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Preprint/Submitted Articles
DuBay, S., B. C. Weeks, P. E. Davis-Kean, C. Fuldner, N. C. Harris, S. Hughes, B. O'Brien, M. Perkins, C. Weyant. 2023. Measuring historical pollution: natural history collections as tools for public health and environmental justice research. In review. preprint
Zhang, S., S. G. DuBay, Y. Cheng, Z. Dong, Z Liu, Y. Wu. 2023. Inter- and intraspecific variation in flight muscle fibers associated with migration dates in three small-bodied birds. In review.
DuBay, S. G., D. H. Palmer, N. Piland. 2020. Global inequity in scientific names and who they honor. In revision. preprint (updated June 2022)
Peer-reviewed Articles
Linck, E. B., J. L. Williamson, E. Bautista, E. J. Beckman, P. M. Benham, S. G. DuBay, L. M. Flores, C. R. Gadek, A. B. Johnson, M. R. Jones, J. Núñez-Zapata, A. Quiñonez, C. J. Schmitt, D. Susanibar, J. Tiravanti, K. Verde-Guerra, N. A. Wright, T. Valqui, J. F. Storz, and C. C. Witt. 2023. Blood variation implicates respiratory limits on elevational ranges of Andean birds. American Naturalist 201(5). link
He, X., S. G. DuBay, M. Zhangshang, Y. Cheng, Z. Liu, D. Li, J. Ran, Y. Wu. 2022. Seasonal elevational patterns and the underlying mechanisms of avian diversity and community structure on the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga. Diversity and Distributions 28 (12), 2459-2474. Open Access Full Text
McNew S. M., L. N. Barrow , J. L. Williamson , S. C. Galen , H. R. Skeen , S. G. DuBay , A. M. Gaffney , A. B. Johnson , E. Bautista-Obispo , P. Ordoñez , C. J. Schmitt , A. Smiley , T. Valqui , J. Bates , S. Hackett , C. C. Witt. 2021. Contrasting drivers of diversity in hosts and parasites across the tropical Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 28 (12), 2459-2474. Open Access Full Text
Swanson, D. L., T. Agin, Y. Zhang, P. Oboikovitz, & S. G. DuBay. 2020. Metabolic flexibility in response to within-season temperature variability in house sparrows. Integrative Organismal Biology 2(1), p.obaa039. Open Access Full Text
DuBay, S. G., Y. Wu, G.R. Scott, Y. Qu, Q. Liu, J. Smith, C. Xin, A. Hart Reeve, C. Juncheng, D. Meyer, J. Wang, J. Johnson, Z. Cheviron, F. Lei, & J. Bates. 2020. Life history predicts flight muscle phenotype and function in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 89(5): 1262-1276. link pdf
Qu, Y., C, Chen, Y. Xiong, H. She, Y. Chen, S. G. DuBay, D. Li, P. G. P. Ericson, Y. Hao, H. Wang, Y. Zhang, W. Zhai, H. Zhao, G. Song, H. Zhang , T. Yang , C. Zhang , L. Liang , T. Wu , J. Zhao , Q. Gao, & F. Lei. 2020. Polygenic adaptation drives rapid phenotypic divergence during the early stage of high elevation adaptation in the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. National Science Review 7(1): 113-127. Open Access Full Text
Commentary in the associated issue of National Science Review:
Genomics of adaptation and acclimation: from field to lab and back – by Scott Edwards link
Three thousand years in Tibet – by Bettina Harr and Trevor Price link
An unusual case of early speciation associated with human activity – by Wen Wang link
High altitude adaptation in a flutter of sparrows – by Yang Liu link
Liu, W., Y. Wu, S. G. DuBay, C. Zhao, B. Wang, & J. Ran. 2019. Dung-associated arthropods influence foraging ecology and habitat selection in Black-necked Cranes (Grus nigricollis) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Ecology and Evolution 9(4): 2096-2105. link pdf
He, X., X. Wang, S. G. DuBay, A. Hart Reeve, P. Alström, J. Ran, Q. Liu, & Y. Wu. 2019. Elevational patterns of bird species richness on the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga, Sichuan Province, China. Avian Research 10(1). Open Access Full Text
Zhu, Z., Y. Guan, A. Signore, C. Natarajan, S. G. DuBay, Y. Cheng, N. Han, G. Song, Y. Qu, H. Moriyama, F. Hoffmann, A. Fago, F. M. Lei & J. F. Storz. 2018. Divergent and parallel routes of biochemical adaptation in high-altitude passerine birds from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 115(8): 1865-1870. link pdf + supplements
DuBay, S. G., & C. C. Fuldner. 2017. Bird specimens track 135 years of atmospheric black carbon and environmental policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 114(43): 11321-11326. link pdf + supplements
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Wu, Y., X. He, S. G. DuBay, A. H. Reeve, P. Alström, H. Zhou, M. He, F. Yong, W. Zhang, F. M. Lei, & J. Ran. 2017. Avifauna of the eastern slopes of Mt. Gongga. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 36(6): 601-615. link pdf
DuBay, S. G., A. H. Reeve, & Y. Wu. 2017. Human disturbance provides foraging opportunities for birds in primary subalpine forest. Journal of Ornithology 158(3): 833-839. link pdf
Wu, Y., S. G. DuBay, R. K. Colwell, J. H. Ran, & F. M. Lei. 2016. Mobile hotspots and refugia of avian diversity in the mountains of southwest China under past and contemporary global climate change. Journal of Biogeography 44(3): 615-626. link pdf
Song, G., R. Zhang, S. G. DuBay, Y. H. Qu, L. Dong, W. J. Wang, Y. Y. Zhang, D. Lambert, & F. M. Lei. 2016. East Asian allopatry and north Eurasian sympatry in Long-tailed Tit lineages despite similar population dynamics during the late Pleistocene. Zoologica Scripta 45(2): 115-126. link pdf
DuBay, S. G., & C. C. Witt. 2014. Differential high-altitude adaptation and restricted gene flow across a mid-elevation hybrid zone in Andean tit-tyrant flycatchers. Molecular Ecology 23(14): 3551-3565. link pdf
DuBay, S. G., & A. B. Johnson. 2014. Underweight American Woodcock specimens from New Mexico. NMOS Bulletin 42(3&4): 21-24. pdf
DuBay, S. G., & C. C. Witt. 2012. An improved phylogeny of Andean tit-tyrants (Aves, Tyrannidae): More characters trump sophisticated analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64(2): 285-296. link pdf
Benham, P. M., E. J. Beckman, S. G. DuBay, M. Flores, A. B. Johnson, M. J. Lelevier, C. J. Schmitt, N. A. Wright, & C. C. Witt. 2011. Satellite imagery reveals new critical habitat for endangered bird species in the high Andes of Peru. Endangered Species Research 13(2): 145-157. Open Access Full Text
Other Written Work
del Junco C., M. Gerbelli-Gauthier, B. Balthaser, T. Shen, M. Tosca, E. Potash, C. Fuldner, S. DuBay, E. Leão, G. Khullar, C. Readman Prud'homme, W. C. Lee, D. Rivard, E. Wilhelm, R. Linebaugh, A. Estevez-Torres, H. Eisler Burnett. 2021. Burnout: a zine about academia, travel, and climate change. link
DuBay, S. G. and C. C. Witt. 2020. Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes reguloides), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. link
DuBay, S. G., & C. C. Witt. 2012. Proposal for the resurrection of the genus Uromyias. Proposal to the South American Checklist Committee (SACC). link
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