Publications

Peer-reviewed publications in academic literature

O’Connor, M.I. and J. F. Bruno. In Press. Predator richness has no effect in a diverse marine food web. Journal of Animal Ecology.

O’Connor, M.I. 2009. Warming strengthens an herbivore-plant interaction: linking individual responses to temperature with changes in community structure. Ecology. 90(2) 388-398. pdf

Sax, D. F., Stachowicz, J. J., Brown, J. H., Bruno, J. F., Dawson, M. N., Gaines, S. D., Grosberg, R. K., Hastings, A., Holt, R. D., Mayfield, M. M., O’Connor, M. I., and Rice, W. R. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22:465-471.

O’Connor, M.I., J.F. Bruno, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, S.E. Lester, B.P. Kinlan, J.M.Weiss. 2007. Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:1266-1271. pdf

Bruno, J.F. and M.I. O’Connor. 2005. Cascading effects of predator diversity and omnivory in

marine food webs. Ecology Letters, 8: 1048-1056. pdf

McDonald, R., M. McKnight, D. Weiss, E. Selig, M. I. O’Connor, C. R. Violin and A. Moody. 2005. Species compositional similarity and ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of higher species turnover? Biological Conservation, 126:24-40. pdf

Wohnam, M., M. O’Connor and C. Harley. 2005. Positive effects of a dominant invader on introduced and native mudflat species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 289:109-116. pdf

Other scientific publications

Parrish, J.K., and K. Litle, eds. 2004. “Where the River Meets the Sea: Case Studies of Pacific Northwest Estuaries”. Work and publication funded by NOAA Coastal Ocean Program on award # NA960P0238.

Race to Stop Global Warming brochure, Printed for a national running event, sponsored by Environmental Defense and the Green House Network.

O'Connor, Mary, Marjorie Wonham, and Christopher Harley, 2001. Quantifying the impacts of an invader: The Asian mud snail Batillaria attramentaria on the mud flats of Padilla Bay, Wa. Washington State Department of Ecology (Publication No. 02-06-016), Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Technical Report No. 25, 35 pp.

O’Connor, Mary. “Assessing the ecological impact of an introduced species: The Asian mud snail finds a home in Padilla Bay.” Puget Sound Notes (44), Dec. 2000.

Publications

Presentations

O’Connor, M.I. Benthic Ecology Meetings, Providence, RI. April 2008

O’Connor, M.I. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meeting, Orlando, FL. March 2008

O’Connor, M.I., J.F. Bruno, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, S.E. Lester, B.P. Kinlan, J.M.Weiss. “Temperature Control of Larval Dispersal: Implications for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation.” Oral presentation. International Temperate Reefs Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA. June 15th - July 1, 2006.

O’Connor, M.I., J.F. Bruno, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, S.E. Lester, B.P. Kinlan, J.M.Weiss. “Temperature Control of Larval Dispersal: Implications for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation.” Poster presentation. Gordon Conference on Metabolic Theory of Ecology, Bates College, ME. July 9th - 14th, 2006.

O’Connor, M.I., and J. Bruno. “Cascading effects of predator diversity.” Oral presentation. Ecological Society of America and INTECOL Meeting, Montreal, Canada. August 7-12th, 2005.

O’Connor, M.I., and J. Bruno. “Cascading effects of predator diversity dominated by the inclusion of omnivores.” Oral presentation. Benthic Ecology Meetings, Williamsburg, VA. April 7th – 9th, 2005.

Wall, J.W., Z. T. Long, J.F. Bruno, J.E. Duffy, M.I. O’Connor. “Role of omnivory in marine ecosystem food webs.” Poster presentation. Benthic Ecology Meetings, Williamsburg, VA. April 7th – 9th, 2005.

O’Connor, M., M. Wonham and C. Harley. “Facilitation of introduced species by a dominant invader.” Oral presentation. Benthic Ecology Meetings, Mobile, AB. March 24-26th, 2004.

Wonham, O'Connor, and Harley. “Positive interactions among mudflat invaders: does facilitation lead to ‘invasional meltdown’?” Oral presentation. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada, January 2-5 2003.

Wonham, O'Connor, and Harley. “Multiple positive interactions among mudflat invaders.” Oral presentation. 3rd International Conference on Marine Biological Invasions, La Jolla, CA, USA, March 16-19 2003.