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South Africa
2025

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44
Citations
16243
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6578
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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

John G. Field is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research contributions primarily fall within the field of Environmental Science, with notable work in several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Neurology, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • High Altitude and Hypoxia

John G. Field has published several recent papers, including:

  • "Was this career shaped by people or by chance?" (2021) in ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • "Obituary: Dr Richard Charles Newell (1939-2021)" (2022) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
  • "Raymond Pollard, FRSSAf: 1945-2021" (2024) in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

The publication venues in which they have frequently contributed are:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Among their frequent coauthors are:

  • E.A.S. Linley
  • Barbara E. Brown
  • G. B. Brundrit

Best Publications

  • The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea*

    Farooq Azam;Tom Fenchel;J. G. Field;J. S. Gray

  • A practical strategy for analysing multispecies distribution patterns

    JG Field;KR Clarke;RM Warwick

  • Using size-based indicators to evaluate the ecosystem effects of fishing

    Yunne-Jai Shin;Marie-Joëlle Rochet;Simon Jennings;John G. Field

  • The size-based dynamics of plankton food webs. I. A simulation model of carbon and nitrogen flows

    Coleen L. Moloney;John G. Field

  • Trophic flows in the southern Benguela during the 1980s and 1990s

    Lynne J Shannon;Coleen L Moloney;Astrid Jarre;John G Field

  • Comparative trophodynamics of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus and sardine Sardinops sagax in the southern Benguela: are species alternations between small pelagic fish trophodynamically mediated?

    CD van der Lingen;L Hutchings;JG Field

  • Network Analysis in Marine Ecology: Methods and Applications

    Fredrik Wulff;J. G. Field;K. H. Mann

  • General allometric equations for rates of nutrient uptake, ingestion, and respiration in plankton organisms

    Coleen L. Moloney;John G. Field

  • Exploring the effects of fishing on fish assemblages using Abundance Biomass Comparison (ABC) curves

    Dawit Yemane;John G. Field;Rob W. Leslie

  • Network Analysis in Marine Ecology

    F. Wulff;J. G. Field;K. H. Mann

  • Energy Balance and Significance of Microorganisms in a Kelp Bed Community

    RC Newell;JG Field;CL Griffiths

  • The ecology of kelp bed communities in the Benguela upwelling system

    B. Velimirov;J. G. Field;C. L. Griffiths;P. Zoutendyk

  • Persistent “upwelling shadows” and their influence on zooplankton distributions

    W. M. Graham;J. G. Field;D. C. Potts

  • The Use of Numerical Methods to Determine the Distribution of the Benthic Fauna Across the Continental Shelf of North Carolina

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  • Two-way coupling versus one-way forcing of plankton and fish models to predict ecosystem changes in the Benguela

    Morgane Travers;Yunne-Jai Shin;S. Jennings;Eric Machu

  • A numerical analysis of changes in the soft-bottom fauna along a transect across false bay, South Africa

    John G. Field

  • VARIATION IN STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS OF KELP COMMUNITIES ALONG THE SOUTH-WEST CAPE COAST

    J. G. Field;C. L. Griffiths;R. J. Griffiths;N. Jarman

  • The size-based dynamics of plankton food webs. II. Simulations of three contrasting southern Benguela food webs

    Coleen L. Moloney;John G. Field;Michael I. Lucas

  • Simulating anchovy-sardine regime shifts in the southern Benguela ecosystem

    Lynne J Shannon;John G Field;Coleen L Moloney

  • The influence of food availability on population dynamics of a supralittoral isopod, Ligia dilatata brandt

    K Koop;J.G Field

  • Characterising and comparing the spawning habitats of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus and sardine Sardinops sagax in the southern Benguela upwelling ecosystem

    NM Twatwa;CD van der Lingen;L Drapeau;CL Moloney

  • Community-level attributes of exploited and non-exploited rocky infratidal macrofaunal assemblages in Transkei

    T.A. Lasiak;J.G. Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Coleen L. Moloney
Coleen L. Moloney University of Cape Town
Lynne J. Shannon
Lynne J. Shannon University of Cape Town
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Fredrik Wulff
Fredrik Wulff Stockholm University
Richard M. Warwick
Richard M. Warwick Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Charles L. Griffiths
Charles L. Griffiths University of Cape Town
Yunne-Jai Shin
Yunne-Jai Shin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Simon Jennings
Simon Jennings Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Olivier Thébaud
Olivier Thébaud French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Philippe Cury
Philippe Cury Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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