Research

Selected Projects

The role of cyclical climate oscillations in species distribution shifts

Joint species distribution model of the Northwest Atlantic

Marine Protected Areas under climate change.

Publications

Tang, B., Roberts, S., Clark, J.S & Gelfand, A.E. (2023). Mechanistic modeling of climate effects on redistribution and population growth in a community of fish species. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16963

Roberts, S., Jacoby, A.M., Roberts, J., Leslie, J., Payne, K., Read, A.J., Halpin, P.N. Barco, S., Garrison, L., McLellan, W., Palka, D. & Nye, J. (2023). Tight spatial coupling of a marine predator with soniferous fishes: using joint modeling to aid in ecosystem approaches to management. Diversity and Distributions.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13746

Palacio-Abrates, J., Roberts, S., Cashion, T., Brink, T., Cheung, W.L., Mook, A., Nguyen, T. (2023). Marine Protected Areas Can Reduce Localized Losses to Fisheries Under Climate Change. FACETS. 8: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2022-0101

Roberts, S.M., Halpin, P.N. & Clark, J.S. Jointly modeling marine species to inform the effects of environmental change on an ecological community in the Northwest Atlantic. Sci Rep 12, 132 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04110-0

Roberts, S., Boustany, A., Halpin, P. (2020). Substrate-dependent fish have shifted less in distribution under climate change. Nature Communications Biology. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01325-1

Cashion, T., Nguyen, T. , Palacio-Abrates, J., Brink, W.L., Mook, A., Roberts, S. (2020). Shifting Seas, Shifting Boundaries: Dynamic Marine Protected Area designs for a Changing Climate. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241771

Roberts, S. (2019). The role of cyclical climate oscillations in species distribution shifts under climate change. In Predicting Future Oceans (pp. 129-135). Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-817945-1.00011-3

Roberts, S., Boustany, A., Halpin, P., & Rykaczewski, R. (2019). Cyclical climate oscillation alters species’ relationships with local habitat. Marine Ecology Progress Series. DOI: 10.3354/meps12890

Policy Documents

Cleary, J., S. Roberts, C. Curtice, P.N. Halpin (2017). “Exploring Species Range Shifts in the U.S. Mid Atlantic: Existing Literature, Web Portals, and Data”, report prepared for the MidAtlantic Council on the Ocean (MARCO), Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 54p. https://www.midatlanticocean.org