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.