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58
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14632
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2536
National Ranking
297

Overview

John K. Pinnegar is affiliated with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on marine and fisheries studies. The scientist's work spans several related subfields, including global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, aquatic science, and environmental management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The research topics covered by John K. Pinnegar are diverse within the marine environmental domain. These topics include marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, coastal and marine management, fish ecology and management studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, and isotope analysis in ecology.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in well-known journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Fish and Fisheries, Climate Risk Management, Earth System Science Data, and the Journal of Fish Biology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John K. Pinnegar highlight a focus on the impact of climate change and environmental pressures on marine systems. These papers include:

  • Marine litter and climate change: Inextricably connected threats to the world's oceans, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climate risk to European fisheries and coastal communities, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Regional Review of Marine and Coastal Impacts of Climate Change on the ROPME Sea Area, 2021, Sustainability
  • Climate change projections of commercial fish distribution and suitable habitat around north western Europe, 2023, Fish and Fisheries
  • A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology

Collaboration is a notable part of their research profile. Frequent co-authors associated with John K. Pinnegar include Georg H. Engelhard, Myron A. Peck, Bryony L. Townhill, Katell G. Hamon, and Cornelia M. Kreiss.

Best Publications

  • Differential fractionation of δ13C and δ15N among fish tissues: implications for the study of trophic interactions

    J. K. Pinnegar;N. V. C. Polunin

  • Resolving the effect of climate change on fish populations

    Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Myron A. Peck;Georg H. Engelhard;Christian Möllmann

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • Trophic cascades in benthic marine ecosystems: Lessons for fisheries and protected-area management

    J.K. Pinnegar;N.V.C. Polunin;P. Francour;F. Badalamenti

  • Weak cross-species relationships between body size and trophic level belie powerful size-based trophic structuring in fish communities

    Simon Jennings;John K. Pinnegar;Nicholas V. C. Polunin;Trevor W. Boon

  • Contributions of stable-isotope data to elucidating food webs of Mediterranean rocky littoral fishes.

    J. K. Pinnegar;N. V. C. Polunin

  • The ‘shifting baseline’ phenomenon: a global perspective

    John K. Pinnegar;Georg H. Engelhard

  • How quantitative is metabarcoding: a meta-analytical approach

    Philip D. Lamb;Ewan Hunter;Ewan Hunter;John K. Pinnegar;John K. Pinnegar;Simon Creer

  • Long-term trends in the trophic structure of the North Sea fish community: evidence from stable-isotope analysis, size-spectra and community metrics

    S. Jennings;S.P.R. Greenstreet;L. Hill;G.J. Piet

  • Impacts of trawling disturbance on the trophic structure of benthic invertebrate communities

    Simon Jennings;John K. Pinnegar;Nicholas V. C. Polunin;Karema J. Warr

  • Aquatic food security: insights into challenges and solutions from an analysis of interactions between fisheries, aquaculture, food safety, human health, fish and human welfare, economy and environment

    Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings;Grant D Stentiford;Ana M Leocadio;Keith R Jeffery

  • Long‐term changes in the trophic level of the Celtic Sea fish community and fish market price distribution

    J. K. Pinnegar;S. Jennings;C. M. O’Brien;N. V. C. Polunin;N. V. C. Polunin

  • Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments

    Stefan Gelcich;Paul Buckley;John K. Pinnegar;Jason D. Chilvers

  • Linking size-based and trophic analyses of benthic community structure

    Simon Jennings;John K. Pinnegar;Nicholas V. C. Polunin;Karema J. Warr

  • Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data

    N.V.C. Polunin;Beatriz Morales-Nin;W.E. Pawsey;Joan Enric Cartes

  • Do climate and fishing influence size-based indicators of Celtic Sea fish community structure?

    Julia L. Blanchard;Nicholas K. Dulvy;Simon Jennings;James R. Ellis

  • Climate change and fishing: a century of shifting distribution in North Sea cod

    Georg H. Engelhard;David A. Righton;John K. Pinnegar

  • Isotope trophic‐step fractionation: a dynamic equilibrium model

    Peter J. W. Olive;John K. Pinnegar;John K. Pinnegar;Nicholas V. C. Polunin;Gareth Richards

  • Impacts of climate change on the complex life cycles of fish

    Pierre Petitgas;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Mark Dickey-Collas;Georg H. Engelhard

  • Explaining isotope trophic-step fractionation: Why herbivorous fish are different

    Aileen Mill;John Pinnegar;Nick Polunin

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg H. Engelhard
Georg H. Engelhard Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Nicholas Polunin
Nicholas Polunin Newcastle University
Simon Jennings
Simon Jennings Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Julia L. Blanchard
Julia L. Blanchard University of Tasmania
Myron A. Peck
Myron A. Peck Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Stephen D. Simpson
Stephen D. Simpson University of Exeter
Michael R. Heath
Michael R. Heath University of Strathclyde
Rachel Warren
Rachel Warren University of East Anglia
Sarah Wanless
Sarah Wanless Natural Environment Research Council

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