Publications

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Submitted/In Review

• Gissi E, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Hazen EL, Santoleri R, and F Micheli. Identifying climate refugia through analysis of functional diversity.

• Chapuis M^, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Palmisciano M, Elahi R, Detrait A, Gorum O, Vogel C, Chui E, Haupt A, and F Micheli. Recent changes in mussel beds following mass mortality of a keystone marine predator. (^undergraduate mentee)
  
  

2024

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, Chapuis M^, Carlson R, Meekan M, Palmisciano M, Taylor BM, Tietjen KL, Tillman CM, Roche R, and F Micheli. (2024) Coral reef recovery in a remote and large marine protected area is resilient to cascading trophic interactions. Biological Conservation (^undergraduate mentee)

• Gissi E, Goodman MC, Elahi R, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Arnoldi NS, Arafeh-Dalmau N, Knight CJ, Olguín-Jacobson C, Palmisciano M, Tillman CM, De Leo G, and F Micheli. (2024) Sex-based species interactions matter in ecological communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
  
  

2023

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, McCauley DJ, Brumbaugh DR, Elmer F, Ferretti F, White T, Wible J, and F Micheli. (2023) Dynamic interplay: disentangling the temporal variability of fish effects on coral recruitment. Scientific Reports

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, McCauley DJ, Brumbaugh DR, Elmer F, Ferretti F, Joyce FH, White T, Wible J, and F Micheli. (2023) Consumers decrease variability across space and turnover though time during coral reef succession. Oecologia

• Baum JK, Claar DC , Tietjen KL, Magel JMT, Maucieri DG, Cobb KM and JM McDevitt-Irwin. (2023) Transformation of coral communities subjected to an unprecedented heatwave is modulated by local disturbance. Science Advances 9:abq5615
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2021

• Lange ID, Benkwitt CE* , McDevitt-Irwin JM*  , Tietjen KL* , Taylor B, Chinkin M, Gunn RL, Palmisciano M, Steyaert M, Wilson B, East HK, Turner J, Graham NAJ, and CT Perry. (2021) Wave exposure shapes reef community composition and recovery trajectories at a remote coral atoll. Coral Reefs 40: 1819–1829 (* authors contributed equally)

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, Kappel C, Harborne A, Mumby P, Brumbaugh D, and F Micheli. (2021) Coupled beta diversity patterns among coral reef benthic taxa. Oecologia 195: 225–234
  

2020

• Hays et al. [70+ authors including McDevitt-Irwin JM]. (2020) A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges. Marine Biology 167:159

• Micheli F, Carlton J, Pearse J, Selgrath J, Elahi R, Baxter C, Mach M, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Pearse V, Watanabe J, and N Burnett. (2020) Ocean sentinels: repeat studies for tracking environmental change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(6):320-322

• Claar DC, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Garren M, Vega Thurber R, Gates R, and JK Baum. (2020) Concordant shifts in the diversity and structure of Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial communities subjected to chronic anthropogenic disturbance. Molecular Ecology 29:2477–2491
  
  

2019

• Robinson JPW, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Dajka J, Hadj-Hammou J, Howlett S, Graba-Landry A, Hoey AS, Nash KL, Wilson SK, Graham NAJ. (2019) Habitat and fishing control grazing potential on coral reefs. Functional Ecology 34:240-251

• McDevitt-Irwin JM,  Garren M, McMinds R, Vega Thurber R and JK Baum. (2019) Variable interaction outcomes of local disturbance and El Niño-induced heat stress on coral microbiome alpha and beta diversity. Coral Reefs 38:331-345
  
  

2018 and Earlier

• Claar DC, Szostek L^, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Schanze J and JK Baum. (2018) Global patterns and impacts of El Niño events on coral reefs: a meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0190957 (^undergraduate mentee)

• Thompson LR et al. and The Earth Microbiome Project Consortium. (2017) A communal catalog reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature 551: 457–463

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, JK Baum, M Garren and RL Vega-Thurber. (2017) Responses of coral-associated bacterial communities to local and global stressors. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:262

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, Iacarella JC and JK Baum. (2016) Reassessing the nursery role of seagrass habitats from temperate to tropical regions: a meta-analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 557:133-143

• McDevitt-Irwin JM, Fuller SD, Grant CG and JK Baum. (2015) Missing the safety net: evidence for inconsistent and insufficient management of at-risk marine fishes in Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(10):1596-1608
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