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Overview

Mark Emmerson is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Emmerson's work covers multiple subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics explored by Emmerson include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and Animal Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Emmerson has contributed to a variety of scholarly publications with notable recent papers such as:

  • Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Agriculture intensification reduces plant taxonomic and functional diversity across European arable systems (2020, Functional Ecology)
  • Quantifying large-scale ecosystem stability with remote sensing data (2020, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation)
  • Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Data quantity is more important than its spatial bias for predictive species distribution modelling (2020, PeerJ)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Functional Ecology, Nature Communications, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Journal of Applied Ecology.

Throughout their career, Emmerson has collaborated with various coauthors, with frequent partnerships involving Neil Reid, Paul Caplat, Hannah J. White, Jon M. Yearsley, and Dinara Sadykova.

Best Publications

  • Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland

    Flavia Geiger;Jan Bengtsson;Frank Berendse;Wolfgang W. Weisser

  • Body size in ecological networks

    Guy Woodward;Bo Ebenman;Mark Emmerson;Jose M. Montoya;Jose M. Montoya

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

    Vesna Gagic;Ignasio Bartomeus;Tomas Jonsson;Astrid Taylor

  • Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities

    Eric L Berlow;Anje-Margiet Neutel;Joel E Cohen;Peter C de Ruiter

  • MEASUREMENT OF INTERACTION STRENGTH IN NATURE

    J. Timothy Wootton;Mark Emmerson

  • Predator–prey body size, interaction strength and the stability of a real food web

    Mark C. Emmerson;Mark C. Emmerson;Dave Raffaelli

  • Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability

    Björn Christian Rall;Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Roswitha B. Ehnes;Mark Emmerson

  • On the dimensionality of ecological stability

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

  • How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    M. Emmerson;M.B. Morales;J.J. Oñate;P. Batáry

  • Consistent patterns and the idiosyncratic effects of biodiversity in marine ecosystems.

    Mark C. Emmerson;Martin Solan;Chas Emes;David M. Paterson

  • Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable?

    Daniel F. Doak;James A. Estes;Benjamin S. Halpern;Ute Jacob

  • Agricultural intensification and biodiversity partitioning in European landscapes comparing plants, carabids, and birds

    Andreas Flohre;Christina Fischer;Tsipe Aavik;Jan Bengtsson

  • A new look at the relationship between diversity and stability.

    M. Loreau;A. Downing;Mark Emmerson;A. Gonzalez

  • Perturbations to trophic interactions and the stability of complex food webs.

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Mark C. Emmerson

  • The relationship between agricultural intensification and biological control: experimental tests across Europe.

    Carsten Thies;Sebastian Haenke;Christoph Scherber;Janne Bengtsson

  • Press perturbations and indirect effects in real food webs

    José M. Montoya;José M. Montoya;Guy Woodward;Mark C. Emmerson;Ricard V. Solé

  • Weak interactions, omnivory and emergent food-web properties.

    Mark Emmerson;Jon M. Yearsley

  • Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity

    Mark Novak;J. Timothy Wootton;Daniel F. Doak;Mark Emmerson

  • Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix?

    Mark Novak;Justin D. Yeakel;Justin D. Yeakel;Andrew E. Noble;Daniel F. Doak

  • Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning.

    J. Griffin;E. O’Gorman;Mark Emmerson;S. Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Eoin J. O'Gorman
Eoin J. O'Gorman University of Essex
José M. Montoya
José M. Montoya Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jaimie T. A. Dick
Jaimie T. A. Dick Queen's University Belfast
Jaan Liira
Jaan Liira University of Tartu
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sönke Eggers
Sönke Eggers Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Manuel B. Morales
Manuel B. Morales Autonomous University of Madrid
Frank Berendse
Frank Berendse Wageningen University & Research

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