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Overview

Kimberly A. Selkoe is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental science, with a particular focus on marine and ecological studies.

The scientist's research contributions include recent papers such as:

  • "Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness" published in 2020 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Reaping the synergies between ocean aquaculture and fisheries" published in 2024 in One Earth

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kimberly A. Selkoe include:

  • Mary E. McElroy
  • Terra L. Dressler
  • Georgia Titcomb
  • Emily A. Wilson
  • Kristy Deiner

The venues where this researcher commonly publishes are:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • One Earth

Kimberly A. Selkoe's main field of study is Environmental Science, with five publications categorized under this area.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Molecular Biology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The primary topics addressed in their work comprise:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management

Best Publications

  • A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Shaun Walbridge;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Microsatellites for ecologists: a practical guide to using and evaluating microsatellite markers

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Robert J. Toonen

  • Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Benjamin S. Halpern;Melanie Frazier;John Potapenko;Kenneth S. Casey

  • Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Fiorenza Micheli;Carrie V. Kappel;Carrie V. Kappel

  • Recent pace of change in human impact on the world's ocean.

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Melanie Frazier;Jamie Afflerbach;Julia S. Lowndes

  • Sustainability and Global Seafood

    Martin D. Smith;Cathy A. Roheim;Larry B. Crowder;Benjamin S. Halpern

  • Ocean currents help explain population genetic structure

    Crow White;Kimberly A. Selkoe;James T Watson;David A. Siegel

  • EVIDENCE OF SELF-RECRUITMENT IN DEMERSAL MARINE POPULATIONS

    Stephen E. Swearer;Jeffrey S. Shima;Michael E. Hellberg;Simon R. Thorrold

  • Marine connectivity: a new look at pelagic larval duration and genetic metrics of dispersal

    K. A. Selkoe;Robert J. Toonen

  • The Structure of Mediterranean Rocky Reef Ecosystems across Environmental and Human Gradients, and Conservation Implications

    Enric Sala;Enric Ballesteros;Panagiotis Dendrinos;Antonio Di Franco

  • Neuropathogenic Forms of Huntingtin and Androgen Receptor Inhibit Fast Axonal Transport

    Györgyi Szebenyi;Gerardo A. Morfini;Gerardo A. Morfini;Alyssa Babcock;Milena Gould

  • Taking the chaos out of genetic patchiness: seascape genetics reveals ecological and oceanographic drivers of genetic patterns in three temperate reef species.

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;James R. Watson;Crow White;Tal Ben Horin

  • Seascape genetics and the spatial ecology of marine populations

    Kimberly A Selkoe;Kimberly A Selkoe;Christine M Henzler;Steven D Gaines

  • A decade of seascape genetics: contributions to basic and applied marine connectivity

    KA Selkoe;CC D'Aloia;ED Crandall;M. Iacchei

  • Current shifts and kin aggregation explain genetic patchiness in fish recruits.

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Steven D. Gaines;Jennifer E. Caselle;Robert R. Warner

  • Mapping cumulative human impacts to California Current marine ecosystems.

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Carrie V. Kappel;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Thorsten Blenckner;Margaret R. Caldwell;Larry B. Crowder

  • Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current.

    Sarah J. Teck;Benjamin S. Halpern;Carrie V. Kappel;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Combined analyses of kinship and FST suggest potential drivers of chaotic genetic patchiness in high gene-flow populations.

    Matthew Iacchei;Tal Ben‐Horin;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Christopher E. Bird

  • A map of human impacts to a “pristine” coral reef ecosystem, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

    K. A. Selkoe;B. S. Halpern;C. M. Ebert;E. C. Franklin

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Carrie V. Kappel
Carrie V. Kappel University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert J. Toonen
Robert J. Toonen University of Hawaii at Manoa
John N. Kittinger
John N. Kittinger Arizona State University
Larry B. Crowder
Larry B. Crowder Stanford University
Elizabeth R. Selig
Elizabeth R. Selig Stanford University
Magnus Nyström
Magnus Nyström Stockholm Resilience Centre
Steven D. Gaines
Steven D. Gaines University of California, Santa Barbara
Albert V. Norström
Albert V. Norström Stockholm Resilience Centre
John F. Bruno
John F. Bruno University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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