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D-Index
55
Citations
11400
World Ranking
2980
National Ranking
230

Marcus Sheaves publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcus Sheaves sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 232 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Marcus Sheaves D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcus Sheaves sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marcus Sheaves is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and focuses primarily on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on coastal and marine ecosystems. Their work spans a range of subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, oceanography, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The researcher's publications address core topics related to marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystem studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, ichthyology and marine biology, fish ecology and management, marine animal studies, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Recent scholarly articles by Marcus Sheaves include:

  • High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth's tidal wetlands, 2022, Science
  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030-What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental Flow Requirements of Estuaries: Providing Resilience to Current and Future Climate and Direct Anthropogenic Changes, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Fish Classification in Underwater Habitats: A Survey, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nathan J. Waltham
  • Adam Barnett
  • Michael Bradley
  • Alzayat Saleh
  • Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Prominent venues for publication comprise:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • The seascape nursery: a novel spatial approach to identify and manage nurseries for coastal marine fauna

    Ivan Nagelkerken;Marcus Sheaves;Ronald Baker;Ronald Baker;Rod Martin Connolly

  • High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands

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  • True Value of Estuarine and Coastal Nurseries for Fish: Incorporating Complexity and Dynamics

    Marcus Sheaves;Ronald Baker;Ivan Nagelkerken;Rod M. Connolly

  • Consequences of ecological connectivity: the coastal ecosystem mosaic

    Marcus Sheaves

  • Fish gut content analysis: robust measures of diet composition

    Ronald Baker;Ronald Baker;Amanda Buckland;Marcus Sheaves

  • Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

    Nuno Queiroz;Nuno Queiroz;Nicolas E. Humphries;Ana Couto;Marisa Vedor

  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 - what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems?

    Nathan J. Waltham;Michael Elliott;Shing Yip Lee;Catherine Lovelock

  • Nature and consequences of biological connectivity in mangrove systems

    Marcus Sheaves

  • Short-circuit in the mangrove food chain

    Marcus Sheaves;Brett Molony

  • Food web structure in a near-pristine mangrove area of the Australian Wet Tropics

    Kátya Abrantes;Marcus Sheaves

  • Standardising fish stomach content analysis: The importance of prey condition

    Amanda Buckland;Amanda Buckland;Ronald Baker;Neil Loneragan;Marcus Sheaves

  • Australian shellfish ecosystems: Past distribution, current status and future direction.

    Chris L. Gillies;Ian M. McLeod;Heidi K. Alleway;Peter Cook

  • Redefining the piscivore assemblage of shallow estuarine nursery habitats

    Ronald Baker;Marcus Sheaves

  • Large lutjanid and serranid fishes in tropical estuaries: Are they adults or juveniles?

    Marcus Sheaves

  • Marine nurseries and effective juvenile habitats: an alternative view

    Marcus Sheaves;Ronnie Baker;Ross Johnston

  • Are we killing them with kindness? Evaluation of sustainable marine wildlife tourism

    Claudia Trave;Juerg Brunnschweiler;Marcus Sheaves;Amy Diedrich

  • Are there really few piscivorous fishes in shallow estuarine habitats

    Marcus Sheaves

  • A realistic fish-habitat dataset to evaluate algorithms for underwater visual analysis.

    Alzayat Saleh;Issam H. Laradji;Dmitry A. Konovalov;Michael Bradley

  • Vulnerability of fishes of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change

    Philip L. Munday;Geoffrey P. Jones;Marcus Sheaves;Ashley Williams

  • The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area seagrasses: managing this iconic Australian ecosystem resource for the future

    Robert G. Coles;Michael A. Rasheed;Len J. McKenzie;Alana Grech

  • Guiding principles for the improved governance of port and shipping impacts in the Great Barrier Reef

    A. Grech;M. Bos;J. Brodie;R. Coles

Frequent Co-Authors

Rod M. Connolly
Rod M. Connolly Griffith University
Adam Barnett
Adam Barnett James Cook University
Nathan J. Waltham
Nathan J. Waltham James Cook University
Rob Coles
Rob Coles James Cook University
Michael Rasheed
Michael Rasheed James Cook University
Ivan Nagelkerken
Ivan Nagelkerken University of Adelaide
April E. Reside
April E. Reside University of Queensland
Helene Marsh
Helene Marsh James Cook University
Bradley M. Wetherbee
Bradley M. Wetherbee University of Rhode Island
Jon Brodie
Jon Brodie James Cook University

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