Craig R McClain

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Publications

  1. ncbi Unravelling the determinants of insular body size shifts
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Biol Lett 9:20120989. 2013
  2. ncbi Energetics of life on the deep seafloor
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705 4667, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:15366-71. 2012
  3. ncbi Increased energy promotes size-based niche availability in marine mollusks
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W Main Street, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
    Evolution 66:2204-15. 2012
  4. ncbi Dispersal, environmental niches and oceanic-scale turnover in deep-sea bivalves
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:1993-2002. 2012
  5. ncbi Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 276:2209-15. 2009
  6. ncbi Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, California 95039, USA
    Ecology 91:964-76. 2010
  7. ncbi The dynamics of biogeographic ranges in the deep sea
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3533-46. 2010
  8. ncbi Endemicity, biogeograhy, composition, and community structure on a northeast pacific seamount
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 4:e4141. 2009
  9. ncbi Extinctions in ancient and modern seas
    Paul G Harnik
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 27:608-17. 2012

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi Unravelling the determinants of insular body size shifts
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Biol Lett 9:20120989. 2013
    ..Overall, we find that different clades may be evolutionarily predisposed to dwarfism or gigantism, but the magnitude of size changes depends more on adaptation to the novel island environment...
  2. ncbi Energetics of life on the deep seafloor
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705 4667, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:15366-71. 2012
    ..Understanding deep-sea energetics is a pressing problem because of accelerating climate change and the general lack of environmental regulatory policy for the deep oceans...
  3. ncbi Increased energy promotes size-based niche availability in marine mollusks
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W Main Street, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
    Evolution 66:2204-15. 2012
    ..We posit based on these findings and previous work that increases in chemical energy are important to the diversification of Metazoans through size-mediated niche processes...
  4. ncbi Dispersal, environmental niches and oceanic-scale turnover in deep-sea bivalves
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:1993-2002. 2012
    ..1 g m(-2) yr(-1) and typically disperse 749 km from their natal site...
  5. ncbi Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 276:2209-15. 2009
    ..Similar patterns are also observed within birds and mammals. The observations point to several fundamental linkages between species diversification and body size variation through the evolution of animal life...
  6. ncbi Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, California 95039, USA
    Ecology 91:964-76. 2010
    ..Ultimately, our findings indicated that multiple linked processes related to habitat heterogeneity, ecosystem engineering, and bottom-up dynamics are important to deep-sea biodiversity...
  7. ncbi The dynamics of biogeographic ranges in the deep sea
    Craig R McClain
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3533-46. 2010
    ..Continued synthetic analysis, database construction, theoretical advancement and field sampling will be required to further refine hypotheses regarding deep-sea biogeography...
  8. ncbi Endemicity, biogeograhy, composition, and community structure on a northeast pacific seamount
    Craig R McClain
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 4:e4141. 2009
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  9. ncbi Extinctions in ancient and modern seas
    Paul G Harnik
    National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 27:608-17. 2012
    ..We highlight how the different records can be integrated to better understand and predict the impact of current and projected future environmental changes on extinction risk in the ocean...