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5866
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1992

Overview

Craig R. McClain is affiliated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Ecology and Oceanography. The scientist's work also intersects with subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The core topics of McClain's research involve Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and fisheries research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and coastal plant biology, and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in several scholarly journals. Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Marine Ecology, PLoS Biology, and Oikos.

Among recent papers, these stand out:

  • "Ecological variables for developing a global deep-ocean monitoring and conservation strategy," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "A decade to study deep-sea life," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "A Synthesis of Deep Benthic Faunal Impacts and Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Low-Cost, Deep-Sea Imaging and Analysis Tools for Deep-Sea Exploration: A Collaborative Design Study," 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators include S. River D. Bryant, Granger Hanks, Lisa A. Levin, Noel A. Heim, and Jonathan L. Payne.

Best Publications

  • Global bathymetric patterns of standing stock and body size in the deep-sea benthos

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter;Jeremy S. Morris;Jenifer Crouse

  • Extinctions in ancient and modern seas

    Paul G. Harnik;Heike K. Lotze;Sean C. Anderson;Zoe V. Finkel

  • Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Seth Finnegan

  • A Source‐Sink Hypothesis for Abyssal Biodiversity

    Michael A. Rex;Craig R. McClain;Nicholas A. Johnson;Ron J. Etter

  • Ecological variables for developing a global deep-ocean monitoring and conservation strategy

    Roberto Danovaro;Emanuela Fanelli;Jacopo Aguzzi;David Billett

  • The dynamics of biogeographic ranges in the deep sea

    Craig R. McClain;Sarah Mincks Hardy

  • Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons

    Craig R. McClain;James P. Barry

  • Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans

    Seth Finnegan;Sean C. Anderson;Paul G. Harnik;Carl Simpson

  • Seamounts: identity crisis or split personality?

    Craig R. McClain

  • Energetics of life on the deep seafloor

    Craig R. McClain;Andrew P. Allen;Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Michael A. Rex

  • Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna

    Craig R. McClain;Meghan A. Balk;Mark C. Benfield;Trevor A. Branch

  • Endemicity, Biogeography, Composition, and Community Structure On a Northeast Pacific Seamount

    Craig R. McClain;Lonny Lundsten;Micki Ream;James Barry

  • On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor

    Craig R. McClain;Thomas A. Schlacher

  • The Evolution of Energetic Scaling across the Vertebrate Tree of Life.

    Josef C. Uyeda;Matthew W. Pennell;Eliot T. Miller;Rafael Maia

  • The relationship between the standing stock of deep-sea macrobenthos and surface production in the western North Atlantic

    Nicholas A. Johnson;Janet W. Campbell;Timothy S. Moore;Michael A. Rex

  • The relationship between dissolved oxygen concentration and maximum size in deep-sea turrid gastropods: an application of quantile regression

    C. R. Mcclain;M. A. Rex

  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

    Jonathan L. Payne;Craig R. McClain;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown

  • Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals

    William Gearty;Craig R. McClain;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Assemblage structure, but not diversity or density, change with depth on a northeast Pacific seamount

    Craig R. McClain;Lonny Lundsten;James Barry;Andrew DeVogelaere

  • Evolution of the indoor biome

    Laura J. Martin;Rachel I. Adams;Ashley Bateman;Holly M. Bik

  • Practices and promises of Facebook for science outreach: Becoming a "Nerd of Trust".

    Craig R. McClain

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Rex
Michael A. Rex University of Massachusetts Boston
Jonathan L. Payne
Jonathan L. Payne Stanford University
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
Derek P. Tittensor
Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University
James P. Barry
James P. Barry Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
Ron J. Etter
Ron J. Etter University of Massachusetts Boston
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
Craig R. Smith
Craig R. Smith University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego

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