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McCluney's research examines global change in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, encompassing community physiological ecology, water quality, urban ecology, food webs, and climate change. The McCluney Lab employs ecological, physiological, and isotopic methods to investigate population, community, and ecosystem dynamics in aquatic, riparian, terrestrial, and urban settings across the United States, addressing ecological questions pertinent to sustainable environmental management amid global change. His impactful publications include "Water availability directly determines per capita consumption at two trophic levels" (Ecology, 2009, with J. L. Sabo), "Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change" (Biological Reviews, 2012), "Riverine macrosystems ecology: sensitivity, resistance, and resilience of whole river basins with human alterations" (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2014), "Implications of animal water balance for terrestrial food webs" (Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2017), "Differential sensitivity of bees to urbanization-driven changes in body temperature and water content" (Scientific Reports, 2019, with J. Burdine), "Multi-scale biodiversity drives stability in macrosystems" (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2021, with C. Patrick et al.), and "Urbanization-driven climate change increases invertebrate lipid demand, relative to protein—a response to dehydration" (Functional Ecology, 2021, with J. E. Becker). McCluney received the Paul J. Olscamp Research Award in 2024 for outstanding scholarly accomplishments, including refereed publications and externally funded grants.