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65
Citations
14181
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1812
National Ranking
660

Overview

Brian Helmuth is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans a number of subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work addresses several focused topics such as:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability

Brian Helmuth has contributed to multiple publication venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • UNC Libraries
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Notable recent papers authored by Helmuth or involving their co-authors include:

  • "Physiological determinants of biogeography: The importance of metabolic depression to heat tolerance" (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • "The aquaculture supply chain in the time of covid-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience, solutions and priorities at the global scale" (2021, Environmental Science & Policy)
  • "The Synergistic Impacts of Anthropogenic Stressors and COVID-19 on Aquaculture: A Current Global Perspective" (2021, Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture)
  • "Conceptualizing Human-Nature Relationships: Implications of Human Exceptionalist Thinking for Sustainability and Conservation" (2023, Topics in Cognitive Science)
  • "Optimizing Large-Scale Biodiversity Sampling Effort: Toward an Unbalanced Survey Design" (2021, Oceanography)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Francis Choi
  • Yun-Wei Dong
  • Clare Fieseler
  • James J. Leichter
  • Karl D. Castillo

Best Publications

  • Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures

    Brent J. Sinclair;Katie E. Marshall;Mary A. Sewell;Danielle L. Levesque

  • Climate Change and Latitudinal Patterns of Intertidal Thermal Stress

    Brian Helmuth;Christopher D. G. Harley;Christopher D. G. Harley;Patricia M. Halpin;Patricia M. Halpin;Michael O'Donnell

  • Microhabitats, Thermal Heterogeneity, and Patterns of Physiological Stress in the Rocky Intertidal Zone

    Brian S. T. Helmuth;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • MOSAIC PATTERNS OF THERMAL STRESS IN THE ROCKY INTERTIDAL ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

    Brian Helmuth;Bernardo R. Broitman;Carol A. Blanchette;Sarah Gilman

  • BIOPHYSICS, PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Does Mechanism Matter?

    Brian Helmuth;Joel G. Kingsolver;Emily Carrington

  • INTERTIDAL MUSSEL MICROCLIMATES: PREDICTING THE BODY TEMPERATURE OF A SESSILE INVERTEBRATE

    Brian S. T. Helmuth

  • Modelling the ecological niche from functional traits

    Michael Kearney;Stephen J. Simpson;David Raubenheimer;Brian Helmuth

  • Local‐ and regional‐scale effects of wave exposure, thermal stress, and absolute versus effective shore level on patterns of intertidal zonation

    Christopher D. G. Harley;Brian S. T. Helmuth

  • Long-distance dispersal of a subantarctic brooding bivalve (Gaimardia trapesina) by kelp-rafting

    B. Helmuth;R. R. Veit;R. Holberton

  • Physiological ecology of rocky intertidal organisms: a synergy of concepts.

    Lars Tomanek;Brian Helmuth

  • Organismal climatology: analyzing environmental variability at scales relevant to physiological stress.

    Brian Helmuth;Bernardo R. Broitman;Bernardo R. Broitman;Lauren Yamane;Sarah E. Gilman

  • From cells to coastlines: how can we use physiology to forecast the impacts of climate change?

    Brian Helmuth

  • Water flow and prey capture by three scleractinian corals, Madracis mirabilis, Montastrea cavernosa and Porites porites, in a field enclosure

    K. P. Sebens;S. P. Grace;B. Helmuth;E. J. Maney

  • Variation in the sensitivity of organismal body temperature to climate change over local and geographic scales

    Sarah E. Gilman;David S. Wethey;Brian Helmuth

  • Effects of water flow and branch spacing on particle capture by the reef coral Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing and Michelotti)

    Kenneth P. Sebens;Kenneth P. Sebens;Kenneth P. Sebens;Jan Witting;Brian Helmuth

  • How do we Measure the Environment? Linking Intertidal Thermal Physiology and Ecology Through Biophysics.

    Brian Helmuth

  • Physiological Mechanisms in Coping with Climate Change

    Andrea Fuller;Terence Dawson;Brian Helmuth;Robyn S. Hetem

  • QUANTIFYING SCALE IN ECOLOGY: LESSONS FROM AWAVE-SWEPT SHORE

    Mark W. Denny;Brian Helmuth;Brian Helmuth;George H. Leonard;George H. Leonard;Christopher D. G. Harley

  • Body temperature during low tide alters the feeding performance of a top intertidal predator

    Sylvain Pincebourde;Eric Sanford;Brian Helmuth

  • Water flow influences oxygen transport and photosynthetic efficiency in corals

    Christopher M. Finelli;Brian S. T. Helmuth;N. Dean Pentcheff;David S. Wethey

  • Influence of thermal history on the response of Montastraea annularis to short-term temperature exposure

    K. D. Castillo;B. S. T. Helmuth

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca Sarà
Gianluca Sarà University of Palermo
David S. Wethey
David S. Wethey University of South Carolina
Christopher D. G. Harley
Christopher D. G. Harley University of British Columbia
Yunwei Dong
Yunwei Dong Ocean University of China
Eric Sanford
Eric Sanford University of California, Davis
Sylvain Pincebourde
Sylvain Pincebourde François Rabelais University
Bernardo R. Broitman
Bernardo R. Broitman Adolfo Ibáñez University
Carol A. Blanchette
Carol A. Blanchette University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark W. Denny
Mark W. Denny Stanford University
Kenneth P. Sebens
Kenneth P. Sebens University of Washington

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