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Overview

Chris J. Harvey is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a strong focus on global and planetary change, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law within environmental contexts.

Harvey's frequent topics of study include marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, coastal and marine management, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, isotope analysis in ecology, fish ecology and management studies, and marine animal studies overview.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals, with many contributions to venues such as:

  • PLOS Climate
  • Coastal Management
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

The following recent papers by Harvey or involving their authorship demonstrate the scope of topics and publication years:

  • "Recommendations for quantifying and reducing uncertainty in climate projections of species distributions" (2022) in Global Change Biology
  • "At-sea feeding ecology of parasitic lampreys" (2021) in Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • "The importance of long-term ecological time series for integrated ecosystem assessment and ecosystem-based management" (2020) in Progress In Oceanography
  • "Species redistribution creates unequal outcomes for multispecies fisheries under projected climate change" (2023) in Science Advances
  • "Using Integrated Ecosystem Assessments to Build Resilient Ecosystems, Communities, and Economies" (2021) in Coastal Management

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's work include:

  • Jameal F. Samhouri
  • Kelly S. Andrews
  • Elliott L. Hazen
  • Michael G. Jacox
  • Owen R. Liu

Best Publications

  • An ecosystem model of food web and fisheries interactions in the Baltic Sea

    Chris J Harvey;Sean P Cox;Timothy E Essington;Sture Hansson

  • Sustainability of the Lake Superior Fish Community: Interactions in a Food Web Context

    James F. Kitchell;Sean P. Cox;Chris J. Harvey;Timothy B. Johnson

  • Changes in productivity associated with four introduced species: ecosystem transformation of a pristine estuary

    J. L. Ruesink;B. E. Feist;C. J. Harvey;J. S. Hong

  • Dealing with uncertainty in ecosystem models: The paradox of use for living marine resource management

    J.S. Link;T.F. Ihde;C.J. Harvey;S.K. Gaichas

  • Using bioenergetics models to predict stable isotope ratios in fishes

    Chris J Harvey;Paul C Hanson;Timothy E Essington;Paul B Brown

  • Predicting mercury levels in yellow perch: use of water chemistry, trophic ecology, and spatial traits

    Ben K. Greenfield;Thomas R. Hrabik;Chris J. Harvey;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • A stable isotope evaluation of the structure and spatial heterogeneity of a Lake Superior food web

    Chris J Harvey;James F Kitchell

  • Risks of ocean acidification in the California Current food web and fisheries: ecosystem model projections.

    Kristin N. Marshall;Isaac C. Kaplan;Emma E. Hodgson;Albert Hermann;Albert Hermann

  • Diel activity patterns of sixgill sharks, Hexanchus griseus: the ups and downs of an apex predator

    Kelly S. Andrews;Greg D. Williams;Debbie Farrer;Nick Tolimieri

  • Climate forcing and the California Current ecosystem

    Jacquelynne R. King;Vera N. Agostini;Christopher J. Harvey;Gordon A. McFarlane

  • Varying effects of anadromous sockeye salmon on the trophic ecology of two species of resident salmonids in southwest Alaska

    Mark D. Scheuerell;Jonathan W. Moore;Daniel E. Schindler;Chris J. Harvey

  • Pteropods on the edge: Cumulative effects of ocean acidification, warming, and deoxygenation

    Nina Bednaršek;Nina Bednaršek;Chris J. Harvey;Isaac C. Kaplan;Richard A. Feely

  • Shifts in a pacific ocean fish assemblage : the potential influence of exploitation

    Phillip S. Levin;Elizabeth E. Holmes;Kevin R. Piner;Chris J. Harvey

  • Progress on Implementing Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in the United States Through the Use of Ecosystem Models and Analysis

    Howard Townsend;Chris J. Harvey;Yvonne deReynier;Dawn Davis

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Marine Ecosystem Indicator Performance Using Food Web Models

    Jameal F. Samhouri;Phillip S. Levin;Chris J. Harvey

  • Ecologically sustainable yield: Marine conversation must look beyond sustainable yield of individual species

    Chris Harvey;Phillip Levin;Richard Zabel;Steven Katz

  • Recommendations for quantifying and reducing uncertainty in climate projections of species distributions

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  • Influence of Environmental Variability on the Growth of Age-0 and Adult Arctic Grayling

    Linda A. Deegan;Heidi E. Golden;Chris J. Harvey;Bruce J. Peterson

  • Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Part 2 of a Global Assessment

    N. Bednaršek;T. Klinger;C.J. Harvey;S. Weisberg

  • Defining ecosystem thresholds for human activities and environmental pressures in the California Current

    Jameal F. Samhouri;Kelly S. Andrews;Gavin Fay;Chris J. Harvey

  • Interpretation and design of ocean acidification experiments in upwelling systems in the context of carbonate chemistry co-variation with temperature and oxygen

    Jonathan C. P. Reum;Simone R. Alin;Chris J. Harvey;Nina Bednaršek

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip S. Levin
Phillip S. Levin University of Washington
Jameal F. Samhouri
Jameal F. Samhouri National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John C. Field
John C. Field National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Elliott L. Hazen
Elliott L. Hazen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James F. Kitchell
James F. Kitchell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael G. Jacox
Michael G. Jacox National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Timothy E. Essington
Timothy E. Essington University of Washington
Albert J. Hermann
Albert J. Hermann National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington

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