Mark H. Carr

12.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
79 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Mark H. Carr is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark H. Carr has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 33 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mark H. Carr's work include Marine and fisheries research (42 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (40 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers). Mark H. Carr is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (42 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (40 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers). Mark H. Carr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Mark H. Carr's co-authors include Mark A. Hixon, Jane Lubchenco, Gary W. Allison, Brian A. Grantham, Alan L. Shanks, Steven D. Gaines, Bruce A. Menge, Stephen R. Palumbi, M. Julian Caley and Geoffrey P. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Mark H. Carr

79 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

RECRUITMENT AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF OPEN MARINE POPULATIONS

1996 1.1k citations Mark H. Carr, Bruce A. Menge et al. profile →
PROPAGULE DISPERSAL DISTANCE AND THE SIZE AND SPACING OF MARINE RESERVES

2003 713 citations Mark H. Carr et al. profile →
Designing marine reserve networks for both conservation and fisheries management

2010 663 citations Mark H. Carr, Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
MARINE RESERVES ARE NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT FOR MARINE CONSERVATION

1998 549 citations Jane Lubchenco, Mark H. Carr et al. profile →
Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors

2020 258 citations Mark H. Carr, J. Wilson White et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark H. Carr United States	38	6.0k	5.0k	2.7k	1.7k	1.1k	79	7.8k
Alan M. Friedlander United States	48	7.0k 1.2×	5.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	926 0.9×	200	8.7k
Michael X. Kirby United States	14	5.6k 0.9×	5.0k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	910 0.9×	19	8.5k
Garry R. Russ Australia	50	7.0k 1.2×	6.4k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	120	8.1k
Nick C. Davidson Australia	30	4.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	806 0.8×	53	6.6k
Philippe Cury France	37	4.3k 0.7×	5.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	548 0.5×	109	7.4k
Andrew S. Hoey Australia	50	8.7k 1.4×	6.5k 1.3×	4.0k 1.5×	2.5k 1.5×	553 0.5×	182	10.3k
Bruce J. Bourque United States	9	6.3k 1.0×	4.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	16	9.2k
John K. Pinnegar United Kingdom	48	5.7k 0.9×	5.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	599 0.6×	121	8.2k
Sarah E. Lester United States	36	3.5k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	991 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	86	5.8k
Hugh Sweatman Australia	39	6.0k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	433 0.4×	76	6.8k

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Giraldo‐Ospina, Anita, Tom W. Bell, Mark H. Carr, & Jennifer E. Caselle. (2025). A site selection decision framework for effective kelp restoration. Biological Conservation. 302. 110980–110980. 1 indexed citations

Fiechter, Jérôme, et al.. (2023). Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish. Ecological Modelling. 488. 110575–110575. 1 indexed citations

Free, Christopher M., Julien Brun, Clarissa R. Anderson, et al.. (2023). A marine protected area network does not confer community structure resilience to a marine heatwave across coastal ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 29(19). 5634–5651. 24 indexed citations

McPherson, Meredith L., Henry F. Houskeeper, Tom W. Bell, et al.. (2021). Large-scale shift in the structure of a kelp forest ecosystem co-occurs with an epizootic and marine heatwave. Communications Biology. 4(1). 298–298. 116 indexed citations

Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Fiorenza Micheli, C. Brock Woodson, et al.. (2020). Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6457–6473. 85 indexed citations

White, J. Wilson, Mark H. Carr, Jennifer E. Caselle, et al.. (2019). Connectivity, Dispersal, and Recruitment: Connecting Benthic Communities and the Coastal Ocean. Oceanography. 32(3). 50–59. 45 indexed citations

Menge, Bruce A., Jennifer E. Caselle, Sarah A. Gravem, et al.. (2019). Integrating Coastal Oceanic and Benthic Ecological Approaches for Understanding Large-Scale Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics. Oceanography. 32(3). 38–49. 14 indexed citations

Menge, Bruce A., Jennifer E. Caselle, John A. Barth, et al.. (2019). Community Responses to Climate-Related Variability and Disease: The Critical Importance of Long-Term Research. Oceanography. 32(3). 72–81. 6 indexed citations

Young, Mary & Mark H. Carr. (2015). Application of species distribution models to explain and predict the distribution, abundance and assemblage structure of nearshore temperate reef fishes. Diversity and Distributions. 21(12). 1428–1440. 48 indexed citations

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Cole, Jennifer, Elena M. Finkbeiner, Elodie Le Cornu, et al.. (2015). Managing Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries for Adaptive Capacity: Insights from Dynamic Social-Ecological Drivers of Change in Monterey Bay. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0118992–e0118992. 57 indexed citations

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Young, Mary & Mark H. Carr. (2015). Assessment of Habitat Representation across a Network of Marine Protected Areas with Implications for the Spatial Design of Monitoring. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0116200–e0116200. 19 indexed citations

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Botsford, Louis W., J. Wilson White, Mark H. Carr, & Jennifer E. Caselle. (2014). Marine Protected Area Networks in California, USA. Advances in marine biology. 69. 205–251. 37 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Márk Novák, Mark H. Carr, et al.. (2014). An Online Database for Informing Ecological Network Models: http://kelpforest.ucsc.edu. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109356–e109356. 13 indexed citations

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Grorud‐Colvert, Kirsten, Joachim Claudet, Brian N. Tissot, et al.. (2014). Marine Protected Area Networks: Assessing Whether the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e102298–e102298. 84 indexed citations

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Reed, Daniel C., Andrew Rassweiler, Mark H. Carr, et al.. (2011). Wave disturbance overwhelms top-down and bottom-up control of primary production in California kelp forests. Ecology. 92(11). 2108–2116. 147 indexed citations

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Starr, Richard M., et al.. (2010). Complementary Sampling Methods to Inform Ecosystem-Based Management of Nearshore Fisheries. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 2(1). 159–179. 14 indexed citations

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Anderson, Todd W., et al.. (2002). Current velocity and catch efficiency in sampling settlement-stage larvae of coral-reef fishes. Scientific Repository (Petra Christian University). 12 indexed citations

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Carr, Mark H., et al.. (1998). Issues Relevant to the Design of Marine Reserves. 261–261. 1 indexed citations

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Runham, N. W., et al.. (1997). Hole drilling in crab and gastropod shells by Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck, 1798). Scientia Marina. 61(2). 67–76. 21 indexed citations

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Carr, Mark H.. (1987). Patterns : process and change in human geography. 3 indexed citations

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