Publications


Hetherington, E. D., Anderson, C., Bastian, L., Boon, N., Chu, N.-C., Cruz, C. R., Drennon, H., Gates, A., Gertz, B., Goodwin, K. D., Halfter, S., Howell, K., Howes, E., Lopes, V., Martin, T., McConnell, T., Qian, P.-Y., Seabrook, S., Smith, L., … Levin, L. A. (2024). Deepening the Decade: Collaborative Action for Advancing Deep-Ocean Science and Policy in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10662
Smith, C. R., Correa, P. V. F., Fleury, A. G., Levin, L. A., & De Leo, F. C. (2024). High-frequency study of megafaunal communities on whale bone, wood and carbonate in hypoxic Barkley Canyon. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1464095. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1464095
Rose, K. C., Ferrer, E. M., Carpenter, S. R., Crowe, S. A., Donelan, S. C., Garçon, V. C., Grégoire, M., Jane, S. F., Leavitt, P. R., Levin, L. A., Oschlies, A., & Breitburg, D. (2024). Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(8), 1400–1406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02448-y
Pereira, O. S., Vlach, D., Bradley, A., Gonzalez, J., Mizell, K., & Levin, L. A. (2024). Invertebrate trophic structure on marine ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds. Limnology and Oceanography, lno.12612. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12612
Danovaro, R., Levin, L. A., Fanelli, G., Scenna, L., & Corinaldesi, C. (2024). Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02407-7
Skelton, Z. R., McCormick, L. R., Kwan, G. T., Lonthair, J., Neira, C., Clements, S. M., Martz, T. R., Bresnahan, P. J., Send, U., Giddings, S. N., Sevadjian, J. C., Jaeger, S., Feit, A., Frable, B. W., Zerofski, P. J., Torres, M., Crooks, J. A., McCullough, J., Carter, M. L., … Wegner, N. C. (2024). Organismal responses to deteriorating water quality during the historic 2020 red tide off Southern California. Elem Sci Anth, 12(1), 00067. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00067
Fausey, K., Rippy, M. A., Pierce, G., Feldman, D., Winfrey, B., Mehring, A. S., Levin, L. A., Holden, P. A., Bowler, P. A., & Ambrose, R. (2024). Ecosystem service values support conservation and sustainable land development: Perspectives from four University of California campuses. Ecological Engineering, 208, 107379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107379
Bravo, M. E., Principi, S., Levin, L. A., Ormazabal, J. P., Ferronato, C., Palma, F., Isola, J., & Tassone, A. A. (2024). Discovery of deep-sea cold seeps from Argentina host singular trophic linkages and biodiversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 211, 104361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104361
Pereira, O. S., Jacobsen, M., Carson, R., Cortés, J., & Levin, L. A. (2024). Understanding and valuing human connections to deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica. Ecological Economics, 223, 108228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108228
Neira, C., Mendoza, G. F., Bradley, A., Gossett, R., Rouse, G. W., & Levin, L. A. (2024). Waste barrel contamination and macrobenthic communities in the San Pedro Basin DDT dumpsite. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 203, 116463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116463
Metaxas, A., Anglin, C. D., Cross, A., Drazen, J., Haeckel, M., Mudd, G., Smith, C. R., Smith, S., Weaver, P. P. E., Sonter, L., Amon, D. J., Erskine, P. D., Levin, L. A., Lily, H., Maest, A. S., Mestre, N. C., Ramirez‐Llodra, E., Sánchez, L. E., Sharma, R., … Tunnicliffe, V. (2024). Comparing environmental impacts of deep‐seabed and land‐based mining: A defensible framework. Global Change Biology, 30(5), e17334. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17334
Gignoux-Wolfsohn, S. A., Dunn, D. C., Cleary, J., Halpin, P. N., Anderson, C. R., Bax, N. J., Canonico, G., Chaniotis, P., DeLand, S., Diorio, M., Gaines, S. D., Grorud-Colvert, K., Johnson, D. E., Levin, L. A., Lundquist, C. J., Manca, E., Metaxas, A., Monaco, M. E., Morgan, L., … Duffy, J. E. (2024). New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection. One Earth, S2590332223005985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.014
Baco, A. R., Ross, R., Althaus, F., Amon, D., Bridges, A. E. H., Brix, S., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Colaco, A., Carreiro-Silva, M., Clark, M. R., Du Preez, C., Franken, M.-L., Gianni, M., Gonzalez-Mirelis, G., Hourigan, T., Howell, K., Levin, L. A., Lindsay, D. J., Molodtsova, T. N., … Yesson, C. (2023). Towards a scientific community consensus on designating Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems from imagery. PeerJ, 11, e16024. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16024
Hilmi, N., Sutherland, M., Farahmand, S., Haraldsson, G., Van Doorn, E., Ernst, E., Wisz, M. S., Claudel Rusin, A., Elsler, L. G., & Levin, L. A. (2023). Deep sea nature-based solutions to climate change. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1169665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1169665
Merrifield, S. T., Celona, S., McCarthy, R. A., Pietruszka, A., Batchelor, H., Hess, R., Nager, A., Young, R., Sadorf, K., Levin, L. A., Valentine, D. L., Conrad, J. E., & Terrill, E. J. (2023). Wide-Area Debris Field and Seabed Characterization of a Deep Ocean Dump Site Surveyed by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Environmental Science & Technology, acs.est.3c01256. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01256
Le, J. T., Gonzalez, J. P., Carson, R. T., Ambrose, R. F., & Levin, L. A. (2023). Integrating Non-Targeted Ecosystem Services into Assessment of Natural Stormwater Treatment Systems. Water, 15(8), 1460. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15081460
Bravo, M. E., Brandt, M. I., van der Grient, J. M. A., Dahlgren, T. G., Esquete, P., Gollner, S., Jones, D. O. B., Levin, L. A., McClain, C. R., Narayanaswamy, B. E., Sutton, T., Victorero, L., & Cordes, E. E. (2023). Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 994632. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.994632
Keshavarz-Fathi, M., Yazdanpanah, N., Kolahchi, S., Ziaei, H., Darmstadt, G. L., Dorigo, T., Dochy, F., Levin, L., Thongboonkerd, V., Ogino, S., Chen, W.-H., Perc, M., Tremblay, M. S., Olusanya, B. O., Rao, I. M., Hatziargyriou, N., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Bella, F., Rosivall, L., … Rezaei, N. (2023). Universal research index: An inclusive metric to quantify scientific research output. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(3), 102714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102714
Cavole, L. M., Limburg, K. E., Gallo, N. D., Vea Salvanes, A. G., Ramírez-Valdez, A., Levin, L. A., Oropeza, O. A., Hertwig, A., Liu, M.-C., & McKeegan, K. D. (2023). Otoliths of marine fishes record evidence of low oxygen, temperature and pH conditions of deep Oxygen Minimum Zones. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 191, 103941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103941
McCormick, L. R., Gangrade, S., Garwood, J. C., Oesch, N. W., & Levin, L. A. (2022). Oxygen and irradiance constraints on visual habitat in a changing ocean: The luminoxyscape. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, lol2.10296. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10296
Levin, L. A., Mendoza, G. F., Neira, C., Giddings, S. N., & Crooks, J. A. (2022). Consequences of Mouth Closure and Hypoxia-Induced State Changes in Low-Inflow Estuaries: Benthic Community and Trait-Based Response. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01132-3
Azofeifa-Solano, J. C., Pereira, O. S., Cowell, E. J., Cordes, E. E., Levin, L. A., Goffredi, S. K., & Cortés, J. (2022). Sexual dimorphism in the methane seep-dwelling Costa Rican yeti crab Kiwa puravida (Decapoda: Anomura: Kiwaidae). Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1051590. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1051590
Le, J. T., Girguis, P. R., & Levin, L. A. (2022). Using deep-sea images to examine ecosystem services associated with methane seeps. Marine Environmental Research, 181, 18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105740
Elsler, L. G., Oostdijk, M., Levin, L. A., Satterthwaite, E. V., Pinsky, M. L., Crespo, G. O., & Wisz, M. S. (2022). Protecting ocean carbon through biodiversity and climate governance. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 880424. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.880424
McCormick, L. R., Levin, L. A., & Oesch, N. W. (2022). Reduced Oxygen Impairs Photobehavior in Marine Invertebrate Larvae. The Biological Bulletin, 243(2), 255–271. https://doi.org/10.1086/717565
Woods, H. A., Moran, A. L., Atkinson, D., Audzijonyte, A., Berenbrink, M., Borges, F. O., Burnett, K. G., Burnett, L. E., Coates, C. J., Collin, R., Costa-Paiva, E. M., Duncan, M. I., Ern, R., Laetz, E. M. J., Levin, L. A., Lindmark, M., Lucey, N. M., McCormick, L. R., Pierson, J. J., … Verberk, W. C. E. P. (2022). Integrative Approaches to Understanding Organismal Responses to Aquatic Deoxygenation. The Biological Bulletin, 243(2), 85–103. https://doi.org/10.1086/722899
Cheung, W. W. L., Wei, C.-L., & Levin, L. A. (2022). Vulnerability of exploited deep-sea demersal species to ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification. Environmental Biology of Fishes. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01321-w
Levin, L. A., Cimoli, L., Gjerde, K., Harden-Davies, H., Heimbach, P., LaScala-Gruenewald, D., Pachiadaki, M., Pillar, H. R., Smith, L. M., Stocks, K., Stopa, J. E., & Wright, D. J. (2022). Designing, generating, and translating deep-ocean observations for and with international policy makers. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsac143. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac143
Pereira, O. S., Gonzalez, J., Mendoza, G., Le, J., McNeill, M., Ontiveros, J., Lee, R. W., Rouse, G. W., Cortés, J., & Levin, L. A. (2022). Does substrate matter in the deep sea? A comparison of bone, wood, and carbonate rock colonizers. PLOS ONE, 17(7), e0271635. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271635
Smith, L. M., Cimoli, L., LaScala-Gruenewald, D., Pachiadaki, M., Phillips, B., Pillar, H., Stopa, J. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Beaulieu, S. E., Bell, K. L. C., Harden-Davies, H., Gjerde, K. M., Heimbach, P., Howe, B., Janssen, F., Levin, L. A., Ruhl, H. A., Soule, A., Stocks, K., … Wright, D. J. (2022). The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy: Addressing Global Challenges in the Deep Sea Through Collaboration. Marine Technology Society Journal, 56(3), 50–66.
Shin, Y. J., Midgley, G. F., Archer, E. R. M., Arneth, A., Barnes, D. K. A., Chan, L., Hashimoto, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Insarov, G., Leadley, P., Levin, L. A., Ngo, H. T., Pandit, R., Pires, A. P. F., Portner, H. O., Rogers, A. D., Scholes, R. J., Settele, J., & Smith, P. (2022). Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate. Global Change Biology, 28(9), 2846–2874. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16109
Amon, D. J., Gollner, S., Morato, T., Smith, C. R., Chen, C., Christiansen, S., Currie, B., Drazen, J. C., Fukushima, T., Gianni, M., Gjerde, K. M., Gooday, A. J., Grillo, G. G., Haeckel, M., Joyini, T., Ju, S. J., Levin, L. A., Metaxas, A., Mianowicz, K., … Pickens, C. (2022). Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining. Marine Policy, 138, 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105006
Rippy, M. A., Pierce, G., Feldman, D., Winfrey, B., Mehring, A. S., Holden, P. A., Ambrose, R., & Levin, L. A. (2022). Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers. People and Nature, 24. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10300
Gregoire, M., Garcon, V., Garcia, H., Breitburg, D., Isensee, K., Oschlies, A., Telszewski, M., Barth, A., Bittig, H. C., Carstensen, J., Carval, T., Chai, F., Chavez, F., Conley, D., Coppola, L., Crowe, S., Currie, K., Dai, M. H., Deflandre, B., … Yasuhara, M. (2021). A global ocean oxygen database and atlas for assessing and predicting deoxygenation and ocean health in the open and coastal ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 29. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.724913
Dobush, B. J., Gallo, N. D., Guerra, M., Guilloux, B., Holland, E., Seabrook, S., & Levin, L. A. (2021). A new way forward for ocean-climate policy as reflected in the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue submissions. Climate Policy, 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1990004
Laffoley, D., Baxter, J. M., Amon, D. J., Claudet, J., Downs, C. A., Earle, S. A., Gjerde, K. M., Hall-Spencer, J. M., Koldewey, H. J., Levin, L. A., Reid, C. P., Roberts, C. M., Sumaila, R. U., Taylor, M. L., Thiele, T., & Woodall, L. C. (2021). The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3751
Pereira, O. S., Gonzalez, J., Mendoza, G. F., Le, J., Coscino, C. L., Lee, R. W., Cortes, J., Cordes, E. E., & Levin, L. A. (2021). The dynamic influence of methane seepage on macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates. Ecosphere, 12(10), 23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3744
Bravo, M. E., Levin, L. A., Fiori, S. M., Aliotta, S., & Ginsberg, S. (2021). Can no-bubble methane seeps affect biological traits of benthic macroinvertebrates in coastal systems? Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 261, 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107525
Pitcher, G. C., Aguirre-Velarde, A., Breitburg, D., Cardich, J., Carstensen, J., Conley, D. J., Dewitte, B., Engel, A., Espinoza-Morriberon, D., Flores, G., Garcon, V., Graco, M., Gregoire, M., Gutierrez, D., Hernandez-Ayon, J. M., Huang, H. H. M., Isensee, K., Jacinto, M. E., Levin, L., … Zhu, Z. Y. (2021). System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion. Progress in Oceanography, 197, 79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102613
Queiros, A. M., Talbot, E., Beaumont, N. J., Somerfield, P. J., Kay, S., Pascoe, C., Dedman, S., Fernandes, J. A., Jueterbock, A., Miller, P. I., Sailley, S. F., Sara, G., Carr, L. M., Austen, M. C., Widdicombe, S., Rilov, G., Levin, L. A., Hull, S. C., Walmsley, S. F., & Aonghusa, C. N. (2021). Bright spots as climate-smart marine spatial planning tools for conservation and blue growth. Global Change Biology, 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15827
Ashford, O. S., Guan, S. Z., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Cordes, E. E., Cortes, J., Rouse, G. W., Mendoza, G. F., Sweetman, A. K., & Levin, L. A. (2021). Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 288(1957), 10. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0950
Le, J. T., Levin, L. A., Lejzerowicz, F., Cordier, T., Gooday, A. J., & Pawlowski, J. (2021). Scientific and budgetary trade-offs between morphological and molecular methods for deep-sea biodiversity assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4466
Rogers, A. D., Baco, A., Escobar-Briones, E., Gjerde, K., Gobin, J., Jaspars, M., Levin, L., Linse, K., Rabone, M., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Sellanes, J., Shank, T. M., Sink, K., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Taylor, M. L., Wagner, D., & Harden-Davies, H. (2021). Marine genetic resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction: Promoting marine scientific research and enabling equitable benefit sharing. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.667274
Lejzerowicz, F., Gooday, A. J., Angeles, I. B., Cordier, T., Morard, R., Apotheloz-Perret-Gentil, L., Lins, L., Menot, L., Brandt, A., Levin, L. A., Arbizu, P. M., Smith, C. R., & Pawlowski, J. (2021). Eukaryotic biodiversity and spatial patterns in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and other abyssal regions: Insights from sediment DNA and RNA metabarcoding. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.671033
Herzog, T., Mehring, A., Hatt, B., Ambrose, R., Levin, L., & Winfrey, B. (2021). Pruning stormwater biofilter vegetation influences water quality improvement differently in Carex appressa and Ficinia nodosa. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127004
Ashford, O. S., Guan, S. Z., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Orphan, V., Mullin, S. W., Dawson, K. S., Cortes, J., Rouse, G. W., Mendoza, G. F., Lee, R. W., Cordes, E. E., & Levin, L. A. (2021). A chemosynthetic ecotone — “chemotone” — in the sediments surrounding deep-sea methane seeps. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11713
Sampaio, E., Santos, C., Rosa, I. C., Ferreira, V., Portner, H. O., Duarte, C. M., Levin, L. A., & Rosa, R. (2021). Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01370-3
Howell, K. L., Hilario, A., Allcock, A. L., Bailey, D. M., Baker, M., Clark, M. R., Colaco, A., Copley, J., Cordes, E. E., Danovaro, R., Dissanayake, A., Escobar, E., Esquete, P., Gallagher, A. J., Gates, A. R., Gaudron, S. M., German, C. R., Gjerde, K. M., Higgs, N. D., … Xavier, J. R. (2020). A blueprint for an inclusive, global deep-sea ocean decade field program. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.584861
Pierce, G., Gmoser-Daskalakis, K., Jessup, K., Grant, S. B., Mehring, A., Winfrey, B., Rippy, M. A., Feldman, D., Holden, P., Ambrose, R., & Levin, L. (2020). University stormwater management within urban environmental regulatory regimes: Barriers to progressivity or opportunities to innovate? Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01377-3
Parnell, P. E., Levin, L. A., & Navarro, M. O. (2020). Gauging oxygen risk and tolerance for the megafauna of the Southern California shelf based on in situ observation, species mobility, and seascape. Ices Journal of Marine Science, 77(5), 1941–1952. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa088