| 62 | Cobos, M. E., Dunnum, J. L., Armién, B., Gonzalez, P., Juarez, E., Salazar, J., Cook, J. A., & Colella, J. P. In press. Selecting sites for strategic surveillance of zoonotic pathogens: A case study in Panama. Ecohealth. Preprint link |
| 61 | Campbell, P. D., Wiens, B. J., Cobos, M. E., Peterson, A T., & Colella, J. P. 2025. Harnessing historical sampling to substantiate range shifts: Southward movement of North American least weasels (Mustela nivalis). Front. Biogeogr. 18, e131798. link |
| 60 | Valarezo-Aguilar, K., Cobos, M. E., Ordonez-Gutierrez, O., Mendoza-Leon, C, & Nuñez-Penichet, C. 2025. New record of the American Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw 1802), in Loja, Ecuador. Rept. Amphib., 32(1), e22511. link |
| 59 | Kass, J. M., Smith, A. B., Warren, D. L., Vignali, S., Schmitt, S., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Arlé, E., Barbosa, A. M, Broennimann, O., Cobos, M. E., … 2025. Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software. Ecography. 2025(2): e07346 link |
| 58 | Cobos, M. E., Winters, T., Martinez, I., Yao, Y., Xiao, X., Ghosh, A., Sundstrom, K., Duncan, K., Brennan, R. E., Little, S. E., & Peterson, A. T. 2024. Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of Amblyomma americanum questing activity in the Central Great Plains. PLoS ONE 19(10), e0304427. link |
| 57 | Cobos, M. E., Owens, H. L., Soberón, J., & Peterson, A. T. 2024. Detailed multivariate comparisons with mobility oriented parity. Front. Biogeogr. 17, e132916. link |
| 56 | Arias-Giraldo, L. F., Cobos, M. E., Peterson, A. T., Landa, B., & Navas-Cortes, J. A. 2024. Unraveling the ecological niche signals of Verticillium dahliae: Insights from Mediterranean landscapes. Plant Dis. link |
| 55 | Alkishe, A., Cobos, M. E., & Peterson, A. T. 2024. Broad-scale ecological niches of pathogens vectored by the ticks Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum in North America. PeerJ. 12, e17944. link |
| 54 | Barve, N., Ashraf, U., Barve, V., Cobos, M. E., Nuñez-Penichet, C., & Peterson, A. T. 2024. Revisiting plant hardiness zones to include multiple climatic stress dimensions. iScience. 110824. link |
| 53 | Arias-Giraldo, L. F. & Cobos, M. E. 2024. enmpa: An R package for ecological niche modeling using presence-absence data and generalized linear models. Biodiv. Inform. 18, 28–42. link |
| 52 | Ng’eno, N., Cobos, M. E., Kiplangat, S., Mugoh, R., Ouma, A., Bigogo, G., Omulo, S., & Peterson, A. T. 2024. Long-term antibiotic exposure risk landscapes and resistant Escherichia coli colonization in a densely populated setting. PLoS ONE. 19(7), e0302521. link |
| 51 | Peterson, A. T., Yao, Y., Cobos, M. E., & Xiao, X. 2024. Correlative ecological niche model applications to predicting landscape-scale woody plant encroachment in Kansas tallgrass prairie systems. PLoS ONE. 19(6): e0305168. link |
| 50 | Machado-Stredel, F., Atauchi, P. J., Nuñez-Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., Osorio-Olvera, L., Khalighifar, A., Peterson, A. T., & Fletcher Jr., R. J. 2024. The roles of abiotic and biotic factors in driving range shifts: An invasive Pomacea snail facilitates Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite) northward range expansion. Ornithology. ukae022. link |
| 49 | Ng’eno, E., Alkishe, A., Romero-Alvarez, D., Sundstrom, K., Cobos, M. E., Belgum, H., (+15 co-authors). 2024 Phenology of five tick species in the central Great Plains. PLoS ONE. 19(5), e0302689. link |
| 48 | DeRaad, D., Cobos, M. E., Hofmeister, N. R., DeCicco, L., Venkatraman, M. X., Nishiumi, I., (+12 co-authors). 2024. On the brink of explosion? Identifying the source and potential spread of introduced Zosterops white-eyes in North America. Biol. Invasions. link |
| 47 | Peterson, A. T., Cobos, M. E., Sikes, B., Soberón, J., Osorio-Olvera, L., Bolick, L., & Emmett, A. 2024. Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at a U.S. University. PeerJ. 12, e16514. link |
| 46 | Bernardinis, G. B., Cobos, M. E., Brum, F. T., Marques, M. C. M., Peterson, A. T., …, & Zwiener, V. P.. (2023) Ecological restoration and protection of remnants are key to the survival of the critically endangered Araucaria tree under climate change. Global Ecology and Conservation, 47, e02668. link |
| 45 | Cobos, M. E., Nuñez-Penichet, C., Campbell, P. D., Cooper, J. A., Machado-Stredel, F., …, & Peterson, A. T. (2023). Effects of occurrence data density on conservation prioritization strategies. Biological Conservation, 284, 110207. Link |
| 44 | Cobos, M. E., & Peterson, A. T. (2023). Broad-scale factors shaping the ecological niche and geographic distribution of Spirodela polyrhiza. PLoS ONE, 18, e0276951. Link |
| 43 | Colella, J. P., Cobos, M. E., Salinas, I., Cook, J. A., & The PICANTE Consortium. (2023). Advancing the central role of non-model biorepositories in predictive modeling of emerging pathogens. PLOS Pathogens, 19, e1011410. Link |
| 42 | Ashraf, U., Peterson, A. T., Chaudhry, M. N., & Cobos, M. E. (2023). Global ecological niche conservatism and evolution in Olea species. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 30(1), 103500. Link |
| 41 | Alkishe, A., Cobos, M. E., Osorio-Olvera, L., & Peterson, A. T. (2022). Ecological niche and potential geographic distributions of Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor reticulatus (Acari: Ixodidae) under current and future climate conditions. Web Ecology, 22(2), 33–45. Link |
| 40 | Busby, W. H., Barve, N., Cobos, M. E., & Peterson, A. T. (2022). Effects of landscape history on current geographic distributions of four species of reptiles and amphibians in Kansas. The Southwestern Naturalist, 66(2), 157–165. Link |
| 39 | Cobos, M. E., Barve, V., Barve, N., Jiménez-Valverde, A., & Nuñez-Penichet, C. (2022). rangemap: An R package to explore species’ geographic ranges. Biodiversity Informatics, 17, 59–66. Link |
| 38 | Cobos, M. E., & Peterson, A. T. (2022). Detecting signals of species’ ecological niches in results of studies with defined sampling protocols: Example application to pathogen niches. Biodiversity Informatics, 17, 50–58. Link |
| 37 | Contreras-Díaz, R. G., Falconi, M., Osorio-Olvera, L., Cobos, M. E., Soberón, J., …, & Vásquez-Martínez, R. (2022). On the relationship between environmental suitability and habitat use for three neotropical mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 103(2), 425–439. Link |
| 36 | Machado-Stredel, F., Freeman, B., Jiménez-Garcia, D., Cobos, M. E., Nuñez-Penichet, C., …, & Peterson, A. T. (2022). On the potential of documenting decadal-scale avifaunal change from before-and-after comparisons of museum and observational data across North America. Avian Research, 13, 100005. Link |
| 35 | Nuñez-Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., Soberón, J., Gueta, T., Barve, N., …, & Peterson, A. T. (2022). Selection of sampling sites for biodiversity inventory: Effects of environmental and geographical considerations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), 1595–1607. Link |
| 34 | Peterson, A. T., Aiello-Lammens, M., Amatulli, G., Anderson, R., Cobos, M. E., …, Zurell, D. (2022). ENM2020: A free online course and set of resources on modeling species’ niches and distributions. Biodiversity Informatics, 17, 1–9. Link |
| 33 | Banks, W. E., Moncel, M.-H., Raynal, J.-P., Cobos, M. E., Romero-Alvarez, D., …, & Santos, F. (2021). An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 5346. Link |
| 32 | Cobos, M. E., Cheng, Y., Song, G., Lei, F., & Peterson, A. T. (2021). New distributional opportunities with niche innovation in Eurasian snowfinches. Journal of Avian Biology, 52(12), e02868. Link |
| 31 | DeRaad, D. A., Cobos, M. E., Alkishe, A., Ashraf, U., Ahadji-Dabla, K. M., …, & Peterson, A. T. (2021). Genome-environment association methods comparison supports omnigenic adaptation to ecological niche in malaria vector mosquitoes. Molecular Ecology, 30(23), 6468–6485. Link |
| 30 | Gonzalez, V. H., Cobos, M. E., Jaramillo, J., & Ospina, R. (2021). Climate change will reduce the potential distribution ranges of Colombia’s most valuable pollinators. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 19(2), 195–206. Link |
| 29 | Machado-Stredel, F., Cobos, M. E., & Peterson, A. T. (2021). A simulation-based method for identifying accessible areas as calibration areas for ecological niche models and species distribution models. Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(4), e48814. Link |
| 28 | Nuñez-Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., Checa, M. F., Quinde, J. D., Aguirre, Z., & Aguirre, N. (2021). High diversity of diurnal Lepidoptera associated with landscape heterogeneity in semi-urban areas of Loja City, southern Ecuador. Urban Ecosystems, 24(6), 1155–1164. Link |
| 27 | Nuñez-Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., & Soberón, J. (2021). Non-overlapping climatic niches and biogeographic barriers explain disjunct distributions of continental Urania moths. Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(2), e52142. Link |
| 26 | Nuñez-Penichet, C., Osorio-Olvera, L., Gonzalez, V. H., Cobos, M. E., Jiménez, L., …, & Soberon, J. (2021). Geographic potential of the world’s largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia Smith (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), worldwide and particularly in North America. PeerJ, 9, e10690. Link |
| 25 | Raghavan, R. K., Koestel, Z., Ierardi, R., Peterson, A. T., & Cobos, M. E. (2021). Climatic suitability of the eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, and its likely geographic distribution in the year 2050. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15330. Link |
| 24 | Simões, M. V. P., Saeedi, H., Cobos, M. E., & Brandt, A. (2021). Environmental matching reveals non-uniform range-shift patterns in benthic marine Crustacea. Climatic Change, 168(3), 31. Link |
| 23 | Soberón, J., Cobos, M. E., & Nuñez-Penichet, C. (2021). Visualizing species richness and site similarity from presence-absence matrices. Biodiversity Informatics, 16, 20–27. Link |
| 22 | Vignoles, A., Banks, W. E., Klaric, L., Kageyama, M., Cobos, M. E., & Romero-Alvarez, D. (2021). Investigating relationships between technological variability and ecology in the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32–28 ky cal. BP) in France. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, 106766. Link |
| 21 | Alkishe, A., Cobos, M. E., Peterson, A. T., & Samy, A. M. 2020. Recognizing sources of uncertainty in disease vector ecological niche models: An example with the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. Link |
| 20 | Mazón, M., Nuñez-Penichet, C., & Cobos, M. E. 2020. Relationship between body mass and forewing length in Neotropical Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Neotropical Entomology. Link |
| 19 | Owens, H. L., Ribeiro, V., Saupe, E. E., Cobos, M. E., Hosner, P. A., …, & Peterson, A. T. 2020. Acknowledging uncertainty in evolutionary reconstructions of ecological niches. Ecology and Evolution, 10(14), 6967–6977. Link |
| 18 | Simões, M., Romero-Alvarez, D., Nuñez-Penichet, C., Jiménez, L., & Cobos, M. E. 2020. General theory and good practices in ecological niche modeling: A basic guide. Biodiversity Informatics, 15(2), 67–68. Link |
| 17 | Cobos, M. E., Peterson, A. T., Osorio-Olvera, L., & Jiménez-García, D. 2019. An exhaustive analysis of heuristic methods for variable selection in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling. Ecological Informatics, 53, 100983. Link |
| 16 | Cobos, M. E., Peterson, A. T., Barve, N., & Osorio-Olvera, L. 2019. kuenm: An R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent. PeerJ, 7, e6281. Link |
| 15 | Nuñez‐Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., Barro, A., & Soberón, J. 2019. Potential migratory routes of Urania boisduvalii (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae) among host plant populations. Diversity and Distributions, 25(3), 478–488. Link |
| 14 | Peterson, A. T., Anderson, R. P., Beger, M., Bolliger, J., Brotons, L., Burridge, C. P., Cobos, M. E., …, & Zurell, D. 2019. Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another. Diversity and Distributions, 25(1), 5–8. Link |
| 13 | Peterson, A. T., Anderson, R. P., Cobos, M. E., Cuahutle, M., Cuervo-Robayo, A. P., …, & Yañez-Arenas, C. 2019. Curso modelado de nicho ecológico, version 1.0. Biodiversity Informatics, 14, 1–7. Link |
| 12 | Raghavan, R. K., Barker, S. C., Cobos, M. E., Barker, D., Teo, E. J. M., …, & Peterson, A. T. 2019. Potential spatial distribution of the newly introduced Long-horned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis in North America. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 498. Link |
| 11 | Raghavan, Ram K., Peterson, A. T., Cobos, M. E., Ganta, R., & Foley, D. 2019. Current and future distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America. PLoS ONE, 14(1), e0209082. Link |
| 10 | Ramírez-Gil, J. G., Cobos, M. E., Jiménez-García, D., Morales-Osorio, J. G., & Peterson, A. T. 2019. Current and potential future distributions of Hass avocados in the face of climate change across the Americas. Crop and Pasture Science, 70(8), 694–708. Link |
| 9 | Cobos, M. E., & Alonso Bosch, R. 2018. Breeding sites of a narrowly distributed amphibian, a key element in its conservation in the face of global change. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 28, 1089–1098. Link |
| 8 | Cobos, M. E., Jiménez, L., Nuñez-Penichet, C., Romero-Alvarez, D., & Simoes, M. 2018. Sample data and training modules for cleaning biodiversity information. Biodiversity Informatics, 13, 49–50. Link |
| 7 | Peterson, A. T., Cobos, M. E., & Jiménez‐García, D. 2018. Major challenges for correlational ecological niche model projections to future climate conditions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1429(1), 66–77. Link |
| 6 | Torres-Porras, J., Cobos, M. E., Seoane, J. M., & Aguirre, N. 2017. Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador. Check List, 13(4), 35–45. |
| 5 | Cobos, M. E., & Alonso Bosch, R. 2016. Recent and future threats to the Endangered Cuban toad Peltophryne longinasus: Potential additive impacts of climate change and habitat loss. Oryx. Link |
| 4 | Cobos, M. E., Cruz, D. D., & Hernández, M. 2016. Análisis multitemporal del Índice Normalizado de Diferencia de Vegetación (NDVI) en Cuba. Revista Del Jardín Botánico Nacional, 37, 15–18. |
| 3 | Alonso Bosch, R., Cobos, M. E. 2016. A rapid survey of the critically endangered Zapata toad, Peltophryne florentinoi (Anura: Bufonidae), in Cuba: New locality and conservation approaches. Rept. Amphib. 23(1), 46–48. link |
| 2 | Cobos, M. E., Nuñez-Penichet, C., & Valarezo-Aguilar, K. 2016. First record of an American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) population in Loja, Ecuador. IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians, 22(1), 46–48. |
| 1 | Nuñez-Penichet, C., Cobos, M. E., Gutiérrez, J. E., & Barro, A. 2016. Distribución potencial del género Omphalea (Euphorbiaceae) en Cuba: Aproximación a su distribución real. Revista Del Jardín Botánico Nacional, 37, 165–175. |
