My publications focus on interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Most of my research utilizes invasive species, organisms displaced from their evolutionary homes that are environmentally or economically damaging. Some of the organisms I study fossilize or exhibit a period of metabolic dormancy when respiration can be reduced below perception, which expands the scope of my research to address environmental change over time.

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS *undergraduate co-authors

Brown M., Buffington K.*, Cleckner L., and Razavi N. (2022) Elevated methylmercury concentration and trophic position of non-native Bloody Red Shrimp (Hemimysis anomala) increase biomagnification risk in nearshore food webs Journal of Great Lakes Research (in press)

Brown M., Oviedo Prieto R., Corbin J., Ness J., Borroto‐Páez R., McCay R., & Farnsworth M. (2021) Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19(4) 208-215

coverage in the journal Nature

coverage in National Geographic en española en français

coverage in Scientific American

Ashdown B., Brown M., Lui M*., Nichols H.*, and Urquiza I*. (2021) Indigenous community members’ views about water quality in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala Local Environment https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.2001447

Boscarino B., Oyagi S*., Stapylton E*., McKeon K*., Michels N.*, Cushman S., & Brown M. (2020) The influence of light, substrate, and fish on the habitat preferences of the invasive bloody red shrimp, Hemimysis anomala. Journal of Great Lakes Research 46(2): 311-322

Nevalainen L., Brown M., & Manca M. (2018) Sedimentary record of cladoceran functionality under eutrophication and reoligotrophication in Lake Maggiore, northern Italy. Water 10(1), 86

Brown M., Roth J.*, Smith B., & Boscarino B. (2017) The light at the end of the funnel?: Using light-based traps for the detection and collection of a nearshore aquatic, invasive invertebrate, Hemimysis anomala. Journal of Great Lakes Research 43(4): 717-727

Branstrator D., Beranek A., Brown M., Hembre L., & Engstrom D. (2017) Colonization dynamics of the invasive predatory cladoceran, Bythotrephes longimanus, inferred from sediment records. Limnology and Oceanography 62 (3) 1096-1110 story in National Geographic

Brown M., Boscarino B., Roellke J.*, Stapylton E.*, & Driller-Colangelo A.* (2014) Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal: the spread of Hemimysis anomala G.O. Sars, 1907 (bloody red shrimp) in the New York State canal system. BioInvasion Records 3(4): 261-267

Branstrator D., Shannon L., Brown M., & Kitson M. (2013) Effects of chemical and physical conditions on hatching success of Bythotrephes longimanus resting eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 58(6): 2171–2184

Brown M., Curtin T., Gallagher C.*, & Halfman J. (2012) Historic nutrient loading and recent species invasions caused shifts in water quality and zooplankton demography in two Finger Lakes (New York, USA). Journal of Paleolimnology 48(3): 623-639

Brown M., Morse R., & O’Neill K.* (2012) Spatial, seasonal, and diel distribution patterns of Hemimysis anomala in New York State’s Finger Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38: 19-24 press release

Brown M., Branstrator D., & Shannon L. (2012) Population regulation of the spiny water flea (Bythotrephes longimanus) in a reservoir: Implications for invasion. Limnology and Oceanography 57(1): 251-271

Brown M. & Branstrator D. (2011) Patterns in the abundance, phenology, and hatching of the resting egg stage of the invasive zooplankter Bythotrephes longimanus: implications for establishment. Biological Invasions 13: 2547-2559

Brown M. (2009) Environmental factors influencing invasibility and ecological consequences of invasions of the spiny waterflea. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie (International Association of Theoretical & Applied Limnology Proceedings) 30(8): 1301-1306

Brown M. (2008) Nature and nurture in dormancy: dissolved oxygen, pH and maternal investment impact Bythotrephes longimanus resting egg emergence and neonate condition. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65(8): 1692-1704

Brown M. & Balk M.* (2008) The potential link between lake productivity and the invasive zooplankter Cercopagis pengoi in Owasco Lake (New York, USA). Aquatic Invasions 3(1): 28-34

Manca M., Portogallo M., & Brown M. (2007) Changes in phenology of the spiny water flea, Bythotrephes longimanus and its success in Lake Maggiore, Italy as a result of changes in climate and trophy. Journal of Plankton Research 29(6): 515-525

Branstrator D., Brown M., Shannon L., Alexander M.*, & Heimgartner K.* (2006) Range expansion of Bythotrephes longimanus in North America: evaluating habitat characteristics in the spread of an exotic zooplankter. Biological Invasions 8: 1367-1379

Brown M. & Branstrator D. (2005) Seasonal dynamics in Bythotrephes diapausing egg emergence and production, and the role of dormancy in range expansion. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie (International Association of Theoretical & Applied Limnology Proceedings) 29(1): 1-6

Brown M. & Branstrator D. (2004) A 2001 survey of crustacean zooplankton in the western arm of Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30(1): 1-8

Hoffman J. *, Smith M.*, & Lehman J. (2000) Perch or plankton; top down control of Daphnia by Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) or Bythotrephes cederstroemi in an inland lake? Freshwater Biology 46: 759-775

Professor of Biology, Hobart & William Smith Colleges mbrown@hws.edu

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS *undergraduate co-authors