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Richard A. Wahle is affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a focus on marine and fisheries research. Their work encompasses several subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, aquatic science, and evolutionary behavior and systematics.

The primary topics covered in Wahle's research include marine and fisheries research, crustacean biology and ecology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and aquaculture nutrition and growth.

Wahle has contributed regularly to several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include Fisheries Research, where Wahle has published five papers, ICES Journal of Marine Science with three publications, as well as Ecology and Evolution, Fisheries Oceanography, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

The scientist's recent published papers consist of:

  • "American lobster postlarvae alter gene regulation in response to ocean warming and acidification," 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • "The impact of ocean warming on juvenile American lobster recruitment off southeastern Massachusetts," 2022, Fisheries Oceanography
  • "The American Lobster Settlement Index: History, lessons, and future of a long-term, transboundary monitoring collaborative," 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Age-at-size relationships of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) from three contrasting thermal regimes using gastric mill band counts as a direct aging technique," 2020, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • "Diverging phenology of American lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae and their zooplankton prey in a warming ocean," 2024, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Major frequent co-authors collaborating with Wahle include David M. Fields, Maura Niemisto, Damian C. Brady, Joshua T. Carloni, and Andrew G. Goode.

Best Publications

  • Fisheries Management in a Changing Climate Lessons from the 2012 Ocean Heat Wave in the Northwest Atlantic

    Katherine E. Mills;Andrew J. Pershing;Curtis J. Brown;Yong Chen

  • Recruitment Habitats and Nursery Grounds of the American Lobster Homarus Americanus: A Demographic Bottleneck?

    Richard Wahle;Robert Steneck

  • Habitat restrictions in early benthic life: experiments on habitat selection and in situ predation with the American lobster

    Richard A. Wahle;Robert S. Steneck

  • Body-size dependent anti-predator mechanisms of the American lobster

    Richard A. Wahle

  • Climate vulnerability and resilience in the most valuable North American fishery.

    Arnault Le Bris;Katherine E. Mills;Richard A. Wahle;Yong Chen

  • Wind-driven settlement patterns in the acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides

    Bertness;Gaines Sd;Wahle Ra

  • Pre- and post-settlement processes in recruitment of the American lobster

    Richard A. Wahle;Lewis S. Incze

  • Revealing stock–recruitment relationships in lobsters and crabs: is experimental ecology the key?

    Richard A. Wahle

  • EARLY LIFE HISTORY AND RECRUITMENT PROCESSES OF CLAWED LOBSTERS

    J. Stanley Cobb;Richard A. Wahle

  • Ocean and coastal acidification off New England and Nova Scotia

    Dwight K. Gledhill;Meredith M. White;Joseph E. Salisbury;Helmuth Thomas

  • Connectivity of lobster (Homarus americanus) populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: part II. Coupled biophysical dynamics

    Lewis Incze;Huijie Xue;Nicholas Wolff;Danya Xu

  • American lobster dynamics in a brave new ocean1

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  • Recruitment from pelagic to early benthic phase in lobsters Homarus americanus

    LS Incze;RA Wahle

  • QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POSTLARVAL PRODUCTION AND BENTHIC RECRUITMENT IN LOBSTERS, HOMARUS AMERICANUS

    Lewis S. Incze;Richard A. Wahle;J. Stanley Cobb

  • Distinguishing disease impacts from larval supply effects in a lobster fishery collapse

    Richard A. Wahle;Mark Gibson;Michael Fogarty

  • Density-related reproductive trade-offs in the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

    R. A. Wahle;S. H. Peckham

  • Growth and Development: Understanding and Modelling Growth Variability in Lobsters

    Richard A. Wahle;Michael J. Fogarty

  • Lipofuscin as an indicator of age in crustaceans: analysis of the pigment in the American lobster Homarus americanus

    RA Wahle;O. Tully;V. O'Donovan

  • Different Early Post-Settlement Strategies Between American Lobsters Homarus Americanus and Rock Crabs Cancer Irroratus in the Gulf of Maine

    Alvaro T. Palma;Richard A. Wahle;Robert S. Steneck

  • The brighter side of climate change: How local oceanography amplified a lobster boom in the Gulf of Maine

    Andrew G. Goode;Damian C. Brady;Robert S. Steneck;Richard A. Wahle

  • American lobster nurseries of southern New England receding in the face of climate change

    Richard A. Wahle;Lanny Dellinger;Scott Olszewski;Phoebe Jekielek

  • Spawning events in small and large populations of the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis as recorded using fertilization assays

    Julien Gaudette;Richard A. Wahle;John H. Himmelman

  • Recruitment to American Lobster Populations Along an Estuarine Gradient

    Richard A. Wahle

  • Linking rising pCO2 and temperature to the larval development and physiology of the American lobster (Homarus americanus)

    Jesica D. Waller;Richard A. Wahle;Halley McVeigh;David M. Fields

  • Habitat addition and stock enhancement for American lobsters, Homarus americanus

    Kathleen M. Castro;J. Stanley Cobb;Richard A. Wahle;John Catena

  • The Impact of Climate Change on Exploited Lobster Stocks

    Nick Caputi;Simon Lestang;Stuart Frusher;Richard A. Wahle

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Andrew J. Pershing
Andrew J. Pershing Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Nicholas H. Wolff
Nicholas H. Wolff The Nature Conservancy
Peter A. Jumars
Peter A. Jumars University of Maine
Huijie Xue
Huijie Xue University of Maine
Andrew C. Thomas
Andrew C. Thomas University of Maine
James D. Scott
James D. Scott National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Joe Salisbury
Joe Salisbury University of New Hampshire
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia

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