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Overview

Brian R. MacKenzie is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on marine and fisheries research. The main areas of study include global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, oceanography, and genetics.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics related to marine environments and aquatic ecosystems. The main topics of their publications include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolutionary game theory and cooperation

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Fisheries Oceanography
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Their recent papers include the following titles with corresponding publication years and venues:

  • "Changes in fish distribution in the eastern North Atlantic: Are we seeing a coherent response to changing temperature?" (2023) in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Changing fish distributions challenge the effective management of European fisheries" (2020) in Ecography
  • "Something old, something new: Historical perspectives provide lessons for blue growth agendas" (2020) in Fish and Fisheries
  • "A regime shift in the Southeast Greenland marine ecosystem" (2022) in Global Change Biology
  • "Combined climate change and nutrient load impacts on future habitats and eutrophication indicators in a eutrophic coastal sea" (2020) in Limnology and Oceanography

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Brian R. MacKenzie's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Henn Ojaveer
  • Michele Casini
  • Einar Eg Nielsen
  • Alan Baudron
  • Thomas Brunel

Best Publications

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Status of Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

    Henn Ojaveer;Andres Jaanus;Brian R. MacKenzie;Georg Martin

  • Evidence for a dome-shaped relationship between turbulence and larval fish ingestion rates

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Thomas J. Miller;Stéphane Cyr;William C. Leggett

  • Projected impacts of climate change on marine fish and fisheries

    Anne B. Hollowed;Manuel Barange;Richard J. Beamish;Keith Brander

  • Impact of 21st century climate change on the Baltic Sea fish community and fisheries

    Brian R. Mackenzie;Henrik Gislason;Christian Möllmann;Friedrich W. Köster

  • Encounter rates and swimming behavior of pause‐travel and cruise larval fish predators in calm and turbulent laboratory environments

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Thomas Kiørboe

  • FISH PRODUCTION AND CLIMATE: SPRAT IN THE BALTIC SEA

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Friedrich W. Köster

  • Baltic cod recruitment – the impact of climate variability on key processes

    Friedrich W. Köster;Christian Möllmann;Hans-Harald Hinrichsen;Kai Wieland

  • Quantifying the contribution of small-scale turbulence to the encounter rates between larval fish and their zooplankton prey: effects of wind and tide

    BR MacKenzie;WC Leggett

  • Daily ocean monitoring since the 1860s shows record warming of northern European seas

    Brian R. Mackenzie;Doris Schiedek

  • Recruitment of Baltic cod and sprat stocks: identification of critical life stages and incorporation of environmental variability into stock-recruitment relationships*

    Friedrich Köster;Hans-Harald Hinrichsen;Dietrich Schnack;M. A. St.John

  • The spatial structure of the physical environment.

    G. Bell;M. J. Lechowicz;A. Appenzeller;M. Chandler

  • Wind-based models for estimating the dissipation rates of turbulent energy in aquatic environments: empirical comparisons

    BR MacKenzie;WC Leggett

  • Quantifying environmental heterogeneity : habitat size necessary for successful development of cod Gadus morhua eggs in the Baltic Sea

    B.R. MacKenzie;Hans-Harald Hinrichsen;M. Plikshs;K. Wieland

  • Larval fish feeding and turbulence: A case for the downside

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Thomas KiØrboe

  • What is the carrying capacity for fish in the ocean? A meta-analysis of population dynamics of North Atlantic cod

    Ransom A. Myers;Brian R. MacKenzie;Keith G. Bowen;Nicholas J. Barrowman

  • Estimating larval fish ingestion rates: can laboratory derived values be reliably extrapolated to the wild?

    B. R. MacKenzie;W. C. Leggett;R. H. Peters

  • Developing Baltic cod recruitment models. II. Incorporation of environmental variability and species interaction

    Friedrich W Köster;Hans-Harald Hinrichsen;Michael A St. John;Dietrich Schnack

  • Uncertainties in projecting climate-change impacts in marine ecosystems

    Mark R. Payne;Manuel Barange;William W. L. Cheung;Brian R. MacKenzie

  • Impending collapse of bluefin tuna in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Brian R. MacKenzie;Henrik Mosegaard;Andrew A. Rosenberg

  • Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem—first results from multi-model ensemble simulations

    H E Markus Meier;Helén C Andersson;Berit Arheimer;Thorsten Blenckner

Frequent Co-Authors

Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu
André W. Visser
André W. Visser Technical University of Denmark
Martin Lindegren
Martin Lindegren Technical University of Denmark
Christian Möllmann
Christian Möllmann Universität Hamburg
Keith Brander
Keith Brander Technical University of Denmark
Georg H. Engelhard
Georg H. Engelhard Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Ken Haste Andersen
Ken Haste Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Kim Aarestrup
Kim Aarestrup Technical University of Denmark
H. E. Markus Meier
H. E. Markus Meier Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Ransom A. Myers
Ransom A. Myers Dalhousie University

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