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15564
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2272
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153

Overview

Francis Juanes is a researcher affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada, specializing in Environmental Science. Their main fields of study encompass Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Developmental Biology.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to marine environments and underwater acoustics. Key research areas include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Francis Juanes has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Fisheries
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

Their recent scientific papers cover topics such as the acoustic environment of oceans, microplastics ingestion by fishes, and biological soundscapes. Notable recent papers include:

  • The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean (2021), published in Science
  • A Bayesian analysis of the factors determining microplastics ingestion in fishes (2021), published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • A quantitative inventory of global soniferous fish diversity (2022), published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Sounding the Call for a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Temperate freshwater soundscapes: A cacophony of undescribed biological sounds now threatened by anthropogenic noise (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Francis Juanes collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, with the most frequent partners being:

  • Kieran Cox
  • Hailey L. Davies
  • Rodney A. Rountree
  • William D. Halliday
  • Sarah E. Dudas

Best Publications

  • Human Consumption of Microplastics

    Kieran D. Cox;Garth A. Covernton;Hailey L. Davies;John F. Dower

  • Predator size - prey size relationships of marine fish predators: interspecific variation and effects of ontogeny and body size on trophic-niche breadth

    Frederick S. Scharf;Francis Juanes;Rodney A. Rountree

  • The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean.

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Lucille Chapuis;Shaun P. Collin;Daniel P. Costa

  • Recruitment Limitation as a Consequence of Natural Selection for Use of Restricted Feeding Habitats and Predation Risk Taking by Juvenile Fishes

    Carl J. Walters;Francis Juanes

  • The ecological consequences of limb damage and loss in decapod crustaceans: A review and prospectus

    Francis Juanes;L.David Smith

  • INFERRING ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM THE EDGES OF SCATTER DIAGRAMS: COMPARISON OF REGRESSION TECHNIQUES

    Frederick S. Scharf;Francis Juanes;Michael Sutherland

  • Infectious disease, shifting climates, and opportunistic predators: cumulative factors potentially impacting wild salmon declines.

    Kristina M. Miller;Kristina M. Miller;Amy Teffer;Strahan Tucker;Shaorong Li

  • Why do decapod crustaceans prefer small-sized molluscan prey?

    F. Juanes

  • The importance of statistical power analysis: an example from Animal Behaviour

    Len Thomas;Francis Juanes

  • Fish and hydropower on the U.S. Atlantic coast: failed fisheries policies from half‐way technologies

    J. Jed Brown;Karin E. Limburg;John R. Waldman;Kurt Stephenson

  • Feeding ecology and niche segregation in oceanic top predators off eastern Australia

    Jock W. Young;Matt J. Lansdell;Robert A. Campbell;Scott P. Cooper

  • Feeding Ecology of Piscivorous Fishes

    Francis Juanes;Jeffrey A. Buckel;Frederick S. Scharf

  • PREY SIZE SELECTION IN DUNGENESS CRABS: THE EFFECT OF CLAW DAMAGE'

    Francis Juanes;E. B. Hartwick

  • Sound the alarm: A meta‐analysis on the effect of aquatic noise on fish behavior and physiology

    Kieran Cox;Kieran Cox;Lawrence P. Brennan;Travis G. Gerwing;Travis G. Gerwing;Sarah E. Dudas;Sarah E. Dudas

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Piscivory and prey size selection in young-of-the-year bluefish: predator preference or size-dependent capture success?

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  • The Interface between Fisheries Research and Habitat Management

    Richard W. Langton;Robert S. Steneck;Vytenis Gotceitas;Francis Juanes

  • Long-term changes in migration timing of adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) at the southern edge of the species distribution

    Francis Juanes;Stephen Gephard;Kenneth F Beland

  • A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

    Christopher S. Bird;Christopher S. Bird;Ana Veríssimo;Sarah Magozzi;Kátya G. Abrantes

  • Nocturnal activity of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in late summer: evidence of diel activity partitioning

    Gabe Gries;Kevin G Whalen;Francis Juanes;Donna L Parrish

  • Rapid Growth, High Feeding Rates, and Early Piscivory in Young-of-the-Year Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

    Francis Juanes;David O. Conover

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Garcia-Vazquez
Eva Garcia-Vazquez University of Oviedo
David O. Conover
David O. Conover University of Oregon
Rebecca Jordan
Rebecca Jordan Michigan State University
Terry D. Beacham
Terry D. Beacham Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Stan E. Dosso
Stan E. Dosso University of Victoria
Jay R. Stauffer
Jay R. Stauffer Pennsylvania State University
Kristina M. Miller
Kristina M. Miller Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Scott G. Hinch
Scott G. Hinch University of British Columbia
John F. Dower
John F. Dower University of Victoria
David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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