UBC Zoology - Jonathan Shurin

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

I am interested in the connections among population, community and ecosystem ecology. I use field experiments, broad scale surveys and theory to address questions like the following:

1. How are communities structured at local and regional scales?

2. What controls the spread and impact of invasive species?

3. How do food web structure and function vary between ecosystems?

B.Sc., Macalester College, 1992

Masters, University of Wisconsin, 1996

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000

Post-doctoral research: NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis), 2003

Selected publications:

Shurin, J.B., S.E. Arnott, H. Hillebrand, A. Lonmuir, B. Pinel-Alloul, M. Winder
and N.D. Yan. 2007. Diversity-stability relationship depends on latitude in zooplankton.
Ecology Letters 10:217-134.

Shurin, J.B., D.S. Gruner and H. Hillebrand. 2006. All wet or dried up? Real differences between aquatic and terrestrial food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 273: 1-9.

Shurin, J.B. and E.W. Seabloom. 2005. The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: Predictions from allometry and energetics. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:1029-1038

Borer, E.T., E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin, K. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, and B. Halpern. 2005. Sources of inter- and intra-system variation in the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology 86: 528-537.

Halpern, B.S., E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom and J.B. Shurin. 2005. Stabilizing and destabilizing effects of species and trophic diversity in multi-trophic systems. Ecology Letters 8:189-194.

Shurin, J.B., P. Amarasekare, J.M. Chase, R.D. Holt, M.F. Hoopes and M.A. Leibold. 2004. Alternative stable states and regional community structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology 227: 359-368.

Cohen, G.M. and J.B. Shurin. 2003. Scale-dependence and mechanisms of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton. Oikos 103: 603-617.

Shurin, J.B., E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom, K. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, and B. Halpern. 2002. A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 5: 785-791.

Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin and J.R. Jones. 2002. Estimating dispersal from patterns of spread: Spatial and local control of lakeinvasions. Ecology 83:3306-3318.

Shurin, J.B and E.G. Allen. 2001. Effects of competition, predation, dispersal on local and regional species richness. American Naturalist 158: 624-637.

Shurin, J.B. 2001. Interactive effects of predation and dispersal on zooplankton communities. Ecology 82: 3404-3416.

Shurin, J.B. 2000. Dispersal limitation, invasion resistance, and the structure of pond zooplankton communities. Ecology 81: 3074-3086.

Shurin, J.B., J.E. Havel, M.A. Leibold and B. Pinel-Alloul. 2000. Local and regional zooplankton species richness: A scale-independent test for saturation. Ecology 81: 3062- 3073.