Ph.D. Student to research the Macroecology of Body Size Are you a dedicated and innovative researcher looking to contribute to a groundbreaking project that will reshape our understanding of marine ecosystems? I am seeking a motivated graduate student to join a collaborative team focused on the study of body size Read more…
October was great month with River Bryant and Granger Hanks both successfully defending their theses! The McClain Lab wishes them both well in the new year in their next steps of their academic journey.
Recently defended master’s student, Granger Hank, published his first, first author publication. Very proud and excited to see this work in print. Hanks, Granger W., Natalie A. Clay, Maggie Herrmann, Clifton Nunnally, S. River D. Bryant, and Craig R. McClain. 2023 “Isolating the drivers of the species‐area relationship in experimental Read more…
Another new paper out from the McClain Lab! McClain, C. R., Bryant, S. R. D., Hanks, G., & Byrnes, J. (2023). Disentangling mechanisms of species–energy relationships in experimental deep‐sea wood falls. Ecosphere, 14(10), e4667. A multitude of hypotheses have been invoked to explain increases in richness with increases in energy availability. Experiments Read more…
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette released this statement about our new paper out in Ecology. McClain, C. R., Boolukos, C. M., Bryant, S. R. D., & Hanks, G. (2023). Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity. Ecology, e4168. A study led by a University of Louisiana at Read more…
Soon to be Dr. Bryant had an amazing year with three first author publications bases on her Ph.D. thesis research! Bryant, S.R. and McClain, C.R. 2022. Functional space expansion driven by transitions between advantageous traits across a deep-sea energetic gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 289:20221302 Bryant, S.R.. and Read more…
A new paper led by Ph.D. student, River Bryant! Bryant, S. R., Nunnally, C., Hanks, G. & McClain, C. R. (2022). The macrofaunal metropolis in the sediments around the first-ever deep-sea alligator fall. Marine Ecology, 43, e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12707 The maintenance of high diversity in deep-sea sediments is often hypothesized to be a result of heterogeneity in disturbance and carbon Read more…
Another paper out of the lab from our continued collaborations with the Payne lab at Stanford. McClain, C. R., N. A. Heim, M. L. Knope, and J. L. Payne. 2018. Energy availability and the evolutionary paleoecology of the marine biosphere. Paleobiology online early. The quantity of biomass in an ecosystem Read more…
Gearty, W., J. L. Payne, and C. R. McClain. 2018. Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. online early. Very excited to have this new paper out with William Gearty and Jonathan Payne at Stanford University examining why marine animals Read more…
With the recently funded NSF grant and finally settling into LUMCON, I recently added to my lab. I am very excited to add Dr. Cliff Nunnally as a research associate. Cliff has an impressive track record and particularly well-suited to research at hand. Cliff received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M conducting Read more…