Jonathan B Shurin

Summary

Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Alternative stable states and regional community structure
    Jonathan B Shurin
    National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, 735 State St, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
    J Theor Biol 227:359-68. 2004
  2. ncbi Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Oecologia 159:151-9. 2009
  3. ncbi Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
    Ecol Lett 10:127-34. 2007
  4. ncbi All wet or dried up? Real differences between aquatic and terrestrial food webs
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver BC, Canada
    Proc Biol Sci 273:1-9. 2006
  5. ncbi Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:3008-17. 2012
  6. ncbi Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities
    Pavel Kratina
    Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Ecology 93:1421-30. 2012
  7. ncbi Regional zooplankton biodiversity provides limited buffering of pond ecosystems against climate change
    Patrick L Thompson
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    J Anim Ecol 81:251-9. 2012
  8. ncbi Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity - contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Ecol Lett 13:453-63. 2010
  9. ncbi Independent gradients of producer, consumer, and microbial diversity in lake plankton
    Allyson Longmuir
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Ecology 88:1663-74. 2007
  10. ncbi Organismal traits are more important than environment for species interactions in the intertidal zone
    Spencer A Wood
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Ecol Lett 13:1160-71. 2010

Detail Information

Publications16

  1. ncbi Alternative stable states and regional community structure
    Jonathan B Shurin
    National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, 735 State St, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
    J Theor Biol 227:359-68. 2004
    ..Broad environmental gradients in resource supply favor regional coexistence of species that exhibit local ASE...
  2. ncbi Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Oecologia 159:151-9. 2009
    ....
  3. ncbi Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
    Ecol Lett 10:127-34. 2007
    ..These patterns indicate that either the direct effects of diversity on stability or their covariance with environmental fluctuations vary with latitude...
  4. ncbi All wet or dried up? Real differences between aquatic and terrestrial food webs
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver BC, Canada
    Proc Biol Sci 273:1-9. 2006
    ..Differences in food-web architecture (food chain length, the prevalence of omnivory, specialization or anti-predator defences) may arise as a consequence of systematic variation in the character of the producer community...
  5. ncbi Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:3008-17. 2012
    ..Our results indicate that warming exerts a host of indirect effects on aquatic food webs mediated through shifts in the magnitudes of top-down and bottom-up forcing...
  6. ncbi Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities
    Pavel Kratina
    Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Ecology 93:1421-30. 2012
    ..The dampened temporal variability of algal biomass under eutrophication at higher temperatures suggests that warming may stabilize some ecosystem processes...
  7. ncbi Regional zooplankton biodiversity provides limited buffering of pond ecosystems against climate change
    Patrick L Thompson
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    J Anim Ecol 81:251-9. 2012
    ..Maintaining regional biodiversity and habitat connectivity may therefore provide some limited insurance for local ecosystems in changing environments, but is unable to impart resistance against all sources of environmental stress...
  8. ncbi Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity - contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Ecol Lett 13:453-63. 2010
    ..The results indicate that anthropogenic increases in temporal variability of future climates may have profound effects on biodiversity...
  9. ncbi Independent gradients of producer, consumer, and microbial diversity in lake plankton
    Allyson Longmuir
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Ecology 88:1663-74. 2007
    ..These results suggest that species of lake plankton show loose trophic associations with one another due to broad diets in consumers and decomposers...
  10. ncbi Organismal traits are more important than environment for species interactions in the intertidal zone
    Spencer A Wood
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Ecol Lett 13:1160-71. 2010
    ..These results demonstrate the potential to predict interactivity based on simple criteria without detailed information on particular species or communities...
  11. ncbi Trait-based assembly and phylogenetic structure in northeast Pacific rockfish assemblages
    Travis Ingram
    Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6TIZ4, Canada
    Ecology 90:2444-53. 2009
    ....
  12. ncbi Niche evolution, trophic structure, and species turnover in model food webs
    Travis Ingram
    Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Am Nat 174:56-67. 2009
    ..Our findings suggest that features of the environment may influence both trophic structure and dynamic stability, leading to emergent omnivory-stability relationships...
  13. ncbi Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems
    James J Elser
    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
    Ecol Lett 10:1135-42. 2007
    ..Thus, contrary to some prevailing paradigms, freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems are surprisingly similar in terms of N and P limitation...
  14. ncbi Trophic levels and trophic tangles: the prevalence of omnivory in real food webs
    Ross M Thompson
    School of Biological Sciences and Australian Centre for Biodiversity, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
    Ecology 88:612-7. 2007
    ..Trophic-level-based concepts such as trophic cascades may apply to systems with short food chains, but they become less valid as food chains lengthen...
  15. ncbi Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure
    Helmut Hillebrand
    Institute for Botany, University of Cologne, Gyrhofstrasse 15, D 50931 Cologne, Germany
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:10904-9. 2007
    ..Our study indicates that system productivity and producer evenness determine the direction and magnitude of top-down and bottom-up control of diversity and may reconcile divergent empirical results within and among ecosystems...
  16. ncbi Ecology: a pitcher of things to come
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Nature 443:399-400. 2006