Publications

Gutarra S, Mitchell EG, Surprenant RL, Droser ML, Dunn FS, Gibson BM, Racicot RA, Darroch SA, Rahman IA. 2025 Community hydrodynamics created ecological opportunity in Ediacaran shallow marine ecosystems. PNAS Nexus. pdf.

Stephenson NP, Delahooke KM, Buma-at PA, Rideout BW, Barnes N, Kenchington CG, Manica A, Mitchell EG. 2025. Recolonization strategies of early animals in the Avalon (Ediacaran 574–560 Ma)
Paleobiology. pdf

Mitchell EG, Dhungana A. 2025. Constraining the lifespans of early animals of the Ediacaran. Biology Letters. pdf

Susini I, Van Audenhage L, Price DM, Pearman TRR, Mitchell EG, Huevnne VAI. 2025 Fine-scale spatial organisation of deep-sea sea pens in a NE Atlantic submarine canyon conservation area.  Scientific Reports. pdf.

Stephenson NP, Delahooke KM, Kenchington CG, Waitaiti J, Ball AA, Bonito VE, Manica A & Mitchell EG. 2025. Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji. Coral Reefs. pdf.

Katz L, Khan T, Moreau C, Mitchell EG & Danis B. 2025. Using Bayesian network inference and underwater imagery to understand the influence of environmental heterogeneities on benthic community structure in the Antarctic Peninsula Polar Biology. pdf.

Khan T, Griffiths HJ, Stephenson NP, Whittle RJ, Purser A, Manica A, Mitchell EG. 2025. Competition drives the dispersal dynamics of two cup coral morphs in populations on the Powell Basin slopes, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Scientific Reports pdf

Mitchell EG, Stephenson NP, Buma-at PA, Roberts L, Dennis S, Kenchington CK. 2025. Variation of population and community ecology over large spatial scales in Ediacaran early animal communities Global and Planetary Change. pdf.

Mitchell EG, Madhusudhan N. 2025. Prospects for biological evolution on Hycean worlds. MNRAS pdf. 

Furness FN, Mitchell EG. 2025. Photosynthetic fractionation of carbon: A biological driver for the Neoproterozoic Shuram carbon isotope excursion Precambrian Research pdf.

Mitchell EG, Pates S. 2025. From organisms to biodiversity: the ecology of the Ediacaran/Cambrian transition Paleobiology. pdf

Khan TM, Griffiths HJ, Whittle RJ, Stephenson NP, Delahooke KM, Purser A, Manica A, Mitchell EG. 2024. Network analyses on photographic surveys reveal that invertebrate predators do not structure epibenthos in the deep (~2000m) rocky Powell Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Frontiers in Marine Science. pdf.

Stephenson NP, Delahooke KM, Barnes N, Rideout BWT, Kenchington CG, Manica A, Mitchell EG. 2024 Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems Nature Ecology and Evolution pdf.

Delahooke  KM, Liu AG, Stephenson NP, Mitchell EG.  ‘Conga lines’ of Ediacaran fronds: insights into the reproductive biology of early metazoans. 2024. Royal Society Open Society. . pdf.

Gutarra S, Mitchell EG, Dunn FS, Gibson BM, Racicot RA, Darroch SA, Rahman IA. 2024 Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans. Current Biology. pdf.

Darroch SA, Gutarra S, Masaki H, Olaru A, Gibson BM, Dunn FS, Mitchell EG, Racicot RA, Burzynski G, Rahman IA. 2023 The rangeomorph Pectinifrons abyssalis: hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life. iScience. pdf.

Zhuravlev AY, Mitchell EG, Bowyer F, Wood R, Penny A. 2022 Increases in reef size, habitat and metacommunity complexity associated with Cambrian radiation oxygenation pulses. Nature Communications. pdf.

Griffiths HJ,  Whittle RJ,  Mitchell EG. 2022. Animal survival strategies in Neoproterozoic ice worlds. Global Change Biology. pdf.

Mitchell EG, Evans S, Chen Z, Xiao S. 2022. A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces. Paleobiology. pdf

Eden R, Manica A, Mitchell EG. 2022. Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period. PLoS Biology. pdf

Matchette SR, Mitchell EG, Herbert-Read JE. 2022. Spatial clustering of trumpetfish shadowing behaviour in the Caribbean Sea revealed by citizen science Marine Biology. pdf

Vixseboxse PB, Kenchington CG, Dunn FS, Mitchell EG. 2021. Orientations of Mistaken Point fronds indicate morphology impacted ability to survive turbulence. Frontiers in Earth Science. pdf

Allport HA, Davies NS, Shillito AP, Mitchell EG, Herron ST. 2021 Non‐palimpsested crowded Skolithos ichnofabrics in a Carboniferous tidal rhythmite: Disentangling ecological signatures from the spatio‐temporal bias of outcrop Sedimentology. pdf. 

Boddy CE, Mitchell EG, Merdith A, Liu A. 2021Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota Journal of the Geological Society.  pdf. 

Dhungana A, Mitchell EG. 2021 Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep-water assemblage. Palaeontology. pdf

Mitchell EG, Wallace MI, Smith VA, Wiesenthal AA, Brierley AS. 2021   Bayesian Network Analysis reveals resilience of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita to an Irish Sea regime shift. Scientific Reports. pdf

Mitchell EG, Harris S. 2020Mortality, Population and Community Dynamics of the Glass Sponge Dominated Community “The Forest of the Weird” From the Ridge Seamount, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Frontiers in Marine Science . pdf. 

Mitchell EG, Whittle RJ, Griffiths HJ . 2020 Benthic ecosystem cascade effects in Antarctica using Bayesian network inference​. Nature Communications Biology. pdf

Mitchell EG, Durden JM, Ruhl HA. 2020 First network analysis of interspecific associations of abyssal benthic megafauna reveals potential vulnerability of abyssal hill community. Progress in Oceanography. pdf

Hunter AW, Casenove D, Mayers C, Mitchell EG. 2020 Reconstructing the ecology of a Jurassic pseudoplanktonic raft colony. Royal Society Open Science. 7(7):200142. pdf

Mitchell, EG, Bykova, N,  Dhungana, A, Mustill, Dhunghana, A, Liu, A, T, Xiao, S and Grazhdankin, D. 2020 The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms. Interface Focus.10 (4), 20190109​ pdf

Mitchell, EG, Kenchington, CG, Liu, G, CG, Harris, S and Wilby, PR. 2019.  The relative influence of niche versus neutral processes on Ediacaran organisms.  Ecology Letters. 22 (12), 2028-2038  pdf

Wood, R, Liu, AG, Bowyer, F, Wilby, PR, Dunn, FS, Kenchington, CG, Hoyal Cuthill, JF Mitchell, EG and Penny, A. 2019. Integrated record of environmental change and evolution challenges the Cambrian Explosion Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3 (4), 528-538 pdf

Mitchell, EG, and Kenchington, CG. 2018 The utility of height for Ediacaran organisms, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(8),1218-1222. pdf

Mitchell, EG, Kenchington, CG, Harris, S and Wilby, PR. 2018 Revealing rangeomorph species characters using spatial analyses, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. pdf

Mitchell, EG and Butterfield, NJ. 2018. Spatial analyses of Ediacaran Communities at Mistaken Point. Paleobiology 44, 40-57. pdf

Mitchell, EG, Kenchington, CG, Liu, G, Matthews, JJ and Butterfield, NJ. 2015 Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism. Nature (524) 343–346 

Liu, AG, Kenchington, CG and Mitchell, EG. 2015 Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota. Gondwana Research 27(4), 1355-1380. pdf

Mitchell, EG and Neutel, AM. 2012 Feedback spectra of soil food webs across a complexity gradient, and the, importance of three-species loops to stability. Theoretical Ecology 5(2), 153-1591. pdf

Mitchell, EG. 2011 Functional programming through deep time: modeling the first complex ecosystems on earth. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming 46(9), 28-31. pdf

King (Mitchell), EG, Xu, XY, Hughes, AD, Long, Q, Thom, SA and Parker, KH. 2002 Quantification of the non-planarity of the human carotid bifurcation. Biorheology 39(3-4), 409-417. pdf