People
Joey Bernhardt
Ph.D., Zoology
2018-2020 Post-doctoral fellow, McGill University
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biology (McGill University)
Joey’s research seeks to understand how populations and communities adapt and persist in changing environments. She integrates across levels of biological organization to quantify how flows of energy and materials at the level of the individual cascade up to shape populations over environmental gradients. By combing theory, experiments and synthesis, she aims to understand the metabolic underpinnings of biodiversity and the connections between biodiversity and human well-being. Her work unifies perspectives on energy flow with population and community ecology to advance a more coherent and mechanistic science of global change.
Publications
Brown, N.E., Bernhardt, J.R., Anderson, K.M. and Harley, C.D., 2018. Increased food supply mitigates ocean acidification effects on calcification but exacerbates effects on growth. Scientific Reports, 8(1), p.9800. link
Bernhardt, J.R., Sunday, J.M., Thompson, P.L. and M.I. O’Connor, 2018. Nonlinear averaging of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in thermally variable environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1076 link
Singh, GG, Hilmi, N, Bernhardt, J, et al. Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us. People Nat. 2019; 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.26 link
Bernhardt, J.R., Kratina, P., Pereira, A.L., Tamminen, M., Thomas, M.K., & Narwani, A. (2020). The evolution of competitive ability for essential resources. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 375: 20190247. link.
Research fellow Joey Bernhardt (McGill University) is lead author on a new study published in Philosophical Transactions B that aims to answer how species’ competitive traits evolve in response to limited resources.
