
Popular Press: Seven Days VT (Cartoon!)
2022
Delsol N, Stucky BJ, Oswald JA, Reitz EJ, Emery KF, Guralnick RP. Analysis of the earliest complete mtDNA genome of a Caribbean colonial horse (Equus caballus) from 16th century Haiti. PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270600
Popular Press: National Geographic, Popular Science, IFLScience
2021
Oswald JA, Roth B, Faske T, Allen A, Mestre C, Rivers-Pankratz, Van Norman K, Guralnick R. 2021 Population genomics of Monadenia
(Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae) land snails reveals structuring but gene-flow across distinct species and morphotypes. Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01410-w
Belitz MW, Barve V, Doby JR, Hantak MM, Larsen EA, Li D, Oswald JA, Sewnath N, Walters M, Barve N, Brenskelle L, Gardner N, Earl K, Guralnick RP, Stucky BJ. 2021 Climate drivers of adult insect activity are conditioned by life history traits. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13889
Gutiérrez-Zuluaga AM, González-Quevedo C, Oswald JA, Terrill RS, Pérez-Emán JL, Parra JL. 2021. Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations of Diglossa brunneiventris are not sister lineages. Ornithology, ukab015.
Oswald JA, Terrill RT, Stucky BJ, LeFebvre MJ, Steadman DW, Guralnick RP, Allen JM. 2021. Ancient DNA from the extinct flightless Haitian cave-rail (Nesotrochis steganinos) suggests biogeographic connection of the Caribbean and Old World. Biology Letters 17: 20200760.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Daijiang L, Barve N, Brenskelle L, Earl K, Barve V, Belitz M, Doby J, Hantak M, Oswald JA, Stucky B, Walters M, Guralnick R. 2021. Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration. Global Change Biology 27(4): 892-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15461.
2020
Steadman DW and Oswald JA. 2020. New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132(1):91-103.
Oswald JA, Allen JM, LeFebvre MJ, Stucky BJ, Folk RA, Albury NA, Morgan GS, Guralnick RP, Steadman DW. 2020. Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia. Scientific Reports. 10: 1373.
Popular Press: FLMNH
Barve VV, Brenskelle L, Li D, Stucky BJ, Barve NV, Hantak MM, McLean BS, Paluh DJ, Oswald JA, Belitz M, Folk R, Guralnick RP. 2020. Methods for broad-scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(1): e11315.
2019
Franklin, J, Majure LC, Encarnación Y, Clase T, Almonte-Espinosa H, Landestoy M, Kratter AW, Oswald JA, Soltis DE, Terrill RS, Steadman DW. 2019. The changing ecological communities along an elevation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest on Hispaniola (Sierra Martín Garcia, Dominican Republic). Biotropica. 00:1–15. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12707
Oswald JA, Steadman DW, Franklin, J. 2019. Unexpected limb proportions in a Pleistocene island population of Eastern Meadowlark (Aves: Sturnella magna) from the Bahamas. Caribbean Naturalist. No. 68.
Oswald JA, Allen JM, Witt KE, Folk RA, Albury NA, Steadman DW, Guralnick RP. 2019. Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume 140, 106576.
Popular Press: FLMNH, Cosmos
Oswald✢ JA, Harvey✢ MG, Remsen† RC, Foxworth* DU, Cardiff SW, Dittmann DL, Brumfield RT. 2019. Trans-oceanic colonization and introgressive hybridization in a genus of vagile waterbirds (Aves; Plegadis). Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.150
2018 & older
Oswald, J. A. and D. W. Steadman. 2018. The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 135: 359–377.
Oswald, J. A., Overcast, I., Mauck III, W. M., Andersen, M. J., and B. S. Smith. 2017. Isolation with asymmetric gene flow during the nonsynchronous divergence of dry forest birds. Molecular Ecology 26, 1386–1400. doi: 10.1111/mec.14013
Oswald, J. A., Harvey M. G., Remsen*, R. C.,Foxworth*, D. U., Cardiff, S. W., Dittmann, D. L., Megna, L., Carling, M. D., and R. T. Brumfield. 2016. Willet be one species or two?: A genomic view of the evolutionary history of Tringa semipalmata. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 133(4):593-614
Press/blogs: Birdwatching: Why the Willet should be split into two species
Zucker*, M. R., Harvey, M. G., Oswald, J. A., Cuervo, A., Derryberry, E., and R. T. Brumfield. 2016. The Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Phaeomyias murina) is a species complex that includes the Cocos Flycatcher (Neostriccus ridgwayi), an island form that underwent a population bottleneck. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 101:294-302. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.031
Oswald, J. A. Steadman, D. W., Burleigh, J. G., Robinson, S. K., and A. W. Kratter. 2016. Historical climatic variability and geographic barriers as drivers of community composition in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12605
Oswald, J. A. and D. W. Steadman 2015. The changing diversity and distribution of dry forest passerine birds in northwestern Peru since the last ice age. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132:836-862.
Popular Press:
LiveScience, IFLScience!, AOU/COS, NBC News
Steadman, D. W., Oswald, J. A., and A. D. Rincón. 2015. The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics. Quaternary Research 83 (3): 555–564. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2015.02.001
Oswald J. A. and D. W. Steadman. 2011. Late Pleistocene Birds of Sonora, Mexico. Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, Paleogeography. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.020
Popular Press: FLMNH Outreach Video, Science Daily
*Undergraduate or high school student, ✢ contributed equally
