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56
Citations
18226
World Ranking
2784
National Ranking
982

Overview

Stuart A. Sandin is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, nature and landscape conservation, and molecular biology.

Their work covers a variety of topics centered on marine and coastal ecosystems, including:

  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Ichthyology and marine biology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity," 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • "Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world," 2020, Science
  • "Increasing Coral Reef Resilience Through Successive Marine Heatwaves," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "TagLab: AI-assisted annotation for the fast and accurate semantic segmentation of coral reef orthoimages," 2021, Journal of Field Robotics
  • "Microorganisms and dissolved metabolites distinguish Florida's Coral Reef habitats," 2023, PNAS Nexus

They collaborate frequently with colleagues including Brian Zgliczynski, Clinton B. Edwards, Jennifer E. Smith, Nicole E. Pedersen, and Beverly J. French.

Their research is regularly published in several key venues such as:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Stuart A. Sandin has also contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored a work published by the Smithsonian Institution titled "Biological Surveys of Carondelet, a Shallow, Submerged Seamount in the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati" released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance

    Christian N. K. Anderson;Chih-hao Hsieh;Stuart A. Sandin;Roger Hewitt

  • Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

    B. Knowles;C. B. Silveira;B. A. Bailey;K. Barott

  • Indirect effects of algae on coral: algae-mediated, microbe-induced coral mortality.

    Jennifer E. Smith;Morrigan Shaw;Rob A. Edwards;David Obura

  • 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

  • POPULATION REGULATION: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF OPEN VS. CLOSED SYSTEMS

    Mark A. Hixon;Stephen Wilson Pacala;Stuart A. Sandin

  • Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands

    Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Olga Pantos;Steven Smriga;Robert A. Edwards

  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

    Daniel S. Gruner;Jennifer E. Smith;Eric W. Seabloom;Stuart A. Sandin

  • 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

  • Global microbialization of coral reefs.

    Andreas F. Haas;Mohamed F. M. Fairoz;Linda W. Kelly;Craig E. Nelson

  • Global assessment of the status of coral reef herbivorous fishes: evidence for fishing effects

    C. B. Edwards;A. M. Friedlander;A. G. Green;M. J. Hardt

  • Density-dependent settlement and mortality structure the earliest life phases of a coral population.

    Mark J. A. Vermeij;Stuart A. Sandin

  • Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

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

  • Differences in fish-assemblage structure between fished and unfished atolls in the northern Line Islands, central Pacific

    Edward E. DeMartini;Alan M. Friedlander;Stuart A. Sandin;Enric Sala

  • Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific

    Jennifer E. Smith;Rusty Brainard;Amanda Carter;Saray Grillo

  • Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors

    Linda W. Kelly;Gareth J. Williams;Katie L. Barott;Katie L. Barott;Craig A. Carlson

  • Pathologies and mortality rates caused by organic carbon and nutrient stressors in three Caribbean coral species

    Neilan M. Kuntz;David I. Kline;Stuart A. Sandin;Forest Rohwer

  • Survival and settlement success of coral planulae: independent and synergistic effects of macroalgae and microbes.

    M. J. A. Vermeij;J. E. Smith;C. M. Smith;R. Vega Thurber

  • Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems.

    Helmut Hillebrand;Elizabeth T. Borer;Matthew E. S. Bracken;Bradley J. Cardinale

  • The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: an assessment of coral reef fishes in the US Pacific Islands

    B. J. Zgliczynski;I. D. Williams;R. E. Schroeder;M. O. Nadon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith University of California, San Diego
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Mark J. A. Vermeij
Mark J. A. Vermeij University of Amsterdam
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Gareth J. Williams
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University
Alan M. Friedlander
Alan M. Friedlander University of Hawaii at Manoa
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale Flinders University
David Obura
David Obura Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean
Ivor D. Williams
Ivor D. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier

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