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  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kristy J. Kroeker is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research centers on environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on oceanography, ecology, and global and planetary change. Kroeker's body of work encompasses a range of topics, primarily addressing the impacts and responses related to ocean acidification, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coral and marine ecosystems, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their recent publications include:

  • The Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems and Reliant Human Communities (2020) published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • Coast-wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems (2021) published in Global Change Biology
  • Keystone predators govern the pathway and pace of climate impacts in a subarctic marine ecosystem (2020) published in Science

Kroeker frequently publishes in several prominent scientific venues. The most common publication outlets include Global Change Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Ecosphere, Scientific Reports, and Frontiers in Marine Science. These journals feature a considerable number of their contributions, indicating an active role in advancing studies related to marine and environmental sciences.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Kroeker's career. Frequent co-authors include Tessa M. Hill, Fiorenza Micheli, Melissa Ward, Eric Sanford, and Brian Gaylord, with multiple collaborations recorded with each. This network supports interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research efforts within their fields of study.

Their expertise is further reflected in the distribution of publications across main fields such as Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a total of 61 and 41 publications, respectively. Within subfields, oceanography dominates, accompanied by works in ecology, global and planetary change, as well as contributions to ecological modeling and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Kroeker has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an award received in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms: quantifying sensitivities and interaction with warming

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Rebecca L. Kordas;Ryan Crim;Iris E. Hendriks

  • Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems

    Caitlin Mullan Crain;Kristy Kroeker;Benjamin S. Halpern

  • Meta‐analysis reveals negative yet variable effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Rebecca L. Kordas;Ryan N. Crim;Gerald G. Singh

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • The Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems and Reliant Human Communities

    Scott C. Doney;D. Shallin Busch;Sarah R. Cooley;Kristy J. Kroeker

  • Divergent ecosystem responses within a benthic marine community to ocean acidification

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Fiorenza Micheli;Maria Cristina Gambi;Todd R. Martz

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.

    James A Orr;Rolf D Vinebrooke;Michelle C Jackson;Kristy J Kroeker

  • Ocean acidification causes ecosystem shifts via altered competitive interactions

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Fiorenza Micheli;Maria Cristina Gambi

  • Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory

    Brian Gaylord;Kristy J Kroeker;Jennifer M Sunday;Kathryn M Anderson

  • The other ocean acidification problem: CO2 as a resource among competitors for ecosystem dominance.

    Sean D. Connell;Kristy J. Kroeker;Katharina E. Fabricius;David I. Kline

  • Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Katharina E. Fabricius;Kristy J. Kroeker;Kathryn M. Anderson

  • And on Top of All That… Coping with Ocean Acidification in the Midst of Many Stressors

    Denise L. Breitburg;Joseph E. Salisbury;Joan M. Bernhard;Wei-Jun Cai

  • Embracing interactions in ocean acidification research: confronting multiple stressor scenarios and context dependence.

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Rebecca L. Kordas;Christopher D. G. Harley

  • Predicting the effects of ocean acidification on predator-prey interactions: a conceptual framework based on coastal molluscs.

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Eric Sanford;Brittany M. Jellison;Brian Gaylord

  • Community dynamics and ecosystem simplification in a high-CO2 ocean

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Maria Cristina Gambi;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Interacting environmental mosaics drive geographic variation in mussel performance and predation vulnerability.

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Eric Sanford;Jeremy M. Rose;Carol A. Blanchette

  • Ecological change in dynamic environments: Accounting for temporal environmental variability in studies of ocean change biology

    Kristy J. Kroeker;Lauren E. Bell;Emily M. Donham;Umihiko Hoshijima

  • Taking action against ocean acidification: a review of management and policy options.

    Raphaël Billé;Ryan Kelly;Ryan Kelly;Arne Biastoch;Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb

  • Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO 2 gradients

    Nuria Teixidó;Nuria Teixidó;Nuria Teixidó;María Cristina Gambi;Valeriano Parravacini;Kristy J. Kroeker

  • Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes.

    Rodrigo Beas-Luna;Fiorenza Micheli;C. Brock Woodson;Mark Carr

  • Ocean Acidification 2.0: Managing our Changing Coastal Ocean Chemistry

    Aaron L. Strong;Kristy J. Kroeker;Lida T. Teneva;Lindley A. Mease

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Gaylord
Brian Gaylord University of California, Davis
Eric Sanford
Eric Sanford University of California, Davis
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University
Maria Cristina Gambi
Maria Cristina Gambi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Jean-Pierre Gattuso Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peter T. Raimondi
Peter T. Raimondi University of California, Santa Cruz
Gretchen E. Hofmann
Gretchen E. Hofmann University of California, Santa Barbara
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer E. Caselle
Jennifer E. Caselle University of California, Santa Barbara
Sam Dupont
Sam Dupont University of Gothenburg

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