Current Projects

  • Regime Shifts on Rocky Shores

    Assessing the impact of species interactions, disease, and marine heatwaves on rocky intertidal communities

    Read our publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution

  • Scientific Machine Learning

    Developing software to analyze ecological data with universal dynamic equations and other SciML tools

    Check out our Julia package and R package | Read our preprint on arXiv

  • Regime Shifts on Coral Reefs

    Applying scientific machine learning to detect and predict regime shifts between coral- and algal-dominated states

  • Benthic-pelagic Coupling

    Comparing oceanographic conditions and invertebrate larvae recruitment in Oregon and Nova Scotia

    Read more here

  • Foundation Species Interactions

    Testing the interactions between mussels and surfgrass along the Oregon coast

  • Dimensions of Invertebrate Biodiversity

    Analyzing the taxonomic and functional diversity of invertebrates living in mussel beds and surfgrass meadows

    Read our publication in Scientific Reports

Past Projects

Publications

Journal Articles

4 | Meunier ZD, Hacker SD, and Menge BA. 2024. Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 1285-1297. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02425-5 | PDF

Media coverage: Television interview with KGW (Portland’s NBC station) | Interview with KMUN (Astoria’s NPR station) | Press release from OSU Newsroom

3 | Cameron NM, Scrosati RA, Valdivia N, and Meunier ZD. 2024. Global taxonomic and functional patterns in invertebrate assemblages from rocky-intertidal mussel beds. Scientific Reports 14:26. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50549-8

2 | Grorud-Colvert K, Constant V, Sullivan-Stack J, Dziedzic K, Hamilton SL, Randell Z, Fulton-Bennett H, Meunier ZD, Bachhuber S, Rickborn AJ, Spiecker B, and Lubchenco J. 2019. High-profile international commitments for ocean protection: Empty promises or meaningful progress? Marine Policy 105:52-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.04.003 

1 | Hakes AS and Meunier ZD. 2018. Nonhost neighborhood increases biocontrol weevil damage to the nontarget, federally threatened Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri). Global Ecology and Conservation 13:e00376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00376

Encyclopedia Entries

2 | Menge BA, Tonra KJ, Bachhuber SM, Feezell MK, Fulton-Bennett HK, Meunier ZD, Freidenburg TL, and Iles AC. 2023. Keystone Species in Scheiner, SM (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, vol. 5, pp. 133-151. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00143-2

1 | Meunier ZD. 2023. The Blob: Impacts of the 2013-2016 Marine Heatwave on Oregon in The Oregon Encyclopedia. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/the-blob-of-2015/