Prof Maria Dornelas
Professor
Research areas
My research focuses on quantifying biodiversity and understanding the processes that shape it. I often work on tropical systems and specifically coral reefs, but I also work with tropical freshwater fish, mangrove crabs and plants for example, as I am more question-driven that organism-driven. I like to combine ecological theory, synthesis of existing data, and fieldwork in my research, and most of the research questions I’m interested in fall under the disciplines of community ecology, macroecology and biogeography. I tend to work on intermediate spatio-temporal scales (that is communities and networks of communities over time-scales of years to tens of years).
PhD supervision
- Cher Chow
Selected publications
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Open access
habtools: an R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects
Schiettekatte, N., Asbury, M., Chen, G. K., Dornelas, M., Reichert, J., Torres-Pulliza, D., Zawada, K. J. A. & Madin, J. S., May 2025, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16, 5, p. 895-903 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A conceptual framework for measuring ecological novelty
Staples, T. L., Blois, J., Cramer, K. L., Cunningham, E. T., Dornelas, M., Haberle, S. G., Heger, T., Kiessling, W., Magurran, A. E., O'Dea, A., Penny, A. M., Radeloff, V. C., Smith, J. A., Thuiller, W., Williams, J. W. & Pandolfi, J. M., Feb 2025, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34, 2, p. 1-14 14 p., e70005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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BioTIME 2.0: expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series
Dornelas, M., Antão, L. H., Bates, A. E., Brambilla, V., Chase, J. M., Chow, C. F. Y., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Magurran, A. E., Martins, I. S., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Adu-Acheampong, S., Acquah-Lamptey, D., Adam, D., Ajani, P. A., Albaina, A., Almaraz, P., An, J., Anderson, R. S. & Anderson, M. J. R. & 465 others, , May 2025, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34, 5, p. 1-18 18 p., e70003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Disentangling nonrandom structure from random placement when estimating β-diversity through space or time
McGlinn, D. J., Blowes, S. A., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Martins, I. S., Shimadzu, H., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A., McGill, B. J. & Chase, J. M., Mar 2025, In: Ecosphere. 16, 3, p. 1-14 14 p., e70061.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Widespread and diverging patterns of change in local phylogenetic diversity
Fernandez-Fournier, P., Carroll, T., Dornelas, M. & Mooers, A. Ø., Feb 2025, In: Diversity and Distributions. 31, 2, p. 1-12 12 p., e13948.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Among‐species variation in six decades of changing migration timings explained through ecology, life‐history and local migratory abundance
Dale, V. R., Bolton, M., Dornelas, M., Magurran, A. E., Dennis, R., Broad, R., Riddiford, N. J., Harvey, P. V., Riddington, R., Shaw, D. N., Parnaby, D. & Reid, J. M., Jul 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 7, 21 p., e17400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ocean weather, biological rates, and unexplained global ecological patterns
Li Shing Hiung, D. L. C. Y., Schuster, J. M., Duncan, M. I., Payne, N. L., Helmuth, B., Chu, J. W. F., Baum, J. K., Brambilla, V., Bruno, J., Davies, S. W., Dornelas, M., Gagnon, P., Guy-Haim, T., Jackson, J. M., Leichter, J. J., Madin, J. S., Monteith, Z. L., Queirós, A. M., Schneider, E. V. C. & Starko, S. & 22 others, , Aug 2024, In: PNAS Nexus. 3, 8, 12 p., pgae260.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization
Blowes, S. A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C. F. Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I. S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W. B., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M. & Chase, J. M., 21 Feb 2024, In: Science Advances. 10, 8, 10 p., eadj9395.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
Gonzalez, A., Vihervaara, P., Balvanera, P., Bates, A. E., Bayraktarov, E., Bellingham, P. J., Bruder, A., Campbell, J., Catchen, M. D., Cavender-Bares, J., Chase, J., Coops, N., Costello, M. J., Czúcz, B., Delavaud, A., Dornelas, M., Dubois, G., Duffy, E. J., Eggermont, H. & Fernandez, M. & 71 others, , Dec 2023, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7, 12, p. 1947-1952 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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A word on habitat complexity
Madin, J. S., Asbury, M., Schiettekatte, N., Dornelas, M., Pizarro, O., Reichert, J. & Torres‐Pulliza, D., 1 Jun 2023, In: Ecology Letters. 26, 6, p. 1021-1024 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review