Thomas A. Oliver

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Oliver is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Oliver has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Oceanography and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Oliver's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (34 papers), Marine and fisheries research (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (17 papers). Thomas A. Oliver is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (34 papers), Marine and fisheries research (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (17 papers). Thomas A. Oliver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Thomas A. Oliver's co-authors include Stephen R. Palumbi, Daniel J. Barshis, Jason T. Ladner, Nikki Traylor‐Knowles, François Seneca, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip, Isabelle M. Côté, Tim R. McClanahan, Emily S. Darling and Anthony S. Amend and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Oliver

42 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change

2013 658 citations Daniel J. Barshis, Jason T. Ladner et al. profile →
Evaluating life‐history strategies of reef corals from species traits

2012 544 citations Emily S. Darling, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves

2021 173 citations Mary K. Donovan, Deron E. Burkepile et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Oliver	2.6k	1.7k	1.4k	248	231	44	3.0k
Gergely Torda	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	241 1.0×	173 0.7×	32	3.1k
Daniel J. Barshis	3.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	438 1.8×	337 1.5×	43	3.5k
Hollie M. Putnam	3.6k 1.4×	2.5k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	404 1.6×	287 1.2×	100	4.0k
Andrew A. Shantz	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	158 0.6×	99 0.4×	51	2.7k
Eugenia M. Sampayo	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	903 0.7×	222 0.9×	173 0.7×	39	2.9k
Adriana Giangrande	2.4k 0.9×	2.9k 1.7×	2.5k 1.8×	254 1.0×	226 1.0×	205	4.4k
Pim Bongaerts	3.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	333 1.3×	316 1.4×	65	4.1k
David Abrego	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	657 0.5×	269 1.1×	256 1.1×	35	2.1k
James R. Guest	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	139 0.6×	74 0.3×	82	3.3k
Tyler B. Smith	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	935 0.7×	159 0.6×	128 0.6×	94	2.4k

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Couch, Courtney S., et al.. (2023). Ecological and environmental predictors of juvenile coral density across the central and western Pacific. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 4 indexed citations

Oleson, Kirsten L.L., Megan Barnes, Whitney Goodell, et al.. (2023). Trade-offs across values in cesspool management highlight challenges to policy making. Journal of Environmental Management. 330. 116853–116853. 3 indexed citations

Evensen, Nicolas R., Thomas A. Oliver, Stephen R. Palumbi, et al.. (2023). The Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS): A low‐cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 21(7). 421–434. 27 indexed citations

Oliver, Thomas A., Hannah C. Barkley, Johanna L. K. Wren, et al.. (2023). Predicting Coral Reef Carbonate Chemistry Through Statistical Modeling: Constraining Nearshore Residence Time Around Guam. Aquatic Geochemistry. 29(2). 73–94. 1 indexed citations

Schiettekatte, Nina M. D., et al.. (2023). Geological age and environments shape reef habitat structure. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(7). 1230–1240. 5 indexed citations

Oliver, Thomas A., Courtney S. Couch, Mary K. Donovan, et al.. (2022). Coral taxonomy and local stressors drive bleaching prevalence across the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2019. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0269068–e0269068. 18 indexed citations

Barkley, Hannah C., et al.. (2022). Coral reef carbonate accretion rates track stable gradients in seawater carbonate chemistry across the U.S. Pacific Islands. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 5 indexed citations

Donovan, Mary K., Deron E. Burkepile, Tom Shlesinger, et al.. (2021). Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves. Science. 372(6545). 977–980. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

Oliver, Thomas A., et al.. (2019). A behavioral and genetic study of multiple paternity in a polygamous marine invertebrate, Octopus oliveri. PeerJ. 7. e6927–e6927. 7 indexed citations

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Oliver, Thomas A., Gang Liu, Scott F. Heron, et al.. (2019). The Rarity of Depth Refugia from Coral Bleaching Heat Stress in the Western and Central Pacific Islands. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19710–19710. 30 indexed citations

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Quinlan, Zachary A., Michael D. Fox, Nyssa J. Silbiger, et al.. (2018). Fluorescent organic exudates of corals and algae in tropical reefs are compositionally distinct and increase with nutrient enrichment. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 3(4). 331–340. 24 indexed citations

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Barkley, Hannah C., Anne L. Cohen, Nathaniel R. Mollica, et al.. (2018). Repeat bleaching of a central Pacific coral reef over the past six decades (1960–2016). Communications Biology. 1(1). 177–177. 70 indexed citations

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Robinson, James P. W., Ivor D. Williams, Lauren A. Yeager, et al.. (2018). Environmental conditions and herbivore biomass determine coral reef benthic community composition: implications for quantitative baselines. Coral Reefs. 37(4). 1157–1168. 26 indexed citations

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Huntington, Brittany, et al.. (2017). Interdisciplinary baseline ecosystem assessment surveys to Inform ecosystem-based management planning in Timor-Leste : final report.. NOAA Institutional Repository. 5 indexed citations

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Heenan, Adel, Kelvin D. Gorospe, Ivor D. Williams, et al.. (2016). Ecosystem monitoring for ecosystem‐based management: using a polycentric approach to balance information trade‐offs. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53(3). 699–704. 15 indexed citations

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Oliver, Thomas A., et al.. (2015). Positive Catch & Economic Benefits of Periodic Octopus Fishery Closures: Do Effective, Narrowly Targeted Actions ‘Catalyze’ Broader Management?. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129075–e0129075. 68 indexed citations

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Barshis, Daniel J., Jason T. Ladner, Thomas A. Oliver, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2014). Lineage-Specific Transcriptional Profiles of Symbiodinium spp. Unaltered by Heat Stress in a Coral Host. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(6). 1343–1352. 98 indexed citations

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Darling, Emily S., Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip, Thomas A. Oliver, Tim R. McClanahan, & Isabelle M. Côté. (2012). Evaluating life‐history strategies of reef corals from species traits. Ecology Letters. 15(12). 1378–1386. 544 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amend, Anthony S., Daniel J. Barshis, & Thomas A. Oliver. (2011). Coral-associated marine fungi form novel lineages and heterogeneous assemblages. The ISME Journal. 6(7). 1291–1301. 114 indexed citations

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Oliver, Thomas A., David Garfield, Mollie K. Manier, et al.. (2010). Whole-Genome Positive Selection and Habitat-Driven Evolution in a Shallow and a Deep-Sea Urchin. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2. 800–814. 44 indexed citations

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