Prof Maria Dornelas

Prof Maria Dornelas

Professor

Researcher profile

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

  • Garrett Fundakowski
  • Fuk Yat Cher Chow

Selected publications

  • Open access

    Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization

    Blowes, S. A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C. F. Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I. S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W. B., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M. & Chase, J. M., 21 Feb 2024, In: Science Advances. 10, 8, 10 p., eadj9395.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    A word on habitat complexity

    Madin, J. S., Asbury, M., Schiettekatte, N., Dornelas, M., Pizarro, O., Reichert, J. & Torres‐Pulliza, D., 1 Jun 2023, In: Ecology Letters. 26, 6, p. 1021-1024 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    BioDeepTime: a database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages

    Smith, J., Rillo, M. C., Kocsis, Á. T., Dornelas, M., Fastovich, D., Huang, H-H. M., Jonkers, L., Kiessling, W., Li, Q., Liow, L. H., Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Meyers, S., Na, L., Penny, A. M., Pippenger, K., Renaudie, J., Saupe, E. E., Steinbauer, M. J., Sugawara, M., Tomašovỳch, A., & 4 others Williams, J. W., Yasuhara, M., Finnegan, S. & Hull, P. M., 1 Oct 2023, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 10, p. 1680-1689 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Biodiversity change under adaptive community dynamics

    Carroll, T., Cardou, F., Dornelas, M., Thomas, C. D. & Vellend, M., 12 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Change Biology. Early View, 14 p., 16680.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

  • Open access

    Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long-term studies of birds and fish

    Penny, A., Dornelas, M. & Magurran, A., 22 Jun 2023, In: Ecology Letters. 26, 7, p. 1071-1083 13 p., 14214.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • 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., 1 Apr 2023, In: Coral Reefs. 42, 2, p. 519-533 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Disturbance-induced changes in population size structure promote coral biodiversity

    Álvarez-Noriega, M., Madin, J. S., Baird, A. H., Dornelas, M. & Connolly, S. R., Nov 2023, In: American Naturalist. 202, 5, 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Elevated compositional change in plant assemblages linked to invasion

    Kortz, A. R., Moyes, F., Pivello, V. R., Pyšek, P., Dornelas, M., Visconti, P. & Magurran, A. E., 10 May 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 1998, 6 p., 20222450.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead

    Dornelas, M., Chase, J. M., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A., McGill, B. J., Antão, L. H., Blowes, S. A., Daskalova, G. N., Leung, B., Martins, I. S., Moyes, F. H., Myers-Smith, I. H., Thomas, C. D. & Vellend, M., 17 Jul 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1881, 15 p., 20220199.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  • Open access

    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 Jan 2023, In: Ecology. 104, 1, 13 p., e3863.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

 

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