https://www.jeremycohenecologist.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/3282f8cc-3327-4170-89b3-dd9fe124cde5/IMG-20240226-WA0000.jpg Home I’m a quantitative ecologist, climate change ecologist and research associate at Yale University’s Center for Biodiversity and Global Change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604267110686-06J0NP0DOBOIARXLT9BJ/carolinachickadee_mod_2017+%281%29.jpg Home My question: How is climate change impacting wildlife distributions, movement, behavior, and biodiversity patterns across regions, seasons and species? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/449e7f38-afc5-49ed-8e3e-29fb107a9b4a/geb.v32.9.cover+%281%29.jpg Home I’ve published 35 peer-reviewed papers in research journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Climate Change, Global Change Biology & Ecology Letters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604265774349-UHBYOUWQ5718KQCFNH1U/squirreltreefrog.jpg Home I’ve led introductory, upper-level and graduate courses, and mentored 15 graduate and undergraduate students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604268009074-DZOPO037RGHAZQDINOG0/bww.jpg Home My research has been covered by Reuters, NASA Earth, National Geographic, NPR, PNAS, National Wildlife, Yale News, MSN, Yahoo, and eBird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604268495666-TTAVS6O1VNE3E45003OY/puffinpair.jpg Home I’m also a wildlife photographer! My photos have been published in National Geographic books, a variety of newspapers, and have appeared on 14 scientific journal covers. https://www.jeremycohenecologist.com/research daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604269897713-HWZIKLT18B2W35FQGXRL/image-asset.jpeg Research - Extreme weather over short time scales Climate change isn’t just gradually raising temperatures worldwide, it’s greatly increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that take place over months, weeks or even days, such as heat waves, cold snaps, and drought. In my recent position in the Zuckerberg lab at UW-Madison and in collaboration with the Cornell lab of Ornithology, I used eBird, a citizen science database, and NASA satellite weather data to examine how diverse North American bird species are responding to extreme heat and drought in the summer and polar vortexes in the winter. By examining how responses vary across species, we can anticipate which species are most likely to be at risk with climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/9431ce00-f392-492c-b9b3-812c0fbc2bfb/jay.jpg Research - Animal movement for mitigating and responding to climate change In my current position in the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change at Yale University, I developed a novel approach to estimate niche loss and range redistributions from citizen science data while accounting for human observer bias and found that across 384 species of North American birds, most species experienced several degrees of warming over the past 20 years despite moving north and upslope (Cohen et al. Nature Ecology and Evolution). Only species that relocated their geographic ranges the farthest north have experienced little climate change exposure, while species that did not relocate experienced up to seven degrees of warming in winter. In an additional project, species tracked both the mean and variability of seasonal weather conditions via migration based on their functional traits, hinting at their susceptibility to increasing weather variability with climate change (Cohen et al. 2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography). In an ongoing collaboration with a colleague at Berkeley and the USGS and USFWS, we are exploring how individual animals move in response to extreme weather events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/cdb040b4-e381-4edc-aecc-cee3e1ff0046/scissorgo.jpg Research - Understanding Biodiversity Patterns at Continental Scales Additionally, in my current position in the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, I modeled the seasonal distributions of over 650 North American bird species to understand biodiversity patterns and further conservation efforts in conjunction with the 30x30 initiative to conserve 30% of land and water by 2030. Based off that work, I explored how coarse-resolution models bias biodiversity predictions in heterogenous regions and for habitat specialist species especially during the breeding season (Cohen et al 2025 Global Ecology and Biogeography). Currently, I am exploring how the use of extreme weather risk in species distribution models influences predictions especially at range edges as well as continental biodiversity predictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604270880980-YOMWKVKWT9CUUXSQPRHG/image-asset.jpeg Research - Climate change influences outbreaks of deadly wildlife diseases Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate taxa on Earth, partially because they are highly susceptible to the emerging infectious disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a deadly fungal pathogen that has spread worldwide over the last 60 years. It has widely been suspected that temperature plays an important role in driving outbreaks of this disease, but the precise conditions that best promoted outbreaks remained uncertain. My PhD work in the Rohr lab at the University of South Florida involved examining how the ecology of the host influences the impact of temperature in driving chytridiomycosis outbreaks. Using lab and field data, we found that cold-adapted hosts experienced greatest disease risk under unusually warm conditions, while warm-adapted hosts were at greatest risk when it was unusually cool. We have since extended this framework to predict disease outbreaks across a wider variety of wildlife species and project global shifts in wildlife disease risk under climate change. This research resulted in an outstanding dissertation award for the 2016-7 academic year at the University of South Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/5f108759-87af-4c09-8428-9aaa73e77455/turt.JPG Research - The timing of annual events is shifting One of the most well-known responses of wildlife species to climate change involves shifting of phenology, or the timing of annual events including migration, breeding, and emerging from hibernation. In the last 50 years, numerous wildlife species have been documented advancing the timing of these activites earlier in the spring. During my PhD work in the Rohr lab, I conducted a meta-analysis across over 100 published studies and found that invertebrates and amphibians are shifting much faster than birds and mammals, suggesting that predators may be arriving or emerging too late, missing peaks in prey availability. Further, we showed that phenological shifts in temperate areas are primarily driven by temperature, while precipitation plays a greater role in driving shifts in subtropical areas. https://www.jeremycohenecologist.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1617632496863-4LF90GOPBF86414EIS9T/IMG-20210405-WA0000.jpg About - Jeremy Cohen, PhD Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and I’m driven to improve our understanding of how it affects wildlife and ecosystems. In my work as a quantitative ecologist, I explore how the responses of wildlife to climate change vary across many species, from regional to continental and sometimes even global extents, and across spatiotemporal scales. I work on a diverse set of ecological questions, asking how climate change influences shifting movement patterns, the timing of seasonal behaviors, species interactions, distributions and biodiversity patterns. I fuse big ecological datasets (citizen science, monitoring, lit-based) and environmental datasets (remote sensing, station-based) and apply a broad quantitative skill set, including GIS, machine learning/AI, nonlinear and mixed-effects modeling, and phylogenetic and functional analysis. I am very interested in innovating techniques, including towards making sense of citizen science data or exploring variation in species-environment relationships. Most of my work is on North American birds, but I have extensively worked on amphibians in the past and regularly collaborate on projects involving a wide range of taxonomic groups including mammals, plants and even humans. By comparing responses across species that vary in life history and functional traits, I develop frameworks to better understand and predict how diverse species and systems are responding to climate change. My history of working across disciplined and with big, broad questions has allowed me to develop collaborations with climatologists, statisticians, disease ecologists, and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604333108826-GII73AF5ZIIGBPQS8PIF/20201102_100317.jpg About - Education, Experience, and Personal Life I received my Bachelor’s degree in biology from Binghamton University in May 2010 and my PhD in ecology and evolution from the University of South Florida in December 2016. I continued at USF as a postdoctoral researcher from 2017-18, then spent two years as a researcher with the University of Wisconsin and Cornell lab of Ornithology before moving to Yale University in 2021, where I am now an Associate Research Scientist. Before graduate school, I conducted research at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. I’m also an avid hiker, birder, wildlife photographer and a big Yankees fan. I’ve given birding/naturalist walks for the public through Audubon and a variety of schools. I have a two year old who can already ID five bird species by sound and two charismatic cats named Toulouse and Quentin. https://www.jeremycohenecologist.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/a68acc68-f541-426b-85a4-ccbb37f5f95c/geb.v32.9.cover+%281%29.jpg Publications - Peer-reviewed research publications § = dissertation chapter; ¥ = postdoctoral project; * = advised undergraduate student; & = advised graduate student 35. Mäkinen, J., Cohen, J., Jetz, W. Model-based data integration improves species distribution models for data-deficient and narrow-ranged hummingbird species. Diversity and Distributions, 32(3): e70157. Featured on issue cover. Media coverage at Yale BGC Center. 34. Lu, M., Yanco, S., Carlson, B., Winner, K., Cohen, J., et al. Scaling ecological niches from individuals to populations and beyond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(35), e2425582122. 33. Cohen, J.¥ and Jetz, W. 2025. Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate the erosion of species’ environmental niches. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9, 1234–1244. Featured in News & Views. Media coverage at YaleNews, The Wildlife Society, Conservation Corridor, Earth.com. 32. Kirkpatrick, W., Sauer, E., Carroll, R., Cohen, J., et al. 2025. Critical reproductive behaviors in Scaled Quail and Northern Bobwhite are affected by thermal variability and mean temperature. Journal of Thermal Biology, 104054. 31. Cohen, J.¥ and Jetz, W. 2025. Fine-grain predictions are key to accurately represent continental-scale biodiversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1), e13934. 30. Kirk, D., Cohen, J., Nguyen, V., et al. 2025. Impacts of weather anomalies and climate on plant disease. Ecology Letters, 28: e70062. 29. Morrison, M.&, Cohen, J., Gurarie, E., Van Deelen, T.R. 2024. Environmental drivers and fitness consequences of short-distance migration under climate change. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 15(1): 216–227. 28. La Sorte, F., Cohen, J., Jetz, W. 2024. Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen-science resource for monitoring avian diversity. Diversity and Distributions, 30, e13863. Featured on issue cover. 27. Sauer, E.L., Venesky, M.D., McMahon, T.A., Cohen, J., et al. 2024. Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses. Ecology Letters, 27(5), e14431. 26. Rohr, J.R., Mahon, M.B., Sack, A., …Cohen, J., et al. 2024. A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease. Nature, 2024(5), 1-7. 25. Cohen, J. *, Gabor, L.*, Moudry, V., Jetz, W. (*equal first authors). 2024. Assessing the applicability of binary land-cover variables to species distribution models across multiple grains. Landscape Ecology, 39(66). 24. Cohen, J. ¥, Fink, D., Zuckerberg, B. 2023. Spatial and seasonal variation in thermal sensitivity within North American bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2010), 20231398. 23. Cohen, J. ¥ and Jetz, W. 2023. Strategies of seasonal environmental niche tracking at hemispheric scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(9), 1549-1560. 22. Gilbert, N., McGinn, K., Nunes, L., Shipley, A., Bernath-Plaisted, J., Clare, J., Murphy, P., Keyser, S., Thompson, K., Maresh Nelson, S., Cohen, J.M., Widick, I., Bartel, S., Orrock, J., Zuckerberg, B. 2022. Daily activity patterns as an emerging means to explore ecological processes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38(4), P324-336. 21. Cohen, J.¥, Fink, D., Zuckerberg, B. 2021. Extreme winter weather disrupts bird occurrence and abundance patterns at geographic scales. Ecography, 44, 1143-1155. PDF 20. Rohr, J.R. and Cohen, J. 2020. Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease. PLoS Biology, 18(11): e3000938. PDF 19. Cohen, J.¥, Sauer, E.L., Santiago, O.*, Spencer, S.*, Rohr, J.R. 2020. Divergent impacts of warming weather on wildlife disease risk across climates. Science, 370, eabb1702. PDF 18. Shocket, M.S., Verwillow, A.B., Numazu, M.G., Slamani, H., Cohen, J., El-Moustaid, F., Rohr, J.R., Johnson, L.R., Mordecai, E.A. 2020. Transmission of West Nile and five other temperate mosquito-borne viruses peaks at temperatures between 23-26ºC. eLife, 2020; 9:e58511. PDF 17. Zuckerberg, B., Cohen, J., Nunes, L., Bernath-Plaisted, J., Clare, J., Gilbert, N., Kozidis, S., Nelson, S., Shipley, A., Thompson, K., Desrochers, A. 2020. A review of overlapping landscapes: a violation of statistical independence or a red herring in landscape ecology? Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2020: 1-9. PDF 16. Cohen, J.¥, Fink, D., Zuckerberg, B. 2020. Avian responses to extreme weather across functional traits and temporal scales. Global Change Biology, 26(8), 4240-4250. PDF 15. Sauer, E.L., Cohen, J., McMahon, T., Lajeunesse, M., Civitello, D.J., Knutie, S.A., Nguyen, K., Roznik, E.A., Sears, B., Bessler, S., Delius, B., Halstead, N., Ortega, N., Venesky, M.D., Young, S., Rohr, J.R. 2020. A meta-analysis reveals temperature, dose, life stage, and taxonomy influence host susceptibility to a fungal parasite. Ecology, 101(4), e02979. Featured on cover. PDF 14. Johansson, M.A., Apeldorf, K.M., Dobson, S., Devita, J., Buczak, A., Baugher, B., Moniz, L.J. …. Cohen, J., et al. 2019. An open challenge to advance probabilistic forecasting for dengue epidemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(48), 24268-24274. PDF 13. Rohr, J.R. Civitello, D., Cohen, J., Roznik, B., Sinervo, B., Dell, A. 2019. Different metrics of thermal acclimation yield similar effects of latitude, acclimation duration, and body mass on acclimation capacities. Global Change Biology, 25, e3-e4. PDF 12. Cohen, J.¥, McMahon, T., Ramsay, C., Roznik, E.A., Sauer, E.L., Bessler, S., Civitello, D.J., Delius, B., Halstead, N., Knutie, S.A., Nguyen, K., Ortega, N., Sears, B., Venesky, M.D., Young, S., Rohr, J.R. 2019. Impacts of thermal mismatches on disease prevalence are moderated by life stage, body size, elevation, and latitude. Ecology Letters, 22(5), 817-825. Featured on cover. PDF 11. Cohen, J.§, Civitello, D., Venesky, M., McMahon, T., Rohr, J.R. 2019. An interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian declines. Global Change Biology, 25(3), 927-937. PDF 10. Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D., Cohen, J., Roznik, B., Sinervo, B., Dell, A. 2018. The complex drivers of thermal acclimation and breadth in ectotherms. Ecology Letters, 21(9), 1425-1439. Featured on cover. PDF 9. Cohen, J.§, Lajeunesse, M., Rohr, J. 2018. A global synthesis of animal phenological responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 8, 224-228. PDF 8. Johnson, L.R., Gramancy, R.B., Cohen, J., Mordecai, E., Murdock, C., Rohr, J.R., Ryan, S.J., Stewart, A.M., Weikel, D. 2018. Phenomenological forecasting of disease incidence: a dengue case study. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(1), 27-66. PDF 7. Mordecai, E., Cohen, J., Evans, M., Gudapati, P., Johnson, L., Miazgowicz, K., Murdock, C., Rohr, J., Ryan, S., Savage, V., Shocket, M., Stewart, A., Thomas, M., Weikel, D. 2017. Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11, e0005568. PDF 6. Cohen, J.§, Venesky, M., Sauer, E., Civitello, D., McMahon, T., Roznik, B., Rohr, J. 2017. The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains outbreaks of an emerging infectious disease. Ecology Letters, 20 (2), 184-193. Featured on cover, Featured in Nature: Sohn Hothouse of disease 543: S44–S46. PDF 5. Cohen, J.§, Civitello, D., Brace, A., Feichtinger, E., Ortega, N., Richardson, J., Sauer, E.L., Rohr, J. 2016. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E3359-E3364. Selected as best student paper of 2015-2016 academic year by the Ecological Society of America disease section. PDF 4. Civitello, D., Cohen, J., Fatima, H., Halstead, N., Liriano, J., McMahon, T., Ortega, N., Sauer, E., Sehgal, T., Young, S., Rohr, J. 2015. Reply to Salkeld et al.: Diversity-disease patterns are robust to study design, selection criteria, and publication bias. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, E6262. PDF 3. Civitello, D., Cohen, J., Fatima, H., Halstead, N., Liriano, J., McMahon, T., Ortega, N., Sauer, E., Sehgal, T., Young, S., Rohr, J. 2015. Biodiversity inhibits natural enemies: broad evidence for the dilution effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 8667-8671. Showcased by commentaries in PNAS and Science. PDF 2. O’Brien, D.T., Norton, C., Cohen, J., Wilson, D.S. 2014. Local adaptation in community perception: how background impacts judgments of neighborhood safety. Environment and Behavior, 46, 213-240. PDF 1. Li, Y., Cohen, J., Rohr, J.R. 2013. A review and synthesis of the effects of climate change on amphibians. Integrative Zoology, 8, 145-161. PDF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604275129121-PWH1RBMBZ3RL5QYIRM0S/ecology+apr20.jpg Publications - Submitted research publications 1. Cohen, J., Ellis-Soto, D., Sharma, S., La Sorte, F., Jetz, W. Extreme weather risk shrinks species’ range boundaries and alters biodiversity predictions. In review at Global Change Biology. Preprint. 2. Benard, M., Anderson, T., Arietta, A., Cohen, J., et al. Phenology and climate change: Insights and lessons from amphibians. 3. Aleuy, A., Brown, E., Cohen, J., Rohr, J. Density of hosts and density-dependent pathogens are highest at the core of species ranges. Preprint. 4. Robertson, E., Mays, J., O’Connell, T., Cohen, J., Loss, S.R. Effects of an extreme polar vortex event on North American birds persist for over one year. 5. Ellis-Soto, D., Noble, D.W., Arnold, P.A., Pottier, P. … Cohen, J. Extreme heat as the new normal: A methodological roadmap for behaviour, physiology, and species distributions. https://www.jeremycohenecologist.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604278675972-B2MAJ3NKALMAZ2BEZ8ZL/yellowthroat.jpg Teaching and Outreach - Teaching During my time as a postdoctoral researcher, I’ve had the chance to teach two courses as primary instructor. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I taught Climate Change Ecology, an upper-level and graduate course covering the impacts of climate change on wildlife. Although this course was online during the pandemic, I implemented a number of methods to make it as interactive as possible, devoting half of all class time to breakout sessions in which students answered thought-provoking questions, followed by large classroom discussions. At the University of South Florida (USF), I taught Biology Skills, an innovative online course in which students were given a dataset and asked to make figures, tables, and eventually write a paper and conduct peer review. Previously, I taught Introductory Biology II and Introductory Biology for Non-majors as a Teaching Assistant at USF and Binghamton University (as an undergraduate). Throughout my teaching career, I’ve prioritized analysis and deconstruction of concepts rather than memorization of facts, which I strongly believe carries longer-lasting benefits for students as they begin their careers. To further these goals, I served as the graduate representative on my department’s curriculum committee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604278769689-B4M08J04AIFF7DFM6JHG/toad.jpg Teaching and Outreach - Mentoring Undergraduate research assistants have played a large role in most of the projects in my research program. Students often enter research programs excited about the science, so my primary goal is to maintain that enthusiasm while imparting valuable skills that can enhance their career success. I strongly encourage my students to practice communicating their own research and have assisted multiple students in the development and presentation of posters at university-level symposia and regional meetings. My students have gone on to attend graduate research programs, medical school, and veterinary school. As a postdoc, I mentored a Master’s student at UW-Madison and served on her thesis committee. I also informally mentored several PhD students in my current position at Yale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f0d1fbb5e48468ab661cc/1604326372964-EE439ZB7QAKR0B79GPZV/common.jpg Teaching and Outreach - Outreach & Service In Wisconsin, I’ve given several public presentations and a radio interview with WPR about my research. I also served as a Science Olympiad instructor in Madison-area middle and high schools. In Florida, during my PhD, I volunteered to give short presentations about our lab to incoming freshmen, talked to preschoolers about frogs for a day, served as a naturalist guide for both elementary and middle school students, and volunteered with Jane Goodall’s roots and shoots program. I served as a poster judge for the USF graduate research symposium as well as middle school students in Tampa. Before graduate school, I led educational programs for elementary school kids at Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. Finally, I run a facebook page with over 5,000 followers from around the world in which I share research findings and photography. I routinely provide my photography (free of charge) to other researchers for use in figures, presentations, news articles, or for journal cover submissions. My photography has appeared on journal covers ten times. I’ve given departmental research seminars at four universities (Univ. of Florida, Cornell, Oklahoma State, Yale) and presented five invited and six contributed talks at international conferences. 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