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74
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20762
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1114
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93

Ivan Nagelkerken publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivan Nagelkerken sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 217 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Ivan Nagelkerken D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivan Nagelkerken sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ivan Nagelkerken is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans 110 publications in Environmental Science and 28 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on ecology and global environmental change.

The scientist's research covers several subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics of investigation in their work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Ivan Nagelkerken has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coral Reefs

Selected recent papers by Nagelkerken include:

  • Trophic pyramids reorganize when food web architecture fails to adjust to ocean change, 2020, Science
  • The effects of climate change on the ecology of fishes, 2023, PLOS Climate
  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030-What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Environmental Flow Requirements of Estuaries: Providing Resilience to Current and Future Climate and Direct Anthropogenic Changes, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, including:

  • David J. Booth
  • Sean D. Connell
  • Marcus Sheaves
  • Angus Mitchell
  • Timothy Ravasi

Best Publications

  • The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: a review

    Ivan A. Nagelkerken;S. Blaber;Steven Bouillon;P Green

  • Importance of Mangroves, Seagrass Beds and the Shallow Coral Reef as a Nursery for Important Coral Reef Fishes, Using a Visual Census Technique

    I. Nagelkerken;G. van der Velde;M.W. Gorissen;G.J. Meijer

  • The seascape nursery: a novel spatial approach to identify and manage nurseries for coastal marine fauna

    Ivan Nagelkerken;Marcus Sheaves;Ronald Baker;Ronald Baker;Rod Martin Connolly

  • How important are mangroves and seagrass beds for coral-reef fish? The nursery hypothesis tested on an island scale

    I.A. Nagelkerken;C.M. Roberts;G. van der Velde;M. Dorenbosch

  • Marine nurseries and effective juvenile habitats: concepts and applications

    C.P. Dahlgren;G.T. Kellison;A.J. Adams;B.M. Gillanders

  • True Value of Estuarine and Coastal Nurseries for Fish: Incorporating Complexity and Dynamics

    Marcus Sheaves;Ronald Baker;Ivan Nagelkerken;Rod M. Connolly

  • Animal behaviour shapes the ecological effects of ocean acidification and warming: moving from individual to community-level responses

    Ivan Nagelkerken;Philip L. Munday

  • Importance of shallow-water biotopes of a Caribbean bay for juvenile coral reef fishes: patterns in biotope association, community structure and spatial distribution

    I. Nagelkerken;M. Dorenbosch;W. C. E. P. Verberk;E. Cocheret de la Morinière

  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 - what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems?

    Nathan J. Waltham;Michael Elliott;Shing Yip Lee;Catherine Lovelock

  • Caribbean sea-fan mortalities

    Garriet W. Smith;Lisa D. Ives;Ivan A. Nagelkerken;Kim B. Ritchie

  • Recent Region-wide Declines in Caribbean Reef Fish Abundance

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

  • Global alteration of ocean ecosystem functioning due to increasing human CO2 emissions

    Ivan Nagelkerken;Sean D. Connell

  • Dependence of Caribbean reef fishes on mangroves and seagrass beds as nursery habitats: a comparison of fish faunas between bays with and without mangroves/seagrass beds

    I. Nagelkerken;S. Kleijnen;T. Klop;R. A. C. J. van den Brand

  • Ontogenetic dietary changes of coral reef fishes in the mangrove-seagrass-reef continuum: stable isotopes and gut-content analysis

    E. Cocheret de la Morinière;B.J.A. Pollux;I. Nagelkerken;M.A. Hemminga

  • Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems

    Aaron J. Adams;Craig P. Dahlgren;G. Todd Kellison;Matthew S. Kendall

  • Indo-Pacific seagrass beds and mangroves contribute to fish density and diversity on adjacent coral reefs

    M. Dorenbosch;M.G.G. Grol;M.J.A. Christianen;I.A. Nagelkerken

  • Ecological connectivity among tropical coastal ecosystems

    Ivan Nagelkerken

  • Coral larvae move toward reef sounds

    Mark J. A. Vermeij;Kristen L. Marhaver;Chantal M. Huijbers;Ivan Nagelkerken

  • Climate change could drive marine food web collapse through altered trophic flows and cyanobacterial proliferation.

    Hadayet Ullah;Ivan Nagelkerken;Silvan U. Goldenberg;Damien A. Fordham

  • Day-night shifts of fishes between shallow-water biotopes of a Caribbean bay, with emphasis on the nocturnal feeding of Haemulidae and Lutjanidae

    I. Nagelkerken;M. Dorenbosch;W. C. E. P. Verberk;E. Cocheret de la Morinière

  • Rapid spread of diseases in Caribbean coral reefs

    Thomas J. Goreau;James Cervino;Maya Goreau;Raymond Hayes

Frequent Co-Authors

G. van der Velde
G. van der Velde Radboud University
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
Bayden D. Russell
Bayden D. Russell University of Hong Kong
Bronwyn M. Gillanders
Bronwyn M. Gillanders University of Adelaide
Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
Marcus Sheaves
Marcus Sheaves James Cook University
Joseph E. Serafy
Joseph E. Serafy University of Miami
Craig A. Layman
Craig A. Layman Wake Forest University
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk Radboud University
Philip L. Munday
Philip L. Munday James Cook University

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