Papers

Updated January 4, 2007

    Published, In Press, Accepted

2003

  1. McGill, Brian J - "A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity" Nature 422(24 April):881-885
    • Featured in Trends In Ecology and Evolution's "Research Focus" section in a piece by Nee and Stone (TREE 2003 18(9):433-34)
  2. McGill, Brian J & Cathy Collins - "A unified theory for macroecology based on spatial patterns of abundance" Evolutionary Ecology Research 2003 vol 5(4):469-492
  3. McGill, Brian J - "Does Mother Nature really prefer rare species or are log-left-skewed SADs a sampling artifact?" Ecology Letters 2003 6:766-773
  4. McGill, Brian J - "Strong and weak tests of macrecological theory" Oikos 2003 vol 102(3):679-685

2004

  1. Maurer, Brian A & Brian J McGill - "Non-neutral ecology" Basic and Applied Ecology 2004 5:413-422

2005

  1. McGill, Brian J - "Population dynamics and coevolution of a mutualism" Ecological Modelling 2005 187:413-425
  2. McGill, Brian J; Hadly, Elizabeth A; Maurer, Brian A "Community inertia of Quaternary small mammal assemblages in North America" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 102:16701-16706 (Supplemental material)

2006

  1. McGill, Brian J; Brian Enquist, Evan Weiher and Mark Westoby - "Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits" (Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2006 21(4):178-185)
  2. McGill, Brian J & Gary Mittlebach - "Allometric scaling of optimal foraging" Evolutionary Ecology Research 2006 8(4):691-701
  3. McGill, Brian J - "Empirical tests of the neutral theory" Ecology 2006 87(6):1411-1423
  4. McGill, Brian J; Brian Enquist, Evan Weiher and Mark Westoby - "Response to Kearney and Porter: Both functional and community ecologists need to do more for each other" Trends in Ecology and Evolution Sep 2006 21(9);482-483
  5. Gotelli, Nicholas J. and Brian J. McGill - "Null versus neutral models: what's the difference" Ecography 2006 29:5
  6. McGill, Brian J - "A Renaissance in the study of abundance " Science 2006 314:770-772 (preprint) 

2007

  1. Ugland, Karl I; P. John D. Lambshead; Brian McGill; John S. Gray; Niall O'Dea; Richard J. Ladle; Robert J. Whittaker - "Modelling dimensionality in species abundance distributions: description and evaluation of the Gambin model" Evolutionary Ecology Research 2007 9:313-324
  2. Bahn, Volker and Brian J. McGill - "Can niche-based distribution models outperform spatial interpolation" Global Ecology and Biogeography 2007 16:733-742
  3. McGill, Brian J; Rampal S. Etienne; John S. Gray and 15 other authors - "Species Abundance Distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework" Ecology Letters 2007 10:995-1015
  4. McGill, Brian J and Joel S. Brown - "Evolutionary Game Theory and Adaptive Dynamics of Continuous Traits" Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 2007 20:403-435

2008

  1. McGill, Brian J - "Exploring predictions of abundance from body mass using hierarchical comparative approaches" (American Naturalist 2008 172(1):88-101)
  2. Gordon, Caleb; Brian J. McGill; Guillermo Ibarra-Nuñez; Russell Greenberg and Ivette Perfecto - "Simplification of a coffee foliage-dwelling beetle community under lowshade management" Basic and Applied Ecology 2008 in press
  3. Jarema, Stacey I; Jason Samson; Brian J. McGill and Murray M. Humphries - "Variation in abundance across a species' range predicts climate change responses in the range interior will exceed those at the edge: a case study with North American beaver." Global Change Biology 2008 in press

In Revision for second review/in second review after favorable reviews

In Review

  1.  Bahn, Volker and Brian J. McGill - "Assessing the predictive power of distribution models" (Ecography)

In Revision

  1. McGill, Brian J - "Structure of abundance across species ranges: synthesis, evidence, mechanisms " (download draft)
  2. McGill, Brian J and Volker Bahn - "Ecoinformatics: skipping the fad phase"

ISI Researcher A-3476-2008

Organized symposia and working groups

  1. "Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions" - Working group at NCEAS for 2006-2007 (Co-PI's Rampal Etienne, John Gray, Jessica Green)
  2. "A 'new' paradigm for community ecology: building from functional ecology" - symposium at Ecological Society of America meeting in 2004. Co-organized with Brian Enquist (see proposal)
  3. "Beyond endangered, mass gaps and abundance" - presentation at working group on gaps in body mass distributions - December 2003 - Host: Craig Allen and Buzz Holling

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