Larry Crowder

About

Larry Crowder is the Edward F. Ricketts Provostial Professor of Marine Ecology and Conservation at Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He is also an Affiliated Faculty member at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and a Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Biology. His research centers on predation and food web interactions, mechanisms underlying recruitment variation in fishes, population and food web modeling in conservation biology, and interdisciplinary approaches to marine conservation. Dr. Crowder has studied food web processes in both freshwater and marine ecosystems, utilizing observational, experimental, and modeling approaches to understand these interactions and improve management. He has led large interdisciplinary research projects such as the South Atlantic Bight Recruitment Experiment (SABRE), OBIS SEAMAP, and Project GLOBAL, and is involved in current projects including Dynamic Ocean Management in Costa Rica (DYNAMAR), Sea Turtle Research Experiment on the Thermal Corridor Hypothesis (STRETCH), and traits-based tools for fisheries management under climate change. His recent work focuses on marine conservation issues like bycatch, spatial ecological analysis, nutrients and hypoxia, sustainable seafood, ecosystem-based management, marine spatial planning, and governance. Dr. Crowder is an AAAS Fellow, received Duke University’s Scholar/Teacher of the…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Environmental science
• Environmental resource management
• Ecology
• Sociology
• Biology
• Environmental planning
• Oceanography
• Engineering ethics

Selected publications

• Integrating climate change in ocean planning

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · 177 citations

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• Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2022 · 172 citations

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  = 865 studies) to examine the contexts in which traits may be used for global change prediction. We find that exponential growth in the field over the last decade remains dominated by descriptive studies of terrestrial plant morphology, highlighting significant opportunities to expand trait-based thinking across systems and taxa. Very few studies (less than 3%) focus on predicting ecological effects of global change, mostly in the past 5 years and via singular traits that mediate abiotic limits…

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• Key components of sustainable climate-smart ocean planning

  npj Ocean Sustainability · 2024-03-12 · 37 citations

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  Abstract Planning of marine areas has spread widely over the past two decades to support sustainable ocean management and governance. However, to succeed in a changing ocean, marine spatial planning (MSP) must be ‘climate-smart’— integrating climate-related knowledge, being flexible to changing conditions, and supporting climate actions. While the need for climate-smart MSP has been globally recognized, at a practical level, marine managers and planners require further guidance on how to put it…

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• The effect of reef morphology on coral recruitment at multiple spatial scales

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024-01-08 · 30 citations

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  Coral reefs are in decline worldwide, making it increasingly important to promote coral recruitment in new or degraded habitat. Coral reef morphology—the structural form of reef substrate—affects many aspects of reef function, yet the effect of reef morphology on coral recruitment is not well understood. We used structure-from-motion photogrammetry and airborne remote sensing to measure reef morphology (rugosity, curvature, slope, and fractal dimension) across a broad continuum of spatial scales…

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• Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science

  Ecosphere · 2023 · 23 citations

  Abstract Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances theory, identifies research priorities, and supports management strategies by linking data, ideas, and tools. Accelerating environmental challenges increases the need to focus synthesis science on the most pressing questions. To leverage input from the broader research community, we convened a virtual workshop with participants from many countries and disciplines to examine how and where synthesis c…

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Frequent coauthors

• Elliott L. Hazen

  NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center

  79 shared

• John N. Kittinger

  Arizona State University

  66 shared

• Elena M. Finkbeiner

  Conservation International

  58 shared

• Steven J. Bograd

  NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center

  53 shared

• Dana K. Briscoe

  Cawthron Institute

  50 shared

• Benjamin S. Halpern

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  48 shared

• Timothy H. Frawley

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  45 shared

• Rebecca L. Lewison

  San Diego State University

  41 shared

Labs

• Crowder LabPI

  Crowder Lab Stanford University PhD Student Profiles

Education

• Ph.D., Marine Ecology and Conservation

  Stanford University

  1980

• M.S., Marine Biology

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1975

• B.S., Marine Biology

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1973

Awards & honors

• AAAS Fellow
• Duke University’s Scholar/Teacher of the year award in 2008-…
• National Geographic Explorer
• lifetime achievement award from the International Sea Turtle…

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