Publications

In Review

Hansen, R.L.G., A. Halford, D.G. Maucieri, and J.K. Baum. Spatial variation in benthic community composition on a minimally disturbed coral reef after a prolonged marine heatwave. In Review at Coral Reefs.

Maucieri, D.G., I. Gimenez, K.C. Rolheiser, A.-L.M. Gehman, B. Collicutt, A. Djioua, J.M. Etzkorn, B. Vinson, and A.E. Bates. Fed or famished: The role of food availability in the physiological and behavioural responses of Dermasterias imbricata to prolonged thermal stress. In Review at Journal of Experimental Biology

Maucieri, D.G., R.D. Stuart-Smith, G.J. Edgar, and A.E. Bates. From individuals to communities: Scaling fish consumption to predict marine invertebrate abundance under ocean warming. In Revisions at Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

2026

Bruce, K.A., J.H.R. Burns, D.G. Maucieri, K. Pascoe, J.K. Baum. 2026. Prolonged heatwave–induced mass coral mortality influences the structural complexity of reef habitats. Accepted at Journal of Animal Ecology.

Jones, A.E., D.G. Maucieri, J.M. Schuster, T.J. Bird, and A.E. Bates. 2026. Evaluating Spatial Compliance of Protected Areas by Recreational Fishers and Resulting Ecological Responses of Temperate Rocky Reefs. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 36(9): 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.70456

2025

Maucieri, D.G., D.J. Kushner, and A.E. Bates. 2025. Enduring a major marine heatwave: The role of local cool refugia and kelp forests in the resilience of marine invertebrates. Diversity and Distributions 31(6):1-13. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.70044

Starko, S., G. Epstein, L. Chalifour, K. Bruce*, D. Buzzoni*, M. Csordas*, S. Dimoff*, R. Hansen*, D.G. Maucieri*, J. McHenry*, K.L. Tietjen*, B. Timmer* and J.K. Baum. 2025. Ecological responses to extreme climatic events: a systematic review of the 2014-2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave. Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review. 63. *Author order alphabetical

Shaffer, J. A., Oxborrow, B., Parks, D. S., Maucieri, D.G., & Michel, J. 2025. Linking Marine Ecosystem Response to Shoreline Armor Removal and Large Dam Removals in the Elwha River and Nearshore, Washington, USA. Journal of Coastal Research. 41(1), 1-15. DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-24A-00007.1

2023

Maucieri, D.G., S. Starko and J.K. Baum. Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity. Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290:20230209. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0209

Baum, J.K., D.C. Claar, K.L. Tietjen, J.M.T. Magel, D.G. Maucieri, K.M. Cobb, J.M. McDevitt-Irwin. Transformation of coral communities subjected to an unprecedented heatwave is modulated by local disturbance. Science Advances 9(14):1-14. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq5615

2022

Maucieri, D.G. quadcleanR: An R Package for the Cleanup and Visualization of Quadrat Data. Journal of Open Source Software 7(79): 4674. DOI: 10.21105/joss.04674

2021

Maucieri, D.G., and J.K. Baum. 2021. Impacts of heat stress on soft corals, an overlooked and highly vulnerable component of coral reef ecosystems, at a central equatorial Pacific atoll. Biological Conservation 262: 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109328

Maucieri, D.G., A.J. Ashbaugh, and J.M. Theodor. 2021. Sexual dimorphism in bat wing morphology – variation among foraging styles. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99(11): 953-960. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0035

Maucieri, D.G., and R.M.R. Barclay. 2021. Consumption of spiders by the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) and the long-eared bat (Myotis evotis) in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99(3): 221-226. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2020-0160