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Verena Tunnicliffe

Verena Tunnicliffe

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
8445
World Ranking
3816
National Ranking
179

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Verena Tunnicliffe is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on oceanography and ecology, with significant work in global and planetary change as well as genetics and building and construction subfields.

Their scientific investigations emphasize marine biology and ecology research, isotope analysis in ecology, and microbial community ecology and physiology. Additional topics include marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, marine and coastal plant biology, and marine and fisheries research.

Frequent publication venues for Tunnicliffe's work include:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zootaxa
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tunnicliffe are:

  • Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Differential patterns of connectivity in Western Pacific hydrothermal vent metapopulations: A comparison of biophysical and genetic models (2021, Evolutionary Applications)
  • Allopatric and Sympatric Drivers of Speciation in Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails (2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Species assemblage networks identify regional connectivity pathways among hydrothermal vents in the Northwest Pacific (2022, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Beta diversity differs among hydrothermal vent systems: Implications for conservation (2021, PLoS ONE)

Tunnicliffe has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Chong Chen, Diva J. Amon, Corinna Breusing, Lisa A. Levin, and Anna Meta×as, contributing to multiple publications with each.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Verena Tunnicliffe was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs

    J. D. Woodley;E. A. Chornesky;P. A. Clifford;J. B. C. Jackson

  • The biology of hydrothermal vents : ecology and evolution

    V Tunnicliffe

  • Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

    Lisa A. Levin;Amy R. Baco;David A. Bowden;Ana Colaco

  • A Biogeographical Perspective of the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna

    Verena Tunnicliffe;Andrew G. McArthur;Andrew G. McArthur;Damhnait McHugh

  • Hydrothermal vents on an axis seamount of the Juan de Fuca ridge

    R. L. Chase;J. R. Delaney;J. L. Karsten;H. P. Johnson

  • Biological colonization of new hydrothermal vents following an eruption on Juan de Fuca Ridge

    Verena Tunnicliffe;Robert W. Embley;James F. Holden;David A. Butterfield

  • Influence of sea-floor spreading on the global hydrothermal vent fauna

    Verena Tunnicliffe;C. Mary R. Fowler

  • SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE AND INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS FOR PROTECTION OF ACTIVE HYDROTHERMAL VENT ECOSYSTEMS FROM DEEP-SEA MINING

    C. L. Van Dover;Sophie Arnaud-Haond;M. Gianni;S. Helmreich

  • Survival of mussels in extremely acidic waters on a submarine volcano.

    Verena Tunnicliffe;Kimberley T. A. Davies;Kimberley T. A. Davies;David A. Butterfield;Robert W. Embley

  • Long-term eruptive activity at a submarine arc volcano

    Robert W. Embley;William W. Chadwick;William W. Chadwick;Edward T. Baker;David A. Butterfield;David A. Butterfield

  • Dispersal Strategies of the Biota on an Oceanic Seamount: Implications for Ecology and Biogeography

    Terry Parker;Verena Tunnicliffe

  • Biogeography and Evolution of Hydrothermal-Vent Fauna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

    Verena Tunnicliffe

  • The nature and origin of the modern hydrothermal vent fauna

    Verena Tunnicliffe

  • Benthic grazing and carbon sequestration by deep-water glass sponge reefs

    Amanda S. Kahn;Gitai Yahel;Jackson W. F. Chu;Verena Tunnicliffe

  • Hydrothermal vents of Explorer Ridge, northeast Pacific

    Verena Tunnicliffe;Mona Botros;Maureen E. De Burgh;Alain Dinet

  • Patterns of glass sponge (Porifera, Hexactinellida) distribution in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada

    S. P. Leys;K. Wilson;C. Holeton;H. M. Reiswig

  • Suspended Particulate Loading on the Macrobenthos in a Highly Turbid Fjord: Knight Inlet, British Columbia

    George E. Farrow;James P. M. Syvitski;V. Tunnicliffe

  • REDUCING ENVIRONMENTS OF THE DEEP-SEA FLOOR

    Verena Tunnicliffe;S. Kim Juniper;Myriam Sibuet

  • How many vent fields? New estimates of vent field populations on ocean ridges from precise mapping of hydrothermal discharge locations

    Edward T. Baker;Edward T. Baker;Joseph A. Resing;Joseph A. Resing;Rachel M. Haymon;Verena Tunnicliffe

  • Tubeworm-associated communities at hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, northeast Pacific

    Maia Tsurumi;Verena Tunnicliffe

  • The hydrothermal vent community on axial seamount, Juan de Fuca ridge

    V. Tunnicliffe;S. K. Juniper;M. E. De Burgh

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Butterfield
David A. Butterfield University of Washington
S. Kim Juniper
S. Kim Juniper University of Victoria
Anna Metaxas
Anna Metaxas Dalhousie University
Robert W. Embley
Robert W. Embley Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
William W. Chadwick
William W. Chadwick Oregon State University
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Paul V. R. Snelgrove Memorial University of Newfoundland
John E. Lupton
John E. Lupton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
H. Paul Johnson
H. Paul Johnson University of Washington
Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean

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