Publications

We have PDF versions of all of these papers. If you are having trouble finding it on the web, just email us. Undergraduates, grad students, and post-docs affiliated with the lab are denoted with U, G, and P, respectively.

Beaty^G, F., John, B., Antone, M., Williams, J., Bennett, N., Wallia, N., and Harley, C. 2024. Centering community values in marine planning. Marine Policy 170:106363.

Davis, K., Parfrey, L., Harley, C.D.G., Holmes, K., Schaefer^U, O., Gehman^P, A.-L. 2024. Epibiont communities on mussels in relation to parasitism and location in the rocky intertidal zone. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100:fiae101.

Kirk, D., Straus, S., Childs, M.L., Harris, M., Couper, L., Davies, T.J., Forbes, C., Gehman, A.-L., Groner, M.L., Harley, C., Lafferty, K.D., Savage, V., Skinner, E., O’Connor, M., Mordecai, E.A. 2024. Temperature impacts on dengue incidence are nonlinear and mediated by climatic and socioeconomic factors: a meta-analysis. PLOS Climate 3:e0000152.

Sunday^P, J.M., Bernhardt, J., Harley, C.D.G., and O’Connor, M.I. 2024. Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold-shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton. Ecology Letters DOI: 10.1111/ele.14337.

Thyrring^P, J., Peck, L.S., Sejr, M.K., Węsławski, J.M., Harley, C.D.G., and Menegotto, A. 2024. Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records. Ecography 2024:e07006.

Thyrring^P, J. & Harley, C.D.G. 2024. Marine latitudinal diversity gradients are generally absent in intertidal ecosystems. Ecology 105:e4205.

Zhong, K.X., Daspe, M., Collicut, B., Rolheiser, K., Foss, M., Finke, J.F., Sutherland, B.J.G., Chan, A.M., Green, T.J., Saunders, R., Harley, C.D.G., Otto, S., Miller, K.M., Suttle, C.A. 2024. The prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiome of Pacific oyster spat is shaped by ocean warming but not acidification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 10.1128/aem.00052-24.

Beaty^G, F., Gehman^P, A.-L.M., Brownlee^G, G., and Harley, C.D.G. 2023. Not just range limits: warming rate and thermal sensitivity shape climate change vulnerability in a species range center. Ecology 104:e4183.

Currie-Olsen^U, D., Hesketh^G, A.V., Grimm^U, J., Kennedy^G, J., Marshall, K.E., and Harley, C.D.G. 2023. Lethal and sublethal implications of low temperature exposure for three intertidal predators. Journal of Thermal Biology 114:103549.

Hesketh^G, A.V. and Harley, C.D.G. 2023. Extreme heatwave drives topography-dependent patterns of mortality in a bed-forming intertidal barnacle, with implications for associated community structure. Global Change Biology 29:165-178.

Thyrring^P, J., MacLeod^P, C.D., Marshall, K.E., Kennedy^G, J., Tremblay, R., and Harley, C.D.G. 2023. Ocean acidification increases susceptibility to sub-zero air temperatures in ecosystem engineers (Mytilus sp.): a limit to poleward range shifts. eLife 12:e81080.

White, R., Anderson, S., Booth, J., Braich, G., Draeger, C., Fei, C., Harley, C.D.G., Henderson, S., Jakob, M., Lau, C.-A., Mareshet Admasu, L., Narinesingh, V., Rodell, C., Roocroft, E., Weinberger, K., and West, G. 2023. The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021. Nature Communications 14:727.

Harvey, B.P., Marshall, K.E., Harley, C.D.G., & Russell, B.D. 2022. Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37:20-28.

Martínez-Laiz^G, G., MacLeod^P, C.D., Hesketh^G, A.V., Konecny^G, C.A., Ros, M., Guerra-García, J.M., and Harley, C.D.G. 2022. The journey of hull-fouling mobile invaders: boldness and basibionts mediate dislodgement risk during transit. Biofouling 38:837-851. [The lead author was a visiting PhD student in my lab, and conducted the research under my supervision.]

Raymond, W.W., Barber, J.S., Dethier, M.N., Hayford, H.A., Harley, C.D.G., King, T., Paul, B., Speck, C.A., Tobin, E.D., Raymond, A.E.T., and McDonald, P.S. 2022. Assessment of the impacts of an unprecedented heatwave on intertidal shellfish of the Salish Sea. Ecology e3798.

Stevenson^P, A., Ó Corcora, T.C., Harley, C.D.G., & Baumiller, T.K. 2022. Ability to swim (not morphology or environment) explains interspecific differences in crinoid arm regrowth. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:783759.

Demes^G, K.W., Starko, S., & Harley, C.D.G. 2021. Multiple stressors drive convergent evolution of performance properties in marine macrophytes. New Phytologist 229:2311-2323.

Hesketh^G, A., Schwindt, E., and Harley, C.D.G. 2021. Ecological and environmental context shape the differential effects of a facilitator in its native and invaded ranges. Ecology 102:e03478.

Hoos^G, J.J., & Harley, C.D.G. 2021. The sign and magnitude of the effects of thermal extremes on an intertidal kelp depend on environmental and biological context. Climate Change Ecology 2:100015.

Konecny^G*, C., Brownlee^U,G*, G., & Harley, C.D.G. 2021. Adapting a propane turkey fryer for manipulating temperature in aquatic environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12:1835-1840.      *authors contributed equally

Marshall^P, K.E., Anderson^G, K.M., Brown^G, N.E.M., Dytnerski^U, J., Flynn^U, K., Bernhardt, J.R., Konecny^G, C.A., Gurney-Smith, H., and Harley, C.D.G. 2021. Whole-organism responses at constant temperatures do not predict responses to varying temperatures in the ecosystem engineer Mytilus trossulus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288:20202968.

Reid^U, H.B. and Harley, C.D.G. 2021. Low temperature exposure determines performance and thermal microhabitat use in an intertidal gastropod (Littorina scutulata) during the winter. Marine Ecology Progress Series 660:105-118.

Srivastava, D.S., Coristine, L., Angert, A.L., Bontrager, M., Amundrud, S.L., Williams, J., Yeung, A.C.Y., de Zwaan, D.R., Thompson, P.L., Aitken, S.N., Sunday^P, J.M., O’Connor, M.I., Whitton, J., Brown^G, N.E.M., MacLeod^P, C.D., Wegener Parfrey, L., Bernhardt, J.R., Carillo, J., Harley, C.D.G., Martone, P.T., Freeman, B.G., Tseng, M., and Donner, S.D. 2021. Wildcards in climate change biology. Ecological Monographs e01471.

Sumaila, U.R., and 295 others. 2021. WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. Science 374:544. [Letter to Science.]

Brown^G, N.E.M., Bernhardt, J.R., and Harley, C.D.G. 2020. Energetic context determines species and community responses to ocean acidification. Ecology e03073.

Covernton^U, G.A., and Harley, C.D.G. 2020. Multi-scale variation in salinity: a driver of population size and structure in the muricid gastropod Nucella lamellosa. Marine Ecology Progress Series 643:1-19. [Feature article.]

Gregr, E.J., Christensen, V., Nichol, L., Martone, R.G., Markel, R., Watson, J., Harley, C.D.G., Pakhomov, E., Shurin, J.B., and Chan, K.M.A. 2020. Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator. Science 368:1243-1247.

Kennedy, J.R., Harley, C.D.G., and Marshall, K.E. 2020. Drivers of plasticity in freeze tolerance in the intertidal mussel, Mytilus trossulus. Journal of Experimental Biology 223, jeb233478.

Stevenson^P, A., Archer, S.K., Schultz, J.A., Dunham, A., Marliave, J.B., Martone, P., and Harley, C.D.G. 2020. Warming and acidification threaten glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus pumping and reef formation. Scientific Reports 10.8176.

Franzova^U, V.A., MacLeod^P, C.D., Wang^U, T., and Harley, C.D.G. 2019. Complex and interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming on the life span of a marine trematode parasite. International Journal for Parasitology 49:1015-1021.

Gehman^P, A.-L.M. and Harley, C.D.G. 2019. Symbiotic endolithic microbes alter host morphology and reduce host vulnerability to high environmental temperatures. Ecosphere 10:e02683.

Kay^U, S.W.C., Gehman^P, A.-L.M., and Harley, C.D.G. 2019. Reciprocal abundance shifts of the intertidal sea stars, Evasterias troschelii and Pisaster ochraceus, following sea star wasting disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20182766.

Konecny^U, C.A., and Harley, C.D.G. 2019. The distribution of the orange-striped green anemone, Diadumene lineata, in relation to environmental factors along coastal British Columbia, Canada. Invertebrate Biology 138:e12268.

Martins^P, G.M., Harley, C.D.G., Faria, J., Vale, M., Hawkins, S.J., Neto, A.I., and Arenas, F. 2019. Direct and indirect effects of climate change squeeze the local distribution of a habitat-forming seaweed. Marine Ecology Progress Series 626:43-52.

Muth, A., Graham, M., Lane, C., and Harley, C.D.G. 2019. Recruitment tolerance to increased temperature present across multiple kelp clades. Ecology 100:e02594.

Brown^G, N.E.M., Bernhardt, J.R., Anderson^G, K.M., Harley, C.D.G. 2018. Increased food supply mitigates ocean acidification effects on calcification but exacerbates effects on growth. Scientific Reports 8:9800.

Brown^G, N.E.M., Milazzo, M., Rastrick S.P.S., Hall-Spencer, J.M., Therriault, T.W., and Harley, C.D.G. 2018. Natural acidification changes the timing and rate of succession, alters community structure, and increases homogeneity in marine biofouling communities. Global Change Biology 24:e112-e127.

Connell, S.D., Doubleday, Z.A., Foster, N.R., Hamlyn, S., Harley, C.D.G., Helmuth, B., Kelaher, B.P., Nagelkerken, I., Rogers, K., Sarà, G., & Russell, B.D. 2018. The duality of ocean acidification as a resource and a stressor. Ecology 99:1005-1010.

Lim^U, E.G., and Harley, C.D.G. 2018. Caprellid amphipods (Caprella spp.) are vulnerable to both physiological and habitat-mediated effects of ocean acidification. PeerJ 6:e5327.

Miner, C.M., Burnaford, J.L., Ambrose, R.F., Antrim, L., Bohlmann, H., Blanchette, C.A., Engle, J.M., Fradkin, S., Gaddam, R., Harley, C.D.G., Miner, B.G., Murray, S., Smith, J. Whitaker, S., and Raimondi, P.T. 2018. Large-scale impacts of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) on intertidal sea stars and implications for recovery. PLOS ONE 13:e0192870.

Tai, T.C., Harley, C.D.G., and Cheung, W.L. 2018. Comparing model parameterizations of the biophysical impacts of ocean acidification to identify limitations and uncertainties. Ecological Modelling 385:1-11.

Harley, C.D.G., Connell, S. D., Doubleday, Z. A., Kelaher, B., Russell, B.D., Sara, G., Helmuth, B. 2017. Conceptualizing ecosystem tipping points within a physiological framework. Ecology and Evolution 7:6035-6045.

Kordas^G, R.L., Donahue, I., Harley, C.D.G. 2017. Herbivory enables marine community to resist warming. Science Advances. 3:e1701349.

Kroeker, K.J., Kordas^G, R.L., & Harley, C.D.G. 2017. Embracing interactions in ocean acidification research: confronting multiple stressor scenarios and context dependence. Biology Letters 13:20160802.

Proum, S., Harley, C.D.G., Steele, M., & Marshall, D.J. 2017. Aerobic and behavioural flexibility allow estuarine gastropods to flourish in rapidly changing and extreme pH conditions. Marine Biology 5:97.

Sunday, J.M., Fabricius, K.E., Kroeker, K.J., Anderson^G, K.M., Brown^G, N.E., Barry, J.P., Connell, S.D., Dupont, S., Gaylord, B., Hall-Spencer, J.M., Klinger, T., Milazzo, M., Munday, P.L., Russell, B.D., Sanford, E., Thiyagarajan, V., Vaughan^G. M.L.H., Widdicombe, S., & Harley, C.D.G. 2016. Ocean acidfication can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat. Nature Climate Change 7:81-85.

Brown^G, N.E.M., Therriault, T.W., & Harley, C.D.G. 2016. Field-based experimental acidification alters fouling community structure and reduces diversity. Journal of Animal Ecology 85:1328-1339.

Harley, C.D.G. 2016 Phycology for the ecologist. Journal of Phycology 52:898-900.

Helmuth, B., Choi, F., Matzelle, A., Torossian, J.L., Morello, S.L., Mislan, K.A.S., Lauren, Y., Strickland, D., Szathmary, P.L., Gilman, S.E., Tockstein, A., Hilbish, T.J., Burrows, M.T., Power, A.M., Gosling, E., Mieszkowska, N., Harley, C.D.G., Nishizaki, M., Carrington, E., Menge, B., Petes, L., Foley. M.M., Johnson, A., Poole, M., Noble, M.M., Richmond, E.L., Robart, M., Robinson, J.S., Sones, J., Broitman, B.R., Denny, M.W., Mach, K.J., Miller, L.P., O’Donnell, M., Ross, P., Hofmann, G.E., Zippay, M., Blanchette, C., Macfarlan, J.A., Carpizo-Ituarte, E., Ruttenberg, B., Mejia, C.E.P., McQuaid, C.D., Lathlean, J., Monaco, C.J., Nicastro, K.R., & Zardi, G. 2016. Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors. Scientific Data 3:160087.

Kordas^G, R.L., & Harley, C.D.G. 2016. Demographic responses of coexisting species to in situ warming. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 546:147-161.

Sinclair, B.J., Marshall^P, K.E., Sewell, M.A., Levesque, D.L., Willett, C.S., Slotsbo, S., Dong, Y., Harley, C.D.G., Marshall, D.J., Helmuth, B.S., & Huey, R.B. 2016. Can we predict ectotherm responses to cliamte change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? Ecology Letters 19:1372-1385.

DeLong, J.P., Gilbert, B., Shurin, J.B., Savage, V.M., Barton, B.T., Clements, C.F., Dell, A.I., Greig, H.S., Harley, C.D.G., Kratina, P., McCann, K.S., Tunney, T.D., Vasseur, D.A., & O’Connor, M.I. 2015. The body size dependence of trophic cascades. American Naturalist 185:354-366.