Morgan’s group studies how natural systems change through time, both historically and in the future. She runs the Portal Project long-term ecological research site.
Interests
- Ecological Dynamics
- Community Ecology
- Technology + Field Work
Education
PhD in Biology, 2001
University of New Mexico
BSc in Biology, 1994
University of Arizona
Latest
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
- Forecasting rodent population dynamics and community transitions with dynamic nonlinear models
- Data Carpentry for Biologists: A semester long Data Carpentry course using ecological and other biological examples
- Ecological Dynamics and Forecasting: A graduate course on the fundamentals of time series and forecasting in ecology
- Maintenance of community function through compensation breaks down over time in a desert rodent community
- portalcasting: Supporting automated forecasting of rodent populations
- Temporal changes in the individual size distribution decouple long-term trends in abundance, biomass, and energy use of North American breeding bird communities
- Declines in rodent abundance and diversity track regional climate variability in North American drylands
- Empirical abundance distributions are more uneven than expected given their statistical baseline
- Evaluating probabilistic ecological forecasts
- InsectChange: a global database of temporal changes in insect and arachnid assemblages
- Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods
- Maintenance of community function through compensation breaks down over time in a desert rodent community
- Modeling how community assembly alters the functioning of ecosystems
- Ten simple rules for a successful remote postdoc
- The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem
- Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data
- Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study
- Established rodent community delays recovery of dominant competitor following experimental disturbance
- Macroecological patterns of mammals across taxonomic, spatial, and temporal scales
- portalr: an R package for summarizing and using the Portal Project Data
- Temporal changes in species composition affect a ubiquitous species’ use of habitat patches
- Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism
- Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study
- Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach
- Long-term community change through multiple rapid transitions in a desert rodent community
- Prediction and forecasting of portal fauna via particle filtration
- Process-based allometry describes the influence of management on orchard tree aboveground architecture
- Scales of data
- The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem
- Bees without flowers: before peak bloom, diverse native bees find insect-produced honeydew sugars
- Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism
- Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes
- Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles: Ecological Archives E096-269
- Macroecology before Macroecology
- Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing
- Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis
- Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution
- Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community
- Using size distributions to understand the role of body size in mammalian community assembly
- Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species
- The maximum rate of mammal evolution
- Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities
- Species composition and abundance of mammalian communities
- Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness
- Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents
- Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function
- The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals
- Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics
- Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA: Ecological Archives E090-118
- Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats: nonlinear effects of population dynamics, competition, and rainfall
- Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents
- Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly
- Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology
- Comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories"
- Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply
- The offspring-size/clutch-size trade-off in mammals
- Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals
- Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents
- Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates
- Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time
- Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community
- Trade-offs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community
- Body Mass of Late Quaternary Mammals
- Life history characteristics of placental nonvolant mammals: ecological archives E084-093
- Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use
- Effects of fire and grazing on an arid grassland ecosystem
- Rain and Rodents: Complex Dynamics of Desert Consumers
- Complex species interactions and the dynamics of ecological systems: long-term experiments
- Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization
- Homeostasis and compensation: the role of species and resources in ecosystem stability
- Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments
- Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources