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52
Citations
17421
World Ranking
3380
National Ranking
1190

Overview

Rebecca L. Lewison is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on multiple subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and aspects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Research topics covered in their work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Their frequent publication venues reflect this diversity in environmental topics:

  • Land
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Biological Conservation
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Among the recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Understanding the Importance of Dynamic Landscape Connectivity, 2020, Land
  • Rethinking megafauna, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Widespread habitat loss and redistribution of marine top predators in a changing ocean, 2023, Science Advances
  • Deer survey from drone thermal imagery using enhanced faster R-CNN based on ResNets and FPN, 2023, Ecological Informatics
  • Assessing the effects of payments for ecosystem services programs on forest structure and species biodiversity, 2020, Biodiversity and Conservation

Collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Megan K. Jennings, Camrin D. Braun, Li An, Nima Farchadi, and Elliott L. Hazen, who have coauthored multiple publications alongside Rebecca L. Lewison.

Best Publications

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine megafauna

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder;Andrew J. Read;Sloan A. Freeman

  • Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles

    Rebecca L. Lewison;A Sloan;Larry B. Crowder

  • Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century

    M. Hamann;M.H. Godfrey;J.A. Seminoff;K. Arthur

  • Cumulative human impacts on Mediterranean and Black Sea marine ecosystems: assessing current pressures and opportunities.

    Fiorenza Micheli;Benjamin S. Halpern;Shaun Walbridge;Saul Ciriaco

  • Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder;Bryan P. Wallace;Jeffrey E. Moore

  • Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean

    Sara M. Maxwell;Elliott L. Hazen;Rebecca L. Lewison;Daniel C. Dunn

  • Global patterns of marine turtle bycatch

    Bryan P. Wallace;Bryan P. Wallace;Rebecca L. Lewison;Sara L. McDonald;Richard K. McDonald;Richard K. McDonald

  • A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries.

    Elliott L. Hazen;Elliott L. Hazen;Elliott L. Hazen;Kylie L. Scales;Kylie L. Scales;Sara M. Maxwell;Dana K. Briscoe

  • Impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine turtle populations worldwide: toward conservation and research priorities

    Bryan P. Wallace;Bryan P. Wallace;Connie Y. Kot;Andrew D. DiMatteo;Tina Lee

  • An interview-based approach to assess marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries

    J.E. Moore;T.M. Cox;R.L. Lewison;A.J. Read

  • Putting Longline Bycatch of Sea Turtles into Perspective

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder

  • Quantifying fishing effort: a synthesis of current methods and their applications

    Shannon M. McCluskey;Rebecca L. Lewison

  • Dynamic Ocean Management: Identifying the Critical Ingredients of Dynamic Approaches to Ocean Resource Management

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Alistair J. Hobday;Sara Maxwell;Elliott L. Hazen

  • A review of marine mammal, sea turtle and seabird bycatch in USA fisheries and the role of policy in shaping management

    Jeffrey E. Moore;Bryan P. Wallace;Bryan P. Wallace;Rebecca L. Lewison;Ramúnas Žydelis

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in fish tissue may be an indicator of plastic contamination in marine habitats

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Rebecca L. Lewison;Marcus Eriksen;Harry Allen

  • Comparing effectiveness of experimental and implemented bycatch reduction measures: the ideal and the real.

    T. M. Cox;R. L. Lewison;R. Žydelis;L. B. Crowder

  • How the DPSIR framework can be used for structuring problems and facilitating empirical research in coastal systems

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Murray A. Rudd;Wissam Al-Hayek;Claudia Baldwin

  • ESTIMATING FISHERY BYCATCH AND EFFECTS ON A VULNERABLE SEABIRD POPULATION

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder

  • Research priorities for seabirds: improving conservation and management in the 21st century

    R. Lewison;D. Oro;B. J. Godley;L. Underhill

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry B. Crowder
Larry B. Crowder Stanford University
Elliott L. Hazen
Elliott L. Hazen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bryan P. Wallace
Bryan P. Wallace Duke University
Jeffrey A. Seminoff
Jeffrey A. Seminoff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Steven J. Bograd
Steven J. Bograd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sara M. Maxwell
Sara M. Maxwell University of Washington
Peter H. Dutton
Peter H. Dutton National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael G. Jacox
Michael G. Jacox National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew J. Read
Andrew J. Read Duke University
Daniel C. Dunn
Daniel C. Dunn University of Queensland

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