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Michael Blum

Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment Section

Michael Blum

Contact Information

201 Fernow Hall
Ithaca, NY
Tompkins County

mjblum [at] cornell.edu

Publications

Bernik, B.M., Lumibao, C.Y., Zengel, S., Pardue, J., Blum, M.J. 2021. Intraspecific variation in landform engineering across a restored salt marsh shoreline. Evolutionary Applications 14(3): 685-697.

Blum, M.J., Saunders, C.J., McLachlan, J.S., Summers, J., Craft, C., Herrick, J.D. 2021. A century-long  record of plant evolution reconstructed from a coastal marsh seed bank. Evolution Letters 5(4):422-431.

Lisi, P.J., Hogan, J.D., Holt, G., Moody, K.N., Wren, J.L.K, Kobayashi, D.R., Blum, M.J., McIntyre, P.M. 2022. Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby. Ecology 103(11): e3800.

Lumibao, C.Y., Torres Martinez, L. Megonigal, J.P., Van Bael, S., Blum, M.J. 2022. Microbial mediation of salinity stress response varies according to plant genotype and provenance over time. Molecular Ecology 31(17): 4571-4585.

Moody, K.N., Scherer, A.E., O’Connor, D., Heim-Ballew, H., Lisi, P.J. Hogan, J.D., McIntyre, P.B., Blum, M.J. 2021. Effectiveness and outcomes of invasive species removal in Hawaiian streams. Biological Invasions 23: 1739-1763.

Peterson, A.C., Ghersi, B.M., Riegel, C., Wunder, E.A., Childs, J.E., Blum, M.J. 2021. Amplification of pathogenic Leptospira infection with greater abundance and co‐occurrence of rodent hosts across a counter‐urbanizing landscape. Molecular Ecology 30(9): 2145-2161. 

Peterson, A.C., Ghersi, B.M., Campanella, R., Riegel, C., Lewis, J.A., Blum, M.J. 2020. Rodent assemblage structure reflects socioecological mosaics of counter-urbanization across post-Katrina New Orleans. Landscape and Urban Planning 195: 103710. 

Vahsen, M.L., Blum, M.J., S.J. Emrich, J. Holmquist, J.R., Megonigal, J.P., Stiller, B., Todd-Brown, K.E.O., McLachlan, J.S. 2023. Rapid evolution of functional plant traits can alter coastal wetland  resilience to sea level rise. Science 379 (6630):393-398.