Marine Ecology Progress Series

Papers
(The median citation count of Marine Ecology Progress Series is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Population comparison of right whale body condition reveals poor state of the North Atlantic right whale71
Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science57
Trophic structure of southern marine ecosystems: a comparative isotopic analysis from the Beagle Channel to the oceanic Burdwood Bank area under a wasp-waist assumption44
Poor body condition associated with an unusual mortality event in gray whales40
Predicting changes in distribution of a large coastal shark in the face of the strengthening East Australian Current38
Variation in the diet of beluga whales in response to changes in prey availability: insights on changes in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem37
Multi-decadal decline in cover of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera at the southern limit of its Australian range37
Disclosing the truth: Are models better than observations?37
Carbon sequestration potential increased by incomplete anaerobic decomposition of kelp detritus35
Highly variable taxa-specific coral bleaching responses to thermal stresses35
Climate alters the migration phenology of coastal marine species34
When sharks are away, rays will play: effects of top predator removal in coral reef ecosystems34
Half a century of monitoring macrobenthic animals on tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea32
Individual variation in residency and regional movements of reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in a large marine protected area30
Littoral habitats as major nursery areas for fish species in estuaries: a reinforcement of the reduced predation paradigm30
MPA network design based on graph theory and emergent properties of larval dispersal29
Ecosystem-level effects of large-scale disturbance in kelp forests29
Links in the trophic chain: modeling functional relationships between in situ oceanography, krill, and blue whale distribution under different oceanographic regimes28
Environmental conditions are poor predictors of immature white shark Carcharodon carcharias occurrences on coastal beaches of eastern Australia28
Breeding seabirds increase foraging range in response to an extreme marine heatwave28
Prevalence of microplastics and anthropogenic debris within a deep-sea food web28
Antarctic krill Euphausia superba: spatial distribution, abundance, and management of fisheries in a changing climate28
Relationships between temperature and Pacific hake distribution vary across latitude and life-history stage27
Flexibility in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba decouples diet and recruitment from overwinter sea-ice conditions in the northern Antarctic Peninsula27
Rimicaris exoculata: biology and ecology of a shrimp from deep-sea hydrothermal vents associated with ectosymbiotic bacteria25
Seasonal diving and foraging behaviour of Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead whales25
Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas25
Sensitivity of a shark nursery habitat to a changing climate24
Sulfur isotopes (δ34S) in Arctic marine mammals: indicators of benthic vs. pelagic foraging24
Demersal fish predators of gelatinous zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean24
Little evidence that lowering the pH of concrete supports greater biodiversity on tropical and temperate seawalls24
Regional-scale variability in the movement ecology of marine fishes revealed by an integrative acoustic tracking network24
Killer whale movements on the Norwegian shelf are associated with herring density23
Shady business: the darkening of estuaries constrains benthic ecosystem function23
Green turtle herbivory and its effects on the warm, temperate seagrass meadows of St. Joseph Bay, Florida (USA)23
Sea urchin mass mortality rapidly restores kelp forest communities23
Stress-on-stress responses of a marine mussel, Perna canaliculus: food limitation reduces the ability to cope with heat stress in juveniles23
Foraging ecology of the common dolphin Delphinus delphis revealed by stable isotope analysis22
Low male production at the world’s largest green turtle rookery22
The need to employ reliable and reproducible species identifications in coralline algal research21
Bayesian approach for predicting photogrammetric uncertainty in morphometric measurements derived from drones21
Warming sea surface temperatures fuel summer epidemics of eelgrass wasting disease20
Trialling seawater irrigation to combat the high nest temperature feminisation of green turtle Chelonia mydas hatchlings20
In situ eutrophication stimulates dinitrogen fixation, denitrification, and productivity in Red Sea coral reefs20
Population abundance of recovering humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae and other baleen whales in the Scotia Arc, South Atlantic20
Taxonomic composition of mobile epifaunal invertebrate assemblages on diverse benthic microhabitats from temperate to tropical reefs20
Anthropogenic pressures on reef-associated sharks in jurisdictions with and without directed shark fishing20
Critical threshold identified in the functional relationship between beaked whales and their prey19
Coral husbandry for ocean futures: leveraging abiotic factors to increase survivorship, growth, and resilience in juvenile Montipora capitata19
Genotypic variation in response to extreme events may facilitate kelp adaptation under future climates19
Variation in dive behavior of Cuvier’s beaked whales with seafloor depth, time-of-day, and lunar illumination19
Space-use strategy affects energy requirements in Barents Sea polar bears19
Pinna nobilis in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon: a story of colonization and uncertainty19
Oceanographic conditions associated with white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) habitat use along eastern Australia18
Tracking movements of decapod crustaceans: a review of a half-century of telemetry-based studies18
Diet and recruitment of green turtles in Fiji, South Pacific, inferred from in-water capture and stable isotope analysis18
Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system18
Scalability and performance tradeoffs in quantifying relationships between elevation and tidal wetland plant communities18
Catchability of reef fish species in traps is strongly affected by water temperature and substrate17
Killer whales are attracted to herring fishing vessels17
Six pelagic seabird species of the North Atlantic engage in a fly-and-forage strategy during their migratory movements17
Tracking the movements of North Atlantic seabirds: steps towards a better understanding of population dynamics and marine ecosystem conservation17
Ecological connectivity with mangroves influences tropical seagrass population longevity and meadow traits within an island ecosystem17
Size and body condition of sympatric killer whale ecotypes around the Antarctic Peninsula17
Estimating the cost of growth in southern right whales from drone photogrammetry data and long-term sighting histories17
Effects of vessel sound on oyster toadfish Opsanus tau calling behavior17
Age-specific behavior and habitat use in humpback whales: implications for vessel strike17
Ontogenetic feeding ecology of the scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini in the Colombian Eastern Tropical Pacific16
Mesozooplankton biomass and temperature-enhanced grazing along a 110°E transect in the eastern Indian Ocean16
Sediment biogeochemistry along an oyster aquaculture chronosequence16
Climate-change impacts and fisheries management challenges in the North Atlantic Ocean16
Larger females have more calves: influence of maternal body length on fecundity in North Atlantic right whales16
Trophic cascades and connectivity in coastal benthic marine ecosystems: a meta-analysis of experimental and observational research16
Agent-based modeling and genetics reveal the Limfjorden, Denmark, as a well-connected system for mussel larvae15
Harmful algal blooms as a sink for inorganic nutrients in a eutrophic estuary15
Resilience of plankton trophic structure to an eddy-stimulated diatom bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre15
Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: organic, elemental, and energy contents15
Diet of dominant demersal fish species in the Baltic Sea: Is flounder stealing benthic food from cod?15
Time-series of direct primary production and phytoplankton biomass in the southeastern Bering Sea: responses to cold and warm stanzas15
The effects of nutritional state, sex and body size on the marine migration behaviour of sea trout15
Trophic overlap between marine mammals and fisheries in subtropical waters in the western South Atlantic15
Climate variability and breeding parameters of a transhemispheric migratory seabird over seven decades15
Spatial ecology of Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus in Mediterranean deep-water environments: implications for designing no-take marine reserves15
Marine mammal hotspots in the Greenland and Barents Seas15
Modelling the annual primary production of an intertidal brown algal community based on in situ measurements15
Changing with the tides: fine-scale larval fish prey availability and predation pressure near a tidally modulated river plume15
Climate and season are associated with prevalence and distribution of trans-hemispheric blue crab reovirus (Callinectes sapidus reovirus 1)15
Zooplankton trophic structure and ecosystem productivity15
Regional differences in Kemp’s ridley sea turtle growth trajectories and expected age at maturation15
Metabolism of a subtidal rocky mussel reef in a high-temperate setting: pathways of organic C flow15
A multi-spectral fluorescence induction and relaxation (FIRe) technique for physiological and taxonomic analysis of phytoplankton communities15
Climate-associated trends and variability in ichthyoplankton phenology from the longest continuous larval fish time series on the east coast of the United States15
Effect of diet on breeders and inheritance in syngnathids: application of isotopic experimentally derived data to field studies15
Nearshore ecosystems on seabird islands are potentially influenced by invasive predator eradications and environmental conditions: a case study at the Mercury Islands, New Zealand15
Green turtle mitochondrial microsatellites indicate finer-scale natal homing to isolated islands than to continental nesting sites15
Winners and losers: prevalence of non-indigenous species under simulated marine heatwaves and high propagule pressure14
Tags below three percent of body mass increase nest abandonment by rhinoceros auklets, but handling impacts decline as breeding progresses14
Large-scale eelgrass transplantation: a measure for carbon and nutrient sequestration in estuaries14
Assessing size-based exposure to microplastic particles and ingestion pathways in zooplankton and herring in a coastal pelagic ecosystem of British Columbia, Canada14
Atlantic fishes in the Mediterranean: using biological traits to assess the origin of newcomer fishes14
Effects of increased irradiance on biomass, photobiology, nutritional quality, and pigment composition of Arctic sea ice algae14
Microbiome analyses and presence of cable bacteria in the burrow sediment of Upogebia pugettensis14
Habitat fragmentation causes collapse of kelp recruitment14
Measurement of swimming ability in larval marine fishes: comparison of critical speed with in situ speed14
Seasonal variations in migration strategy of a longdistance Arctic-breeding seabird14
Fine-scale larval fish distributions and predator-prey dynamics in a coastal river-dominated ecosystem14
Disturbance intensity, disturbance extent and ocean climate modulate kelp forest understory communities14
Comprehensive assessment of shallow surf zone fish biodiversity requires a combination of sampling methods14
Assessing the spatiotemporal persistence of fish distributions: a case study on two red mullet species (Mullus surmuletus and M. barbatus) in the western Mediterranean14
Harbour seals responded differently to pulses of out-migrating coho and Chinook smolts13
Year-round offshore distribution, behaviour, and overlap with commercial fisheries of a Critically Endangered small petrel13
Unexpected diversity of Endozoicomonas in deep-sea corals13
Inter-population synchrony in adult survival and effects of climate and extreme weather in non-breeding areas of Atlantic puffins13
Reconstruction of temperature experienced by Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis larvae using SIMS and microvolume CF-IRMS otolith oxygen isotope analyses13
Strong migratory connectivity across meta-populations of sympatric North Atlantic seabirds13
Climate change in the Bay of Biscay: Changes in spatial biodiversity patterns could be driven by the arrivals of southern species13
Boosted regression tree models predict the diets of juvenile bull sharks in a subtropical estuary13
Predicting cold-water bleaching in corals: role of temperature, and potential integration of light exposure13
Multiscale spatial variability in epibiont assemblage structure associated with stipes of kelp Laminaria hyperborea in the northeast Atlantic13
Climate change winner in the deep sea? Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii13
Ice algae resource utilization by benthic macro- and megafaunal communities on the Pacific Arctic shelf determined through lipid biomarker analysis13
Genetic differences in thermal tolerance among colonies of threatened coral Acropora cervicornis: potential for adaptation to increasing temperature13
Coral defences: the perilous transition of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish to corallivory13
Movement patterns of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus based on acoustic telemetry around oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico13
High-resolution fisheries data reveal effects of bivalve dredging on benthic communities in stressed coastal systems13
Unified natural mortality estimation for teleosts and elasmobranchs13
Prey tell: what quillback rockfish early life history traits reveal about their survival in encounters with juvenile coho salmon12
Sympatry and resource partitioning between the largest krill consumers around the Antarctic Peninsula12
Environmental predictors of sediment denitrification rates within restored green-lipped mussel Perna canaliculus beds12
Year-round distribution of Northeast Atlantic seabird populations: applications for population management and marine spatial planning12
Biogeography of polychaete worms (Annelida) of the world12
Sexual segregation of gannet foraging over 11 years: movements vary but isotopic differences remain stable12
Sound characterization and fine-scale spatial mapping of an estuarine soundscape in the southeastern USA12
Modelled larval supply predicts coral population recovery potential following disturbance12
Acute and chronic behavioral effects of kelp gull micropredation on southern right whale mother-calf pairs off Península Valdés, Argentina12
Only a few key prey species fuel a temperate coastal fish food web12
Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic12
Global climate changes over time shape the environmental niche distribution of Octopus insularis in the Atlantic Ocean12
Low temperature exposure determines performance and thermal microhabitat use in an intertidal gastropod (Littorina scutulata) during the winter12
Using the VEMCO Positioning System (VPS) to explore fine-scale movements of aquatic species: applications, analytical approaches and future directions12
Tracking the marine migration routes of South Pacific silver eels12
Dietary and reproductive biomarkers in a generalist apex predator reveal differences in nutritional ecology across life stages12
Otolith-derived field metabolic rates of myctophids (Family Myctophidae) from the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)12
Dissolved organic matter from tropical peatlands reduces shelf sea light availability in the Singapore Strait, Southeast Asia12
Stable isotopes of amino acids from reef fishes uncover Suess and nitrogen enrichment effects on local ecosystems12
Differential responses in anti-predation traits of the native oyster Ostrea edulis and invasive Magallana gigas to ocean acidification and warming11
Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity11
Otolith-based approaches indicate strong effects of environmental variation on growth of a Critically Endangered estuarine fish11
Foraging behaviour and movements of an ambush predator reveal benthopelagic coupling on artificial reefs11
Patterns of sea ice drift and polar bear (Ursus maritimus) movement in Hudson Bay11
Fine-scale automatic mapping of living Posidonia oceanica seagrass beds with underwater photogrammetry11
Seasonal variation in the phenology of Atlantic tarpon in the Florida Keys: migration, occupancy, repeatability, and management implications11
Settlement processes induce differences in daily growth rates between two co-existing ecotypes of juvenile cod Gadus morhua11
Searching on the edge: dynamic oceanographic features increase foraging opportunities in a small pelagic seabird11
The importance of marine resources in the diet of urban gulls11
Spatio-temporal variability in the deposition of beach-cast kelp (wrack) and inter-specific differences in degradation rates11
Ice-algal carbon supports harp and ringed seal diets in the European Arctic: evidence from fatty acid and stable isotope markers11
Assessing the importance of zooplankton sampling patterns with an ecosystem model11
Northwest range shifts and shorter wintering period of an Arctic seabird in response to four decades of changing ocean climate11
Ontogenetic shifts in home range size of a top predatory reef-associated fish (Caranx ignobilis): implications for conservation11
Post-fledging movements, mortality and migration of juvenile northern gannets11
Incident light on mesophotic corals is constrained by reef topography and colony morphology11
Global synthesis of sea turtle von Bertalanffy growth parameters through Bayesian hierarchical modeling11
Seasonal migrations of pregnant blue sharks Prionace glauca in the northwestern Pacific11
Evidence of a ‘dinner bell’ effect from acoustic transmitters in adult Chinook salmon11
Long-term tracking of an Arctic-breeding seabird indicates high fidelity to pelagic wintering areas11
Effect of temperature and feeding on carbon budgets and O2 dynamics in Pocillopora damicornis10
A two-fold increase in migration distance does not have breeding consequences in a long-distance migratory seabird with high flight costs10
A generic approach to develop a trait-based indicator of trawling-induced disturbance10
Body condition and migration timing of east Australian humpback whales10
Stable isotopes suggest fine-scale sexual segregation in an isolated, endangered sperm whale population10
Environmental drivers of the physiological condition of mature female Antarctic krill during the spawning season: implications for krill recruitment10
Integration of temporal environmental variation by the marine plankton community10
Environmental drivers of diving behavior and space-use of juvenile endangered Caribbean hawksbill sea turtles identified using acoustic telemetry10
Abundance, distribution, and feeding ecology of Pyrosoma atlanticum in the Northern California Current10
Synergistic effects of salinity and temperature on the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica throughout the lifespan10
Sargassum epifaunal communities vary with canopy size, predator biomass and seascape setting within a fringing coral reef ecosystem10
Arctic terns from circumpolar breeding colonies share common migratory routes10
Long-term monitoring provides insight into estuarine top predator (Carcharhinus leucas) resilience following an extreme weather event10
Identifying spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris longirostris movement and behavioral patterns to inform conservation strategies in Maui Nui, Hawai‘i10
Influence of environmental variability on harbour porpoise movement10
Biological traits of benthic macrofauna show sizebased differences in response to bottom trawling intensity10
Light-level geolocators reveal spatial variations in interactions between northern fulmars and fisheries10
Demographic responses to environmental change of the black-browed albatross, sentinel of the Patagonian Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem10
Sea-ice edge is more important than closer open water access for foraging Adélie penguins: evidence from two colonies10
Breeding success of short-tailed shearwaters following extreme environmental conditions10
Machine learning analysis reveals relationship between pomacentrid calls and environmental cues10
Daylength influences reproductive success and sporophyte growth in the Arctic kelp species Alaria esculenta10
Planktonic primary production in the western Dutch Wadden Sea10
Ocean acidification impacts on biomass and fatty acid composition of a post-bloom marine plankton community10
Population structure and environmental niches of Rimicaris shrimps from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge10
Biogeophysical influence of large-scale bathymetric habitat types on mesophotic and upper bathyal demersal fish assemblages: a Hawaiian case study10
Small-scale heterogeneity of fish diversity evaluated by environmental DNA analysis in eelgrass beds9
Low spatial overlap between foraging shearwaters during the breeding season and industrial fisheries off the west coast of Portugal9
Spatial trophic variability of a coastal apex predator, the giant trevally Caranx ignobilis, in the western Indian Ocean9
Ecological drivers of the high predation of sea turtle hatchlings during emergence9
Effect of biological and anthropogenic sound on the orientation behavior of four species of brachyuran crabs9
Intraspecific competition in size-structured populations: ontogenetic shift in the importance of interference competition in a key marine herbivore9
Resolving community metabolism of eelgrass Zostera marina meadows by benthic flume-chambers and eddy covariance in dynamic coastal environments9
From trips to bouts to dives: temporal patterns in the diving behaviour of chick-rearing Adélie penguins, East Antarctica9
Parrotfish soundscapes: implications for coral reef management9
Large-scale comparison of biomass and reproductive phenology among native and non-native populations of the seagrass Zostera japonica9
Shifting baselines: Integrating ecological and isotopic time lags improves trophic position estimates in aquatic consumers9
Low growth resilience of subarctic rhodoliths (Lithothamnion glaciale) to coastal eutrophication9
Context-dependency of eelgrass-clam interactions: implications for coastal restoration9
Biochemical adaptation by the tropical copepods Apocyclops royi and Pseudodiaptomus annandalei to a PUFA-poor brackish water habitat9
Evidence of post-larval growth-selective mortality in Atlantic mackerel revealed by the collection of young-of-the-year juveniles ingested by the northern gannet9
Acoustic tracking of a large predatory marine gastropod, Charonia tritonis, on the Great Barrier Reef9
Urban sharks: residency patterns of marine top predators in relation to a coastal metropolis9
Foraging success in planktivorous fish increases with topographic blockage of prey distributions9
Thermally insensitive physiological performance allows neonatal sharks to use coastal habitats as nursery areas9
Seasonal aggregations of blacktip sharks Carcharhinus limbatus at a marine protected area in the Gulf of California, assessed by unoccupied aerial vehicle surveys9
Putting prey into the picture: improvements to species distribution models for bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand9
Invertebrate communities on shipwrecks in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary9
Fine-scale spatial and diel dynamics of zooplanktivorous fish on temperate rocky and artificial reefs9
Isotopic niche partitioning between two small cetacean species9
Effects of oyster age on selective suspension-feeding and the chemical composition of biodeposits: insights from fatty acid analysis9
Daily and seasonal movements of Cape Cod gray seals vary with predation risk9
Bioenergetic model and specific growth rates of jellyfish Aurelia spp9
Mangrove carbon sustains artisanal fish and other estuarine consumers in a major mangrove area of the southern Caribbean Sea9
Isotopic characterization of lifetime movement by two demersal fishes from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico9
Sciaenid courtship sounds correlate with juvenile appearance and abundance in the May River, South Carolina, USA9
Ecosystem functioning of canopy- and turf- forming algae: contrasting supply of invertebrate prey to pelagic consumers9
Size-fractionated surface phytoplankton in the Kara and Laptev Seas: environmental control and spatial variability9
Biodiversity, community structure and ecosystem function on kelp and wood falls in the Norwegian deep sea9
Comparison of functional diversity of two Alaskan Arctic shelf epibenthic communities9
Food-web fluxes support high rates of mesozooplankton respiration and production in the equatorial Pacific9
Soundscapes indicate kelp forest condition9
Basin-wide infaunalisation of benthic soft-bottom communities driven by anthropogenic habitat degradation in the northern Adriatic Sea9
Inter-colony foraging dynamics and breeding success relate to prey availability in a pursuit-diving seabird9
Microbial respiration in the asteroid diffusive boundary layer influenced sea star wasting disease during the 2013-2014 northeast Pacific Ocean mass mortality event9
Ecological engineering across organismal scales: trophic-mediated positive effects of microhabitat enhancement on fishes9
Tidal channel-mediated gradients facilitate Spartina alterniflora invasion in coastal ecosystems: implications for invasive species management9
Investigating avoidance and attraction responses in lesser black-backed gulls Larus fuscus to offshore wind farms8
Bi-decadal variability in physico-biogeochemical characteristics of temperate coastal ecosystems: from large-scale to local drivers8
Spatial overlap, proximity, and interaction between lobsters revealed using acoustic telemetry8
Year-round niche segregation of three sympatric Hydrobates storm-petrels from Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, Eastern Pacific8
Impaired hatching exacerbates the high CO2 sensitivity of embryonic sand lance Ammodytes dubius8
Inter-annual variation in winter distribution affects individual seabird contamination with mercury8
Consequences of plume encounter on larval fish growth and condition in the Gulf of Mexico8
Residency and habitat use patterns by sympatric stingrays at a remote atoll in the Western Indian Ocean8
Food web constraints on larval growth in subtropical coral reef and pelagic fishes8
Spatio-temporal patterns of foraging behaviour in a wide-ranging seabird reveal the role of primary productivity in locating prey8
Varying reef shark abundance trends inside a marine reserve: evidence of a Caribbean reef shark decline8
Differences in foraging habitat result in contrasting fisheries interactions in two albatross populations8
Predicting sea pen (Pennatulacea) distribution on the UK continental shelf: evidence of range modification by benthic trawling8
Temporal succession of a macrofaunal community associated with kelp fragment accumulations in an in situ experiment8
Earthquake effects on abalone habitats and populations in southern New Zealand8
Role of ecological interactions in saltmarsh geomorphic processes8
Dynamics of carbonate sediment production by Halimeda: implications for reef carbonate budgets8
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