Jennifer B.H. MartinyAssociate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
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Research Interests |
community ecology, microbial diversity, and global change biology | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2005 Junior Investigator Award, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 2004 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 2003 Career Enhancement Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation |
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Research Abstract |
Our lab studies biological diversity and its importance to human well-being. Currently we are investigating the mechanisms underlying microbial diversity patterns and how this diversity affects ecosystem processes. The lab uses a combination of approaches, from genetic surveys of natural communities to field experiments and microcosm studies. We study a variety of systems including salt marshes and marine bacteria and viruses. | |
| Publications |
(Selected publications; Formerly published under J.B. Hughes) Bradley, D.J., G.S. Gilbert, and J.B.H. Martiny. In press. "Pathogens promote plant diversity through a compensatory response." Ecology Letters. Reed, H.E. and J.B.H. Martiny. 2007. "Testing the functional significance of microbial composition in natural communities." FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 62:161-170. Lennon, J.T., S.A.M. Khatana, M.F. Marston, and J.B.H. Martiny. 2007. “Is there a cost of virus resistance in marine cyanobacteria? The ISME Journal. 1: 300-312 Stoddard, L.I., J.B.H. Martiny, and M.F. Marston. 2007. Selection and characterization of cyanophage resistance in marine Synechococcus strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 5516-5522 Martiny, J.B.H., B. Bohannan, J. Brown, R. Colwell, J. Fuhrman, J. Green, M.C. Horner-Devine, M. Kane, J. Krumins, C. Kuske, P. Morin, S. Naeem, L. Ovreas, A.-L. Reysenbach, V. Smith, J. Staley. 2006. “Microbial biogeography: Putting microorganisms on the map.” Nature Reviews Microbiology 4: 102-112. Martiny, J.B.H. and D. Field. 2005. “Ecological perspectives on the sequenced genome collection.” Ecology Letters 8: 1334-1345. Hughes, J.B. and J.J. Hellmann. 2005. “The application of rarefaction techniques to molecular inventories of microbial diversity” Methods in Enzymology 397: 292-308. Horner-Devine*, M.C., M. Lage*, J.B. Hughes, and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. “A taxa-area relationship for bacteria.” Nature 432: 750-753. Hughes, J. B. and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. “Application of ecological diversity statistics in microbial ecology.” In Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual, 2nd edition, eds. Kowalchuk, G.A., de Bruijn, F.J., Head, I.M., Akkermans, A.D., van Elsas, J.D., pp. 1321-1344. Bohannan, B.J.M. and J.B. Hughes. 2003. “New approaches to analyzing microbial diversity data.” Current Opinions in Microbiology 6: 282-287. Hughes, J.B., G.C. Daily, and P.R. Ehrlich. 2002. “Conservation of tropical forest birds in countryside habitats.” Ecology Letters 5: 121-129. Ives, A.R. and J.B. Hughes. 2002. General relationships between species diversity and stability in competitive systems. American Naturalist 159: 388-395. Hughes, J.B., Ives, A., and Norberg, J. 2002. “Do species interactions buffer environmental variation (in theory)?” in M. Loreau, S. Naeem, and P. Inchausti, eds. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Oxford University Press, pp. 92-101. Hughes, J.B., J.J. Hellmann, T.H. Ricketts, and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2001. “Counting the uncountable: statistical approaches to estimating microbial diversity.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 4399-4406. Hughes, J.B. 2000. “The scale of resource specialization and the distribution and abundance of lycaenid butterflies.” Oecologia 123: 375-383. Hughes, J.B., G.C. Daily, and P.R. Ehrlich. 2000. “Conservation of insect diversity: A habitat approach.” Conservation Biology 14: 1788-1797. Hughes, J.B. and J. Roughgarden. 2000. “Species diversity and biomass stability.” American Naturalist 155: 618-627. Hughes, J.B. and J. Roughgarden. 1998. “Aggregate community properties and the strength of species’ interactions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95: 6837-6842. Hughes, J.B., G.C. Daily, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1997. “Population diversity: Its extent and extinction.” Science 278: 689-692. |
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| Other Experience |
Assistant Professor Brown University 2000—2006 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5363 | |
| Last updated | 09/25/2008 | |