The abridged version of all my publications
The Wordle on all my publications:
Apparently I work on the distribution and abundance of species
using data and models, and I value theory more than hypotheses. Scale, spatial, climate, community and species ranges are also important and the author I cite most is someone
named "et al".
Papers
Updated March, 2011
2003
- McGill, Brian J - "A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity" Nature 422(24 April):881-885
- Featured in Trends In Ecology and Evolution's "Research Focus" section in a piece by Nee and Stone (TREE 2003 18(9):433-34)
- McGill, Brian J & Cathy Collins - "A unified theory for macroecology based on
spatial patterns of abundance"
Evolutionary Ecology Research 2003 vol 5(4):469-492
- McGill, Brian J - "Does Mother Nature really prefer rare species or are log-left-skewed SADs a sampling artifact?" Ecology Letters 2003 6:766-773
- McGill, Brian J - "Strong and weak tests of macrecological theory" Oikos 2003 vol 102(3):679-685
2004
- Maurer, Brian A & Brian J McGill - "Non-neutral ecology" Basic and Applied Ecology 2004 5:413-422
2005
- McGill, Brian J - "Population dynamics and coevolution of a mutualism" Ecological Modelling 2005 187:413-425
- McGill, Brian J; Hadly, Elizabeth A; Maurer, Brian A "Community
inertia of Quaternary small mammal assemblages in North America" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 102:16701-16706 (Supplemental material)
2006
- McGill, Brian J; Brian Enquist, Evan Weiher and Mark Westoby - "Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits" (Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2006 21(4):178-185)
- McGill, Brian J & Gary Mittlebach - "Allometric scaling of optimal foraging" Evolutionary Ecology Research 2006 8(4):691-701
- McGill, Brian J - "Empirical tests of the neutral theory" Ecology 2006 87(6):1411-1423
- McGill, Brian J; Brian Enquist, Evan Weiher and Mark Westoby -
"Response to Kearney and Porter: Both functional and community
ecologists need to do more for
each other" Trends in Ecology and Evolution Sep 2006 21(9);482-483
- Gotelli, Nicholas J. and Brian J. McGill - "Null versus neutral models: what's the difference" Ecography 2006 29:5
- McGill, Brian J - "A Renaissance in the study of abundance "
Science 2006 314:770-772
(preprint)
2007
- Ugland, Karl I; P. John D. Lambshead; Brian McGill; John S. Gray;
Niall O'Dea; Richard J. Ladle; Robert J. Whittaker - "Modelling
dimensionality in species abundance distributions: description and
evaluation of the Gambin model" Evolutionary Ecology Research 2007 9:313-324
- Bahn, Volker and Brian J. McGill - "Can niche-based distribution models outperform spatial interpolation" Global Ecology and Biogeography 2007 16:733-742
- McGill, Brian J; Rampal S. Etienne; John S. Gray and 15 other
authors - "Species Abundance Distributions: moving beyond single
prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework" Ecology Letters 2007 10:995-1015
- McGill, Brian J and Joel S. Brown - "Evolutionary Game Theory and Adaptive Dynamics of Continuous Traits" Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 2007 20:403-435
2008
- McGill, Brian J - "Exploring predictions of abundance from body mass using hierarchical comparative approaches" (American Naturalist 2008 172(1):88-101)
2009
- Gordon,
Caleb; Brian J. McGill; Guillermo Ibarra-Nuñez; Russell Greenberg and
Ivette Perfecto - "Simplification of a coffee foliage-dwelling beetle
community under lowshade management" Basic and Applied Ecology 2009 10:246-254
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Jarema, Stacey I; Jason Samson; Brian J. McGill and Murray M. Humphries
- "Variation in abundance across a species' range predicts climate
change responses in the range interior will exceed those at the edge: a
case study with North American beaver." Global Change Biology 2009 15:508-522
- Morlon, H, White EP, Etienne R, Green JL, Ostling A, Alonso D, Enquist BJ, He F,
Hurlbert AH, Magurran AE, Maurer BA, McGill BJ, Olff H, Storch D, Zillio T
- "Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals" Ecology Letters 12(6):488-501
2010
- McGill, Brian J - "Towards a unified theory of unified theories of biodiversity" Ecology Letters in press
- McGill, Brian J; Nekola, Jeff - "Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or Purloined Letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism" Oikos in press
- Messier, Julie; McGill, Brian J; Lechowicz, Martin J - "How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology" Ecology Letters in press
- Magurran, Anne and Brian J. McGill co-editors of "Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment" (Edited book scheduled release Nov 2010). Authors of the 21 chapters include: Robert May, Gotelli, Colwell, Gaston, Chao, Chown, Rosenzweig.
- Magurran, Anne and Brian J. McGill - "Challenges and opportunities in measuring biodiversity" (introduction to book)
- McGill, Brian J. and Anne Magurran - "The future of measuring biodiversity" (conclusion to book)
- McGill, Brian J. - "Spatial statistics of biodiversity" (Book chapter)
- McGill, Brian J. - "Species abundance distributions" (Book chapter)
- Maurer, Brian A; McGill Brian J. - "Measurement of Diversity" (Book chapter)
- McGill, Brian J. - "Matters of scale" Science in revision (Perspectives piece on recent paper by Gotelli et al in PNAS)
- Berteaux, D.; Blois, S.; Angers, J.-F.; Bonin, J.; Casajus, N.; Darveau, M.; Fournier, F.; Humphries, M.M.; McGill, B.; Larivée, J.; Logan, T.; Nantel, P.; Périé, C.; Poisson, F.; Rodrigue, D.; Rouleau, S.; Siron, R.; Thuiller, W.; Vescovi, L. "The CC-Bio Project: Studying the Effects of Climate Change on Quebec Biodiversity" (Diversity 2010) 2:1181-1204.
2011
- McGill, Brian J. "Linking biodiversity patterns by autocorrelated random sampling" (American Journal of Botany 2011 98(3):481-502)
- Samson, J; Berteaux, D; McGill, Brian J. and Humphries, M "Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts of climate change on human populations" (Global Ecology and Biogeography online early)
- White, Peter J. T., McGill, Brian J. and Lechowicz Martin J. - "Human-disturbance and caterpillars in managed forest fragments" (Biodiversity and Conservation 2011) 20(8):1745-1762
- Isaac, Nicholas; Carbone, Chris and McGill, Brian J "Chapter 8 - Population and Community Ecology" chapter in "Metabolic Ecology: a Scaling Approach" edited by Richard Sibley, James Brown and Astrid-Kodric Brown (in press Wiley-Blackwell)
- Michelson, Greg, McGill, Brian J., Beaulieu, Sebastiena and Beukema, Patrick L.a "Multiple links between species diversity and temporal stability of bird communities across North America" (online early Evolutionary Ecology Research)
- Potochnik, Angela; McGill, Brian J. - "The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization" (in press Philosophy of Science)
- Peter Whiteß ; McGill, Brian J.;Lechowicz, Martin J "Detecting changes in forest floor habitat after canopy disturbance" (accepted with minor revisions Ecological Research)
In Revision
- Bahn, Volker and Brian J. McGill - "Assessing the predictive power of distribution models" (Ecography)
- McGill, Brian J - "Structure of abundance across species ranges: synthesis, evidence, mechanisms " (download draft)
- McGill, Brian J and Volker Bahn - "Ecoinformatics: skipping the fad phase"
Organized symposia and working groups
- "Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions"
- Working group at NCEAS for 2006-2007 (Co-PI's Rampal Etienne, John
Gray, Jessica Green)
- "A 'new' paradigm for community ecology: building from functional
ecology" - symposium at Ecological Society of America meeting in 2004.
Co-organized with Brian Enquist (see proposal)
- "Beyond endangered, mass gaps and abundance" - presentation at
working group on gaps in body mass distributions - December 2003 -
Host: Craig Allen and Buzz Holling
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