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With links to selected news coverage
- Ripple, WJ, Wolf, C, Newsome, TM, Hoffmann, M, Wirsing, AJ, and DJ McCauley. 2017. Extinction risk is most acute for the world's largest and smallest vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Early Edition [pdf]
- Young, H, Nigro, K, McCauley, DJ, Ballance, LT, Oleson, EM, and S. Baumann-Pickering. 2017. Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0181526. [pdf]
- Roberts, CA, O'Leary, BC, McCauley, DJ, Cury, PM, Duarte, CM, Lubchenco, J, Pauly, D, Saenz-Arroyo, A, Sumaila, UR, Wilson, RW, Worm, B, and JC Castilla. 2017. Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 6167–6175. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Dirzo, R, Nunn, CL, Campana, MG, Agwanda, B, Otarola-Castillo, ER, Pringle, RM, Veblen, KE, Salkeld, DJ, Stewardson, K, Fleischer, R, Lamin, EF, Palmer, TM, and KM Helgen. 2017. Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372: 20160116. [pdf]
- Bradley, D, Conklin, E, Papastamatiou, YP, McCauley, DJ, Pollock, K, Pollock, A, Kendall, BE, Gaines, SD, and JE Caselle. 2017. Resetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems. Scientific Reports 7: 43131. [pdf]
- Bradley, D, Conklin, E, Papastamatiou, YP, McCauley, DJ, Pollock, K, Kendall, BE, Gaines, SD, and JE Caselle. 2017. Growth and life history variability of the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) across its range. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172370. [pdf]
- White, TD, Carlisle, AB, Kroodsma, DA, Block, BA, Casagrandi, R, De Leo, GA, Gatto, M, Micheli, F, and DJ McCauley. 2017. Assessing the effectiveness of a large marine protected area for reef shark conservation. Biological Conservation 207: 64-71. [pdf]
- Young, HS, Miller-ter Kuile, A, McCauley, DJ, and R Dirzo. 2016. Cascading community and ecosystem consequences of introduced palms in tropical islands. Canadian Journal of Zoology. Online Early. [pdf]
- Payne, JL, Bush, AM, Heim, Knope, ML, and DJ McCauley. 2016. Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans. Science. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Galetti, M, and R Dirzo. 2016. Patterns, causes and consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 47(1). [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Hardesty-Moore, M, Halpern, BS, and HS Young. 2016. A mammoth undertaking: harnessing insight from functional ecology to shape de-extinction priority setting. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12728 [pdf]
- Estes, JA, Heithaus, M, McCauley, DJ, Rasher, DB, and B Worm. 2016. Megafaunal impacts on structure and function of ocean ecosystems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41(1). [pdf]
- Golden, CD, Allison, EH, Cheung, WWL, Dey, MM, Halpern, BS, McCauley, DJ, Smith, M, Vaitla, B, Zeller, D, and SS Myers. 2016. Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health. Nature 534: 317-320. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ*, DeSalles, PA*, Young, HS, Gardner, JPA, and F Micheli. 2016. Use of high-resolution acoustic cameras to study reef shark behavioral ecology. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 182: 128-133. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Woods, P, Sullivan, B, Bergman, B, Jablonicky, C, Roan, A, Hirshfield, M, Boerder, K, and B Worm. 2016. Ending hide and seek at sea. Science 351:1149-1150. [pdf]
- Croll, DA, Dewar, H, Dulvy, NK, Fernando, D, Francis, MP, Galván-Magaña, F, Hall, M, Heinrichs, S, Marshall, A, McCauley, DJ, Newton, KM, Notarbartolo-Di-Sciara, G, O'Malley, M, O'Sullivan, J, Poortvliet, M, Roman, M, Stevens, G, Tershy, BR, and WT White. 2015. Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays. Aquatic Conservation: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems 26: 562–575 . [pdf]
- Young, HS, Dirzo, R, Helgen, KM, McCauley, DJ, Nunn, CL, Snyder, P, Veblen, KE, Zhao, S and VO Ezenwa. 2015. Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12542. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Dawson, TE, Power, ME, Finlay, JC, Ogada, M, Gower, DB, Caylor, K, Nyingi, WD, Githaiga, JM, Nyunja, J, Joyce, FH, Lewison, RL and JS Brashares. 2015. Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river. Ecosphere. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Dirzo, R, Goheen, JR, Agwanda, B, Brook, C, Otárola-Castillo, E, Ferguson, AW, Kinyua, SN, McDonough, MM, Palmer, TM, Pringle, RM, Young, TP and KM Helgen. 2015. Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya. Ecological Applications 25:348–360. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Salkeld, DJ, Young, HS, Makundi, R, Dirzo, R, Eckerlin, RP, Lambin, EF, Gaffkin, L, Barry, M, and KM Helgen. 2015. Effects of land use on plague (Yersinisa pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. [pdf]
- Young, HS, Dirzo, R, McCauley, DJ, Agwanda, B, Cattaneo, L, Dittmar, K, Eckerlin, RP, Fleischer, RC, Helgen, LE, Hintz, A, Montenieri, J, Zhao, S, and KM Helgen. 2015. Drivers of intensity and prevelance of flea parasitism on small mammals in East African savanna ecosystems. Journal of Parasitology. [link]
- McCauley, DJ, Pinsky, ML, Palumbi, SR, Estes, JA, Joyce, FH, and RR Warner. 2015. Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global oceans. Science 347: 1255641. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ. 2014. Mega-parks need greater oversight. Nature 515: 29. [pdf]
- Withey, L, Seto, K, McCauley, DJ, Firorella, KJ, Marsh, RA, Abrahms, B, Nuñez, TA, Golden, CD, and JS Brashares. 2014. Fauna in decline—Response. Science 346: 819-820. [link]
- Brashares, JS, Abrahms, B, Fiorella, KJ, Golden, CD, Hojnowski, CE, Marsh, RA, McCauley, DJ, Nuñez, TA, Seto, K, and L Withey. 2014. Wildlife decline and social conflict. Science 345: 376-378. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, DeSalles, P, Young, HS, Papastamatiou, YP, Caselle, JE, Deakos, MH, Gardner, JPA, Garton, DW, Collen, JD, and F Micheli. 2014. Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons. Marine Biology 161: 1987-1998. [pdf]
"Marine defaunation" ranks amongst the top 5% of all articles in regards to attention it has received and amongst the highest articles ever scored in the journal Science.
- McCauley, DJ, Young, HS, Guevara, R, Williams, GJ, Power, EA, Dunbar, RB, Bird, DW, Durham, WH, and F Micheli. 2014. Positive and negative effects of a threatened parrotfish on reef ecosystems. Conservation Biology 28: 1312. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Pollock, A, and R Dirzo. 2014. Differential plant damage due to litterfall in palm-dominated forest stands in a Central Pacific atoll. Journal of Tropical Ecology 172: 857-67. [pdf]
- Viladomat, J, Mazumder, R, McIntruff, A, McCauley, DJ, and T Hastie. 2014. Assessing the Significance of Global and Local Correlations under
Spatial Autocorrelation: A Nonparametric Approach. Biometrics 12139. [pdf] - McCauley, DJ, Power, E, Bird, DW, McInturff, A, Dunbar, RB, Durham, WH, Micheli, F, and HS Young. 2013. Conservation at the edges of the world. Biological Conservation 165: 139-145. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Helgen, KM, Goheen, JR, Castillo, EO, Palmer, TM, Pringle, RM, Young TP, and R Dirzo. 2013. Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communties: observations and experiments in an African savanna. Journal of Ecology 101: 1030-1041. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Dunbar, RB, Hutson, M, Miller Ter-Kuile, A, and R Dirzo. 2013. The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in terresrial ecosystems. Ecology 94: 692-701. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Guevara, R, and R Dirzo. 2013. Consumer preferences for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales. Oecologia 172: 857-67. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ. 2012. Nature - half lost or half saved? Science 337: 1455. [pdf]
- Briggs, AA, Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Hathaway, SA, Dirzo, R, and RN Fisher. 2012. Effects of spatial subsidies and habitat structure on the foraging ecology and size of geckos. PLoS One 7: e41364. [pdf]
- Papastamatiou, YP, DeSalles, PA, and McCauley, DJ. 2012. Area-restricted searching by manta rays and their response to spatial scale in lagoon habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 456: 233-244. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ*, Hoffman, E*, Young, HS, and F Micheli. 2012. Night shift: expansion of temporal niche use following reductions in predator density. PLoS One7(6): e38871. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038871 . [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Young, HS, Dunbar, RB, Estes, JA, Semmens, BX, and F Micheli. 2012. Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity. Ecological Applications 22: 1711-1717. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ*, DeSalles, PA*, Young, HS, Dunbar, RB, Dirzo, R, Mills, MM, and F Micheli. 2012. From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems. Nature Scientific Reports 2: 409. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, McLean, KA, Bauer, J, Young, HS, and F Micheli. 2012. Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations. Ecological Applications 22: 385-392. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, and R Dirzo. 2011. Differential responses to guano fertilization among tropical tree species with varying functional traits. American Journal of Botany 98: 1-10. [pdf]
- Pringle, RM, Palmer, TM, McCauley, DJ, and F Keesing. 2011. Indirect effects of large herbivores: what they are and why they matter. In Georgiadis, N., Moss, J., King, A., and D. Malleret King (Eds.) Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewaso Ecosystem. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, pp.43-53. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Dunbar, R, and R Dirzo. 2010. Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird derived spatial subsidies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 2072-2077. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ,Micheli, F, Young, HS, Tittensor, DP, Brumbaugh, DR, Madin, EMP, Holmes, KE, Smith, JE, Lotze, HK, DeSalles, PA, Arnold, SN, and B Worm. 2010. Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef. Marine Biology 157: 2739-2750. [pdf]
- Young, HS, Shaffer, SA, McCauley, DJ, Foley, DG, Dirzo, R, and BA Block. 2010. Resource partitioning by species but not sex in sympatric boobies in the Central Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 403: 291-301. [pdf]
- Young, HS, McCauley, DJ, Dirzo, R, Dunbar, RB, and SA Shaffer. 2010. Niche partitioning among and within sympatric tropical seabirds revealed by stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 416: 485-494. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Papastamatiou, Y, and HS Young. 2010. An observation of mating in free-ranging blacktip reef sharks Carcharhinus melanopterus. Pacific Science 64: 349-352. [pdf]
- Young, HS, Raab, TK, McCauley, DJ, Briggs, AA, and R Dirzo. 2010. The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, impacts forest composition and soil characteristics at Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific Ocean. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 1058 - 1068 [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Joyce, FJ, and JH Lowenstein. 2008. Effects of the aquarium fish industry in Costa Rica on populations of the Cortez rainbow wrasse Thalassoma lucasanum (Perciformes: Labridae). Ciencias Marinas 34: 445-451.[pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Keesing, F, Young, TP, and K Dittmar. 2008. Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals. Journal of Vector Ecology 33: 263-268. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ. 2007. Fishing for good news. Science 316: 200-201. [pdf]
- Pringle, RM, Young, TP, Rubenstein, DI, and DJ McCauley. 2007. Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 193–197. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ. 2006. Selling out on nature. Nature 443: 27-28. [pdf]
McCauley, DJ. 2006. Nature: McCauley Replies. Nature 443: 750. [pdf]
- McCauley, DJ, Keesing, F, Young, TP, Allan, BF and RM Pringle. 2006. Indirect effects of large herbivorous mammals on snakes in an African savanna. Ecology 87: 2657-2663. [pdf]
* authors contributed equally