D. Ross Robertson

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — PA

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies(137), Marine and fisheries research(107), Ichthyology and Marine Biology(72), Identification and Quantification in Food(72), Genetic diversity and population structure(46)

Publications243 total

Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals
Nature Communications·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal
Science Advances·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
A DNA Barcode Dataset for the Aquatic Fauna of the Panama Canal: Novel Resources for Detecting Faunal Change in the Neotropics
Data·2025Open Access
Age and growth of the <scp>Pacific</scp> goliath grouper (<i>Epinephelus quinquefasciatus</i>), the largest bony reef fish of the <scp>Tropical Eastern Pacific</scp>
Journal of Fish Biology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Hypoplectrus espinosai sp. nov. (Teleostei: Serranidae), a new hamlet on coral reefs in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
Zootaxa·2025· 1 cited
New fish migrations into the Panama Canal increase likelihood of interoceanic invasions in the Americas
Current Biology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Population dynamics of the nonnative damselfish <i> Neopomacentrus cyanomos</i> and its potential competitors on coral reefs in the southern Gulf of Mexico
Bulletin of Marine Science·2025· 1 cited
Analysis of bulk stable isotopes and trophic positions of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) on deep versus shallow reefs at Curacao
Biological Invasions·2024
Cryptic Diversity in Scorpaenodes xyris (Jordan &amp; Gilbert 1882) (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) Throughout the Tropical Eastern Pacific
Journal of Molecular Evolution·2024· 1 cited
Local Ecological Knowledge as a Conservation Tool for Identifying Threats to the Pacific Goliath Grouper (<i>Epinephelus quinquefasciatus</i>) in Panama
Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Geographic genetic variation in the Coral Hawkfish, <i>Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus</i> (Cirrhitidae), in relation to biogeographic barriers across the Tropical Indo-Pacific
PeerJ·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
A widespread, consistent, and perplexing biphasic pattern in log catch‐at‐age data from a widely harvested family of tropical reef fishes
Fish and Fisheries·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Establishment genomics of the Indo-Pacific damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos, in the Greater Caribbean
Biological Invasions·2023· 2 cited
Reef-associated Bony Fishes of the Greater Caribbean: A Checklist (VERSION 5)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Reef-associated Bony Fishes of the Greater Caribbean: A Checklist (VERSION 5)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
The evolutionary age-range size relationship is modulated by insularity and dispersal in plants and animals
2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Comparative phylogeography and demographic histories of five widely distributed tropical eastern Pacific fishes
Marine Biology·2023· 2 cited
Two new species of Varicus from Caribbean deep reefs, with comments on the related genus Pinnichthys (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup)
ZooKeys·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Generic reassignment of Centropristis fuscula Poey, 1861 (Teleostei: Serranidae), with re-description of the species and comments on its geographical range and sexual system
Zootaxa·2023Open Access
Description of the First Species of Polylepion (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Atlantic Ocean with Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships of the New Species
Ichthyology & Herpetology·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Luiz A. Rocha(9), Brian W. Bowen(9), H. A. Lessios(7), J. Howard Choat(5), Anna L. Bass(4), Sergio R. Floeter(3), Peter Wirtz(3), Giacomo Bernardi(3), Matthew T. Craig(3), Lynne van Herwerden(3), John D. Cubit(2), Robert R. Warner(2), W. Stewart Grant(2), Nicholas Polunin(2), Mark V. Erdmann(2), Carole C. Baldwin(2), Kendall D. Clements(2), John E. McCosker(2), Rich Mooi(2), Gustav Paulay(2)