my publications

research items

2026

Global patterns predict local biodiversity shifts in a climate change hotspot

Jake Lawlor, Amelia V. Hesketh, Julien Beaulieu, Nicole S. Knight, Tiana Peller, Laura Super, Alexis Pereira, Ellen K. Bledsoe, Joseph B. Burant, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Kylla Benes, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes

EcoEvoRxiv

2026

Dispersal rate limits range expansion rate only when it is slower than climate velocity

Nikki A. Moore, Jonathan Lenoir, Lise Comte, Jake A. Lawlor, Jennifer M. Sunday

BioRxiv

2026

Historical subtidal regime shifts echoed in adjacent intertidal community

Julien Beaulieu, Nicole S. Knight, Amelia V. Hesketh, Jake Lawlor, Maria Gheţa, Tianna Peller, Joseph B. Burant, Laura Super, Ellen K. Bledsoe, Kylla Benes, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes

EcoEvoRxiv

2026

Genetic diversity impacts climate-induced species range shifts

Brunno F. Oliveira, Romain Bertrand, Lise Comte, Jonathan Lenoir, Gaël Grenouillet, Lesley T. Lancaster, Jérôme Murienne, Sarah Diamond, Brett R. Scheffers8, R.M.W.J. Bandara, Jake A. Lawlor, Nikki A. Moore, Barrett W. Wolfe, Fabricio Villalobos, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura M. Thompson, Malin L. Pinsky, Jonathan Rolland

Ecology Letters

2026

Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches

Brunno F Oliveira, Romain Bertrand, Malin L. Pinsky, Nicolas Casajus, Barrett W. Wolfe, Brett R. Scheffers, Fabricio Villalobos, Gaël Grenouillet, Gretta Pecl, I-Ching Chen, Joseph Alex Baecher, Jake A. Lawlor, Jennifer Sunday, Jerome Murienne, Jonathan Rolland, Laura M. Thompson, Lesley T. Lancaster, Madeleine Rubenstein, Nikki A. Moore, R.M.W.J. Bandara, Sarah Diamond, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Jonathan Lenoir, Lise Comte

PNAS

2025

Power Analysis For Detecting Richness Change

Eden Tekwa, Jake Lawlor, Ryan Stanley, Nick Jeffery, Emily Rubidge, Jennifer Sunday

Submitted

2025

Don’t miss the forest for the trees: how abstracting nature can get us closer to our goals

Jake Lawlor

Global Change Biology

2024

Interactive effects of predation and climate on the distributions of marine shellfish in the Northwest Atlantic

Sana Zabihi-Seissan, Krista D. Baker, Ryan R.E. Stanley, Tyler D. Tunney, Brittany Beauchamp, Hugues Benoit, David Brickman, Denis Chabot, Adam Cook, David Deslauriers, Mariano Koen-Alonso, Jake Lawlor, Arnault Le Bris, Darrell R. J. Mullowney, Marie-Julie Roux, Katherine R. Skanes, Zeliang Wang, Eric J. Pedersen

Oikos

2024

Mechanisms, detections, and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

Jake Lawlor, Lise Comte, Jonathan Lenoir, Gael Grenouillet, Joseph A. Baecher, R.M.W.J. Bandara, Romain Bertrand, I-Ching Chen, Sarah Diamond, Lesley T. Lancaster, Nikki Moore, Jerrome Murienne, Brunno Oliveira, Malin Pinsky, Jonathan Rolland, Madeleine Rubenstein, Brett Scheffers, Laura Thompson, Brit van Amerom, Fabricio Villalobos, Sarah Weiskopf, Jennifer Sunday

Nature Reviews, Earth & Environment

2024

Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine

Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Andrea Brown, Kate Sheridan, Tiana Peller, Jake Lawlor , Julien Beaulieu, Jenny Muñoz, Amelia Hesketh, Alexix Pereira, Nicole Knight, Ellen Bledsoe, Joseph B. Burant, Laura Super, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Kylla Benes

Ecosphere

2024

Bringing traits back into the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution

Lise Comte, Romain Bertrand, Sarah Diamond, Lesley T. Lancaster, Malin L. Pinsky, Brett R. Scheffers, Joseph A. Baecher, R.M.W.J. Bandara, I-Ching Chen, Jake A. Lawlor, Nikki A. Moore, Brunno F. Oliveira, Jerrome Murienne, Jonathan Rolland, Madeleine A. Rubenstein, Jennifer Sunday, Laura M. Thompson, Frabricio Villalobos, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Jonathan Lenoir

Global Change Biology

2023

Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science

Benjamin S. Halpern, Carl Boettiger, Michael C. Dietze, Jessica A. Gephart, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy B. Grimm, Peter M. Groffman, Jessica Gurevitch, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Kristy J. Kroeker, Heather J. Lahr, David M. Lodge, Christopher J. Lortie, Julie S. S. Lowndes, Fiorenza Micheli, Hugh P. Possingham, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Courtney Scarborough, Chelsea L. Wood, Grace C. Wu ... Jake Lawlor ... (127 coauthors total)

Ecosphere

2022

Ten Simple Rules for Teaching Yourself R

Jake Lawlor, Francis Banville, Norma-Rocio Forero-Muñoz, Katherine Hébert, Juan Andrés Martínez-Lanfranco, Pierre Rogy, A.Andrew M. MacDonald

PLOS Computational Biology

2020

Temperature and salinity, not acidification, predict near-future larval growth and larval habitat suitability of Olympia oysters in the Salish Sea.

Jake Lawlor, Shawn Arellano

Scientific Reports

my publications

research items

Global patterns predict local biodiversity shifts in a climate change hotspot

Dispersal rate limits range expansion rate only when it is slower than climate velocity

Historical subtidal regime shifts echoed in adjacent intertidal community

Genetic diversity impacts climate-induced species range shifts

Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches

Power Analysis For Detecting Richness Change

Don’t miss the forest for the trees: how abstracting nature can get us closer to our goals

Interactive effects of predation and climate on the distributions of marine shellfish in the Northwest Atlantic

Mechanisms, detections, and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine

Bringing traits back into the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution

Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science

Ten Simple Rules for Teaching Yourself R

Temperature and salinity, not acidification, predict near-future larval growth and larval habitat suitability of Olympia oysters in the Salish Sea.

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