Bailey McMeans

Research

We study the individual- to ecosystem-level responses to spatial and temporal variation in a variety of system types spanning the Arctic to the tropics. To learn all about the McMeans Lab research, please visit our 'Research' website page.

Publications

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*student or postdoctoral publications are listed below.

2023

• Shipley, O., B. C. McMeans, A.C. Besser, E. Bloomfield*, S. Newsome. Energy channeling and food chain length impact body condition in a northern lake predator. Freshwater Biology (in press)
• Reeve, C, J. A. Robichaud, T. Fernandes*, A. E. Bates, A. J. Bramburger, J. W. Brownscombe, C. M. Davy, H. A. L. Henry, B. C. McMeans, E. R. D. Moise, S. Sharma, P. A. Smith, E. K. Studd*, A. O’Sullivan, A. O. Sutton, P. H. Templer and S. J. Cooke. Accepted. Applied Winter Biology: Threats, Conservation, and Management of Biological Resources during Winter in Cold Climate Regions. Conservation Physiology (in press)
• Savard, P., T. Fernandes*, A. Dao*, B. C. McMeans, and C. Lazar. 2023. Seasons influence the native gut microbiome of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush. Applied Microbiology 3(1), 276-287

2022

• Bloomfield, E.*, M. Guzzo*, T. Middel, M. Ridgway, and B. C. McMeans. Accepted. Seasonality can affect interactions between fishes of different thermal guilds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
• O’Connor, R., B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, M. M. Guzzo*, J. Young, K. S. McCann. In press. On the seasonal stability of zooplankton in a large temperate lake. Ecology
• Gutgesell, M., B. C. McMeans, M. M. Guzzo*, V. deGroot, A. T. Fisk, T. B. Johnson, and K. S. McCann. In press. Subsidy accessibility drives asymmetric food web responses. Ecology
• Gutgesell, M., K. S. McCann, G. Gellner, K. Cazelles, C. Greyson-Gaito, C. Bieg, M. M. Guzzo*, C. Warne, C. Ward, R. O’Connor, A. Scott, B. Graham, E. J. Champagne, B. C. McMeans. 2022. On the dynamic nature of omnivory in a changing world. BioScience biab144, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab144
• Fernandes, T.*, B. Shuter, P. Ihssen and B. C. McMeans. 2022. The woes of winter warming: shorter winters reduce the reproductive response in a temperate freshwater fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0412
• Cavaliere, E., I. B. Fournier, V. Hazuková, G. Rue, S. Sadro, S. A. Berger, J. B. Cotner, H. A. Dugan, S. E. Hampton, N. R. Lottig, B. C. McMeans, T. Ozersky, S. M. Powers, M. Rautio, C. M. O’Reilly. 2021. The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: influence of winter conditions on ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 126(11) e2020JG006165
• Versteeg, E.*, T. Fernandes*, M. Guzzo*, F. Leberge, T. Middel, M. Rigway and B. C. McMeans. 2021. Brain size is seasonally plastic in a freshwater top predator. Ecology and Evolution 11(21): 14950–14959
• McMeans, B. C., P. Cott, T. Johnson, P. Blanchfield, M. Guzzo*, and R. Cunjak. In press. Winter as a critical period for Canadian fishes. Chapter in: Canadian Freshwater Fish. Editor: S. J. Cooke AFS Books

2021

• Jansen, J., S. MacIntyre, D. Barrett, Y. Chin, A. Cortés, A. Forrest, A. R. Hrycik, R. Martin, B. C. McMeans, M. Rautio, and R. Schwefel. 2021. Winter limnology: how do hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry shape ecosystems under ice? Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 126(6): e2020JG006237
• Sutton, A. O., E. Studd*, T. Fernandes*, A. Bates, A. Bramburger, S. J. Cooke, B. Hayden, H. A. Henry, M. Humphries, R. Martin, B. C. McMeans, E. Moise, A. M. O’Sullivan, S. Sharma, P. H. Templer. Frozen out: unanswered questions about winter biology. Environmental Reviews Accepted
• Studd, E. K.*, A. E. Bates, A. J. Bramburger, T. Fernandes*, B. Hayden, H. A. Henry, M. M. Humphries, R. Martin*, B. C. McMeans, E. D. Moise, A. M. O’Sullivan, S. Sharma, B. J. Sinclair, A. O. Sutton, P. H. Templer and S. J. Cooke. Nine maxims for the ecology of cold-climate winters. BioScience. biab032, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab032.
• Bunt, C. M., B. Jacobson, T. Fernandes*, L. Ridgway, and B. C. McMeans. Winter and summer site fidelity and seasonal habitat preferences of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a temperate regulated reservoir. Hydrobiologia doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04582-1
• arsden, J.E., P. J. Blanchfield, J. L. Brooks, T. Fernandes*, A. T. Fisk, M.H. Futia, B. L. Hlina, S. V. Ivanova, T. B. Johnson, N. V. Klinard, C. C. Krueger, S. M. Larocque, J. K. Matley, B. C. McMeans, L. M. O’Connor, G. D. Raby, S. J. Cooke. Using telemetry data to explore the winter biology of freshwater fish. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 31: 115–134

2020

• Yang, B.*, M. Wells, B. C. McMeans, H. Dugan, J. Rusak, , G. Weyhenmeyer, J. Brentrup, A. Hrycik, R. Pilla, J. Austin, P. Blanchfield, C. Carey, M. Guzzo*, N. Lottig, M. Mackay, T. Middel, D. Pierson, J. Want and J. Young. A New Thermal Classification of Ice-Covered Lakes. Geophysical Research Letters 48: e2020GL091374
• Fernandes, T.* and B. C. McMeans. Spotty at Best: Brook Trout Exploit Large, Breeding Spotted Salamanders in the Early Spring. Ecology. 102(1): e03202
• Wilkinson, S.*, T. Brown, B. C. McMeans. Highly Branched Isoprenoids: a novel tracer of diatom-based energy pathways in freshwater food webs. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72: 425-431
• Jarvis, L.*, B. C. McMeans, H. Giacomini, C. Chu. Species-specific preferences drive the differential effects of lake factors on fish productivity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.77(10): 1625-1637
• McMeans, B. C., K. S. McCann, M. Guzzo*, T. Bartley*, C. Bieg, P. Blanchfield, T. Fernandes*, H. Giacomini, T. Middel, M. Rennie, M. Ridgway, B. Shuter. Winter in water: Differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity. Ecology Letters. 23(6): 922-938

2019

• Fernandes, T.* and B.C. McMeans. Coping with the cold: energy storage strategies for surviving winter in freshwater fishes. Ecography 42(12): 2037-2052 (E4 Early Researcher Award finalist)
• Yopak, K., B.C. McMeans, C. Mull, K.W. Feindel, K.M. Kovacs, C. Lydersen, A.T. Fisk, and S.P. Collin. A small brain and a big nose: Comparative brain morphology of the Greenland and Pacific Sleeper Sharks. Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 10022
• Pool, T., V. Elliott, G. Holtgrieve, M. Arias, I. Altman, L. Kaufman, K. McCann, E.D. Fraser, L. Tudesque, M. Chevalier, G. Grenouillet, C. Ratha, S. Lek, B.C. McMeans, M. Cooperman, C. Phen, L. Hannah, B. Miller, G. Bo, S. Nam. Fish assemblage composition within the floodplain habitat mosaic of a flood-pulse lake (Tonle Sap, Cambodia). Freshwater Biology 64:2026–2036
• Edwards, J.E., F. Broell, P.G. Bushnell, S.E. Campana, J.S. Christiansen, B.M. Devine, J.J. Gallant, S.M. Grant, K.J. Hedges, E. Hiltz, M.A. MacNeil, B.C. McMeans, J. Nielsen, K. Præbel, G.B. Skomal, J.F. Steffensen, R.P. Walter, Y.Y. Watanabe, D.L. VanderZwaag, and N.E. Hussey. Advancing our understanding of long-lived species: A case study on the Greenland shark. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: Article 87
• McMeans, B.C., T. Kadoya, G. Holtgrieve, S. Lek, H. Kong, K. Winemiller, V. Elliott, T. Pool, N. Rooney, and K. S. McCannn. Consumer trophic positions respond variably to seasonally fluctuating environments. Ecology 100(2): e02570
• Bartley T. J.*, K. S. McCann, C. Bieg,  K. Cazelles, M. Granados, M. M. Guzzo, A. S. MacDougall, T. D. Tunney, and B. C. McMeans. Food web rewiring in a changing world. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 345-354
• Ives, J., B. C. McMeans, K. S. McCann, A. T. Fisk, T. B. Johnson, D. B. Bunnell, and A. M. Muir. Mechanisms and function of food webs in freshwater lakes: the Laurentian Great Lakes as a model. Freshwater Biology 64(1): 1-23

2018

• Peng, B., K. S. McCann, G. Grenouillet, S. Nam, B. C. McMeans, E. Fraser, and S. Lek. Evidence of decline in one of the world’s largest freshwater fisheries. Scientific Reports 8: 8947
• Johnson, L., R. Moccia, M. Gutgesell, B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, and K. S. McCann. Evidence for asymmetric assimilation of an anthropogenic resource subsidy in a freshwater food web. Food Webs e00084
• Bieg, C., K. S. McCann, B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, G. Holtgrieve, S. Lek, N.P. Bun, K., KC and E. Fraser. Linking humans to food webs: A foundation for the classification of global fisheries. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16(7): 1–9 doi:10.1002/fee.1933
• MacDougall, A., E. Harvey, J. McCune, K. A. Nilsson, J. Bennett, J. Firn, T. Bartley*, J. Grace, J. Kelly, T. Tunney, B. C. McMeans, S. Matsuzaki, T. Kadoya, E. Esch, K. Cazelles, N. Lester, K. S. McCann. Environmentally dependent species interactions and the regulation of freshwater fish diversity. Nature Communications. 9: 973
• Olin, J., B. C. McMeans, O. Shipley. Stable isotope fractionation between maternal and embryo tissues in the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 101(3): 489-499