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Stephan B. Munch is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work in subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and the broader area of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of main topics, including ecosystem dynamics and resilience, species distribution and climate change, fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, animal ecology and behavior studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, and plant and animal studies.

Munch has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Chaos is not rare in natural ecosystems (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Trophic control changes with season and nutrient loading in lakes (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • Recent developments in empirical dynamic modelling (2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Fast behavioral feedbacks make ecosystems sensitive to pace and not just magnitude of anthropogenic environmental change (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

The venues in which Munch frequently publishes include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Throughout their career, Munch has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Frequent coauthors include Tanya L. Rogers, Bethany Johnson, U. Narayan Bhat, Yiluan Song, and Eric P. Palkovacs.

Best Publications

  • Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

    George Sugihara;Robert M. May;Hao Ye;Chih-hao Hsieh

  • Sustaining Fisheries Yields Over Evolutionary Time Scales

    David O. Conover;Stephan B. Munch

  • The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems

    Ellen K Pikitch;Konstantine J Rountos;Timothy E Essington;Christine Santora

  • Maladaptive changes in multiple traits caused by fishing: impediments to population recovery.

    Matthew R. Walsh;Matthew R. Walsh;Stephan B. Munch;Susumu Chiba;Susumu Chiba;David O. Conover

  • Spatial and temporal scales of adaptive divergence in marine fishes and the implications for conservation

    D. O. Conover;L. M. Clarke;S. B. Munch;G. N. Wagner

  • Thermal legacies: transgenerational effects of temperature on growth in a vertebrate

    Santiago Salinas;Stephan B. Munch;Stephan B. Munch

  • Tracking and forecasting ecosystem interactions in real time.

    Ethan R. Deyle;Robert M. May;Stephan B. Munch;George Sugihara

  • A Life-History Perspective on Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Compensatory Growth

    Marc Mangel;Stephan B. Munch

  • Reversal of evolutionary downsizing caused by selective harvest of large fish

    David O. Conover;Stephan B. Munch;Stephen A. Arnott;Stephen A. Arnott

  • Predicting climate effects on Pacific sardine

    Ethan R. Deyle;Michael Fogarty;Chih-hao Hsieh;Les Kaufman

  • Latitudinal variation in lifespan within species is explained by the metabolic theory of ecology

    Stephan B. Munch;Santiago Salinas

  • Predicting life history parameters for all fishes worldwide

    James T. Thorson;Stephan B. Munch;Jason M. Cope;Jin Gao;Jin Gao

  • Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing

    Nina O. Therkildsen;Aryn P. Wilder;David O. Conover;Stephan B. Munch

  • Non-genetic inheritance and changing environments

    Santiago Salinas;Simon C. Brown;Marc Mangel;Stephan B. Munch

  • Model-free forecasting outperforms the correct mechanistic model for simulated and experimental data.

    Charles T. Perretti;Stephan B. Munch;George Sugihara

  • The relationship between maternal phenotype and offspring quality: do older mothers really produce the best offspring?

    Dustin J. Marshall;Selina S. Heppell;Stephan B. Munch;Robert R. Warner

  • Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries

    K. B. Oke;K. B. Oke;C. J. Cunningham;C. J. Cunningham;P. A. H. Westley;M. L. Baskett

  • Darwinian fishery science: lessons from the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia)

    David O. Conover;Stephen A. Arnott;Matthew R. Walsh;Stephan B. Munch

  • RAPID GROWTH RESULTS IN INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PREDATION IN MENIDIA MENIDIA

    Stephan B. Munch;David O. Conover

  • Extreme selection on size in the early lives of fish.

    Kestrel O. Perez;Stephan B. Munch

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Mangel
Marc Mangel University of Bergen
David O. Conover
David O. Conover University of Oregon
George Sugihara
George Sugihara University of California, San Diego
Susan M. Sogard
Susan M. Sogard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James T. Thorson
James T. Thorson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric P. Palkovacs
Eric P. Palkovacs University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford
Chih-hao Hsieh
Chih-hao Hsieh National Taiwan University
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Selina S. Heppell
Selina S. Heppell Oregon State University

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