Publications

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*Indicates joint lead-authorship.

22: McCarthy, A. H., Steadman, D., Richardson, H., Murphy, J., Benbow, S., Brian, J. I., ... & Mukherjee, N. (2024). Destructive fishing: An expert-driven definition and exploration of this quasi-concept. Conservation Letters, e13015.

21: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2024). Host and parasite identity interact in scale-dependent fashion to determine parasite community structure. Oecologia, 204, 199-211.

20: Brian, J. I., & Catford, J. A. (2023). A mechanistic framework of enemy release. Ecology Letters, 26(12), 2147-2166.

19: Brian, J. I., & Catford, J. A. (2023). Ecological scale and context dependence. In: Cousens R. D. (ed.) Effective ecology: seeking success in a hard science. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Milton Park, United Kingdom, pp. 63-80.

18: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2023). Enigmatic freshwater mussel declines could be explained by the biodiversity-disease relationship. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60(9), 1771-1777.

17: Brian, J. I. (2023). Parasites in biodiversity conservation: friend or foe? Trends in Parasitology, 39(8), 618-621.

16: Aldridge, D. C., Brian, J. I., Ćmiel, A., Lipińska, A., Lopes-Lima, M., Sousa, R., ... & Zając, T. (2023). Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel, Unio crassus. Ecology, 104(5), e4026.

15: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2023). Factors at multiple scales drive parasite community structure. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(2), 377-390.

14: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2022). Mussel parasite richness and risk of extinction. Conservation Biology, 36(6), e13979.

13: Brian, J. I., Reynolds, S. A., & Aldridge, D. C. (2022). Parasitism dramatically alters the ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels. Functional Ecology, 36(8), 2029-2043.

Shortlisted for the Haldane Prize

12: Willer, D. F., Brian, J. I., Derrick, C. J., Hicks, M., Pacay, A., McCarthy, A. H., ... & Steadman, D. (2022). ‘Destructive fishing’—A ubiquitously used but vague term? Usage and impacts across academic research, media and policy. Fish and Fisheries, 23(5), 1039-1054.

11: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2021). Both presence–absence and abundance models provide important and different information about parasite infracommunities. Parasitology Research, 120(11), 3933-3937.

10: Brian, J. I., Dunne, S. E., Ellis, C. L., & Aldridge, D. C. (2021). Population‐level effects of parasitism on a freshwater ecosystem engineer, the unionid mussel Anodonta anatina. Freshwater Biology, 66(12), 2240-2250.

9: Brian, J. I., Ollard, I. S., & Aldridge, D. C. (2021). Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action. Conservation Letters, 14(4), e12799.

8: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2021). Abundance data applied to a novel model invertebrate host shed new light on parasite community assembly in nature. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(5), 1096-1108.

7: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2021). A rapid, non‐destructive method for sampling castrating parasites in endangered bivalve molluscs. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(3), 729-735.

6: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2020). An efficient photograph-based quantitative method for assessing castrating trematode parasites in bivalve molluscs. Parasitology, 147(12), 1375-1380.

"Paper of the Month" for the journal Parasitology

5: Brian, J. I*., & Walker-Hale, N*. (2019). Focus on an island rule may hide morphological disparity in insular plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(50), 24929-24930.

4: Brian, J. I., & Aldridge, D. C. (2019). Endosymbionts: An overlooked threat in the conservation of freshwater mussels?. Biological Conservation, 237, 155-165.

3: Brian, J. I., Davy, S. K., & Wilkinson, S. P. (2019). Multi-gene incongruence consistent with hybridisation in Cladocopium (Symbiodiniaceae), an ecologically important genus of coral reef symbionts. PeerJ, 7, e7178.

2: Brian, J. I., Davy, S. K., & Wilkinson, S. P. (2019). Elevated Symbiodiniaceae richness at Atauro Island (Timor-Leste): a highly biodiverse reef system. Coral Reefs, 38(1), 123-136.

1: Wilkinson, S. P., Brian, J. I., Pontasch, S., Fisher, P. L., & Davy, S. K. (2018). Intra-genomic variation in Symbiodinium correlates negatively with photosynthetic efficiency and coral host performance. Coral Reefs, 37(3), 691-701.