O’Connor Research Group
O’Connor Research Group
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Bernhardt, J. R. and H. M. Leslie. 2012. Resilience to climate change in coastal marine ecosystems. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sys. 5: 8.1 - 8.22.
Richardson, A. J., C. J. Brown, W. J. Sydeman, W. Kiessling, P. J. Moore, K. Brander, J. F. Bruno, L. Buckley, M. T. Burrows, C. M. Duarte, B. S. Halpern, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, J. Holding, C. V. Kappel, M. I. O’Connor, J. M. Pandolfi, C. Parmesan, D. S. Schoeman, F. Schwing, E. S. Poloczanska. 2012. Meeting Report: Climate Change and Marine Life. Current Biology.
O’Connor, M. I. and J. F. Bruno. 2012. Marine Invertebrates. In: Metabolic Ecology. Editors: Sibly, Brown and Kodric-Brown. Wiley Press, London.
Klinger, D. H., M. Turnipseed, J. L. Anderson, F. Asche, L. Crowder, A. G. Guttormsen, B. S. Halpern, M. I. O’Connor, R. Sagarin, K. A. Selkoe, G. Schester, M. D. Smith, P. Tyedmers. 2012. Moving beyond the fished or farmed dichotomy. Marine Policy.
Hooper, D. U., E. C. Adair, B. J. Cardinale, J. E. K. Byrnes, B. A. Hungate, K. L. Matulich, A. Gonzalez, J. E. Duffy, L. Gamfeldt and M. I. O’Connor. 2012. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change. Nature. 486: 105-108.
Wolkowich, E. M., J. Regetz, and M. I. O’Connor. 2012. Advances in global change research require open science at the individual-level. Global Change Biology. 18: 2102-2110.
Long, Z. T., M. I. O’Connor and J. F. Bruno. 2012. Effects of predation on intraspecific aggregation of prey and prey diversity in a subtidal marine food web. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Burrows, M. T., D. Schoeman, , L. B. Buckley, P. Moore , E. S. Poloczanska, K. Brander, C. J. Brown, J. F.
Bruno, C. M. Duarte, B. S. Halpern , J. Holding, C. V. Kappel, W. Kiessling, M. I. O’Connor, J.M. Pandolfi , C. Parmesan , F. B. Schwing, W. J. Sydeman , A. J. Richardson. 2011. The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems. Science.
O’Connor, M. I., B. Gilbert, and C. J. Brown. 2011. Theoretical predictions for how temperature
affects the dynamics of interacting herbivores and plants. The American Naturalist. 178(5): 626-638.
O’Connor, M. I., E. R. Selig, M. L. Pinksy and Florian Altermatt. 2011. Toward a conceptual framework for climate change ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 21: 693-703.
Cardinale, B. J., K. Matulich, D. U. Hooper, J. E. Byrnes, J. E. Duffy, L. Gamfeldt, P. Balvanera, M. I. O’Connor, and A. Gonzalez. 2011. The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. American Journal of Botany. 98(3): 572-592.
Kordas, R., C. D. G. Harley, M. I. O’Connor. 2011. Community ecology in a warming world: thermal influence on interspecific interactions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400(1-2):281-226.
O’Connor, M. I., C. R. Violin, A. Anton, L. M. Ladwig and M. F. Piehler. 2011. Shoreline stabilization alters patterns of macroalgal primary production near salt marshes. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 19:131-140. OPEN ACCESS
Smith, M. D., C. A. Rohiem, L. B. Crowder, B. S. Halpern, M. Turnipseed, J. L. Anderson, F. Asche, L. Bourillon, A. G. Guttormsen, A. Khan, L. A. Liguori, A. McNevin, M. I. O’Connor, D. Squires, P. Tyedmers, C. Brownstein, K. Carden, D. H. Klinger, R. Sagarin, K. A. Selkoe. 2010. Sustainability and Global Seafood. Science. 327: 784-786.
*Moran, E. R., P. L. Reynolds, L. M. Ladwig, M. I. O’Connor, Z. T. Long, and J. F. Bruno. 2010. Predation intensity is negatively related to plant species richness in a benthic marine community. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 400: 277-282.
O’Connor, M.I., M. F. Piehler, D. M. Leech, A. Anton and J.F. Bruno. 2009. Warming and resource availability shift metabolism of a marine food web. PLoS Biology 7(8) e1000178. OPEN ACCESS
O’Connor, M.I. and J.F. Bruno. 2009. Predator richness has no effect in a diverse marine food web. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78: 732-740.
*Featured as an In Focus article with commentary by S. Loreaux and M. Loreau. 2009. Disentangling multiple predator effects in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research. Journal of Animal Ecology 78(4): 695-698.
O’Connor, M.I. 2009. Warming strengthens an herbivore-plant interaction. Ecology. 90(2) 388-398.
Sax, D. F., Stachowicz, J. J., Brown, J. H., Bruno, J. F., Dawson, M. N., Gaines, S. D., Grosberg, R. K., Hastings, A., Holt, R. D., Mayfield, M. M., O’Connor, M.I., and Rice, W. R. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22(9): 465-471.
O’Connor, M.I., J.F. Bruno, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, S.E. Lester, B.P. Kinlan and J.M. Weiss. 2007. Temperature control of larval dispersal: implications for marine ecology, evolution and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 1266-1271.
*Commentary on #4 by Duarte, C. M. 2007. Marine ecology warms up to theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22:331-333.
Bruno, J.F. and M.I. O’Connor. 2005. Cascading effects of predator diversity and omnivory in marine food webs. Ecology Letters, 8: 1048-1056.
McDonald, R., M. McKnight, D. Weiss, E. Selig, M.I. O’Connor, C. R. Violin, A. Moody. 2005. Species compositional similarity and ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of higher species turnover? Biological Conservation, 126: 24-40.
* #2 recommended by P. Kareiva to Faculty of 1000.
Wonham, M., M. O’Connor and C. Harley. 2005. Positive effects of a dominant invader on introduced and native mudflat species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 289: 109-116.
Reports and Articles
Parrish, J.K., and K. Litle, Editors. 2004. “Where the River Meets the Sea: Case Studies of Pacific Northwest Estuaries”. MO authored text, performed data analysis and produced figures. Work and publication funded by NOAA Coastal Ocean Program on award # NA960P0238.
O'Connor, M., M. Wonham, and C. Harley, 2001. Quantifying the impacts of an invader: The Asian mud snail Batillaria attramentaria on the mud flats of Padilla Bay, Wa. Washington State Department of Ecology (Publication No. 02-06-016), Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Technical Report No. 25, 35 pp.
O’Connor, Mary. “Assessing the ecological impact of an introduced species: The Asian mud snail finds a home in Padilla Bay.” Puget Sound Notes (44), Dec. 2000.
Publications