HIMB | Faculty | Megan J. Donahue

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

Publications

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Donahue MJ, Desharnais RA, Robles CD, Arriola P. 2011. Spatially-mediated predator-prey dynamics: bifurcating equilibria as a mechanism for intertidal zonation. The American Naturalist. In press.
Robles CD, RA Desharnais, C Garza, MJ Donahue. 2010. Landscape patterns in boundary intensity: a case study in mussel beds. Landscape Ecology. 25: 745-759.
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): 523-531.
*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.
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. 2004. Size-dependent competition in a gregarious porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes (Anomura: Porcellanidae). 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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