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96
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332
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53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Anne E. Magurran is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans over 100 publications, with notable focus areas including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a range of main topics, prominently featuring Species Distribution and Climate Change and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies. Other significant topics include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Marine and Fisheries Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anne E. Magurran include:

  • María Dornelas
  • Shane A. Blowes
  • Faye Moyes
  • Jonathan M. Chase
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli

Publications have often appeared in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Recent papers by Anne E. Magurran include:

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis, 2020, AMBIO
  • Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes, 2020, People and Nature
  • Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change, 2020, Science
  • Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Anne E. Magurran has been recognized by their peers with memberships and fellowships, including being named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2020 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Ecological Diversity and its Measurement

    Anne E. Magurran

  • Measuring Biological Diversity

    Anne E. Magurran

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment

    Anne E. Magurran;Brian J. McGill

  • Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

    Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Brian McGill;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu

  • Diversidad ecológica y su medición

    Anne E. Magurran

  • Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions.

    Anne E. Magurran;Peter A. Henderson

  • Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time

    Anne E. Magurran;Stephen R. Baillie;Stephen T. Buckland;Jan McP. Dick

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis.

    James S. Albert;Georgia Destouni;Scott M. Duke-Sylvester;Anne E. Magurran

  • Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

    Brian J. McGill;Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anne E. Magurran

  • Evolutionary Ecology: The Trinidadian Guppy

    Anne E. Magurran

  • Fish in larger shoals find food faster

    T. J. Pitcher;A. E. Magurran;I. J. Winfield

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • Monitoring change in biodiversity through composite indices

    S.T Buckland;A.E Magurran;R.E Green;R.M Fewster

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Measuring Biological Diversity

    Brian C. McCarthy;Anne E. Magurran

  • Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes

    Jennifer L Kelley;Anne E Magurran

  • Provenance, Shoal Size and the Sociobiology of Predator-Evasion Behaviour in Minnow Shoals

    A. E. Magurran;T. J. Pitcher

  • Development of predator defences in fishes

    Lee A. Fuiman;Anne E. Magurran

  • Species Diversity in Space and Time

    Brian A. Maurer;Michael L. Rosenzweig

  • Species Diversity in Space and Time

    Mark V. Lomolino;Michael L. Rosenzweig

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas University of St Andrews
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
Amanda E. Bates
Amanda E. Bates Memorial University of Newfoundland
Gary R. Carvalho
Gary R. Carvalho Bangor University
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Paul W. Shaw
Paul W. Shaw Aberystwyth University
Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson University of Oxford
John D. Armstrong
John D. Armstrong Marine Scotland
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg

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