Publications
Coming Up
Massey, M. D., Arif, S., Turner, N. A., Boston, C. M., Illyés, E., Marques, P. S., and Mandrak, N. E. Pairing predictive and causal modelling to forecast and understand the drivers of biological invasions in urban ponds. Submitted to Biological Conservation.
Arif, S. & Massey, M. D. Exploring how ocean literacy shapes youth engagement in marine stewardship: A participatory causal diagram approach based on lived experience and perceived causality. Submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Lloyd, R. B., Massey, M. D., Rifkin, J. L., Litzgus, J. D., & Rollinson, N. Genetic influence on the sex ratio of a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Under review in Heredity.
Arif, S., Brennan, L., Harrison, S., Carmichael, E., McPhail, B., Peng, C., Sullivan, D., Karam, Y., Wheeler, I., Gunatillake, A., Barrett, J., Harrison, L., Scher, A., Fournier, A., Creaser, L., Whiteway, A., & Massey, M. D. Future Webs: Youth-led visions for the Bay of Fundy. Submitted to FACETS.
Published or in Press
Hardison, E.A., Donham, E., Massey, M. D., Morash, A., Schwieterman, G. D. 2026. Incorporating environmental variability into physiological experiments: Rationale and resources.. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 381(1946): 20250053 [Read open-access here!]
Massey, M. D., Fredericks, M. K., Hutchings, J. A., & Dalziel, A. C. 2026. Developmental plasticity in response to thermal variability facilitates enduring physiological tolerance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 381(1946): 20250063. [Read open-access here!]
Nashrah, N. A., Mandrak, N. E., & Massey, M. D.* Invasive Goldfish (Carassius auratus) maintain aerobic scope across acute warm water temperatures. Accepted in Biology Open. *Cosupervision of undergraduate
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Nazeefa was featured in Biology Open's First Person series. Check it out here: https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/14/9/bio062208/369048/First-person-Nazeefa-Nashrah
Massey, M.D., Claus, C., Hubbard, J., Ilyes, E., Marques, P., Ricciardi, A., Schubert, E., Storey, K., and Mandrak, N. E. 2025. The Rise of Goldfishes in North America. Fisheries, vuae018. [Read open-access here!]
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Featured on CBC's Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa! Check out the segment here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-193-fresh-air/clip/16138399-feral-goldfish-upending-entire-ecosystems .
Nanglu, K., de Carle, D., Cullen, T. M., Anderson, E. B., Arif, S., Castaneda, R., Chang, L. M., Iwama, R., Fellin, E., Manglicmot, R. C., Massey, M. D., Astudillo-Clavijo, V. 2023. The nature of science: The fundamental role of natual history in ecology, evolution, conservation, and education. 2023. Ecology and Evolution. 13 (10): e10621. [Read open-access here!]
Massey, M. D., & Dalziel, A. C. 2023. Parental early life environments drive transgenerational plasticity of offspring metabolism in a freshwater fish (Danio rerio). Biology Letters. 19 (10): 20230266. [Free to read here!]
Grigg, A. G., Lowi-Merri, T., Hutchings, J. A., Massey, M. D.*. 2023. Thermal variability induces sex-specific morphometric changes in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Journal of Fish Biology. 103 (4): 839-850. *Supervision of undergraduate student. [Free to read here!]
Arif, S, & Massey, M. D.* 2023. Reducing bias in experimental ecology through directed acyclic graphs. Ecology and Evolution, e9947. [Read open-access here!] *Co-first author.
Massey, M. D., Fredericks, M. K., Malloy, D., Arif, S., and Hutchings, J. A. Differential reproductive plasticity under thermal variability in a freshwater fish (Danio rerio). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289: 0220751. [Free to read here!]
Massey, M., Arif, S., Embuldeniya, S., Nanglu, K., and Bielawski, J. 2022. 10 Simple Rules for Succeeding as an Underrepresented STEM Undergraduate. PLoS Comput Biol 18(6): e1010101. [Read here!]
Arif, S. & Massey, M. D. 2022. Perspectives on Teaching from Early-Career Scientists: Graduate Students as Teachers. Journal of College Science Teaching. 51(4): 15-20. [Read here!].
Arif, S., Massey, M.D., Klinard, N., Charbonneau, J., Jabre, L., Gaitor, D., Martins, A., Kirton, R., & Nanglu, K. 2021. 10 Simple Rules for Supporting Underrepresented Students. PLoS Comput Biol 17(9): e1009313. [Read here!]
Massey, M. D., Arif, S., Albury, C., Cluney, V. 2021. Ecology and evolutionary biology must elevate BIPOC scholars. Ecology Letters, 24: 913-919. [PDF]
Terebiznik, M., Moldowan, P. D., Leivesley, J. A., Massey, M. D., Lacroix, C., Connoy, J., Rollinson, R. 2020. Hatchling turtles ingest natural and artifical incubation substrates at high frequency. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 74:130. [Free to read here!]
Massey, M. D., & Hutchings, J. A. 2020. Thermal variability during ectotherm incubation: a review and synthesis. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A. 335(1):59-71. [Read here].
Taylor, E., Diele-Viegas, L. M., Gangloff, E., Hall, J., Halpern, B., Massey, M. D., Rödder, D., Rollinson, N., Spears, S., Sun, B.-J., Telemeco, R. The Thermal Ecology and Physiology of Reptiles and Amphibians: A User’s Guide. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, 2020: 1-32. [PDF]
Rollinson, N., Massey, M. D., Meron, M. 2019. A low-cost, efficient, and precise technique to quantify key life cycle events in nests of oviparous reptiles. Journal of Herpetology, 53(4): 302-309. [PDF]
Massey, M. D., Davy, C., Congdon, J.D., Rollinson, N. 2019. First evidence of metabolic heating in a freshwater turtle, the snapping turtle. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 18(2): 145-152. [PDF]
Rouleau, C.*, Massey, M. D. *, Rollinson, N. 2019. Temperature does not affect hatch timing in snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina). In press. Journal of Herpetology. [PDF] * Mentorship of undergraduate student
Massey, M. D., Holt, S., Brooks, R. J., Rollinson, N. 2019. Measurement and modelling of primary sex ratios for species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.190215. [PDF]
Rollinson N., Holt S., Massey, M. D., Holt R.C., Nancekivell E.G., Brooks R.J. 2018. A new method of estimating thermal performance of embryonic development rate yields accurate prediction of embryonic age in wild reptile nests. Journal of Thermal Biology, 74: 187-194. [PDF]