Publications
Papers
A selected list of publications is below. A full list can be found on Google Scholar.
Mattocks, S.M., S. Bittner, V. Luzanau, H. Mohammadi, A.H. Roy, M.D. Staudinger, A. Jordaan. In press. River Herring Influence Perch Morphology, Physiology, and Life History. Accepted Environmental Biology of Fishes, August 2024
Putnam, A. S. Endyke, A. Jones, L.A. Lockwood, J. Taylor, M. Albert, M.D. Staudinger. In press. Historical Insights, Current Challenges: Tracking Marine Biodiversity in an Urban Harbor Ecosystem in the Face of Climate Change. Marine Biodiversity, 54: 78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01462-4
Brown, C., Wilson, C (eds.) 2024. A Report from the Coastal & Marine Working Group of the Maine Climate Council. https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/council/workinggroups/2024strategies
Davis, A., M.D. Staudinger, K. Mills. 2024. Identifying New England’s underutilized seafood species and evaluating their market potential in a changing climate. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10: 1226219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1226219 (also see Our Wicked Fish for species climate-informed profiles)
Primack, R.B., A. Gallinat, E.R. Ellwood, A.J. Miller-Rushing, T. Crimmins, M.D. Schwartz, M.D. Staudinger. 2023. Ten best practices for effective phenological research. International Journal of Biometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02502-7
Legett, H., J. Lucas, E. C. Craig, M.D. Staudinger. 2023. Variation in isotopic niche partitioning between adult Roseate and Common terns in the Northwest Atlantic. Endangered Species Research, 50:235-247. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01233
Friedland, K.D., E. Adams, D.C. Brady, D. Crear, S. Gaichas, A. Gill, C. Goetsch, J. Gulka, M. C. McManus, E. Methratta, J.L. Morano, M.D. Staudinger. 2023. Forage fish species prefer habitat within designated offshore wind energy areas in the US Northeast Shelf ecosystem. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, special issue on Offshore Wind Interactions with Fish and Fisheries. http://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10230
Montefiore, L.R., N.G. Nelson, M.D. Staudinger, and A. Terando. 2023. Vulnerability of Estuarine Systems to Water Quality Change Under Future and Climate Land-Use. Earth’s Future, 11(3): e2022EF002884. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002884.
Yakola, K., A. Jordaan, S. Kress, P. Shannon, M.D. Staudinger. 2022. Interspecific and local variation in tern chick diets across nesting colonies in the Gulf of Maine. Waterbirds, 44(4): 397-414. https://doi.org/10.1675/063.044.0402
Pendleton, D.E., M.W. Tingley, L. G. Ganley, K. Friedland, C. Mayo, M.W. Brown, B.E. McKenna, A. Jordaan, M.D. Staudinger. 2022. Decadal-scale phenology and seasonal climate drivers of large whale habitat use in a rapidly warming marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology. http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16225
Bratton, R. M., H. D. Legett, P. Shannon, K. C. Yakola, A. R. Gerson, M.D. Staudinger. 2022. Pre-breeding foraging ecology of three tern species nesting in the Gulf of Maine. Avian Conservation and Ecology 17 (1):19. http://www.ace-eco.org/vol17/iss1/art19/
Dalton, R.M., J. J. Sheppard, J. T. Finn, A. Jordaan, M.D. Staudinger. 2022. Phenological variation in spring migration timing of adult alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in coastal Massachusetts. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 14 (2): e10198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10198
Pershing, A.J., M.A. Alexander, D.C. Brady, D. Brickman, E.N. Curchitser, A.W. Diamond, L. McClenachan. K.E. Mills, O.C. Nichols, D.E. Pendleton, N.R. Record, J.D. Scott, M.D. Staudinger, Y. Wang. 2021. Climate impacts on the Gulf of Maine ecosystem: A review of observed and expected changes in 2050 from rising temperatures. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00076
Legett, H.D., A. Jordaan, A. H. Roy, J. J. Sheppard, M. Somos-Valenzuela, M.D. Staudinger. 2021. Daily patterns of river herring (Alosa spp.) spawning migrations: environmental drivers and variation among coastal streams in Massachusetts. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 150(4): 501-513. http://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10301
Staudinger, M.D., A.J. Lynch, S. Gaichas, M. Fox, D. Gibson-Reinemer, J. Langan, A. Teffer, S.J. Thackeray, I.J. Winfield. 2021. How does climate change affect emergent properties of aquatic ecosystems? Fisheries, 46(9): 423-441. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10606
Guckian, M.L., C. Tucker, E. Kiekebusch, T. Klemm, E.M. Markowitz, L. Middleton, A. Wootten, M.D. Staudinger. 2021. Assessing the impact of an online climate science community The Early Career Climate Forum. Weather, Climate and Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0150.1
Weiskopf, S., M. Rubenstein, L. Crozier, S. Gaichas, R. Griffis, J. Halofsky, K. Hyde, T.L. Morelli, J. Morisette, R. Muñoz, A. Pershing, D. Peterson, R. Poudel, M.D. Staudinger, A. Sutton-Grier, L. Thompson, J. Vose, J.F. Weltzin, K. Powys Whyte. 2020. Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137782
Staudinger, M.D., H. Goyert, J. Suca, K. Coleman, L. Welch, J. Llopiz, I. Altman, D. Wiley, A. Appelgate, P. Auster, H. Baumann, J. Beaty, D. Boelke, L. Kaufman, P. Loring, J. Moxley, S. Paton, K. Powers, D. Richardson, J. Robbins, J. Runge, B. Smith, C. Spiegel, H. Steinmetz. 2020. The role of sand lances (Ammodytes) in the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem: A synthesis of current knowledge with implications for conservation and management. Fish and Fisheries, 00:1–34 https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12445
Polland, S.J., Staudinger, M.D., S. Scharf. 2019. Foraging ecology of sympatric pelagic fish predators in the U.S. South Atlantic: interspecific differences in trophic niche within a shared prey community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 631:181-199. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13126
Staudinger, M.D., France, V. Hartigan, E. Jorgensen, H. Judkins, A. Lindgren, E. K. Shea, M. Vecchione. 2019. Ecological roles and trophic diversity of the cephalopod assemblage near Bear Seamount in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 629: 67-86. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13121
Staudinger, M.D., K. Mills, K. Stamieszkin, N. Record, C. Hudak, A. Allyn., A. Diamond, K. Friedland, W. Golet, M. Henderson, C. Hernandez, T. Huntington, R. Ji., C. Johnson, D. Johnson, A. Jordaan, J. Kocik, Y. Li, M. Liebman, O. Nichols, D. Pendleton, A. Richards, T. Robben, A. Thomas, H. Walsh, K. Yakola. 2019. It’s about time: A synthesis of changing phenology in the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography: 00:1–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12429
Powell, E., M. C. Tyrell, A. Milliken, J.M. Tirpak, M.D. Staudinger. 2018. A review of coastal management approaches to support the integration of ecological and human community planning for climate change. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-018-0632-y
Bird, C. C. Trueman, A. Veríssimo, S. Magozzi, K. Abrantes, A. Aguilar, H. Al-Reasi, A. Barnett, D. Bethea, G. Biais, A. Borrell, M. Bouchoucha, M. Boyle, J. Brunnschweiller, P. Bustamante, A. Carlisle, D. Catarino, S. Caut, Y. Cherel, T. Chouvelon, D. Churchill, J. Ciancio, J. Claes, A. Colaço, D. Courtney, P. Cresson, R. Daly, L. De Necker, T. Endo, I. Figueiredo, A. Frisch, J. Hansen, M. Heithaus, N. Hussey, J. Iitembu, F. Juanes, M. Kinney, J. Kiszka, D. Kopp, R. Leaf, Y. Li, S. Klarian, A. Lorrain, D. Madigan, A. Maljković, L. Malpica-Cruz, P. Matich, M. Meekan, F. Menard, G. Menezes, S. Munroe, M. Newman, Y. Papastamatiou, H. Pethybridge, J. Plumlee, C. Polo-silva, K. Quaeck, V. Raoult, J. Reum, Y. Eden Torres-Rojas, D. Shiffman, C. Speed, M.D. Staudinger, A. Teffer, A. Tilley, M. Valls, J. Vaudo, T. Wai, R. Wells, A. Wyatt. 2018. A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2: 299-305. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z
Powell, E., M. C. Tyrell, A. Milliken, J.M. Tirpak, M.D. Staudinger. 2017. A synthesis of sea level rise and storm thresholds for 44 focal species along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts: A review of research and application. Ocean and Coastal Management, 148: 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.07.012
Duffy, L.M., P. Kuhnert, H.R. Pethybridge, J.W. Young, R.J. Olson, J.M. Logan, N. Goñi, E. Romanov, V. Allain, M.D. Staudinger, M. Abecassis, A. Choy, A.J. Hobday, M. Simier, F. Galván-Magaña, M. Potier, F. Ménard. 2017. Global trophic ecology of yellowfin, bigeye and albacore tunas: Understanding tuna predation on micronekton communities at ocean-basin scales. Deep Sea Research II, 140: 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.03.003
Shea, E.K., H. Judkins, M.D. Staudinger, V. Hartigan, A. Lindgren, M. Vecchione. 2017. Cephalopod biodiversity in the vicinity of Bear Seamount, western North Atlantic. Marine Biodiversity, DOI 10.1007/s12526-017-0633-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0633-3
Alexander, K.E., W.B. Leavenworth, C. Hall, S. Mattocks, S.M. Bittner, E. Klein, M.D. Staudinger, A. Bryan, J. Rosset, T. Willis, B.H. Carr, A. Jordaan. 2017. Tambora and the mackerel year: Phenology and fisheries during an extreme climate event. Science Advances, 3: e1601635. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601635
Beever, E.A., O’Leary, J., Mengelt, C., West, J., Julius, S., Green, N., Magness, D., Petes, L., Stein, B., Nicotra, A.B., Hellmann, J.J., Robertson, A.L., Staudinger, M.D., Rosenberg, A.A., Babij, E., Brennan, J., Schuurman, G.W., G.E. Hofmann. Improving conservation outcomes with a new paradigm for understanding species’ fundamental and realized adaptive capacity. Conservation Letters, 9(2):131-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12190
Grimm, N.B., Groffman, P., Staudinger, M.D., Tallis. 2016. Climate change impacts on ecosystems and ecosystem services in the United States: Process and prospects for sustained assessment. Climatic Change, 135: 97–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1547-3
Teffer, A.K., Staudinger, M.D., F. Juanes. 2015. Trophic niche overlap among dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) and co-occurring tunas near the northern edge of their range in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biology, 162(9): 1823-1840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-015-2715-8
Butler, C.M., Logan, J.M. Provaznik, J.M., Hoffmayer, E.R., Staudinger, M.D., Quattro, J.M., Roberts, M.A., Ingram, G.W., Pollack, A.G., M.E. Lutcavage. 2015. Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) feeding ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico: A preliminary description of diets from the western Atlantic spawning grounds. Journal of Fish Biology, 86: 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12556
Teffer, A. K., Staudinger, M.D., Taylor, D.L., F. Juanes. 2014. Trophic influences on mercury accumulation in top pelagic predators from offshore New England waters of the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Marine Environmental Research, 101: 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.09.008
Staudinger, M.D., McAlarney, R., Pabst, A., W. McLellan. 2014. Foraging ecology and niche overlap in pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (Kogia sima) sperm whales from waters of the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. Marine Mammal Science, 30(2): 626-655. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12064
Staudinger, M.D., Hanlon, R.T., Mathger, L., K. C. Buresch. 2013. Defensive responses of cuttlefish to different teleost predators. Biological Bulletin, 225: 161–174. https://doi.org/10.1086/BBLv225n3p161
Staudinger, M.D., Carter, S., Cross, M., Dubois. N., Duffy, E., Enquist, C., Griffis, R., Hellmann, J., Lawler, J., Morrison, S., O’Leary, J., Stein, B., W. Turner. Biodiversity in a changing climate: A synthesis of current and projected trends in the United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(9): 465-473. https://doi.org/10.1890/120272
Grimm, N., Staudinger, M.D., Staudt, A., Carter, S., Chapin, F.S.III, Kareiva, P., Ruckelshaus, M., B. Stein. 2013. Climate-change impacts on ecological systems: Introduction to a US assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(9): 456-464. https://doi.org/10.1890/120310
Staudinger, M.D., Juanes, F., Salmon, B., A.K. Teffer. 2013. The distribution, diversity, and importance of cephalopods in top predator diets from offshore habitats of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research II, 95: 182–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.06.004
Staudinger, M.D. Species- and size-specific variability of mercury concentrations in four commercially important finfish and their prey from the northwest Atlantic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 62: 734-740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.01.017
Staudinger, M.D., Hanlon, R.T., F. 2011. Primary and secondary defenses of squid to cruising and ambush fish predators: variable tactics and their survival value. Animal Behaviour, 81: 585-594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.12.002
Staudinger, M.D., Juanes. 2010. Size-dependent susceptibility of longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) to attack and capture by two predators. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 393: 106-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2010.07.005
Staudinger, M.D., Juanes. 2010. A size-based approach to quantifying predation on longfin inshore squid (L. pealeii) in the northwest Atlantic. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 399: 225-241. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08339
Reports
Borggaard, D. L., D. M. Dick, J. Star, B. Zoodsma, M. A. Alexander, M. J. Asaro. L. Barre, S. Bettridge, P. Burns, J. Crocker, Q. Dortch, L. Garrison, F. Gulland, B. Haskell, S. Hayes, A. Henry, K. Hyde, H. Milliken, J. Quinlan, T. Rowles, V. Saba, M.D. Staudinger, and H. Walsh. 2020. North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Scenario Planning Summary Report. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-OPR-68, 88 p. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/document/north-atlantic-right-whale-eubalaena-glacialis-scenario-planning-summary-report
Borggaard, D., Dick, D. M., Star, J., Alexander, M., Bernier, M., Collins, M., Crocker, J., Damon-Randall, K., Dudley, R., Griffis, R., Hayes, S., Johnson, M., Kircheis, D., Kocik, J., Letcher, B., Mantua, N., Morrison, W., Nislow, K., Saba, V., Saunders, R., Sheehan, T., M.D. Staudinger. 2019. Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Climate Scenario Planning Pilot Draft Workshop Summary. NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region Office. 89 p. https://www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/policyseries/index.php/GARPS/article/view/15/14
Lipton, D., M. A. Rubenstein, S.R. Weiskopf, S. Carter, J. Peterson, L. Crozier, M. Fogarty, S. Gaichas, K.J.W. Hyde, T.L. Morelli, J. Morisette, H. Moustahfid, R. Muñoz, R. Poudel, M.D. Staudinger, C. Stock, L. Thompson, R. Waples, J.F. Weltzin, 2018: Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity. In Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II [Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA. https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA4.2018.CH7
Jones, K., M.D. Staudinger. 2018. A regional analysis of long-term gray and harbor seal stranding events. DOI Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Report. Amherst, MA. https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5b632948e4b006a11f7179f5
Thompson, L.M., Staudinger, M.D., S.L. Carter. Summarizing components of U.S. Department of Interior vulnerability assessments for targeting climate change adaptation planning. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1110. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151110
Staudinger, M.D., Grimm, N., Staudt, A., Carter, S., Chapin, F.S.III, Kareiva, P., Ruckelshaus, M., B. Stein. 2012. Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services: Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. 296 p. Available at: http://assessment.globalchange.gov
Book Chapters
Hanlon, R. T., Buresch, K., Moustahfid, H. Staudinger, M.D. 2013. Doryteuthis pealeii, Longfin inshore squid. In: Rosa, R., Pierce, G., and R. O’Dor (eds) Advances in Squid Biology, Ecology, and Fisheries. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, NY. (Book Chapter).
Data sets
Staudinger, M.D., Legett, H.. 2023. Regional patterns in isotopic niche overlap between adult Roseate and Common terns in the Northwest Atlantic. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9LVSGAM
Staudinger, M.D., Legett, H., Dalton, R., Davis, A. 2023. Massachusetts River Herring Daily Counts and Environmental data. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TBIQVH
Dean, E.M., Cooper, A.R., Wang, L., Daniel, W.M., David, S., Ernzen, C., Gido, K.B., Hale, E., Haxton, T.J., Kelso, W., Leonard, N., Lido, C., Margraf, J., Porter, M., Pennock, C., Propst, D., Ross, J., Staudinger, M.D., Whelan, G., Infante, D.M., 2021, The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States, and Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WDLLP0
Staudinger, M.D., Bratton, R. Legett, H. 2021, Pre-breeding foraging ecology of three tern species nesting in the Gulf of Maine. U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.21429/e0v1-7q58
Legett, H. Staudinger, M.D. 2021. Pairwise comparisons of river herring run dynamics and environmental regimes among Massachusetts streams. U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.21429/cr80-fy95
Staudinger, M.D., Jones, K. 2021. A regional analysis of long-term gray and harbor seal stranding events and the seasonal migrants. U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.21429/cjsa-ac35