McField, Melanie
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Director
Geographic Focus
Education And Training
Ph.D.
in Marine Science,
University of South Florida
,
College of Marine Science,
The Influence of Disturbance and Management on Coral Reef Community Structure in Belize 1996 - 2001
Selected Publications
Article
Canty, Steven W. J., Nowakowski, A. J., Cox, Courtney E., Valdivia, Abel, Holstein, Daniel M., Limer, Benjamin, Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Craig, Nicole, Drysdale, Ian, Giro, Ana, Soto, Mélina, and McField, Melanie. 2024. "Interplay of management and environmental drivers shifts size structure of reef fish communities ." Global Change Biology , 30, (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17257 .
2024
Nowakowski, A. Justin, Canty, Steven W. J., Bennett, Nathan J., Cox, Courtney E., Valdivia, Abel, Deichmann, Jessica L., Akre, Thomas S., Bonilla-Anariba, Sara E., Costedoat, Sebastien, and McField, Melanie. 2023. "Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people ." Nature Sustainability , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01150-4 .
2023
Hing, Catherine Lee, Guifarro, Zara, Dueñas, Damaris, Ochoa, Gabriela, Nunez, Alicia, Forman, Kirah, Craig, Nicole, and McField, Melanie D. 2022. "Corrigendum: Management responses in Belize and Honduras, as stony coral tissue loss disease expands its prevalence in the Mesoamerican reef ." Frontiers in Marine Science , 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1083312 .
2022
Canty, Steven W. J., Nowakowski, A. J., Connette, Grant M., Deichmann, Jessica L., Songer, Melissa, Chiaravalloti, Rafael, Dodge, Molly, Feistner, Anna T. C., Fergus, Craig, Hall, Jefferson S., Komatsu, Kimberly J., Linares‐Palomino, Reynaldo, McField, Melanie, Ogburn, Matthew B., Velez‐Zuazo, Ximena, and Akre, Thomas S. 2022. "Mapping a conservation research network to the Sustainable Development Goals ." Conservation Science and Practice , https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12731 .
2022
Bennett, Nathan J., Dodge, Molly, Akre, Thomas S., Canty, Steven W. J., Chiaravalloti, Rafael, Dayer, Ashley A., Deichmann, Jessica L., Gill, David, McField, Melanie, McNamara, James, Murphy, Shannon E., Nowakowski, A. J., and Songer, Melissa. 2022. "Social science for conservation in working landscapes and seascapes ." Frontiers in Conservation Science , 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2022.954930 .
2022
Moreno, Claudia Shantal, Roman-Cuesta, Rosa, Canty, Steven W. J., Herrera, Jorge, Teutli, Claudia, Muñiz-Castillo, Aarón Israel, McField, Melanie, Soto, Melina, do Amaral, Cibele, Paton, Steven, González-Trujillo, Juan David, Poulter, Benjamin, Schumacher, Melissa, and Durán-Díaz, Pamela. 2022. "Stakeholders' Perceptions of Nature-Based Solutions for Hurricane Risk Reduction Policies in the Mexican Caribbean ." Land , 11, (10) 1701. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101701 .
2022
Alves, Catherine, Valdivia, Abel, Aronson, Richard B., Bood, Nadia, Castillo, Karl D., Cox, Courtney, Fieseler, Clare, Locklear, Zachary, McField, Melanie, Mudge, Laura, Umbanhowar, James, and Bruno, John F. 2022. "Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef ." PLOS ONE , 17, (1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249155 .
2022
Pisa, Lennard, Goulson, Dave, Yang, En-Cheng, Gibbons, David, Sánchez-Bayo, Francisco, Mitchell, Edward, Aebi, Alexandre, van der Sluijs, Jeroen, MacQuarrie, Chris J. K., Giorio, Chiara, Long, Elizabeth Yim, McField, Melanie D., van Lexmond, Maarten Bijleveld, and Bonmatin, Jean-Marc. 2021. "An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems ." Environmental Science and Pollution Research , 28 11749–11797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0341-3 .
2021
Kjerfve, Bjorn, McField, Melanie, Thattai, Deeptha, and Giro, Ana. 2021. "Coral reef health in the Gulf of Honduras in relation to fluvial runoff, hurricanes, and fishing pressure ." Marine pollution bulletin , 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112865 .
2021
Kline, David, I., Dehgan, Alex, Bunje, Paul, Selbe, Shah, Chirayath, Ved, Pizarro, Oscar, Leray, Matthieu, Connolly, Sean, Bongaert, Pim, Treibitz, Tali, Levy, Oren, Kriegman, David, Andersson, Andreas, McField, Melanie D., and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2021. "The Coral Reef Sentinels Program: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health ." Marine Technology Society Journal , 55, (3) 118–118. https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.55.3.51 .
2021
Randazzo-Eisemann, Ángela, Arias-González, Jesús Ernesto, Velez, Laure, McField, Melanie, and Mouillot, David. 2021. "The last hotspots of structural complexity as conservation targets in the Mesoamerican Coral Reef ." Biological Conservation , 256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109021 .
2021
Bradley, Patricia, Jessup, Ben, Pittman, Simon J., Jeffrey, Christopher F. G., Ault, Jerald S., Carrubba, Lisamarie, Lilyestrom, Craig, Appeldoorn, Richard S., Schärer, Michelle T., Walker, Brian K., McField, Melanie, Santavy, Deborah L., Smith, Tyler B., García-Moliner, Graciela, Smith, Steven G., Huertas, Evelyn, Gerritsen, Jeroen, Oliver, Leah M., Horstmann, Christina, and Jackson, Susan K. 2020. "Development of a reef fish biological condition gradient model with quantitative decision rules for the protection and restoration of coral reef ecosystems ." Marine pollution bulletin , 159 111387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111387 .
2020
Deichmann, Jessica L., Canty, Steven W. J., Akre, Thomas S. B., and McField, Melanie. 2019. "Broadly defining "working lands"." Science , 363, (6431) 1046–1047. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw3007 .
2019
Muñiz-Castillo, Aarón Israel, Rivera-Sosa, Andrea, Chollett, Iliana, Eakin, C. M., Andrade-Gómez, Luisa, McField, Melanie, and Arias-González, Jesús Ernesto. 2019. "Three decades of heat stress exposure in Caribbean coral reefs: a new regional delineation to enhance conservation ." Scientific Reports , 9, (1) 11013. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47307-0 .
2019
Cox, Courtney, Valdivia, A., McField, Melanie D., Castillo, K., and Bruno, J. F. 2017. "Establishment of marine protected areas alone does not restore coral reef communities in Belize ." Marine Ecology Progress Series , 563 65–79. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11984 .
2017
Suchley, Adam, McField, Melanie D., and Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo. 2016. "Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs ." PeerJ , 4 e2084. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2084 .
2016
Rocha, Luiz A., Rocha, Claudia R., Baldwin, Carole C., Weigt, Lee A., and McField, Melanie D. 2015. "Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish - Springer." Coral Reefs , 34, (3) 803–806. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-015-1293-z .
2015
Edwards, Helen J., Elliott, Ian A., Eakin, C. Mark, Irikawa, Akiyuki, Madin, Joshua S., McField, Melanie D., Morgan, Jessica A., Van Woesik, Robert, and Mumby, Peter J. 2011. "How much time can herbivore protection buy for coral reefs under realistic regimes of hurricanes and coral bleaching? " Global Change Biology , 17, (6) 2033–2048. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02366.x .
2011
Carilli, Jessica E., Norris, Richard D., Black, Bryan, Walsh, Sheila M., and McField, Melanie D. 2010. "Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold ." Global Change Biology , 16, (4) 1247–1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02043.x .
2010
Chapter
Precht, William F., Aronson, Richard B., Gardner, Toby A., Gill, Jennifer A., Hawkins, Julie P., Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A., Jaap, Walter C., McClanahan, Tim R., McField, Melanie D., Murdoch, Thaddeus J. T., Nugues, Maggy M., Roberts, Callum M., Schelten, Christiane K., Watkinson, Andrew R., and Côté, Isabelle M. 2020. "The timing and causality of ecological shifts on Caribbean reefs ." In Advances in Marine Biology . 331–360. Elsevier. 87 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2020.08.008 .
2020
McField, Melanie D., Drysdale, Ian, Marisol, Rueda Flores, Pott, Roberto, and Giro, Ana. 2017. "Collaborative, adaptive management of the Mesoamerican Reef ." In Handbook on the Economics and Management for Sustainable Oceans . Nunes, P., Svenssona L.E., and Markandya A., editors. 201–220. Cheltenham, UK and Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2017
Dataset
Bennett, Nathan, Dodge, Molly, Akre, Thomas S., Canty, Steven W. J., Chiaravalloti, Rafael, Dayer, Ashley, Deichmann, Jessica L., Gill, David, McField, Melanie, McNamara, James, Murphy, Shannon, Nowakowski, A. Justin, and Songer, Melissa A. 2023. [Dataset] Bennett et al 2022_Ciencias sociales para la conervacion en paisajes terrestres y marinos laborables.pdf . [920124-Bytes] Distributed by Edgewater, Maryland: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.22325083.V1 .
2023
