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2023

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71
Citations
18016
World Ranking
1590
National Ranking
130

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Eugene J. Murphy is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, atmospheric science, and sociology and political science.

Their work addresses several main topics including marine and fisheries research, marine animal studies overview, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine and coastal ecosystems, and polar research and ecology.

Murphy has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers such as:

  • Recent Decrease of Summer Sea Ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Future Risk for Southern Ocean Ecosystem Services Under Climate Change, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Circumpolar projections of Antarctic krill growth potential, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Status, Change, and Futures of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Sally Thorpe
  • Stuart Corney
  • Nadine M. Johnston
  • Devi Veytia
  • Bettina Meyer

Murphy's publications often appear in journals such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ICES Journal of Marine Science, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Nature Communications. Frontiers in Marine Science is the most frequent venue for their publications.

Best Publications

  • Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses

    G. M. Viswanathan;V. Afanasyev;S. V. Buldyrev;E. J. Murphy

  • Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer.

    Andrew M. Edwards;Andrew M. Edwards;Richard A. Phillips;Nicholas W. Watkins;Mervyn P. Freeman

  • Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion-One-Third for the Birds

    Philippe M. Cury;Ian L. Boyd;Sylvain Bonhommeau;Tycho Anker-Nilssen

  • Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Stuart P. Corney;Kevin R. Arrigo

  • Environmental Change and Antarctic Seabird Populations

    J. P. Croxall;P. N. Trathan;E. J. Murphy

  • Climate change and the marine ecosystem of the western Antarctic Peninsula

    Andrew Clarke;Eugene J Murphy;Michael P Meredith;John C King

  • Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill

    A. Atkinson;V. Siegel;E. A. Pakhomov;P. Rothery

  • Spatial and temporal operation of the Scotia Sea ecosystem: a review of large-scale links in a krill centred food web.

    E.J Murphy;J.L Watkins;P.N Trathan;K Reid

  • Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean

    N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;G. A. Tarling;D. C. E. Bakker;S. Fielding

  • Contrasting population changes in sympatric penguin species in association with climate warming

    Jaume Forcada;P. N. Trathan;K. Reid;E. J. Murphy

  • Environmental forcing and Southern Ocean marine predator populations: effects of climate change and variability

    P.N Trathan;J Forcada;E.J Murphy

  • Antarctic Futures: An Assessment of Climate-Driven Changes in Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Service Provisioning in the Southern Ocean.

    A D Rogers;B A V Frinault;D K A Barnes;N L Bindoff

  • Climatically driven fluctuations in Southern Ocean ecosystems.

    Eugene J Murphy;Philip N Trathan;Jon L Watkins;Keith Reid

  • The effects of global climate variability in pup production of Antarctic fur seals

    Jaume Forcada;P. N. Trathan;K. Reid;E. J. Murphy

  • Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): II. Predictive models based on food, temperature, body length, sex, and maturity stage

    Angus Atkinson;Rachael S. Shreeve;Andrew G. Hirst;Peter Rothery

  • Large-Scale Fluctuations in Distribution and Abundance of Krill — A Discussion of Possible Causes

    J. Priddle;J. P. Croxall;I. Everson;R. B. Heywood

  • Life history buffering in Antarctic mammals and birds against changing patterns of climate and environmental variation

    Jaume Forcada;Philip N. Trathan;Eugene J. Murphy

  • Temporal variation in Antarctic sea-ice: analysis of a long term fast-ice record from the South Orkney Islands

    Eugene J. Murphy;Andrew Clarke;Carolyn Symon;Julian Priddle

  • Krill transport in the Scotia Sea and environs

    Eileen E. Hofmann;John M. Klinck;Ricardo A. Locarnini;Bettina Fach

  • On the comparison of population-level estimates of haplotype and nucleotide diversity: a case study using the gene cox1 in animals

    W P Goodall-Copestake;G A Tarling;E J Murphy

  • Interannual variability of the South Georgia marine ecosystem : biological and physical sources of variation in the abundance of krill

    E. J. Murphy;J. L. Watkins;K. Reid;P. N. Trathan

  • Scales of Interaction Between Antarctic Krill and the Environment

    E. J. Murphy;D. J. Morris;J. L. Watkins;J. Priddle

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip N. Trathan
Philip N. Trathan British Antarctic Survey
Sally E. Thorpe
Sally E. Thorpe Natural Environment Research Council
Eileen E. Hofmann
Eileen E. Hofmann Old Dominion University
Geraint A. Tarling
Geraint A. Tarling British Antarctic Survey
Michael P. Meredith
Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Sophie Fielding
Sophie Fielding British Antarctic Survey
Klaus M Meiners
Klaus M Meiners Australian Antarctic Division
Keith Reid
Keith Reid Natural Environment Research Council
Andrew Constable
Andrew Constable University of Tasmania
Jonathan L. Watkins
Jonathan L. Watkins British Antarctic Survey

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