Publications

Journal Papers:

White, L., Donohue, I., Emmerson, M.C. & O’Connor, N.E. (2018) Combined effects of warming and nutrients on marine systems are moderated by predators and vary across functional groups. Global Change Biology. 24: 5853-5866.
Zwerschke, N., van Rein, H., Harrod, C., Reddin, C., Emmerson, M.C., Roberts, D. & O'Connor, N.E. (2018) Competition between co-occurring invasive and native consumers switches between habitat. Functional Ecology. 32: 2717-2729.
Vye, S. R., Emmerson, M. C., Dick, J. T. A., O'Connor, N. E. (2017) Cumulative effects of multiple stressors: An invasive oyster and nutrient enrichment reduce subsequent invasive barnacle recruitment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 486: 322-327.
Geraldi, N. R., Bertolini, C., Emmerson, M. C., Roberts, D., Sigwart, J. D., O'Connor, N. E. (2017) Aggregations of brittle stars can provide similar ecological roles as mussel reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 563: 157-167.
Barrios-O'Neill, D., Kelly, R., Dick, J. T. A., Ricciardi, A., MacIsaac, Hugh J., Emmerson, M. C. (2017) On the context-dependent scaling of consumer feeding rates. Ecology Letters. 19: 668-678.
Emmerson, M., Morales, M. B., Onate, J. J., et al. (2016) How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Advances in Ecological Research. 55: 43-97.
Novak, M., Yeakel, J.D., Noble, A.E., Doak, D.F., Emmerson, M., Estes, J.A., Jacob, U., Tinker, M.T., Wootton, J.T., (2016) Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 47: 409-432.
Zwerschke, N., Emmerson, M. C., Roberts, D., O'Connor, N. E. (2016) Benthic assemblages associated with native and non-native oysters are similar. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 111: 305-310.
Gagic, V., Bartomeus, I., Jonsson, T., Taylor, A., Winqvist, C., Fischer, C., Slade, E. M., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Emmerson, M., Potts, S. G., Tscharntke, T., Weisser, W., Bommarco, R. (2015) Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2620.
Vye, S. R., Emmerson, M. C., Arenas, F. Dick, J. T. A., O'Connor, N. E. (2015) Stressor intensity determines antagonistic interactions between species invasion and multiple stressor effects on ecosystem functioning. Oikos. 124: 1005-1012.
McElroy, D. J., O’Gorman, E.J., Schneider, F. D., Hetjens, H., Le Merrer, P., Coleman, R.A., Emmerson, M. (2015) Size-balanced community reorganisation in response to nutrients and warming. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13019
Barrios-O'Neill, D., Dick, J.T.A., Emmerson, M.C., Ricciardi, A., MacIsaac, H.J. (2015) Predator-free space, functional responses and biological invasions. Functional Ecology, 29: 377–384.
James, A., Plank, M.J., Rossberg, A.G., Beecham, J., Emmerson, M., Pitchford, J.W. (2015) Constructing Random Matrices to Represent Real Ecosystems. The American Naturalist, 185: 680-692
Jonsson, T., Berg, S., Pimenov, A., Palmer, C., Emmerson, M. (2015) The reliability of R50 as a measure of vulnerability of food webs to sequential species deletions. Oikos, 124:446-457.
Berg, S., Pimenov, A., Palmer, C., Emmerson, M., Jonsson, T. (2015) Ecological communities are vulnerable to realistic extinction sequences. Oikos, 124: 486-496.
Barrios-O'Neill, D., Dick, J.T.A., Emmerson, M.C., Ricciardi, A., MacIsaac, H.J., Alexander, M.E., Bovy, H.C. (2014) Fortune favours the bold: a higher predator reduces the impact of a native but not an invasive intermediate predator. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83: 693-701.
Barrios‐O'Neill, D., Dick, J.T.A., Ricciardi, A., MacIsaac, H.J., Emmerson, M.C. (2014) Deep impact: in situ functional responses reveal context‐dependent interactions between vertically migrating invasive and native mesopredators and shared prey. Freshwater Biology, 59: 2194-2203.
Bovy, H.C., Barrios-O’Neill, D., Emmerson, M.C., Aldridge, D.C., Dick, J.T.A. (2014) Predicting the predatory impacts of the “demon shrimp” Dikerogammarus haemobaphes, on native and previously introduced species. Biological Invasions, 17: 597-607.
Bourke, D., Stanley, D., O'Rourke, E., Thompson, R., Carnus, T., Dauber, J., Emmerson, M., Whelan, P., Hecq, F., Flynn, E., Dolan, L., Stout, J. (2014) Response of farmland biodiversity to the introduction of bioenergy crops: effects of local factors and surrounding landscape context. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 6: 275-289.
Vye, S.R., Emmerson, M.C., Arenas, F., Dick, J.T.A., O'Connor, N.E. (2014) Stressor intensity determines antagonistic interactions between species invasion and multiple stressor effects on ecosystem functioning. Oikos, doi: 10.1111/oik.01583.
Donohue, I., Petchey, O.L., Montoya, J.M., Jackson, A.L., McNally, L., Viana, M., Healy, K., Lurgi, M., O’Connor, N.E. & Emmerson, M.C. (2013). On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters, 16: 421-429.
Twomey, M., Jacob, U., Emmerson, M.C. (2013) Perturbing a marine food web - consequences for food web structure and trivariate patterns. Advances in Ecological Research, 47: 349-409.
O’Connor, N.E., Emmerson, M.C., Crowe, T.P, & Donohue, I. (2013). Distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of predators in complex ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology. 82: 438-448.
Emmerson, M.C. (2012) The predictive science of community ecology. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80: 1111-1114.
Twomey, M., Brodte, E., Jacob, U., Brose, U., Crowe, T.P., Emmerson, M.C. (2012) Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 367: 2971-2978.
Aubry, A., Bécart, E., Davenport, J., Lynn, D., Marnell, F. & Emmerson, M.C. (2012). Patterns of synchrony in natterjack toad breeding activity and reproductive success at local and regional scales. Ecography, 35: 1-11.
Flohre, A., Fischer, C., Aavik, T., Bengtsson, J.,; Berendse, F., Bommarco, R., Ceryngier, P., Clement, L.W., Dennis, C., Eggers, S., Emmerson, M., Geiger, F., Guerrero, I., Hawro, V., Inchausti, P., Liira, J., Morales, M.B., Onate, J.J., Part, T., Weisser, W.W., Winqvist, C., Thies, C., Tscharntke, T. (2011) Agricultural intensification and biodiversity partitioning in European landscapes comparing plants, carabids, and birds. Ecological Applications. 21: 1772-1781.
Guerrero, I., Morales, M.B., Onate, J.J., Aavik, T., Bengtsson, J. Berendse, F., Clement, L.W., Dennis, C., Eggers, S., Emmerson, M., Fischer, C., Flohre, A., Geiger, F., Hawro, V., Inchausti, P., Kalamees, A., Kinks, R., Liira, J., Melendez, L., Part, T., Thies, C., Tscharntke, T., Olszewski, A., Weisser, W.W. (2011) Taxonomic and functional diversity of farmland bird communities across Europe: effects of biogeography and agricultural intensification. Biodiversity and Conservation. 20: 3663-3681.
O'Sullivan, D. and Emmerson, M.C. (2011) Marine reserve designation, trophic cascades and altered community dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 440: 115-125.
O'Connor, N.E., Donohue, I., Crowe, T.P. & Emmerson, M.C. (2011). The importance of consumers on exposed and sheltered rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 443: 65-75.
Thies, C., Haenke, S., Scherber, C., Bengtsson, J., Bommarco, R., Clement, L.W., Ceryngier, P., Dennis, C., Emmerson, M., et al. (2011) The relationship between agricultural intensification and biological control: experimental tests across Europe. Ecological Applications, 21: 2187-2196.
Novak, M., Wootton, J.T., Doak, D., Emmerson, M.C., Estes, J. & Tinker, T. (2011). Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity. Ecology, 92:836-846.
O'Gorman, E.J. and Emmerson, M.C. (2011) Body mass-abundance relationships are robust to cascading effects in marine food webs. Oikos, 120: 520-528.
O’Gorman, E.J., Yearsley, J.M., Crowe, T.P., Emmerson, M.C., Jacob, U., & Petchey, O.L. (2011) Loss of functionally unique species may gradually undermine ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 278: 1886-1893
Aubry, A., Bécart, E., Davenport, J., & Emmerson, M.C. (2010) Estimation of survival rate and extinction probability for stage-structured populations with overlapping life stages. Journal of Population Ecology, 52: 437-450.
Geiger, F., Bengtsson, J., Berendse, F., Weisserc, W.W., Emmerson, M., et al. (2010) Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland. Basic and Applied Ecology, 11: 97-105.
McLaughlin, Ó., Jonsson, T. & Emmerson, M.C. (2010) Temporal variability in predator-prey relationships of a forest floor food web. Advances in Ecological Research, 42: 171-264.
O’Gorman, E.J. & Emmerson, M.C. (2010) Manipulating interaction strengths and the consequences for trivariate patterns in a marine food web. Advances in Ecological Research, 42: 301-419.
O’Gorman, E.J., Jacob, U., Jonsson, T., & Emmerson, M.C. (2010) Interaction strength, food web topology and the relative importance of species in food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 682–692.
Riede, J.O., Rall, B.C., Banasek-Richter, C., Navarrete, S.A., Wieters, E.A., Emmerson, M.C. Jacob, U., & Ulrich Brose (2010) Scaling of food-web properties with diversity and complexity across ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research, 42: 139-170.
O’Gorman, E.J. & Emmerson, M.C. (2009) Perturbations to trophic interactions and the stability of complex food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106:13393-13398.
Rall, B.C., Vucic-Pestic, O., Ehnes, R.B., Emmerson, M., & Brose, U. (2009) Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability. Global Change Biology, 16: 2145-2157.
Montoya, J.M., Woodward, G., Emmerson, M.C., Solé, R.V. (2009) Press perturbations and indirect effects in real food webs. Ecology, 90: 2426-2433.
O’Gorman, E., Enright, R., & Emmerson, M.C. (2008) Predator diversity promotes high levels of secondary production and decreases the likelihood of trophic cascades. Oecologia, 158: 557-567.
Doak, D.F., Estes, J.A., Halpern, B.S., Jacob, U., Lindberg, D.R., Lovvorn, J., Monson, D.H., Tinker, M.T., Williams, T.M., Wootton, J.T., Carroll, I., Emmerson, M., Micheli, F., Novak, M. (2008) Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: Are major surprises inevitable? Ecology, 89:952-961.
Yvon-Durocher, G., Montoya, J.M., Woodward, G. & Emmerson, M. (2008) Macroecological patterns and niche structure in a new marine food web. Central European Journal of Biology, 3: 91-103.
Becart, E., Aubry, A. & Emmerson, M.C. (2008) The natterjack toad Bufo calamita in Co Kerry, Ireland: conservation status, current and foreseeable threats. Irish Naturalists Journal, 28: 477-487.
Virgo, N., Law, R. & Emmerson, M.C. (2006) Sequentially assembled food webs and extremum principles in ecosystem ecology. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75: 377-386.
Emmerson, M.C., Bezemer, M., Hunter, M.D., Jones, T.H. (2005) Global change will alter the stability of food webs. Global Change Biology, 11: 490-501.
Wootton, J.T. & Emmerson, M.C. (2005) Measurement of interaction strength in nature. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 36: 419-444.
Woodward, G., Ebenman, B., Emmerson, M.C., Montoya, J.M., Olesen, J.M., Valido, A. & Warren, P.H. (2005) Body size in ecological networks. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20: 402-409.
Emmerson, M.C., Bezemer, M., Hunter, M.D., Jones, T.H., Masters, G.J. & Van Dam, N.M. (2004) How does global change affect the strength of trophic interactions? Basic & Applied Ecology, 5: 505-514.
Emmerson, M.C. & Raffaelli, D.G. (2004) Body size, patterns of interaction strength and the stability of a real food web. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 399-409.
Emmerson, M.C. & Yearsley, J. (2004) Weak interactions, omnivory and emergent food-web properties. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 271: 397-405.
Berlow, E., Neutel, A.M., Cohen, J.E., de Ruiter, P.C., Ebenman, B., Emmerson M.C., et al. (2004) Interaction strengths in food webs: Issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 585-598.
Emmerson, M.C., Solan, M., Emes, C., Paterson, D.P. & Raffaelli, D.G. (2001) Consistent patterns and the idiosyncratic effects of biodiversity in marine ecosystems. Nature, 411: 73-77.
Emmerson, M.C. & Raffaelli, D.G. (2000) Detecting the effects of diversity on measures of ecosystem function – experimental design, null models and empirical observations. Oikos, 91: 195-203.
Emmerson, M.C. (2000) Remedial habitat creation: does Nereis diversicolor play a confounding role in the colonization and establishment of the pioneering saltmarsh plant, Spartina anglica? Helgoland Marine Research, 54: 110-116.
Raffaelli, D.G., Emmerson, M.C., Solan, M., Biles, C., & Paterson, D. (2002) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in shallow coastal waters: an experimental approach. Journal of Sea Research, 316: 1-9.

Book Chapters:

Emmerson, M.C. (In Press) The importance of body size, abundance and food web structure for ecosystem functioning. In Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (eds. Paterson, D., Aspden, R., and Solan, M.) Oxford University Press.
Griffin, J., O’Gorman, E., Emmerson, M., Jenkins, S., Klein, A.-M., Loreau, M., & Symstadj, A. (2009) Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning. In: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: an ecological and economic perspective. (eds. Naeem, S., Bunker, D.E., Hector, A., Loreau, M. & Perrings). pp 78-93.
Duffy, J.E., Srivastava, D.S., McLaren, J., Sankaran, M., Solan, M., Griffin, J., Emmerson, M., & Jones, K.E (2009) Forecasting decline in ecosystem services under realistic scenarios of extinction. In: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: an ecological and economic perspective. (eds. Naeem, S., Bunker, D.E., Hector, A., Loreau, M. & Perrings). pp 60-77.
Cardinale, B., Duffy, E., Srivastava, D., Loreau, M., Thomas, M., & Emmerson, M. (2009) Towards a Food-web Perspective on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. In: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: an ecological and economic perspective. (eds. Naeem, S., Bunker, D.E., Hector, A., Loreau, M. & Perrings). pp 105-120.
Emmerson, M.C., Montoya, J.M. & Woodward, G. (2005) Body size, interaction strength and food web dynamics. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. (eds de Ruiter, P.C., Wolters, V. & Moore, J.C.). Academic press. pp 167-178.
Montoya, J.M., Emmerson, M.C., Solé, R.V. & Woodward, G. (2005) Perturbations and Indirect Effects in Complex Food Webs. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. (eds de Ruiter, P.C., Wolters, V. & Moore, J.C.). Academic press. pp 369-380.
Woodward, G., Ebenman, B., Emmerson, M.C., Montoya, J.M., Olesen, J.M., Valido, A. & Warren, P.H. (2005) Body-size determinants of the structure and dynamics of ecological networks. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. (eds de Ruiter, P.C., Wolters, V. & Moore, J.C.). Academic press. pp 179-197.
Emmerson, M.C. and Huxham, M. (2002) How can marine ecologists contribute to the biodiversity ecosystem functioning debate? In (eds. Loreau, M., Inchausti, P. & S. Naeem) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspectives. pp 139-146.
Loreau, M., Downing, A., Emmerson, M., Gonzalez, A., Hughes, J., Inchausti, P., Joshi, J., Norberg, J. and Sala, O. (2002) A new look at the relationship between diversity and stability. In (eds. Loreau, M., Inchausti, P. & S. Naeem) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspectives. pp 79-91.
Raffaelli, D.G & Emmerson, M.C. (2000) Energy flow, productivity and food web dynamics in shallow water marine systems. In Sandy and Muddy Shores: Ecological comparisons (Ed. K. Reise) Springer-Verlag. pp 337-355.

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