Craig R. McClain

University of Louisiana at Lafayette — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

41h-index6.0kcitations131works3.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Marine Biology and Ecology Research(64), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(30), Marine and fisheries research(27), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies(27), Marine and coastal plant biology(20)

Publications131 total

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
PLoS Biology·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
<scp>MOBS</scp> 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Hidden Forests Below: A Review of the Ecology and Evolution of Wood Falls on the Deep Seafloor
Marine Ecology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Body-size Bias in Occurrence-based Biodiversity Datasets
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators
Ecology·2024· 1 cited
Macrofaunal Biodiversity and Patch Mosaics on the Deep Gulf of Mexico Seafloor
Marine Ecology·2024· 3 cited
Size bias in the documentation of marine biodiversity
Oikos·2024· 8 cited
Navigating uncertainty in maximum body size in marine metazoans
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Isolating the drivers of the species‐area relationship in experimental habitat islands
Journal of Biogeography·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Disentangling mechanisms of species–energy relationships in experimental deep‐sea wood falls
Ecosphere·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity
Ecology·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries
Frontiers in Marine Science·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Functional space expansion driven by transitions between energetically advantageous traits in the deep sea
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Low-Cost, Deep-Sea Imaging and Analysis Tools for Deep-Sea Exploration: A Collaborative Design Study
Frontiers in Marine Science·2022· 40 citedOpen Access
Energetic constraints on body-size niches in a resource-limited marine environment
Biology Letters·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Extremophiles in Earth's Deep Seas: A View Toward Life in Exo-Oceans
Astrobiology·2022· 12 cited
The macrofaunal metropolis in the sediments around the first‐ever deep‐sea alligator fall
Marine Ecology·2022· 1 cited
Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebrates
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2022· 37 citedOpen Access
Outstanding Questions in Whale Shark Research and Conservation
2021· 1 cited
How and Why Is the Whale Shark the World's Largest Fish?
2021
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael A. Rex(8), Seth Finnegan(7), Jonathan L. Payne(6), Alison G. Boyer(5), Derek P. Tittensor(5), James Barry(5), S. Kathleen Lyons(4), Ron J. Etter(4), Michał Kowalewski(3), Daniel W. McShea(3), Philip M. Novack‐Gottshall(3), Felisa A. Smith(3), Steve C. Wang(3), Paul G. Harnik(3), Heike K. Lotze(3), Sean C. Anderson(3), Zoe V. Finkel(3), David R. Lindberg(3), Lee Hsiang Liow(3), Rowan Lockwood(3)