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Richard K. F. Unsworth

Richard K. F. Unsworth

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
8990
World Ranking
3866
National Ranking
429

Overview

Richard K. F. Unsworth is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including oceanography, ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and surgery.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as marine and coastal plant biology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, ichthyology and marine biology, and coastal and marine management.

Frequent publication venues for Richard K. F. Unsworth include Oceans, Frontiers in Marine Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Plant Science, and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Prominent recent papers include the following:

  • The global distribution of seagrass meadows (2020) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • The planetary role of seagrass conservation (2022) published in Science
  • Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels (2020) published in Marine Biology

Richard K. F. Unsworth collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors include Benjamin L. Jones, Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth, Francesca Rossi, Mathieu Cusson, and J. Emmett Duffy.

Best Publications

  • Seagrass meadows support global fisheries production

    Richard K.F. Unsworth;Richard K.F. Unsworth;Lina Mtwana Nordlund;Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth

  • Seagrass meadows globally as a coupled social–ecological system: Implications for human wellbeing

    Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth;Lina Mtwana Nordlund;Jessica Paddock;Susan Baker

  • The global distribution of seagrass meadows

    Leonard McKenzie;Lina Mtwana Nordlund;Benjamin Lawrence Jones;Benjamin Lawrence Jones;Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth

  • Global challenges for seagrass conservation

    Richard K. F. Unsworth;Richard K. F. Unsworth;Len J. McKenzie;Catherine J. Collier;Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth

  • The fundamental role of ecological feedback mechanisms for the adaptive management of seagrass ecosystems - a review.

    Paul S. Maxwell;Johan S. Eklöf;Marieke M. van Katwijk;Katherine R. O'Brien

  • A framework for the resilience of seagrass ecosystems

    Richard K. F. Unsworth;Catherine J. Collier;Michelle Waycott;Len J. Mckenzie

  • Recognising the necessity for Indo-Pacific seagrass conservation

    Richard K.F. Unsworth;Leanne C. Cullen

  • Tropical seagrass meadows modify seawater carbon chemistry: implications for coral reefs impacted by ocean acidification

    Richard K F Unsworth;Catherine J Collier;Gideon M Henderson;Len J McKenzie

  • Seagrass Meadows, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability

    Leanne Claire Cullen-Unsworth;Richard Unsworth

  • Seasonal rainfall and runoff promote coral disease on an inshore reef.

    Jessica Haapkylä;Jessica Haapkylä;Richard K. F. Unsworth;Mike Flavell;David G. Bourne

  • Blue Carbon Storage Capacity of Temperate Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Meadows

    Maria Emilia Röhr;Maria Emilia Röhr;Marianne Holmer;Julia K. Baum;Mats Björk

  • Global significance of seagrass fishery activity

    Lina Mtwana Nordlund;Richard K. F. Unsworth;Richard K. F. Unsworth;Martin Gullström;Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth

  • Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae

    J. Emmett Duffy;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • The planetary role of seagrass conservation

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  • Indonesia's globally significant seagrass meadows are under widespread threat

    Richard K.F. Unsworth;Rohani Ambo-Rappe;Benjamin L. Jones;Yayu A. La Nafie

  • Long-term climate-associated dynamics of a tropical seagrass meadow: implications for the future

    Michael A. Rasheed;Richard K. F. Unsworth

  • Protecting the hand that feeds us: Seagrass (Zostera marina) serves as commercial juvenile fish habitat

    Chiara M. Bertelli;Richard K.F. Unsworth

  • Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale.

    Mischa P. Turschwell;Rod M. Connolly;Jillian C. Dunic;Michael Sievers

  • Diel trophic structuring of seagrass bed fish assemblages in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia

    Richard K.F. Unsworth;Elizabeth Wylie;David J. Smith;James J. Bell

  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success.

    Ralph J. M. Temmink;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Gregory S. Fivash;Christine Angelini

  • Structuring of Indo-Pacific fish assemblages along the mangrove-seagrass continuum

    R.K.F. Unsworth;S.L. Garrard;P.S. De Leon;L.C. Cullen

  • Economic and subsistence values of the standing stocks of seagrass fisheries: Potential benefits of no-fishing marine protected area management

    Richard K.F. Unsworth;Leanne C. Cullen;Jules N. Pretty;David J. Smith

  • Decreasing seagrass density negatively influences associated fauna

    Rosemary M. McCloskey;Richard K.F. Unsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Bell
James J. Bell Victoria University of Wellington
Christoffer Boström
Christoffer Boström Åbo Akademi University
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
Johan S. Eklöf
Johan S. Eklöf Stockholm University
Michael Rasheed
Michael Rasheed James Cook University
Graeme C. Hays
Graeme C. Hays Deakin University
Peter I. Macreadie
Peter I. Macreadie Deakin University
Francesca Rossi
Francesca Rossi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Susan C. Baker
Susan C. Baker Loyola University Chicago
Joaquin Trinanes
Joaquin Trinanes National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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