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42
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24560
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5416
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1840

Overview

Carrie V. Kappel is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of Medicine with specific attention to Oceanography, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including zoonotic diseases and public health, animal disease management and epidemiology, viral infections and vectors, coastal and marine management, ocean acidification effects and responses, climate change communication and perception, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Recent publications by Carrie V. Kappel include:

  • Research Priorities for Achieving Healthy Marine Ecosystems and Human Communities in a Changing Climate, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coupled beta diversity patterns among coral reef benthic taxa, 2021, Oecologia
  • Theory of Change for Building Stronger Wildlife Health Surveillance Systems Globally, 2024, Preprints.org
  • Correction to: Coupled beta diversity patterns among coral reef benthic taxa, 2021, Oecologia
  • Global imprint of climate change on marine life, 2021, UNC Libraries

Regular collaborators include Liz P. Noguera Z., Marcela Uhart, François Díaz, Claire Cayol, and Keren Cox-Witton, each having co-authored multiple papers with Kappel.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Preprints.org, Oecologia, Frontiers in Marine Science, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Shaun Walbridge;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Global imprint of climate change on marine life

    Elvira S. Poloczanska;Christopher J. Brown;Christopher J. Brown;William J. Sydeman;Wolfgang Kiessling;Wolfgang Kiessling

  • The pace of shifting climate in marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

    Michael T. Burrows;David S. Schoeman;David S. Schoeman;Lauren B. Buckley;Pippa Moore;Pippa Moore

  • Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values

    Edward B. Barbier;Evamaria W. Koch;Brian R. Silliman;Sally D. Hacker

  • Fishing, Trophic Cascades, and the Process of Grazing on Coral Reefs

    Peter J. Mumby;Craig P. Dahlgren;Alastair R. Harborne;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Fiorenza Micheli;Carrie V. Kappel;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Responses of Marine Organisms to Climate Change across Oceans

    Elvira S. Poloczanska;Elvira S. Poloczanska;Michael T. Burrows;Christopher J. Brown;Jorge García Molinos;Jorge García Molinos;Jorge García Molinos

  • Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection

    Evamaria W. Koch;Edward B. Barbier;Brian R. Silliman;Denise J. Reed

  • Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

    Michael T. Burrows;David S. Schoeman;Anthony J. Richardson;Anthony J. Richardson;Jorge García Molinos

  • Are U.S. coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime

    John M. Pandolfi;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;N. Baron;Roger H. Bradbury

  • Understanding and managing human threats to the coastal marine environment.

    Caitlin M. Crain;Caitlin M. Crain;Benjamin S. Halpern;Mike W. Beck;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

    Sylvia L.R. Wood;Sylvia L.R. Wood;Sarah K. Jones;Sarah K. Jones;Justin A. Johnson;Kate A. Brauman

  • Trophic cascade facilitates coral recruitment in a marine reserve

    Peter J. Mumby;Alastair R. Harborne;Jodene Williams;Carrie V. Kappel;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean uses.

    Crow White;Benjamin S. Halpern;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management.

    Elise F. Granek;Stephen Polasky;Carrie V. Kappel;Denise J. Reed

  • Mapping cumulative human impacts to California Current marine ecosystems.

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Carrie V. Kappel;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Improved fisheries management could offset many negative effects of climate change

    Steven D. Gaines;Christopher Costello;Brandon Owashi;Tracey Mangin

  • Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Thorsten Blenckner;Margaret R. Caldwell;Larry B. Crowder

  • Losing pieces of the puzzle: threats to marine, estuarine, and diadromous species

    Carrie V. Kappel

  • Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current.

    Sarah J. Teck;Benjamin S. Halpern;Carrie V. Kappel;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Coral Reef Habitats as Surrogates of Species, Ecological Functions, and Ecosystem Services

    Peter J. Mumby;Kenneth Broad;Daniel R. Brumbaugh;Craig P. Dahlgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Kimberly A. Selkoe
Kimberly A. Selkoe University of California, Santa Barbara
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
David S. Schoeman
David S. Schoeman University of the Sunshine Coast
Pippa J. Moore
Pippa J. Moore Newcastle University
John F. Bruno
John F. Bruno University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan The University of Texas at Austin
Elvira S. Poloczanska
Elvira S. Poloczanska Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Wolfgang Kiessling
Wolfgang Kiessling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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