Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups

• Mallory M. Rice ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mmrice@csusm.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8975-652X

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• Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7336-3943

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• Marcella D. Baiz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Susan J. Cheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Kathy Darragh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-014X

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• Cesar O. Estien,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• J. W. Hammond,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-0408

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• Danielle D. Ignace,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6804-4040

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• Lily Khadempour,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-3720

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• Kaitlyn M. Gaynor,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-0543

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• Kirby L. Mills,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Change Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-9629

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• Justine A. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Alex C. Moore

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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