Michelle Jackson
Ernest Cook Fellow & Tutor in Ecology; Associate Professor of Freshwater/Marine Ecology
I am a Professor of Freshwater Ecology in the Department of Zoology, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville.
My main research interest lies in understanding individual-to-ecosystem level responses to environmental change, including warming, invasion, pollution and habitat loss. I am particularly interested in interactions among these stressors, and how stressor effects cascade through food webs with implications for ecosystem processes and services. I use a combination of field studies across both natural and anthropogenic stressor gradients, manipulative experiments and meta-analyses to seek general predictive rules in multiple stressor effects. Most of my research is in freshwater ecosystems, spanning from the Arctic to the tropics.
Publications
Quality over quantity: Trophic cascades in a warming world
April 2021. Journal article. Functional Ecology
The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems
January 2021. Journal article. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Influence of nutrient enrichment on the growth, recruitment and trophic ecology of a highly invasive freshwater fish
December 2020. Journal article. Aquatic Ecology.
Food web properties vary with climate and land use in South African streams
August 2020. Journal article. Functional Ecology.
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.
May 2020. Journal article. Proc Biol Sci
Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management
May 2020. Journal article. Biological Invasions
Using stable isotope analysis to answer fundamental questions in invasion ecology: Progress and prospects
February 2020. Journal article. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Bending the rules: exploitation of allochthonous resources by a top-predator modifies size-abundance scaling in stream food webs.
December 2018. Journal article. Ecology letters