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Isabelle M. Côté

Isabelle M. Côté

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
81
Citations
29077
World Ranking
784
National Ranking
47

Overview

Isabelle M. Côté is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine animal studies overview

Côté has contributed to frequent publication venues such as Marine Policy, Coral Reefs, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Marine Biology, and PeerJ.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Côté include:

  • Long-term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world's seagrass bioregions, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental (in)justice in the Anthropocene ocean, 2022, Marine Policy
  • A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Côté include Kieran Cox, Simon Lapierre, Jillian C. Dunic, Hannah V. Watkins, and Kiara R. Kattler.

Among book publications, Côté has contributed to a work published by Dunod titled Physique-Chimie - BCPST 2 in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Long-Term Region-Wide Declines in Caribbean Corals

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Jennifer A. Gill;Alastair Grant

  • Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity

    Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip;Nicholas K. Dulvy;Jennifer A. Gill;Jennifer A. Gill;Isabelle M. Côté

  • Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation.

    Isabelle M. Côté;Emily S. Darling;Christopher J. Brown

  • Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011

    William J. Sutherland;Rosalind Aveling;Thomas M. Brooks;Mick Clout

  • Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies

    Emily S. Darling;Isabelle M. Côté

  • Evaluating life‐history strategies of reef corals from species traits

    Emily S. Darling;Lorenzo Alvarez‐Filip;Thomas A. Oliver;Timothy R. McClanahan

  • One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

    W.J. Sutherland;W.M. Adams;R.B. Aronson;R. Aveling

  • Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis

    Isabelle M. Côté;Robert Poulinb

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target

    Andrew Balmford;Leon Bennun;Ben ten Brink;David Cooper

  • Invasive lionfish drive Atlantic coral reef fish declines.

    Stephanie J. Green;John L. Akins;Aleksandra Maljković;Isabelle M. Côté

  • HURRICANES AND CARIBBEAN CORAL REEFS: IMPACTS, RECOVERY PATTERNS, AND ROLE IN LONG‐TERM DECLINE

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Jennifer A. Gill;Alastair Grant

  • Current and future sustainability of island coral reef fisheries

    Katie Newton;Isabelle M. Côté;Graham M. Pilling;Simon Jennings

  • The Effectiveness of Removing Predators to Protect Bird Populations

    Isabelle M. Côté;William J. Sutherland

  • Rethinking ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change.

    Isabelle M. Côté;Emily S. Darling

  • Long-term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world's seagrass bioregions.

    Jillian C. Dunic;Christopher J. Brown;Rod M. Connolly;Mischa P. Turschwell

  • Effects of marine reserve characteristics on the protection of fish populations: a meta‐analysis

    I. M. Côté;I. Mosqueira;J. D. Reynolds

  • Predicting the Impact of Sea‐Level Rise on Caribbean Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat

    Marianne R. Fish;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Andrew P. Jones

  • Island-specific preferences of tourists for environmental features: implications of climate change for tourism-dependent states.

    Maria C. Uyarra;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Rob R.T. Tinch

  • Recent Region-wide Declines in Caribbean Reef Fish Abundance

    Michelle J. Paddack;Michelle J. Paddack;John D. Reynolds;Consuelo Aguilar;Richard S. Appeldoorn

  • Predatory fish invaders: Insights from Indo-Pacific lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean

    Isabelle M. Côté;Stephanie J. Green;Mark A. Hixon

  • Science and the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target.

    A Balmford;L Bennun;B Ten Brink;D Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Reynolds
John D. Reynolds Simon Fraser University
Andrew R. Watkinson
Andrew R. Watkinson University of East Anglia
Emily S. Darling
Emily S. Darling Wildlife Conservation Society
Jennifer A. Gill
Jennifer A. Gill University of East Anglia
Suzanne C. Mills
Suzanne C. Mills École Pratique des Hautes Études
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip National Autonomous University of Mexico
Toby A. Gardner
Toby A. Gardner Stockholm Environment Institute
Redouan Bshary
Redouan Bshary University of Neuchâtel
Nicholas K. Dulvy
Nicholas K. Dulvy Simon Fraser University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

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