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Mary O'Connor
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Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2023
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2023
Detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change: needs, gaps and solutions.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $134,582
Evaluating the benefits of co-restoration of clams and seagrass to support ecosystem services and food security
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $85,714
Finding synergies in climate solutions, ecological restoration and ecosystem services of nearshore habitats in Desolation Sound BC
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $181,108
Coastal Habitat Comprehensive Research Project Phase II: Coastal Ecosystem Program
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action.
Gonzalez A, Vihervaara P, Balvanera P, Bates AE, Bayraktarov E, Bellingham PJ, Bruder A, Campbell J, Catchen MD, Cavender-Bares J, Chase J, Coops N, Costello MJ, Czúcz B, Delavaud A, Dornelas M, Dubois G, Duffy EJ, Eggermont H, Fernandez M, Fernandez N, Ferrier S, Geller GN, Gill M, Gravel D, Guerra CA, Guralnick R, Harfoot M, Hirsch T, Hoban S, Hughes AC, Hugo W, Hunter ME, Isbell F, Jetz W, Juergens N, Kissling WD, Krug CB, Kullberg P, Le Bras Y, Leung B, Londoño-Murcia MC, Lord JM, Loreau M, Luers A, Ma K, MacDonald AJ, Maes J, McGeoch M, Mihoub JB, Millette KL, Molnar Z, Montes E, Mori AS, Muller-Karger FE, Muraoka H, Nakaoka M, Navarro L, Newbold T, Niamir A, Obura D, O'Connor M, Paganini M, Pelletier D, Pereira H, Poisot T, Pollock LJ, Purvis A, Radulovici A, Rocchini D, Roeoesli C, Schaepman M, Schaepman-Strub G, Schmeller DS, Schmiedel U, Schneider FD, Shakya MM, Skidmore A, Skowno AL, Takeuchi Y, Tuanmu MN, Turak E, Turner W, Urban MC, Urbina-Cardona N, Valbuena R, Van de Putte A, van Havre B, Wingate VR, Wright E, Torrelio CZ
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action.
Gonzalez A, Vihervaara P, Balvanera P, Bates AE, Bayraktarov E, Bellingham PJ, Bruder A, Campbell J, Catchen MD, Cavender-Bares J, Chase J, Coops N, Costello MJ, Czúcz B, Delavaud A, Dornelas M, Dubois G, Duffy EJ, Eggermont H, Fernandez M, Fernandez N, Ferrier S, Geller GN, Gill M, Gravel D, Guerra CA, Guralnick R, Harfoot M, Hirsch T, Hoban S, Hughes AC, Hugo W, Hunter ME, Isbell F, Jetz W, Juergens N, Kissling WD, Krug CB, Kullberg P, Le Bras Y, Leung B, Londoño-Murcia MC, Lord JM, Loreau M, Luers A, Ma K, MacDonald AJ, Maes J, McGeoch M, Mihoub JB, Millette KL, Molnar Z, Montes E, Mori AS, Muller-Karger FE, Muraoka H, Nakaoka M, Navarro L, Newbold T, Niamir A, Obura D, O'Connor M, Paganini M, Pelletier D, Pereira H, Poisot T, Pollock LJ, Purvis A, Radulovici A, Rocchini D, Roeoesli C, Schaepman M, Schaepman-Strub G, Schmeller DS, Schmiedel U, Schneider FD, Shakya MM, Skidmore A, Skowno AL, Takeuchi Y, Tuanmu MN, Turak E, Turner W, Urban MC, Urbina-Cardona N, Valbuena R, Van de Putte A, van Havre B, Wingate VR, Wright E, Torrelio CZ
Detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change: needs, gaps and solutions.
Tekwa E, Gonzalez A, Zurell D, O'Connor M
Pain, Analgesic Use, and Patient Satisfaction With Spinal Versus General Anesthesia for Hip Fracture Surgery : A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Neuman MD, Feng R, Ellenberg SS, Sieber F, Sessler DI, Magaziner J, Elkassabany N, Schwenk ES, Dillane D, Marcantonio ER, Menio D, Ayad S, Hassan M, Stone T, Papp S, Donegan D, Marshall M, Jaffe JD, Luke C, Sharma B, Azim S, Hymes R, Chin KJ, Sheppard R, Perlman B, Sappenfield J, Hauck E, Hoeft MA, Tierney A, Gaskins LJ, Horan AD, Brown T, Dattilo J, Carson JL, REGAIN (Regional versus General Anesthesia for Promoting Independence after Hip Fracture) Investigators*, Looke T, Bent S, Franco-Mora A, Hedrick P, Newbern M, Tadros R, Pealer K, Vlassakov K, Buckley C, Gavin L, Gorbatov S, Gosnell J, Steen T, Vafai A, Zeballos J, Hruslinski J, Cardenas L, Berry A, Getchell J, Quercetti N, Bajracharya G, Billow D, Bloomfield M, Cuko E, Elyaderani MK, Hampton R, Honar H, Khoshknabi D, Kim D, Krahe D, Lew MM, Maheshwer CB, Niazi A, Saha P, Salih A, de Swart RJ, Volio A, Bolkus K, DeAngelis M, Dodson G, Gerritsen J, McEniry B, Mitrev L, Kwofie MK, Belliveau A, Bonazza F, Lloyd V, Panek I, Dabiri J, Chavez C, Craig J, Davidson T, Dietrichs C, Fleetwood C, Foley M, Getto C, Hailes S, Hermes S, Hooper A, Koener G, Kohls K, Law L, Lipp A, Losey A, Nelson W, Nieto M, Rogers P, Rutman S, Scales G, Sebastian B, Stanciu T, Lobel G, Giampiccolo M, Herman D, Kaufman M, Murphy B, Pau C, Puzio T, Veselsky M, Apostle K, Boyer D, Fan BC, Lee S, Lemke M, Merchant R, Moola F, Payne K, Perey B, Viskontas D, Poler M, D'Antonio P, O'Neill G, Abdullah A, Fish-Fuhrmann J, Giska M, Fidkowski C, Guthrie ST, Hakeos W, Hayes L, Hoegler J, Nowak K, Beck J, Cuff J, Gaski G, Haaser S, Holzman M, Malekzadeh AS, Ramsey L, Schulman J, Schwartzbach C, Azefor T, Davani A, Jaberi M, Masear C, Haider SB, Chungu C, Ebrahimi A, Fikry K, Marcantonio A, Shelvan A, Sanders D, Clarke C, Lawendy A, Schwartz G, Garg M, Kim J, Caruci J, Commeh E, Cuevas R, Cuff G, Franco L, Furgiuele D, Giuca M, Allman M, Barzideh O, Cossaro J, D'Arduini A, Farhi A, Gould J, Kafel J, Patel A, Peller A, Reshef H, Safur M, Toscano F, Tedore T, Akerman M, Brumberger E, Clark S, Friedlander R, Jegarl A, Lane J, Lyden JP, Mehta N, Murrell MT, Painter N, Ricci W, Sbrollini K, Sharma R, Steel PAD, Steinkamp M, Weinberg R, Wellman DS, Nader A, Fitzgerald P, Ritz M, Bryson G, Craig A, Farhat C, Gammon B, Gofton W, Harris N, Lalonde K, Liew A, Meulenkamp B, Sonnenburg K, Wai E, Wilkin G, Troxell K, Alderfer ME, Brannen J, Cupitt C, Gerhart S, McLin R, Sheidy J, Yurick K, Chen F, Dragert K, Kiss G, Malveaux H, McCloskey D, Mellender S, Mungekar SS, Noveck H, Sagebien C, Biby L, McKelvy G, Richards A, Abola R, Ayala B, Halper D, Mavarez A, Rizwan S, Choi S, Awad I, Flynn B, Henry P, Jenkinson R, Kaustov L, Lappin E, McHardy P, Singh A, Donnelly J, Gonzalez M, Haydel C, Livelsberger J, Pazionis T, Slattery B, Vazquez-Trejo M, Baratta J, Cirullo M, Deiling B, Deschamps L, Glick M, Katz D, Krieg J, Lessin J, Mojica J, Torjman M, Jin R, Salpeter MJ, Powell M, Simmons J, Lawson P, Kukreja P, Graves S, Sturdivant A, Bryant A, Crump SJ, Verrier M, Green J, Menon M, Applegate R, Arias A, Pineiro N, Uppington J, Wolinsky P, Gunnett A, Hagen J, Harris S, Hollen K, Holloway B, Horodyski MB, Pogue T, Ramani R, Smith C, Woods A, Warrick M, Flynn K, Mongan P, Ranganath Y, Fernholz S, Ingersoll-Weng E, Marian A, Seering M, Sibenaller Z, Stout L, Wagner A, Walter A, Wong C, Orwig D, Goud M, Helker C, Mezenghie L, Montgomery B, Preston P, Schwartz JS, Weber R, Fleisher LA, Mehta S, Stephens-Shields AJ, Dinh C, Chelly JE, Goel S, Goncz W, Kawabe T, Khetarpal S, Monroe A, Shick V, Breidenstein M, Dominick T, Friend A, Mathews D, Lennertz R, Sanders R, Akere H, Balweg T, Bo A, Doro C, Goodspeed D, Lang G, Parker M, Rettammel A, Roth M, White M, Whiting P, Allen BFS, Baker T, Craven D, McEvoy M, Turnbo T, Kates S, Morgan M, Willoughby T, Weigel W, Auyong D, Fox E, Welsh T, Cusson B, Dobson S, Edwards C, Harris L, Henshaw D, Johnson K, McKinney G, Miller S, Reynolds J, Segal BS, Turner J, VanEenenaam D, Weller R, Lei J, Treggiari M, Akhtar S, Blessing M, Johnson C, Kampp M, Kunze K, O'Connor M, Looke T, Tadros R, Vlassakov K, Cardenas L, Bolkus K, Mitrev L, Kwofie MK, Dabiri J, Lobel G, Poler M, Giska M, Sanders D, Schwartz G, Giuca M, Tedore T, Nader A, Bryson G, Troxell K, Kiss G, Choi S, Powell M, Applegate R, Warrick M, Ranganath Y, Chelly JE, Lennertz R, Sanders R, Allen BFS, Kates S, Weigel W, Li J, Wijeysundera DN, Kheterpal S, Moore RH, Smith AK, Tosi LL, Looke T, Mehta S, Fleisher L, Hruslinski J, Ramsey L, Langlois C, Mezenghie L, Montgomery B, Oduwole S, Rose T, REGAIN (Regional versus General Anesthesia for Promoting Independence after Hip Fracture) Investigators
Evaluating the benefits of co-restoration of clams and seagrass to support ecosystem services and food security
Principal investigators: O'Connor, Mary
Keywords: Environment; Agriculture and primary food production
Finding synergies in climate solutions, ecological restoration and ecosystem services of nearshore habitats in Desolation Sound BC
Principal investigators: O'Connor, Mary MI
Keywords: eelgrass; human impacts; natural climate solution; restoration
Coastal Habitat Comprehensive Research Project Phase II: Coastal Ecosystem Program
Principal investigators: O'Connor, Mary MI
Keywords: climate change; coastal; ecology; ecosystem function; eelgrass; restoration; subarctic
Ecology of change: metabolic scaling in symbioses, populations and communities
Principal investigators: O'Connor, Mary
Keywords: metabolic theory; biodiversity; aquatic; marine; ecological theory; experiment; population dynamics; trophic interactions; consumer resource interaction; resource limitation
Sentinels of Change
Principal investigators: Harley, Christopher C
Keywords: biodiversity; climate change; community engagement; dungeness crab; estuary; long-term ecological monitoring; marine; population genetics; salish sea; sessile invertebrates
Evaluating the Current and Future Capacity for Natural Climate Solutions in Canada's Oceans
Principal investigators: Baum, Julia JK
Keywords: carbon sinks; climate change projections; kelp forests; marine conservation; marine protected areas; nature based climate solutions; ocean policy; seagrass; species distributions models; tidal marsh
NSERC CREATE in ecology, evolution and environmental science: The Living Data Project
Principal investigators: Srivastava, Diane DS
Keywords: archival science; collaboration skills; data management; ecology; environmental science; evolution; intergenerational knowledge exchange; open science; reproducible research; synthesis science
The hidden costs of supply chains: a global investigation
Keywords: journalism; international reporting; investigative reporting; broadcast media; global supply chains; corruption; forced labour; environmental impact; consumerism; corporate social responsibility; global environmental governance; ethical trade
Developing a Metabolic Scaling and Biodiversity Framework to estimate Ecosystem Adaptive Capacity
Principal investigators: O'Connor, Mary
Developing a Metabolic Scaling and Biodiversity Framework to estimate Ecosystem Adaptive Capacity
Principal investigators: OConnor, Mary
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Dominique Gravel and Andrew Gonzalez: 7 shared papers
- Allan Liew and Geoffrey Wilkin: 6 shared papers
- Brian Leung and Andrew Gonzalez: 4 shared papers
- Mary O'Connor and Andrew Gonzalez: 3 shared papers
- Brian Leung and Dominique Gravel: 3 shared papers
- Stephen Choi and Ki Chin: 2 shared papers
- Mary O'Connor and Brian Leung: 2 shared papers
- Mary O'Connor and Nicholas Coops: 2 shared papers
- Mary O'Connor and Dominique Gravel: 2 shared papers
- Brian Leung and Nicholas Coops: 2 shared papers
- Nicholas Coops and Dominique Gravel: 2 shared papers
- Allan Liew and James Green: 1 shared paper
- Allan Liew and Stephen Choi: 1 shared paper
- Allan Liew and Susan Lee: 1 shared paper
- Allan Liew and Ki Chin: 1 shared paper
- Allan Liew and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- James Green and Geoffrey Wilkin: 1 shared paper
- James Green and Stephen Choi: 1 shared paper
- James Green and Susan Lee: 1 shared paper
- James Green and Ki Chin: 1 shared paper
- James Green and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Geoffrey Wilkin and Stephen Choi: 1 shared paper
- Geoffrey Wilkin and Susan Lee: 1 shared paper
- Geoffrey Wilkin and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Stephen Choi and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Susan Lee and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Ki Chin and Mary O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Biology
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- Départe de biologie
- Forestry
- Regenerative Medicine
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Andrew Gonzalez
Biology
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Brian Leung
Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Nicholas Coops
Forestry
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Dominique Gravel
Départe de biologie
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Allan Liew
Regenerative Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
James Green
Systems and Computer Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Geoffrey Wilkin
Orthopedic Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Stephen Choi
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Susan Lee
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Ki Chin
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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