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Bailey C. McMeans

Bailey C. McMeans

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4202
World Ranking
7883
National Ranking
482

Overview

Bailey C. McMeans is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and primarily works within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientific contributions of Bailey C. McMeans have been published notably in venues such as Ecology, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Ecology Letters. Their work has resulted in multiple publications across these journals.

Research topics addressed by Bailey C. McMeans cover a range of ecological and environmental themes. Major areas of focus include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and Fisheries Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Noteworthy recent papers authored by Bailey C. McMeans include:

  • Winter in water: differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Winter Limnology: How do Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry Shape Ecosystems Under Ice?, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • A New Thermal Categorization of Ice-Covered Lakes, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters, 2021, BioScience
  • The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: Influence of Winter Conditions on Energy and Ecosystem Dynamics, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Bailey C. McMeans frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Timothy Fernandes
  • Kevin S. McCann
  • Matthew M. Guzzo
  • Paul J. Blanchfield
  • Trevor A. Middel

Best Publications

  • Rescaling the trophic structure of marine food webs

    Nigel E. Hussey;M. Aaron MacNeil;Bailey C. McMeans;Jill A. Olin

  • Food web rewiring in a changing world.

    Timothy J. Bartley;Timothy J. Bartley;Kevin S. McCann;Carling Bieg;Kevin Cazelles

  • Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions.

    N. E. Hussey;M. A. MacNeil;J. A. Olin;B. C. McMeans

  • Food Web Structure in Temporally-Forced Ecosystems

    Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Murray Humphries;Neil Rooney

  • Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: Review of recent findings

    Birgit Braune;John Chételat;Marc Amyot;Tanya Brown

  • The adaptive capacity of lake food webs: from individuals to ecosystems

    Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Tyler D. Tunney;Aaron T. Fisk

  • Winter in water: differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity

    Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Matthew M. Guzzo;Timothy J. Bartley;Timothy J. Bartley

  • Biology of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus.

    M. A. MacNeil;B. C. McMeans;N. E. Hussey;P. Vecsei

  • Food web structure of a coastal Arctic marine ecosystem and implications for stability

    Bailey C. McMeans;Neil Rooney;Michael T. Arts;Aaron T. Fisk

  • Stable‐isotope comparisons between embryos and mothers of a placentatrophic shark species

    B. C. McMeans;J. A. Olin;G. W. Benz

  • Winter Limnology: How do Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry Shape Ecosystems Under Ice?

    Joachim Jansen;Sally MacIntyre;David C. Barrett;Yu-Ping Chin

  • Evidence of indiscriminate fishing effects in one of the world's largest inland fisheries.

    Peng Bun Ngor;Kevin S. McCann;Gaël Grenouillet;Nam So

  • Diet and resource use among Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) and teleosts sampled in Icelandic waters, using δ13C, δ15N, and mercury

    Bailey C. McMeansB.C. McMeans;Bailey C. McMeansB.C. McMeans;Jörundur SvavarssonJ. Svavarsson;Jörundur SvavarssonJ. Svavarsson;Susan DennardS. Dennard;Susan DennardS. Dennard;Aaron T. FiskA.T. Fisk;Aaron T. FiskA.T. Fisk

  • Lipid extraction effects on stable isotope values (δ13C and δ15N) of elasmobranch muscle tissue

    Nigel E. Hussey;Jill A. Olin;Michael J. Kinney;Bailey C. McMeans

  • Trophic Transfer of Contaminants in a Changing Arctic Marine Food Web: Cumberland Sound, Nunavut, Canada

    Melissa A. McKinney;Melissa A. McKinney;Bailey C. McMeans;Gregg T. Tomy;Bruno Rosenberg

  • Composition and temporal variation in the diet of beluga whales, derived from stable isotopes

    Marianne Marcoux;Bailey C. McMeans;Aaron T. Fisk;Steven H. Ferguson

  • Essential and non-essential element concentrations in two sleeper shark species collected in arctic waters.

    Bailey C. McMeans;Katrine Borgå;William R. Bechtol;David Higginbotham

  • Food webs and the sustainability of indiscriminate fisheries1

    Kevin S. McCann;Gabriel Gellner;Bailey C. McMeans;Tina Deenik

  • Seasonal increases in fish trophic niche plasticity within a flood-pulse river ecosystem (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia)

    Thomas Pool;Gordon Holtgrieve;Vittoria Elliott;Kevin McCann

  • Similarity between predator and prey fatty acid profiles is tissue dependent in Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus): Implications for diet reconstruction

    Bailey C. McMeans;Michael T. Arts;Aaron T. Fisk

  • Coping with the cold: energy storage strategies for surviving winter in freshwater fish

    Timothy Fernandes;Bailey C. McMeans

  • Advancing Research for the Management of Long-Lived Species: A Case Study on the Greenland Shark

    Jena E. Edwards;Elizabeth Hiltz;Franziska Broell;Peter G. Bushnell

  • Food‐web structure and ecosystem function in the Laurentian Great Lakes—Toward a conceptual model

    Jessica T. Ives;Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Aaron T. Fisk

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron T. Fisk
Aaron T. Fisk University of Windsor
Kevin S. McCann
Kevin S. McCann University of Guelph
Paul J. Blanchfield
Paul J. Blanchfield Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Brian J. Shuter
Brian J. Shuter University of Toronto
Michael T. Arts
Michael T. Arts Toronto Metropolitan University
Nigel E. Hussey
Nigel E. Hussey University of Windsor
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Milla Rautio
Milla Rautio Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Christian Lydersen
Christian Lydersen Norwegian Polar Institute
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

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