Quantitative Marine Ecology Lab

Publications

We publish most of our work in both preprint journals and peer-reviewed journals. Where possible, we have also included links to data and code used in each paper. Please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts on our work.

You can also find our publications on Google Scholar.

Published (peer-reviewed or preprint)

2024

Social-ecological models with social hierarchy and spatial structure applied to small scale fisheries
Sophie Wulfing, Easton R. White
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  ·  21 Feb 2024
socio-ecological dynamicsfisheries
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Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using mechanistic thermal landscape models
Andrew Villeneuve, Easton White
California Digital Library (CDL)  ·  23 Jan 2024
extreme eventsoystersheatwaves
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2023

The unintended consequences of inconsistent closure policies and mobility restrictions during epidemics
Benjamin M. Althouse, Brendan Wallace, B. K. M. Case, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard, Andrew M. Berdahl, Easton R. White, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
BMC Global and Public Health  ·  04 Dec 2023
COVID-19infectious diseases
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Extreme events and coupled socio-ecological systems
Easton White, Sophie Wulfing
California Digital Library (CDL)  ·  20 Nov 2023
socio-ecologicalfisheries
pdf
Refining the trophic diversity, ecological network structure, and bottom-up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes
Salvador Zarco-Perello, Scott Bennett, Jordan Goetze, Tom Holmes, Rick Stuart-Smith, Easton White
California Digital Library (CDL)  ·  07 Nov 2023
ecological networksmonitoring
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Industrial fishing compliance with a new marine corridor near the Galapagos Islands
Easton White, Alex Hearn, Nicolas Moity, Jorge Ramírez-González, Julia Saltzman, César Viteri-Mejía, Sarah Enright, María Barragán-Paladines
California Digital Library (CDL)  ·  30 Oct 2023
sharks and raysfisheriesseafood
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Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
Kim Cuddington, Karen C Abbott, Frederick R Adler, Mehmet Aydeniz, Rene Dale, Louis J Gross, Alan Hastings, Elizabeth A Hobson, Vadim A Karatayev, Alexander Killion, Aasakiran Madamanchi, Michelle L Marraffini, Audrey L McCombs, Widodo Samyono, Shin-Han Shiu, Karen H Watanabe, Easton R White
BioScience  ·  29 Apr 2023
biology educationmathematical biology
pdfblog
If this title is funny, will you cite me? Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution
Stephen B. Heard, Chloe A. Cull, Easton R. White
FACETS  ·  01 Jan 2023
science communicationecology
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Determining the role of environmental covariates on planktivorous elasmobranch population trends within an isolated marine protected area
J Saltzman, ER White
Marine Ecology Progress Series  ·  01 Jan 2023
sharks and raysspecies trends
pdfblog

2022

#Sawfish: Social media to assess public perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes towards a critically endangered species
Julia Saltzman, Jasmin Graham, Julia Wester, Easton R. White, Catherine C. Macdonald
Frontiers in Conservation Science  ·  16 Sep 2022
marine social sciencesawfishresearch methods
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Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes
Emily M. Beasley, Natalia Aristizábal, Erika M. Bueno, Easton R. White
Landscape Ecology  ·  30 Jun 2022
coffeespatial ecologydisease
pdf
A framework for mapping and monitoring human-ocean interactions in near real-time during COVID-19 and beyond
CA Ward-Paige, ER White, EMP Madin, GJ Osgood, LK Bailes, RL Bateman, E Belonje, KV Burns, N Cullain, P Darbyshire-Jenkins, R S de Waegh, AM Eger, L Fola-Matthews, BM Ford, C Gonson, CJ Honeyman, JE House, E Jacobs, LK Jordan, JJ Levenson, K Lucchini, Marti-PuigP Martí-Puig, LAH McGuire, C Meneses, PH Montoya-Maya, RA Noonan, PA Ruiz-Ruiz, PE Ruy, RA Saputra, G Shedrawi, B Sing, MD Tietbohl, A Twomey, DC Vergara Florez, L Yamb
Marine Policy  ·  01 Apr 2022
COVID-19novel data streamssocio-ecological
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The direct and indirect effects of a global pandemic on US fishers and seafood workers
Easton R. White, Jill Levine, Amanda Moeser, Julie Sorensen
PeerJ  ·  21 Mar 2022
COVID-19novel data streamsfisheriesseafoodworker safety
pdfblog
Distant water industrial fishing in developing countries: A case study of Madagascar
Easton R. White, Merrill Baker-Médard, Valeriia Vakhitova, Samantha Farquhar, Tendro Tondrasoa Ramaharitra
Ocean & Coastal Management  ·  01 Feb 2022
Madagascarnovel data streamsfisheriesmarine protected areas
pdfCodeblog
Detecting population trends for US marine mammals
Easton R. White, Zachary Schakner, Amber Bellamy, Mridula Srinivasan
Conservation Science and Practice  ·  05 Jan 2022
conservationmonitoringtime seriesmarine mammals
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2021

Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management
Merrill Baker-Médard, Courtney Gantt, Easton R. White
Environmental Science & Policy  ·  01 Oct 2021
socio-ecologicalmarine protected areasMadagascarconservation
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Effects of climate‐change driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species
Geoffrey J. Osgood, Easton R. White, Julia K. Baum
Journal of Animal Ecology  ·  19 Jun 2021
monitoringsharks and raysclimate change
pdfGitHub
The broken window: An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes
Christie A. Bahlai, Easton R. White, Julia D. Perrone, Sarah Cusser, Kaitlin Stack Whitney
Ecological Informatics  ·  01 May 2021
monitoringtime series
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Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability
Joshua S. Stoll, Hannah L. Harrison, Emily De Sousa, Debra Callaway, Melissa Collier, Kelly Harrell, Buck Jones, Jordyn Kastlunger, Emma Kramer, Steve Kurian, M. Alan Lovewell, Sonia Strobel, Tracy Sylvester, Brett Tolley, Andrea Tomlinson, Easton R. White, Talia Young, Philip A. Loring
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems  ·  31 Mar 2021
COVID-19seafoodfisheries
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Sampling requirements and approaches to detect ecosystem shifts
Rosalie Bruel, Easton R. White
Ecological Indicators  ·  01 Feb 2021
monitoringpopulation modelconservation
pdfCode
Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis
Halley E. Froehlich, Rebecca R. Gentry, Sarah E. Lester, Richard S. Cottrell, Gavin Fay, Trevor A. Branch, Jessica A. Gephart, Easton R. White, Julia K. Baum
Marine Policy  ·  01 Feb 2021
COVID-19seafoodfisheries
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Experimenting With the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring
Easton R. White, Christie A. Bahlai
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution  ·  20 Jan 2021
monitoringpopulation modelconservation
pdf
Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks
Easton R. White, Marissa L. Baskett, Alan Hastings
Oikos  ·  19 Jan 2021
monitoringmarine protected areasfisheriesspatial ecology
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2020

Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory
Easton R. White, Alan Hastings
Ecological Complexity  ·  01 Dec 2020
seasonalitypopulation model
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Early effects of COVID‐19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption
Easton R. White, Halley E. Froehlich, Jessica A. Gephart, Richard S. Cottrell, Trevor A. Branch, Rahul Agrawal Bejarano, Julia K. Baum
Fish and Fisheries  ·  23 Nov 2020
monitoringCOVID-19seafoodfisheries
pdfGitHubblog
State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States
Easton R. White, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLOS ONE  ·  13 Oct 2020
COVID-19public health
pdfCode

2019

Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test
Easton R. White, Kyle Cox, Brett A. Melbourne, Alan Hastings
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  ·  12 Nov 2019
beetlesmonitoringspatial ecology
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A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modeling
Roberto C. Rodríguez-Caro, Thorsten Wiegand, Easton R. White, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Andrés Giménez, Eva Graciá, Koen J. van Benthem, José D. Anadón
Biological Conservation  ·  01 Sep 2019
monitoringpopulation model
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Site‐selection bias and apparent population declines in long‐term studies
Auriel M.V. Fournier, Easton R. White, Stephen B. Heard
Conservation Biology  ·  03 Jul 2019
monitoringconservation
pdfCode
Minimum Time Required to Detect Population Trends: The Need for Long-Term Monitoring Programs
Easton R White
BioScience  ·  01 Jan 2019
monitoringconservation
pdfCode

2018

The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations
Easton R. White, Andrew T. Smith
Ecology  ·  19 Nov 2018
pikasspatial ecologyconservation
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2015

Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island-an isolated marine protected area
Easton R. White, Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, Julia K. Baum
Conservation Biology  ·  01 Aug 2015
sharks and raysmarine protected areasconservation
pdfCode

2014

Predictable temperature-regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly mobile marine predator (Negaprion brevirostris)
ST Kessel, DD Chapman, BR Franks, T Gedamke, SH Gruber, JM Newman, ER White, RG Perkins
Marine Ecology Progress Series  ·  06 Nov 2014
sharks and raysseasonality
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The limitations of diversity metrics in directing global marine conservation
James P.W. Robinson, Easton R. White, Logan D. Wiwchar, Danielle C. Claar, Justin P. Suraci, Julia K. Baum
Marine Policy  ·  01 Sep 2014
conservationbiodiversity
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Comparing bycatch mitigation strategies for vulnerable marine megafauna
J. Senko, E. R. White, S. S. Heppell, L. R. Gerber
Animal Conservation  ·  01 Feb 2014
conservationfisheries
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Two-sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter?
Leah R. Gerber, Easton R. White
Journal of Applied Ecology  ·  01 Feb 2014
conservationpopulation model
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Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks
Easton R White, John D Nagy, Samuel H Gruber
Biology Direct  ·  01 Jan 2014
sharks and rayspopulation modelconservation
pdfCode

Other work

Sophie Wulfing, Ahilya Sudarshan Kadba, Mez Baker-Médard, and Easton R. White. Using mechanistic models to assess temporary closure strategies for small scale fisheries Preprint

Merrill Baker-Medard, Katherine Concannon, Courtney Gantt, Sierra Moen, Easton R. White. Socialscape Ecology: Integrating social factors into spatially-explicit marine conservation planning. In review. Preprint