UMass Boston

Marine Ecology; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function; Climate Change Ecology; Kelp Forest Ecology; Living Seawalls

PhD, UC Davis, 2008 (Population Biology)

BS, Brown University, 2001 (Biology)

Wilkes, L. N., Barner, A. K., Keyes, A. A., Morton, D., Byrnes, J. E. K., & Dee, L. E. 2024. Quantifying co-extinctions and ecosystem service vulnerability in coastal ecosystems experiencing climate warming. Global Change Biology. 30, e17422. [link]

Suskiewicz, T. S., J. E. K. Byrnes, R. S. Steneck, R. Russell, C. J. Wilson, and D. B. Rasher. 2024. Ocean warming undermines the recovery resilience of New England kelp forests following a fishery-induced trophic cascade. Ecology:e4334. [link]

Rosenthal, I. S., M. N. Simon, L. Trouille, and J. E. K. Byrnes. 2024. A citizen science approach to teaching climate change in introductory-level undergraduate general science courses. Journal of Geoscience Education 0:1–12. [link]

Byrnes, J. E. K., A. Brown, K. Sheridan, T. Peller, J. Lawlor, J. Beaulieu, J. Muñoz, A. Hesketh, A. Pereira, N. S. Knight, L. Super, E. K. Bledsoe, J. B. Burant, J. A. Dijkstra, and K. Benes. 2024. Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine. Ecosphere 15:e4800. [link]

2023

Roy, M. S., J. E. K. Byrnes, and G. Mavrommati. 2023. Mitigation policies buffer multiple climate stressors in a socio-ecological salt marsh habitat. Sustainability Science. [link]

Shaughnessy, B.K., Jackson, B., Byrnes, J.E.K. 2023. Evidence of elevated heavy metals concentrations in wild and farmed sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) in New England. Scientific Reports. 17644. [link]

McClain, C. R., S. R. D. Bryant, G. Hanks, and J. Byrnes. 2023. Disentangling mechanisms of species–energy relationships in experimental deep-sea wood falls. Ecosphere 14:e4667. [link]

Dee, L. E., P. J. Ferraro, C. N. Severen, K. A. Kimmel, E. T. Borer, J. E. K. Byrnes, A. T. Clark, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, X. Raynaud, P. B. Reich, A. J. Wright, C. A. Arnillas, K. F. Davies, A. MacDougall, A. S. Mori, M. D. Smith, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, K. A. Brauman, J. Cowles, K. Komatsu, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, T. Ohlert, S. A. Power, L. L. Sullivan, C. Stevens, and M. Loreau. 2023. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference. Nature Communications 14:2607. [link]

Eger, A. M., E. M. Marzinelli, R. Beas-Luna, C. O. Blain, L. K. Blamey, J. E. K. Byrnes, P. E. Carnell, C. G. Choi, M. Hessing-Lewis, K. Y. Kim, N. H. Kumagai, J. Lorda, P. Moore, Y. Nakamura, A. Pérez-Matus, O. Pontier, D. Smale, P. D. Steinberg, and A. Vergés. 2023. The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests. Nature Communications. 14:1894. [link]

2022

Byrnes, J. E. K., F. Roger, and R. Bagchi. 2022. Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers. Oikos: e09402. [pdf]

Filbee-Dexter, K., Feehan, C. J., Smale, D. A., Krumhansl, K. A., Augustine, S., Bettignies, F. de, Burrows, M. T., Byrnes, J. E. K., Campbell, J., Davoult, D., Dunton, K. H., Franco, J. N., Garrido, I., Grace, S. P., Hancke, K., Johnson, L. E., Konar, B., Moore, P. J., Norderhaug, K. M., O’Dell, A., Pedersen, M. F., Salomon, A. K., Sousa-Pinto, I., Tiegs, S., Yiu, D. and Wernberg, T. 2022. Kelp carbon sink potential decreases with warming due to accelerating decomposition. PLOS Biology 20: e3001702. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001702

Ganley, L. C., Byrnes, J.E.K., Pendleton, D. E., Mayo, C. A., Friedland, K. D., Redfern, J. V., Turner, J. T. and Brault, S. 2022. Effects of changing temperature phenology on the abundance of a critically endangered baleen whale. Global Ecology and Conservation 38: e02193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02193

Houskeeper H.F., Rosenthal I.S., Cavanaugh K.C., Pawlak C., Trouille L., Byrnes J.E.K., Bell, T.W., and Cavanaugh, K.C.. 2022. Automated satellite remote sensing of giant kelp at the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). PLoS ONE 17(1): e0257933. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257933

2021

Hensel, M.J., Silliman, B.R., Hensel, E. and Byrnes, J.E.K. 2021. Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript e03572. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3572

Hensel, M. J. S., B. R. Silliman, J. van de Koppel, E. Hensel, S. J. Sharp, S. M. Crotty, and J. E. K. Byrnes. 2021. A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions. Nature Communications 12:6290. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26504-4

O’Connor, M. I., Mori, A S., Gonzalez, A., Dee, L. E., Loreau, M, Avolio, M., Byrnes J. E. K., Cheung, W., Cowles, J., Clark, A. T., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Komatsu, K., Newbold, T., Outhwaite, C. L., Reich, P. B., Seabloom, E., Williams, L., Wright, A. and Isbell, F. 2021. Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks. Proc. R. Soc. B. 2882021078320210783 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0783

Wong R.J., Roy M.S., Byrnes J.E.K. 2021. Sediment selection: range-expanding fiddler crabs are better burrowers than their historic-range counterparts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 674:163-171. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13811

2020

Hautier, Y., Zhang, P., Loreau, M. WIlcox, K..R., Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Byrnes, J.E.K., et al.2020. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales. Nature Communications. 11: 5375 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4

Lyman, T. P., Elsmore, K., Gaylord, B., Byrnes, J. E. K., & Miller, L. P. 2020. Open Wave Height Logger: An open source pressure sensor data logger for wave measurement. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. [doi] [website for logger]

Kirshen, P., Borrelli, M., Byrnes, J., Chen, R., Lockwood, L., Watson, C., Starbuck, K., Wiggin, J., Novelly, A., Uiterwyk, K., Thurson, K., McMann, B., Foster, C., Sprague, H., Roberts, H. J., Bosma, K., Jin, D., & Herst, R. 2020. Integrated assessment of storm surge barrier systems under present and future climates and comparison to alternatives: A case study of Boston, USA. Climatic Change. [link]

2019

Blowes, S. A., S. R. Supp, L. H. Antão, A. Bates, H. Bruelheide, J. M. Chase, F. Moyes, A. Magurran, B. McGill, I. H. Myers-Smith, M. Winter, A. D. Bjorkman, D. E. Bowler, J. E. K. Byrnes, A. Gonzalez, J. Hines, F. Isbell, H. P. Jones, L. M. Navarro, P. L. Thompson, M. Vellend, C. Waldock, and M. Dornelas. 2019. The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages. Science 366:339. [link]

Duffy, J.E., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Trinanes, J.A., Muller-Karger, F.E., Ambo-Rappe, R., Boström, C., Buschmann, A.H., Byrnes, J., Coles, R.G., Creed, J., Cullen-Unsworth, L., Diaz-Pulido, G., Duarte, C.M., Edgar, G.J., Fortes, M.D., Goni, G.J., Hu, C., Huang, X., Hurd, C.L., Konar, B., Krause-Jensen, D., Krumhansl, K., Macreadie, P.I., Marsh, H., McKenzie, L.J., Mieszkowska, N., Miloslavich, P., Montes, E., Nakaoka, M., Norderhaug, K.M., Nordlund, L.M., Orth, R.J., Prathep, A., Putman, N.F., Samper-Villarreal, J., Serrao, E.A., Short, F., Sousa PInto, I., Steinberg, P.D., Stuart-Smith, R., Unsworth, R.K.F., van Keulen, M., Van Tussenbroek, B.I., Wang, M., Waycott, M., Weatherdon, L.V., Wernberg, T., Yaakub, S.M., 2019. Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae. Front. Mar. Sci. 6. [link]

Chase, J.M., McGill, B.J., Thompson, P.L., Antão, L.H., Bates, A.E., Blowes, S.A., Dornelas, M., Gonzalez, A., Magurran, A.E., Supp, S.R., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A.D., Bruelheide, H., Byrnes, J.E.K., Cabral, J.S., Elahi, R., Gomez, C., Guzman, H.M., Isbell, F., Myers‐Smith, I.H., Jones, H.P., Hines, J., Vellend, M., Waldock, C., O’Connor, M., 2019. Species richness change across spatial scales. Oikos. [link]

Chai, F., Xu, W., Musoke, T., Tarabelsi, G., Assaad, S., Freedman, J., Peterson, R., Piotrowska, K., Byrnes, J., Rogers, S., Veraksa, A. 2019. Structure-function analysis of beta-arrestin Kurtz reveals a critical role of receptor interactions in downregulation of GPCR signaling in vivo. Developmental Biology. 455(2):209-419. Developmental Biology, 455(2), 409-419. [link]

2018

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