Daniel McGlinn
Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D. - Oklahoma State UniversityB.S. - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Research Interests
The assembly of ecological communities in space and time. I develop and apply ecological theory to improve our understanding and conservation of biodiversity. I work primarily on plants and birds, but I also apply a cross-taxon perspective when searching for generality of community patterns. My field work primarily focuses on the role of fire and other disturbances in shaping community structure and diversity.
Courses Taught
BIO 211: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation BiologyBIO 453 / EVSS 695: Applied Quantitative Methods
BIO 300: Botany
Selected Publications
Callaghan, C., J.M. Chase, D.J. McGlinn. accepted. Anthropogenic habitat modification causes multiscale bird diversity declines due to decreasing number of individuals. Ecography.
D.J. McGlinn, T. Engel, S.A. Blowes, N.J. Gotelli, T.M. Knight, B.J. McGill, N. Sanders, J.M. Chase. 2021. A multi-scale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density and aggregation on diversity gradients. Ecology. 102:e03233. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3233
McGlinn, D.J. and M.W. Palmer. 2019. Examining the foundations of heterogeneity-based management for promoting plant diversity in a disturbance-prone ecosystem. PeerJ. e6738. https://peerj.com/articles/6738/
McGlinn, D.J. and M.W. Palmer. 2019. Spatial Scale and Biodiversity. In Oxford Bibliographies. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0210
McGlinn, D.J. X. Xiao, F. May, N. Gotelli, T. Engel*, S. Blowes, T. Knight, O. Purschke, J. Chase, and B. McGill. 2019. MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10:258-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13102
Chase, J.M., B. McGill, D.J. McGlinn, F. May, S.A. Blowes, X. Xiao, T. Knight. O. Purschke, and N. Gotelli. 2018. Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities. Ecology Letters. 21:1737-1751. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13151
McGlinn, D.J., X. Xiao, J. Kitzes, E.P. White. 2015. Exploring the spatially explicit predictions of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24:675-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12295
Zanne. A. D.C. Tank, W.K. Cornwell, D.J. McGlinn, and 23 other authors. 2014. Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments. Nature. 506: 89-92. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12872
McGlinn, D.J., X. Xiao, and E.P. White. 2013. An empirical evaluation of four variants of a universal species-area relationship. PeerJ. 1: e212. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.212
McGlinn, D.J. and A.H. Hurlbert. 2012. Scale dependence in species turnover reflects variance in species occupancy. Ecology. 93: 294-302. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0229.1
Honors & Awards
ExternalChanging Face of Coastal South Carolina: Building a Resilient Future - South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium $110,800. 2022
Sabbatical Scholar Fellowship, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, $100,000. 2020-2021
Below Ground Processes Proposal, DOE proposal, $150,000; PI: A. Strand, Co-PI: S. Pritchard. 2015-2018
Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship, Environmental Protection Agency, $100,000, 2005-2008
Enhancing Linkages between Mathematics & Ecology Scholarship, Michigan State University, $500. 2007
Research Experience for Undergraduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation . 2003
Internal
EVSS Graduate Research Assistantship (2 successful student proposals), College of Charleston, $27,000. 2021
Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty (1 successful proposal), College of Charleston, $6,500. 2020
SSM summer undergraduate research award (9 successful proposals), College of Charleston, $36,000. 2018-2023