Rod M. Connolly

21.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
300 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Rod M. Connolly is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Rod M. Connolly has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 247 papers in Ecology, 142 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 130 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Rod M. Connolly's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (117 papers), Marine and fisheries research (115 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (99 papers). Rod M. Connolly is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (117 papers), Marine and fisheries research (115 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (99 papers). Rod M. Connolly collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Rod M. Connolly's co-authors include Thomas A. Schlacher, Andrew D. Olds, Shing Yip Lee, Marcus Sheaves, Christopher J. Brown, Kylie A. Pitt, Ivan Nagelkerken, Ronald J. Baker, Michaela A. Guest and Andrew J. Melville and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rod M. Connolly

294 papers receiving 12.9k 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.

Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses

2017 509 citations Trisha B. Atwood, Rod M. Connolly et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The seascape nursery: a novel spatial approach to identify and manage nurseries for coastal marine fauna

2013 386 citations Rod M. Connolly et al. Fish and Fisheries profile →
True Value of Estuarine and Coastal Nurseries for Fish: Incorporating Complexity and Dynamics

2014 346 citations Rod M. Connolly et al. profile →
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions

2021 283 citations Christopher J. Brown, Rod M. Connolly et al. Global Change Biology profile →
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030—What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?

2020 250 citations Shing Yip Lee, Catherine E. Lovelock et al. Frontiers in Marine Science profile →
Global trends in mangrove forest fragmentation

2020 232 citations Rod M. Connolly, María Fernanda Adame et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rod M. Connolly Australia	62	10.4k	5.9k	4.8k	1.9k	1.2k	300	13.4k
Katharina Fabricius Australia	65	14.4k 1.4×	8.8k 1.5×	9.5k 2.0×	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	178	18.4k
Carrie V. Kappel United States	38	9.8k 0.9×	8.4k 1.4×	4.9k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	3.1k 2.5×	55	15.0k
Stephen J. Hawkins United Kingdom	66	9.2k 0.9×	6.2k 1.0×	9.9k 2.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	265	15.8k
Thomas A. Schlacher Australia	56	7.3k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	4.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	200	10.2k
Gary A. Kendrick Australia	63	14.4k 1.4×	4.8k 0.8×	14.1k 2.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	270	18.8k
Michael W. Beck United States	44	7.1k 0.7×	5.6k 0.9×	3.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	106	11.4k
Christopher J. Brown Australia	46	7.0k 0.7×	5.2k 0.9×	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	164	10.8k
Simon F. Thrush New Zealand	68	9.0k 0.9×	7.8k 1.3×	9.4k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	999 0.8×	310	15.0k
Mary Ruckelshaus United States	45	5.6k 0.5×	5.9k 1.0×	2.4k 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.9×	98	11.7k
Heike K. Lotze Canada	54	10.0k 1.0×	7.9k 1.3×	5.6k 1.1×	3.7k 1.9×	1.9k 1.6×	114	16.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rod M. Connolly

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tulloch, Vivitskaia, et al.. (2025). Incorporating cyclone risk in the design of marine protected and conserved areas as an ecosystem‐based adaptation approach. Conservation Biology. 39(4). e14437–e14437. 1 indexed citations

Buelow, Christina A., et al.. (2025). Characterising tropical oyster reefs: invertebrate-environment associations and a newly documented reef building species. Marine Environmental Research. 208. 107136–107136.

Macreadie, Peter I., Anirban Akhand, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett, et al.. (2025). Stabilisation and destabilisation of coastal blue carbon: The key factors. Earth-Science Reviews. 265. 105133–105133. 5 indexed citations

Rasmussen, J. B., et al.. (2024). Stuck in the mangrove mud: The risk of trace element exposure to shore crabs in restored urban mangroves. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 177064–177064. 2 indexed citations

Saunders, Megan I., Nicole Flint, Andrew D. Irving, et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers of flowering in the genus Zostera and spatio‐temporal variability of Zostera muelleri flowering in Australasia. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 34(2). 4 indexed citations

Sievers, Michael, Christopher J. Brown, Jennifer McGowan, et al.. (2023). Co-occurrence of biodiversity, carbon storage, coastal protection, and fish and invertebrate production to inform global mangrove conservation planning. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 166357–166357. 17 indexed citations

Connolly, Rod M., et al.. (2022). Revised global estimates of resilience to sea level rise for tidal marshes. Environmental Challenges. 9. 100593–100593. 11 indexed citations

Becken, Susanne, Bela Stantić, Jinyan Chen, & Rod M. Connolly. (2021). Twitter conversations reveal issue salience of aviation in the broader context of climate change. Journal of Air Transport Management. 98. 102157–102157. 12 indexed citations

Adame, María Fernanda, Rod M. Connolly, Mischa P. Turschwell, et al.. (2021). Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss. Global Change Biology. 27(12). 2856–2866. 143 indexed citations

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Ditria, Ellen M., Eric L. Jinks, & Rod M. Connolly. (2021). Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow. Animal Behaviour. 177. 31–37. 15 indexed citations

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McClure, Eva C., Michael Sievers, Christopher J. Brown, et al.. (2020). Artificial Intelligence Meets Citizen Science to Supercharge Ecological Monitoring. Patterns. 1(7). 100109–100109. 66 indexed citations

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Ditria, Ellen M., Michael Sievers, Sebastian Lopez‐Marcano, Eric L. Jinks, & Rod M. Connolly. (2020). Deep learning for automated analysis of fish abundance: the benefits of training across multiple habitats. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 192(11). 698–698. 25 indexed citations

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Connolly, Rod M., Brian Fry, Damien T. Maher, et al.. (2020). Stable isotopes track the ecological and biogeochemical legacy of mass mangrove forest dieback in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Biogeosciences. 17(22). 5599–5613. 11 indexed citations

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Fry, Brian, et al.. (2019). Stable isotopes indicate ecosystem restructuring following climate‐driven mangrove dieback. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(6). 1251–1263. 15 indexed citations

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Brodersen, Kasper Elgetti, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett, Daniel A. Nielsen, et al.. (2019). Oxygen Consumption and Sulfate Reduction in Vegetated Coastal Habitats: Effects of Physical Disturbance. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 45 indexed citations

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Brown, Christopher J., et al.. (2018). The assessment of fishery status depends on fish habitats. Fish and Fisheries. 20(1). 1–14. 73 indexed citations

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Schlacher, Thomas A., Ben L. Gilby, Nick Porch, et al.. (2017). Algal subsidies enhance invertebrate prey for threatened shorebirds: A novel conservation tool on ocean beaches?. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 191. 28–38. 39 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Xiaoguang, Shing Yip Lee, & Rod M. Connolly. (2017). Using isotope labeling to partition sources of CO₂ efflux in newly established mangrove seedlings. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(2). 731–740. 12 indexed citations

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Atwood, Trisha B., Rod M. Connolly, Hanan Almahasheer, et al.. (2017). Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses. Nature Climate Change. 7(7). 523–528. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stevens, Tim & Rod M. Connolly. (2005). Local-scale mapping of benthic habitats to assess representation in a marine protected area. Marine and Freshwater Research. 56(1). 111–123. 51 indexed citations

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