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D-Index
37
Citations
5156
World Ranking
6907
National Ranking
87

Joanne Ellis 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 Joanne Ellis sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Joanne Ellis 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 Joanne Ellis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joanne Ellis is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand and specializes in environmental science, with a focused interest in marine and coastal ecosystems. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy, and law, as well as sociology and political science.

Their recent publications include studies across different aspects of marine environments. Key papers authored or co-authored by Ellis are:

  • "Nutrient-supplying ocean currents modulate coral bleaching susceptibility" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "The role of seagrass vegetation and local environmental conditions in shaping benthic bacterial and macroinvertebrate communities in a tropical coastal lagoon" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Differential thermal tolerance between algae and corals may trigger the proliferation of algae in coral reefs" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals estuarine benthic community response to nutrient enrichment - Evidence from an in-situ experiment" (2020) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Understanding the consequences of sea level rise: the ecological implications of losing intertidal habitat" (2022) published in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Research topics central to Ellis's work include coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coastal and marine management, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Ellis has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary cooperation in their field. These co-authors include:

  • F Stephenson (27 co-publications)
  • Judi E. Hewitt (18 co-publications)
  • Conrad A. Pilditch (17 co-publications and another listing of 12 co-publications)
  • Shane W. Geange (12 co-publications)

Frequent publication venues for Ellis feature journals that focus on environmental management, marine and freshwater research, conservation, and coastal management. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (11 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Management (4 publications)
  • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research (3 publications)
  • Biological Conservation (3 publications)
  • Ocean & Coastal Management (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Muddy waters: elevating sediment input to coastal and estuarine habitats

    SF Thrush;JE Hewitt;VJ Cummings;JI Ellis

  • Habitat change in estuaries: predicting broad-scale responses of intertidal macrofauna to sediment mud content

    Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Alf Norkko;Pip E. Nicholls

  • Fishing disturbance and marine biodiversity : role of habitat structure in simple soft-sediment systems

    Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Greig A. Funnell;Vonda J. Cummings

  • Determining effects of suspended sediment on condition of a suspension feeding bivalve (Atrina zelandica): results of a survey, a laboratory experiment and a field transplant experiment

    J Ellis;V Cummings;J Hewitt;S Thrush

  • Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: the role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery

    Alf Norkko;Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Vonda J. Cummings

  • Multiple stressors, nonlinear effects and the implications of climate change impacts on marine coastal ecosystems.

    Judi E. Hewitt;Joanne I. Ellis;Simon F. Thrush

  • Mangrove growth in New Zealand estuaries: the role of nutrient enrichment at sites with contrasting rates of sedimentation

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Ilka C. Feller;Joanne Ellis;Ann Maree Schwarz

  • Testing the Growth Rate vs. Geochemical Hypothesis for latitudinal variation in plant nutrients

    Catherine Lovelock;Ilka C Feller;Marilyn Ball;J Ellis

  • MAPPING OF MARINE SOFT-SEDIMENT COMMUNITIES: INTEGRATED SAMPLING FOR ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION

    J. E. Hewitt;S. F. Thrush;P. Legendre;G. A. Funnell

  • EVALUATION OF A GRADIENT SAMPLING DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

    Joanne I. Ellis;David C. Schneider

  • Multiple stressor effects on coral reef ecosystems

    Joanne I. Ellis;Joanne I. Ellis;Tahira Jamil;Holger Anlauf;Darren J. Coker

  • A cross-taxa study using environmental DNA/RNA metabarcoding to measure biological impacts of offshore oil and gas drilling and production operations.

    Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Susanna A. Wood;Louis A. Tremblay;Louis A. Tremblay;Joanne I. Ellis

  • Broad-scale disturbance of intertidal and shallow sublittoral soft-sediment habitats; effects on the benthic macrofauna

    J.I. Ellis;A. Norkko;S.F. Thrush

  • Differences in benthic fauna and sediment among mangrove (Avicennia marina var. australasica) stands of different ages in New Zealand

    D.J Morrisey;G.A Skilleter;J.I Ellis;B.R Burns

  • Effects of terrigenous sedimentation on mangrove physiology and associated macrobenthic communities

    J. Ellis;P. Nicholls;R. Craggs;D. Hofstra

  • Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities

    Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Susanna A. Wood;Susanna A. Wood;Louis A. Tremblay;Louis A. Tremblay;Gavin Lear

  • First evaluation of foraminiferal metabarcoding for monitoring environmental impact from an offshore oil drilling site.

    Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Susanna A. Wood;Louis A. Tremblay;Joanne I. Ellis

  • Nutrient-supplying ocean currents modulate coral bleaching susceptibility

    Thomas M. DeCarlo;Laura Gajdzik;Joanne Ellis;Darren J. Coker

  • The role of seagrass vegetation and local environmental conditions in shaping benthic bacterial and macroinvertebrate communities in a tropical coastal lagoon

    Z. Alsaffar;Z. Alsaffar;J. K. Pearman;J. K. Pearman;J. Cúrdia;J. Ellis;J. Ellis

  • Predicting macrofaunal species distributions in estuarine gradients using logistic regression and classification systems

    J. Ellis;T. Ysebaert;T. Hume;A. Norkko

  • Multiple stressor effects on marine infauna: responses of estuarine taxa and functional traits to sedimentation, nutrient and metal loading.

    Joanne I. Ellis;Joanne I. Ellis;Dana Clark;J. Atalah;W. Jiang

  • Discharged drilling waste from oil and gas platforms and its effects on benthic communities

    J. I. Ellis;G. Fraser;J. Russell

Frequent Co-Authors

Judi E. Hewitt
Judi E. Hewitt University of Auckland
Simon F. Thrush
Simon F. Thrush University of Auckland
Carolyn J. Lundquist
Carolyn J. Lundquist National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Vonda J. Cummings
Vonda J. Cummings National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Susanna A. Wood
Susanna A. Wood Cawthron Institute
Burton H. Jones
Burton H. Jones King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Conrad A. Pilditch
Conrad A. Pilditch University of Auckland
Ilka C. Feller
Ilka C. Feller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Gavin Lear
Gavin Lear University of Auckland

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