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Ecology and Evolution
Chile
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
13014
World Ranking
2204
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award

Overview

Sergio A. Navarrete is affiliated with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Chile. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences.

Their work covers several interrelated subfields, including oceanography, ecology, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Key research topics addressed by Sergio A. Navarrete include:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Ocean acidification effects and responses
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Isotope analysis in ecology

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with marine ecosystems and environmental dynamics, with notable papers including:

  • "Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude" (2022) published in Science
  • "Latitudinal patterns of species diversity on South American rocky shores: Local processes lead to contrasting trends in regional and local species diversity" (2020) published in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Spatial shifts in productivity of the coastal ocean over the past two decades induced by migration of the Pacific Anticyclone and Bakun's effect in the Humboldt Upwelling Ecosystem" (2020) published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "Alteration of coastal productivity and artisanal fisheries interact to affect a marine food web" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Climate change in the coastal ocean: shifts in pelagic productivity and regionally diverging dynamics of coastal ecosystems" (2022) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Sergio A. Navarrete frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Evie A. Wieters
  • Bernardo R. Broitman
  • M. Isidora Ávila-Thieme
  • Miriam Fernández
  • Alan L. Shanks

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in several academic venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Scientific Reports
  • Revista chilena de historia natural

Best Publications

  • The Keystone Species Concept: Variation in Interaction Strength in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat

    Bruce A. Menge;Eric L. Berlow;Carol A. Blanchette;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • 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

  • More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • The humboldt current system of northern and central chile : Oceanographic processes, ecological interactions and socioeconomic feedback

    Martin Thiel;Erasmo C. Macaya;Enzo Acuna;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Species co-occurrence networks: Can they reveal trophic and non-trophic interactions in ecological communities?

    Mara A. Freilich;Mara A. Freilich;Mara A. Freilich;Evie Wieters;Bernardo R. Broitman;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Geographic variation of southeastern Pacific intertidal communities

    Bernardo R. Broitman;Sergio A. Navarrete;Franz Smith;Steven D. Gaines

  • Scales of benthic–pelagic coupling and the intensity of species interactions: From recruitment limitation to top-down control

    Sergio A. Navarrete;Evie A. Wieters;Bernardo R. Broitman;Juan Carlos Castilla

  • QUANTIFYING VARIATION IN THE STRENGTHS OF SPECIES INTERACTIONS

    Eric L. Berlow;Sergio A. Navarrete;Cheryl J. Briggs;Mary E. Power

  • Keystone predation and interaction strength : Interactive effects of predators on their main prey

    Sergio A. Navarrete;Bruce A. Menge

  • Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

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

  • Network structure beyond food webs: mapping non-trophic and trophic interactions on Chilean rocky shores.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Lucas N. Joppa

  • Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

    Ulrich Brose;Phillippe Archambault;Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Louis-Felix Bersier

  • How Structured Is the Entangled Bank? The Surprisingly Simple Organization of Multiplex Ecological Networks Leads to Increased Persistence and Resilience.

    Sonia Kéfi;Vincent Miele;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Scaling population density to body size in rocky intertidal communities.

    Pablo A. Marquet;Sergio A. Navarrete;Juan C. Castilla

  • Mesoscale regulation comes from the bottom-up: intertidal interactions between consumers and upwelling

    Karina J. Nielsen;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Mollusk species diversity in the Southeastern Pacific: why are there more species towards the pole?

    Claudio Valdovinos;Sergio A. Navarrete;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Diversity, dynamics and biogeography of Chilean benthic nearshore ecosystems: an overview and guidelines for conservation

    Miriam Fernandez;Eduardo Jaramillo;Pablo A Marquet;Carlos A Moreno

  • Structure and co-occurrence patterns in microbial communities under acute environmental stress reveal ecological factors fostering resilience

    Dinka Mandakovic;Claudia Rojas;Jonathan Maldonado;Mauricio Latorre

  • Avoiding offshore transport of competent larvae during upwelling events: The case of the gastropod Concholepas concholepas in Central Chile

    Elie Poulin;Alvaro T. Palma;Germán Leiva;Diego Narvaez

  • Body Size, Population Density, and the Energetic Equivalence Rule

    Pablo A. Marquet;Sergio A. Navarrete;Juan C. Castilla

  • Crisis on coral reefs linked to climate change

    Gerard M. Wellington;Peter W. Glynn;Alan E. Strong;Sergio A. Navarrete

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Carlos Castilla
Juan Carlos Castilla Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Bernardo R. Broitman
Bernardo R. Broitman Adolfo Ibáñez University
Miriam Fernández
Miriam Fernández Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Bruce A. Menge
Bruce A. Menge Oregon State University
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Augusto A. V. Flores
Augusto A. V. Flores Universidade de São Paulo
Eric L. Berlow
Eric L. Berlow University of California, Merced
John L. Largier
John L. Largier University of California, Davis
Cristian A. Vargas
Cristian A. Vargas University of Concepción

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