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86
Citations
46578
World Ranking
566
National Ranking
200

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nancy Knowlton is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States and focuses on Environmental Science, with particular expertise in Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, as well as Molecular Biology.

Their research topics include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Nancy Knowlton are:

  • Rebuilding marine life, 2020, Nature
  • Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • MIDORI2: A collection of quality controlled, preformatted, and regularly updated reference databases for taxonomic assignment of eukaryotic mitochondrial sequences, 2022, Environmental DNA
  • Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Ocean Optimism: Moving Beyond the Obituaries in Marine Conservation, 2020, Annual Review of Marine Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nancy Knowlton include:

  • Matthieu Leray
  • Bryan Nguyen
  • Andrew H. Altieri
  • W. Owen McMillan
  • Chris Meyer

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Nancy Knowlton has received recognition including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1997)

Best Publications

  • Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;P. J. Mumby;A. J. Hooten;Robert S. Steneck

  • Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

    Scott C. Doney;Mary Ruckelshaus;J. Emmett Duffy;James P. Barry

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Sibling species in the sea

    Nancy Knowlton

  • Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria

    Forest Rohwer;Victor Seguritan;Farooq Azam;Nancy Knowlton

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • New dates and new rates for divergence across the Isthmus of Panama

    Nancy Knowlton;Lee A. Weigt

  • Rebuilding marine life

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agusti;Edward Barbier;Gregory L. Britten

  • The evolution of mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation

    Edward Allen Herre;Nancy Knowlton;Nancy Knowlton;Ulrich Gerhard Mueller;Stuart A. Rehner

  • Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching.

    Rob Rowan;Rob Rowan;Nancy Knowlton;Andrew Baker;Andrew Baker;Javier Jara

  • Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

    Aaron O’Dea;Harilaos A. Lessios;Anthony G. Coates;Ron I. Eytan

  • Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Janet Franklin;Nathalie Seddon;Martin Solan

  • Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs

    J. D. Woodley;E. A. Chornesky;P. A. Clifford;J. B. C. Jackson

  • The future of coral reefs

    Nancy Knowlton

  • Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs

    Nancy Knowlton;Jeremy B. C Jackson

  • Molecular genetic analyses of species boundaries in the sea

    Nancy Knowlton;Nancy Knowlton

  • Thresholds and Multiple Stable States in Coral Reef Community Dynamics

    Nancy Knowlton

  • Intraspecific diversity and ecological zonation in coral-algal symbiosis.

    Rob Rowan;Nancy Knowlton

  • Divergence in proteins, mitochondrial DNA, and reproductive compatibility across the isthmus of Panama.

    Nancy Knowlton;Lee A. Weigt;Luis Aníbal Solórzano;DeEtta K. Mills

  • DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity

    Matthieu Leray;Nancy Knowlton

  • The evolution of interspecific mutualisms

    Michael Doebeli;Nancy Knowlton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
David I. Kline
David I. Kline University of California, San Diego
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
M. Julian Caley
M. Julian Caley Queensland University of Technology
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Don R. Levitan
Don R. Levitan Florida State University
David M. Baker
David M. Baker University of Hong Kong
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Jean-Pierre Gattuso Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Russell E. Brainard
Russell E. Brainard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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