Dr. Ian Donohue
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Assistant Professor
Ussher Lecturer in Ecosystem Functioning
School of Natural Sciences (Zoology Building)
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
Email: ian.donohue@tcd.ie
Tel: + 353 1 8961356
Fax: + 353 1 6778094
Skype: ian_donohue
My site on academia.edu
Research interests
I am an empirical ecologist and like to use experimental approaches to answer questions about the regulation of stability and functioning in ecosystems. My research focuses mainly on aquatic ecosystems and a significant proportion of this work is applied. Quantification of the impacts of disturbance on ecosystems and the application of results of this work to management comprise an important objective of my research.
Selected recent publications ( >> all publications)
Jackson, M.C., Jackson, A.L., Britton, J.R., Donohue, I., Harper, D.M. & Grey, J. (2012) Population-level metrics of trophic structure based on stable isotopes and their application to invasion ecology. PLOS One. In press
García-Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2011) Temporal variability within disturbance events regulates their effects on natural communities. Oecologia 166: 795-806
O'Connor, N.E., Donohue, I., Crowe, T.P. & Emmerson, M.C. (2011) Importance of consumers on exposed and sheltered rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 443: 65-75
Donohue, I., Leira, M., Hobbs, W., León-Vintró, L., O’Reilly, J. & Irvine, K. (2010) Rapid ecosystem recovery from diffuse pollution after the Great Irish Famine. Ecological Applications 20: 1733-1743. Paper highlighted in the photo gallery of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. Click here to view the press release for this publication.
García-Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2010) Interactions among temporal patterns determine the effects of multiple stressors. Ecological Applications 20: 1794-1800
Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L., Pusch, M.T. & Irvine, K. (2009) Nutrient enrichment homogenizes lake benthic assemblages at local and regional scales. Ecology 90: 3470-3477
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