Mary I. O’Connor

CV

 

Warming Shifts Food Web Structure and Metabolism

see the article at: www.PLoSbiology.org


Small amounts of ocean warming may have dramatic effects for ocean food web processes, and these effects may be quite predictable. Synopsis, and more...


See related articles in:

    Scientific American

    Science Magazine

    New Scientist

    EEB and flow


UNC press release

 

I study the influence of environmental temperature on the dynamics of ecological communities. My work contributes to our understanding of how patterns of species abundance are related to ocean temperature as it varies from place to place, season to season, and with climate change.  Currently, I’m exploring how the effects of temperature on individual metabolic rate in turn influence interactions among species or dispersal of marine organisms. I also study the effects of changing predator diversity in the ocean, and the consequences of invasive species in marine habitats. more...

 

Research Interests

Updates

  1. -Check out the great new ecology podcast, Voyage of the Beagle!


  1. -I gave a talk at WSN in Monterey


  1. -I attended the Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles Sept 30-Oct 2.


  1. -New paper out on the effects of ocean temperature on food web structure in PLoS Biology.

 

  1. -A poem about my research was published in the New Yorker! more...


  1. -New paper on effects of predator diversity in the Journal of Animal Ecology (O'Connor & Bruno 2009.pdf)

Postdoctoral Associate

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101                                                                            

                                                                                             805-892-2522

oconnor(at)nceas.ucsb.edu