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Overview

Rachel Collin is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research spans key areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences with a focus on oceanography and ecology.

The main fields of study encompassed in their work include:

  • Environmental Science (58 publications)
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (39 publications)

Within these broad fields, Collin has contributed to subfields such as:

  • Oceanography (36 publications)
  • Ecology (34 publications)
  • Global and Planetary Change (16 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (6 publications)
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation (3 publications)

Their work addresses various topics, particularly involving marine and coastal ecosystems:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (30 publications)
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (22 publications)
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research (22 publications)
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (18 publications)
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology (16 publications)
  • Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations (12 publications)
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (10 publications)

Rachel Collin has published research in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Biological Bulletin (6 publications)
  • Invertebrate Biology (5 publications)
  • Limnology and Oceanography (2 publications)
  • Diversity (2 publications)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2 publications)

They have collaborated regularly with several scientists, including:

  • Amy C. Driskell (9 coauthored papers)
  • Noelle Lucey (8 coauthored papers)
  • Kenneth S. Macdonald (8 coauthored papers)
  • Dagoberto E. Venera-Pontón (7 coauthored papers)
  • Michael J. Boyle (6 coauthored papers)

Some recent publications authored or coauthored by Rachel Collin include:

  • Thermal tolerance of early development predicts the realized thermal niche in marine ectotherms, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Integrative Approaches to Understanding Organismal Responses to Aquatic Deoxygenation, 2022, Biological Bulletin
  • Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude, 2022, Science
  • Engaging the tropical majority to make ocean governance and science more equitable and effective, 2023, npj Ocean Sustainability
  • Oxygen-mediated plasticity confers hypoxia tolerance in a corallivorous polychaete, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Tropical dead zones and mass mortalities on coral reefs

    Andrew H. Altieri;Seamus B. Harrison;Janina Seemann;Rachel Collin

  • The effects of mode of development on phylogeography and population structure of North Atlantic Crepidula (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae).

    Rachel Collin

  • The ocean sampling day consortium

    Anna Kopf;Anna Kopf;Mesude Bicak;Renzo Kottmann;Julia Schnetzer;Julia Schnetzer

  • Reversing opinions on Dollo's Law.

    Rachel Collin;Maria Pia Miglietta

  • Worldwide patterns in mode of development in calyptraeid gastropods

    Rachel Collin

  • Photographic Identification Guide to Some Common Marine Invertebrates of Bocas Del Toro, Panamá

    Rachel Collin;Maria Cristina Diaz;Jon L. Norenburg;R. M. Rocha

  • Phylogenetic Relationships Among Calyptraeid Gastropods and Their Implications for the Biogeography of Marine Speciation

    Rachel Collin

  • Dollo's law and the re-evolution of shell coiling.

    Rachel Collin;Roberto Cipriani

  • Sex, Size, and Position: A Test of Models Predicting Size at Sex Change in the Protandrous Gastropod Crepidula fornicata

    Rachel Collin

  • Phylogenetic Effects, the Loss of Complex Characters, and the Evolution of Development in Calyptraeid Gastropods

    Rachel Collin

  • Caribbean-wide, long-term study of seagrass beds reveals local variations, shifts in community structure and occasional collapse.

    Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek;Jorge Cortés;Rachel Collin;Ana C. Fonseca

  • Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude

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  • The slipper snail, Crepidula: An emerging lophotrochozoan model system

    Jonathan J. Henry;Rachel Collin;Kimberly J. Perry

  • Molecular Phylogenetic and Embryological Evidence That Feeding Larvae Have Been Reacquired in a Marine Gastropod

    Rachel Collin;Oscar R. Chaparro;Federico Winkler;David Véliz

  • Sex change, reproduction, and development of Crepidula adunca and Crepidula lingulata (Gastropoda : Calyptraeidae)

    Rachel Collin

  • Phylogeny of the Crepidula plana (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) cryptic species complex in North America

    Rachel Collin

  • Hydromedusa blooms and upwelling events in the Bay of Panama, Tropical East Pacific

    Maria Pia Miglietta;Marco Rossi;Rachel Collin

  • Sex ratio, life-history invariants, and patterns of sex change in a family of protandrous gastropods.

    Rachel Collin

  • Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution

    Harilaos A. Lessios;S. Lockhart;Rachel Collin;G. Sotil

  • Phylogenetic Patterns and Phenotypic Plasticity of Molluscan Sexual Systems

    Rachel Collin

  • The utility of morphological characters in gastropod phylogenetics: an example from the Calyptraeidae

    Rachel Collin

  • Effects of conspecific associations on size at sex change in three species of calyptraeid gastropods

    Rachel Collin;Michelle McLellan;Karl F. Gruber;Catherine Bailey-Jourdain

Frequent Co-Authors

Hector M. Guzman
Hector M. Guzman Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
John H. Christy
John H. Christy Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
D. Ross Robertson
D. Ross Robertson Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Ernesto Weil
Ernesto Weil University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Augusto A. V. Flores
Augusto A. V. Flores Universidade de São Paulo
Björn Kjerfve
Björn Kjerfve University of South Carolina
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Dawn Field
Dawn Field University of Oxford
Fergal O'Gara
Fergal O'Gara University College Cork

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