Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• M.S., College of William & Mary School of Marine Science
• B.S., College of William & Mary

Research Interests

• Ecology in a Changing World
• The Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity
• Estuarine and Marine Environments
• Ecology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals and Seaweeds

Select Publications

• Tekwa, Whalen, Martone & O'Connor. 2023. Theory and application of an improved species richness estimator. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378 (1881), 20220187 [ link]
• Whalen, Starko, Lindstom, & Martone. 2023. Heatwave restructures marine intertidal communities across a stress gradient. Ecology. 104:e4027. [ link]
• Whalen et al. 2020. Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 117:28160-28166. [ link]
• Whalen, Millard-Martin, Cox, Lemay & Paulay. 2020. Poleward range expansion of invasive bopyrid isopod, Orthione griffenis Markham, 2004, confirmed by establishment in Central British Columbia, Canada. BioInvasions Records 9: 538-548. [ link]
• Whalen & Stachowicz. 2017. Suspension feeder diversity enhances community filtration rates in different flow environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 570:1-13. [ link]
• Whalen, Aquilino & Stachowicz. 2016. Grazer diversity interacts with biogenic substrate heterogeneity to accelerate intertidal algal succession. Ecology 97:2136-2146. [ link]
• Whalen, Duffy & Grace. 2013. Temporal shifts in top-down vs. bottom-up control of epiphytic algae in a seagrass ecosystem. Ecology 94:510-520. [ link]