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Jenifer E. Dugan is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of ecology, oceanography, earth-surface processes, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

The main topics of Dugan's work include marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, coastal and marine dynamics, marine and fisheries research, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dugan include Kyle A. Emery, David M. Hubbard, Robert J. Miller, Nicholas K. Schooler, and Jessica R. Madden.

Dugan has published in several scientific venues multiple times, including The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Conservation Biology, and Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.

Recent publications by Dugan reflect a focus on coastal and marine ecological issues. These include:

  • The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy-beach ecosystems: a global review (2022), published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Multiple climate change-driven tipping points for coastal systems (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • A marine protected area network does not confer community structure resilience to a marine heatwave across coastal ecosystems (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • Nutritional quality of giant kelp declines due to warming ocean temperatures (2021), published in Oikos
  • Ranking the ecological effects of coastal armoring on mobile macroinvertebrates across intertidal zones on sandy beaches (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Threats to sandy beach ecosystems: A review

    Omar Defeo;Anton McLachlan;David S. Schoeman;Thomas A. Schlacher

  • The response of macrofauna communities and shorebirds to macrophyte wrack subsidies on exposed sandy beaches of southern California

    Jenifer E Dugan;David M Hubbard;Michael D McCrary;Mark O Pierson

  • ECOLOGICAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CANDIDATE SITES FOR MARINE RESERVES

    Callum M. Roberts;Sandy Andelman;George Branch;Rodrigo H. Bustamante

  • Applications of marine refugia to coastal fisheries management

    Jenifer E. Dugan;Gary E. Davis

  • Sandy beach ecosystems: key features, sampling issues, management challenges and climate change impacts

    Thomas A. Schlacher;Dave S. Schoeman;Jenifer Dugan;Mariano Lastra

  • Sandy beaches at the brink

    Thomas A. Schlacher;Jenifer Dugan;Dave S. Schoeman;Mariano Lastra

  • Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve design: A case study from the california channel islands

    Satie Airamé;Jenifer E. Dugan;Kevin D. Lafferty;Heather Leslie

  • APPLICATION OF ECOLOGICAL CRITERIA IN SELECTING MARINE RESERVES AND DEVELOPING RESERVE NETWORKS

    Callum M. Roberts;George Branch;Rodrigo H. Bustamante;Juan Carlos Castilla

  • Estuarine and coastal structures: environmental effects, a focus on shore and nearshore structures

    J.E. Dugan;L. Airoldi;M.G. Chapman;S.J. Walker

  • Ecological effects of coastal armoring on sandy beaches

    Jenifer E. Dugan;David M. Hubbard;Iván F. Rodil;David L. Revell

  • Beach clam fisheries

    A. Mclachlan;J. E. Dugan;O. Defeo;A. D. Ansell

  • Processing of allochthonous macrophyte subsidies by sandy beach consumers: estimates of feeding rates and impacts on food resources

    Mariano Lastra;Henry M. Page;Jenifer E. Dugan;David M. Hubbard

  • Adaptations of bivalves to different beach types

    Anton McLachlan;Eduardo Jaramillo;Omar Defeo;Jenifer Dugan;Jenifer Dugan

  • Marine Macrophyte Wrack Inputs and Dissolved Nutrients in Beach Sands

    Jenifer E. Dugan;David M. Hubbard;Henry M. Page;Joshua P. Schimel

  • Ecological Implications of Extreme Events: Footprints of the 2010 Earthquake along the Chilean Coast

    Eduardo Jaramillo;Jenifer E. Dugan;David M. Hubbard;Daniel Melnick

  • The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review

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  • Loss of Coastal Strand Habitat in Southern California: The Role of Beach Grooming

    Jenifer E. Dugan;David M. Hubbard

  • Exotic invertebrate species on offshore oil platforms

    Henry M. Page;Jenifer E. Dugan;Carolynn S. Culver;Justin C. Hoesterey

  • Shorebird use of an exposed sandy beach in southern California

    David M. Hubbard;Jenifer E. Dugan

  • Burrowing abilities and swash behavior of three crabs, Emerita analoga Stimpson, Blepharipoda occidentalis Randall, and Lepidopa californica Efford (Anomura, Hippoidea), of exposed sandy beaches

    J.E Dugan;D.M Hubbard;M Lastra

  • Give beach ecosystems their day in the sun.

    Jenifer E. Dugan;Omar Defeo;Eduardo Jaramillo;Alan R. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariano Lastra
Mariano Lastra Universidade de Vigo
Anton McLachlan
Anton McLachlan Nelson Mandela University
Robert J. Miller
Robert J. Miller University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas A. Schlacher
Thomas A. Schlacher University of the Sunshine Coast
David S. Schoeman
David S. Schoeman University of the Sunshine Coast
Felicita Scapini
Felicita Scapini University of Florence
Omar Defeo
Omar Defeo University of the Republic
Kevin D. Lafferty
Kevin D. Lafferty United States Geological Survey
John M. Melack
John M. Melack University of California, Santa Barbara
Cristian Duarte
Cristian Duarte Andrés Bello University

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