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Overview

Emma L. Johnston is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions across several subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and pollution.

Johnston has published extensively on topics related to coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, microbial community ecology and physiology, coastal and marine management, and microplastics and plastic pollution.

Frequent coauthors in Johnston's work include Graeme F. Clark, Katherine A. Dafforn, Mariana Mayer-Pinto, Jordan Gacutan, and Sally A. Bracewell.

Johnston has contributed papers to various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include SSRN Electronic Journal, Poster presentations, Marine Environmental Research, Environmental Pollution, and PLoS ONE.

Recent published papers include:

  • Tax4Fun2: prediction of habitat-specific functional profiles and functional redundancy based on 16S rRNA gene sequences (2020, Environmental Microbiome)
  • Current and projected global extent of marine built structures (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Wastewater effluents cause microbial community shifts and change trophic status (2021, Water Research)
  • Evaluating the social and ecological effectiveness of partially protected marine areas (2021, Conservation Biology)
  • A global analysis of complexity-biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Best Publications

  • Antifouling strategies: History and regulation, ecological impacts and mitigation

    Katherine A. Dafforn;John A. Lewis;Emma L. Johnston

  • Impacts of desalination plant discharges on the marine environment: A critical review of published studies

    David A. Roberts;Emma L. Johnston;Nathan A. Knott

  • Tax4Fun2: prediction of habitat-specific functional profiles and functional redundancy based on 16S rRNA gene sequences.

    Franziska Wemheuer;Jessica A. Taylor;Rolf Daniel;Emma Johnston

  • Contaminants reduce the richness and evenness of marine communities: a review and meta-analysis.

    Emma L. Johnston;David A. Roberts

  • Marine urbanization: an ecological framework for designing multifunctional artificial structures

    Katherine A Dafforn;Tim M Glasby;Laura Airoldi;Laura Airoldi;Natalie K Rivero

  • Current and projected global extent of marine built structures

    A. B. Bugnot;A. B. Bugnot;M. Mayer-Pinto;L. Airoldi;L. Airoldi;E. C. Heery

  • Pollution reduces native diversity and increases invader dominance in marine hard-substrate communities

    Richard F. Piola;Emma L. Johnston

  • Identifying the consequences of ocean sprawl for sedimentary habitats

    Eliza C. Heery;Melanie J. Bishop;Lincoln P. Critchley;Ana B. Bugnot

  • Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in Oceania.

    Richard Kingsford;James Watson;Carolyn Lundquist;Oscar Venter

  • The influence of antifouling practices on marine invasions

    Richard F. Piola;Katherine A. Dafforn;Emma L. Johnston

  • Core sediment bacteria drive community response to anthropogenic contamination over multiple environmental gradients

    Melanie Y. Sun;Katherine A. Dafforn;Emma L. Johnston;Mark V. Brown

  • Marine Spatial Planning advancing the Ecosystem-Based Approach to coastal zone management: A review

    Elianny Domínguez-Tejo;Graciela Metternicht;Emma Johnston;Luke Hedge

  • Assessment tools for microplastics and natural fibres ingested by fish in an urbanised estuary.

    Jennifer E. Halstead;James A. Smith;Elizabeth A. Carter;Peter A. Lay

  • Assessing contaminated sediments in the context of multiple stressors

    G. Allen Burton;Emma L. Johnston

  • Bacterial communities are sensitive indicators of contaminant stress.

    Melanie Y. Sun;Katherine A. Dafforn;Mark V. Brown;Emma L. Johnston

  • Shallow moving structures promote marine invader dominance.

    K. A. Dafforn;E. L. Johnston;T. M. Glasby

  • Light-driven tipping points in polar ecosystems.

    Graeme F. Clark;Jonathan S. Stark;Emma L. Johnston;John W. Runcie;John W. Runcie

  • Coastal urban lighting has ecological consequences for multiple trophic levels under the sea

    D. Bolton;M. Mayer-Pinto;G.F. Clark;K.A. Dafforn

  • Comparing the Invasibility of Experimental “Reefs” with Field Observations of Natural Reefs and Artificial Structures

    Katherine A. Dafforn;Tim M. Glasby;Emma L. Johnston

  • The Role of Propagule Pressure in Invasion Success

    Emma L. Johnston;Richard F. Piola;Graeme F. Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine A. Dafforn
Katherine A. Dafforn Macquarie University
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Stuart L. Simpson
Stuart L. Simpson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Melanie J. Bishop
Melanie J. Bishop Macquarie University
Alistair G. B. Poore
Alistair G. B. Poore University of New South Wales
Tim M. Glasby
Tim M. Glasby New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli University of New South Wales
Brendan P. Kelaher
Brendan P. Kelaher Southern Cross University
Laura Airoldi
Laura Airoldi University of Padua
Melinda A. Coleman
Melinda A. Coleman Southern Cross University

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