Michael T. Burrows

36.2k total citations · 22 hit papers
205 papers, 23.9k citations indexed

About

Michael T. Burrows is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael T. Burrows has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 23.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Oceanography, 96 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 86 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael T. Burrows's work include Marine and fisheries research (70 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (65 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (61 papers). Michael T. Burrows is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (70 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (65 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (61 papers). Michael T. Burrows collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Michael T. Burrows's co-authors include Pippa J. Moore, Roger M. Needham, Martı́n Abadi, D. J. Wheeler, Dan A. Smale, Thomas Wernberg, Alex Sen Gupta, Alistair J. Hobday, Stephen J. Hawkins and Elvira S. Poloczanska and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael T. Burrows

202 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

Global imprint of climate chan... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2013 1990 2016 2018 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Global imprint of climate change on marine life
    2013 1.6k citations Elvira S. Poloczanska, Christopher J. Brown et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  2. A logic of authentication
    1990 1.6k citations Michael T. Burrows, Martı́n Abadi et al. profile →
  3. A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves
    2016 1.4k citations Alistair J. Hobday, Lisa V. Alexander et al. Progress In Oceanography profile →
  4. Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century
    2018 1.4k citations Eric C. J. Oliver, Markus G. Donat et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm
    1994 1.4k citations Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  6. Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services
    2019 1.1k citations Dan A. Smale, Thomas Wernberg et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  7. Eraser
    1997 1.1k citations Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  8. The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
    2011 987 citations Michael T. Burrows, David S. Schoeman et al. Science profile →
  9. Responses of Marine Organisms to Climate Change across Oceans
    2016 678 citations Elvira S. Poloczanska, Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  10. Categorizing and Naming Marine Heatwaves
    2018 520 citations Alistair J. Hobday, Eric C. J. Oliver et al. profile →
  11. A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers
    2019 511 citations Neil J. Holbrook, Hillary A. Scannell et al. Nature Communications profile →
  12. Autonet: a high-speed, self-configuring local area network using point-to-point links
    1991 491 citations Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  13. Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity
    2015 456 citations Jorge García Molinos, Benjamin S. Halpern et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  14. Projected Marine Heatwaves in the 21st Century and the Potential for Ecological Impact
    2019 444 citations Eric C. J. Oliver, Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  15. Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem services provided by kelp forests: a northeast Atlantic perspective
    2013 391 citations Dan A. Smale, Michael T. Burrows et al. Ecology and Evolution profile →
  16. Biological Impacts of Marine Heatwaves
    2022 314 citations Kathryn E. Smith, Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
  17. Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events
    2020 299 citations Alex Sen Gupta, Mads S. Thomsen et al. profile →
  18. Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities
    2021 261 citations Kathryn E. Smith, Michael T. Burrows et al. Science profile →
  19. Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts
    2023 237 citations Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte et al. Science profile →
  20. Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests
    2022 133 citations Carlos M. Duarte, Jean‐Pierre Gattuso et al. profile →
  21. Global seaweed productivity
    2022 117 citations Albert Pessarrodona, Jorge Assis et al. Science Advances profile →
  22. Global impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal foundation species
    2024 43 citations Kathryn E. Smith, Michael T. Burrows et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Michael T. Burrows
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
  • Oceanography 9.6k
  • Ecology 9.2k
  • Global and Planetary Change 9.0k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 4.5k
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.5k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Ocean extremes as a stress test for marine ecosystems and society
2025 ·Nature Climate Change ·Kathryn E. Smith, Alex Sen Gupta, Michael T. Burrows, Karen Filbee‐Dexter, Alistair J. Hobday, Neil J. Holbrook, Neil Malan, Pippa J. Moore, Eric C. J. Oliver, Mads S. Thomsen, Thomas Wernberg, (unknown), Dan A. Smale
7
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A horizon scan for Arctic coastal biodiversity research: understanding changes requires international collaboration
2025 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Jakob Thyrring, Philippe Archambault, Michael T. Burrows, Katrin Iken, Fernando P. Lima, Joana Micael, Markus Molis, (unknown), Sergej Olenin, Paul E. Renaud, Ricardo A. Scrosati, Rui Seabra, Alexey Sukhotin, Jan Marcin Węsławski, (unknown), Mikael K. Sejr
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3
Intra‐ and Inter‐Decadal Scale Variability in Kelp Population Structure Reveal Both Stability and Decline in a Critical Foundation Species
2025 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Dan A. Smale, Nathan G. King, Albert Pessarrodona, Michael T. Burrows, Pippa J. Moore
0
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Management regime influences the recovery of subtidal kelp forests following harvesting
2025 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Alejandro Pérez‐Matus, (unknown), Catalina S. Ruz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dan A. Smale, Michael T. Burrows, Stefan Gelcich, Sylvain Faugeron, Nelson Valdivia, Pippa J. Moore
2
5
Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
2025 ·Plymouth Marine Science Electronic Archive (The Marine Biological Association (MBA), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS).) ·Thomas Wernberg, Mads S. Thomsen, Michael T. Burrows, Karen Filbee‐Dexter, Alistair J. Hobday, Neil J. Holbrook, (unknown), Pippa J. Moore, Eric C. J. Oliver, Alex Sen Gupta, Dan A. Smale, Kathryn E. Smith
6
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Environmental factors have stronger effects than biotic processes in patterns of intertidal populations along the southeast coast of Brazil
2024 ·Marine Environmental Research ·César A. M. M. Cordeiro, (unknown), Luis Giménez, Áurea Maria Ciotti, Stuart R. Jenkins, Michael T. Burrows, Gray A. Williams, Ronaldo Adriano Christofoletti
2
7
Spatiotemporal variability in the structure and diversity of understory faunal assemblages associated with the kelp Eisenia cokeri (Laminariales) in Peru
2024 ·Marine Biology ·(unknown), Dan A. Smale, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael T. Burrows, (unknown), (unknown), Nathan G. King, Á. Perea, Alejandro Pérez‐Matus, Kathryn E. Smith, Pippa J. Moore
0
8
Baseline matters: Challenges and implications of different marine heatwave baselines
2024 ·Progress In Oceanography ·Kathryn E. Smith, Alex Sen Gupta, Dillon J. Amaya, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Michael T. Burrows, Antonietta Capotondi, Karen Filbee‐Dexter, Thomas L. Frölicher, Alistair J. Hobday, Neil J. Holbrook, Neil Malan, Pippa J. Moore, Eric C. J. Oliver, (unknown), (unknown), Dan A. Smale, Mads S. Thomsen, Thomas Wernberg
19
9
Seasonal and spatial variability in rates of primary production and detritus release by intertidal stands of Laminaria digitata and Saccharina latissima on wave‐exposed shores in the northeast Atlantic
2023 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael T. Burrows, Dan A. Smale, Nessa E. O’Connor
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10
Global seaweed productivity breakdown →
2022 ·Science Advances ·Albert Pessarrodona, Jorge Assis, Karen Filbee‐Dexter, Michael T. Burrows, Jean‐Pierre Gattuso, Carlos M. Duarte, Dorte Krause‐Jensen, Pippa J. Moore, Dan A. Smale, Thomas Wernberg
117
11
Applying landscape metrics to species distribution model predictions to characterize internal range structure and associated changes
2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Amélia Curd, Mathieu Chevalier, (unknown), Aurélien Boyé, Louise B. Firth, Martin P. Marzloff, Lucy Bricheno, Michael T. Burrows, (unknown), (unknown), Andrew J. Davies, Mattias Green, Stephen J. Hawkins, Fernando P. Lima, (unknown), Nova Mieszkowska, Rui Seabra, Sophie Dubois
16
12
Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities breakdown →
2021 ·Science ·Kathryn E. Smith, Michael T. Burrows, Alistair J. Hobday, Alex Sen Gupta, Pippa J. Moore, Mads S. Thomsen, Thomas Wernberg, Dan A. Smale
261
13
Ecological performance differs between range centre and trailing edge populations of a cold-water kelp: implications for estimating net primary productivity
2020 ·Marine Biology ·Nathan G. King, Pippa J. Moore, Albert Pessarrodona, Michael T. Burrows, Joanne S. Porter, (unknown), Dan A. Smale
17
14
VoCC: An r package for calculating the velocity of climate change and related climatic metrics
2019 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Jorge García Molinos, David S. Schoeman, Christopher J. Brown, Michael T. Burrows
60
15
Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients
2019 ·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
161
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A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers breakdown →
2019 ·Nature Communications ·Neil J. Holbrook, Hillary A. Scannell, Alex Sen Gupta, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Ming Feng, Eric C. J. Oliver, Lisa V. Alexander, Michael T. Burrows, Markus G. Donat, Alistair J. Hobday, Pippa J. Moore, Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Dan A. Smale, Sandra C. Straub, Thomas Wernberg
511
17
Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services breakdown →
2019 ·Nature Climate Change ·Dan A. Smale, Thomas Wernberg, Eric C. J. Oliver, Mads S. Thomsen, Ben P. Harvey, Sandra C. Straub, Michael T. Burrows, Lisa V. Alexander, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Markus G. Donat, Ming Feng, Alistair J. Hobday, Neil J. Holbrook, Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Hillary A. Scannell, Alex Sen Gupta, Benjamin Payne, Pippa J. Moore
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Impacts and effects of ocean warming on intertidal rocky habitats.
2016 ·Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University) ·Stephen J. Hawkins, A. Evans, Louise B. Firth, Martin J. Genner, Roger J.H. Herbert, (unknown), Pippa J. Moore, Nova Mieszkowska, Richard C. Thompson, Michael T. Burrows, Phillip B. Fenberg
51
19
Moderately Hard, Memory-Bound Functions.
2003 ·Network and Distributed System Security Symposium ·Martı́n Abadi, Michael T. Burrows, Ted Wobber
56
20
Orientation and migration in the sea
1994 ·Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Trond Nordtug, Michael T. Burrows
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