Affiliations
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Postal address
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Room: B.01.24
Contact details
Email: shane.blowes@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733254
iDiv Publications
Publications 2024
Jurburg, Stephanie D., Blowes, Shane A., Shade, Ashley, Eisenhauer, Nico, Chase, Jonathan M. (2024): Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments. Microbiome
Publications 2023
Dornelas, Maria, Chase, Jonathan M., Gotelli, Nicholas J, Magurran, Anne E, McGill, Brian J, Antão, Laura H., Blowes, Shane A., Daskalova, Gergana N., Leung, Brian, Martins, Inês S., Moyes, Faye, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Thomas, Chris D, Vellend, Mark (2023): Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Hollitzer, Helene A. L., May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A. (2023): A meta-analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age. Ecosphere
Madin, Joshua S., Baird, Andrew H., Connolly, Sean R., Dornelas, Maria A., Álvarez-Noriega, Mariana, McWilliam, Michael J., Barbosa, Miguel, Blowes, Shane A., Cetina-Heredia, Paulina, Christie, Alec P., Cumbo, Vivian R., Diaz, Marcela, Emms, Madeleine A., Graham, Erin, Hansen, Dominique, Hisano, Mizue, Howells, Emily, Kuo, Chao-Yang, Palmer, Caroline, Hong, James Tan Chun, Zhi En Teo, Theophilus, Woods, Rachael M. (2023): Six years of demography data for 11 reef coral species. Ecology
Martins, Inês S., Schrodt, Franziska, Blowes, Shane A., Bates, Amanda E., Bjorkman, Anne D., Brambilla, Viviana, Carvajal-Quintero, Juan, Chow, Cher F. Y., Daskalova, Gergana N., Edwards, Kyle, Eisenhauer, Nico, Field, Richard, Fontrodona-Eslava, Ada, Henn, Jonathan J., van Klink, Roel, Madin, Joshua S., Magurran, Anne E., McWilliam, Michael, Moyes, Faye, Pugh, Brittany, Sagouis, Alban, Trindade-Santos, Isaac, McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M., Dornelas, Maria (2023): Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science
Spake, Rebecca, Bowler, Diana E., Callaghan, Corey T., Blowes, Shane A., Doncaster, C. Patrick, Antão, Laura H., Nakagawa, Shinichi, McElreath, Richard, Chase, Jonathan M. (2023): Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions. Biological Reviews
Xu, Wu-Bing, Blowes, Shane A., Brambilla, Viviana, Chow, Cher F. Y., Fontrodona-Eslava, Ada, Martins, Inês S., McGlinn, Daniel, Moyes, Faye, Sagouis, Alban, Shimadzu, Hideyasu, van Klink, Roel, Magurran, Anne E., Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Dornelas, Maria, Chase, Jonathan M. (2023): Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series. Nature Communications
Publications 2022
Blowes, Shane A., Daskalova, Gergana N., Dornelas, Maria, Engel, Thore, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Magurran, Anne E., Martins, Inês S., McGill, Brian, McGlinn, Daniel J., Sagouis, Alban, Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Supp, Sarah R., Chase, Jonathan M. (2022): Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness. Ecology
Callaghan, Corey T., Bowler, Diana E., Blowes, Shane A., Chase, Jonathan M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Pereira, Henrique Miguel (2022): Quantifying effort needed to estimate species diversity from citizen science data. Ecosphere
Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., McGlinn, Daniel J., Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M. (2022): How does variation in total and relative abundance contribute to gradients of species diversity?. Ecology and Evolution
Ladouceur, Emma, Blowes, Shane A., Chase, Jonathan M., Clark, Adam T., Garbowski, Magda, Alberti, Juan, Arnillas, Carlos Alberto, Bakker, Jonathan D., Barrio, Isabel C., Bharath, Siddharth, Borer, Elizabeth T., Brudvig, Lars A., Cadotte, Marc W., Chen, Qingqing, Collins, Scott L., Dickman, Christopher R., Donohue, Ian, Du, Guozhen, Ebeling, Anne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Fay, Philip A., Hagenah, Nicole, Hautier, Yann, Jentsch, Anke, Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S., Komatsu, Kimberly, MacDougall, Andrew, Martina, Jason P., Moore, Joslin L., Morgan, John W., Peri, Pablo L., Power, Sally A., Ren, Zhengwei, Risch, Anita C., Roscher, Christiane, Schuchardt, Max A., Seabloom, Eric W., Stevens, Carly J., Veen, G.F., Virtanen, Risto, Wardle, Glenda M., Wilfahrt, Peter A., Harpole, W. Stanley (2022): Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters
Spake, Rebecca, Barajas-Barbosa, Martha Paola, Blowes, Shane A., Bowler, Diana E., Callaghan, Corey T., Garbowski, Magda, Jurburg, Stephanie D., van Klink, Roel, Korell, Lotte, Ladouceur, Emma, Rozzi, Roberto, Viana, Duarte S., Xu, Wu-Bing, Chase, Jonathan M. (2022): Detecting Thresholds of Ecological Change in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Publications 2021
Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., McGlinn, Daniel J., May, Felix, Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M. (2021): Using coverage-based rarefaction to infer non-random species distributions. Ecosphere
Gooriah, Leana, Blowes, Shane A., Sagouis, Alban, Schrader, Julian, Karger, Dirk N., Kreft, Holger, Chase, Jonathan M. (2021): Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling. Global Ecology and Biogeography
Gotelli, Nicholas J., Moyes, Faye, Antão, Laura H., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, Maria, McGill, Brian J., Penny, Amelia, Schipper, Aafke M., Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Supp, Sarah R., Waldock, Conor A., Magurran, Anne E. (2021): Long-term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species. Global Change Biology
Petsch, Danielle K., Blowes, Shane A., Melo, Adriano S., Chase, Jonathan M. (2021): A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales. Ecology
Publications 2020
Antao, L. H., Bates, A. E., Blowes, Shane A., Waldock, C., Supp, S. R., Magurran, A. E., Dornelas, M., Schipper, A. M. (2020): Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution
Blowes, Shane A., Chase, Jonathan M., Di Franco, Antonio, Frid, Ori, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Guidetti, Paolo, Knight, Tiffany Marie, May, Felix, McGlinn, Daniel J., Micheli, Fiorenza, Sala, Enric, Belmaker, Jonathan (2020): Mediterranean marine protected areas have higher biodiversity via increased evenness, not abundance. Journal of Applied Ecology
Chase, Jonathan M., Blowes, Shane A., Knight, Tiffany Marie, Gerstner, Katharina, May, Felix (2020): Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss. Nature
Daskalova, Gergana N., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Bjorkman, Anne D., Blowes, Shane A., Supp, Sarah R., Magurran, Anne E., Dornelas, Maria (2020): Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change. Science
Ladouceur, Emma, Harpole, W. Stanley, Blowes, Shane A., Roscher, Christiane, Auge, Harald, Seabloom, Eric W., Chase, Jonathan M. (2020): Reducing dispersal limitation via seed addition increases species richness but not above-ground biomass. Ecology Letters
McGlinn, Daniel J., Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Knight, Tiffany Marie, McGill, Brian J., Sanders, Nathan J., Chase, Jonathan M. (2020): A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients. Ecology
Mentges, Andrea, Blowes, Shane A., Hodapp, Dorothee, Hillebrand, Helmut, Chase, Jonathan M. (2020): Effects of site-selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change. Conservation Biology
Shalom, H. Y., Granot, I., Blowes, Shane A., Friedlander, A., Mellin, C., Ferreira, C. E. L., Arias-Gonzalez, J. E., Kulbicki, M., Floeter, S. R., Chabanet, P., Parravicini, V., Belmaker, J. (2020): A closer examination of the 'abundant centre' hypothesis for reef fishes. Journal of Biogeography
Torres-Pulliza, Damaris, Dornelas, Maria A., Pizarro, Oscar, Bewley, Michael, Blowes, Shane A., Boutros, Nader, Brambilla, Viviana, Chase, Tory J., Frank, Grace, Friedman, Ariell, Hoogenboom, Mia O., Williams, Stefan, Zawada, Kyle J. A., Madin, Joshua S. (2020): A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution
Publications 2019
Blowes, Shane A., Supp, Sarah R., Antão, Laura H., Bates, Amanda, Bruelheide, Helge, Chase, Jonathan M., Moyes, Faye, Magurran, Anne, McGill, Brian, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bowler, Diana E., Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Gonzalez, Andrew, Hines, Jes, Isbell, Forest, Jones, Holly P., Navarro, Laetitia M., Thompson, Patrick L., Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, Dornelas, Maria (2019): The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages. Science
Chase, Jonathan M., Liebergesell, Mario, Sagouis, Alban, May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A., Berg, Åke, Bernard, Enrico, Brosi, Berry J., Cadotte, Marc W., Cayuela, Luis, Chiarello, Adriano G., Cosson, Jean-Francois, Cresswell, Will, Dami, Filibus Danjuma, Dauber, Jens, Dickman, Chris R., Didham, Raphael K., Edwards, David P., Farneda, Fábio Z., Gavish, Yoni, Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago, Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis, Henry, Mickaël, López-Baucells, Adrià, Kappes, Heike, Mac Nally, Ralph, Manu, Shiiwua, Martensen, Alexandre Camargo, McCollin, Duncan, Meyer, Christoph F. J., Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino, Nogueira, André, Pons, Jean-Marc, Raheem, Dinarzarde C., Ramos, Flavio Nunes, Rocha, Ricardo, Sam, Katerina, Slade, Eleanor, Stireman III, John O., Struebig, Matthew J., Vasconcelos, Heraldo, Ziv, Yaron (2019): FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology
Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, B. J., Thompson, P. L., Antao, L. H., Bates, A. E., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, M., Gonzalez, A., Magurran, A. E., Supp, S. R., Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, A. D., Bruelheide, Helge, Byrnes, J. E. K., Cabral, J. S., Elahi, R., Gomez, C., Guzman, H. M., Isbell, F., Myers-Smith, I. H., Jones, H. P., Hines, Jes, Vellend, M., Waldock, C., O’Connor, M. (2019): Species richness change across spatial scales. Oikos
McGlinn, D. J., Xiao, X., May, Felix, Gotelli, N. J., Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., Knight, Tiffany Marie, Purschke, Oliver, Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, B. J. (2019): Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Publications 2018
Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., McGlinn, Daniel J., May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A., Xiao, Xiao, Knight, Tiffany Marie, Purschke, Oliver, Gotelli, Nicholas J. (2018): Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities. Ecology Letters
Dornelas, Maria, Antão, Laura H., Moyes, Faye, Bates, Amanda E., Magurran, Anne E., Adam, Dušan, Akhmetzhanova, Asem A., Appeltans, Ward, Arcos, José Manuel, Arnold, Haley, Ayyappan, Narayanan, Badihi, Gal, Baird, Andrew H., Barbosa, Miguel, Barreto, Tiago Egydio, Bässler, Claus, Bellgrove, Alecia, Belmaker, Jonathan, Benedetti‐Cecchi, Lisandro, Bett, Brian J., Bjorkman, Anne D., Błażewicz, Magdalena, Blowes, Shane A., Bloch, Christopher P., Bonebrake, Timothy C., Boyd, Susan, Bradford, Matt, Brooks, Andrew J., Brown, James H., Bruelheide, Helge, Budy, Phaedra, Carvalho, Fernando, Castañeda‐Moya, Edward, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Chamblee, John F., Chase, Tory J., Collier, Laura Siegwart, Collinge, Sharon K., Condit, Richard, Cooper, Elisabeth J., Cornelissen, J. Hans C., Cotano, Unai, Crow, Shannan Kyle, Damasceno, Gabriella, Davies, Claire H., Davis, Robert A., Day, Frank P., Degraer, Steven, Doherty, Tim S., Dunn, Timothy E., Durigan, Giselda, Duffy, J. Emmett, Edelist, Dor, Edgar, Graham J., Elahi, Robin, Elmendorf, Sarah C., Enemar, Anders, Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Escribano, Rubén, Estiarte, Marc, Evans, Brian S., Fan, Tung‐Yung, Farah, Fabiano Turini, Fernandes, Luiz Loureiro, Farneda, Fábio Z., Fidelis, Alessandra, Fitt, Robert, Fosaa, Anna Maria, Franco, Geraldo Antonio Daher Correa, Frank, Grace E., Fraser, William R., García, Hernando, Gatti, Roberto Cazzolla, Givan, Or, Gorgone‐Barbosa, Elizabeth, Gould, William A., Gries, Corinna, Grossman, Gary D., Gutierréz, Julio R., Hale, Stephen, Harmon, Mark E., Harte, John, Haskins, Gary, Henshaw, Donald L., Hermanutz, Luise, Hidalgo, Pamela, Higuchi, Pedro, Hoey, Andrew, Hoey, Gert Van, Hofgaard, Annika, Holeck, Kristen, Hollister, Robert D., Holmes, Richard, Hoogenboom, Mia, Hsieh, Chih‐hao, Hubbell, Stephen P., Huettmann, Falk, Huffard, Christine L., Hurlbert, Allen H., Ivanauskas, Natália Macedo, Janík, David, Jandt, Ute, Jażdżewska, Anna, Johannessen, Tore, Johnstone, Jill, Jones, Julia, Jones, Faith A. M., Kang, Jungwon, Kartawijaya, Tasrif, Keeley, Erin C., Kelt, Douglas A., Kinnear, Rebecca, Klanderud, Kari, Knutsen, Halvor, Koenig, Christopher C., Kortz, Alessandra R., Král, Kamil, Kuhnz, Linda A., Kuo, Chao‐Yang, Kushner, David J., Laguionie‐Marchais, Claire, Lancaster, Lesley T., Lee, Cheol Min, Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Lévesque, Esther, Lightfoot, David, Lloret, Francisco, Lloyd, John D., López‐Baucells, Adrià, Louzao, Maite, Madin, Joshua S., Magnússon, Borgþór, Malamud, Shahar, Matthews, Iain, McFarland, Kent P., McGill, Brian, McKnight, Diane, McLarney, William O., Meador, Jason, Meserve, Peter L., Metcalfe, Daniel J., Meyer, Christoph F. J., Michelsen, Anders, Milchakova, Nataliya, Moens, Tom, Moland, Even, Moore, Jon, Moreira, Carolina Mathias, Müller, Jörg, Murphy, Grace, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Myster, Randall W., Naumov, Andrew, Neat, Francis, Nelson, James A., Nelson, Michael Paul, Newton, Stephen F., Norden, Natalia, Oliver, Jeffrey C., Olsen, Esben M., Onipchenko, Vladimir G., Pabis, Krzysztof, Pabst, Robert J., Paquette, Alain, Pardede, Sinta, Paterson, David M., Pélissier, Raphaël, Peñuelas, Josep, Pérez‐Matus, Alejandro, Pizarro, Oscar, Pomati, Francesco, Post, Eric, Prins, Herbert H. T., Priscu, John C., Provoost, Pieter, Prudic, Kathleen L., Pulliainen, Erkki, Ramesh, B. R., Ramos, Olivia Mendivil, Rassweiler, Andrew, Rebelo, Jose Eduardo, Reed, Daniel C., Reich, Peter B., Remillard, Suzanne M., Richardson, Anthony J., Richardson, J. Paul, Rijn, Itai van, Rocha, Ricardo, Rivera‐Monroy, Victor H., Rixen, Christian, Robinson, Kevin P., Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro, Rossa‐Feres, Denise de Cerqueira, Rudstam, Lars, Ruhl, Henry, Ruz, Catalina S., Sampaio, Erica M., Rybicki, Nancy, Rypel, Andrew, Sal, Sofia, Salgado, Beatriz, Santos, Flavio A. M., Savassi‐Coutinho, Ana Paula, Scanga, Sara, Schmidt, Jochen, Schooley, Robert, Setiawan, Fakhrizal, Shao, Kwang‐Tsao, Shaver, Gaius R., Sherman, Sally, Sherry, Thomas W., Siciński, Jacek, Sievers, Caya, Silva, Ana Carolina da, Silva, Fernando Rodrigues da, Silveira, Fabio L., Slingsby, Jasper, Smart, Tracey, Snell, Sara J., Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Souza, Gabriel B. G., Souza, Flaviana Maluf, Souza, Vinícius Castro, Stallings, Christopher D., Stanforth, Rowan, Stanley, Emily H., Sterza, José Mauro, Stevens, Maarten, Stuart‐Smith, Rick, Suarez, Yzel Rondon, Supp, Sarah, Tamashiro, Jorge Yoshio, Tarigan, Sukmaraharja, Thiede, Gary P., Thorn, Simon, Tolvanen, Anne, Toniato, Maria Teresa Zugliani, Totland, Ørjan, Twilley, Robert R., Vaitkus, Gediminas, Valdivia, Nelson, Vallejo, Martha Isabel, Valone, Thomas J., Colen, Carl Van, Vanaverbeke, Jan, Venturoli, Fabio, Verheye, Hans M., Vianna, Marcelo, Vieira, Rui P., Vrška, Tomáš, Vu, Con Quang, Vu, Lien Van, Waide, Robert B., Waldock, Conor, Watts, Dave, Webb, Sara, Wesołowski, Tomasz, White, Ethan P., Widdicombe, Claire E., Wilgers, Dustin, Williams, Richard, Williams, Stefan B., Williamson, Mark, Willig, Michael R., Willis, Trevor J., Wipf, Sonja, Woods, Kerry D., Woehler, Eric J., Zawada, Kyle, Zettler, Michael L. (2018): BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography
Shade, Ashley, Dunn, Robert R., Blowes, Shane A., Keil, Petr, Bohannan, Brendan J. M., Herrmann, Martina, Küsel, Kirsten, Lennon, Jay T., Sanders, Nathan J., Storch, David, Chase, Jonathan M. (2018): Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Publications 2017
Blowes, Shane A., Belmaker, Jonathan, Chase, Jonathan M. (2017): Global reef fish richness gradients emerge from divergent and scale-dependent component changes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Blowes, Shane A., Pratchett, M. S., Connolly, S. R. (2017): Aggression, interference, and the functional response of coral-feeding butterflyfishes. Oecologia
Buba, Y., van Rijn, I., Blowes, Shane A., Sonin, O., Edelist, D., DeLong, J. P., Belmaker, J. (2017): Remarkable size-spectra stability in a marine system undergoing massive invasion. Biol Lett
Research interests
My research interests range from the behaviour of individuals right up to macroecological patterns of biodiversity. In the Biodiversity Synthesis Lab, my focus is on improving our understanding of how the components of species richness (numbers of individuals, species relative abundances and their distribution in space) contribute to patterns of biodiversity along natural (e.g., latitudinal) and other gradients (e.g., those associated with spatial management initiatives such as protected areas). In addition, I am also examining how these components of biodiversity change through time and space as a member of the sChange (sDiv) working group.