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…
So in the roller coaster that is 2016, I am very happy to announce that I have a NSF funded grant. Seth Newsome (U. of New Mexico) and I are continuing my work with deep-sea wood falls. The official title is “The energetic assembly of biological communities: a test with Read more…
Very excited to see the third paper from the multi-year, wood-fall research project now in press. The paper focuses on a well-known macroecological pattern, the abundance-occupancy relationship. Simply, we find that species that are on average more abundant at any given location or more likely to be found at more Read more…
The second paper from the wood-fall experiments is now in press! You can read my public outreach post on the paper and the major finding at Deep-Sea News. McClain, C., Barry, J., Eernisse, D., Horton, T., Judge, J., Kakui, K., Mah, C., & Warén, A. (2015). Multiple Processes Generate Productivity-Diversity Read more…
My first lead author paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science! McClain, C.R., A.P. Allen, D.P. Tittensor, and M.A. Rex (2012) The Energetics of Life on the Deep Seafloor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. online early With frigid temperatures and virtually no in situ productivity, the deep oceans, Earth’s Read more…
I’ve been busy late 2011 and early 2012. McClain, C.R., J.C. Stegen, and A.H. Hurlbert (2012) Dispersal, Niche Dynamics, and Oceanic Patterns in Beta-Diversity in Deep-Sea Bivalves. Proceeding of the Royal Society, B, online early McClain, C.R., P. Unmack, J. Jackson-Ricketts, and T. Gullet (2012). Increased Energy Promotes Size-Based Niche Availability in Marine Read more…
My new paper is out! Craig R. McClain, James C. Stegen, and Allen H. Hurlbert Dispersal, environmental niches and oceanic-scale turnover in deep-sea bivalves Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences published online before print December 21, 2011, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2166 I discuss it over at my other website, Deep-Sea News. In the food Read more…
My new article is out at Paleobiology! What caused the Mesozoic Marine Revolution? More food! Seth Finnegan, Craig M McClain, Matthew A Kosnik and Jonathan L Payne (2011) Escargots through time: an energetic comparison of marine gastropod assemblages before and after the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Paleobiology: Spring 2011, Vol. 37, Read more…