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83
Citations
34523
World Ranking
699
National Ranking
255

Overview

Enric Sala is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in related subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Aquatic Science.

They have contributed extensively to several main topics within marine and environmental sciences, including:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on global ocean conservation, marine protected areas, and carbon sequestration dynamics. Notable publications include:

  • "Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate" (2021, Nature)
  • "The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean" (2021, Science)
  • "Global Patterns in Marine Sediment Carbon Stocks" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Let more big fish sink: Fisheries prevent blue carbon sequestration-half in unprofitable areas" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "RETRACTED: A global network of marine protected areas for food" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Enric Sala has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, most prominently:

  • Alan M. Friedlander
  • Juan Mayorga
  • Reniel B. Cabral
  • Whitney Goodell
  • Darcy Bradley

Their work has been published in a range of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.

    Boris Worm;Edward B. Barbier;Nicola Beaumont;J. Emmett Duffy

  • Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems

    John M. Pandolfi;Roger H. Bradbury;Enric Sala;Terence P. Hughes

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food web

    Jordi Bascompte;Carlos J. Melián;Enric Sala

  • A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets

    E. Dinerstein;C. Vynne;E. Sala;A. R. Joshi

  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

    Enric Sala;Juan Mayorga;Darcy Bradley;Reniel B. Cabral

  • Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

    B. Knowles;C. B. Silveira;B. A. Bailey;K. Barott

  • Indirect effects of algae on coral: algae-mediated, microbe-induced coral mortality.

    Jennifer E. Smith;Morrigan Shaw;Rob A. Edwards;David Obura

  • Mangroves in the Gulf of California increase fishery yields

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Exequiel Ezcurra;Gustavo Danemann;Víctor Valdez

  • Fishing, trophic cascades, and the structure of algal assemblages : evaluation of an old but untested paradigm

    E. Sala;C. F. Boudouresque;M. Harmelin-Vivien

  • Are U.S. coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime

    John M. Pandolfi;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;N. Baron;Roger H. Bradbury

  • Global regime shift dynamics of catastrophic sea urchin overgrazing

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

  • A general model for designing networks of marine reserves

    Enric Sala;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Gustavo Paredes;Ivan Parra

  • Marine, Estuarine, and Diadromous Fish Stocks at Risk of Extinction in North America (Exclusive of Pacific Salmonids)

    J. A. Musick;M. M. Harbin;S. A. Berkeley;G. H. Burgess

  • No-take marine reserves are the most effective protected areas in the ocean

    Enric Sala;Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS

    Enric Sala;Nancy Knowlton

  • Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands

    Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Olga Pantos;Steven Smriga;Robert A. Edwards

  • The Spatial Expansion and Ecological Footprint of Fisheries (1950 to Present)

    Wilf Swartz;Enric Sala;Sean Tracey;Reg Watson

  • The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean

    Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Jenna Sullivan-Stack;Callum Roberts;Vanessa Constant

  • Fish predation and the structure of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus populations in the NW Mediterranean

    Enric Sala;Mikel Zabala

  • Response to Comments on "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services"

    Boris Worm;Edward B. Barbier;Nicola Beaumont;J. Emmett Duffy

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. Friedlander
Alan M. Friedlander University of Hawaii at Manoa
Enric Ballesteros
Enric Ballesteros Spanish National Research Council
Stuart A. Sandin
Stuart A. Sandin University of California, San Diego
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza University of California, San Diego
Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith University of California, San Diego
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Joaquim Garrabou
Joaquim Garrabou Spanish National Research Council
David Obura
David Obura Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean

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