Dr. Shane Blowes
Research interests
My research interests range from the behaviour of individuals right up to macroecological patterns of biodiversity. In the Biodiversity Synthesis Lab, my focus is on improving our understanding of how the components of species richness (numbers of individuals, species relative abundances and their distribution in space) contribute to patterns of biodiversity along natural (e.g., latitudinal) and other gradients (e.g., those associated with spatial management initiatives such as protected areas). In addition, I am also examining how these components of biodiversity change through time and space as a member of the sChange (sDiv) working group.
iDiv-Publikationen
Jurburg, Stephanie D., Blowes, Shane A., Shade, Ashley, Eisenhauer, Nico, Chase, Jonathan M.
(2024): Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments. MicrobiomeHollitzer, Helene A. L., May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A.
(2023): A meta-analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age. EcosphereDornelas, Maria, Chase, Jonathan M., Gotelli, Nicholas J, Magurran, Anne E, McGill, Brian J, Antão, Laura H., Blowes, Shane A., Daskalova, Gergana N., Leung, Brian, Martins, Inês S., Moyes, Faye, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Thomas, Chris D, Vellend, Mark
(2023): Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesXu, Wu-Bing, Blowes, Shane A., Brambilla, Viviana, Chow, Cher F. Y., Fontrodona-Eslava, Ada, Martins, Inês S., McGlinn, Daniel, Moyes, Faye, Sagouis, Alban, Shimadzu, Hideyasu, van Klink, Roel, Magurran, Anne E., Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Dornelas, Maria, Chase, Jonathan M.
(2023): Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series. Nature CommunicationsMadin, J. S., Baird, A. H., Connolly, S. R., Dornelas, M. A., Álvarez-Noriega, M., McWilliam, M. J., Barbosa, M., Blowes, S. A., Cetina-Heredia, P., Christie, A. P., Cumbo, V. R., Diaz, M., Emms, M. A., Graham, E., Hansen, D., Hisano, M., Howells, E., Kuo, C.-Y., Palmer, C., Hong, J. T. C., Zhi En Teo, T., Woods, R. M.
(2023): Six years of demography data for 11 reef coral species. EcologySpake, R., Bowler, D. E., Callaghan, C. T., Blowes, S. A., Doncaster, C. P., Antão, L. H., Nakagawa, S., McElreath, R., Chase, J. M.
(2023): Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions. Biological ReviewsMartins, Inês S., Schrodt, Franziska, Blowes, Shane A., Bates, Amanda E., Bjorkman, Anne D., Brambilla, Viviana, Carvajal-Quintero, Juan, Chow, Cher F. Y., Daskalova, Gergana N., Edwards, Kyle, Eisenhauer, Nico, Field, Richard, Fontrodona-Eslava, Ada, Henn, Jonathan J., van Klink, Roel, Madin, Joshua S., Magurran, Anne E., McWilliam, Michael, Moyes, Faye, Pugh, Brittany, Sagouis, Alban, Trindade-Santos, Isaac, McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M., Dornelas, Maria
(2023): Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. ScienceSpake, R., Barajas-Barbosa, M. P., Blowes, S. A., Bowler, D. E., Callaghan, C. T., Garbowski, M., Jurburg, S. D., Klink, R. v., Korell, L., Ladouceur, E., Rozzi, R., Viana, D. S., Xu, W.-B., Chase, J. M.
(2022): Detecting Thresholds of Ecological Change in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesEngel, T., Blowes, S. A., McGlinn, D. J., Gotelli, N. J., McGill, B. J., Chase, J. M.
(2022): How does variation in total and relative abundance contribute to gradients of species diversity?. Ecology and EvolutionLadouceur, E., Blowes, S. A., Chase, J. M., Clark, A. T., Garbowski, M., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C. A., Bakker, J. D., Barrio, I. C., Bharath, S., Borer, E. T., Brudvig, L. A., Cadotte, M. W., Chen, Q., Collins, S. L., Dickman, C. R., Donohue, I., Du, G., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fay, P. A., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Komatsu, K., MacDougall, A., Martina, J. P., Moore, J. L., Morgan, J. W., Peri, P. L., Power, Sally A., Ren, Z., Risch, A. C., Roscher, C., Schuchardt, Max A., Seabloom, E. W., Stevens, C. J., Veen, G. F., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G. M., Wilfahrt, P. A., Harpole, W. S.
(2022): Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology LettersBlowes, S. A., Daskalova, G. N., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A. E., Martins, I. S., McGill, B., McGlinn, D. J., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., Supp, S. R., Chase, J. M.
(2022): Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness. EcologyCallaghan, C. T., Bowler, D. E., Blowes, S. A., Chase, J. M., Lyons, M. B. and Pereira, H. M.
(2022): Quantifying effort needed to estimate species diversity from citizen science data. EcospherePetsch, D. K., Blowes, S. A., Melo, A. S. and Chase, J. M.
(2021): A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales. EcologyGotelli, N. J., Moyes, F., Antão, L. H., Blowes, S. A., Dornelas, M., McGill, B. J., Penny, A., Schipper, A. M., Shimadzu, H., Supp, S. R., Waldock, C. A., Magurran, A. E.
(2021): Long-term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species. Global Change BiologyEngel, T., Blowes, S. A., McGlinn, D. J., May, F., Gotelli, N. J., McGill, B. J., Chase, J. M.
(2021): Using coverage-based rarefaction to infer non-random species distributions. EcosphereL. Gooriah, S. A. Blowes, A. Sagouis, J. Schrader, D. N. Karger, H. Kreft, J. M. Chase
(2021): Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling. Global Ecology and BiogeographyTorres-Pulliza, D., Dornelas, M. A., Pizarro, O., Bewley, M., Blowes, S. A., Boutros, N., Brambilla, V., Chase, T. J., Frank, G., Friedman, A., Hoogenboom, M. O., Williams, S., Zawada, K. J. A., Madin, J. S.
(2020): A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity. Nature Ecology & EvolutionDaskalova, G. N., Myers-Smith, I. H., Bjorkman, A. D., Blowes, S. A., Supp, S. R., Magurran, A. E., Dornelas, M.
(2020): Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change. ScienceAntao, L. H., Bates, A. E., Blowes, S. A., Waldock, C., Supp, S. R., Magurran, A. E., Dornelas, M., Schipper, A. M.
(2020): Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems. Nature Ecology & EvolutionBlowes, S. A., Chase, J. M., Di Franco, A., Frid, O., Gotelli, N. J., Guidetti, P., Knight, T. M., May, F., McGlinn, D. J., Micheli, F., Sala, E., Belmaker, J.
(2020): Mediterranean marine protected areas have higher biodiversity via increased evenness, not abundance. Journal of Applied EcologyChase, J. M., Blowes, S. A., Knight, T. M., Gerstner, K., May, F.
(2020): Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss. NatureLadouceur, E., Stanley Harpole, W., Blowes, S. A., Roscher, C., Auge, H., Seabloom, E. W., Chase, J. M.
(2020): Reducing dispersal limitation via seed addition increases species richness but not above-ground biomass. Ecology LettersMcGlinn, D. J., T. Engel, S. A. Blowes, N. J. Gotelli, T. M. Knight, B. J. McGill, N. J. Sanders, J. M. Chase
(2020): A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients. EcologyMentges, A., Blowes, S. A., Hodapp, D., Hillebrand, H., Chase, J. M.
(2020): Effects of site-selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change. Conservation BiologyShalom, H. Y., Granot, I., Blowes, S. A., Friedlander, A., Mellin, C., Ferreira, C. E. L., Arias-Gonzalez, J. E., Kulbicki, M., Floeter, S. R., Chabanet, P., Parravicini, V., Belmaker, J.
(2020): A closer examination of the 'abundant centre' hypothesis for reef fishes. Journal of BiogeographyBlowes, S. A., Supp, S. R., Antão, L. H., Bates, A., Bruelheide, H., Chase, J. M., ..., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A. D., Bowler, D. E., ..., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones, H. P., Navarro, L. M. et al.
(2019): The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages. ScienceChase, J. M., McGill, B. J., Thompson, P. L., Antão, L. H., Bates, A. E., Blowes, S. A., Dornelas, M., Gonzalez, A., Magurran, A. E., Supp, S. R., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A. D., Bruelheide, H., Byrnes, J. E. K., Cabral, J. S., Elahi, R., Gomez, C., Guzman, H. M., Isbell, F., Myers-Smith, I. H., Jones, H. P., Hines, J., Vellend, M., Waldock, C., O'Connor, M.
(2019): Species richness change across spatial scales. OikosMcGlinn, D. J., Xiao, X., May, F., Gotelli, N. J., Engel, T., Blowes, S. A., Knight, T. M., Purschke, O., Chase, J. M., McGill, B. J.
(2019): Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change. Methods in Ecology and EvolutionChase, J. M., McGill, B. J., McGlinn, D. J., May, F., Blowes, S. A., Xiao, X., Knight, T. M., Purschke, O., Gotelli, N. J.
(2018): Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities. Ecology LettersDornelas, M., Antão, L. H., Moyes, F., Bates, A. E., Magurran, A. E., Adam, D., Akhmetzhanova, A. A., Appeltans, W., Arcos, J. M., Arnold, H., Ayyappan, N., Badihi, G., Baird, A. H., Barbosa, M., Barreto, T. E., Bässler, C., Bellgrove, A., Belmaker, J., Benedetti‐Cecchi, L., Bett, B. J., Bjorkman, A. D., Błażewicz, M., Blowes, S. A., Bloch, C. P., Bonebrake, T. C., Boyd, S., Bradford, M., Brooks, A. J., Brown, J. H., Bruelheide, H., ..., Jandt, U., et al.
(2018): BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and BiogeographyShade, A., Dunn, R. R., Blowes, S. A., Keil, P., Bohannan, B. J. M., Herrmann, M., Küsel, K., Lennon, J. T., Sanders, N. J., Storch, D., Chase, J.
(2018): Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small. Trends in Ecology & EvolutionBlowes, S. A., Belmaker, J., Chase, J. M.
(2017): Global reef fish richness gradients emerge from divergent and scale-dependent component changes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesBlowes, S. A., Pratchett, M. S., Connolly, S. R.
(2017): Aggression, interference, and the functional response of coral-feeding butterflyfishes. OecologiaBuba, Y., van Rijn, I., Blowes, S. A., Sonin, O., Edelist, D., DeLong, J. P., Belmaker, J.
(2017): Remarkable size-spectra stability in a marine system undergoing massive invasion. Biology Letters
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