Faculty Projects and Publications

Megan J. Donahue

Assistant Researcher

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Tel: (808) 236-7417
Fax: (808) 236-7443
Email: donahuem@hawaii.edu
Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology
PO Box 1106
Kane‘ohe, HI 96734

Education

Ph.D. 2003, Ecology, University of California, Davis
B.S. 1995, Cybernetics, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Spatial population dynamics; marine community ecology; integration of theory and data using likelihood methods; habitat selection; scaling of ecological processes

Professional Services

Reviewer: The American Naturalist, Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Oikos, Ecology Letters, Oecologia, Theoretical Population Biology
Mentor, ESA’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability Initiative
Judge, ESA Statistical Ecology Section, Peilou Award
1997-2005: Volunteer Scientific Diver, Kelp Forest Monitoring Project, Channel Islands National Park
1999-2002, 2005-2007: Member, Diving Control Board, Humboldt State University (2006-2007), Shoals Marine Laboratory (2005), UC Davis (1999-2002)

Publications

Download Publications (MS Word document, updated 9/4/2009)
Robles CD, RA Desharnais, C Garza, MJ Donahue. Submitted. Landscape patterns in boundary intensity: a case study in mussel beds. Landscape Ecology.
Krediet CJ and MJ Donahue. 2009. Growth-mortality trade-offs along a depth gradient in Cancer borealis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology. 373: 133-139.
Donahue MJ, AM Nichols, CA Santamaria, PE League-Pike, CJ Krediet, KO Perez, and MJ Shulman. 2009. Predation risk, prey abundance, and the vertical distribution of three brachyuran crabs on Gulf of Maine shores. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29(4): 536-543.
Jayewardene D, MJ Donahue, C Birkeland. 2009. Effects of frequent fish predation on corals in Hawaii. Coral Reefs. 28(2): 499-506.
Robles CD, RA Desharnais, C Garza, MJ Donahue, and CA Martinez. 2009.Complex equilibria in the maintenance of boundaries: Experiments with mussel beds. Ecology. 90(4): 985-995.
Donahue MJ and CT Lee. 2008. Colonization. In Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath, eds, General Ecology. Vol. [1] of Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols. pp. 672-678 Oxford: Elsevier.
Wood, CL, JE Byers, KL Cottingham, I Altman, MJ Donahue, and A Blakeslee. 2007. Parasites alter community structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.104: 9335-9339.
Eastwood, ME, MJ Donahue, and AE Fowler. 2007. Reconstructing effects of past biological invasions: invasive predators and competitors and niche shifts in the New England intertidal community. Biological Invasions 9: 297-307.
Donahue, MJ. 2006. Conspecific cueing and growth-mortality tradeoffs jointly lead to conspecific attraction. Oecologia. 149: 33-43.
Chesson, P, MJ Donahue, B Melbourne, and AL Sears. 2005. Scale transition theory for understanding mechanisms in metacommunities. In M. Holyoak, M. Leibold, and R. Holt, editors. Metacommunties: spatial dynamics and ecological communities.
Melbourne, B, AL Sears, MJ Donahue, and P Chesson. 2005. Applying scale transition theory to metacommunities in the field. In M. Holyoak, M. Leibold, and R. Holt, editors. Metacommunties: spatial dynamics and ecological communities.
Donahue, MJ. Size-dependent competition in a gregarious porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes (Anomura: Porcellanidae). 2004. Marine Ecology Progress Series 267: 196-207.
Donahue, MJ, M Holyoak, and C Feng. 2003. Patterns of dispersal and dynamics among habitat patches varying in quality. The American Naturalist. 162: 302-317.

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