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6573
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2223

Overview

Ron J. Etter is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on oceanography, ecology, atmospheric science, and global and planetary change.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Recent publications include:

  • "Wind-Modulated Western Maine Coastal Current and Its Connectivity With the Eastern Maine Coastal Current" (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "High Connectivity at Abyssal Depths: Genomic and Proteomic Insights Into Population Structure of the Pan-Atlantic Deep-Sea Bivalve Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)" (2025), Ecology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators in their research include Denghui Li, Zhengui Wang, Huijie Xue, Andrew C. Thomas, and Jenny Neuhaus.

Ron J. Etter's work is published mainly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON REGIONAL DEEP-SEA SPECIES DIVERSITY

    Lisa A. Levin;Ron J. Etter;Michael A. Rex;Andrew J. Gooday

  • Global bathymetric patterns of standing stock and body size in the deep-sea benthos

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter;Jeremy S. Morris;Jenifer Crouse

  • Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter

  • Patterns of species diversity in the deep sea as a function of sediment particle size diversity

    Ron J. Etter;J. Frederick Grassle;J. Frederick Grassle

  • The relationship between regional and local species diversity in marine benthic communities: a global perspective.

    Jon D. Witman;Ron J. Etter;Franz Smith

  • A Source‐Sink Hypothesis for Abyssal Biodiversity

    Michael A. Rex;Craig R. McClain;Nicholas A. Johnson;Ron J. Etter

  • Marine Biodiversity: Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter;Carol T. Stuart

  • Universal cytochrome b primers facilitate intraspecific studies in molluscan taxa.

    Merritt Tj;Shi L;Chase Mc;Rex Ma

  • Life History Variation in the Intertidal Snail Nucella Lapillus Across a Wave-Exposure Gradient

    Ron J. Etter

  • Long‐term declines in an intertidal foundation species parallel shifts in community composition

    Cascade J. B. Sorte;Victoria E. Davidson;Marcus C. Franklin;Kylla M. Benes

  • Population differentiation decreases with depth in deep-sea bivalves.

    Ron J. Etter;Michael A. Rex;Michael R. Chase;Joseph M. Quattro

  • PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS AND COLOR POLYMORPHISM IN THE INTERTIDAL SNAIL NUCELLA LAPILLUS.

    Ron J. Etter

  • SHADING FACILITATES SESSILE INVERTEBRATE DOMINANCE IN THE ROCKY SUBTIDAL GULF OF MAINE

    Robert J. Miller;Ron J. Etter

  • A synthesis of genetic connectivity in deep-sea fauna and implications for marine reserve design

    Amy R Baco;Ron J Etter;Pedro A Ribeiro;Sophie von der Heyden

  • Bathymetric and geographic population structure in the pan-Atlantic deep-sea bivalve Deminucula atacellana (Schenck, 1939).

    John D. Zardus;Ron J. Etter;Michael R. Chase;Michael A. Rex

  • A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining

    Daniel C. Dunn;Cindy L. Van Dover;Ron J. Etter;Craig R. Smith

  • Bathymetric patterns of body size: implications for deep-sea biodiversity

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter

  • Integrating genetic and environmental forces that shape the evolution of geographic variation in a marine snail

    Geoffrey C. Trussell;Ron J. Etter

  • The relationship between the standing stock of deep-sea macrobenthos and surface production in the western North Atlantic

    Nicholas A. Johnson;Janet W. Campbell;Timothy S. Moore;Michael A. Rex

  • Ecological interactions in patchy environments: from patch-occupancy models to cellular automata

    H. Caswell;R. J. Etter

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Rex
Michael A. Rex University of Massachusetts Boston
Craig R. McClain
Craig R. McClain University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
Hal Caswell
Hal Caswell University of Amsterdam
Kristina M. Gjerde
Kristina M. Gjerde Middlebury College
Angelika Brandt
Angelika Brandt Universität Hamburg
Cascade J. B. Sorte
Cascade J. B. Sorte University of California, Irvine
Robert J. Miller
Robert J. Miller University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul A. Tyler
Paul A. Tyler University of Southampton
Jody W. Deming
Jody W. Deming University of Washington

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