Mark J. Costello

21.7k citations

232 papers · 11.6k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 54

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.2%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Ecology top 0.1%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 46
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 46
Oceanography 65
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 44
- Marine and coastal plant biology 26

Co-authors: Chhaya Chaudhary Simon Wilson Robert M. May Nigel E. Stork Zeenatul Basher Dinusha R.M. Jayathilake Hanieh Saeedi Carolyn J. Lundquist
Journals: Biological Conservation (23 papers)PeerJ (12 papers)Marine Ecology Progress Series (10 papers)Trends in Ecology & Evolution (5 papers)Oceanography (5 papers)
Partner nations: New Zealand Norway United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Mark J. Costello

227 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Global warming is causing a more pronounced dip in marine species richness around the equator 2021 · 178 citations

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.

2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021 Ecography
2021 Biological Conservation
2020 Ecological Research
2019 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2017 Current Biology
2013 Science
2010 PLoS ONE
2009 Journal of Fish Diseases
2006 Trends in Parasitology
1990 Journal of Fish Biology

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Trophic convergence of marine vertebrate communities worldwide Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Juan David González‐Trujillo, Jorge Assis, Ester Á. Serrão, Mark J. Costello, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Manuel Mendoza, Miguel B. Araújo	2025	1
2	Fungi species description rates confirm high global diversity and suggest half remain unnamed Frontiers of Biogeography ·Keiji ARIMATU, Mahajabeen Padamsee, Simon Wilson, Mark J. Costello	2024	4
3	Future trends of marine fish biomass distributions from the North Sea to the Barents Sea Nature Communications ·and Publisher, Mark J. Costello, Marta Coll, Jiarui Hao, Henning Reiss, F Stephenson	2024	15
4	Exceptional endemicity of Aotearoa New Zealand biota shows how taxa dispersal traits, but not phylogeny, correlate with global species richness Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ·Mark J. Costello	2023	4
5	Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida)—is the description rate slowing down? PeerJ ·yeh frokjh, Simon Wilson, Mark J. Costello	2023	6
6	Oceanographic connectivity explains the intra-specific diversity of mangrove forests at global scales Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lidiane Gouvêa, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Ester Á. Serrão, Miguel B. Araújo, Mark J. Costello, Minghua Zheng, Jorge Assis	2023	16
7	Climate change adaptation through an integrative lens in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ·Judy Lawrence, Anita Wreford, Paula Blackett, Zhu‐Jun Zhou, Alistair Woodward, Shaun Awatere, C. Keck, Cate Macinnis‐Ng, Susan Walker, Joanna Fountain, Mark J. Costello, Anne-Gäelle Ausseil, Michael S. Watt, S. M. Dean, Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry, Hugo Delles, Taciano L. Milfont	2023	14
8	Three decades of increasing fish biodiversity across the northeast Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·and Publisher, F Stephenson, Marta Coll, Cyndi Paramitha, Mark J. Costello	2023	26
9	Warmer temperature decreases the maximum length of six species of marine fishes, crustacean, and squid in New Zealand Environmental Biology of Fishes ·Cyndi Paramitha, and Publisher, F Stephenson, Marcus Divino de Castro, Mark J. Costello	2022	10
10	Towards a global list of accepted species III. Independence and stakeholder inclusion Organisms Diversity & Evolution ·Stijn Conix, Stephen T. Garnett, Kevin R. Thiele, Les Christidis, Peter Paul van Dijk, Olaf Bánki, Saroj Kanta Barik, John S. Buckeridge, Mark J. Costello, Donald Hobern, Paul M. Kirk, Aaron Lien, Svetlana V. Nikolaeva, Richard L. Pyle, Scott Thomson, Zhi‐Qiang Zhang, Frank E. Zachos	2021	12
11	Towards a global list of accepted species IV: Overcoming fragmentation in the governance of taxonomic lists Organisms Diversity & Evolution ·Aaron Lien, Stijn Conix, Frank E. Zachos, Les Christidis, Peter Paul van Dijk, Olaf Bánki, Saroj Kanta Barik, John S. Buckeridge, Mark J. Costello, Donald Hobern, Christine Schwarz Becker, Svetlana V. Nikolaeva, Richard L. Pyle, Kevin R. Thiele, Scott Thomson, Zhi‐Qiang Zhang, Stephen T. Garnett	2021	10
12	Not all biodiversity richspots are climate refugia Ádám T. Kocsis, T. Koletis, Mark J. Costello, Wolfgang Kiessling	2021	2
13	Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages Ecological Research ·Anne Chao, Yasuhiro Kubota, David Zelený, Chun‐Huo Chiu, Ching‐Feng Li, Buntarou Kusumoto, Moriaki Yasuhara, Simon Thorn, Chih‐Lin Wei, Mark J. Costello, Robert K. Colwell Hit paper breakdown →	2020	209
14	Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species PLoS Biology ·Stephen T. Garnett, Les Christidis, Stijn Conix, Mark J. Costello, Frank E. Zachos, Olaf Bánki, Yīmíng Bào, Saroj Kanta Barik, John S. Buckeridge, Donald Hobern, Aaron Lien, Christine Schwarz Becker, Svetlana V. Nikolaeva, Richard L. Pyle, Scott Thomson, Peter Paul van Dijk, Aruna Roopam Gupta, Zhi‐Qiang Zhang, Kevin R. Thiele	2020	66
15	Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients Nature Climate Change ·Michael T. Burrows, Amanda E. Bates, Mark J. Costello, Martin Edwards, Graham J. Edgar, Clive Fox, Benjamin S. Halpern, Jan Geert Hiddink, Malin L. Pinsky, Ryan D. Batt, Jorge García Molinos, Benjamin Payne, David S. Schoeman, Rick D. Stuart‐Smith, Elvira S. Poloczanska	2019	161
16	Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010 Global Change Biology ·Aafke M. Schipper, Jonathan Belmaker, Yahmin Yahmin, Laetitia M. Navarro, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Mark J. Costello, María Dornelas, Ruud Foppen, Joaquín Hortal, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Berta Martín‐López, Nathalie Pettorelli, Cibele Queiroz, Axel G. Rossberg, Luca Santini, Katja Schiffers, Zoran J. N. Steinmann, Piero Visconti, Carlo Rondinini, Henrique M. Pereira	2016	75
17	Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change Biological Conservation ·Luca Santini, Jonathan Belmaker, Mark J. Costello, Henrique M. Pereira, Axel G. Rossberg, Aafke M. Schipper, Silvia Ceaușu, María Dornelas, Jelle P. Hilbers, Joaquín Hortal, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Laetitia M. Navarro, Katja Schiffers, Piero Visconti, Carlo Rondinini	2016	116
18	Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct? Science ·Mark J. Costello, Robert M. May, Nigel E. Stork Hit paper breakdown →	2013	424
19	Vegetation and sediment characteristics in an expanding mangrove forest in New Zealand Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science ·Juan Yang, Jay Gao, Alan Cheung, Baolin Liu, Luitgard Schwendenmann, Mark J. Costello	2013	35
20	European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) ·Mark J. Costello, Chris S. Emblow, J. Claverie	2001	240

About Mark J. Costello

Mark J. Costello is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 232 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and fisheries research (56 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (49 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (44 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (25 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (22 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (2.0k citations), Ecology (6.9k citations), Oceanography (2.8k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.4k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (3.9k citations). Mark J. Costello has collaborated with scholars based in New Zealand, Norway and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Chhaya Chaudhary, Simon Wilson, Robert M. May, Nigel E. Stork, Zeenatul Basher, Dinusha R.M. Jayathilake, Hanieh Saeedi, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Brett Houlding and Chris S. Emblow. Their work appears in journals such as Biological Conservation, PeerJ, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Oceanography.

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