A survey is being done in 2015, at a European scale, to gather recent (5 yrs) articles which were depending on the use of scientific diving (collection, observation, experimentation), published in journals of high IF (at least 5).
To illustrate this a leaflet has been distributed in December 2015
This list is made under the responsibility of authors who send the references. The IF value is for 2014. It is given only as a reference point.
N=60
IF=42.35
Romiguier J., P. Gayral, M. Ballenghien, A. Bernard, V. Cahais, A. Chenuil, Y. Chiari, R. Dernat, L. Duret, N. Faivre, E. Loire, J. M. Lourenco, B. Nabholz, C. Roux, G. Tsagkogeorga, A. Anh-Thu Weber, L. A. Weinert, K. Belkhir, N. Bierne, S. Glémin, N. Galtier, 2014. Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity. Nature 515 (7526): 261-263, doi:10.1038/nature13685
IF=31.48
Smith O., Momber G., Bates R., Garwood P., Fitch S., Pallen M., Gaffney V., Allaby R.G. 2015. Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago. Science 347(6225): 998-1001, doi: 10.1126/science.1261278
Pellissier L., Leprieur F., Parravicini V., Cowman P. F., Kulbicki M., Litsios G., Olsen S. M., Wisz M. S., Bellwood D. R., Mouillot D. 2014. Quaternary coral reef refugia preserved fish diversity. Science 344(6187): 1016-1019., doi: 10.1126/science.1249853
IF=15.30
Garilli V., Rodolfo-Metalpa R., Scuderi D., Brusca L., Parrinello D., Rastrick S.P.S., Foggo A., Twitchett R.J., Hall-Spencer J.M., Milazzo M. 2015, Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high CO2 oceans. Nature Climate Change 5: 678-682. doi:10.1038/nclimate2616
Blackford J., Stahl H., Bull J.M., Berges B.J.B., Cevatoglu M., Lichtschlag A., Connelly D., James R.H., Kita J., Long D., Naylor M., Shitashima K., Smith D., Taylor P., Wright I., Akhurst M., Chen B., Gernon T.M., Hauton C., Hayashi M., Kaieda H., Leighton T.G., Sato T., Sayer M.D.J., Suzumura M., Tait K., Vardy M.E., White P.R., Widdicombe S. 2014. Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage. Nature Climate Change 4: 1011-1016 doi:10.1038/nclimate2381
Kroeker K., Micheli F., Gambi M.C. 2013. Ocean acidification causes ecosystem shifts via altered competitive interactions. Nature Climate Change 3: 156-159. doi: 10.1038/nclimate1680
Rodolfo-Metalpa R., Houlbrèque F., Tambutté E., Boisson F., Baggini C., Patti F.P., Jeffree R., Fine M., Foggo A., Gattuso J.-P., Hall-Spencer J.M., 2011. Coral and mollusc resistance to ocean acidification adversely affected by warming. Nature Climate Change 1: 308-312. doi:10.1038/nclimate1200
IF=11.77
Mouillot D., Bellwood D. R., Baraloto C., Chave J., Galzin R., Harmelin-Vivien M., Kulbicki Michel, Lavergne S.,Lavorel S., Mouquet N., Paine C. E. T., Renaud J., Thuiller W. 2013. Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems. Plos Biology 11(5), e1001569, doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001569
Mora C., Aburto-Oropeza O., Bocos A. A., Ayotte P. M., Banks S., Bauman A. G., Beger M., Bessudo S., Booth D. J., Brokovich E., Brooks A., Chabanet P., Cinner J. E., Cortes J., Cruz-Motta J. J., Magana A. C., DeMartini E. E., Edgar G. J., Feary D. A., Ferse S. C. A., Friedlander A. M., Gaston K. J., Gough C., Graham N. A. J., Green A.,Guzman H., Hardt M., Kulbicki Michel, Letourneur Y., Perez A. L., Loreau M., Loya Y., Martinez C., Mascarenas-Osorio I., Morove T., Nadon M. O., Nakamura Y., Paredes G., Polunin N. V. C., Pratchett M. S., Bonilla H. R.,Rivera F., Sala E., Sandin S. A., Soler G., Stuart-Smith R., Tessier E., Tittensor D. P., Tupper M., Usseglio P.,Vigliola L., Wantiez L., Williams I., Wilson S. K., Zapata F. A. 2011. Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes. Plos Biology 9(4), e1000606, doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000606
IF=11.47
Stier A. C., Hein A. M., Parravicini V., Kulbicki M. 2014. Larval dispersal drives trophic structure across Pacific coral reefs. Nature Communications 5:5575. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6575
Thorrold S.R., Afonso P., Fontes J., Braun C.D., Santos R.S., Skomal G.B., Berumen M.L. 2014. Extreme diving behaviour in devil rays links surface waters and the deep ocean. Nature communications 5:4274. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5274
De Witt P., Rogers-Bennet L., Kudela R.M., Palumbi S.R. 2014. Forensic genomics as a novel tool for identifying the causes of mass mortality events. Nature Communications 5:3652, doi: 10.1038/ncomms4652
IF=10.69
Duffy J.E., Reynolds P.L., Boström C., Coyer J.A., Cusson M., Donadi S., Douglass J.G., Eklöf J., Engelen A., Klemens B.E., Fredriksen S., Gamfeldt L., Gustafsson C., Hoarau G., Hori M., Hovel K., Iken K., Lefchek J.S., Moksnes P.-O., Nakaoka M., O’Connor M.I., Olsen J.L., Richardson P., Ruesink J.L., Sotka E.E., Thormar J., Whalen M.A., Stachowicz J.J. 2015. Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: A global comparative-experimental approach. Ecology Letters 18(7):696-705. doi: 10.1111/ele.12448
Bennett S., Wernberg T., de Bettignies T., Kendrick G.A., Anderson R.J., Bolton J.J., Rodgers K.L., Shears N.T., Leclerc J.-C., Lévêque L., Davoult D., Christie H.C. 2015. Canopy interactions and physical stress gradients in subtidal communities. Ecology Letters 18(7): 677-686, doi: 10.1111/ele.12446
Parravicini V., Azzurro E., Kulbicki M., Belmaker J. 2015. Niche shift can impair the ability to predict invasion risk in the marine realm: an illustration using Mediterranean fish invaders. Ecology Letters 18(3): 246-253. doi: 10.1111/ele.12401
Azzurro E., Tuset V., Lombarte A., Maynou F., Simberloff D., Pérez A., Sole R. 2014. External morphology explains the success of biological invasions. Ecology Letters 17(11): 1455-1463, doi: 10.1111/ele.12351
Parravicini V., Villeger S., McClanahan T. R., Arias-Gonzalez J. E., Bellwood D. R., Belmaker J., Chabanet P., Floeter S. R., Friedlander A. M., Guilhaumon F., Vigliola L., Kulbicki M., Mouillot D. 2014. Global mismatch between species richness and vulnerability of reef fish assemblages. Ecology Letters 17(9): 1101-1110, doi: 10.1111/ele.12316
Barneche D. R., Kulbicki M., Floeter S. R., Friedlander A. M., Maina J., Allen A. P. 2014. Scaling metabolism from individuals to reef-fish communities at broad spatial scales. Ecology Letters 17(9): 1067-1076, doi: 10.1111/ele.12309
Graham N. A. J., Chabanet P., Evans R. D., Jennings S., Letourneur Y., MacNeil M. A., McClanahan T. R.,Ohman M. C., Polunin N. V. C., Wilson S. K. 2011. Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes. Ecology Letters 14(4): 341-348, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01592.x
IF=9.92
Berge J., Daase M., Renaud P.E., Ambrose W.G. Jr, Darnis G., Last K.S., Leu E., Cohen J.H., Johnsen G., Moline M.A., Cottier F., Varpe Ø., Shunatova N., Bałazy P., Morata N., Massabuau J.-C., Falk-Petersen S., Kosobokova K., Hoppe C.J.M., Węsławski J.M., Kukliński P., Legeżyńska J., Nikishina D., Cusa M., Kędra M., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Vogedes D., Camus L., Tran D., Michaud E., Gabrielsen T.M., Granovitch A., Gonchar A., Krapp R., Callesen T.A. 2015. Unexpected levels of biological activity during the Polar night offer new perspectives on a warming Arctic. Current Biology 25(19): 2555-2561, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.024
Dutel, H., Herbin, M., Clément, G., Herrel, A. 2015. Bite force in the extant coelacanth Latimeria: the role of the intracranial joint and the basicranial muscle. Current Biology 25(9):1-6, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.076
D’Agata S., Mouillot D., Kulbicki M., Andréfouët S., Bellwood D. R., Cinner J. E., Cowman P. F., Kronen M., Pinca S., Vigliola L. 2014. Human-mediated loss of phylogenetic and functional diversity in coral reef fishes. Current Biology 24(5): 555-560, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.049
Verbruggen H., Tribollet A. 2011. Boring algae. Current Biology 21(21), R876-R877, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.014
IF=9.81
Ruppé L., Clément G., Herrel A., Ballesta L., Décamps T., Kéver L., Parmentier E. 2015. Environmental constraints drive the partitioning of the soundscape in fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 112(19): 6092-6097, doi:10.1073/pnas.1424667112
Mouillot D., Villeger S., Parravicini V., Kulbicki M., Arias-Gonzalez J. E., Bender M., Chabanet P., Floeter S. R., Friedlander A., Vigliola L., Bellwood D. R. 2014. Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 111(38): 13757-13762, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317625111
Luiz O. J., Allen A. P., Robertson D. R., Floeter S. R., Kulbicki M., Vigliola L., Becheler R., Madin J. S. 2013. Adult and larval traits as determinants of geographic range size among tropical reef fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 110(41): 16498-16502, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304074110
Kroeker K.J., Gambi M.C., Micheli F. 2013. Altered recovery dynamics result in homogenous assemblages in an acidified ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 110(31): 12721–12726, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1216464110
Kortsch, S., Primicerio, R., Beuchel, F., Renaud, P.E., Rodrigues, J., Lønne, O.J., Gulliksen, B. 2012. Climate-driven regime shifts in Arctic marine benthos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 109(35): 14052-14057; doi:10.1073/pnas.1207509109
Kroeker K.J., Micheli F., Gambi M.C., Martz T.R. 2011. Divergent ecosystem responses within a benthic marine community to ocean acidification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 108(35): 14515-14520, doi 10.1073/pnas.1107789108
IF=9.79
Ostrovsky A.N., S. Lidgard, D.P. Gordon, T. Schwaha, G. Genikhovich, A.V. Ereskovsky. 2014. Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm. Biological Review doi: 10.1111/brv.12189.
IF=8.76
Pinca S., Kronen M., Magron F., McArdle B., Vigliola L., Kulbicki M., Andréfouët S. 2012. Relative importance of habitat and fishing in influencing reef fish communities across seventeen Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Fish and Fisheries 13(4): 361-379, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00425.x
IF=8.22
Descombes P., Wisz M. S., Leprieur F., Parravicini V., Heine C., Olsen S. M., Swingedouw D., Kulbicki M., Mouillot D., Pellissier L. 2015. Forecasted coral reef decline in marine biodiversity hotspots under climate change. Global Change Biology 21(7): 2479-2487, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12868
Rodolfo-Metalpa, R., Montagna, P., Aliani, S., Borghini, M., Canese, S., Hall-Spencer, J.M., Foggo, A., Milazzo, M., Taviani, M., Houlbrèque, F. 2015. Calcification is not the Achilles’ heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean. Global Change Biology 21(6): 2238-2248. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12867
Rodolfo-Metalpa R., Hoogenboom M.O., Rottier C., Ramos-Espla A., Baker A.C., Fine M., Ferrier-Pagès C. 2014. Thermally tolerant corals have limited capacity to acclimatize to future warming. Global Change Biology 20(10): 3036-3049, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12571
Clark M.S., Husmann G., Thorne M.A.S., Burns G., Truebano M., Peck L.S., Abele D., Philipp E.E. 2013. Hypoxia impacts large adults first: consequences in a warming world. Global Change Biology 19(7) 2251-2263, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12197
Belmaker J., Parravicini V., Kulbicki M. 2013. Ecological traits and environmental affinity explain Red Sea fish introduction into the Mediterranean. Global Change Biology 19(5): 1373-1382, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12132
Watson S.-A., Peck L.S., Tyler P.A., Southgate P.C., Tan K.S., Day R.W., Morley S.A. 2012. Marine invertebrate skeleton size varies with latitude, temperature and carbonate saturation: implications for global change and ocean acidification. Global Change Biology 18(10): 3026-3038, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02755.x
Suggett D.J., Hall-Spencer J.M., Rodolfo-Metalpa R., Boatman T.G., Payton R., Pettay D.T., Johnson V.R., Warner M.E., Lawson T. 2012. Sea anemones may thrive in a high CO2 world. Global Change Biology 18(10): 3015-3025, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02767.x.
Johnson V.R., Russell B.D., Fabricius K., Brownlee C., Hall-Spencer J.M. 2012, Temperate and tropical brown macroalgae thrive, despite decalcification, along natural CO2 gradients.Global Change Biology 18(9): 2792-2803, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02716.x
Lo-Yat A., Simpson S.D., Meekan M., Lecchini D., Martinez E., Galzin R. 2011. Extreme climatic events reduce ocean productivity and larval supply in a tropical reef ecosystem. Global Change Biology 17(4): 1695-1702, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02355.x
IF=6.36
Festa V., De Marino S., Sepe V., D’auria M.V., Bifulco G., Debitus C., Bucci M., Vellecco V., Zampella A. 2011, Solomonamides A and B, new anti-inflammatory peptides from Theonella swinhoei, Organic Letters 13(6):1532-1535, doi: 10.1021/ol200221n
IF=5.84
Pante E, Puillandre N, Viricel A, Arnaud‐Haond S, Aurelle D, Castelin M, Chenuil A, Destombe C, Forcioli D, Valero M, Viard F, Samadi S. 2015. Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand. Molecular Ecology 24(3): 525-544, doi : 10.1111/mec.13048
Rastorgueff, P.-A., Chevaldonné, P., Arslan, D., Verna, C., Lejeusne, C. 2014. Cryptic habitats and cryptic diversity: unexpected patterns of connectivity and phylogeographical breaks in a Mediterranean endemic marine cave mysid. Molecular Ecology 23(11): 2825-2843, doi : 10.1111/mec.12776.
Robuchon, M., Le Gall, L., Mauger, S., Valero, M., 2014, Contrasting genetic diversity patterns in two sister kelp species co-distributed along the coast of Brittany, France, Molecular Ecology 23(11): 2669-2685, doi: 10.1111/mec.12774
Gonzalez-Wevar C.A., Saucède T., Morley S.A., Chown S.L., Poulin E. 2013. Extinction and recolonization of maritime Antarctica in the limpet Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908) during the last glacial cycle: toward a model of Quaternary biogeography in shallow Antarctic invertebrates. Molecular Ecology 22(20), 5221-5236 doi: 10.1111/mec.12465
Boissin E, Stöhr S, Chenuil A. 2011. Did vicariance and adaptation drive cryptic speciation and evolution of brooding in Ophioderma longicauda (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), a common atlanto-mediterranean ophiuroid? Molecular Ecology 20(22):4737-4755, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05309.x
Dailianis T.,Tsigenopoulos C.S., Dounas C., Voultsiadou E. 2011.Genetic diversity of the imperilled bathsponge Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 across the Mediterranean Sea: patterns of population differentiation and implications for taxonomy and conservation. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3757-3772, doi: 10.1111/j.1365‐294X.2011.05222.x
Mokhtar-Jamaï K., Pascual M., Ledoux J.-B., Coma R., Féral J.-P., Garrabou J., Aurelle D. 2011 Genetic structuring in the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata across the Mediterranean Sea : the interplay between oceanographic conditions and limited larval dispersal. Molecular Ecology 20(16): 3291-3305, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05176.x
IF=5.69
Cabaço S., Apostolaki E.T., García-Marín P., Gruber R., Hernández I., Martínez-Crego B., Mascaró O., Pérez M., Prathep A., Robbinson C., Romero J., Schmidt A.L., Short F.T., van Tussenbroek B.I., Santos R. (2013). Effects of nutrient enrichment on seagrass population dynamics: evidence and synthesis from the biomass-density relationships. Journal of Ecology 101(6):1552-1562, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12134
IF=5.58
Wright S., Hull T., Sivyer D.B., Pearce D., Pinnegar J.K., Sayer M.D.J., Mogg A.O.M., Azzopardi E., Gontarek S., Hyder K. 2016. SCUBA divers as oceanographic samplers: The potential of dive computers to augment aquatic temperature monitoring. Scientific Reports 6: 30164, doi:10.1038/srep30164
Lucey N.M., Lombardi C., De Marchi L., Schulze A., Gambi M.C., Calosi P. 2015. To brood or not to brood. Are marine organisms that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? Scientific Reports 5:12009, doi: 10.1038/srep12009
Cachet, N., Genta-Jouve, G., Ivanišević, J., Chevaldonné, P., Sinniger, F., Gulioli, G., Pérez, T., Thomas, O.P. 2015. Metabolomic profiling reveals deep chemical divergence between two morphotypes of the zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae. Scientific Reports 5:8282, doi:10.1038/srep08282
Milazzo M., Rodolfo-Metalpa R., Chan V. B. S., Fine M., Alessi C., Thiyagarajan V., Hall-Spencer J. M., Chemello R. 2014. Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment. Scientific Reports 4:4189 [7 p.], doi:10.1038/srep04189
Orkko A., Villnäs A., Norkko J., Valanko S., Pilditch C.A. 2013. Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function. Scientific Reports 3: 2646, doi: 10.1038/srep02646
IF=5.44
Festa C., Lauro G., De Marino S., D’Auria M.V., Monti M.C., Casapullo A., D’Amore C., Renga B., Mencarelli A., Petek Sylvain, Bifulco G., Fiorucci S., Zampella A. 2012. Plakilactones from the marine sponge Plakinastrella mamillaris: discovery of a new class of marine ligands of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 55(19): 8303-8317, doi: 10.1021/jm300911g
Sepe V., Ummarino R., D’auria M.V., Chini M.G., Bifulco G., Renga B., D’amore C., Debitus C., Fiorucci S., Zampella A. 2012. Conicasterol E, a small heterodimer partner sparing farnesoid X receptor endowed with a pregnane X receptor agonistic activity from the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 55(1): 84-93, doi: 0.1021/jm201004p
De Marino S., Ummarino R., D’Auria M.V., Chini M.G., Bifulco G., Renga B., D’Amore C., Fiorucci S., Debitus C., Zampella A. 2011. Theonanellasterols and conicasterols from Theonella swinheoi, novel marine natural ligands for human nuclear receptors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 54(8): 3065-3075, doi: 10.1021/jm200169t
Festa C., De Marino S., D’Auria M.V., Renga B., Fiorucci S., Petek S., Zampella A. 2011. Solomonsterols A and B from Theonella swinhoei : the first example of C-24 and C-23 sulfated sterols from a marine source endowed with a PXR agonistic activity. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 54(1): 401-401, doi: 10.1021/jm100968b.
IF=5.29
Calosi P., Rastrick S.P.S., Lombardi C., De Guzman H.J., Davidson L., Jahnke M., Giangrande A., Hardege J.D., Schulze A, Spicer J.I., Gambi M.C. 2013. Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO2 vent system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368(1627): 20120444, 10.1098/rstb 2012.0444
Ehrlich, H., Kaluzhnaya, O.V., Tsurkan, M.V., Ereskovsky, A., Tabachnick, K.R., Ilan, M., Stelling, A., Galli, R., Petrova, O.V., Nekipelov, S.V., Sivkov, V.N., Vyalikh, D., Born, R., Behm, T., Ehrlich, A., Chernogor, L.I., Belikov, S., Janussen, D., Bazhenov, V.V., Worheide, G. 2013. First report on chitinous holdfast in sponges (Porifera). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 280(1762): 20130339, 10.1098/rspb.2013.0339
IF=5.03
Hamel M. A., Andréfouët S., Pressey R. L. 2013. Compromises between international habitat conservation guidelines and small-scale fisheries in Pacific island countries. Conservation Letters 6(1): 46-57, doi: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00285.x