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D-Index
41
Citations
5694
World Ranking
5906
National Ranking
375

Ellen Kenchington publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ellen Kenchington sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 151 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Ellen Kenchington D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ellen Kenchington sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ellen Kenchington is affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada and has made contributions across several fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans major subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Biotechnology, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics explored by Kenchington cover a breadth of marine and ecological subjects. These include:

  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

Kenchington's recent published papers highlight engagements with global marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Selected recent publications include:

  • Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Influence of Water Masses on the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Benthic Ecosystems in the North Atlantic, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Differential processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter by deep-sea sponges and their microbial symbionts, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Marine epibenthic functional diversity on Flemish Cap (north-west Atlantic)-Identifying trait responses to the environment and mapping ecosystem functions, 2020, Diversity and Distributions

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Lindsay Beazley, Francisco Javier Murillo, M.M. Sacau-Cuadrado, Kathrin Busch, and Ana Riesgo. These collaborations indicate active engagement in interdisciplinary marine science research networks.

Research outputs by Kenchington have been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

In addition to journal articles, Kenchington has contributed to book publications, notably:

  • Deep-sea Sponge Ecosystems: Knowledge-based Approach Towards Sustainable Management and Conservation, 2023, Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • The environmental interactions of tidal and wave energy generation devices

    Chris Frid;Eider Andonegi;Jochen Depestele;Adrian Judd

  • Assigning individual fish to populations using microsatellite DNA markers

    Michael M. Hansen;Ellen Kenchington;Einar E. Nielsen

  • Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic

    Telmo Morato;José‐Manuel González‐Irusta;Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió;Chih‐Lin Wei

  • Deep-sea sponge grounds enhance diversity and abundance of epibenthic megafauna in the Northwest Atlantic

    Lindsay I. Beazley;Ellen L. Kenchington;Francisco Javier Murillo;María del Mar Sacau

  • Genetic differentiation in relation to marine landscape in a broadcast‐spawning bivalve mollusc (Placopecten magellanicus)

    E. L. Kenchington;M. U. Patwary;E. Zouros;C. J. Bird

  • From sea to sea: Canada's three oceans of biodiversity.

    Philippe Archambault;Paul V. R. Snelgrove;Jonathan A. D. Fisher;Jean-Marc Gagnon

  • Differential segregation patterns of sperm mitochondria in embryos of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis).

    Liqin Cao;Ellen Kenchington;Ellen Kenchington;Eleftherios Zouros;Eleftherios Zouros

  • Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional Roles, and Conservation Concerns

    Manuel Maldonado;Ricardo Aguilar;Raymond J. Bannister;James J. Bell

  • Effects of experimental otter trawling on the macrofauna of a sandy bottom ecosystem on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

    E. L. R. Kenchington;J. Prena;K. D. Gilkinson;D. C. Gordon

  • Deep-sea sponge grounds of the Flemish Cap, Flemish Pass and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland (Northwest Atlantic Ocean): Distribution and species composition

    Francisco Javier Murillo;Pablo Durán Muñoz;Javier Cristobo;Pilar Ríos

  • Managing marine genetic diversity: time for action?

    Ellen Kenchington;Mikko Heino;Einar Eg Nielsen

  • Modeling the distribution of Geodia sponges and sponge grounds in the Northwest Atlantic.

    Anders Knudby;Ellen Kenchington;Francisco Javier Murillo

  • Myths and moderation in marine "metapopulations"?

    R Kent Smedbol;Arran McPherson;Michael M Hansen;Ellen Kenchington

  • Barcoding Atlantic Canada's commonly encountered marine fishes

    M. R. McCusker;D. Denti;L. Van Guelpen;E. Kenchington

  • Genetics of mother-dependent sex ratio in blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) and implications for doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA

    Ellen Kenchington;Ellen Kenchington;Barry MacDonald;Liqin Cao;Defkalion Tsagkarakis

  • Evidence That the Large Noncoding Sequence Is the Main Control Region of Maternally and Paternally Transmitted Mitochondrial Genomes of the Marine Mussel (Mytilus spp.)

    Liqin Cao;Ellen Kenchington;Ellen Kenchington;Eleftherios Zouros;George C. Rodakis

  • Segregation of sperm mitochondria in two- and four-cell embryos of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis: implications for the mechanism of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA

    Andrew T Cogswell;Ellen L.R Kenchington;Eleftherios Zouros

  • Kernel density surface modelling as a means to identify significant concentrations of vulnerable marine ecosystem indicators.

    Ellen Kenchington;Francisco Javier Murillo;Camille Lirette;Mar Sacau

  • Multi-decadal changes in the megabenthos of the Bay of Fundy: the effects of fishing.

    Ellen L. Kenchington;Trevor J. Kenchington;Lea-Anne Henry;Lea-Anne Henry;Susanna Fuller

  • Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

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  • Immediate impacts and recovery trajectories of macrofaunal communities following hydraulic clam dredging on Banquereau, eastern Canada

    Kent D. Gilkinson;Donald C. Gordon;Kevin G. MacIsaac;David L. McKeown

  • Drivers of epibenthic megafaunal composition in the sponge grounds of the Sackville Spur, northwest Atlantic

    Lindsay Beazley;Ellen Kenchington;Igor Yashayaev;Francisco Javier Murillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleftherios Zouros
Eleftherios Zouros University of Crete
Ute Hentschel
Ute Hentschel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Telmo Morato
Telmo Morato University of the Azores
J. Murray Roberts
J. Murray Roberts University of Edinburgh
Manuel Maldonado
Manuel Maldonado Spanish National Research Council
Igor Yashayaev
Igor Yashayaev Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Steve W. Ross
Steve W. Ross University of North Carolina Wilmington
Philippe Archambault
Philippe Archambault Université Laval
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Paul V. R. Snelgrove Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paul Bentzen
Paul Bentzen Dalhousie University

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