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Representative Published Work

Products with a Carrion or Forensic Ecology focus

2019

Barton, PS, MJ Evans, CN Foster, JL Pechal, JK Bump, MM Quaggiotto, ME Benbow. 2019. Out of sight, out of mind? Towards quantifying carrion biomass in ecosystems. 34:950-961 doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.06.001

2019

Benbow, ME, PS Barton, MD Ulyshen, JC Beasley, TL DeVault, MS Strickland, JK Tomberlin, HR Jordan, JL Pechal. 2019. Necrobiome framework for bridging decomposition ecology of autotrophically and heterotrophically-derived organic matter. Ecological Monographs 89(1):e01331. doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1331

2020

Benbow, ME, J Receveur, GA Lamberti. 2020. Death and decomposition in aquatic ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8(17):doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00017

2020

Babcock, NJ, JL Pechal, ME Benbow. 2020. Adult blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) community structure across urban-rural landscapes in Michigan, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology 57(3):705-714 doi:org/10.1093/jme/tjz246

2018

Pechal, JL, CJ Schmidt, HR Jordan, ^ME Benbow. 2018. A large-scale survey of the postmortem human microbiome, and its potential to provide insight into the living health condition. Nature Scientific Reports 8:5724 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23989-w (Media coverage by Live Science, Michigan NPR) [Top 100 read articles in Scientific Reports, Editors choice, and Top 100 in Microbiology (#25)]

2017

Weatherbee, CR, JL Pechal, TI Stamper, ME Benbow. 2017. Post-colonization interval estimate using multi-species Calliphoridae larval masses and spatially distinct temperature data sets: a case study. 8(2), 40; doi:10.3390/insects8020040  Invited

2017

Pechal, JL, CJ Schmidt, HR Jordan, ME Benbow. 2017. Frozen: thawing and its effects on the postmortem microbiome in two pediatric cases. 62(5):1399-1405. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13419

2017

Weatherbee, CR, JL Pechal, ME Benbow. 2017. The dynamic maggot mass microbiome. 110(1):45-53. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saw088 Invited

2013

Benbow, ME, AJ Lewis, JK Tomberlin, JL Pechal. 2013. Seasonal necrophagous insect community assembly during carrion decomposition. Journal of Medical Entomology 50(2):440-450. doi.org/10.1603/ME12194

2011

Tomberlin, JK, R Mohr, ME Benbow, AM Tarone, S Vanlaerhoven. 2011. A roadmap for bridging basic and applied research in forensic entomology. 56:401-421. () PMID: 20822449 doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-051710-103143

2011

Tomberlin, JK, ME Benbow, AM Tarone, R Mohr. 2011. Basic research in evolution and ecology enhances forensics. 26(2):53-55 () () PMID: 21185105 doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2010.12.001

Publications - Aquatic Ecology: Publications
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