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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
12947
World Ranking
3249
National Ranking
1147

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Malin L. Pinsky is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, global and planetary change, genetics, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and coastal and marine management.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change, 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Cold range edges of marine fishes track climate change better than warm edges, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Genomic stability through time despite decades of exploitation in cod on both sides of the Atlantic, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Disentangling tropicalization and deborealization in marine ecosystems under climate change, 2021, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pinsky include Edward W. Tekwa, James T. Thorson, Alexa Fredston, Brooke Maslo, and Katrina A. Catalano. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of research outputs.

The scientist often publishes in several influential scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Malin L. Pinsky was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities

    Malin L. Pinsky;Malin L. Pinsky;Boris Worm;Michael J. Fogarty;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

    Douglas J. McCauley;Malin L. Pinsky;Stephen R. Palumbi;James A. Estes

  • Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms.

    Malin L. Pinsky;Anne Maria Eikeset;Douglas J. McCauley;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production.

    Christopher M. Free;Christopher M. Free;James T. Thorson;Malin L. Pinsky;Kiva L. Oken;Kiva L. Oken

  • Climate-Driven Shifts in Marine Species Ranges: Scaling from Organisms to Communities.

    Malin L. Pinsky;Rebecca L. Selden;Zoë J. Kitchel

  • Meta-analysis reveals lower genetic diversity in overfished populations.

    Malin L. Pinsky;Malin L. Pinsky;Stephen R. Palumbi

  • Preparing ocean governance for species on the move

    Malin L. Pinsky;Gabriel Reygondeau;Richard Caddell;Richard Caddell;Juliano Palacios-Abrantes

  • Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

    Anne D. Guerry;Mary H. Ruckelshaus;Katie K. Arkema;Joey R. Bernhardt

  • Lagged social-ecological responses to climate and range shifts in fisheries

    Malin L. Pinsky;Michael Fogarty

  • Projecting shifts in thermal habitat for 686 species on the North American continental shelf.

    James W. Morley;Rebecca L. Selden;Robert J. Latour;Thomas L. Frölicher

  • Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans

    Malin L. Pinsky;Olaf P. Jensen;Daniel Ricard;Stephen R. Palumbi

  • Managing living marine resources in a dynamic environment: The role of seasonal to decadal climate forecasts

    Desiree Tommasi;Charles A. Stock;Alistair J. Hobday;Rick Methot

  • Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients

    Michael T. Burrows;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Mark J. Costello;Martin Edwards

  • Climate change's impact on key ecosystem services and the human well‐being they support in the US

    Erik J. Nelson;Peter Kareiva;Mary Ruckelshaus;Mary Ruckelshaus;Katie Arkema;Katie Arkema

  • Emerging adaptation approaches for climate-ready fisheries management

    Malin Pinsky;Nathan Mantua

  • Shifting habitats expose fishing communities to risk under climate change

    Lauren A. Rogers;Lauren A. Rogers;Robert Griffin;Robert Griffin;Talia Young;Talia Young;Emma Fuller

  • The Effects of Sub-Regional Climate Velocity on the Distribution and Spatial Extent of Marine Species Assemblages

    Kristin M. Kleisner;Michael J. Fogarty;Sally McGee;Analie Barnett

  • Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

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  • Quantifying wave attenuation to inform coastal habitat conservation

    Malin L. Pinsky;Malin L. Pinsky;Greg Guannel;Katie K. Arkema

  • Who Should Pick the Winners of Climate Change

    Michael S. Webster;Madhavi A. Colton;Emily S. Darling;Jonathan Armstrong

  • Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

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  • Building confidence in projections of the responses of living marine resources to climate change

    William W.L. Cheung;Thomas L. Frölicher;Rebecca G. Asch;Miranda C. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas L. Frölicher
Thomas L. Frölicher University of Bern
James T. Thorson
James T. Thorson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Stephen R. Palumbi
Stephen R. Palumbi Stanford University
Olaf P. Jensen
Olaf P. Jensen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrique N. Curchitser
Enrique N. Curchitser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Vincent S. Saba
Vincent S. Saba National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Heather Tallis
Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz
M. S. Webster
M. S. Webster Vanderbilt University
Daniel E. Schindler
Daniel E. Schindler University of Washington

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