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Stewart Edie
Research Geologist, Curator of Fossil BivalviaEducation
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Curatorial Discipline
Fossil Bivalvia
Research Interests
Stewart is a paleobiologist that tackles broad questions in biodiversity science by building and analyzing big-data libraries of modern and fossil specimens. He’s researched topics such as why biodiversity is so rich in the tropics and so depauperate at the poles, how mass extinctions reorganize biodiversity, and how tradeoffs in organismal energetics influence the evolutionary fates of animal groups. Stewart mostly studies these topics in marine bivalves—clams, oysters, mussels, cockles, and others—as they have an astonishing diversity in today’s ocean and a deep fossil history dating back some half a billion years. Full list of publications on Google Scholar.
Publications
Journal Article
- Collins, Katie S., Edie, Stewart M., and Jablonski, David. 2023. "Convergence and contingency in the evolution of a specialized mode of life: multiple origins and high disparity of rock-boring bivalves." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, (1992). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1907.
- Curley, Allison N., Petersen, Sierra V., Edie, Stewart M., and Guo, Weifu. 2023. "Biologically driven isotopic fractionations in bivalves: from palaeoenvironmental problem to palaeophysiological proxy." Biological Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12940.
- Edie, Stewart M., Collins, Katie S., and Jablonski, David. 2022. "Specimen alignment with limited point-based homology: 3D morphometrics of disparate bivalve shells (Mollusca: Bivalvia)." PeerJ, 10. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13617.
- Edie, Stewart M., Khouja, Safia C., Collins, Katie S., Crouch, Nicholas M. A., and Jablonski, David. 2022. "Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: analysis of venerid Bivalvia." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, (1967). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1199.
- Crouch, Nicholas M. A., Edie, Stewart M., Collins, Katie S., Bieler, Ruediger, and Jablonski, David. 2021. "Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, (1964). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2178.
- Collins, Katie S., Edie, Stewart M., and Jablonski, David. 2020. "Hinge and ecomorphology of Legumen Conrad, 1858 (Bivalvia, Veneridae), and the contraction of venerid morphospace following the end-Cretaceous extinction." Journal of Paleontology, 94, (3) 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.100.
- Collins, K. S., Edie, Stewart M., Gao, T., Bieler, R., and Jablonski, David. 2019. "Spatial filters of function and phylogeny determine morphological disparity with latitude." PLOS ONE, 14, (8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221490.
- Schumm, M., Edie, S. M., Collins, K. S., Gómez-Bahamón, V., Supriya, K., White, Alexander E., Price, T. D., and Jablonski, D. 2019. "Common latitudinal gradients in functional richness and functional evenness across marine and terrestrial systems." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, (1908). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0745.
- Collins, K. S., Edie, S. M., Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, D. 2018. "Extinction risk in extant marine species integrating palaeontological and biodistributional data." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, (1887) 285–285. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1698.
- Cronin, Kelly E., Dietl, Gregory P., Kelley, Patricia H., and Edie, Stewart M. 2018. "Life span bias explains live–dead discordance in abundance of two common bivalves." Paleobiology, 44, (4) 783–797. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.32.
- Edie, Stewart M., Huang, Shan, Collins, Katie S., Roy, Kaustuv, and Jablonski, David. 2018. "Loss of Biodiversity Dimensions through Shifting Climates and Ancient Mass Extinctions." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 58, (6) 1179–1190. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy111.
- Edie, Stewart M., Jablonski, David, and Valentine, James W. 2018. "Contrasting responses of functional diversity to major losses in taxonomic diversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, (4) 732–737. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717636115.
- Sigwart, Julia D., Bennett, K. D., Edie, Stewart M., Mander, Luke, Okamura, Beth, Padian, Kevin, Wheeler, Quentin, Winston, Judith E., and Yeung, Norine W. 2018. "Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction-Present and Past." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 58, (6) 1111–1117. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy113.
- Edie, Stewart M., Smits, Peter D., and Jablonski, David. 2017. "Probabilistic models of species discovery and biodiversity comparisons." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, (14) 3666–3671. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616355114.
- Edie, Stewart M. and Surge, D. 2013. "Deciphering Annual Growth Features in Chione Elevata Shells Using Isotope Sclerochronology." Palaios, 28, (2) 93–98. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2012.p12-044r.
Dataset
- Crouch, Nicholas M. A., Edie, Stewart M., Collins, Katie S., Bieler, Rüdiger, and Jablonski, David. 2021. [Dataset] Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.1VHHMGQSD.
- Edie, Stewart M., Khouja, Safia C., Collins, Katie S., Crouch, Nicholas M. A., and Jablonski, David. 2021. [Dataset] Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: Analysis of venerid Bivalvia. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.DNCJSXM0S.