Research

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2025

How I confronted my growing cynicism about academia—and rekindled my sense of purpose

Science · 25 Sep 2025 · doi:10.1126/science.zk8odtv

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academia

Unequal Thermal Risks in a Socioeconomically Important Tropical Reef Fishery

Andrew Villeneuve, Merrill Baker-Médard, Bemahafaly Randriamanantsoa, Easton White

EcoEvoRxiv · 10 Sep 2025 · doi:10.32942/X2CW68

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heatwaves madagascar fisheries

Assessing the resistance and resilience of recreationally important fish species to extreme events in coastal Texas

Ana C Silverio, Mariah C Livernois, Dakus Geeslin, Easton R White

Marine and Coastal Fisheries · 01 Sep 2025 · doi:10.1093/mcfafs/vtaf033

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fisheries extreme-events

Habitat suitability modeling growth and cover trends of staghorn coral i Acropora cervicornis i outplants in the lower Florida Keys

Habitat suitability modeling growth and cover trends of staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) outplants in the lower Florida Keys

Glenna Dyson, Erich Bartels, Easton R. White, Ian R. Combs, Kristen Mello-Rafter, Thomas C. Lippmann, Jennifer A. Dijkstra

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · 15 Jul 2025 · doi:10.1101/2025.07.11.664295

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coral-reefs extreme-events

Designing a BirdNET classifier for high wind detection in passive acoustic recordings to support wildlife monitoring

Danielle T. Fradet, Megan A. Cimino, Easton R. White, Laura N. Kloepper

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 01 Jun 2025 · 10.1121/10.0036887

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monitoring acoustics

Minimum Sampling, Maximum Insight: Tracking Environmental Trends in a Tidal Estuary

Barbara Spiecker, Kalle Matso, Christopher Whitney, Easton White

EcoEvoRxiv · 23 May 2025 · doi:10.32942/X2Z056

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monitoring estuaries

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

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coral-reefs biodiversity

2024

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

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socio-ecological mathematical-model

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

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marine-megafauna turtles

Extreme events and coupled socio-ecological systems

Easton R. White, Sophie Wulfing

Ecological Modelling · 01 Sep 2024 · doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110786

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Preprint

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

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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

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aquaculture fisheries climate-change

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

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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

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disturbance acoustics seabirds

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

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socio-ecological marine-conservation fisheries

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

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Preprint

shellfish climate-change mechanistic-model extreme-events heatwaves

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 · doi:10.1186/s44263-023-00028-z

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covid-19 infectious-diseases

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

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sharks-and-rays species-trends

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

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ecological-networks monitoring

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

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sharks-and-rays fisheries seafood

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

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biology-education mathematical-biology

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

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science-communication ecology

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 · doi:10.3389/fcosc.2022.987909

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marine-social-science sawfish research-methods

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

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coffee spatial-ecology disease

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

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covid-19 novel-data-streams socio-ecological

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

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covid-19 novel-data-streams fisheries seafood worker-safety

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

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madagascar novel-data-streams fisheries marine-protected-areas

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

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conservation monitoring time-series marine-mammals

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 · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.007

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socio-ecological marine-protected-areas madagascar conservation

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

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monitoring time-series

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

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GitHub

monitoring sharks-and-rays climate-change

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

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covid-19 seafood fisheries

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

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monitoring population-model conservation

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

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covid-19 seafood fisheries

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

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monitoring population-model conservation

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

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monitoring marine-protected-areas fisheries spatial-ecology

2020

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

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seasonality population-model

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

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GitHub

monitoring covid-19 seafood fisheries

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

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covid-19 public-health

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 · 28 Oct 2019 · doi:10.1073/pnas.1911440116

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beetles monitoring spatial-ecology

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

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monitoring population-model

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

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monitoring conservation

2018

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

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monitoring conservation

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

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pikas spatial-ecology conservation

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 · 23 Mar 2015 · doi:10.1111/cobi.12478

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sharks-and-rays marine-protected-areas conservation

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 · doi:10.3354/meps10966

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sharks-and-rays seasonality

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

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conservation biodiversity

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

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sharks-and-rays population-model conservation

2013

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

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conservation population-model

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

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conservation fisheries