Forthcoming (in review and accepted)
Research Briefing: Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, in revisions (briefing to accompany the paper below)
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, accepted in principle
Environmental RNA captures community and gene expression responses to heat and nutrient stress in freshwater ecosystems
Maruki, T., He, X., Hechler, R.M., Gamero, W.M., Gros, M., Belley, V., Nault, C., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A., Fugère, V., & Cristescu, M.E.
Genome Research, in review
Articles
A roadmap for fair reuse of public microbiome data
Hug, L.A., Hatzenpichler, R., Moraru, C., Soares, A., Meyer, F., Heyder, A., The Data Reuse Consortium [incl. Hechler, R.M. & 221 others], & Probst, A.J.
Nature Microbiology, 2025
*Semeniuk, C.A.D., *Church, K.D.W., Eissenhauer, F., *Grimm, J., *Hechler, R.M., *Howell, B.E., *Ivanova, S.V., *Klemet-N'guessan, S., *Madliger, C.L., *Reid, J., *Thompson-Kumar, K., *Arismendi, I., *Penaluna, B., *Kirkwood, A.E., & *Febria, C. *equal contributions, ordered by career stage & alphabetically.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2024
Hechler, R.M., Yates, M.C., Chain, F.J.J., & Cristescu, M.E.
Molecular Ecology, 2023 [cover article]
Institutional nomination by McGill University for Frontiers Planet Prize 2025
Harry Smith Prize 2024 (best paper published by an ECR in Molecular Ecology)
Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions
Kagzi, K., Hechler, R.M., Fussmann, G.F., & Cristescu, M.E.
Molecular Ecology Resources, 2022
Invited commentaries
Quantifying species interactions in the Anthropocene
Hechler, R.M.
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 2025
Revealing population demographics with environmental RNA
Hechler, R.M., & Cristescu, M.E.
Molecular Ecology Resources, 2024
Natural history notes
Pacific herring spawns transfer energy to coastal ecosystems
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2023
Crow predation on intertidal invertebrates
Hechler, R.M.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2021
Book chapter
Fish assemblages
McGarvey, D.J., Hechler, R.M., Troutman, A., & Falke, J.A.
In Methods in Stream Ecology, 4th Edition.
Editors: Hauer, F.R., Lamberti, G.A., Tank, J.L., & Hall, R. Academic Press, Boston, MA (in press, available in 2026)