Recent Publications

Agnew-Camiener, M. Victoria, Morgan E. Eisenlord, Carolyn S. Friedman, Harold J. Schreier, and Colleen A. Burge. 2025. “Pathogenicity and Phylogeny of Labyrinthula Spp. Isolated in Washington and Oregon, USA.” Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 72 (1): e13073. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13073. 

Aoki, Lillian R., Carmen J. Ritter, Deanna S. Beatty, Lia K. Domke, Ginny L. Eckert, Olivia J. Graham, Carla P. Gomes, Collin Gross, Timothy L. Hawthorne, Eliza Heery, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Kevin Hovel, Karl Koehler, Zachary L. Monteith, Ryan S. Mueller, et al. 2025. “Seagrass Wasting Disease Prevalence and Lesion Area Increase with Invertebrate Grazing across the Northeastern Pacific.” Ecology 106 (1): e4532. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4532. 

Baerwald, Melinda R., Emily C. Funk, Alisha M. Goodbla, Matthew A. Campbell, Tasha Thompson, Mariah H. Meek, and Andrea D. Schreier. 2025. “Rapid CRISPR-Cas13a Genetic Identification Enables New Opportunities for Listed Chinook Salmon Management.” Molecular Ecology Resources 25 (5): e13777. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13777. 

Balstad, Laurinne J., Sean C. Godwin, Martin Krkošek, Mark A. Lewis, and Marissa L. Baskett. 2025. “Threshold-Based Disease Treatment Approach Modulates Economic, Conservation and Evolutionary Trade-Offs in Sea Louse-Salmon Aquaculture System.” Theoretical Ecology 18 (1): 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-025-00617-8. 

Brown, Anya L., Paul Carl Sikkel, Jeanne Bloomberg, Gina Carole Hendrick, Matthew David Nicholson, Marta Soares, Raquel Xavier, and Amy Apprill. 2025. “Context-Dependent Effects of a Caribbean Cleaner Goby on Coral Reef Microbial Communities.” Marine Ecology Progress Series 761 (May): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14851. 

Brownstein, Chase D., Richard C. Harrington, Laura R. V. Alencar, David R. Bellwood, John H. Choat, Luiz A. Rocha, Peter C. Wainwright, Jose Tavera, Edward D. Burress, Martha M. Muñoz, Peter F. Cowman, and Thomas J. Near. 2025. “Phylogenomics Establishes an Early Miocene Reconstruction of Reef Vertebrate Diversity.” Science Advances 11 (19): eadu6149. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149. 

Chen, Jitao, Shihan Li, Shuang Zhang, Terry Isson, Tais W. Dahl, Noah J. Planavsky, Feifei Zhang, Xiang-dong Wang, Shu-zhong Shen, and Isabel P. Montañez. 2025. “Repeated Occurrences of Marine Anoxia under High Atmospheric O2 and Icehouse Conditions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (26): e2420505122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420505122. 

Chen, Pin-Yuan, Xiaoli Dong, John Durand, and Hsiao-Wei Yuan. 2025. “Impact of Emergent Macrophyte Mowing on an Aquatic Insect Community in Urban Ponds: A Case Study in an Artificial Wetland in Southeast Asia.” Wetlands 45 (6): 73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-025-01954-4. 

Collins, James R., Mattias R. Cape, Robert E. Boenish, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Scott C. Doney, Rod Fujita, Steven D. Gaines, Rebecca L. Gruby, Di Jin, Heather H. Kim, Kristin M. Kleisner, Gaël Mariani, Lisa A. Moore, Andrew J. Pershing, Douglas N. Rader, et al. 2025. “The Biogeochemistry of Natural Climate Solutions Based on Fish, Fisheries, and Marine Mammals: A Review of Current Evidence, Research Needs, and Critical Assessment of Readiness.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39 (7): e2024GB008393. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008393. 

Cominassi, Louise, Amelie Segarra, Andrea Chandler, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Katie Knaub, Kara E. Huff Hartz, Florian Mauduit, Nann Fangue, Gregory W. Whitledge, Michael J. Lydy, and Richard E. Connon. 2025. “Sublethal Exposures to Bifenthrin Impact Stress Responses and Behavior of Juvenile Chinook Salmon.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 44 (4): 973–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf029. 

Darnaude, Audrey M., Maria Beger, Andreu Blanco, Federica Costantini, David Goldsborough, Manuel Hidalgo, Lucía López-López, Anna M. Sturrock, Susanne E. Tanner, and Yael Teff Seker. 2025. Connectivity, at Sea and at the Land-Sea Interface: Unveiling the Overlooked Role of Marine Biodiversity in Biosphere Functioning. Copernicus Meetings. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/OOS2025/OOS2025-190.html. 

Frawley, Timothy, Mikaela Provost, Lyall Bellquist, Noah Ben-Aderet, Hannah Blondin, Stephanie Brodie, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Michael Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Huff McGonigal, and Kirsten Ramey. 2025. “A Collaborative Climate Vulnerability Assessment of California Marine Fishery Species.” PLOS Climate 4 (2): e0000574. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000574. 

Group, Pacific Highs Working, Elizabeth M. Griffith, and Thomas Westerhold. 2025. “Pacific Highs: A Treasure Trove of Past Warm Climate Archives.” Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 40 (6): e2025PA005133. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005133. 

Halloran, Paul R., Thomas G. Bell, William J. Burt, Sophie N. Chu, Sophie Gill, Cameron Henderson, David T. Ho, Vassilis Kitidis, Erika La Plante, Monica Larrazabal, Socratis Loucaides, Christopher R. Pearce, Theresa Redding, Phil Renforth, Fran Taylor, Katherine Toome, Riccardo Torres, and Andrew Watson. 2025. “Seawater Carbonate Chemistry Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: Towards Commonly Agreed Principles for Carbon Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.” Frontiers in Climate 7 (February). https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1487138. 

Harwell, Todd A., Ryan M. Meyer, and Heidi L. Ballard. 2025. “How Establishing a Marine Protected Area Network Has Shaped Community and Citizen Science along California’s Coast.” Frontiers in Marine Science 12 (May). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1548864. 

Huff Hartz, Kara E., Mia Arkles, Katie J. Knaub, Shane D. Power, Giovanni S. Molinari, S. D. M. Chinthaka, Gregory Whitledge, Amelie Segarra, Richard E. Connon, Shawn Acuña, and Michael J. Lydy. 2025. “Using a Critical Body Residue Approach to Assess the Acute Toxicity of a Pesticide Mixture to Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha).” Environmental Pollution 382 (October): 126709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126709. 

Hughes, Chelsea, Elizabeth A Mojica, Dietmar Kültz, and Jason E Podrabsky. 2025. “Global Maintenance of Histone Post-Translational Modifications during the Transition into Anoxia in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus Limnaeus.” Environmental Epigenetics, May 23, dvaf015. https://doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvaf015. 

Kardish, Melissa R., and John J. Stachowicz. 2025. “More Than a Stick in the Mud: Eelgrass Leaf and Root Bacterial Communities Are Distinct From Those on Physical Mimics.” Environmental Microbiology Reports 17 (3): e70086. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70086. 

Khojasteh, Danial, Shivanesh Rao, Sarah McSweeney, Raimundo Ibaceta, Robert J. Nicholls, Jon French, William Glamore, John L. Largier, Janine Adams, Michael G. Hughes, Michael Barry, Hannah E. Power, Jiabi Du, Tobias A. Tucker, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Patricio A. Catalan, and David Hanslow. 2025. “Intermittent Estuaries Deserve Global Attention as Vulnerable and Vital Ecosystems.” Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1): 443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02428-5. 

Lewis, Levi, Malte Willmes, Christian Denney, Leticia Cavole, Wilson Xieu, Rachel Fichman, Tien-Chieh Hung, Luke Ellison, Troy Stevenson, Andrew Schultz, Bruce Hammock, Swee Teh, and James Hobbs. 2025. “Validating Estuarine Movements from Otoliths for an Imperiled Fish.” Aquatic Biology 34 (July): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00773. 

Longman, Emily K., and Eric Sanford. 2025b. “Eco-Evolutionary Effects of Predatory Drilling Snails on Rocky Shores.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 106 (2): 1–5. ​​https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2221 

Longman, Emily K., and Eric Sanford. 2025c. “Biogeographic Variation in Mussel Shell Thickness and Drilling Predation on Rocky Shores.” Oecologia 207 (8): 126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05760-x. 

Mantua, Nathan J., Heather Bell, Anne E. Todgham, Miles E. Daniels, Jacques Rinchard, Jarrod M. Ludwig, John C. Field, Steven T. Lindley, Freya E. Rowland, Catherine A. Richter, David Walters, Bruce Finney, Haskell Anne R. Distajo, Donald Tillitt, Dale C. Honeyfield, et al. 2025. “Widespread Thiamine Deficiency in California Salmon Linked to an Anchovy-Dominated Marine Prey Base.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (26): e2426011122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426011122. 

McInturf, A. G., M. Cantor, I. A. Bouyoucos, T. K. Chapple, S. F. Debaere, K. Eustache, J. Mourier, S. Planes, J. A. Sulikowski, K. W. Zillig, N. A. Fangue, and J. L. Rummer. 2025. “Catch Data Can Unravel Elasmobranch Aggregation Dynamics and Group Behaviours.” Ecology and Evolution 15 (4): e71107. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71107. 

Mihalitsis, Michalis, Denise Yamhure-Ramirez, Maelan H. Beil, HoWan Chan, Nathan J. Cole, Ava Luenenborg, Isabella Paglione, Hallee Petri, Nicole C. Shum, Dylan K. Wainwright, Bryson Zheng, and Peter C. Wainwright. 2025. “Lateral Jaw Motion in Fish Expands the Functional Repertoire of Vertebrates and Underpins the Success of a Dominant Herbivore Lineage.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (19): e2418982122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418982122. 

Navarra, Giangiacomo, Curtis Anthony Deutsch, Charlotte Merchant, Mariana C. A. Clare, and Maike Sonnewald. n.d. A Bayesian Neural Network Approach to Study Dissolved Oxygen in Southern Ocean Water Masses. Accessed July 24, 2025. https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.173655319.94315054?commit=29be420b5c388c7b08c547cccb6ad9c4d38cbdb8. 

Park, Jane, Charles Brown, Chelsea Hess, Madison Armstrong, David M. Rocke, Fernando Galvez, and Andrew Whitehead. 2025. “Multiple Stressors in the Anthropocene: Urban Evolutionary History Modifies Sensitivity to the Toxic Effects of Crude Oil Exposure in Killifish.” Evolutionary Applications 18 (5): e70112. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70112. 

Peoples, Nick, Michalis Mihalitsis, and Peter C. Wainwright. 2025. “Incompatibility between Two Major Innovations Shaped the Diversification of Fish Feeding Mechanisms.” PLOS Biology 23 (6): e3003225. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003225. 

Piñeiro-Corbeira, Cristina, Johanna Zimmerhackel, Rodolfo Barreiro, Scott Bennett, Michael Burton, Aaron M. Eger, João N. Franco, Camille Lavoie, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Samuel Starko, Mads Thomsen, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, and Thomas Wernberg. 2025. “The Habitat Dependency Index: A New Tool for Quantifying Species-Habitat Relationships.” Ecological Indicators 175 (June): 113612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113612. 

Roberts-Hugghis, Alexus S, Christopher M Martinez, Katherine A Corn, and Peter C Wainwright. 2025. “A Classic Key Innovation Constrains Oral Jaw Functional Diversification in Fishes.” Evolution Letters, October 8, qrae046. https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae046. 

Schenck, F. R., J. K. Baum, K. E. Boyer, J. E. Duffy, F. J. Fodrie, J. Gaeckle, T. C. Hanley, C. M. Hereu, K. A. Hovel, P. Jorgensen, D. L. Martin, N. E. O’Connor, B. J. Peterson, J. J. Stachowicz, and A. R. Hughes. 2025. “Host Traits and Temperature Predict Biogeographical Variation in Seagrass Disease Prevalence.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2040): 20243055. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.3055. 

Smits, Adrianne P., John R. Durand, Brian O. Williamshen, Kim Luke, and Teejay O’Rear. 2025. “Drought and Aquatic Vegetation Alter Water Clarity and Fish Assemblages in Freshwater Tidal Ecosystems of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.” Estuaries and Coasts 48 (5): 120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01556-7. 

Speiser, William H., John L. Largier, and Daniel Buscombe. n.d. Cross-Shore Diffusion of Turbid Waters by Wave-Driven Nearshore Flows: Remote Sensing of Rip Currents off Rocky and Sandy Shores. Accessed July 24, 2025. https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.174708167.75888766?commit=00c87b4018739c3dec4aa945051b13090c6b63e2. 

Tallman, Rachelle L., Alexandra N. Wampler, Gabriel P. Singer, Carson A. Jeffres, Dennis E. Cocherell, Jordan Colby, Nann A. Fangue, Robert A. Lusardi, and Andrew L. Rypel. 2025. “Does Method of Field Preparation Affect Survival and Growth of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in Agricultural Floodplains?” River Research and Applications 41 (4): 836–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4399. 

Tracy, Erin E., Evelyn Habit, Konrad Górski, Nann A. Fangue, and Andrew L. Rypel. 2025. “Assessing Patterns and Risk to Chilean Freshwater Fish Distributions Using Multi-Species Occupancy Models.” Ecology and Evolution 15 (7): e71719. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71719. 

Walter, Jonathan A., Levi Lewis, James Hobbs, and Andrew Rypel. 2025. Quantifying Changes in Fish Population Stability Using Statistical Early Warnings of Regime Shifts. February 24. https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8617/. 

White, J. Wilson, Jess K. Hopf, D. Patrick Kilduff, Alan Hastings, and Louis W. Botsford. 2025. “The Roles of Population Dynamics Theory in the Design and Assessment of Marine Reserves.” Theoretical Ecology 18 (1): 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-025-00610-1. 

Yamane, Lauren, Katherine A. Kaplan, J. Wilson White, Jennifer E. Caselle, Daniel Malone, Mark H. Carr, Marissa L. Baskett, Alan Hastings, and Louis W. Botsford. 2025. “Quantifying Local Fishing Mortality Rates to Inform Monitoring Design for Marine Reserves.” Theoretical Ecology 18 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-025-00616-9. 

Zabinski, Karolina L., Claire E. Murphy, Katherine DuBois, and John J. Stachowicz. 2025. “Plasticity and Adaptation of Northern California Eelgrass in Response to Sediment Conditions.” Estuaries and Coasts 48 (4): 116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01549-6. 

Zhong, Yi, Yanguang Liu, Jimin Yu, Chijun Sun, Qin Wen, Sev Kender, Keiji Horikawa, Xu Zhang, Michael E. Weber, Siqi Li, Hu Yang, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, André Bahr, Zhaoyang Song, George E. A. Swann, et al. 2025. “Bipolar Seesaw of Atmospheric CO2 Between North Pacific and Southern Ocean at Millennial Timescales.” Geophysical Research Letters 52 (13): e2025GL115758. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115758.