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41
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7047
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5815
National Ranking
8

Overview

Ian Donohue is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields within this area, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Ian Donohue has contributed to a number of recent papers, reflecting a focus on ecosystem function, ecological thresholds, and grassland productivity. Some notable recent publications are:

  • A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems (2022) published in Nature
  • Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data (2020) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems (2020) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory (2020) in Nature Communications

Frequently publishing alongside other researchers, Ian Donohue has collaborated extensively with a group of co-authors. These include Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly J. Stevens, Risto Virtanen, and Andrew S. MacDougall, with 22 to 27 joint publications per collaborator.

The scientist's work has appeared most commonly in several venues, indicating preferred platforms for dissemination:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

    Ian Donohue;Helmut Hillebrand;Jose M. Montoya;Owen L. Petchey

  • On the dimensionality of ecological stability

    Ian Donohue;Owen L. Petchey;José M. Montoya;Andrew L. Jackson

  • Population-Level Metrics of Trophic Structure Based on Stable Isotopes and Their Application to Invasion Ecology

    Michelle C. Jackson;Ian Donohue;Andrew L. Jackson;J. Robert Britton

  • A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

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  • Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals

    Kevin Healy;Thomas Guillerme;Sive Finlay;Adam Kane

  • Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data.

    Helmut Hillebrand;Helmut Hillebrand;Ian Donohue;W. Stanley Harpole;Dorothee Hodapp;Dorothee Hodapp

  • Advancing our understanding of ecological stability.

    Sonia Kéfi;Virginia Domínguez-García;Ian Donohue;Colin Fontaine

  • Impacts of increased sediment loads on the ecology of lakes.

    Ian Donohue;Jorge Garcia Molinos

  • Nutrient enrichment homogenizes lake benthic assemblages at local and regional scales

    Ian Donohue;Andrew L. Jackson;Martin T. Pusch;Kenneth Irvine

  • Linking catchment characteristics and water chemistry with the ecological status of Irish rivers.

    Ian Donohue;Martin L. McGarrigle;Paul Mills

  • Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology.

    Lauren G. Shoemaker;Lauren G. Shoemaker;Lauren G. Shoemaker;Lauren L. Sullivan;Lauren L. Sullivan;Ian Donohue;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Going beyond Gross Domestic Product as an indicator to bring coherence to the Sustainable Development Goals

    Luca Coscieme;Lars F. Mortensen;Sharolyn Anderson;James Ward

  • Planetary Boundaries for Biodiversity: Implausible Science, Pernicious Policies

    José M. Montoya;Ian Donohue;Stuart L. Pimm

  • Water‐level fluctuations regulate the structure and functioning of natural lakes

    Vesela V. Evtimova;Vesela V. Evtimova;Ian Donohue

  • Measuring resilience is essential to understand it

    Stuart L Pimm;Ian Donohue;José M Montoya;Michel Loreau

  • Importance of spatial and temporal patterns for assessment of risk of diffuse nutrient emissions to surface waters

    Ian Donohue;David Styles;Catherine Coxon;Kenneth Irvine

  • Assessment of eutrophication pressure on lakes using littoral invertebrates

    Ian Donohue;Louise A. Donohue;Bláithín Ní Ainín;Kenneth Irvine

  • Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

    Kevin Van Sundert;Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan;Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan;Siddharth Bharath;Yvonne M. Buckley

  • Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

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  • Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems.

    Lydia White;Lydia White;Nessa E. O’Connor;Nessa E. O’Connor;Qiang Yang;Mark C. Emmerson

  • Loss of predator species, not intermediate consumers, triggers rapid and dramatic extinction cascades.

    Ian Donohue;Owen L. Petchey;Sonia Kéfi;Alexandre Génin

  • Interactions among temporal patterns determine the effects of multiple stressors

    Jorge García Molinos;Ian Donohue

  • Environmental context determines multi-trophic effects of consumer species loss

    Nessa E. O'Connor;Nessa E. O'Connor;Ian Donohue

  • Distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of predators in complex ecosystems

    Nessa E. O'Connor;Nessa E. O'Connor;Mark C. Emmerson;Mark C. Emmerson;Tasman P. Crowe;Ian Donohue

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Irvine
Kenneth Irvine IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu
Helmut Hillebrand
Helmut Hillebrand Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Mark Emmerson
Mark Emmerson Queen's University Belfast
Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
José M. Montoya
José M. Montoya Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota

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