Stuart A. Sandin

16.7k citations
116 papers · 7.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.1%
    • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
    • Marine animal studies overview
  • Oceanography top 0.5%
    • Marine and coastal plant biology
    • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Papers in

  • Ecology 97
    • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 87
    • Marine animal studies overview 17
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 9
    • Isotope Analysis in Ecology 7
  • Global and Planetary Change 60
    • Marine and fisheries research 57
Co-authors
Jennifer E. Smith (32 shared papers)Enric Sala (14 shared papers)Mark J. A. Vermeij (15 shared papers)Forest Rohwer (21 shared papers)Stephen W. Pacala (4 shared papers)Brian Zgliczynski (29 shared papers)Gareth J. Williams (11 shared papers)Mark A. Hixon (2 shared papers)
Journals
Marine Ecology Progress Series (12 papers)Ecology (11 papers)PLoS ONE (10 papers)Coral Reefs (7 papers)PeerJ (5 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesCuracaoNetherlands

In The Last Decade

Stuart A. Sandin

114 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Stuart A. Sandin's Hit Papers

Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance 2008 · 546 citations
5460+6+12Years since publication200400600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2008 Nature
  2. 2008 PLoS ONE

Peers

Stuart A. Sandin
Comparison fields: 5 of 146
  • Ecology 5.5k
  • Oceanography 2.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 3.5k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 1.5k
  • Aquatic Science 284
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Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands
PLoS ONE ·Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Edward E. DeMartini, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Simon D. Donner, Alan M. Friedlander, Talina Konotchick, Maria Celia D. Malay, James E. Maragos, David Obura, Olga Pantos, Gustav Paulay, Morgan Richie, Forest Rohwer, Robert E. Schroeder, Sheila Walsh, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Nancy­ Knowlton­, Enric Sala
Hit paper breakdown →		2008676
2
Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance
Nature ·Christian N. K. Anderson, Chih‐hao Hsieh, Stuart A. Sandin, Roger P. Hewitt, Anne B. Hollowed, J. R. Beddington, Robert M. May, George Sugihara
Hit paper breakdown →		2008546
3
Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands
PLoS ONE ·Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Olga Pantos, Steven Smriga, Robert A. Edwards, Florent Angly, Linda Wegley, Mark Hatay, Dana Hall, Elysa Brown, Matthew Haynes, Lutz Krause, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Bette L. Willis, Farooq Azam, Nancy­ Knowlton­, Forest Rohwer
2008327
4
POPULATION REGULATION: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF OPEN VS. CLOSED SYSTEMS
Ecology ·Mark A. Hixon, Stephen W. Pacala, Stuart A. Sandin
2002316
5
A cross‐system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass
Ecology Letters ·Daniel S. Gruner, Jennifer E. Smith, Eric W. Seabloom, Stuart A. Sandin, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Helmut Hillebrand, W. Stanley Harpole, James J. Elser, Elsa E. Cleland, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Elizabeth T. Borer, Benjamin M. Bolker
2008301
6
Global microbialization of coral reefs
Nature Microbiology ·Andreas F. Haas, Mohamed Farook Mohamed Fairoz, Linda Wegley Kelly, Craig E. Nelson, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards, Steve Giles, Mark Hatay, Nao Hisakawa, Ben Knowles, Yan Wei Lim, Heather Maughan, Olga Pantos, Ty N. F. Roach, Savannah E. Sanchez, Cynthia B. Silveira, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Forest Rohwer
2016211
7
Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Jennifer E. Smith, Rusty Brainard, Amanda Carter, Saray Grillo, Clinton B. Edwards, Jill Harris, Levi S. Lewis, David Obura, Forest Rohwer, Enric Sala, Peter S. Vroom, Stuart A. Sandin
2016207
8
DENSITY-DEPENDENT SETTLEMENT AND MORTALITY STRUCTURE THE EARLIEST LIFE PHASES OF A CORAL POPULATION
Ecology ·Mark J. A. Vermeij, Stuart A. Sandin
2008197
9
Global assessment of the status of coral reef herbivorous fishes: evidence for fishing effects
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Clinton B. Edwards, Alan M. Friedlander, A. G. Green, Marah J. Hardt, Enric Sala, Hugh Sweatman, Ivor D. Williams, BJ Zgliczynski, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith
2013191
10
Differences in fish-assemblage structure between fished and unfished atolls in the northern Line Islands, central Pacific
Marine Ecology Progress Series ·EE DeMartini, AM Friedlander, Stuart A. Sandin, Enric Sala
2008177
11
Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Linda Wegley Kelly, Gareth J. Williams, Katie L. Barott, Craig A. Carlson, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards, Andreas F. Haas, Matthew Haynes, Yan Wei Lim, Tracey Somera, Craig E. Nelson, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Merry Youle, Forest Rohwer
2014172
12
Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems
Ecology Letters ·Helmut Hillebrand, Elizabeth T. Borer, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Bradley J. Cardinale, Just Cebrián, Elsa E. Cleland, James J. Elser, Daniel S. Gruner, W. Stanley Harpole, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Stuart A. Sandin, Eric W. Seabloom, Jonathan B. Shurin, Jennifer E. Smith, Melinda D. Smith
2009130
13
Survival and settlement success of coral planulae: independent and synergistic effects of macroalgae and microbes
Oecologia ·Mark J. A. Vermeij, Jennifer E. Smith, Celia M. Smith, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Stuart A. Sandin
2008129
14
Abundance, diversity, and activity of microbial assemblages associated with coral reef fish guts and feces
FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Steven Smriga, Stuart A. Sandin, Farooq Azam
2010127
15
Benthic communities at two remote Pacific coral reefs: effects of reef habitat, depth, and wave energy gradients on spatial patterns
PeerJ ·Gareth J. Williams, Jennifer E. Smith, Eric Conklin, Jamison M. Gove, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin
2013127
16
Pathologies and mortality rates caused by organic carbon and nutrient stressors in three Caribbean coral species
Marine Ecology Progress Series ·NM Kuntz, David I. Kline, Stuart A. Sandin, Forest Rohwer
2005121
17
Differences in Reef Fish Assemblages between Populated and Remote Reefs Spanning Multiple Archipelagos Across the Central and Western Pacific
Journal of Marine Biology ·Ivor D. Williams, Benjamin Richards, Stuart A. Sandin, Julia K. Baum, Robert E. Schroeder, Marc O. Nadon, Brian Zgliczynski, Peter Craig, Jennifer L. McIlwain, Russell E. Brainard
2010114
18
Natural history of coral−algae competition across a gradient of human activity in the Line Islands
Marine Ecology Progress Series ·Katie L. Barott, GJ Williams, (unknown), Jill Harris, JE Smith, FL Rohwer, Stuart A. Sandin
2012102
19
Gradients in Primary Production Predict Trophic Strategies of Mixotrophic Corals across Spatial Scales
Current Biology ·Michael D. Fox, Gareth J. Williams, Maggie D. Johnson, Veronica Z. Radice, Brian Zgliczynski, Emily L. A. Kelly, Forest Rohwer, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith
201898
20
Global marine pollutants inhibit P-glycoprotein: Environmental levels, inhibitory effects, and cocrystal structure
Science Advances ·Sascha Nicklisch, Steven D. Rees, Aaron P. McGrath, Tufan Gökirmak, Lindsay T. Bonito, Lydia M.M. Vermeer, Cristina Cregger, Greg Loewen, Stuart A. Sandin, Geoffrey Chang, Amro Hamdoun
201697

About Stuart A. Sandin

Stuart A. Sandin is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 116 papers that have together received 7.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (87 papers), Marine and fisheries research (57 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (36 papers), Marine animal studies overview (17 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (12 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (5.5k citations), Oceanography (2.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.5k citations) and Aquatic Science (284 citations). Stuart A. Sandin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Curacao and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Jennifer E. Smith, Enric Sala, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Forest Rohwer, Stephen W. Pacala, Brian Zgliczynski, Gareth J. Williams, Mark A. Hixon, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale and Clinton B. Edwards. Their work appears in journals such as Marine Ecology Progress Series, Ecology, PLoS ONE, Coral Reefs and PeerJ.

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