Michael J. Spear

The Invasion Ecology of Sleeper Populations: Prevalence, Persistence, and Abrupt Shifts

Michael J. Spear, Jake R. Walsh, Anthony Ricciardi et al. · BioScience · 2020 · 129 citations · Full text

Biodiversity, Abrupt Shifts, Engineering +12

Application of eDNA as a tool for assessing fish population abundance

Michael J. Spear, Holly S. Embke, Patrick J. Krysan et al. · Environmental DNA · 2020 · 122 citations · Full text

Fishery Assessment, Fish Population Abundance, Biodiversity +9

Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: reconstructing established fish communities of north‐temperate lakes and rivers

Peter T. Euclide, Yer Lor, Michael J. Spear et al. · Diversity and Distributions · 2021 · 30 citations · Full text

Biology, Community Structure, Biodiversity +14

Using eDNA, sediment subfossils, and zooplankton nets to detect invasive spiny water flea (Bythotrephes longimanus)

Jake R. Walsh, Michael J. Spear, Thomas P. Shannon et al. · Biological Invasions · 2018 · 24 citations

Biology, Invasive Specie, Sediment Subfossils +6

Biometric conversion factors as a unifying platform for comparative assessment of invasive freshwater bivalves

Neil E. Coughlan, Eoghan M. Cunningham, Ross N. Cuthbert et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2021 · 18 citations · Full text

Biodiversity, High Accuracy, Biomass Metrics +12