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Overview

Kyle C. Cavanaugh is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, plant science, and atmospheric science.

The overriding themes in their work revolve around coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, coastal and marine management, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Kyle C. Cavanaugh has published in a variety of scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Journal of Ecology

The scientist has authored numerous papers, notable among them are:

  • "Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now", 2020, Current Biology
  • "Implementation of a Pooled Surveillance Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a College Campus - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 2-October 11, 2020", 2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • "Characterizing spatial variability in coastal wetland biomass across multiple scales using UAV and satellite imagery", 2021, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • "Kelpwatch: A new visualization and analysis tool to explore kelp canopy dynamics reveals variable response to and recovery from marine heatwaves", 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "An Automated Method for Mapping Giant Kelp Canopy Dynamics from UAV", 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with various colleagues, including:

  • Tom W. Bell
  • Katherine C. Cavanaugh
  • Henry F. Houskeeper
  • Nur Arafeh-Dalmau
  • Fiorenza Micheli

Best Publications

  • Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

    Kira A. Krumhansl;Daniel K. Okamoto;Andrew Rassweiler;Mark Novak

  • Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;James R. Kellner;Alexander J. Forde;Daniel S. Gruner

  • Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability

    Heather M. Leslie;Xavier Basurto;Mateja Nenadovic;Leila Sievanen;Leila Sievanen

  • Climatic controls on the global distribution, abundance, and species richness of mangrove forests

    Michael J. Osland;Laura C. Feher;Kereen T. Griffith;Kyle C. Cavanaugh

  • Review of the ecosystem service implications of mangrove encroachment into salt marshes.

    Jeffrey J. Kelleway;Kyle Cavanaugh;Kerrylee Rogers;Ilka C. Feller

  • Climate-driven increases in storm frequency simplify kelp forest food webs

    Jarrett E. Byrnes;Daniel C. Reed;Bradley J. Cardinale;Kyle C. Cavanaugh

  • Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;J. Stephen Gosnell;Samantha L. Davis;Jorge Ahumada

  • Wave disturbance overwhelms top-down and bottom-up control of primary production in California kelp forests.

    Daniel C. Reed;Andrew Rassweiler;Mark H. Carr;Kyle C. Cavanaugh

  • Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now

    Daniel A. Friess;Daniel A. Friess;Erik S. Yando;Guilherme M.O. Abuchahla;Janine B. Adams

  • Environmental controls of giant-kelp biomass in the Santa Barbara Channel, California

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;David A. Siegel;Daniel C. Reed;Philip E. Dennison

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove–salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years

    Kyle C Cavanaugh;Emily M Dangremond;Cheryl L Doughty;A Park Williams

  • Mapping Coastal Wetland Biomass from High Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery

    Cheryl L. Doughty;Kyle C. Cavanaugh

  • Spatial variability in the resistance and resilience of giant kelp in southern and Baja California to a multiyear heatwave

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Daniel C. Reed;Tom W. Bell;Max C.N. Castorani

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • Geographical variability in the controls of giant kelp biomass dynamics

    Tom W. Bell;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Daniel C. Reed;David A. Siegel

  • Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;John D. Parker;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Ilka C. Feller

  • Three decades of variability in California's giant kelp forests from the Landsat satellites

    Tom W. Bell;James G. Allen;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;David A. Siegel

  • Scaling giant kelp field measurements to regional scales using satellite observations

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;David A. Siegel;Brian P. Kinlan;Daniel C. Reed

  • Spatio-temporal changes of a mangrove–saltmarsh ecotone in the northeastern coast of Florida, USA

    Wilfrid Rodriguez;Ika C. Feller;Kyle C. Cavanaugh

  • Remote monitoring of giant kelp biomass and physiological condition: An evaluation of the potential for the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) mission

    Tom W. Bell;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;David A. Siegel

  • Sensitivity of mangrove range limits to climate variability

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Michael J. Osland;Remi Bardou;Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango

  • Patch definition in metapopulation analysis: a graph theory approach to solve the mega-patch problem

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;David A. Siegel;Peter T. Raimondi;Filipe Alberto

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Reed
Daniel C. Reed University of California, Santa Barbara
David A. Siegel
David A. Siegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Ilka C. Feller
Ilka C. Feller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
John D. Parker
John D. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Peter T. Raimondi
Peter T. Raimondi University of California, Santa Cruz
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jorge Assis
Jorge Assis University of Algarve
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University
Jennifer E. Caselle
Jennifer E. Caselle University of California, Santa Barbara
Marc Simard
Marc Simard California Institute of Technology

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