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Rick D. Stuart-Smith

Rick D. Stuart-Smith

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
12369
World Ranking
3774
National Ranking
285

Overview

Rick D. Stuart-Smith is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and focuses their research within Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Ecology and related subfields.

Their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling

The main topics of their research cover various aspects of marine and ecological studies, such as:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Rick D. Stuart-Smith has contributed to numerous publications across several scientific journals. The frequent venues of their published work include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • PLoS Biology

Recent papers involving Rick D. Stuart-Smith include the following:

  • "Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world," 2020, Science
  • "Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "A quantitative review of abundance-based species distribution models," 2021, Ecography

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Graham J. Edgar
  • NS Barrett
  • SD Ling
  • Amanda E. Bates
  • David Mouillot

Best Publications

  • Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

    Graham J. Edgar;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Trevor J. Willis;Stuart Kininmonth;Stuart Kininmonth

  • Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

    Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Amanda E. Bates;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;J. Emmet Duffy

  • Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

    Tomas J. Bird;Tomas J. Bird;Amanda E. Bates;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Nicole A. Hill

  • Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

    Joshua E. Cinner;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Nicholas A.J. Graham

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean‐warming hotspot

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Jennifer M. Sunday;Gretta T. Pecl;Stewart Frusher;Alistair J. Hobday

  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

    Camilo Mora;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Arturo Ayala Bocos;Paula M. Ayotte;Paula M. Ayotte

  • Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching

    Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Christopher J. Brown;Daniela M. Ceccarelli;Graham J. Edgar

  • Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

    Joshua E. Cinner;Eva Maire;Eva Maire;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil

  • Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

    James Emmett Duffy;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme

    Franziska Althaus;Nicole Hill;Renata Ferrari;Luke Edwards

  • Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program.

    Graham J Edgar;Rick Duncan Stuart-Smith

  • Thermal biases and vulnerability to warming in the world’s marine fauna

    Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Graham J. Edgar;Neville S. Barrett;Stuart J. Kininmonth;Stuart J. Kininmonth

  • Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients

    Michael T. Burrows;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Mark J. Costello;Martin Edwards

  • 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

  • Ecological effects of marine protected areas on rocky reef communities—a continental-scale analysis

    Graham J. Edgar;Rick D. Stuart-Smith

  • Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities

    Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Neville S. Barrett;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Neil J. Holbrook;Neil J. Holbrook

  • Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

    Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Robert S.C. Cooke;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Graham J. Edgar

  • Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming

    Asta Audzijonyte;Shane A Richards;Rick D Stuart-Smith;Gretta Pecl

  • Thermal limits to the geographic distributions of shallow-water marine species

    Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Graham J. Edgar;Amanda E. Bates

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Amanda E. Bates
Amanda E. Bates Memorial University of Newfoundland
Neville S. Barrett
Neville S. Barrett University of Tasmania
Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Jonathan S. Lefcheck Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Stewart Frusher
Stewart Frusher University of Tasmania
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
Camille Mellin
Camille Mellin University of Adelaide
Gretta T. Pecl
Gretta T. Pecl University of Tasmania

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