Prof Maria Dornelas

Professor

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3324
Email: maadd@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research focuses on quantifying biodiversity and understanding the processes that shape it. I often work on tropical systems and specifically coral reefs, but I also work with tropical freshwater fish, mangrove crabs and plants for example, as I am more question-driven that organism-driven. I like to combine ecological theory, synthesis of existing data, and fieldwork in my research, and most of the research questions I’m interested in fall under the disciplines of community ecology, macroecology and biogeography. I tend to work on intermediate spatio-temporal scales (that is communities and networks of communities over time-scales of years to tens of years).

PhD supervision

Jessica Haghkerdar
Garrett Fundakowski
Fuk Yat Cher Chow

Selected publications

Open access

Coral settlement and recruitment are negatively related to reef fish trait diversity
Chow, C. F. Y., Bolton, C., Boutros, N., Brambilla, V., Fontoura, L., S Hoey, A., S Madin, J., Pizarro, O., Torres-Pulliza, D., M Woods, R., JA Zawada, K., Borges Da Costa Guint Barbosa, M. & Dornelas, M., 14 Feb 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Coral Reefs.
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Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series
Xu, W-B., Blowes, S. A., Brambilla, V., Chow, C. F. Y., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I. S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Magurran, A. E., Gotelli, N. J., McGill, B. J., Dornelas, M. & Chase, J. M., 16 Mar 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 11 p., 1463.
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A millennium of increasing diversity of ecosystems until the mid‐20th century
Santos Martins, I., Dornelas, M., Vellend, M. & Thomas, C. D., 22 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Change Biology. Early View, 11 p.
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Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy
Pereira, H. M., Junker, J., Fernández, N., Maes, J., Beja, P., Bonn, A., Breeze, T., Brotons, L., Bruehlheide, H., Buchhorn, M., Capinha, C., Chow, C. F. Y., Dietrich, K., Dornelas, M., Dubois, G., Fernandez, M., Frenzel, M., Friberg, N., Fritz, S., Georgieve, I., Gobin, A., Guerra, C., Haande, S., Herrando, S., Jandt, U., Kissling, W. D., Kühn, I., Langer, C., Liquete, C., Lyche Solheim, A., Martí, D., Martin, J. G. C., Masur, A., McCallum, I., Mjelde, M., Moe, J., Moersberger, H., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Moreira, F., Musche, M., Navarro, L. M., Orgiazzi, A., Patchett, R., Penev, L., Pino, J., Popova, G., Potts, S., Ramon, A., Sandin, L., Santana, J., Sapundzhieva, A., See, L., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Smets, B., Stoev, P., Tedersoo, L., Tiimann, L., Valdez, J., Vallecillo, S., Van Grunsven, R. H. A., Van De Kerchove, R., Villero, D., Visconti, P., Weinhold, C. & Zuleger, A. M., 26 Jan 2022, ARPHA Preprints.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness
Blowes, S. A., Daskalova, G. N., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A. E., Martins, I. S., McGill, B., McGlinn, D. J., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., Supp, S. R. & Chase, J. M., 29 Sep 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecology. Early View, e3820.
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Net effects of life-history traits explain persistent differences in abundance among similar species
McWilliam, M., Dornelas, M., Álvarez-Noriega, M., Baird, A. H., Connolly, S. R. & Madin, J. S., 1 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecology. Early View, 13 p., e3863.
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Shaping coral traits: plasticity more than filtering
Brambilla, V., Barbosa, M., Dehnert, I., Madin, J., Maggioni, D., Peddie, C. & Dornelas, M., 30 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 692, p. 53-65 13 p.
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Synthesis reveals biotic homogenisation and differentiation are both common
Blowes, S. A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C. F. Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona Eslava, A., Santos Martins, I., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F. H., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W-B., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M. & Chase, J. M., 2022, bioRxiv.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass
Santos Martins, I., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F. Y., Daskalova, G. N., Edwards, K., Eisenhauer, N., Field, R., Fontrodona Eslava, A., Henn, J. J., van Klink, R., Madin, J. S., Magurran, A., McWilliam, M., Moyes, F. H., Pugh, B., Sagouis, A., Trindade Santos, I., McGill, B., Chase, J. M. & Dornelas, M., 2022, bioRxiv.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database
Baird, A. H., Guest, J. R., Edwards, A. J., Bauman, A. G., Bouwmeester, J., Mera, H., Abrego, D., Alvarez-Noriega, M., Babcock, R. C., Barbosa, M. B., Bonito, V., Burt, J., Cabaitan, P. C., Chang, C-F., Chavanich, S., Chen, C. A., Chen, C-J., Chen, W-J., Chung, F-C., Connolly, S. R., Cumbo, V. R., Dornelas, M., Doropoulos, C., Eyal, G., Eyal-Shaham, L., Fadli, N., Figueiredo, J., Flot, J-F., Gan, S-H., Gomez, E., Graham, E. M., Grinblat, M., Gutiérrez-Isaza, N., Harii, S., Harrison, P. L., Hatta, M., Ho, N. A. J., Hoarau, G., Hoogenboom, M., Howells, E. J., Iguchi, A., Isomura, N., Jamodiong, E. A., Jandang, S., Keyse, J., Kitanobo, S., Kongjandtre, N., Kuo, C-Y., Ligson, C., Lin, C-H., Low, J., Loya, Y., Maboloc, E. A., Madin, J. S., Mezaki, T., Min, C., Morita, M., Moya, A., Neo, S-H., Nitschke, M. R., Nojima, S., Nozawa, Y., Piromvaragorn, S., Plathong, S., Puill-Stephan, E., Quigley, K., Ramirez-Portilla, C., Ricardo, G., Sakai, K., Sampayo, E., Shlesinger, T., Sikim, L., Simpson, C., Sims, C. A., Sinniger, F., Spiji, D. A., Tabalanza, T., Tan, C-H., Terraneo, T. I., Torda, G., True, J., Tun, K., Vicentuan, K., Viyakarn, V., Waheed, Z., Ward, S., Willis, B., Woods, R. M., Woolsey, E. S., Yamamoto, H. H. & Yusuf, S., 29 Jan 2021, In: Scientific Data. 8, 9 p., 35.
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