Julia K. Baum

19.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
90 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Julia K. Baum is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia K. Baum has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Julia K. Baum's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (48 papers), Marine and fisheries research (48 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (25 papers). Julia K. Baum is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (48 papers), Marine and fisheries research (48 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (25 papers). Julia K. Baum collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Julia K. Baum's co-authors include Ransom A. Myers, Boris Worm, Charles H. Peterson, Sean P. Powers, Travis D. Shepherd, Shelton J. Harley, Daniel G. Kehler, Olaf P. Jensen, Jeffrey A. Hutchings and Nicholas K. Dulvy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Julia K. Baum

86 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean

2007 1.0k citations Julia K. Baum et al. Science profile →
Collapse and Conservation of Shark Populations in the Northwest Atlantic

2003 930 citations Julia K. Baum et al. Science profile →
Cascading top‐down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances

2009 701 citations Julia K. Baum et al. profile →
You can swim but you can't hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays

2008 623 citations Nicholas K. Dulvy, Julia K. Baum et al. profile →
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species

2023 112 citations Julia K. Baum, Samuel Starko et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julia K. Baum Canada	36	4.6k	4.2k	4.0k	1.2k	1.2k	90	7.7k
Myron A. Peck Germany	42	3.3k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	178	6.8k
Sergio R. Floeter Brazil	43	5.2k 1.1×	4.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	690 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	154	6.8k
Timothy E. Essington United States	45	3.8k 0.8×	4.6k 1.1×	2.7k 0.7×	634 0.5×	929 0.8×	164	6.8k
John K. Pinnegar United Kingdom	48	5.7k 1.2×	5.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.5×	566 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	121	8.2k
A.D. Rijnsdorp Netherlands	62	4.8k 1.0×	8.8k 2.1×	5.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	205	11.2k
Les Kaufman United States	42	3.9k 0.8×	2.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	135	6.3k
Jessica J. Meeuwig Australia	39	3.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	826 0.7×	579 0.5×	134	5.4k
René Galzin France	42	4.8k 1.1×	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	529 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	139	6.3k
Neil R. Loneragan Australia	47	4.5k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	187	6.9k
M. Aaron MacNeil Australia	44	5.9k 1.3×	4.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.5×	453 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	90	7.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia K. Baum

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Cunning, Ross, et al.. (2025). Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects. Ecology Letters. 28(11). e70263–e70263.

Starko, Samuel, et al.. (2025). Ecological Responses to Extreme Climatic Events: A Systematic Review of the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 42–96. 5 indexed citations

Bemmels, Jordan B., et al.. (2025). Testing the roles of local adaptation and genetic diversity to improve Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) restoration. Restoration Ecology. 33(7).

Leighton, Lindsey R., et al.. (2024). Predation scars provide a new method to distinguish native and invasive crab predation on mollusc prey. Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). e70338–e70338. 1 indexed citations

Epstein, Graham, Susanna Fuller, Paul G. Myers, et al.. (2024). Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin. Earth system science data. 16(5). 2165–2195. 5 indexed citations

Kindinger, Tye L., et al.. (2024). Herbivory through the lens of ecological processes across Pacific coral reefs. Ecosphere. 15(2). 5 indexed citations

Baum, Julia K., et al.. (2023). Transformation of coral communities subjected to an unprecedented heatwave is modulated by local disturbance. Science Advances. 9(14). eabq5615–eabq5615. 27 indexed citations

Eger, Aaron M., Rebecca J. Best, & Julia K. Baum. (2021). Dominance determines fish community biomass in a temperate seagrass ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution. 11(15). 10489–10501. 5 indexed citations

Cobb, K. M., Hussein R. Sayani, Alyssa R. Atwood, et al.. (2021). Coral Oxygen Isotopic Records Capture the 2015/2016 El Niño Event in the Central Equatorial Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 6 indexed citations

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Epstein, Hannah E., Alejandra Hernández‐Agreda, Samuel Starko, Julia K. Baum, & Rebecca Vega Thurber. (2021). Inconsistent Patterns of Microbial Diversity and Composition Between Highly Similar Sequencing Protocols: A Case Study With Reef-Building Corals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 740932–740932. 7 indexed citations

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Claar, Danielle C., Jamie M. McDevitt‐Irwin, Melissa Garren, et al.. (2020). Increased diversity and concordant shifts in community structure of coral‐associated Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria subjected to chronic human disturbance. Molecular Ecology. 29(13). 2477–2491. 29 indexed citations

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Starko, Samuel, Hannah E. Epstein, Ross Cunning, et al.. (2020). Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6097–6097. 76 indexed citations

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Claar, Danielle C., K. M. Cobb, & Julia K. Baum. (2019). In situ and remotely sensed temperature comparisons on a Central Pacific atoll. Coral Reefs. 38(6). 1343–1349. 20 indexed citations

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Burns, John H. R., et al.. (2019). Effects of bleaching-associated mass coral mortality on reef structural complexity across a gradient of local disturbance. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2512–2512. 73 indexed citations

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Claar, Danielle C., et al.. (2018). Global patterns and impacts of El Niño events on coral reefs: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0190957–e0190957. 83 indexed citations

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Neubauer, Philipp, Olaf P. Jensen, Jeffrey A. Hutchings, & Julia K. Baum. (2013). Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations. Science. 340(6130). 347–349. 200 indexed citations

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Trebilco, Rowan, Julia K. Baum, Anne K. Salomon, & Nicholas K. Dulvy. (2013). Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 28(7). 423–431. 272 indexed citations

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Nadon, Marc O., Julia K. Baum, Ivor D. Williams, et al.. (2012). Re‐Creating Missing Population Baselines for Pacific Reef Sharks. Conservation Biology. 26(3). 493–503. 111 indexed citations

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Hutchings, Jeffrey A. & Julia K. Baum. (2005). Measuring marine fish biodiversity: temporal changes in abundance, life history and demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 360(1454). 315–338. 143 indexed citations

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Baum, Julia K., Jessica J. Meeuwig, & Amanda C. J. Vincent. (2003). Bycatch of lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) in a Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery. Fishery Bulletin. 101(4). 721–731. 75 indexed citations

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