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Overview

Chris Wilcox is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Wilcox's work include:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management

Wilcox has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wilcox include:

  • Britta Denise Hardesty (36 joint publications)
  • Lauren Roman (10 joint publications)
  • Leslie Roberson (10 joint publications)
  • Kathryn Willis (7 joint publications)
  • Qamar Schuyler (7 joint publications)

Some of the recent papers featuring Wilcox's contributions are:

  • A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world's oceans-Urgent solutions required (2023, PLoS ONE)
  • Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments From the Great Australian Bight (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality? (2020, Conservation Letters)
  • The future of ocean governance (2021, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries)

Wilcox's body of work addresses environmental challenges related to plastic pollution, marine ecosystems, and waste management, providing data-driven insights across ecological and engineering dimensions. The collaborative nature of their research and the diversity of publication venues indicate an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and mitigating environmental impacts.

Best Publications

  • Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

    Jenna Jambeck;Roland Geyer;Chris Wilcox;Theodore R. Siegler

  • A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

    Erik Van Sebille;Erik Van Sebille;Chris Wilcox;Laurent Lebreton;Nikolai Maximenko

  • State-space models of individual animal movement.

    Toby A. Patterson;Toby A. Patterson;Len Thomas;Chris Wilcox;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing

    Chris Wilcox;Erik Van Sebille;Erik Van Sebille;Britta Denise Hardesty

  • Plastic as a Persistent Marine Pollutant

    Boris Worm;Heike K. Lotze;Isabelle Jubinville;Chris Wilcox

  • Millimeter-Sized Marine Plastics: A New Pelagic Habitat for Microorganisms and Invertebrates

    Julia Wiener Reisser;Jeremy Shaw;Gustaaf Hallegraeff;Maíra Carneiro Proietti

  • Marine plastic pollution in waters around Australia: Characteristics, concentrations, and pathways

    Julia Reisser;Julia Reisser;Jeremy Shaw;Chris Wilcox;Britta Denise Hardesty

  • Global research priorities to mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife

    Amanda C Vegter;Mario Barletta;Cathy A Beck;Jose Carlos Borrero

  • Global analysis of anthropogenic debris ingestion by sea turtles.

    Qamar Schuyler;Britta Denise Hardesty;Chris Wilcox;Kathy Townsend

  • Challenges and emerging solutions to the land-based plastic waste issue in Africa

    Jenna Jambeck;Britta Denise Hardesty;Amy L. Brooks;Tessa Friend

  • Using expert elicitation to estimate the impacts of plastic pollution on marine wildlife

    Chris Wilcox;Nicholas J. Mallos;George H. Leonard;Alba Rodriguez

  • Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments from the Great Australian Bight

    Justine Barrett;Zanna Chase;Jing Zhang;Mark M. Banaszak Holl

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • Presence-absence versus abundance data for monitoring threatened species.

    Liana N. Joseph;Scott A. Field;Chris V. Wilcox;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Using numerical model simulations to improve the understanding of micro-plastic distribution and pathways in the marine environment

    Britta D. Hardesty;Joseph Harari;Atsuhiko Isobe;Laurent Lebreton

  • Precision of Population Viability Analysis

    Stephen P. Ellner;John Fieberg;Donald Ludwig;Chris Wilcox

  • Microplastic Distribution at Different Sediment Depths in an Urban Estuary

    Kathryn A. Willis;Kathryn A. Willis;Ruth Eriksen;Ruth Eriksen;Chris Wilcox;Britta D. Hardesty

  • A global mitigation hierarchy for nature conservation

    William N S Arlidge;Joseph W Bull;Prue F E Addison;Michael J Burgass

  • Uses and Misuses of Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in Environmental Decision Making

    Katie Siobhan Steele;Yohay Carmel;Jean Cross;Chris Wilcox

  • Risk analysis reveals global hotspots for marine debris ingestion by sea turtles

    Qamar A. Schuyler;Chris Wilcox;Kathy A. Townsend;Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel

  • Using Expert Elicitation to Estimate the Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Marine Wildlife

    N. J. Mallos;C. Wilcox;G. H. Leonard;A. G. Rodriquez

Frequent Co-Authors

Britta Denise Hardesty
Britta Denise Hardesty CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere
Sean Pascoe
Sean Pascoe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Erik van Sebille
Erik van Sebille Utrecht University
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Marc Mangel
Marc Mangel University of Bergen
Jennifer L. Lavers
Jennifer L. Lavers Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation
William W. Thatcher
William W. Thatcher University of Florida
Fuller W. Bazer
Fuller W. Bazer Texas A&M University

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