Publications

Gutgesell, M., McCann, K.S., O’Connor, R., Krishna Bahadur, K.C., Fraser, E.D.G., Moore, J.C., McMeans, B., Donohue, I., Bieg, C., Ward, C., Pauli, B., Scott, A., Gillam, W., Gedalof, Z., Hanner, R.H., Tunney, T. & Rooney, N. (2024) The productivity-stability trade-off in global food systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Online early. Full version available at  https://rdcu.be/dSOQh.

MacDougall, A.S., Esch, E., Chen, Q., Ohlert, T., Carroll, O., Bonner, C., Siewert, M., Schweiger, A., Sulik, J., Borer., E., Naidu, D., Bagchi, S., Hautier, Y., Wilfahrt, P., Larson, K., Olofsson, J., Cleland, E., Muthukrishnan, R., O'Halloran, L., Alberti, J., Anderson, T.M., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.D., Barrio, I.C., Biederman, L., Boughton, E.H., Brudvig, L., Bruschetti, M., Buckley, Y.M., Bugalho, M.N., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Catford, J.A., D'Antonio, C., Davies, K., Daleo, P., Dickman, C.R., Donohue, I., Elgersma, K., Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Estrada, C., Fay, P.A., Feng, Y., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Haider, S., Harpole, W.S., Hersch-Green, E., Jentsch, A., Kirkman, K., Knops, J.M.H., Laanisto, L., Lannes, L.S., Laungani, R., Lkhagva, A., Macek, P., Martina, J.P., McCulley, R.L., Melbourne, B., Mitchell, R., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Muraina, T.O., Niu, Y., Pärtel, M., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Price, J.N., Prober, S.M., Ren, Z., Risch, A.C., Smith, N., Sonnier, G., Standish, R.J., Stevens, C.J., Tedder, M., Tognetti, P., Veen, C.G.F., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G.M., Waring, E., Wolf, A.A., Yahdjian, L. & Seabloom, E.W. (2024) Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Online early. Full version available at  https://rdcu.be/dSOQh.

White, L., O'Connor, N.E., Gilson, A. & Donohue, I. (2024) Species contributions to ecosystem stability change with disturbance type. Oikos 7: e10077.

Kunze, C., Bahlburg, D., Urrutia-Cordero, P., Striebel, M., Kelpsiene, E., Langenheder, S., Donohue, I. & Hillebrand, H. (2024) Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities. Ecological Monographs. Online Early.

Chen, Q., Wang, S., Seabloom, E.W., Isbell, F., Borer, E.T., Bakker, J.D., Bharath, S., Roscher, C., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Donohue, I., Stevens, C., Ebeling, A., Nogueira, C., Caldeira, M.C., MacDougall, A.S., Moore, J.L., Bagchi, S., Jentsch, A., Tedder, M., Kirkman, K., Alberti, J. & Hautier, Y. (2024) Changes in functional trait diversity mediate the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability. Journal of Ecology 112: 2598-2612.

Morton, J.A., Arnillas, C.A., Biedermann, L., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Buckley, Y.M., Cadotte, M., Davies, K., Donohue, I., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Estrada, C., Haider, S., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Martinson, H., McCulley, R.L., Raynaud, X., Roscher, C., Seabloom, E.W., Stevens, C.J., Vesela, K., Wallace, A., Leitch, I.J., Leitch, A.R. & Hersch-Green, E.I. (2024) Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilization in diverse grassland communities. PLoS Biology. Online Early.

Arnoldi, J-F., Bortoluzzi, J.R., Rowland, H., Harrod, C., Parnell, A., Payne, N., Donohue, I. & Jackson, A.L. (2024) How strongly does diet variation explain variation in isotope values of animal consumers? PLoS ONE 19: e0301900.

Ross, S.R.P-J., Friedman, N.R., Dudley, K.L., Yoshida, T., Yoshimura, M., Economo, E.P., Armitage, D.W. & Donohue, I. (2024) Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring. Global Change Biology 30: e17067.

Gorman, C.E., Martini, F., Conroy, K., King, E., McLeod, R., Obst, C., Stout, J.C., Donohue, I. & Buckley, Y.M. (2024) A decision methodology for site-level ecosystem accounting. Journal of Environmental Management 366: 121814.

Gorman, C.E., McClean, D. & Donohue, I. (2024) Water level fluctuations and nutrient enrichment interact to alter ecosystem structure in distinct ways at different water depths. Freshwater Biology 69: 416-424.

Donohue, I., Coscieme, L., Gellner, G., Yang, Q., Jackson, A.L., Kubiszewski, I., Costanza, R. & McCann, K.S. (2023) Accelerated economic recovery in countries powered by renewables. Ecological Economics 212: 107916.

Chen, Q., Wang, S., Borer, E.T., Bakker, J.D., Seabloom, E.W., Harpole, W.S., Eisenhauer, N., Lekberg, Y., Buckley, Y.M., Catford, J.A., Roscher, C., Donohue, I., Power, S.A., Daleo, P., Ebeling, A., Knops, J.M.H., Martina, J.P., Eskelinen, A., Morgan, J.W., Risch, A.C., Caldeira, M.C., Bugalho, M.N., Virtanen, R., Barrio, I.C., Niu, Y., Jentsch, A., Stevens, C.J., Gruner, D.S., MacDougall, A.S., Alberti J. & Hautier, Y. (2023) Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication. Nature Communications 14: 6375.

Kass, J.M., Yoshimura, M., Ogasawara, M., Suwabe, M., Garcia, F.H., Fischer, G., Dudley, K.L., Donohue, I. & Economo, E.P. (2023) Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of sub-tropical ant communities with land-cover change. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 290: 20231185.

Daleo, P., Alberti, J., Chaneton, E.J., Iribarne, O., Tognetti, P.M., Bakker, J.D., Borer, E.T., Bruschetti, M., MacDougall, A.S., Pascual, J., Sankaran, M., Seabloom, E.W., Wang, S., Bagchi, S., Brudvig, L.A., Catford, J.A., Dickman, C.R., Dickson, T.L., Donohue, I., Eisenhauer, N., Gruner, D.S., Haider, S., Jentsch, A., Knops, J.M.H., Lekberg, Y., McCulley, R.L., Moore, J.L., Mortensen, B., Ohlert, T., Pärtel, M., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Risch, A.C., Rocca, C., Smith, N.G., Stevens, C., Tamme, R., Veen, G.F., Wilfahrt, P.A. & Hautier, Y. (2023) Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of biodiversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass. Nature Communications 14: 1809.

Gorman, C.E., Torsney, A., Gaughran, A., McKeon, C., Farrell, C., White, C., Donohue, I., Stout, J.C. & Buckley, Y.M. (2023) Reconciling climate action with the need for biodiversity protection, restoration and rehabilitation. Science of the Total Environment 857: 159316.

Coscieme, L., Ochieng, C.A., Spillane, C. & Donohue, I. (2023) Measuring policy coherence on global access to clean energy between European countries. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 28: 23.

Wilfahrt, P.A., Seabloom, E.W., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L., Bugalho, M.N., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Catford, J.A., Chen, Q., Donohue, I., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Haider, S., Heckman, R.W., Jentsch, A., Koerner, S.E., Komatsu, K.J., Laungani, R., MacDougall, A., Martina, J.P., Martinson, H., Moore, J.M., Niu, Y., Ohlert, T., Olde Venterink, H., Orr, D., Peri, P., Pos, E., Price, J., Raynaud, X., Ren, Z., Roscher, C.,Smith, N.G., Stevens, C.J., Sullivan, L.L., Tedder, M., Tognetti, P., Veen, C., Wheeler, G., Young, A.L., Young, H. & Borer, E.T. (2023) Nothing lasts forever: dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology 111: 2472-2482.

Bakker, J.D., Price, J.N., Henning, J.A., Batzer, E.E., Ohlert, T.J., Wainwright, C.E., Adler, P.B., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C.A., Biederman, L.A., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Buckley, Y.M., Bugalho, M.N., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Catford, J.A., Chen, Q., Crawley, M.J., Daleo, P., Dickman, C.R., Donohue, I., DuPre, M.E., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fay, P.A., Gruner, D.S., Haider, S., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Kirkman, K., Knops, J.M.H., Lannes, L.S., MacDougall, A.S., McCulley, R.L., Mitchell, R.M., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Mortensen, B., Olde Venterink, H., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Prober, S.M., Roscher, C., Sankaran, M., Seabloom, E.W., Smith, M. D., Stevens, C., Sullivan, L.L., Tedder, M., Veen, G.F., Virtanen, R. & Wardle, G.M. (2023). Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere 14: e4542.

Gibbons, A., Donohue, I., Gorman, C.E., King, E. & Parnell, A. (2023) NEAL: An open-source tool for audio annotation. PeerJ 11: e15913

Keith, D., Ferrer-Paris, J., Nicholson, E., Bishop, M., Polidoro, B., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Tozer, M., Nel, J., MacNally, R., Gregr, E., Watermeyer, K., Essl, F., Faber-Langendoen, D., Franklin, J., Lehmann, C., Etter, A., Roux, D., Stark, J., Rowland, J., Brummitt, N., Fernandez-Arcaya, U., Suthers, I., Wiser, S., Donohue, I., Jackson, L., Pennington, R.T., Pettorelli, N., Andrade, A., Lindgaard, A., Tahvanainen, T., Terauds, A., Iliffe, T., Gerovasileiou, V., Chadwick, M., Murray, N., Moat, J., Pliscoff, P., Zager, I., Kingsford, R., Giller, P. & Robson, B. (2022) A function-based typology of Earth's ecosystems. Nature 610: 513-518.

Ladouceur, E., Blowes, S.A., Chase, J.M., Clark, A.T., Garbowski, M., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.D., Barrio, I.C., Bharath, S., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Cadotte, M.W., Chen, Q., Collins, S.L., Dickman, C.R., Donohue, I., Du, G., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fay, P.A., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Komatsu, K., MacDougall, A., Martina, J.P., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Ren, Z., Risch, A.C., Roscher, C., Schuchardt, M.A., Seabloom, E.W., Stevens, C.J., Veen, G.F., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G.W., Wilfahrt, P.A. & Harpole, W.S. (2022) Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters 25: 2699-2712.

Price, J.N., Sitters, J., Ohlert, T., Tognetti, P., Brown, C.S., Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Prober, S.M., Bakker, E.S., MacDougall, A.S., Yahdjian, L., Gruner, D.S., Olde Venterink, H., Barrio, I.C., Graff, P., Bagchi, S., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.D., Blumenthal, D.M., Boughton, E.H., Brudvig, L.A., Bugalho, M.N., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Dickman, C.R., Donohue, I., Grégory, S., Hautier, Y., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Lannes, L.S., McCulley, R.L., Moore, J.L., Power, S.A., Risch, A.C., Schultz, M., Standish, R., Stevens, C.J., Veen, G.F., Virtanen, R. & Wardle, G.M. (2022) Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6: 1290–1298.

Kunze, C., Luijckx, P., Jackson, A.L. & Donohue, I. (2022) Alternate patterns of temperature variation bring about very different disease outcomes at different mean temperatures. eLife 11: e72861.

Chen, Q., Wang, S., Borer, E.T., MacDougall, A.S., Seabloom, E.W., Donohue, I., Bakker, J.D., Knops, J.M.H., Morgan, J., Carroll, O., Crawley, M., Bugalho, M.N., Power, S.A., Eskelinen, A., Virtanen, R., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Stevens, C., Caldeira, M.C., Alberti, J. & Hautier, Y. (2022) Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways. Global Change Biology 28: 2678-2688.

Ross, S.R.P-J., García Molinos, J., Okuda, A., Johnstone, J., Atsumi, K., Futamura, R., Williams, M.A., Matsuoka Y., Uchida, J., Kumikawa, S., Sugiyama, H., Kishida, O. & Donohue, I. (2022) Predators mitigate the destabilising effects of heatwaves on multitrophic stream communities. Global Change Biology 28: 403-416.

Urrutia Cordero, P, Langenheder, S., Striebel, M., Angeler, D., Bertilsson, S., Eklov, P., Hansson, L.-A., Kelpsiene, E., Laudon, H., Lundgren, M., Parkefelt, L., Donohue, I. & Hillebrand, H. (2022) Integrating multiple dimensions of ecological stability into a vulnerability framework. Journal of Ecology 110: 374-386.

McKeon, C.M., Finn, A., Long, M.P., Donohue, I. & Buckley, Y.M. (2022) Twin pressures of intensification and abandonment negatively impact grassland biodiversity in The Burren. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 122B: 123-136.

Radujković, D., Verbruggen, E., Seabloom, E.W., Bahn, M., Biederman, L.A., Borer, E.T., Boughton, E.H., Catford, J.A., Campioli, M., Donohue, I., Ebeling, A., Eskelinen, A., Fay, P.A., Hansart, A., Knops, J.M.H., MacDougall, A.S., Ohlert, T., Venterink, H.O., Raynaud, X., Risch, A.C., Roscher, C., Schütz, M., Silveira, M.L., Stevens, C.J., Van Sundert, K., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G.W., Wragg, P.D. & Vicca, S. (2021) Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: have we overlooked micronutrients? Ecology Letters 24: 2713-2725.

Ross, S.R.P-J., Arnoldi, J.F., Loreau, M., White, C.D., Stout, J.C., Jackson, A.L. & Donohue, I. (2021) Universal scaling of robustness of ecosystem services to species loss. Nature Communications 2: 5167. Full text available at: https://rdcu.be/cwdfp.

Hillebrand, H., Donohue, I., Harpole, W.S., Hodapp, D., Kucera, M., Lewandowska, A.M., Merder, J., Montoya, J.M. & Freund, J.A. (2021) Reply to: Empirical pressure-response relations can benefit assessment of safe operating spaces. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Full text available at https://rdcu.be/clSnI

Arnillas, C.A., Borer, B., Seabloom, E., Alberti, J., Baez, S., Bakker, J., Boughton, E., Buckley, Y., Bugalho, M., Donohue, I., Dwyer , J., Firn, J., Gridzak, R., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Helm, A., Jentsch, A., Knops, J.M.H., Komatsu, K., Laanisto, L., Laungani, R., McCulley, R., Moore, J., Morgan, J., Peri, P., Power, S., Price, J., Sankaran, M., Schamp, B., Speziale, K., Standish, R., Virtanen, R. & Cadotte, M. (2021) Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and non-dominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally. Ecology and Evolution 11: 17744-17761.

Harding, L., Jackson, A.L., Barnett, A., Donohue, I., Halsey, L., Huveneers, C., Meyer, C., Papastamatiou, Y., Semmens, J., Spencer, E., Watanabe, Y., Payne, N. (2021) Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche. Functional Ecology 35: 1951-1959.

Clark, A.T., Arnoldi, J-F., Zelnik, Y.R., Barabas, G., Hodapp, D., Karakoç, C., König, S., Radchuk, V., Donohue, I., Huth, A., Jacquet, C., de Mazancourt, C., Mentges, A., Shoemaker, L.G., Taubert, F., Wiegand, T., Wang, S., Chase, J.M., Loreau, M. & Harpole, W.S. (2021) General statistical scaling laws for stability in ecological systems. Ecology Letters 24: 1474-1486.

Coscieme, L., Mortensen, L.F. & Donohue, I. (2021) Enhance environmental policy coherence to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production 296: 126502.

Van Sundert, K., Arfin Khan, M.A.S., Bharath, S., Buckley, Y.M., Caldeira, M.C., Donohue, I., Dubbert, M., Ebeling, A.,Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Finn, A., Gebauer, T., Haider, S., Hansart, A., Jentsch, A.,Kübert, A., Nijs, I., Nock, C.A., Nogueira, C., Porath-Krause, A.J., Radujković, D., Raynaud, X., Risch, A.C., Roscher, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schuchardt, M.A.,Schütz, M.,Siebert, J., Sitters, J., Spohn, M., Virtanen, R., Werner, C., Wilfahrt, P. & Vicca, S. (2021) Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity. Global Change Biology 27: 2441-2457.

Ross, S.R.P.-J., Friedman, N.R., Yoshimura, M., Yoshida, T., Donohue, I. & Economo, E.P. (2021) Utility of acoustic indices for ecological monitoring in complex sonic environments. Ecological Indicators 121: 107114.

Borer, E.T., Harpole, W.S., Adler, P.B., Arnillas, C.A., Bugalho, M.N., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Campana, S., Dickman, C.R., Dickson, T.L., Donohue, I., Eskelinen, A., Firn, J.L., Graff, P., Gruner, D.S., Heckman, R.W., Koltz, A.M., Komatsu, K.J., Lannes, L.S., MacDougall, A.S., Martina, J.P., Moore, J.L., Mortensen, B., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Olde Venterink, H., Power, S.A., Price, J.N., Risch, A.C., Sankaran, M., Schütz, M., Sitters, J., Stevens, C.J., Virtanen, R., Wilfahrt, P.A. & Seabloom, E.W. (2020) Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications 11: 6036.

White, L., O'Connor, N.E., Yang, Q., Emmerson, M.C. & Donohue, I. (2020) Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1594–1601. Full text available at https://rdcu.be/b8pp9

Hillebrand, H., Donohue, I., Harpole, W.S., Hodapp, D., Kucera, M., Lewandowska, A.M., Merder, J., Montoya, J.M. & Freund, J.A. (2020) Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1502–1509. Full text available at https://rdcu.be/b6jI8
Covered by: The Irish Times, Irish Independent

Shoemaker, L.G., Sullivan, L.L., Donohue, I., Cabral, J.S., Williams, R.J., Mayfield, M.M., Chase, J.M., Chu, C., Harpole, W.S., Huth, A., HilleRisLambers, J., James, A.R.M., Kraft, N.J.B., May, F., Muthukrishnan, R., Satterlee, S., Taubert, F., Wang, X., Wiegand, T., Yang, Q. & Abbott, K.C. (2020) Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology. Ecology 101: e02922.

Williams, M.A., Holland, C.V. & Donohue, I. (2020) Warming can alter host behavior in a similar manner to infection with behavior-manipulating parasites. Oecologia 194: 65–74. Full text available at https://rdcu.be/b6H06

Coscieme, L., Mortensen, L.F., Anderson, S., Ward, J., Donohue, I. & Sutton, P.C. (2020) Going beyond Gross Domestic Product as an indicator to bring coherence to the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production 248: 119232.

Yang, Q., Fowler, M.S., Jackson, A.L. & Donohue, I. (2019) The predictability of ecological stability in a noisy world. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 251-259. Full-text available at https://rdcu.be/bi0Uq

Pimm, S.L., Donohue, I., Montoya, J.M. & Loreau, M. (2019) Measuring resilience is essential to understand it. Nature Sustainability 2: 895-897. Full-text available at https://rdcu.be/bTN0E

Kéfi, S., Dominguez-Garcia, V., Donohue, I., Fontaine, C. Thébault, E. & Dakos, V. (2019) Advancing our understanding of ecological stability. Ecology Letters 22: 1349-1356.

McClean, D., Friman, V-P., Finn, A., Salzberg, L.I. & Donohue, I. (2019) Coping with multiple enemies: pairwise interactions do not predict evolutionary change in complex multitrophic communities. Oikos 128: 1588-1599.

Williams, M.A., Donohue, I., Picard, J., O'Keeffe, F. & Holland, C.V. (2019) Infection with behaviour-manipulating parasites enhances bioturbation by key aquatic detritivores. Parasitology 146: 1528-1531.

White, L., Donohue, I., Emmerson, M.C. & O’Connor, N.E. (2018) Combined effects of warming and nutrients on marine systems are moderated by predators and vary across functional groups. Global Change Biology 24: 5853-5866.

Montoya, J. M., Donohue, I. & Pimm, S.L. (2018) Why a planetary boundary, if it is not planetary, and the boundary is undefined? A reply to Rockström et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 234.

Montoya, J. M., Donohue, I. & Pimm, S.L. (2018) Planetary boundaries for biodiversity: implausible science, pernicious policies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 71-73.
Covered by: The Guardian, New Scientist, and National Geographic.

Penk, M.R., Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2018) Temporally variable niche overlap and competitive potential of an introduced and a native mysid shrimp. Hydrobiologia 823: 109-119.

Kordas, R.L., Donohue, I. & Harley, C.D.G. (2017) Herbivory enables marine communities to resist warming. Science Advances 3: e1701349.
Covered by: National Geographic, The Huffington Post and AoL.

Donohue, I., Petchey, O.L., Kéfi, S., Génin, A., Jackson, A.L., Yang, Q. & O'Connor, N.E. (2017) Loss of predator species, not intermediate consumers, triggers rapid and dramatic extinction cascades. Global Change Biology 23: 2962-2972.

Penk, M., Saul, W.-C., Dick, J., Donohue, I., Alexander, M., Linzmaier, S. & Jeschke, J. (2017) A trophic interaction framework for identifying the invasive capacity of novel organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 1786-1794.
**Highlighted in the Ecological Society of America and British Ecological Society Joint Special Issue on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Abila, R. et al. (2016) Oil extraction imperils Africa's Great Lakes. Science 354: 561-562.

Donohue, I., Hillebrand, H., Montoya, J.M., Petchey, O.L., Pimm, S.L., Fowler, M.S., Healy, K., Jackson, A.L., Lurgi, M., McClean, D., O'Connor, N.E., O'Gorman, E.J. & Yang, Q. (2016) Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. Ecology Letters 19: 1072-1085.
***This paper was awarded the 2017 Innovation in Sustainability Science Award by the Ecological Society of America***

Jackson, M.C., Grey, J., Miller, K., Britton, J.R. & Donohue, I. (2016) Dietary niche constriction when invaders meet natives: evidence from freshwater decapods. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 1098-1107.

Mrowicki, R.J., O'Connor, N.E. & Donohue, I. (2016) Temporal variability of a single population can determine the vulnerability of communities to perturbations. Journal of Ecology 104: 887-897.

Penk, M.R., Jeschke, J.M., Minchin, D. & Donohue, I. (2016) Warming can enhance invasion success through asymmetries in energetic performance. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 419–426.
**Highlighted in the Journal of Ecology Virtual Issue on Invasive Species

Penk, M.R., Donohue, I., Minchin, D. & Irvine, K. (2016) Life history timing, but not body size, of Mysis salemaai (Crustacea: Mysida) conserved across a trophic gradient at its southern distribution. Hydrobiologia 775: 83-95.

Evtimova, V.V. & Donohue, I. (2016) Water level fluctuations regulate the structure and functioning of natural lakes. Freshwater Biology 61: 251-264.

Wynne, C., Tierney, D., & Donohue, I. (2016) Predicting lake alkalinity and depth for classifying Irish lakes under the EU Water Framework Directive typology. Biology and Environment 116B: 179-189.

McClean, D., McNally, L., Salzberg, L.L., Devine, K.M., Brown, S.P. & Donohue, I. (2015) Single gene locus changes perturb complex microbial communities as much as apex predator loss. Nature Communications 6: 8235.
A nice blog post on this paper:
http://scienceline.org/2016/01/allele-vs-predator/

Penk, M., Irvine, K. & Donohue, I. (2015) Ecosystem-level effects of a globally-spreading invertebrate invader are not moderated by a functionally similar native. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1628-1636

O’Connor, N.E., Bracken, M.E.S., Crowe, T.P. & Donohue, I. (2015) Nutrient enrichment alters the consequences of species loss. Journal of Ecology 103: 862-870

García-Molinos, J., Viana, M., Brennan, M. & Donohue, I. (2015) Importance of long-term cycles for predicting water level dynamics in natural lakes. PLoS One 10: e0119253

Penk, M., Donohue, I., Récoules, V. & Irvine, K. (2015) Elevated temperatures interact with habitat quality to undermine survival of ectotherms in climatic refugia. Diversity and Distributions 21: 200-210

Evtimova, V.V. & Donohue, I. (2014) Quantifying ecological responses to amplified water level fluctuations in standing waters: an experimental approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 51: 1282-1291

Healy, K. Finlay, S., Guillerme, T., Kane, A., Kelly, S.B.A., McClean, D., Kelly, D.J., Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L. & Cooper, N. (2014) Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 281: 20140298.

García-Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2014) Downscaling the non-stationary effect of climate forcing on local-scale dynamics: the importance of environmental filters. Climatic Change 124: 333-346

Donohue, I., Petchey, O.L., Montoya, J.M., Jackson, A.L., McNally, L., Viana, M., Healy, K., Lurgi, M., O’Connor, N.E. & Emmerson, M.C. (2013) On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters 16: 421–429

O'Connor, N.E., Emmerson, M.C., Crowe, T.P. & Donohue, I. (2013) Distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of predators in complex ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 438-448
**Highlighted in the Journal of Animal Ecology Virtual Issue on Food Webs

O'Connor, N.E. & Donohue, I. (2013) Environmental context determines the multi-trophic effects of consumer species loss. Global Change Biology 19: 431-440

Jackson, M.C., Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L., Britton, J.R., Harper, D.M. & Grey, J. (2012) Population-level metrics of trophic structure based on stable isotopes and their application using invasion ecology. PLoS One 7: e31757

O'Connor, N.E., Donohue, I., Crowe, T.P. & Emmerson, M.C. (2011) Importance of consumers on exposed and sheltered rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 443: 65-75

García-Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2011) Temporal variability within disturbance events regulates their effects on natural communities. Oecologia 166: 795-806

O'Reilly, J., Léon Vintró, L., Mitchell, P.I., Donohue, I., Leira, M., Hobbs, W. & Irvine, K. (2011) 210Pb-dating of a lake sediment core from Lough Carra (Co. Mayo, western Ireland): use of paleolimnological data for chronology validation below the 210Pb dating horizon. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 102: 495-499

Donohue, I., Leira, M., Hobbs, W., León-Vintró, L., O’Reilly, J. & Irvine, K. (2010) Rapid ecosystem recovery from diffuse pollution after the Great Irish Famine. Ecological Applications 20: 1733-1743.

García-Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2010) Interactions among temporal patterns determine the effects of multiple stressors. Ecological Applications 20: 1794-1800

Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L., Pusch, M.T. & Irvine, K. (2009) Nutrient enrichment homogenizes lake benthic assemblages at local and regional scales. Ecology 90: 3470-3477

Donohue, I. & García-Molinos, J. (2009) Impacts of increased sediment loads on the ecology of lakes. Biological Reviews 84: 517-531

Donohue, I., Donohue, L.A., Ní Ainín, B. & Irvine, K. (2009) Assessment of eutrophication pressure on lakes using littoral invertebrates. Hydrobiologia 633: 105-122

García Molinos, J. & Donohue, I. (2009) Differential contribution of concentration and exposure time to sediment dose effects on stream biota. Freshwater Science 28: 110-121

Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2008) Quantifying variability within water samples: The need for adequate subsampling. Water Research 42: 476-482

O'Toole, C., Donohue, I., Moe, J. & Irvine, K. (2008) Nutrient optima and tolerances of benthic invertebrates, the effects of taxonomic resolution and testing of selected metrics in lakes using an extensive European data base. Aquatic Ecology 42: 277-291

McCarthy, V., Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2006) Field evidence for stoichiometric relationships between zooplankton and N and P availability in a shallow calcareous lake. Freshwater Biology 51: 1589-1604

Donohue, I., McGarrigle, M. & Mills, P. (2006) Linking catchment characteristics and water chemistry with the ecological status of Irish rivers. Water Research 40: 91-98

Solimini, A.G., Free, G., Donohue, I., Irvine, K., Push, M., Rossaro, B., Sandin, L. & Cardoso, A.C. (2006) Using benthic macroinvertebrates to assess ecological status of lakes: current knowledge and way forward to support WFD implementation. EUR 22347 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg

Styles, D. Donohue, I., Coxon, C.E. & Irvine, K. (2006) Linking soil phosphorus to water quality in the Mask Catchment of western Ireland through the analysis of moist soil samples. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 112: 300-312

Donohue, I., Styles, D. Coxon, C.E. & Irvine K. (2005) Importance of spatial and temporal patterns for assessment of risk of diffuse emissions to surface waters. Journal of Hydrology 304: 183-192

Hobbs, W., Irvine, K. & Donohue, I. (2005) Using sediments to assess the resistance of a calcareous lake to diffuse nutrient loading. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 164: 109-125

Venohr, M., Donohue, I., Fogelberg, S., Arheimer, B., Irvine, K. & Behrendt, H. (2005) Nitrogen retention in a river system and the effects of river morphology and lakes. Water Science and Technology 51: 19-29

Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2004) Seasonal patterns of sediment loading and benthic invertebrate community dynamics in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Freshwater Biology 49: 320-331

Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2004) Size-specific effects of increased sediment loads on gastropod communities in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Hydrobiologia 522: 337-342

Donohue, I., Verheyen, E. & Irvine, K. (2003) In-situ experiments on the effects of increased sediment loads on littoral rocky shore communities in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Freshwater Biology 48: 1603-1616

Donohue, I. & Irvine, K. (2003) Effects of sediment particle size composition on survivorship of benthic invertebrates from Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 157: 131-144

Donohue, I., Duck, R.W. & Irvine, K. (2003) Land use, sediment loads and dispersal pathways from two catchments at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, Africa: implications for lake management. Environmental Geology 44: 448-455