Publications

♦ = undergraduate mentee

Peer-Reviewed Articles

In progress

  • 🕒Kitchel, Z. J., et al. Who participated in novel opportunities that arose due to recent rockfish rebuilding in the northwest Pacific and was it worth it?

    • In review

  • 🔎Schaffzin, M.♦, Kitchel, Z. J., & Pondella II, D. J. Partitioning the Reef: Habitat and Environmental Drivers of Co-occurring Gorgonian Octocorals in the Southern California Bight. In first review at Coral Reefs.
  • 🔎Kitchel, Z. J., Liu, O. R., Kaplan, I. C., Samhouri, J. F., and Selden, R. L. Convergent reliance on shellfish but regionally distinct opportunities for flexibility in groundfish fisheries across opposite coasts of the United States. In first review at Fish and Fisheries.

    • In Press

  • 📄Nothing currently in press!

    • Published

    1. Kitchel, Z. J., Claisse, J. T., Pondella II, D. J., Williams, C. M., Williams, J. P., & Shroeder, D. (2025). Community structure of southern California’s subtidal rocky reefs and implications for artificial reef design. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 774:91-108. Link
    2. Kitchel, Z. J., Maureaud, A. A., Fredston, A., Shackell, N., Mérigot, B., Thorson, J. T., Pécuchet, L., et al. (2025). Marine communities do not follow the paradigm of increasing similarity through time. PLOS Climate, 4(7), e0000659. Link
    3. Free, C. M., Kitchel, Z. J., Seeley, M., & Shields, A. (2025). Quota allocation policies in U.S. federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience. Fish and Fisheries, 26:790–808. Link
    4. Maureaud, A. A., Kitchel, Z., Fredston, A., Guralnick, R., Palacios Abrantes, J., Deng Palomares, M. L., Pinsky, M. L., Shackell, N., Thorson, J. T., & Mérigot, B. (2025). FISHGLOB: a collaborative infrastructure for marine science and management. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(6). Link
    5. Selden, R. L., Kitchel, Z. J., Coleman, K. E., Calzada, L., Nogues, B., & St. Martin, K. (2024). Using historical catch flexibility and fishing ground mobility as measures of the adaptive capacity of fishing communities to future ocean change. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(10), 1972–1987. Link
    6. Maureaud, A. A., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Kitchel, Z., Mannocci, L., Pinsky, M., Fredston, A., et al. (2024). FishGlob_data: an integrated database of fish biodiversity sampled with scientific bottom-trawl surveys. Scientific Data, 11, 24. Link
    7. Fredston, A. L., Cheung, W. W., Frölicher, T. L., Kitchel, Z. J., Maureaud, A. A., et al. (2023). Marine heatwaves are not a dominant driver of change in demersal fishes. Nature, 621, 324–329. Link
    8. Kitchel, Z. J., & Pinsky, M. L. (2023). Regional species losses lag behind species gains and thermal conditions across the North American continental shelf. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(7), 1205–1217. Link
    9. Kitchel, Z. J., Conrad, H. M.♦, Selden, R. L., & Pinsky, M. L. (2022). The role of continental shelf bathymetry in shaping marine range shifts in the face of climate change. Global Change Biology, 28(17), 5185–5199. Link
    10. Pinsky, M. L., Selden, R. L., & Kitchel, Z. J. (2020). Climate-driven shifts in marine species ranges: Scaling from organisms to communities. Annual Review of Marine Science, 12, 153–179. Link

    Other Publications

    • Free, C. M., Kitchel, Z. J., Seeley, M., & Shields, A. (2024). Quota allocation policies in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience. Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New York.
    • Kitchel, Z. J., & Zemeckis, D. R. (2021). Climate Change Impacts on New Jersey’s Marine Fisheries. Rutgers Cooperative Extension Bulletin E369. Link
    • Kitchel, Z. J., Bandara, R. M. W. J., Bos, J. T., Clark, R. D., Forrest, D. L., & Pinsky, M. L. (2019). Ocean Recovery: A Sustainable Future for Global Fisheries? In: Ray Hilborn & Ulrike Hilborn (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Link
    • Kitchel, Z. J. (2019). Equity and Interdisciplinarity in International Ocean Governance In: The Nippon Foundation: Nereus Program Blog. Link