User:Nafamoso/sandbox/Edward Byrd Davis

Edward Byrd Davis is a vertebrate paleontologist from the United States at the University of Oregon. His research focus is on mammalian paleoecology, specifically targeting ungulates. Topics of particular interest include the evolution and development of headgear in ruminant artiodactyls, changes in macroecology over time, and conservation paleobiology. He is affiliated with the UO Department of Earth Sciences and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Biography

Dr. Davis received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1999. He went on to received his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology from 2006-2007 before coming to the University of Oregon.

Former Students

Graduate Students

• Nicholas Famoso (MS 2013, Ph.D. 2017)
• Meaghan Emery-Wetherell (PhD 2016)
• Holley Flora (MS 2019)
• Leonard Finkelman (MS 2019)

Undergraduate Students

• Aili Gusey (BS 2010)
• Amy Atwater (BS 2013)
• Kendra Walters (BS 2016)

Bibliography

• Wyatt, M. R , S. S. B. Hopkins, and E. B. Davis. 2021. Using 2D dental geometric morphometrics to identify modern Perognathus and Chaetodipus specimens (Rodentia, Heteromyidae). Journal of Mammalogy, DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab052
• Reuter, D. M., S. S. B. Hopkins, and E. B. Davis. 2021. Carnivoran intraspecific tooth-size variation shows heterogeneity along the tooth row and among species. Journal of Mammalogy, 102(1):236–249. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa157
• Emery-Wetherell, M. M., C. Mathew, C. Church, E. Dellard, E. B. Davis, and J. Roering. 2019. The Correlation of Topographically-Derived Relative Wetness with Terrestrial Mollusk Presence and Abundance. Malacologia, 62(2):225-236. DOI: 10.4002/040.062.0203
• Robson, S. V., N. A. Famoso , E. B. Davis, and S. S. B. Hopkins. 2019. First mesonychid from the Clarno Formation (Eocene) of Oregon. Palaeontologia Electronica, 22(2.35):1-13. DOI: 10.26879/856
• Marshall, C. R., S. Finnegan, E. C. Clites, P. A. Holroyd, N. Bonuso, C. Cortez, E. Davis, G. P. Dietl, P. S. Druckenmiller, R. C. Eng, C. Garcia, K. Estes-Smargiassi, A. Hendy, K. A. Hollis, H. Little, E. A. Nesbitt, P. Roopnarine, L. Skibinski, J. Vendetti and L. D. White. 2018. Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second digital revolution. Biology Letter, 14(9): 20180431. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0431
• Retallack, G. J., J. M. Theodor, E. B. Davis, S. S. B. Hopkins, and P. Z. Barrett. 2018. First dinosaur (Ornithopoda) from Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Oregon, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 38(4):1-5. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1486847
• Famoso, N. A., S. S. B. Hopkins, and E. B. Davis. 2018. How do diet and body mass drive reproductive strategies in mammals? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124(2):151-156. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly038
• Calede, J. J., W. A. Kehl, and E. B. Davis. 2018. Craniodental morphology and diet of Leptarctus oregonensis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Mascall Formation (Miocene) of central Oregon. Journal of Paleontology, 92(2):289-304. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2017.78
• Williams, J. W., E. C. Grimm, J. L. Blois, D. F. Charles, E. B. Davis, S. J. Goring, R. W. Graham, A. J. Smith, M. Anderson, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, A. C. Ashworth, J. L. Betancourt, B. W. Bills, R. K. Booth, P. I. Buckland, B. B. Curry, T. Giesecke, S. T. Jackson, C. Latorre, J. Nichols, T. Purdum, R. E. Rotha, M. Strykerl, H. Takahara. 2018. The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource. Quaternary Research, 89(1):159-177. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2017.105
• Emery-Wetherell, M. M., B. K. McHorse, E. B. Davis. 2017. Spatially explicit analysis sheds new light on the Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America. Paleobiology, 43(4):642-655. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2017.15
• Badgley, C., Smiley, T. M., Terry, R., Davis, E. B., DeSantis, L. R. G., Fox, D. L., Hopkins, S. S. B., Jezkova,T., Matocq, M. D., Matzke, N., McGuire, J. L., Mulch, A., Riddle, B. R., Roth, V. L., Samuels, J. X., Strömberg, C. A. E., Yanites, B. J. 2017. Biodiversity and topographic complexity: Modern and geohistorical perspectives. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(3):211-226. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.010
• Barnosky, A. D., E. A. Hadly, P. Gonzalez, J. Head, P. D. Polly, A. M. Lawing, J. T. Eronen, D. D. Ackerly, K. Alex, E. Biber, J. Blois, J. Brashares, G. Ceballos, E. B. Davis, G. P. Dietl, R. Dirzo, H. Doremus, M. Fortelius, H. W. Greene, J. Hellmann, T. Hickler, S. T. Jackson, M. Kemp, P. L. Koch, C. Kremen, E. L. Lindsey, C. Looy, C. R. Marshall, C. Mendenhall, A. Mulch, A. M. Mychajliw, C. Nowak, U. Ramakrishnan, J. Schnitzler, K. Das Shrestha, K. Solari, L. Stegner, M. A. Stegner, N. C. Stenseth, M. H. Wake, and Z. Zhan. 2017. Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems. Science, 355(6325): eaah4787. DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4787
• Levering, D., Hopkins, S. S. B., Davis, E. B. 2017. Increasing locomotor efficiency among north American ungulates across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466:279-286. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.036
• McHorse, B. K., Davis, E. B., Scott, E., and Jenkins, D. L. 2016. What species of horse was coeval with North America’s earliest humans in the Paisley Caves? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6):e1214595. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1214595
• Famoso N. A., and Davis E. B. 2016. On the relationship between enamel band complexity and occlusal surface area in Equids (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). PeerJ, 4:e2181. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2181
• Retallack G. J., Gavin D. G., Davis E. B., Sheldon N. D., Erlandson J. M, Reed M. H., Bestland E. A., Roering J. J., Carson R. J., and Mitchell R. B., 2016. Oregon 2100: Projected Climatic and Ecological Changes. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon. 26:1-22. URL: http://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/nat_history/article/view/3631
• Stilson K. T., Hopkins S. S. B., and Davis E. B., 2016. Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 Million Years to the Present. PLoS ONE. 11(2): e0146221. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146221
• Emery, M. M., Davis, E. B., and Hopkins, S. S. B., 2016. Systematic reassessment of an agriochoerid oreodont from the Hancock Mammal Quarry, Clarno (Eocene, Duchesnean), Oregon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36(2): e1041970. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1041970
• Famoso, N. A., Davis, E. B., Feranec, R. S., Hopkins, S. S. B., and Price, S. A., 2016. Are Hypsodonty and Occlusal Enamel Complexity Evolutionarily Correlated in Ungulates? Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 23(1):43-47. DOI:10.1007/s10914-015-9296-7
• Polly, P. D., Cardini, A., Davis, E. B., and Steppan, S., 2015. Marmot evolution and global change in the last 10 million years. In: Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development, Cox, P. G. and Hautier, L. eds. Cambridge University Press.
• Gilmour, D. M., Butler, V. L., O’Connor, J. E., Davis, E. B., Culleton, B. J., Kennett, D. J., Hodgins, G. 2015. Chronology and ecology of late Pleistocene megafauna in the northern Willamette Valley, Oregon. Quaternary Research. 83(1):127-136. DOI:10.1016/j.yqres.2014.09.003
• Sertich, J. W., Graham, R. W., Stucky, R. K., McDonald, H. G., Newton, C., Fisher, D. C., Scott, E., Demobski, J. R., Lucking, C., McHorse, B. K., and Davis, E. B. 2014. High-elevation Late Pleistocene (MIS 5-6) vertebrate faunas from the Zeigler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Quaternary Research. 82(3):504-517. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.08.002
• Davis, E. B., Brakora, K., and Stilson, K. T. 2014. The evolution, development, and functional role of horns in cattle. In: The Evolution of Wild Cattle, Meletti, M. and Burton, J. eds. Cambridge University Press.
• Gavin, D. G., Fitzpatrick, M. C., Gugger, P. F., Heath, K. D., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Dobrowski, S. Z., Hampe, A., Hu, F. S., Ashcroft, M. B., Bartlein, P. J., Blois, J. L., Carstens, B. C., Davis, E. B., de Lafontaine, G. Edwards, M. E., Fernandez, M., Henne, P. D., Herring, E. M., Holden, Z. A., Kong, W.-s., Liu, J., Magri, D. Matzke, N. J., McGlone, M. S., Saltré, F., Stigall, A. L., Tsai, Y.-H. E., Williams, J. W. 2014. Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography. New Phytologist. 204(1): 37-54. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12929
• McGuire, J. L., and Davis, E. B. 2014. Conservation paleobiogeography: the past, present and future of species distributions. Ecography. 37(11): 1092-1094. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01337
• Davis, E. B., McGuire, J. L., and Orcutt, J. D. 2014. Ecological niche models of mammalian glacial refugia show consistent bias. Ecography. 37(11): 1133-1138. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01294
• Famoso, N. A., and Davis, E. B. 2014. Occlusal enamel complexity in middle Miocene to Holocene Equids (Equidae: Perrisodactyla) of North America. PLoS: ONE 9(2): e90184. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090184
• Davis, E. B., and McHorse, B. K. 2013. A method for improved identification of postcrania from mammalian fossil assemblages: multivariate discriminant function analysis of of camelid astragali. Palaeontologia Electronica. 16.3.27A. URL: http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/539-discriminant-id-of-postcrania
• Famoso, N. A., Feranec, R. S., and Davis, E. B. 2013. Occlusal enamel complexity and its implications for lophodonty, hypsodonty, body mass, and diet in extinct and extant ungulates. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387: 211-216. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.006
• Dawson, M. N., Algar,A. C., Antonelli, A., Dávalos, L. M., Davis, E. B., Early, R., Guisan, A., Jansson, R., Lessard, J.-P., Marske, K. A., McGuire, J., Stigall, A. L., Swenson, N. G., Zimmermann, N. E., Gavin, D. G. 2013. An horizon scan of biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography. 5(2): 130-157. URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9rp9c1qk
• McDonough, K. N., Swisher, M. E., Jenkins, D. L., O’Grady, P. W., and Davis, E. B. 2013. An analysis of artifact, bone, and coprolite distributions in Paisley Caves Younger Dryas (Botanical Lens) and underlying Pleistocene deposits. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 38(4): 17-19.
• McGuire, J. L., and Davis, E. B. 2013. Using the palaeontological record of Microtus to test species distribution models and reveal responses to climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 40(8): 1490-1500. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12106
• Davis, E. B., and J. J. M. Calède. 2012. Extending the utility of artiodactyl postcrania for species-level identifications using multivariate morphometric analyses. Palaeontologia Electronica 15.1:1A.
• McHorse, B. K., J. D. Orcutt, and E. B. Davis. 2012. The carnivoran fauna of Rancho La Brea: Average or aberrant? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 329–330:118–123.
• Atwater, A. L., and E. B. Davis. 2011. Topographic and climate change differentially drive Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian beta diversity of the Great Basin and Great Plains provinces of North America. Evolutionary Ecology Research 13:833.
• Calede, J. J., S. S. B. Hopkins, and E. B. Davis. 2011. Turnover in burrowing rodents: The roles of competition and habitat change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311:242-255.
• Davis, E. B., K. A. Brakora, and A. H. Lee. 2011. Evolution of ruminant headgear: a review. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278:2857-2865.
• Hopkins, S. S. B., and E. B. Davis. 2009. Quantitative Morphological Proxies for Fossoriality in Small Mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 90:1449-1460.
• Davis, E. B., M. S. Koo, C. Conroy, J. L. Patton, and C. Moritz. 2008. The California Hotspots Project: identifying regions of rapid diversification of mammals. Molecular Ecology 17:120–138.
• Davis, E. B. 2007. Family Antilocapridae. In The Evolution of Artiodactyls, ed. D.R. Prothero and S.E. Foss.
• Davis, E. B., and N. D. Pyenson. 2007. Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: A case study from the Miocene of Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 250:139-149.
• Davis, E. B. 2005a. Comparison of climate space and phylogeny of Marmota (Mammalia: Rodentia) indicates a connection between evolutionary history and climate preference. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272:519-526.
• Davis, E. B. 2005b. Mammalian beta diversity in the Great Basin, western USA: palaeontological data suggest deep origin of modern macroecological structure. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:479-490.

External links

• UO Vertebrate Paleontology Lab
• Blog
• Edward Davis on Google Scholar