Paul M. South

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Paul M. South is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul M. South has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecology, 26 papers in Oceanography and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Paul M. South's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (21 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (18 papers). Paul M. South is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (21 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (18 papers). Paul M. South collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Paul M. South's co-authors include Mads S. Thomsen, David R. Schiel, Oliver Floerl, Andrew Jeffs, Leigh W. Tait, Tommaso Alestra, Stacie A. Lilley, Luca Mondardini, Shawn Gerrity and Natalí J. Delorme and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Environmental Pollution and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

In The Last Decade

Paul M. South

40 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave

2019 223 citations Mads S. Thomsen, Tommaso Alestra et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul M. South New Zealand	20	693	637	538	84	81	41	1.1k
S. Kaehler South Africa	19	592 0.9×	930 1.5×	630 1.2×	47 0.6×	64 0.8×	28	1.2k
Christian Pansch Germany	19	1.2k 1.7×	684 1.1×	896 1.7×	136 1.6×	45 0.6×	46	1.4k
Cynthia D. Trowbridge United States	19	1.1k 1.5×	574 0.9×	478 0.9×	93 1.1×	146 1.8×	63	1.3k
Per Dolmer Denmark	21	696 1.0×	566 0.9×	1.0k 1.9×	113 1.3×	33 0.4×	49	1.3k
Rosa M. Viejo Spain	21	1.1k 1.6×	687 1.1×	337 0.6×	32 0.4×	96 1.2×	41	1.3k
Steven S. Rumrill United States	11	650 0.9×	472 0.7×	701 1.3×	214 2.5×	51 0.6×	19	1.1k
DR Schiel New Zealand	20	621 0.9×	587 0.9×	442 0.8×	31 0.4×	38 0.5×	27	979
María Luz Piriz Argentina	9	575 0.8×	442 0.7×	445 0.8×	88 1.0×	48 0.6×	12	887
Gustavo M. Martins Portugal	19	535 0.8×	482 0.8×	360 0.7×	84 1.0×	31 0.4×	52	889
Helena Matthews-Cascón Brazil	14	294 0.4×	373 0.6×	294 0.5×	102 1.2×	47 0.6×	75	691

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul M. South

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Clark, D. E., et al.. (2025). Experimental assessment of growing substrates for the early life stages of five large brown seaweeds. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(3). 615–636. 1 indexed citations

Hall, A., et al.. (2025). The effects of water motion on fragmentation of Asparagopsis armata. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(3). 597–614. 3 indexed citations

Vignier, Julien, Olivier Champeau, Javier Atalah, et al.. (2025). Land-derived metals impact the survival and settlement of larval mussels. Environmental Pollution. 367. 125675–125675. 2 indexed citations

South, Paul M., et al.. (2024). Impacts of seeding density on the abundance and size of juvenile mussels and biofouling accumulation in Greenshell™ mussel aquaculture. Aquaculture. 592. 741177–741177.

South, Paul M., et al.. (2024). Intrapopulation variation in reproduction of Lessonia variegata J. Agardh. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(3). 537–552. 2 indexed citations

Thomsen, Mads S., Peter A. Stæhr, & Paul M. South. (2024). Fabulous but Forgotten Fucoid Forests. Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). e70491–e70491. 6 indexed citations

Delorme, Natalí J., et al.. (2024). Oxidative Damage and Antioxidants as Markers for the Selection of Emersion Hardening Treatments in GreenshellTM Mussel Juveniles (Perna canaliculus). Antioxidants. 13(2). 198–198. 3 indexed citations

Delorme, Natalí J., Nick King, Paul M. South, et al.. (2024). Genetics and ontogeny are key factors influencing thermal resilience in a culturally and economically important bivalve. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19130–19130. 7 indexed citations

Delorme, Natalí J., et al.. (2023). Impacts of seeding density on the oxidative stress response of the Greenshell™ mussel, Perna canaliculus. Aquaculture International. 31(4). 2127–2143. 5 indexed citations

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Hillman, Jenny R., et al.. (2023). Bottlenecks and barriers: Patterns of abundance in early mussel life stages reveal a potential obstacle to reef recovery. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 33(8). 810–821. 6 indexed citations

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South, Paul M., Oliver Floerl, & Andrew Jeffs. (2021). Immersion can trigger detachment of juvenile mussels. Aquaculture. 538. 736548–736548. 10 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Mads S., et al.. (2020). Earthquake-driven destruction of an intertidal habitat cascade. Aquatic Botany. 164. 103217–103217. 12 indexed citations

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Zeldis, John, et al.. (2019). Trophic Indicators of Ecological Resilience in a Tidal Lagoon Estuary Following Wastewater Diversion and Earthquake Disturbance. Estuaries and Coasts. 43(2). 223–239. 9 indexed citations

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South, Paul M., Oliver Floerl, Barrie M. Forrest, & Mads S. Thomsen. (2017). A review of three decades of research on the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida in Australasia: An assessment of its success, impacts and status as one of the world's worst invaders. Marine Environmental Research. 131. 243–257. 70 indexed citations

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Schiel, DR, et al.. (2017). Ecological tipping points for an invasive kelp in rocky reef algal communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 587. 93–104. 15 indexed citations

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Schiel, DR, et al.. (2016). Effects of the MV Rena oil spill on intertidal rocky reefs in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 50(1). 70–86. 2 indexed citations

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Schiel, DR, et al.. (2016). Decadal changes in sea surface temperature, wave forces and intertidal structure in New Zealand. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 548. 77–95. 26 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Mads S., Thomas Wernberg, Paul M. South, & David R. Schiel. (2016). To include or not to include (the invader in community analyses)? That is the question. Biological Invasions. 18(6). 1515–1521. 35 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Mads S., et al.. (2015). A host-specific habitat former controls biodiversity across ecological transitions in a rocky intertidal facilitation cascade. Marine and Freshwater Research. 67(1). 144–152. 23 indexed citations

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Tait, Leigh W., Paul M. South, Stacie A. Lilley, Mads S. Thomsen, & David R. Schiel. (2015). Assemblage and understory carbon production of native and invasive canopy-forming macroalgae. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 469. 10–17. 23 indexed citations

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