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Hamish Greig

Hamish Greig is an ecologist at the University of Maine, Orono. His research focuses on freshwater ecosystems, including stream and wetland invertebrate communities, ecosystem-level effects of climate change, and species interactions in aquatic food webs.[1]

Research

Greig's publication record, indexed by Semantic Scholar, comprises 49 papers with a combined total of 3,036 citations and an h-index of 22.[2] His work spans topics such as climate-driven range expansions and their consequences for ecosystem functions, the ecology of aquatic arthropods in freshwater wetlands, density dependence in stream insect populations, and interactions between invasive and native fish species under warming conditions.[3][4][5][6]

Greig received a National Science Foundation grant for the project "Collaborative Research: Consequences of Climate-Induced Range Shifts on Multiple Ecosystem Functions," awarded to the University of Maine on March 9, 2016, in the amount of $241,289.[7]

Selected publications

  • Feedbacks Between Climate and Freshwater Ecosystem Engineers, WIREs Water (2026)
  • Threats to the Aquatic Arthropods of Freshwater Wetlands in a Changing Global Environment, Annual Review of Entomology (2025)
  • Ecosystem-size relationships of river populations and communities, Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2024)
  • Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2024)
  • A global assessment of environmental and climate influences on wetland macroinvertebrate community structure and function, Global Change Biology (2024)
  • Consequences of climate-induced range expansions on multiple ecosystem functions, Communications Biology (2023)
  • Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) suppress Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) feeding activity and increase aggressive behaviours at warmer temperatures, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (2023)
  • Species-specific traits predict whole-assemblage detritus processing by pond invertebrates, Oecologia (2022)
  • Regulation of open populations of a stream insect through larval density dependence, Journal of Animal Ecology (2022)
  • Developing a standard operating procedure for species identifications of dragonfly larvae using DNA barcoding: A contribution of the Dragonfly Mercury Project (2022)
  1. Semantic Scholar author profile for Hamish Greig.
  2. Semantic Scholar author profile for Hamish Greig.
  3. Greig et al., "Consequences of climate-induced range expansions on multiple ecosystem functions," Communications Biology, 2023.
  4. Greig et al., "Threats to the Aquatic Arthropods of Freshwater Wetlands in a Changing Global Environment," Annual Review of Entomology, 2025.
  5. Greig et al., "Regulation of open populations of a stream insect through larval density dependence," Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022.
  6. Greig et al., "Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) suppress Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) feeding activity and increase aggressive behaviours at warmer temperatures," Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 2023.
  7. National Science Foundation award records.