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80
Citations
32724
World Ranking
819
National Ranking
297

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Mary E. Power is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant concentration in Ecology among other subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their work encompass Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mary E. Power include:

  • Stephanie M. Carlson
  • Bruce A. Hungate
  • Jane C. Marks
  • Egbert Schwartz
  • Jennifer Pett-Ridge

Their scholarly articles have appeared in several publication venues repeatedly. These include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecosphere
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • BioScience

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems," 2020, Nature
  • "Priority effects in microbiome assembly," 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators," 2021, mBio
  • "Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide," 2021, BioScience
  • "Foraging modes and movements of Oncorhynchus mykiss as flow and invertebrate drift recede in a California stream," 2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Mary E. Power has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • Challenges in the Quest for Keystones

    Mary E. Power;David Tilman;James A. Estes;Bruce A. Menge

  • TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP FORCES IN FOOD WEBS: DO PLANTS HAVE PRIMACY?

    Mary E. Power

  • Structural and functional loss in restored wetland ecosystems.

    David Moreno-Mateos;Mary E. Power;Francisco A. Comín;Roxana Yockteng

  • Effects of Fish in River Food Webs

    Mary E. Power

  • Species Interactions Reverse Grassland Responses to Changing Climate

    K. B. Suttle;Meredith A. Thomsen;Mary E. Power

  • Grazing Minnows, Piscivorous Bass, and Stream Algae: Dynamics of a Strong Interaction

    Mary E. Power;William J. Matthews;Arthur J. Stewart

  • Mountaintop mining consequences

    M. A. Palmer;E. S. Bernhardt;W. H. Schlesinger;K. N. Eshleman

  • Landscapes of Fear: Spatial Patterns of Risk Perception and Response

    Kaitlyn M. Gaynor;Joel S. Brown;Arthur D. Middleton;Mary E. Power

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

    Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Depth Distributions of Armored Catfish: Predator-Induced Resource Avoidance?

    Mary E. Power

  • Food webs at the landscape level

    Gary A. Polis;Mary E. Power;Gary R. Huxel

  • Dams and downstream aquatic biodiversity: Potential food web consequences of hydrologic and geomorphic change

    Mary E. Power;William E. Dietrich;Jacques C. Finlay

  • Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems

    Basem Al-Shayeb;Rohan Sachdeva;Lin-Xing Chen;Fred Ward

  • Priority effects in microbiome assembly.

    Reena Debray;Robin A Herbert;Robin A Herbert;Alexander L Jaffe;Alexander Crits-Christoph

  • Biotic and abiotic controls in river and stream communities

    Mary E. Power;R. Jean Stout;Colbert E. Cushing;Peter P. Harper

  • Effects of Disturbance on River Food Webs

    J. Timothy Wootton;Michael S. Parker;Mary E. Power

  • RIVER–WATERSHED EXCHANGE: EFFECTS OF RIVERINE SUBSIDIES ON RIPARIAN LIZARDS AND THEIR TERRESTRIAL PREY

    John Sabo;M. E. Power

  • A Classification of Ecological Boundaries

    David L. Strayer;Mary E. Power;William F. Fagan;Steward T. A. Pickett

  • HOW FINE SEDIMENT IN RIVERBEDS IMPAIRS GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF JUVENILE SALMONIDS

    Kenwyn B. Suttle;Mary E. Power;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine;Camille McNeely

  • Deformational Mass Transport and Invasive Processes in Soil Evolution

    George H Brimhall;Oliver A. Chadwick;Chris J. Lewis;William Compston

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques C. Finlay
Jacques C. Finlay University of Minnesota
William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley
James A. Estes
James A. Estes University of California, Santa Cruz
F. Stuart Chapin
F. Stuart Chapin University of Alaska Fairbanks
William J. Matthews
William J. Matthews University of Oklahoma
Rex L. Lowe
Rex L. Lowe Bowling Green State University
Justin S. Brashares
Justin S. Brashares University of California, Berkeley
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine

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