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Overview

Craig R. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans across subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and areas related to policy and systematics within ecology and evolution.

Their research topics focus predominantly on marine and coastal environments, with particular attention to:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Craig R. Johnson's recent publications include:

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Multi-decadal decline in cover of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera at the southern limit of its Australian range, 2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Playing to the Positives: Using Synergies to Enhance Kelp Forest Restoration, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • How to set sound exposure criteria for fishes, 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent co-authors working with Johnson include:

  • Cayne Layton
  • Jeffrey T. Wright
  • Victor Shelamoff
  • Masayuki Tatsumi
  • Nicole Hill

Their publications have consistently appeared in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species' ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania

    Craig R. Johnson;Sam C. Banks;Neville S. Barrett;Fabienne Cazassus

  • Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

    Kira A. Krumhansl;Daniel K. Okamoto;Andrew Rassweiler;Mark Novak

  • Overfishing reduces resilience of kelp beds to climate-driven catastrophic phase shift.

    S. D. Ling;C. R. Johnson;S. D. Frusher;K. R. Ridgway

  • Why do juvenile fish utilise mangrove habitats

    Pia Laegdsgaard;Craig Johnson

  • Global regime shift dynamics of catastrophic sea urchin overgrazing

    S. D. Ling;R. E. Scheibling;A. Rassweiler;C. R. Johnson

  • The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

    Scott Bennett;Scott Bennett;Thomas Wernberg;Sean D. Connell;Alistair J. Hobday

  • Status and management of world sea urchin fisheries

    N. L. Andrew;Y. Agatsuma;E. Ballesteros;A. G. Bazhin

  • Climate-driven range extension of a sea urchin: inferring future trends by analysis of recent population dynamics.

    SD Ling;CR Johnson;KR Ridgway;AJ Hobday

  • Effect of complexity on marine ecosystem models

    Elizabeth A. Fulton;Anthony D. M. Smith;Craig R. Johnson

  • Mangrove habitats as nurseries: unique assemblages of juvenile fish in subtropical mangroves in eastern Australia

    P. Laegdsgaard;C. R. Johnson

  • Disturbance and organization of macroalgal assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic

    A. R. O. Chapman;C. R. Johnson

  • SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY PREDICTABLE FISHCOMMUNITIES ON CORAL REEFS

    Timothy R. Ault;Craig R. Johnson

  • Monitoring of Benthic Reference Sites: Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

    S. B. Williams;O. R. Pizarro;M. V. Jakuba;C. R. Johnson

  • Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change.

    Jennifer M. Donelson;Jennifer M. Sunday;Will F. Figueira;Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia

  • Diversity, Patterns of Adaptation, and Stability of Nova Scotian Kelp Beds

    Craig R. Johnson;Kenneth H. Mann

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Biogeochemical marine ecosystem models II: the effect of physiological detail on model performance

    Elizabeth A. Fulton;John S. Parslow;Anthony D.M. Smith;Craig R. Johnson

  • Alternative stable states and phase shifts in coral reefs under anthropogenic stress.

    Tak Fung;Robert M. Seymour;Craig R. Johnson

  • Establishment of the introduced kelp Undaria pinnatifida in Tasmania depends on disturbance to native algal assemblages

    Joseph P Valentine;Craig R Johnson

  • Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae

    J. Emmett Duffy;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • Spatio-temporal variation in coral recruitment at different scales on Heron Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef

    P. K. Dunstan;C. R. Johnson

  • The crustose coralline alga, Phymatolithon Foslie, inhibits the overgrowth of seaweeds without relying on herbivores

    Craig R. Johnson;Kenneth H. Mann

Frequent Co-Authors

Stewart Frusher
Stewart Frusher University of Tasmania
Jeffrey T. Wright
Jeffrey T. Wright University of Tasmania
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Neville S. Barrett
Neville S. Barrett University of Tasmania
Piers K. Dunstan
Piers K. Dunstan Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jessica Melbourne-Thomas
Jessica Melbourne-Thomas Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Patricia Miloslavich
Patricia Miloslavich University of Tasmania

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