M. I. O'Connor

The paper models marine larval dispersal to assess MPA network connectivity and shows that existing MPAs in British Columbia meet connectivity criteria for nearshore species.

The paper shows how abnormal weather influences disease outbreaks in both wild and agricultural plants, finding that historical climate affects wild plants while warming increases agricultural disease risks.

The study shows that competitive ability in phytoplankton has a U-shaped temperature dependence, differing from growth rate temperature dependence.

This study examines how temperature affects dengue incidence globally, finding nonlinear relationships influenced by climatic and socioeconomic factors.

This paper introduces an improved species richness estimator, ΩT, which outperforms existing methods in balancing bias, precision, and difference detection accuracy across simulations and real-world ecological surveys.

The paper analyzes movement profiles across vertebrates to show that body size does not fully explain movement distances, highlighting the role of ecological and biomechanical constraints.

This study shows that aquatic biodiversity enhances nutritional benefits by providing complementary micronutrients, though it also increases contaminant exposure.

The paper examines how temperature affects parasitism at individual and population levels in different host-parasite systems and finds thermal optima are correlated in vector-borne systems but not in environmentally-transmitted ones.

This paper reviews the logistic growth model, highlights its limitations, and proposes alternative models to better capture density dependence in population dynamics.

The paper shows nonlinear averaging of temperature predicts population growth rates in fluctuating thermal environments for green algae and extrapolates to phytoplankton species.