Douglas McCauley
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American marine ecologist
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Douglas McCauley's Degrees
- PhD Ecology Stanford University
- Masters Ecology Stanford University
- Bachelors Biology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas J. McCauley is a professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara, and serves as the Director of the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory - an applied ocean research center based at UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute. His research focuses on using tools from ecology, data science, and marine policy for ocean conservation.
Douglas McCauley's Published Works
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Published Works
- Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015) (871)
- Selling out on nature (2006) (733)
- Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health (2016) (392)
- Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change (2017) (381)
- Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms (2019) (323)
- Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016) (303)
- Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna (2007) (211)
- Extinction risk is most acute for the world’s largest and smallest vertebrates (2017) (204)
- Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity. (2012) (187)
- Ending hide and seek at sea (2016) (166)
- Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans (2016) (134)
- Megafaunal Impacts on Structure and Function of Ocean Ecosystems (2016) (129)
- Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: The uncertain future of manta and devil rays (2016) (117)
- Wildlife decline and social conflict (2014) (117)
- Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa (2014) (109)
- Assessing the effectiveness of a large marine protected area for reef shark conservation (2017) (103)
- From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems (2012) (100)
- Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna (2013) (99)
- Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird-derived spatial subsidies (2010) (93)
- Indirect effects of large herbivores on snakes in an African savanna. (2006) (84)
- Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition (2020) (82)
- Niche partitioning among and within sympatric tropical seabirds revealed by stable isotope analysis (2010) (80)
- Addressing Criticisms of Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas (2018) (79)
- On the prevalence and dynamics of inverted trophic pyramids and otherwise top-heavy communities. (2018) (73)
- Resource partitioning by species but not sex in sympatric boobies in the central Pacific Ocean (2010) (72)
- Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus‐vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river (2015) (72)
- Empowering high seas governance with satellite vessel tracking data (2018) (69)
- Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations. (2012) (62)
- Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef (2010) (59)
- Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles (2020) (55)
- Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing (2018) (53)
- Area-restricted searching by manta rays and their response to spatial scale in lagoon habitats (2012) (50)
- Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya. (2015) (49)
- Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons (2014) (46)
- Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (2020) (46)
- Effects of the hippopotamus on the chemistry and ecology of a changing watershed (2018) (44)
- Digital nature: Are field trips a thing of the past? (2017) (42)
- Resetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems (2017) (41)
- Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya (2017) (38)
- Conservation at the edges of the world (2013) (37)
- Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals (2008) (36)
- Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species (2018) (34)
- The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in tropical terrestrial ecosystems. (2013) (34)
- Assessing the significance of global and local correlations under spatial autocorrelation: A nonparametric approach (2014) (34)
- Night Shift: Expansion of Temporal Niche Use Following Reductions in Predator Density (2012) (33)
- A mammoth undertaking: harnessing insight from functional ecology to shape de‐extinction priority setting (2017) (32)
- Ecological Importance of Large Herbivores in the Ewaso Ecosystem (2011) (32)
- Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems (2015) (30)
- WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. (2021) (29)
- Effects of land use on plague (Yersinia pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania. (2015) (29)
- Growth and life history variability of the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) across its range (2017) (27)
- Effects of Spatial Subsidies and Habitat Structure on the Foraging Ecology and Size of Geckos (2012) (26)
- Positive and Negative Effects of a Threatened Parrotfish on Reef Ecosystems (2014) (25)
- The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, impacts forest composition and soil characteristics at Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific (2010) (23)
- Tracking the response of industrial fishing fleets to large marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean (2020) (22)
- Diverse effects of the common hippopotamus on plant communities and soil chemistry (2018) (20)
- A global ecological signal of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates (2021) (18)
- Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales (2013) (17)
- Differential responses to guano fertilization among tropical tree species with varying functional traits. (2011) (17)
- Spatial ecology of male hippopotamus in a changing watershed (2019) (16)
- Leveraging satellite technology to create true shark sanctuaries (2018) (16)
- An Observation of Mating in Free-Ranging Blacktip Reef Sharks, Carcbarbinus melanopterus1 (2010) (16)
- Social-ecological traps link food systems to nutritional outcomes (2021) (14)
- Differential plant damage due to litterfall in palm-dominated forest stands in a Central Pacific atoll (2014) (12)
- Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents (2016) (12)
- Fisheries-induced selection against schooling behaviour in marine fishes (2020) (12)
- Protect high seas biodiversity (2021) (11)
- Quantifying coconut palm extent on Pacific islands using spectral and textural analysis of very high resolution imagery (2019) (11)
- Boundary spanning among research and policy communities to address the emerging industrial revolution in the ocean (2020) (11)
- Invasive plant Arundo donax alters habitat use by carnivores (2020) (10)
- Use of high-resolution acoustic cameras to study reef shark behavioral ecology (2016) (10)
- Fossil dermal denticles reveal the preexploitation baseline of a Caribbean coral reef shark community (2021) (9)
- Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys (2020) (9)
- Hippopotamus dung inputs accelerate fish predation by terrestrial consumers (2018) (9)
- Cascading community and ecosystem consequences of introduced coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in tropical islands1 (2017) (9)
- Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll (2017) (9)
- Hippopotamus movements structure the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active anthrax outbreak (2021) (5)
- A Scientific Synthesis of Marine Protected Areas in the United States: Status and Recommendations (2022) (5)
- Pushing back against paper-park pushers – Reply to Craigie et al. (2014) (5)
- First records of the sicklefin lemon shark, Negaprion acutidens, at Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific : a recent colonization event? (2014) (4)
- Nature: McCauley replies (2006) (4)
- Evaluation of MPA designs that protect highly mobile megafauna now and under climate change scenarios (2022) (3)
- The worth of giants: The consumptive and non‐consumptive use value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas) (2018) (3)
- Chemistry of the consumption and excretion of the bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum), a coral reef mega-consumer (2019) (3)
- Effects of human-altered landscapes on a reintroduced ungulate: Patterns of habitat selection at the rangeland-wildland interface (2021) (3)
- Reply to Kalinkat et al.: Smallest terrestrial vertebrates are highly imperiled (2017) (2)
- Resource partitioning by sympatric boobies in the Central Pacific Ocean (2010) (2)
- Fishing for Good News (2007) (2)
- Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll (2020) (2)
- Population Genetic Structure Of A Coral Reef Ecosystem Apex Predator, The Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus Amblyrhynchos) (2008) (1)
- Study Protocol: Interactive Dynamics of Coral Reef Fisheries and the Nutrition Transition in Kiribati (2022) (1)
- Fool’s Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm (2015) (1)
- Correction to ‘Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species’ (2018) (1)
- Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass (2019) (1)
- Fauna in decline--response. (2014) (1)
- Smallest terrestrial vertebrates are highly imperiled (2017) (1)
- Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms (2019) (0)
- Genetic Structure of the Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Based on Microsatellite and Mitochondrial DNA Analyses With Implications For Management (2008) (0)
- Differences in the behavior and diet between shoaling and solitary surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus) (2023) (0)
- Nature—Half Lost or Half Saved? (2012) (0)
- Reconstructing Millennial-Scale Variability in Reef Shark Communities Across The Isthmus of Panama (2023) (0)
- Coral recruitment and other ecological processes contributing to reef resilience on protected, near-pristine reefs_new (2009) (0)
- Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales (2012) (0)
- STUDIES ON THE EFFECTS OF HIPPOPOTAMUS AMPHIBIOUS VECTORED SUBSIDIES ON THE ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM (2016) (0)
- REVIEW Cascading community and ecosystem consequences of introduced coconut palms ( Cocos nucifera ) in tropical islands 1 (2017) (0)
- Differential plant damage due to litterfall in palm-dominated forest stands in a Central Pacific atoll – CORRIGENDUM (2015) (0)
- Diverse effects of the common hippopotamus on plant communities and soil chemistry (2018) (0)
- Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta and lagoons (2014) (0)
- Trophic level and diet affect patterns of extinction risk in birds and mammals (2017) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species" (2018) (0)
- Reply to Pincheira-Donoso and Hodgson: Both the largest and smallest vertebrates have elevated extinction risk (2018) (0)
- Resource Availability Drives Large Differences in the Fine-Scale Spatial Pattern of Parrotfish Herbivory on a Coral Reef (2016) (0)
- Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons (2014) (0)
- HOW DOES PRODUCTIVITY SHAPE PRE-EXPLOITATION SHARK BASELINES AND RESILIENCE ON CORAL REEFS OVER MILLENNIA? A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION (2022) (0)
- Chemistry of the consumption and excretion of the bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum), a coral reef mega-consumer (2019) (0)
- Image 2 : When coconut palms , Cocos nucifera , reach become dominant at (2010) (0)
- Conservation: smart advocacy needs data (2016) (0)
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