William Watson

2.5k total citations
48 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William Watson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, William Watson has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in William Watson's work include Marine and fisheries research (37 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (16 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers). William Watson is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (37 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (16 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers). William Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Taiwan. William Watson's co-authors include Noelle M. Bowlin, Seba B. Sheavly, Miriam J. Doyle, Ralf Goericke, JA Koslow, Ana Lara-López, Andrew R. Thompson, Li Sun, George W. Boehlert and Sam McClatchie and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Geophysical Research Letters and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

William Watson

42 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Watson United States	19	822	657	399	370	355	48	1.5k
Beatríz Guijarro Spain	25	1.1k 1.3×	747 1.1×	200 0.5×	459 1.2×	469 1.3×	68	1.8k
Darren J. Coker Saudi Arabia	19	771 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	376 0.9×	347 0.9×	219 0.6×	54	1.6k
Jan Dierking Germany	21	486 0.6×	505 0.8×	230 0.6×	259 0.7×	322 0.9×	53	1.3k
Kris Hostens Belgium	20	524 0.6×	537 0.8×	390 1.0×	200 0.5×	207 0.6×	88	1.2k
Chryssi Mytilineou Greece	17	582 0.7×	396 0.6×	128 0.3×	264 0.7×	376 1.1×	52	1.1k
Vânia Freitas Portugal	19	840 1.0×	661 1.0×	267 0.7×	357 1.0×	181 0.5×	49	1.3k
Thomas D. Linley United Kingdom	17	305 0.4×	455 0.7×	369 0.9×	173 0.5×	291 0.8×	32	1.0k
Gorka Sancho United States	18	613 0.7×	732 1.1×	215 0.5×	424 1.1×	130 0.4×	38	1.2k
Nick Tolimieri United States	28	1.2k 1.4×	1.3k 2.0×	500 1.3×	702 1.9×	122 0.3×	52	1.9k
Mei Lin Neo Singapore	21	500 0.6×	603 0.9×	340 0.9×	99 0.3×	194 0.5×	53	1.0k

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Thompson, Andrew R., et al.. (2021). Putting the Pacific marine heatwave into perspective: The response of larval fish off southern California to unprecedented warming in 2014–2016 relative to the previous 65 years. Global Change Biology. 28(5). 1766–1785. 29 indexed citations

Koslow, J. Anthony, et al.. (2018). The evolving response of mesopelagic fishes to declining midwater oxygen concentrations in the southern and central California Current. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 76(3). 626–638. 22 indexed citations

McClatchie, Sam, Jin Gao, Elizabeth J. Drenkard, et al.. (2018). Interannual and Secular Variability of Larvae of Mesopelagic and Forage Fishes in the Southern California Current System. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(9). 6277–6295. 22 indexed citations

McClatchie, Sam, I. L. Hendy, Andrew R. Thompson, & William Watson. (2017). Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations prior to commercial exploitation. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(4). 1877–1885. 56 indexed citations

Thompson, AR, et al.. (2014). Dynamics of larval fish assemblages in the California Current System: a comparative study between Oregon and southern California. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 506. 193–212. 7 indexed citations

Koslow, J. Anthony, Ralf Goericke, & William Watson. (2013). Fish assemblages in theSouthernCaliforniaCurrent: relationships with climate, 1951–2008. Fisheries Oceanography. 22(3). 207–219. 43 indexed citations

Watson, William & H. J. Walker. (2013). Larval Development of Sargo (Anisotremus Davidsonii) and Salema (Xenistius Californiensis) (Pisces: Haemulidae) from the Southern California Bight. 5 indexed citations

Thompson, Andrew R., William Watson, Sam McClatchie, & Edward D. Weber. (2012). Multi-Scale Sampling to Evaluate Assemblage Dynamics in an Oceanic Marine Reserve. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33131–e33131. 12 indexed citations

Bowlin, Noelle M., et al.. (2009). Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey cruises and California Current ecosystem survey in 2006.

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Watson, William, et al.. (2005). Pigment variability in larval Sebastes jordani off central California. Journal of Fish Biology. 67(2). 510–520. 3 indexed citations

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Watson, William, et al.. (2004). UTILITY OF LARVAL PIGMENTATION TO IDENTIFY NEARSHORE ROCKFISHES OF THE SEBASTES SUBGENUS PTEROPODUS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 45. 113–117. 7 indexed citations

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Watson, William, et al.. (2004). Development of Kelp Rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens (Jordan and Gilbert 1880), and Brown Rockfish, S. auriculatus (Girard 1854), from birth to pelagic juvenile stage, with notes on early larval development of Black-and-yellow Rockfish, S. chrysomelas (Jordan and Gilbert 1880), reared in the laboratory (Pisces: Sebastidae). 2 indexed citations

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Watson, William, et al.. (2004). RETENTION OF LARVAL ROCKFISHES, SEBASTES, NEAR NATAL HABITAT IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT, AS INDICATED BY MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION METHODS. 12 indexed citations

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Watson, William, et al.. (2002). DISTRIBUTIONS OF PLANKTONIC FISH EGGS AND LARVAE OFF TWO STATE ECOLOGICAL RESERVES IN THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL VICINITY AND TWO NEARBY ISLANDS IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, CALIFORNIA. 5 indexed citations

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Watson, William, et al.. (2002). ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR MANTA (SURFACE) TOWS TAKEN ON CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS SURVEY CRUISES IN 1996. 2 indexed citations

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Watson, William. (2000). Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface tows taken during the 1992 eastern tropical Pacific common dolphin survey on the research vessels David Starr Jordan and McArthur.

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Mussa, R., et al.. (1994). EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF SABLEFISH, ANOPLOPOMA FIMBRIA, OFF WASHINGTON, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA, WITH APPLICATION TO BIOMASS ESTIMATION. 17 indexed citations

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Watson, William. (1989). The Vascular Flora of Pilot Knob State Preserve. UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa). 96(1). 6–13. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, H. J., William Watson, & Arthur M. Barnett. (1987). Seasonal occurrence of larval fishes in the nearshore Southern California Bight off San Onofre, California. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 25(1). 91–109. 27 indexed citations

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Watson, William & Jeffrey M. Leis. (1974). Ichthyoplankton of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii: a one year study of fish eggs and larvae. 26 indexed citations

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