• Global warming is causing a more pronounced dip in marine species richness around the equator 

      Chaudhary, Chhaya; Richardson, Anthony J.; Schoeman, David S.; Costello, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The latitudinal gradient in species richness, with more species in the tropics and richness declining with latitude, is widely known and has been assumed to be stable over recent centuries. We analyzed data on 48,661 marine ...
    • Oceanographic connectivity explains the intra-specific diversity of mangrove forests at global scales 

      Gouvêa, Lidiane P.; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Cavanaugh, Kyle; Serrão, Ester A.; Araújo, Miguel B.; Costello, Mark John; Westergerling, E. H. Taraneh; Assis, Jorge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The distribution of mangrove intra-specific biodiversity can be structured by historical demographic processes that enhance or limit effective population sizes. Oceanographic connectivity (OC) may further structure ...
    • Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity 

      Yasuhara, Moriaki; Wei, Chih-Lin; Kucera, Michal; Costello, Mark John; Tittensor, Derek P.; Kiessling, Wolfgang; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; Tabor, Clay; Feng, Ran; Baselga, Andrés; Kretschmer, Kerstin; Kusumoto, Buntarou; Kubota, Yasuhiro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A major research question concerning global pelagic biodiversity remains unanswered: when did the apparent tropical biodiversity depression (i.e., bimodality of latitudinal diversity gradient [LDG]) begin? The bimodal LDG ...
    • A Pleistocene legacy structures variation in modern seagrass ecosystems 

      Duffy, J. Emmett; Stachowicz, John J.; Reynolds, Pamela L.; Hovel, Kevin A.; Jahnke, Marlene; Sotka, Erik E.; Boström, Christoffer; Boyer, Katharyn E.; Cusson, Mathieu; Eklöf, Johan; Engelen, Aschwin H.; Eriksson, Britas Klemens; Fodrie, F. Joel; Griffin, John N; Hereu, Clara M.; Hori, Masakazu; Hughes, A. Randall; Ivanov, Mikhail V.; Jorgensen, Pablo; Kruschel, Claudia; Lee, Kun-Seop; Lefcheck, Jonathan S.; Moksnes, Per-Olav; Nakaoka, Masahiro; O’Connor, Mary I.; O’Connor, Nessa E.; Orth, Robert J.; Peterson, Bradley J.; Reiss, Henning; Reiss, Katrin; Richardson, J. Paul; Rossi, Francesca; Ruesink, Jennifer L.; Schultz, Stewart T.; Thormar, Jonas; Tomas, Fiona; Unsworth, Richard; Voigt, Erin; Whalen, Matthew A.; Ziegler, Shelby L.; Olsen, Jeanine L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)