Ellwood, Elizabeth R., Amanda S Gallinat, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Tara Miller, Abraham Miller‐Rushing, Caroline Polgar, Richard B Primack. 2022. Plant and bird phenology and plant occurrence from 1851 to 2020 (non‐continuous) in Thoreau's Concord, Massachusetts. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3646

Nelson, Sarah, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Toni Lyn Morelli, Jay Wason, Bryan Wentzell, Rachel Hovel, Glenn Hodgkins, Abe Miller-Rushing, David Miller, Steve Tatko, Amanda Cross, and Mike Pounch. 2021. Climate Change in the Mountains of Maine and the Northeast. Northeastern Naturalist. 28 (Special Issue 11):ii–xi.

Liu, Yan, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Richard B. Primack, Michael J. Hill, Xiaoyang Zhang, Zhuosen Wang, and Crystal B. Schaaf. 2021. Using remote sensing to monitor the spring phenology of Acadia National Park across elevational gradients. Ecosphere 12, no. 12: e03888.

Anderson, Sean C, Elsen Paul R, Hughes Brent B, Tonietto Rebecca K, Bletz Molly C, Gill David A, Holgerson Meredith A, Kuebbing Sara E, McDonough MacKenzie Caitlin, Meek Mariah H, Veríssimo Diogo. 2021. Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2320

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Tony Chang, Mallika A. Nocco, Rebecca S. Barak, Molly C. Bletz, Sara E. Kuebbing, and Michael Dombeck. 2020. Recurrent neural network reveals overwhelming sentiment against 2017 review of US monuments from humans and bots. Conservation Letters. 13(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12747

Burgio Kevin R, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Stephanie B Borrelle, SK Morgan Ernest, Jacquelyn L Gill, Kurt E Ingeman, Amy Teffer, and Ethan P White. 2020. Ten Simple Rules for a successful remote postdoc. PLoS Computational Biology 16(5): e1007809. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007809

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Amanda S. Gallinat, and Lucy Zipf. 2020. Low-cost observations and experiments return a high value in plant phenology research. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(4): e11338 http://doi:10.1002/aps3.11338 [pdf]

Berend, Kevin, Kristen Haynes, and Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie. 2019. Featured Review: Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in northeastern North America. Rhodora. 121(987): 174-212. https://doi.org/10.3119/18-16 [pdf] 2020 Fernald Award Winner

Heberling, J. Mason, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Jason D. Fridley, Susan Kalisz, and Richard B. Primack. 2019. Phenological mismatch with trees reduces wildflower carbon budgets. Ecology Letters, 22(4): 616-623. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13224 [pdf] 2020 Mercer Award Winner

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Jason Johnston, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, William Sheehan, Robert Pinette, and Richard Primack. 2019. Advancing Leaf-Out and Flowering Phenology is Not Matched by Migratory Bird Arrivals Recorded in Hunting Guide's Journal in Aroostook County, Maine. Northeastern Naturalist. 26(3), 561-579. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.026.0309 [pdf]

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Glen Mittelhauser, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, and Richard B. Primack. 2019. Featured Review: Floristic change in New England and New York: regional patterns of plant species loss and decline. Rhodora. 121(985) : 1-36. https://doi.org/10.3119/18-04 [pdf]

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Richard B. Primack, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. 2019. Trails-as-transects: phenology monitoring across heterogenous microclimates in Acadia National Park, Maine. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2626

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Richard B. Primack, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. 2018. Local environment, not local adaptation, drives leaf-out phenology in common gardens along an elevational gradient in Acadia National Park, Maine. American Journal of Botany, 105(6): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1108 [pdf]

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Georgia Murray, Richard Primack, and Doug Weihrauch. 2017. Lessons from Citizen Science: Assessing volunteer-collected plant phenology data with Mountain Watch. Biological Conservation, 208, 121-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.07.027 [pdf] [supplementary materials]

PUBLISHED REPORTS & COMMENTARIES

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Rebecca Barak, Skylar Bayer, Molly Bletz, Mark Brunson, Joan Dudney, Orou Gaoue, Jacquelyn Gill, April Harris, Sara Kuebbing, Bonnie McGill, Mallika Nocco, Rebecca Tonietto, Megan Vahsen, and Elizabeth Waring. 2020. Plant Love Stories: Share your story and grow a movement. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1663

McDonough MacKenzie, Caitlin, Sara Kuebbing, Rebecca S. Barak, Molly Bletz, Joan Dudney, Bonnie M. McGill, Mallika A. Nocco, Talia Young, Rebecca K. Tonietto. 2019. We do not want to “cure plant blindness” we want to grow plant love. Plants People Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10062