In review:
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M. Ecological stability through nonlinear fluctuations and the portfolio effect. In revision, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cooper, N., et al. (incl. Hechler, R.M., & 136 others). Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements. Submitted, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Maruki, T., He, X., Hechler, R.M., Gamero, W.M., Gros, M., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A., Fugère, V., & Cristescu, M.E. Environmental transcriptomics reveal the responses of freshwater eukaryotes to heat and nutrient stressors. In review, Genome Research
Articles:
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M. (2026a). Temperature variation and life history mediate nonlinearity in fluctuations of marine fish populations worldwide. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 0(0), 1-10.
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. (2025). A roadmap for fair reuse of public microbiome data. Nature Microbiology, 10(10), 2384–2395.
*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. (2024). On increasing equity and inclusion of early-career professionals for conferences and conference networking in Canadian fisheries and aquatic science societies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 81(11), 1606-1620.
*Equal contributions by all, ordered alphabetically and by career stage
Hechler, R.M., Yates, M.C., Chain, F.J.J., & Cristescu, M.E. (2023). Environmental transcriptomics under heat stress: Can environmental RNA reveal changes in gene expression of aquatic organisms? Molecular Ecology, 34(13), e17152. [From the Cover]
Institutional nomination for Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 by McGill University
Harry Smith Prize 2024 recipient for the best paper published by an ECR in Molecular Ecology
Kagzi, K., Hechler, R.M., Fussmann, G.F., & Cristescu, M.E. (2022). Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(7), 2640-2650.
Commentary/news & views:
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M. (2026b). Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 0(0), 1-2.
Hechler, R.M. (2025). Quantifying species interactions in the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1(2), 89.
Hechler, R.M., & Cristescu, M.E. (2024). Revealing population demographics with environmental RNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(4), e13951.
Natural history notes:
Hechler, R.M., & Krkosek, M. (2023). Pacific herring spawns transfer energy to coastal ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21(8), 397.
Hechler, R.M. (2021). Crow predation on intertidal invertebrates. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(9), 493.
Book chapter:
McGarvey, D.J., Hechler, R.M., Troutman, A & Falke, J.A. Fish Assemblages. 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]