Publications

1.# O’Dwyer JP (2005) Non-perturbative tachyon potentials from the Wilsonian renormalization group, Modern Physics Letters. A20:807-813.
2. # O’Dwyer JP, Osborn H (2007) Epsilon expansion for multicritical fixed points and exact renormalization group equations. Annals of Physics 323:1859-1897.
3. * O’Dwyer JP, Lake JK, Ostling A, Savage VM, Green JL (2009) An integrative framework for stochastic, size-structured community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:6170-6175.
4. * O’Dwyer JP, Green JL (2010) Field theory for biogeography: a spatially-explicit model for predicting patterns of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 13:87-95.
5. * Sharpton TJ, Riesenfeld SJ, Kembel SW, Ladau J, O’Dwyer JP, Green JL, Eisen JA, Pollard KS (2011) PhylOTU: A high-throughput procedure quantifies microbial community diversity and resolves novel taxa from metagenomic data. PLoS Computational Biology 7(1): e1001061.
6. * O’Dwyer JP (2012) The dynamics of adapting, unregulated populations and a modified fundamental theorem. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. rsif.2012.0538.
7. * O’Dwyer JP, Kembel S, Green JL (2012) Phylogenetic diversity theory sheds light on the structure of complex microbial communities. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(12):e1002832.
8. * Ladau J, Sharpton TJ, Kembel SW, O’Dwyer JP, Green JL, Eisen JA, Pollard KS (2013) Global marine bacterial diversity peaks at high latitudes in winter. ISME Journal. 7:1669–1677.
9. * Chisholm R, O’Dwyer JP (2014) Species ages in neutral biodiversity models. Theoretical Population Biology 93:85-94.
10. * O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm R (2014) A mean field model for competition: from neutral ecology to the red queen Ecology Letters 17: 961–969.
11. * Marquet PA, Allen AP, Brown, JH, Dunne J, Enquist BJ, Gillooly JF, Gowaty P, Green JL, Storch D, Harte J, Hubbell SP, O´Dwyer JP, Okie J, Ritchie M, Ostling A, West GB (2014) On theory in ecology. BioScience 64:701–710.
12. * O’Dwyer JP, Kembel S, Sharpton TJ (2015) Backbones of evolutionary history test biodiversity theory for microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:1356–1361.
13. * Xiao X, O’Dwyer JP, White EP (2016) Comparing process-based and constraint-based approaches for modeling macroecological patterns. Ecology 97: 1228–1238.
14. * Fung TC, O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm RA (2016) Reproducing static and dynamic biodiversity patterns in tropical forests: the critical role of environmental variance. Ecology 97:1207–1217.
15. * Chisholm RA, Fung TC, Chimalakonda D, O’Dwyer JP. (2016) Maintenance of biodiversity on islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160102.
16. Fung TC, O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm RA. (2017) Species-abundance distributions under colored environmental noise. Journal of Mathematical Biology 74: 289-311.
17. * O’Dwyer JP, Kandler, A. (2017) Inferring processes of cultural transmission: the critical role of rare variants in distinguishing neutrality from novelty biases. In press at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
18. * O’Dwyer JP, Rominger A, Xiao X. (2017) Reinterpreting Maximum Entropy in Ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism. Ecology Letters 20:832-841.
19. * D’Andrea R, O’Dwyer JP. (2017) The impact of species-neutral stage structure on macroecological patterns. Theoretical Ecology DOI:10.1007/s12080-017-0340-5
20. * D’Andrea R, O’Dwyer JP. (2017) Can editors save peer review for peer reviewers? PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186111
21. + O’Dwyer JP. (2017) Contests between species aid biodiversity. Nature 548:166-167.
22. * D’Andrea R, Ostling AM, O’Dwyer JP. (2018) Translucent windows: how uncertainty in competitive interactions impacts detection of community pattern. Ecology Letters 21:826-835.
23. * Sutton NM, O’Dwyer JP. (2018) Born to run? Quantifying the balance of prior bias and new information in prey escape decisions. American Naturalist 192:321-331
24. * O’Dwyer JP, Cornell, SJ. (2018) Cross-scale neutral ecology and the maintenance of
biodiversity. Scientific Reports 8:10200.
25. * O’Dwyer JP. (2018) Whence Lotka-Volterra? Conservation Laws and Integrable Systems in Ecology. Theoretical Ecology 11: 441–452.
26. * Gaulke CA, Arnold HK, Kembel SW, O’Dwyer JP, Sharpton TJ. (2018) Ecophylogenetics Clarifies the Evolutionary Associations between Mammals and their Gut Microbiota. mBio 9:e01348-18.
27. * Butler S, O’Dwyer JP. (2018) Stability Criteria for Complex Microbial Communities. Nature Communications 9:2970.
28. * Fung T, O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm RA (2018) Quantifying species extinction risk under temporal environmental variance. Ecological Complexity 34:139-146.
29. *Fung T, O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm RA (2019) Partitioning the effects of deterministic and stochastic processes on species extinction risk. Ecological Complexity. 38, 156-167
30. * Butler S, O’Dwyer JP. (2020) Cooperation and stability for complex systems in resource-limited environments. Theoretical Ecology 13: 239–250.
31. * D’Andrea R, Guittar J, Wright SJ, Condit R, O’Dwyer JP, Ostling AM (2020) Counting niches: Abundance‐by‐trait patterns reveal niche partitioning in a Neotropical forest. Ecology e03019.
32. * O’Dwyer JP (2020) Stability Constrains How Populations Spread Risk in a Model of Food Exchange. One Earth (Cell Press) 2:269-283.
33. + O’Dwyer JP. (2020) Beyond an ecological ideal gas law. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:14-15.
34. * Muscarella ME, O’Dwyer JP (2020) Species dynamics and interactions via metabolically informed consumer-resource models. Theoretical Ecology 13: 503—518.
35. * D’Andrea R, Gibbs TE, O’Dwyer JP (2020) Emergent neutrality in consumer-resource
dynamics. PLOS Computational Biology doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008102
36. * Andris C, Liu X, Mitchell J, O’Dwyer JP, Van Cleve J (2021) Threads across the urban fabric: Youth mentorship relationships as neighborhood bridges. Journal of Urban Affairs 1–16.
37. * D’Andrea R, O’Dwyer JP (2021) Competition for space in a structured landscape: the effect of seed limitation on coexistence under a tolerance-fecundity tradeoff. Journal of Ecology. 109:1886-1897.
38. * Sutton NM, Weston M, Guay P, Tregoweth J, O’Dwyer JP (2021) A Bayesian optimal escape model reveals bird species differ in their capacity to habituate to humans. Behavioral Ecology 32:1064-1074.
39. * Fung T, O’Dwyer JP, Chisholm RA (2022) Effects of temporal environmental stochasticity on species richness: a mechanistic unification spanning weak to strong temporal correlations. Oikos e08667.
40. Gibbs TE, Zhang Y, Miller ZR, O’Dwyer JP (2022) Stability criteria for the consumption and exchange of essential resources. BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.24.469922v1.abstract