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Overview

Jennifer E. Smith is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on marine and coastal ecosystems.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of research include:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their work covers a range of marine-related topics such as:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Algal biology and biofuel production

Recent notable publications by Jennifer E. Smith include:

  • Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity (2022, Nature Microbiology)
  • Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming (2023, Nature Climate Change)
  • Increasing Coral Reef Resilience Through Successive Marine Heatwaves (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Environmental impacts and implications of tropical carrageenophyte seaweed farming (2020, Conservation Biology)
  • Genetic and Biochemical Reconstitution of Bromoform Biosynthesis in Asparagopsis Lends Insights into Seaweed Reactive Oxygen Species Enzymology (2020, ACS Chemical Biology)

Jennifer collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Michael D. Fox
  • Emily L. A. Kelly
  • Stuart A. Sandin
  • Maggie D. Johnson
  • Clinton B. Edwards

They have multiple publications in various scholarly venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Journal of Phycology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Applied Phycology
  • PeerJ
  • Coral Reefs

Best Publications

  • Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

    James J. Elser;Matthew E.S. Bracken;Elsa E. Cleland;Daniel S. Gruner

  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities

    W. Stanley Harpole;Jacqueline T. Ngai;Elsa E. Cleland;Eric W. Seabloom

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

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

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

    B. Knowles;C. B. Silveira;B. A. Bailey;K. Barott

  • Indirect effects of algae on coral: algae-mediated, microbe-induced coral mortality.

    Jennifer E. Smith;Morrigan Shaw;Rob A. Edwards;David Obura

  • A Global Review of the Distribution, Taxonomy, and Impacts of Introduced Seaweeds

    Susan L. Williams;Jennifer E. Smith

  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

    Daniel S. Gruner;Jennifer E. Smith;Eric W. Seabloom;Stuart A. Sandin

  • Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure.

    Helmut Hillebrand;Daniel S. Gruner;Elizabeth T. Borer;Matthew E. S. Bracken;Matthew E. S. Bracken

  • Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation.

    Oscar Beijbom;Peter J. Edmunds;Chris Roelfsema;Jennifer Smith

  • Introduced Macroalgae – a Growing Concern

    Britta Schaffelke;Jennifer E. Smith;Chad L. Hewitt

  • Global microbialization of coral reefs.

    Andreas F. Haas;Mohamed F. M. Fairoz;Linda W. Kelly;Craig E. Nelson

  • An experimental analysis of the effects of herbivory and nutrient enrichment on benthic community dynamics on a Hawaiian reef

    J. E. Smith;C. M. Smith;C. L. Hunter

  • Global assessment of the status of coral reef herbivorous fishes: evidence for fishing effects

    C. B. Edwards;A. M. Friedlander;A. G. Green;M. J. Hardt

  • The effects of top-down versus bottom-up control on benthic coral reef community structure.

    Jennifer E. Smith;Cynthia L. Hunter;Celia M. Smith

  • Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific

    Jennifer E. Smith;Rusty Brainard;Amanda Carter;Saray Grillo

  • Effects of Coral Reef Benthic Primary Producers on Dissolved Organic Carbon and Microbial Activity

    Andreas F. Haas;Craig E. Nelson;Linda Wegley Kelly;Craig A. Carlson

  • Distribution and reproductive characteristics of nonindigenous and invasive marine algae in the Hawaiian Islands.

    Jennifer E. Smith;Cynthia L. Hunter;Celia Marie Smith

  • Coral and macroalgal exudates vary in neutral sugar composition and differentially enrich reef bacterioplankton lineages

    Craig E Nelson;Stuart J Goldberg;Linda Wegley Kelly;Andreas F Haas

  • Microbial diversity associated with four functional groups of benthic reef algae and the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis.

    Katie L. Barott;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Jan Janouškovec;Kristen L. Marhaver

  • A Global Review of the Distribution, Taxonomy, and Impacts of Introduced

    Susan L. Williams;Jennifer E. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart A. Sandin
Stuart A. Sandin University of California, San Diego
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Mark J. A. Vermeij
Mark J. A. Vermeij University of Amsterdam
Gareth J. Williams
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale Flinders University
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Daniel S. Gruner
Daniel S. Gruner University of Maryland, College Park
Alan M. Friedlander
Alan M. Friedlander University of Hawaii at Manoa
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota

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