Prof Maria Dornelas
Professor
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
- Cher Chow
Selected publications
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Open access
Among‐species variation in six decades of changing migration timings explained through ecology, life‐history and local migratory abundance
Dale, V. R., Bolton, M., Dornelas, M., Magurran, A. E., Dennis, R., Broad, R., Riddiford, N. J., Harvey, P. V., Riddington, R., Shaw, D. N., Parnaby, D. & Reid, J. M., Jul 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 7, 21 p., e17400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ocean weather, biological rates, and unexplained global ecological patterns
Li Shing Hiung, D. L. C. Y., Schuster, J. M., Duncan, M. I., Payne, N. L., Helmuth, B., Chu, J. W. F., Baum, J. K., Brambilla, V., Bruno, J., Davies, S. W., Dornelas, M., Gagnon, P., Guy-Haim, T., Jackson, J. M., Leichter, J. J., Madin, J. S., Monteith, Z. L., Queirós, A. M., Schneider, E. V. C. & Starko, S. & 22 others, , Aug 2024, In: PNAS Nexus. 3, 8, 12 p., pgae260.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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, , 1 Oct 2023, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 10, p. 1680-1689 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review