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90
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46640
World Ranking
464
National Ranking
165

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Fiorenza Micheli is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on marine ecosystems and their management.

Their scholarly work has been published prominently in several venues, including Frontiers in Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Marine Ecology Progress Series, npj Ocean Sustainability, and Scientific Reports.

The main fields of study for Micheli include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields of study they contribute to consist of:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems" (2021, Nature Food)
  • "The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system" (2022, Global Food Security)
  • "Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations" (2023, Nature)
  • "Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation" (2021, Endangered Species Research)

Micheli has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Nur Arafeh-Dalmau, Giulio A. De Leo, U. Rashid Sumaila, C. Brock Woodson, and Elena Gissi.

In 2003, Fiorenza Micheli was recognized as a Hellman Fellow, an award supporting early career research.

Best Publications

  • A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Shaun Walbridge;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.

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

  • Fishing, Trophic Cascades, and the Process of Grazing on Coral Reefs

    Peter J. Mumby;Craig P. Dahlgren;Alastair R. Harborne;Carrie V. Kappel

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Fiorenza Micheli;Carrie V. Kappel;Carrie V. Kappel

  • The effectiveness of coral reefs for coastal hazard risk reduction and adaptation

    Filippo Ferrario;Filippo Ferrario;Michael W. Beck;Curt D. Storlazzi;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Recent pace of change in human impact on the world's ocean.

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Melanie Frazier;Jamie Afflerbach;Julia S. Lowndes

  • Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

    Kira A. Krumhansl;Daniel K. Okamoto;Andrew Rassweiler;Mark Novak

  • Ecology for a Crowded Planet

    Margaret Palmer;Emily S. Bernhardt;Elizabeth A. Chornesky;Scott L. Collins

  • Guiding ecological principles for marine spatial planning

    Melissa M. Foley;Benjamin S. Halpern;Fiorenza Micheli;Matthew H. Armsby

  • Introduction of Non-Native Oysters: Ecosystem Effects and Restoration Implications

    Jennifer L. Ruesink;Hunter S. Lenihan;Alan C. Trimble;Kimberly W. Heiman

  • Search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons in the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • 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

  • PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF MARINE RESERVES

    Louis W. Botsford;Fiorenza Micheli;Alan Hastings

  • Low functional redundancy in coastal marine assemblages

    Fiorenza Micheli;Benjamin S. Halpern;Benjamin S. Halpern

  • Cumulative human impacts on Mediterranean and Black Sea marine ecosystems: assessing current pressures and opportunities.

    Fiorenza Micheli;Benjamin S. Halpern;Shaun Walbridge;Saul Ciriaco

  • Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • TRAJECTORIES AND CORRELATES OF COMMUNITY CHANGE IN NO-TAKE MARINE RESERVES

    Fiorenza Micheli;Benjamin S. Halpern;Louis W. Botsford;Robert R. Warner

  • Trophic cascade facilitates coral recruitment in a marine reserve

    Peter J. Mumby;Alastair R. Harborne;Jodene Williams;Carrie V. Kappel;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Ocean solutions to address climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems

    Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Alexandre K. Magnan;Alexandre K. Magnan;Laurent Bopp;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung

  • 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

Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Carrie V. Kappel
Carrie V. Kappel University of California, Santa Barbara
Giulio A. De Leo
Giulio A. De Leo Stanford University
Sylvaine Giakoumi
Sylvaine Giakoumi University of Queensland
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara
Yuri Gershtein
Yuri Gershtein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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