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List of works by Mhairi E. Alexander

A trophic interaction framework for identifying the invasive capacity of novel organisms

scientific article published in 2017

Advancing impact prediction and hypothesis testing in invasion ecology using a comparative functional response approach

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis

scientific article

Biosecurity measures to reduce secondary spread of the invasive freshwater Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774)

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Born to kill: Predatory functional responses of the littoral amphipod Echinogammarus marinus Leach throughout its life history

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Characteristics of native predators are more important than those of alien prey in determining the success of biotic resistance in marine systems

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Co-occurring predators increase biotic resistance against an invasive prey

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Contrasting invasion patterns in intertidal and subtidal mussel communities

scientific article published in 2018

Corrigendum to “Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highlands: an exploration using multivariate analysis” [Sci. Total Environ. 601–602 (2017) 1340-1348]

scholarly article published in Science of the Total Environment

Differential ecological impacts of invader and native predatory freshwater amphipods under environmental change are revealed by comparative functional responses

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Early life-history processes and their implications for the invasion of the barnacle Balanus glandula

scientific article published in 2017

Eaten alive: cannibalism is enhanced by parasites

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Ecological Assessment of Two Species of Potamonautid Freshwater Crabs from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, with Implications for Their Conservation

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Ecological impacts of an invasive predator explained and predicted by comparative functional responses

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Ecological impacts of invasive alien species along temperature gradients: testing the role of environmental matching

scientific article published on April 2015

Emergent effects of structural complexity and temperature on predator-prey interactions

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Evaluating invasion risk for freshwater fishes in South Africa

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Existing and emerging high impact invasive species are characterized by higher functional responses than natives

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Fictional responses from Vonesh et al

January 2017 scholarly article in Biological Invasions

Filtration, feeding behaviour and their implications for future spread: A comparison of an invasive and native barnacle in South Africa

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Foraging decisions of a native whelk, Trochia cingulata Linnaeus, and the effects of invasive mussels on prey choice

scientific article published in 2015

Forecasting invasions: resource use by mussels informs invasion patterns along the South African coast

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Fortune favours the bold: a higher predator reduces the impact of a native but not an invasive intermediate predator

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Functional responses can unify invasion ecology

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Functional responses of a cosmopolitan invader demonstrate intraspecific variability in consumer-resource dynamics

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Impacts of mussel invasions on the prey preference of two native predators

scholarly article by Lisa Skein et al published 21 December 2017 in Behavioral Ecology

Influence of intra- and interspecific variation in predator-prey body size ratios on trophic interaction strengths

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species

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Laboratory-Based Comparison for the Effects of Environmental Stressors Supports Field Evidence for the Relative Importance of Pollution on Life History and Behavior of the Pond Snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Natural born killers: an invasive amphipod is predatory throughout its life-history

Predation in the marine intertidal amphipod Echinogammarus marinus Leach: Implications of inter- and intra-individual variation

scientific article published in 2015

Predator cue studies reveal strong trait-mediated effects in communities despite variation in experimental designs

Predators vs. alien: differential biotic resistance to an invasive species by two resident predators

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Predatory ability and abundance forecast the ecological impacts of two aquatic invasive species

scientific article published in 2022

Predicting the ecological impacts of a new freshwater invader: functional responses and prey selectivity of the ‘killer shrimp’,Dikerogammarus villosus, compared to the nativeGammarus pulex

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Shifting interaction strength between estuarine mysid species across a temperature gradient

scientific article published on 21 July 2018

Size-dependent functional response of Xenopus laevis on mosquito larvae

Size-dependent functional response of Xenopus laevis on mosquito larvae

Size-dependent functional response of feeding on mosquito larvae

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Trait-Mediated Effects of Parasites on Invader-Native Interactions

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Trait-mediated indirect interactions in a marine intertidal system as quantified by functional responses

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Using functional responses to assess predator hatching phenology implications for pioneering prey in arid temporary pools

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Using functional responses to quantify interaction effects among predators

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