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Mark Benfield
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
915 Points

Contributions by role

Author 100
Reviewer 15
Editor 800

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Ecology
Evolutionary Studies
Marine Biology
Zoology
Molecular Biology
Taxonomy
Animal Behavior
Conservation Biology
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Impacts
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Climate Change Biology
Biological Oceanography
Microbiology
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Data Science
Population Biology

Mark C. Benfield

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. Adjunct (Guest Investigator) in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Member and Past-Chair of the ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology, member of the ICES Working Group on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy, Director of the Gulf SERPENT Project. Ph.D. (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) from Texas A&M University.

Biodiversity Biological Oceanography Ecology Environmental Impacts Marine Biology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Work details

Professor

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
April 1993
Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

Guest Investigator

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Biology

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 6
January 13, 2015
Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
Craig R. McClain, Meghan A. Balk, Mark C. Benfield, Trevor A. Branch, Catherine Chen, James Cosgrove, Alistair D.M. Dove, Leo Gaskins, Rebecca R. Helm, Frederick G. Hochberg, Frank B. Lee, Andrea Marshall, Steven E. McMurray, Caroline Schanche, Shane N. Stone, Andrew D. Thaler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.715 PubMed 25649000

Academic Editor on

October 7, 2020
A taxonomic review of the genus Astrocladus (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Euryalida, Gorgonocephalidae) from Japanese coastal waters
Masanori Okanishi, Hisanori Kohtsuka, Toshihiko Fujita
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9836 PubMed 33083106
October 5, 2020
Analysis of pedestrian activity before and during COVID-19 lockdown, using webcam time-lapse from Cracow and machine learning
Robert Szczepanek
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10132 PubMed 33083150
September 24, 2019
In situ growth and bioerosion rates of Lophelia pertusa in a Norwegian fjord and open shelf cold-water coral habitat
Janina V. Büscher, Max Wisshak, Armin U. Form, Jürgen Titschack, Kerstin Nachtigall, Ulf Riebesell
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7586 PubMed 31579574
February 15, 2019
Shifting headlines? Size trends of newsworthy fishes
Fiona T. Francis, Brett R. Howard, Adrienne E. Berchtold, Trevor A. Branch, Laís C.T. Chaves, Jillian C. Dunic, Brett Favaro, Kyla M. Jeffrey, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Natalie Maslowski, Jessica A. Schultz, Nicola S. Smith, Isabelle M. Côté
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6395 PubMed 30783570
October 10, 2018
Distribution of deep-water corals, sponges, and demersal fisheries landings in Southern California, USA: implications for conservation priorities
Enrique J. Salgado, Stephanie E. Nehasil, Peter J. Etnoyer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5697 PubMed 30324013
July 24, 2018
Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks in the Sulu and Bohol Seas, Philippines
Gonzalo Araujo, Christoph A. Rohner, Jessica Labaja, Segundo J. Conales, Sally J. Snow, Ryan Murray, Simon J. Pierce, Alessandro Ponzo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5231 PubMed 30065862