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2025

Refining the trophic diversity, network structure, and bottom up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes
Refining the trophic diversity, network structure, and bottom‐up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes
S. Zarco‐Perello, S. Bennett, J. Goetze, T. H. Holmes, R. D. Stuart‐Smith, E. R. White
Ecosphere  ·  01 Feb 2025  ·  doi:10.1002/ecs2.70193
coral-reefs biodiversity

2024

Social-ecological models with social hierarchy and spatial structure applied to small-scale fisheries
Social-ecological models with social hierarchy and spatial structure applied to small-scale fisheries
Sophie Wulfing, Easton R. White
Theoretical Ecology  ·  15 Oct 2024  ·  doi:10.1007/s12080-024-00594-4
socio-ecological mathematical-model
Multidecadal underwater surveys reveal declines in marine turtles
Multidecadal underwater surveys reveal declines in marine turtles
Julia Saltzman, Alex R. Hearn, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes, Todd Steiner, Randall Arauz, Catherine Macdonald, Maike Heidemeyer, Easton R. White
Conservation Science and Practice  ·  15 Oct 2024  ·  doi:10.1111/csp2.13249
marine-megafauna turtles
Extreme events and coupled socio-ecological systems
Extreme events and coupled socio-ecological systems
Easton R. White, Sophie Wulfing
Ecological Modelling  ·  01 Sep 2024  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110786
socio-ecological mechanistic-model extreme-events heatwaves
Fifty-year population trajectory in a marginal American Pika i Ochotona princeps i population
Fifty-year population trajectory in a marginal American Pika (Ochotona princeps) population
Andrew T Smith, Constance I Millar, Easton R White
Journal of Mammalogy  ·  26 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyae083
pikas spatial-ecology climate-change
Lumpfish, i Cyclopterus lumpus i , distribution in the Gulf of Maine, USA: observations from fisheries independent and dependent catch data
Lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus, distribution in the Gulf of Maine, USA: observations from fisheries independent and dependent catch data
Elizabeth A. Fairchild, Sophie Wulfing, Easton R. White
PeerJ  ·  14 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.7717/peerj.17832
aquaculture fisheries climate-change
Assessing the need for temporary fishing closures to support sustainability for a small-scale octopus fishery
Assessing the need for temporary fishing closures to support sustainability for a small-scale octopus fishery
Sophie Wulfing, Ahilya Kadba, Mez Baker-Médard, Easton R. White
Fisheries Research  ·  01 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107045
fisheries madagascar mathematical-model
The effect of localized disturbance on the acoustic behavior of the common tern i Sterna hirundo i
The effect of localized disturbance on the acoustic behavior of the common tern (Sterna hirundo)
J. E. Brosseau, V. M. Eddington, E. C. Craig, E. R. White, L. N. Kloepper
JASA Express Letters  ·  01 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1121/10.0028204
disturbance acoustics seabirds
Socialscape Ecology: Integrating Social Features and Processes into Spatially Explicit Marine Conservation Planning
Socialscape Ecology: Integrating Social Features and Processes into Spatially Explicit Marine Conservation Planning
Merrill Baker-Médard, Katherine Concannon, Courtney Gantt, Sierra Moen, Easton R. White
Sustainability  ·  16 Jul 2024  ·  doi:10.3390/su16146078
socio-ecological marine-conservation fisheries
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models
Andrew R. Villeneuve, Easton R. White
Journal of Animal Ecology  ·  08 Jun 2024  ·  doi:10.1111/1365-2656.14120
shellfish climate-change mechanistic-model extreme-events heatwaves

2023

The unintended consequences of inconsistent closure policies and mobility restrictions during epidemics
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  ·  doi:10.1186/s44263-023-00028-z
covid-19 infectious-diseases
The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species
The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species
Tim E Putman, Kevin Schaper, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Vincent P Rubinetti, Faisal S Alquaddoomi, …, Damian Smedley, Peter N Robinson, Christopher J Mungall, Melissa A Haendel, Monica C Munoz-Torres
Nucleic Acids Research  ·  24 Nov 2023  ·  doi:10.1093/nar/gkad1082
Determining the role of environmental covariates on planktivorous elasmobranch population trends within an isolated marine protected area
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  ·  09 Nov 2023  ·  doi:10.3354/meps14435
sharks-and-rays species-trends
Refining the trophic diversity, ecological network structure, and bottom-up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes
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  ·  doi:10.32942/X2CC97
ecological-networks monitoring
Industrial fishing compliance with a new marine corridor near the Galapagos Islands
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  ·  doi:10.32942/X2J60N
sharks-and-rays fisheries seafood
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
Richard J. Abdill, Samantha P. Graham, Vincent Rubinetti, Frank W. Albert, Casey S. Greene, Sean Davis, Ran Blekhman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  ·  11 Oct 2023  ·  doi:10.1101/2023.10.11.560955
Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
Kim Cuddington, Karen C Abbott, Frederick R Adler, Mehmet Aydeniz, Rene Dale, …, Audrey L McCombs, Widodo Samyono, Shin-Han Shiu, Karen H Watanabe, Easton R White
BioScience  ·  29 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1093/biosci/biad015
biology-education mathematical-biology
MyGeneset.info: an interactive and programmatic platform for community-curated and user-created collections of genes
MyGeneset.info: an interactive and programmatic platform for community-curated and user-created collections of genes
Ricardo Avila, Vincent Rubinetti, Xinghua Zhou, Dongbo Hu, Zhongchao Qian, Marco Alvarado Cano, Everaldo Rodolpho, Ginger Tsueng, Casey Greene, Chunlei Wu
Nucleic Acids Research  ·  18 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1093/nar/gkad289
Hetnet connectivity search provides rapid insights into how two biomedical entities are related
Hetnet connectivity search provides rapid insights into how two biomedical entities are related
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Michael Zietz, Vincent Rubinetti, Kyle Kloster, Benjamin J. Heil, …, David N. Nicholson, Yun Hao, Blair D. Sullivan, Michael W. Nagle, Casey S. Greene
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  ·  07 Jan 2023  ·  doi:10.1101/2023.01.05.522941
If this title is funny, will you cite me Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution
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  ·  doi:10.1139/facets-2022-0079
science-communication ecology

2022

Hetnet connectivity search provides rapid insights into how biomedical entities are related
Hetnet connectivity search provides rapid insights into how biomedical entities are related
Daniel S Himmelstein, Michael Zietz, Vincent Rubinetti, Kyle Kloster, Benjamin J Heil, …, David N Nicholson, Yun Hao, Blair D Sullivan, Michael W Nagle, Casey S Greene
GigaScience  ·  28 Dec 2022  ·  doi:10.1093/gigascience/giad047
Sawfish: Social media to assess public perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes towards a critically endangered species
#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  ·  doi:10.3389/fcosc.2022.987909
marine-social-science sawfish research-methods
Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes
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  ·  doi:10.1007/s10980-022-01473-1
coffee spatial-ecology disease
A framework for mapping and monitoring human-ocean interactions in near real-time during COVID-19 and beyond
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, …, B. Sing, MD Tietbohl, A. Twomey, DC Vergara Florez, L. Yamb
Marine Policy  ·  01 Jun 2022  ·  doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105054
covid-19 novel-data-streams socio-ecological
The direct and indirect effects of a global pandemic on US fishers and seafood workers
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  ·  doi:10.7717/peerj.13007
covid-19 novel-data-streams fisheries seafood worker-safety
MolEvolvR: A web-app for characterizing proteins using molecular evolution and phylogeny
MolEvolvR: A web-app for characterizing proteins using molecular evolution and phylogeny
Jacob D Krol, Joseph T Burke, Samuel Z Chen, Lo M Sosinski, Faisal S Alquaddoomi, …, Vincent P Rubinetti, Shaddai Amolitos, Kellen M Reason, John B Johnston, Janani Ravi
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  ·  22 Feb 2022  ·  doi:10.1101/2022.02.18.461833
Distant water industrial fishing in developing countries: A case study of Madagascar
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  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105925
madagascar novel-data-streams fisheries marine-protected-areas
Detecting population trends for US marine mammals
Detecting population trends for US marine mammals
Easton R. White, Zachary Schakner, Amber Bellamy, Mridula Srinivasan
Conservation Science and Practice  ·  05 Jan 2022  ·  doi:10.1111/csp2.611
conservation monitoring time-series marine-mammals

2021

Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management
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  ·  doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.007
socio-ecological marine-protected-areas madagascar conservation
The broken window: An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes
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 Sep 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101336
monitoring time-series
Effects of climate change driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species
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  ·  06 Jul 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13560
monitoring sharks-and-rays climate-change
Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability
Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability
Joshua S. Stoll, Hannah L. Harrison, Emily De Sousa, Debra Callaway, Melissa Collier, …, Brett Tolley, Andrea Tomlinson, Easton R. White, Talia Young, Philip A. Loring
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems  ·  31 Mar 2021  ·  doi:10.3389/fsufs.2021.614368
covid-19 seafood fisheries
Sampling requirements and approaches to detect ecosystem shifts
Sampling requirements and approaches to detect ecosystem shifts
Rosalie Bruel, Easton R. White
Ecological Indicators  ·  01 Feb 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107096
monitoring population-model conservation
Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis
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  ·  doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104328
covid-19 seafood fisheries
Experimenting With the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring
Experimenting With the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring
Easton R. White, Christie A. Bahlai
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution  ·  20 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.572979
monitoring population-model conservation
Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks
Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks
Easton R. White, Marissa L. Baskett, Alan Hastings
Oikos  ·  19 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/oik.07770
monitoring marine-protected-areas fisheries spatial-ecology

2020

Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory
Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory
Easton R. White, Alan Hastings
Ecological Complexity  ·  01 Dec 2020  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100867
seasonality population-model
Early effects of COVID 19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption
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  ·  doi:10.1111/faf.12525
monitoring covid-19 seafood fisheries
State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States
State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States
Easton R. White, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLOS ONE  ·  13 Oct 2020  ·  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240648
covid-19 public-health
Compressing gene expression data using multiple latent space dimensionalities learns complementary biological representations
Compressing gene expression data using multiple latent space dimensionalities learns complementary biological representations
Gregory P. Way, Michael Zietz, Vincent Rubinetti, Daniel S. Himmelstein, Casey S. Greene
Genome Biology  ·  11 May 2020  ·  doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02021-3

2019

Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test
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  ·  28 Oct 2019  ·  doi:10.1073/pnas.1911440116
beetles monitoring spatial-ecology
A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modeling
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  ·  doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.07.011
monitoring population-model
Site selection bias and apparent population declines in long term studies
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  ·  doi:10.1111/cobi.13371
monitoring conservation
Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Vincent Rubinetti, David R. Slochower, Dongbo Hu, Venkat S. Malladi, Casey S. Greene, Anthony Gitter
PLOS Computational Biology  ·  24 Jun 2019  ·  doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007128
Sequential compression of gene expression across dimensionalities and methods reveals no single best method or dimensionality
Sequential compression of gene expression across dimensionalities and methods reveals no single best method or dimensionality
Gregory P. Way, Michael Zietz, Vincent Rubinetti, Daniel S. Himmelstein, Casey S. Greene
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  ·  11 Mar 2019  ·  doi:10.1101/573782

2018

Minimum Time Required to Detect Population Trends: The Need for Long-Term Monitoring Programs
Minimum Time Required to Detect Population Trends: The Need for Long-Term Monitoring Programs
Easton R White
BioScience  ·  05 Dec 2018  ·  doi:10.1093/biosci/biy144
monitoring conservation
The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations
The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations
Easton R. White, Andrew T. Smith
Ecology  ·  19 Nov 2018  ·  doi:10.1002/ecy.2546
pikas spatial-ecology conservation

2015

Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island an isolated marine protected area
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  ·  23 Mar 2015  ·  doi:10.1111/cobi.12478
sharks-and-rays marine-protected-areas conservation

2014

Predictable temperature-regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly mobile marine predator Negaprion brevirostris
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  ·  doi:10.3354/meps10966
sharks-and-rays seasonality
The limitations of diversity metrics in directing global marine conservation
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  ·  doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2014.03.012
conservation biodiversity
Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks
Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks
Easton R White, John D Nagy, Samuel H Gruber
Biology Direct  ·  01 Jan 2014  ·  doi:10.1186/1745-6150-9-23
sharks-and-rays population-model conservation

2013

Two sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter
Two‐sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter?
Leah R. Gerber, Easton R. White
Journal of Applied Ecology  ·  25 Nov 2013  ·  doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12177
conservation population-model
Comparing bycatch mitigation strategies for vulnerable marine megafauna
Comparing bycatch mitigation strategies for vulnerable marine megafauna
J. Senko, E. R. White, S. S. Heppell, L. R. Gerber
Animal Conservation  ·  23 May 2013  ·  doi:10.1111/acv.12051
conservation fisheries