Marine Ecology Progress Series

Papers
(The median citation count of Marine Ecology Progress Series is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using ocean gliders to characterize baleen whale habitat in the Northwest Atlantic55
Detection of the Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis Philaster clade on sympatric metazoa, plankton, and abiotic surfaces and assessment for its potential reemergence36
Growth of spring- and autumn-spawned larvae of Atlantic herring Clupea harengus: a long-term experiment mimicking seasonal light conditions36
Sediment microtopography predicts localised benthic ecosystem functioning and the effect of species interactions35
Dynamics and aging of green turtle grazing plots at two Caribbean seagrass meadows35
Trophic position of dolphins tracks recent changes in the pelagic ecosystem of the Macaronesian region (NE Atlantic)34
Distinguishing West Florida gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) nurseries with otolith stable isotopes32
The sea urchin Diadema antillarum facilitates recruitment of the Critically Endangered Caribbean coral species Acropora palmata30
Cost-effective use of aerial imagery to quantify faunal-habitat associations across multiple spatial scales28
Otolith elemental fingerprints reveal source-sink dynamics between two Greenland halibut nurseries in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf26
Migratory behavior and maternal origin of anadromous brown trout in the Baltic Sea25
Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals24
Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems23
Insights into the trophic ecology of Etmopterus molleri, one of the smallest shark species: a multi-tracer analysis23
Water temperature is a key driver of horizontal and vertical movements of an ocean giant, the whale shark Rhincodon typus22
Seasonal variation in the phenology of Atlantic tarpon in the Florida Keys: migration, occupancy, repeatability, and management implications21
A decade of modeled dispersal of Dungeness crab Cancer magister larvae in the California Current21
Differential response of seabird species to warm- and cold-water events in a heterogeneous cross-shelf environment in the Gulf of Alaska21
Behavior and inter-island movements of satellite-tagged humpback whales in Hawai’i, USA20
Changes in DNA methylation in response to heat stress and symbiotic conditions in coral primary polyps20
Priority effects, environmental filtering and neutral coexistence explain large- to small-scale distribution of invasive sun corals in the SW Atlantic19
Carbon budgets of copepod communities in the northern Humboldt Current System off Peru19
Comparison of video and traps for detecting reef fishes and quantifying species richness in the continental shelf waters of the southeast USA19
Lingering impacts of the 2014-2016 northeast Pacific marine heatwave on seabird demography in Cook Inlet, Alaska (USA)19
Wintering strategies of two king penguin populations of the Southern Indian Ocean18
Machine learning analysis reveals relationship between pomacentrid calls and environmental cues18
Multi-year migrations of four coastal shark species in the southeastern USA: trends in timing and temperature18
Short-finned pilot whales exhibit behavioral plasticity in foraging strategies mediated by their environment18
Food selectivity, diel feeding, and effect of light intensity on prey consumption, growth and survival of yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares larvae17
Lethal and sublethal effects of simulated dredged sediment deposition on overwintering blue crabs Callinectes sapidus17
Time-series models and biotelemetry identify behavioral dynamics within a spawning aggregation of a large marine predator17
Tracking movements of decapod crustaceans: a review of a half-century of telemetry-based studies17
Dermal denticle shedding rates vary between two captive shark species17
Spawning sources of a coastal fishery species inferred from otolith chemistry and microstructure: implications for management17
Characterising the behaviour of bait-attracted blue sharks Prionace glauca using pelagic drift video17
Recent divergent changes in Alaskan pinniped trophic position detected using compound-specific stable isotope analysis17
Linking ecosystem pressures and marine macroinvertebrate ecosystem services in mangroves and seagrasses16
Wave exposure influences kelp morphological and biomechanical phenotypic plasticity16
Physiological responses of the symbiotic octocoral Muricea laxa to dynamic thermal conditions16
Blue mussels in western Norway have vanished where in reach of crawling predators16
Expanding on a marine food web using parasitological data16
Role of crab holobionts in benthic N cycling in mangroves with different trophic status16
Investigating growth and reproduction of the Mediterranean swordfish Xiphias gladius through a full life cycle bioenergetics model16
Trophic ecology, based on stable isotope values, of long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas stranded on the Icelandic coast16
Spatiotemporal models highlight influence of oceanographic conditions on common dolphin bycatch risk in the Bay of Biscay15
Oyster reefs as habitat for aquatic macrofauna in a Gulf of Mexico estuary: biotic complexity at spatial, ecological, and demographic scales15
Evidence of shared trends in juvenile fish recruitment to nearshore seagrass habitats of the eastern Gulf of Mexico15
Discovery and dynamics of a cryptic marine copepod-parasite interaction15
Both wind and flying with conspecifics influence the flight dynamics of a seabird15
Calcified coralline algae have similar caloric value to uncalcified algae15
Long-term changes in deep-sea megafauna community structure in the eastern Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean)15
Using stable isotope chronologies within squid gladii (Doryteuthis gahi) to evaluate dietary differences by fishing region and season15
Sea-ice and macrozooplankton distribution as determinants of top predator community structure in Antarctic winter15
Relationship between pumping rate and particle capture efficiency in three species of bivalves15
Accuracy of ROV-based biodiversity surveys in remote, shallow, coral reef habitats14
Time-series dynamics in symbiont communities of acroporid corals undergoing cold stress in winter14
Failure of bivalve foundation species recruitment related to trophic changes during an extreme heatwave event14
Ecological aspects and hydrodynamics of hitchhiking remoras Remora spp. associated with sicklefin devil rays Mobula tarapacana14
Effect of diet composition and temperature on the gastric evacuation rate of European sardine: implication for egg predation estimates14
Seasonal changes in facilitation between an ascidian and a kelp in Patagonia14
Observation of discarded appendicularian houses in the benthic and pelagic zones of Spitsbergen fjords using drop-camera imagery14
Interactions between anchovy fisheries and Peruvian boobies revealed by bird-borne cameras and movement loggers14
Direct and indirect pathways for environmental drivers of hatching success in the loggerhead sea turtle14
Threshold velocities for coral rubble bind breakage across varying reef environments14
Predatory impact on ichthyoplankton by Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) is size-dependent: an experimental approach14
Effects of migrating mesopelagic fishes on the biological carbon pump14
Size-fractioned zooplankton biomass in the Barents Sea: macroecological patterns across biogeography, climate, and varying ecosystem state (1989-2020)14
Divergent learning responses to a spatially consistent olfactory stimulus in two reef shark species14
Ontogenetic vertical migration, seasonality, and long-term increase in mesopelagic fish larvae in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean13
Extreme dietary specialisation in adult male southern elephant seals: determining variation between individual trophic diets13
Timing mussel deployments to improve reintroduction success and restoration efficiency13
Relative role of operational patterns and environmental conditions on cookie cutter shark damage in the Hawaiʻi longline fishery13
Distinct natal origins based on vertebral ring analysis corroborate the migration pattern of Pacific bluefin tuna in the North Pacific Ocean13
Inshore juvenile lobsters threatened by warming waters and migratory fish predators in southern New England13
Niche partitioning among abyssal deposit-feeding echinoderms is linked to mobility and gut microbiota13
Energy allocation trade-offs between life-history traits in the Mediterranean sardine: an ecophysiological approach13
Migration, aggregation, and philopatry of two nearshore elasmobranch species in the Southern California Bight12
Starvation threshold and fasting endurance of right whales12
DNA analysis of scats reveals spatial and temporal structure in the diversity of harbour seal diet from local haulouts to oceanographic bioregions12
Migration timing affects the foraging ecology of Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada12
Phytoplankton size structures and their interactive effects with nutrient conditions on sinking rates in a mariculture system12
Climate-induced changes in ocean productivity and food-web functioning are projected to markedly affect European fisheries catch12
The diversity of demersal assemblages of the western English Channel and the Celtic Sea12
Larvae from three Caribbean corals settle differently in response to crustose coralline algae and their bacterial communities12
Impacts of thermal effluent on Posidonia oceanica and associated macrofauna12
From fringe to basin: unravelling the survival strategies of Calanus hyperboreus and C. glacialis in the Arctic Ocean12
Assessing the demographic connectivity of common cockles in a shallow estuary as a basis for fisheries management and stock protection efforts12
Effect of sea cage aquaculture on the length, weight, and condition of wild Atlantic cod Gadus morhua12
Sentinels of change: divergence in trophic niche of New Zealand sea lions and fur seals from first human contact to today12
Ecological mechanisms generating variable first-year growth in Paralichthys lethostigma, a coastal flatfish12
Bentho-pelagic mismatches in intertidal sandflats in relation to seasonal upwelling: the role of endobenthic ecosystem engineering12
Combined impacts of natural recruitment and active propagation for coral population recovery on the Great Barrier Reef12
Patterns in macrobenthic diversity in the lower shore of northeastern Atlantic macrotidal sandy beaches12
Migration and space use by porbeagle sharks Lamna nasus in the northeast Atlantic12
Microbiome environmental shifts differ between two co-occurring octocoral hosts12
High incidence of partial colony mortality constrains realized growth for three coral species in southeast Florida12
Similar breeding performance despite inter-annual differences in diet composition of seabirds inhabiting a tropical environment11
CORRECTION: Compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids reveals dependency on grazing rather than detritivory in mangrove food webs11
Long-term data reveal greater intertidal oyster biomass in predicted suitable habitat11
Gannets wintering in the Canary Current and Iberian Coast feed primarily on pelagic fishes and co-occur with trawl and fixed gear fisheries11
Genomic evaluation of Australian sub-adult white sharks Carcharodon carcharias reveals kin aggregation with low population size11
Net autotrophic metabolism in coastal waters of the Subtropical South West Atlantic11
Oceanic migration routes and behaviour of the New Zealand longfin eel Anguilla dieffenbachii11
Thermal tolerance differs between co-occurring congeneric beetle species in marine supratidal rockpools11
Drivers of coral mortality in non-acute disturbance periods11
Trophic ecology of Carolina Sphyrna gilberti and scalloped S. lewini hammerheads in the southeastern USA11
CORRIGENDUM: Stock structure and effective population size of the commercially exploited gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus11
Bycatch in the West Greenland lumpfish fishery, with particular focus on the common eider population11
Intra- and inter-annual shifts in foraging tactics by parental northern gannets Morus bassanus indicate changing prey fields11
Ocean acidification reduces the growth of two Southern Ocean phytoplankton11
Zooplankton trophic structure and ecosystem productivity11
Atlantic inflow is the primary driver of remotely sensed autumn blooms in the Barents Sea11
Evaluating the time to detect biological effects of ocean acidification and warming: an example using simulations of purple sea urchin settlement11
Microbial structural shifts and enhanced carbon metabolism following coral restoration on Wuzhizhou Island, China11
Correction: Behavior and inter-island movements of satellite-tagged humpback whales in Hawai’i, USA11
Movement ecology of a deep-pelagic mesopredator, the bigscale pomfret: implications for pelagic food web connectivity and fishery susceptibility11
Hotspot areas of marine introduced species in the Southwestern Atlantic11
Functional thermal limits are determined by rate of warming during simulated marine heatwaves11
Within- and among-colony variation in non-breeding dispersion of Magellanic penguins breeding along the coast of Argentina11
CORRECTION: Dietary shifts and energetics of Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus in the Gulf of Maine10
Diet and feeding strategies of myctophids in the Northeast Atlantic10
Antipredatory strategies of leatherback sea turtles during internesting intervals on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands10
Assessing the effectiveness of DNA barcoding for exploring hidden genetic diversity in deep-sea fishes10
Origins of natural and anthropogenic sounds in a coastal, seasonally ice-covered, Antarctic marine soundscape10
Movements of the endangered sei whale Balaenoptera borealis in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean10
Changes in fish assemblages after marine heatwave events in West Hawai‘i Island10
Effect of tidal resuspension with oyster biodeposits on nutrient and oxygen dynamics10
CORRECTION: American lobster Homarus americanus responses to construction and operation of an offshore wind farm in southern New England10
Blue carbon stocks and cycling in tropical tidal marshes facing grazing pressure10
Shy albatross Thalassarche cauta chick mortality and heat stress in a temperate climate10
Variability in Zostera marina wrack greenhouse gas emissions on a temperate sandy beach10
Shifting temperature-abundance relationship for Bering Sea walleye pollock consistent with northward expansion during exceptionally warm conditions10
Network Analysis of Decadal Acoustic Detections Reveals Diverse Movement Behavior in a Large Marine Predator (Carcharhinus leucas)10
Macrocystis pyrifera forest development shapes the physical environment through current velocity reduction10
Assessing marine ecosystem complexity: isotopic integration of the trophic structure of seabird communities from the Southern Ocean10
Characterization and spatial variation of the deep-sea fish assemblages on Pioneer Bank, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands10
Thermal tolerance is associated with enhanced growth and recovery in the reef-building coral Montipora capitata10
Using functional diversity to assess fish community susceptibility to multi-species coastal gillnetting in the East and South Brazilian Shelves10
Nutrient enrichment can increase the thermal performance of Galápagos seaweeds10
Distributions of threatened skates and commercial fisheries inform conservation hotspots9
Effects of wind on the movement, behavior, energetics, and life history of seabirds9
Evidence of shifts in habitat use of two snappers (Lutjanidae) in a tropical estuarine bay subjected to seasonal upwelling9
Year-to-year density fluctuations in clams Ruditapes philippinarum linked to wind-induced disturbance during juvenile to subadult stages9
Thermally insensitive physiological performance allows neonatal sharks to use coastal habitats as nursery areas9
Laysan albatross exhibit complex behavioral plasticity in the subtropical and subarctic North Pacific Ocean9
Daylength influences reproductive success and sporophyte growth in the Arctic kelp species Alaria esculenta9
Tidal Height Normalization (THN) – A new method to study the local vertical distribution of benthic intertidal organisms9
Intraspecific variation in seagrass anti-herbivore defenses along a natural gradient in phosphorus availability impacts herbivore feeding decisions9
Brood-grooming behavior of American lobsters Homarus americanus in conditions of ocean warming and acidification9
A systematic review of the current state of marine functional connectivity research9
Inducible defenses in an estuarine bivalve do not alter predator handling times and are not affected by climate change9
Luck and tactics in foraging success: the case of the imperial shag9
Diverse stability responses of a sub-Antarctic invertebrate understorey community to experimental giant kelp removal9
Clear-cut wave height thresholds reveal dominance shifts in assemblage patterns on rocky shores9
Genetic population structure and demographic history of the sailfin sandfish Arctoscopus japonicus associated with sea level changes during the Last Glacial Maximum9
Kelp canopy and adhesives enhance the success of kelp reforestation using the 'green gravel' technique9
Size-specific predation on an overgrazing sea urchin reveals dominant role of large predatory fish9
Effects of human modification to freshwater flow on juvenile bull shark movement and residency in a subtropical nursery9
Three centuries of biogeochemical change in a temperate embayment as revealed by sediment core stable isotopes, radiometric dating, and historical ecology9
Patterns, efficiency and ecosystem effects when fishing Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea—using an individual-based model9
Greater exposure of nearshore habitats in the Bering Sea makes fish early life stages vulnerable to climate change9
Effects of increasing temperature on the photosynthetic activity and oxygen balance of sheath-covered seagrass Zostera marina seeds9
Stable isotope record from a resident New Zealand seabird community suggests changes in distribution but not trophic position since 18789
Variation in food resource use differs between marine residents and river migrants in the Japanese seabass Lateolabrax japonicus9
Influences of environmental and individual-level covariates on movement behaviour in American lobster Homarus americanus9
Phoretic sharksuckers Echeneis naucrates associated with an elasmobranch host occupy higher relative trophic positions9
Trade-offs in prey quantity and quality in gray whale foraging9
Increased temperature reduces the positive effect of sulfide-detoxification mutualism on Zostera noltii nutrient uptake and growth9
Seasonal and interannual changes in a coastal Antarctic zooplankton community9
Juvenile growth deficit as an early alert of cockle Cerastoderma edule mortality8
Seabird responses to ecosystem changes driven by marine heatwaves in a warming Arctic8
Contrasting ontogenetic shifts in habitat and metabolism of three sympatric key deep-sea fishes8
Nearshore fish abundance in an urban estuary is weakly associated with shoreline conditions across spatial scales8
Potential climate-driven changes to seabird demography: implications for assessments of marine renewable energy development8
Phenotypic plasticity expands oyster survival and realized niche space across tidal elevations8
Northwest range shifts and shorter wintering period of an Arctic seabird in response to four decades of changing ocean climate8
Depth and substrate type influence community structure and diversity of wood and whale-bone habitats on the deep NE Pacific margin8
Ecological patterns and environmental drivers of terrestrial arthropod metacommunities in tidal marshes and adjacent landscapes of the SW-Atlantic8
Pre-industrial ecology and foraging behavior of swordfish Xiphias gladius in the eastern North Pacific8
Effects of food supply on northern bay scallops Argopecten irradians reared under two pCO2 conditions8
Fatty acid profiles of mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari reflect diet variability of its main prey, Antarctic krill Euphausia superba8
Fat dynamics at the onset of sexual maturation in Atlantic herring Clupea harengus: the dual-fuel powering used by ‘maatjes’ herring8
Microbial-driven impact on aquatic phosphate fluxes in a coastal peatland8
Simulating fish population responses to elevated CO2: a case study using winter flounder8
Benthic modification and biotic associations at natural and artificial habitats excavated by Epinephelus morio and Lutjanus campechanus8
Fish size spectra from imaging sonar reveal variation in habitat use across nearshore coastal ecosystems8
Influence of extreme cold and warm oceanographic events on larval fish assemblages in the southern region of the California Current8
Photosynthetic pigments of co-occurring Northeast Atlantic Laminaria spp. are unaffected by decomposition8
Invertebrate communities on shipwrecks in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary8
Resilient protected area network enables species adaptation that mitigates the impact of a crash in food supply8
Urban sharks: residency patterns of marine top predators in relation to a coastal metropolis8
Marine bird mass mortality events as an indicator of the impacts of ocean warming8
Non-trophic interactions amplify kelp harvest-induced biomass oscillations and biomass changes in a kelp forest ecological network model8
Subantarctic Front variability: a potential driver of Patagonian scallop Zygochlamys patagonica recruitment fluctuations8
Sub-lethal and lethal effects of chronic and extreme multiple stressors on a critical New Zealand bivalve under hypoxia8
High-resolution ocean sea ice model outputs to predict species distribution: case study of crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus in East Antarctica8
Freshening of Great Barrier Reef waters is deleterious for larval crown-of-thorns starfish, counter to the terrestrial runoff hypothesis8
Subtidal temperate reefs in marginal seas enhance biodiversity, food web complexity, and ecosystem stability8
Advancing research in marine functional connectivity for improved policy and management8
Mangrove-driven acidification and shell dissolution on intertidal oyster reefs in a subtropical estuary8
Resilience of coastal marine metacommunities to increasing hydraulic connectivity8
Acoustic characterization of juvenile Pacific salmon distributions along an eco-engineered seawall7
CORRIGENDUM: Trophic position of dolphins tracks recent changes in the pelagic ecosystem of the Macaronesian region (NE Atlantic)7
Lipids in meso- and bathypelagic fishes from the North Atlantic Ocean: dietary inputs suggested from fatty acid trophic markers7
Critical evaluation of trophic discrimination factors using compound-specific stable isotopes in a Northwest Atlantic shelf marine food web7
Deriving connectivity from relatedness: broad-scale isolation-by-distance in the shanny Lipophrys pholis7
Elevated sea surface temperatures drive greater seasonal depth use in a baited aggregation of female silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis)7
Blue carbon biomass stocks but not sediment stocks or burial rates exhibit global patterns in re-established mangrove chronosequences: a meta-analysis7
Fine-scale spatial and temporal acoustic occurrence of island-associated odontocetes near a mid-oceanic atoll in the northern Indian Ocean7
Megafauna: the ignored bioturbators7
Energy costs of the sponge pump7
Reconstructing trophic position over the past century for five Puget Sound fish species7
Trophic ecology of a migratory shorebird community at a globally important non-breeding site: combining DNA metabarcoding and conventional techniques7
Long-term observations of a sponge in situ reveal a rich repertoire of contractile behaviors, including winter dormancy7
Habitat preferences of Phycis blennoides (Pisces: Gadiformes): environmental factors and fishing-related ontogenic deepening7
A deep dive into anthozoan communities of two Antarctic seamounts: a comparative study of Maud Rise and Astrid Ridge7
Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs7
Trophic ecology of an abundant kelp forest echinoderm, the bat star Patiria miniata7
CORRECTION: The capacity of imaging sonar for quantifying the abundance, species richness, and size of reef fish assemblages7
CORRIGENDUM: Impacts of overfishing and sedimentation on the feeding behavior and ecological function of herbivorous fishes in coral reefs7
Seascape structure likely influences marsh-derived resource use by highly abundant estuarine consumers over a small spatial scale7
Forensic determination of shark species as predators and scavengers of sea turtles in Florida and Alabama, USA7
Mass stranding of octocorals following winter storms in southern Portugal7
CORRECTION: Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems7
Unravelling the impact of sand extraction pits on macrobenthos distribution in the Southern North Sea7
Molecular diversity of coral microbiomes shows no relationship with latitude in the western Pacific Ocean7
Benthic O2 uptake by coral gardens at the Condor seamount (Azores)7
Assessing sea floor functional biodiversity and vulnerability7
Bioenergetic model and specific growth rates of jellyfish Aurelia spp7
International collaboration facilitates risk assessment of vessel activities on overwintering coastal waterbirds7
Use and prevalence of novel bubble-net foraging strategy in Western Antarctic humpback whales7
Growth and mortality rates of picophytoplankton in the Baltic Sea Proper7
Survival of Atlantic salmon and sea trout smolts in transitional waters7
Visual habitat selection by juvenile fish in response to seagrass with different structural complexity7
Glimpsing the 2020 spring bloom in the Strait of Georgia (Canada) with autonomous ferry-based sensors7
Habitat use of the northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus near Jan Mayen, North Atlantic7
High CO2 inhibits substratum exploration and settlement of coral larvae7
CORRECTION: Larval connectivity for European green crab management in the Salish Sea and surrounding waters7
Ecological niche partitioning in two Pacific puffins7
Temporal patterns in space use of immature hawksbill turtles: insights from Fastloc-GPS tracking on Reunion Island7
Acartia tonsa grazing on the harmful dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata reduces copepod survival and increases extracellular toxin concentrations7
Marine spatial management in the face of variable larval dispersal7
Sea anemone microhabitats enhance the diversity and biomass of mobile invertebrates on temperate rocky shores7
Urination and sound production during courtship behavior of male Japanese common rockfish Sebastes ventricosus7
Distinct interactions driven by DMSP between different microalgae and the phycosphere bacterium Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae H467
Land-dependent marine species face climate-driven impacts on land and at sea7
Incorrect taxonomy confounds future interpretation of ecological data: Comment on Morgulis et al. (2022)7
Benthic fauna along sandy beaches enriched by metals after mining disaster7
Integrated population model reveals human- and environment-driven changes in Baltic ringed seal Pusa hispida botnica demography and behavior7
Biogeography, not intraspecific trait variation, determines macrofaunal communities associated with mussel beds7
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