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Citations
8047
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5766
National Ranking
458

Overview

Joseph Maina is a researcher affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on several closely related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

Main topics addressed by Joseph Maina in their research include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Coastal and Marine Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Their recent publications include notable papers such as:

  • Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world (2020) in Science
  • Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas (2021) in Nature Climate Change
  • Protecting connectivity promotes successful biodiversity and fisheries conservation (2022) in Science
  • Highly variable taxa-specific coral bleaching responses to thermal stresses (2020) in Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress (2020) in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Joseph Maina frequently publishes in journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Conservation Biology, and Sustainability.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Maina's work, with frequent co-authors including Tim R. McClanahan, Stéphanie D'Agata, Ernest Frimpong Asamoah, Linda J. Beaumont, and Stacy D. Jupiter.

Best Publications

  • Vulnerability of coastal communities to key impacts of climate change on coral reef fisheries.

    Joshua E Cinner;Tim R McClanahan;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Tim M. Daw

  • Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

    Joshua E. Cinner;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Nicholas A.J. Graham

  • Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries

    Joshua E. Cinner;Timothy R. McClanahan;Tim M. Daw;Nicholas A.J. Graham

  • Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes

    M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Joshua E. Cinner;Shaun K. Wilson

  • EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND SEAWATER TEMPERATURE VARIATION ON CORAL BLEACHING AND MORTALITY

    Timothy R. McClanahan;Mebrahtu Ateweberhan;Christopher A. Muhando;Joseph Maina

  • Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science

    Moreno Di Marco;Sarah Chapman;Glenn Althor;Stephen Kearney

  • Conservation action in a changing climate

    T.R. McClanahan;J.E. Cinner;J.M. Maina;N.A.J. Graham

  • Prioritizing Key Resilience Indicators to Support Coral Reef Management in a Changing Climate

    Tim R. McClanahan;Simon D. Donner;Jeffrey A. Maynard;M. Aaron MacNeil

  • Factors influencing resource users and managers' perceptions towards marine protected area management in Kenya

    Timothy McCLANAHAN;Jamie Davies;Joseph Maina

  • Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Jennifer McGowan;Morena Mills;Morena Mills;Maria Beger;Maria Beger

  • To Fish or not to Fish: Factors at multiple scales affecting artisanal fishers' readiness to exit a declining fishery

    Tim M. Daw;Tim M. Daw;Joshua E. Cinner;Timothy R. McClanahan;Katrina Brown

  • Modelling susceptibility of coral reefs to environmental stress using remote sensing data and GIS models

    Joseph Maina;Joseph Maina;Valentijn Venus;Timothy R. McClanahan;Mebrahtu Ateweberhan

  • Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Tim R McClanahan;Joseph Maina;Georgina G Gurney

  • Effects of geography, taxa, water flow, and temperature variation on coral bleaching intensity in Mauritius

    T. R. McClanahan;J. Maina;R. Moothien-Pillay;A. C. Baker;A. C. Baker

  • Global Gradients of Coral Exposure to Environmental Stresses and Implications for Local Management

    Joseph Maina;Joseph Maina;Tim R. McClanahan;Valentijn Venus;Mebrahtu Ateweberhan;Mebrahtu Ateweberhan

  • Perceptions of resource users and managers towards fisheries management options in Kenyan coral reefs

    T. R. McCLANAHAN;J. Maina;J. Davies

  • Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world

    Joshua E. Cinner;Jessica Zamborain-Mason;Georgina G. Gurney;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Nicholas A. J. Graham

  • Human deforestation outweighs future climate change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs

    Joseph Maina;Joseph Maina;Hans de Moel;Jens Zinke;Joshua Madin

  • Response of coral assemblages to the interaction between natural temperature variation and rare warm-water events

    T. R. McClanahan;J. Maina

  • Temperature patterns and mechanisms influencing coral bleaching during the 2016 El Niño

    Tim R. McClanahan;Emily S. Darling;Emily S. Darling;Joseph M. Maina;Joseph M. Maina;Joseph M. Maina;Nyawira A. Muthiga

  • Effects of the 1998 Coral Morality Event on Kenyan Coral Reefs and Fisheries

    Tim McClanahan;Tim McClanahan;Joseph Maina;Lida Pet-Soede

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim R. McClanahan
Tim R. McClanahan Wildlife Conservation Society
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University
Emily S. Darling
Emily S. Darling Wildlife Conservation Society
Joshua E. Cinner
Joshua E. Cinner James Cook University
Stacy D. Jupiter
Stacy D. Jupiter Wildlife Conservation Society
Maria Beger
Maria Beger University of Leeds
Shaun K. Wilson
Shaun K. Wilson Australian Institute of Marine Science
Christina C. Hicks
Christina C. Hicks Lancaster University
Nyawira A. Muthiga
Nyawira A. Muthiga Wildlife Conservation Society
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier

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