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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
19242
World Ranking
1128
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award

Overview

D. Ross Robertson is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and genetics.

The main areas of study for this researcher include coral and marine ecosystems studies, identification and quantification in food, ichthyology and marine biology, marine and fisheries research, genetic diversity and population structure, marine ecology and invasive species, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ZooKeys, Zootaxa, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with D. Ross Robertson comprise:

  • Luke Tornabene
  • Carole C. Baldwin
  • Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo
  • Omár Domínguez-Domínguez
  • Mark E. Torchin

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • "A new wave of marine fish invasions through the Panama and Suez canals" (2020), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Environmental DNA (eDNA) reveals potential for interoceanic fish invasions across the Panama Canal" (2023), Ecology and Evolution
  • "Submersibles Greatly Enhance Research on the Diversity of Deep-Reef Fishes in the Greater Caribbean" (2022), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Comparing biodiversity databases: Greater Caribbean reef fishes as a case study" (2020), Fish and Fisheries
  • "A multi-locus approach to elucidating the evolutionary history of the clingfish Tomicodon petersii (Gobiesocidae) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific" (2021), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Spread of Diadema Mass Mortality Through the Caribbean

    H. A. Lessios;D. R. Robertson;J. D. Cubit

  • Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution

    S. R. Floeter;S. R. Floeter;L. A. Rocha;D. R. Robertson;J. C. Joyeux

  • Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific

    Gerald R. Allen;D. Ross Robertson

  • Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size

    Diego R. Barneche;D. Ross Robertson;Craig R. White;Dustin J. Marshall

  • EVIDENCE OF SELF-RECRUITMENT IN DEMERSAL MARINE POPULATIONS

    Stephen E. Swearer;Jeffrey S. Shima;Michael E. Hellberg;Simon R. Thorrold

  • Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the western Caribbean, I the wrasses (Labridae)

    Robert R. Warner;D. Ross Robertson

  • Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the Western Caribbean, II, the parrotfishes (Scaridae)

    D. Ross Robertson;Robert R. Warner

  • Sex change and sexual selection.

    Robert R. Warner;D. Ross Robertson;Egbert G. Leigh

  • Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes

    Luiz A Rocha;Luiz A Rocha;D. Ross Robertson;Joe Roman;Brian W Bowen

  • Phylogeography of the trumpetfishes (Aulostomus): ring species complex on a global scale.

    B. W. Bowen;A. L. Bass;L. A. Rocha;W. S. Grant

  • Recent Region-wide Declines in Caribbean Reef Fish Abundance

    Michelle J. Paddack;Michelle J. Paddack;John D. Reynolds;Consuelo Aguilar;Richard S. Appeldoorn

  • Adult habitat preferences, larval dispersal, and the comparative phylogeography of three Atlantic surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae)

    Luiz A. Rocha;Anna L. Bass;D. Ross Robertson;Brian W. Bowen

  • Crossing the Impassable: Genetic Connections in 20 Reef Fishes Across the Eastern Pacific Barrier

    H.A Lessios;D.R Robertson

  • INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION CONTROLS ABUNDANCE AND HABITAT USE OF TERRITORIAL CARIBBEAN DAMSELFISHES

    D. Ross Robertson

  • Temporal Coupling of Production and Recruitment of Larvae of a Caribbean Reef Fish

    D. Ross Robertson;David G. Green;Benjamin C. Victor

  • Phylogeography of Ophioblennius: the role of ocean currents and geography in reef fish evolution.

    Andrew Muss;D. Ross Robertson;Carol A. Stepien;Peter Wirtz

  • Larval growth predicts the recruitment success of a coral reef fish

    Mikaela A.J. Bergenius;Mark G. Meekan;D. Ross Robertson;Mark I. Mccormick

  • PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PANTROPICAL SEA URCHIN TRIPNEUSTES: CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE BETWEEN OCEANS

    H. A. Lessios;J. Kane;D. R. Robertson

  • PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PANTROPICAL SEA URCHIN EUCIDARIS IN RELATION TO LAND BARRIERS AND OCEAN CURRENTS

    H. A. Lessios;B. D. Kessing;D. R. Robertson;G. Paulay

  • Ecological traits influencing range expansion across large oceanic dispersal barriers: insights from tropical Atlantic reef fishes.

    Osmar J. Luiz;Joshua S. Madin;D. Ross Robertson;Luiz A. Rocha

  • Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the western Caribbean

    Robert R. Warner;D. Ross Robertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha California Academy of Sciences
Brian W. Bowen
Brian W. Bowen University of Hawaii at Manoa
Giacomo Bernardi
Giacomo Bernardi University of California, Santa Cruz
Sergio R. Floeter
Sergio R. Floeter Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Robert R. Warner
Robert R. Warner University of California, Santa Barbara
David R. Bellwood
David R. Bellwood James Cook University
Serge Planes
Serge Planes PSL University
Mark E. Torchin
Mark E. Torchin Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Michelle R. Gaither
Michelle R. Gaither University of Central Florida
J. Howard Choat
J. Howard Choat James Cook University

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