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D-Index
44
Citations
10930
World Ranking
4980
National Ranking
1707

Overview

Su Sponaugle is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and specializes in research related to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily covers the fields of global and planetary change, oceanography, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and paleontology.

The main research topics associated with Su Sponaugle include marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine biology and ecology research, marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Robert K. Cowen, Moritz S. Schmid, Christian Briseño-Avena, Kelly R. Sutherland, and Richard D. Brodeur.

Key venues where Su Sponaugle has published their work are:

  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

Notable recent publications by Su Sponaugle are:

  • Prey and predator overlap at the edge of a mesoscale eddy: fine-scale, in-situ distributions to inform our understanding of oceanographic processes (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Big or small, patchy all: Resolution of marine plankton patch structure at micro- to submesoscales for 36 taxa (2021, Science Advances)
  • Life in the fast lane: Revisiting the fast growth-High survival paradigm during the early life stages of fishes (2023, Fish and Fisheries)
  • Three-dimensional cross-shelf zooplankton distributions off the Central Oregon Coast during anomalous oceanographic conditions (2020, Progress In Oceanography)
  • Changing with the tides: fine-scale larval fish prey availability and predation pressure near a tidally modulated river plume (2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series)

Best Publications

  • Larval Dispersal and Marine Population Connectivity

    Robert K. Cowen;Su Sponaugle

  • Connectivity of marine populations: open or closed?

    Robert K. Cowen;Kamazima M. M. Lwiza;Su Sponaugle;Claire B. Paris

  • Larval transport and dispersal in the coastal ocean and consequences for population connectivity

    Jesus Pineda;Jonathan A. Hare;Su Sponaugle

  • Predicting self-recruitment in marine populations: Biophysical correlates and mechanisms

    Su Sponaugle;Robert K. Cowen;Alan Shanks;Steven G. Morgan

  • SELECTIVE MORTALITY DURING THE LARVAL-JUVENILE TRANSITION IN TWO CORAL REEF FISHES

    Steven P. Searcy;S. U. Sponaugle

  • Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

    Christopher Wills;Kyle E. Harms;Richard Condit;David King

  • Temperature-mediated variation in early life history traits and recruitment success of the coral reef fish Thalassoma bifasciatum in the Florida Keys

    Su Sponaugle;Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Deanna Pinkard

  • Florida Current frontal eddies and the settlement of coral reef fishes

    Su Sponaugle;Thomas Lee;Vassiliki Kourafalou;Deanna Pinkard

  • Larval durations and recruitment patterns of two Caribbean gobies (Gobiidae): contrasting early life histories in demersal spawners

    S. Sponaugle;R. K. Cowen

  • EARLY LIFE HISTORY TRAITS AND RECRUITMENT PATTERNS OF CARIBBEAN WRASSES (LABRIDAE)

    Su Sponaugle;Robert K. Cowen

  • Ocean acidification alters the otoliths of a pantropical fish species with implications for sensory function

    Sean Bignami;Ian C. Enochs;Ian C. Enochs;Derek P. Manzello;Derek P. Manzello;Su Sponaugle

  • Grazing pressure of herbivorous coral reef fishes on low coral-cover reefs

    Michelle J. Paddack;Robert K. Cowen;Su Sponaugle

  • Nearshore patterns of coral reef fish larval supply to Barbados, West Indies

    Su Sponaugle;Robert K. Cowen

  • Larval supply and patterns of recruitment for two caribbean reef fishes, Stegastes partitus and Acanthurus bahianus

    Su Sponaugle;Robert K. Cowen

  • Movement of gray snapper Lutjanus griseus among subtropical seagrass, mangrove, and coral reef habitats

    Jiangang Luo;Joseph E. Serafy;Su Sponaugle;Paul B. Teare

  • Portunid crab predation on juvenile hard clams: effects of substrate type and prey density

    S. Sponaugle;P. Lawton

  • Response to ocean acidification in larvae of a large tropical marine fish, Rachycentron canadum

    Sean Bignami;Su Sponaugle;Robert K. Cowen

  • Variable larval growth in a coral reef fish

    Steven P. Searcy;Su Sponaugle

  • Once upon a larva: revisiting the relationship between feeding success and growth in fish larvae

    Pierre Pepin;Dominique Robert;Caroline Bouchard;John F. Dower

  • Early life history and fisheries oceanography: new questions in a changing world

    Joel K. Llopiz;Robert K. Cowen;Martha J. Hauff;Rubao Ji

  • Relationships between early life history traits and recruitment among coral reef fishes

    Robert K. Cowen;Su Sponaugle

  • Predicting self-recruitment in marine populations: biophysical correlates

    S Sponaugle;R.K Cowen;Shanks A;S.G Morgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert K. Cowen
Robert K. Cowen Oregon State University
Joseph E. Serafy
Joseph E. Serafy University of Miami
Jesús Pineda
Jesús Pineda Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Richard D. Brodeur
Richard D. Brodeur Oregon State University
Claire B. Paris
Claire B. Paris University of Miami
Steven G. Morgan
Steven G. Morgan University of California, Davis
Michael J. Kingsford
Michael J. Kingsford James Cook University
Vassiliki H. Kourafalou
Vassiliki H. Kourafalou University of Miami
Thomas N. Lee
Thomas N. Lee University of Miami
Alan L. Shanks
Alan L. Shanks University of Oregon

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