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Christopher D. G. Harley

Christopher D. G. Harley

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
16639
World Ranking
3385
National Ranking
232

Overview

Christopher D. G. Harley is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Oceanography, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change. Subfields of particular interest include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers key topics related to marine environments, including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology. Additional research areas emphasize Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine and Fisheries Research.

Christopher D. G. Harley has published frequently in several scientific venues. Notable publication venues include Ecology, with six publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), each with multiple papers. Other venues featuring their work include Marine Ecology Progress Series and SSRN Electronic Journal.

The scientist has collaborated with coauthors such as Katie E. Marshall, Jakob Thyrring, Amelia V. Hesketh, Jessica Kennedy, and Joey R. Bernhardt, highlighting an active collaborative research profile.

Recent papers authored by or including Christopher D. G. Harley are:

  • The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021 (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Assessment of the impacts of an unprecedented heatwave on intertidal shellfish of the Salish Sea (2022, Ecology)
  • Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator (2020, Science)
  • Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Extreme heatwave drives topography-dependent patterns of mortality in a bed-forming intertidal barnacle, with implications for associated community structure (2022, Global Change Biology)

Best Publications

  • The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems.

    Christopher D. G. Harley;A. Randall Hughes;Kristin M. Hultgren;Benjamin G. Miner

  • Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

    David A. Vasseur;John P. DeLong;Benjamin Gilbert;Hamish S. Greig;Hamish S. Greig

  • 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

  • EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GLOBAL SEAWEED COMMUNITIES

    Christopher D. G. Harley;Kathryn M. Anderson;Kyle W. Demes;Jennifer P. Jorve

  • Climate Change, Keystone Predation, and Biodiversity Loss

    Christopher D. G. Harley

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

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

  • Community ecology in a warming world: The influence of temperature on interspecific interactions in marine systems

    Rebecca L. Kordas;Christopher D.G. Harley;Mary I. O'Connor

  • 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

  • Quantifying Rates of Evolutionary Adaptation in Response to Ocean Acidification

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Ryan N. Crim;Christopher D. G. Harley;Michael W. Hart

  • A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions.

    Benjamin Gilbert;Tyler D. Tunney;Kevin S. McCann;John P. DeLong

  • Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory

    Brian Gaylord;Kristy J Kroeker;Jennifer M Sunday;Kathryn M Anderson

  • Elevated water temperature and carbon dioxide concentration increase the growth of a keystone echinoderm.

    Rebecca A. Gooding;Christopher D. G. Harley;Emily Tang

  • Tidal dynamics, topographic orientation, and temperature-mediated mass mortalities on rocky shores

    Christopher D. G. Harley

  • TROUBLE ON OILED WATERS: Lessons from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    R. T. Paine;Jennifer L. Ruesink;Adrian Sun;Elaine L. Soulanille

  • Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Katharina E. Fabricius;Kristy J. Kroeker;Kathryn M. Anderson

  • On the prediction of extreme ecological events

    Mark W. Denny;Luke J. H. Hunt;Luke P. Miller;Christopher D. G. Harley

  • The role of temperature and desiccation stress in limiting the local‐scale distribution of the owl limpet, Lottia gigantea

    Luke P. Miller;Christopher D. G. Harley;Christopher D. G. Harley;Mark W. Denny

  • 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

  • Plants Versus Animals: Do They Deal with Stress in Different Ways?

    Raymond B. Huey;Margen Carlson;Lisa Crozier;Melanie Frazier

  • Erratum: The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems (Ecology Letters (2006) 9 (228-241))

    C. D G Harley;A. R. Hughes;K. M. Hultgren;B. G. Miner

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Helmuth
Brian Helmuth Northeastern University
Mark W. Denny
Mark W. Denny Stanford University
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
Bayden D. Russell
Bayden D. Russell University of Hong Kong
Jennifer M. Sunday
Jennifer M. Sunday McGill University
Mary I. O'Connor
Mary I. O'Connor University of British Columbia
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Jason M. Hall-Spencer Plymouth University
Marco Milazzo
Marco Milazzo University of Palermo
Emily Carrington
Emily Carrington University of Washington
Michael J. O'Donnell
Michael J. O'Donnell McMaster University

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