Explore each of the sub-tabs to learn more about my research on fragmentation and management impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, invasive plants and soil food webs, and ecosystem linkages and aboveground-belowground food webs.
Publications
McCary, M.A., and O.J. Schmitz. Accepted. Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: insights from a global meta-analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology.
McCary, M.A., R.D. Jackson, and C. Gratton. In press. Vegetation structure modulates ecosystem and community responses to spatial subsidies. Ecosphere DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3483.
McCary, M.A.*, J.S. Phillips*, T. Ramiadantsoa, L.A. Nell, A.R. McCormick, and J.C. Botsch. 2021. Transient top-down and bottom-up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels. Ecology 102: e03197. * equal contribution
Hoekman, D., M.A. McCary, J. Dryer, and C. Gratton. 2019. Reducing allochthonous resources in a subarctic grassland alters arthropod food webs via predator diet and density. Ecosphere 10: e02593.
McCary, M.A., and D.H. Wise. 2019. Plant invader alters soil food web via changes to fungal resources. Oecologia 191: 587-599.
McCary, M.A., M. Zellner, and D.H. Wise. 2019. The role of plant-mycorrhizal mutualisms in deterring plant invasions: Insights from an individual-based model. Ecology and Evolution 9: 2018-2030.
McCary, M.A., E. Minor, and D.H. Wise. 2018. Covariation between local and landscape factors influences the structure of ground-active arthropod communities in fragmented metropolitan woodlands. Landscape Ecology 33: 225-239.
McCary, M.A., R. Mores, M. Farfan, and D.H. Wise. 2016. Invasive plants have different effects on trophic structure of green and brown food webs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 19: 328-335.
McCary, M.A., J.C. Martinez, L. Umek, L. Heneghan, and D.H. Wise. 2015. Effects of woodland restoration and management on the community of surface-active arthropods in the metropolitan Chicago region. Biological Conservation 190: 154-166.
McCary, M.A., R.D. Jackson, and C. Gratton. In press. Vegetation structure modulates ecosystem and community responses to spatial subsidies. Ecosphere DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3483.
McCary, M.A.*, J.S. Phillips*, T. Ramiadantsoa, L.A. Nell, A.R. McCormick, and J.C. Botsch. 2021. Transient top-down and bottom-up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels. Ecology 102: e03197. * equal contribution
Hoekman, D., M.A. McCary, J. Dryer, and C. Gratton. 2019. Reducing allochthonous resources in a subarctic grassland alters arthropod food webs via predator diet and density. Ecosphere 10: e02593.
McCary, M.A., and D.H. Wise. 2019. Plant invader alters soil food web via changes to fungal resources. Oecologia 191: 587-599.
McCary, M.A., M. Zellner, and D.H. Wise. 2019. The role of plant-mycorrhizal mutualisms in deterring plant invasions: Insights from an individual-based model. Ecology and Evolution 9: 2018-2030.
McCary, M.A., E. Minor, and D.H. Wise. 2018. Covariation between local and landscape factors influences the structure of ground-active arthropod communities in fragmented metropolitan woodlands. Landscape Ecology 33: 225-239.
McCary, M.A., R. Mores, M. Farfan, and D.H. Wise. 2016. Invasive plants have different effects on trophic structure of green and brown food webs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 19: 328-335.
McCary, M.A., J.C. Martinez, L. Umek, L. Heneghan, and D.H. Wise. 2015. Effects of woodland restoration and management on the community of surface-active arthropods in the metropolitan Chicago region. Biological Conservation 190: 154-166.
