*Downloads for papers may also be found on David Murrell’s Researchgate

Burgess, B. J., Jackson, M.C., Murrell, D.J. (2021) Multiple stressor null models frequently fail to detect most interactions due to low statistical power. bioRxiv 2021.07.21.453207; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.21.453207

Reijenga, B.R., Murrell, D.J. and Pigot, A.L. (2021), Priority effects and the macroevolutionary dynamics of biodiversity. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13766

Burgess, B.J., Purves, D., Mace, G. and Murrell, D.J. (2021), Classifying ecosystem stressor interactions: Theory highlights the data limitations of the additive null model and the difficulty in revealing ecological surprises. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15630

Llewellyn, T., Gaya, E., & Murrell, D. J. (2020) Are Urban Communities in Successional Stasis? A         Case Study on Epiphytic Lichen Communities. Diversity, 12, 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090330

Day, J. J., Martins, F. C., Tobias, J. A., & Murrell, D. J. (2020) Contrasting trajectories of morphological diversification on continents and islands in the Afrotropical white‐eye radiation. Journal of  Biogeography; 00: 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13917

Burgess, B. J., Purves, D. W., Mace, G., & Murrell. D. J. (2020) Ecological theory predicts ecosystem stressor interactions in freshwater ecosystems, but highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the additive null model. bioRxiv 2020.08.10.243972; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.10.243972

Doble, C. J., Hipperson, H., Salzburger, W., Horsburgh, G. J., Mwita, C., Murrell, D. J., & Day, J. J. (2020) Testing the performance of environmental DNA metabarcoding for surveying highly diverse tropical fish communities: A case study from Lake Tanganyika. Environmental DNA; 2: 24– 41. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.43

Britton, A. W., Murrell, D. J., McGill, R. A. R., Doble, C. J., Ramage, C. I., & Day, J. J. (2019) The effects of land use disturbance vary with trophic position in littoral cichlid fish communities from Lake Tanganyika. Freshwater Biology; 64: 1114– 1130. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13287

Maggs, G., Norris, K., Zuël, N., Murrell, D. J.,  Ewen, J. G., Tatayah, V. Jones, C. G. & Nicoll, M. (2019) Quantifying drivers of supplementary food use by a reintroduced, critically endangered passerine to inform management and habitat restoration. Biological Conservation, 238: 108240 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108240

Rajala, T., Olhede, S. C., & Murrell, D. J. (2019) When do we have the power to detect biological interactions in spatial point patterns?. Journal of Ecology; 107: 711– 721. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13080

Rajala, T., Murrell, D. J. & Olhede, S. C. (2018), Detecting multivariate interactions in spatial point patterns with Gibbs models and variable selection. J. R. Stat. Soc. C, 67: 1237-1273. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12281

Murrell D. J. (2018) A global envelope test to detect non‐random bursts of trait evolution. Methods Ecol Evol. 2018;9:1739–1748. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13006

Britton, A. W., Day, J. J., Doble, C. J., Ngatunga, B. P., Kemp, K. M., Carbone, C, & Murrell, D. J. (2017) Terrestrial-focused protected areas are effective for conservation of freshwater fish diversity in Lake Tanganyika. Biological Conservation, 212: 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.06.001

Friman, V., Dupont, A., Bass, D., Murrell, D. J., & Bell, T. (2016) Relative importance of evolutionary dynamics depends on the composition of microbial predator–prey community. ISME Journal, 10, 1352–1362. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.217

Stoll, P., Murrell, D.J. & Newbery, D.M. (2015), Effect sizes and standardization in neighbourhood models of forest stands: potential biases and misinterpretations. Methods Ecol Evol, 6: 1117-1125. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12409

Flügge, A.; Olhede, S. & Murrell, D. J. (2014) Detecting sub-communities in ecosystems from multivariate spatial associations. Methods Ecol Evol, 5(11): 1214–1224, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12295.

Barraquand, F. & Murrell, D. J. (2013) Scaling up predator–prey dynamics using spatial moment equations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 276–289. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12014. [Link]

Barraquand, F. & Murrell, D. J. (2012) Intense or Spatially Heterogeneous Predation Can Select against Prey Dispersal. PLoS ONE 7(1): e28924. [Link]

Barraquand, F. & Murrell, D. J. (2012) Evolutionarily stable consumer home range size in relation to resource demography and consumer spatial organization. Theoretical Ecology, 5: 567-589. doi:10.1007/s12080-011-0148-7. [Link]

Nattrass, S.; Baigent, S. A. & Murrell, D. J. (2012) Quantifying the likelihood of coexistence for communities with asymmetric competition. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 74: 2315-2338. doi 10.1007/s11538-012-9755-8. [Link]

Flügge, A.; Olhede, S. & Murrell, D. J. (2012) The memory of spatial patterns- aggregation and population size changes in a tropical forest. Ecology, 93:1540–1549. doi.org/10.1890/11-1004.1. [Link]

Murrell, D.J. (2010) When does spatial structure hinder coexistence and reverse competitive hierarchies? Ecology, 91, 1605-1616. [Link]

Renz, D. R.; Murrell, D.J. & Stoll, P. (2010) Testing spatial theories of plant coexistence: No consistent differences in Intra- and interspecific interaction distances. The American Naturalist, 175, 73-84. [Link]

Murrell, D. J. (2009) On the emergent spatial structure of size-structured populations: when does self-thinning lead to a reduction in clustering? Journal of Ecology, 97, 256-266. [Link]

Ellis, R.J; Murrell. D.J.; Lacey, S.J.; Lilley, A. K. & Godfray, H.C.J. (2007) Frequency-dependent advantages of plasmid carriage by a pseudomonad bacteria in homogeneous and spatially structured environments. The International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, 1: 92-95.

van Veen, F. J. F. & Murrell, D. J. (2005) A simple explanation for universal scaling relations in food webs. Ecology. 86: 3258-3263.

Murrell, D. J. (2005) Local spatial structure and predator-prey dynamics: counterintuitive effects of prey enrichment. The American Naturalist, 166, 354-367.

Murrell, D. J. (2005) Local spatial structure and invasion dynamics: population growth in space and time. In: Conceptual Ecology and Invasions Biology: reciprocal approaches to nature, eds S. McMahon, T. Fukami & M. W. Cadotte. Kluwer Academic Press.

Murrell, D. J., Law, R. & Dieckmann, U. (2004) On moment closures for population dynamics in continuous space. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 229, 421-432.

Levine, J. & Murrell, D. J. (2003) The community-level consequences of seed dispersal patterns. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 34, 549-574.

Murrell, D. J. & Law, R. (2003) Heteromyopia and the spatial coexistence of similar competitors. Ecology Letters, 6, 48-59.

Law, R., Murrell, D. J. & Dieckmann, U. (2003) Population growth in space and time: spatial logistic equations. Ecology, 84, 252-262.

Murrell, D. J., Purves, D. W. & Law, R. (2002) Intraspecific aggregation and species coexistence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 17, 211.

Murrell, D. J., Dytham, C. & Travis, J. M. J. (2002) The evolution of dispersal distance: consequences for population dynamics. Oikos, 97, 229-236.

Murrell, D. J., Purves, D. W. & Law, R. (2001) Uniting pattern and process in plant ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 529-530.

Law, R., Purves, D. W., Murrell, D. J. & Dieckmann, U. (2001) Causes and effects of small-scale spatial structure in plant populations. In (Eds J. Silvertown & J. Antonovics) Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context, pp 21-44. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Murrell, D. J. & Law, R. (2000) Beetles in fragmented woodlands: a formal framework for dynamics of movement in ecological landscapes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69, 471-483.

Travis, J. M. J., Murrell, D. J. & Dytham, C. (1999) The evolution of density-dependent dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 266, 1837-1842.