2026
Blythe, J. L., Claudet, J., Gill, D., Ban, N. C., Epstein, G., Gurney, G. G., Jupiter, S. D., Mahajan, S. L., Mangubhai, S., Turner, R., Bennett, N. J., D’Agata, S., Franks, P., Lau, J., Ahmadia, G., Andrachuk, M., Annasawmy, P., Brun, V., Darling, E. S., … Zafra-Calvo, N. (2026). The Ocean Equity Index. Nature.
2025
Andrachuk, M., Bennett, N. J., Sullivan-Wiley, K., Gurney, G. G., Jupiter, S., Singh, G. G., Dawson, N., Strand, M., Gill, D. A., & Lau, J. (2025). Assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation: Background, methods and guidance on three approaches. National Parks, 77.
Ban, N. C., Carr, M. H., Rubidge, E. M., Salomon, A., Claudet, J., Levine, A., Aylesworth, L., Ramirez, L., Burt, J. M., Andrachuk, M., Tamburello, N., Martone, R., Schuhbauer, A., Meehan, M., Baker, D., Gurney, G. G., Bennett, N. J., Gill, D., Singh, G., … Beaty, F. (2025). Accounting for human–nature linkages in area‐based conservation monitoring through social–ecological indicator bundles. Conservation Biology, 39(6), e70156.
Stephenson, F., Horta e Costa, B., Addamo, A. M., Bueno, P., Costello, M. J., Dudley, N., Eskuche-Keith, P. A., Fox, H. E., Gill, D., & Gordó-Vilaseca, C. (2025). Quality of marine protected areas is critical to achieving global biodiversity targets. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1), 63.
Bohorquez, J., Fine, M., Grieco, D. I., Gill, D. A., Al-Sawalmih, A., Padilla-Gamiño, J., Bolden, I. W., Hein, M., Backstrom, C., & McField, M. (2025). Coral reefs span borders, so must solutions: Transboundary conservation in complex political environments. Npj Ocean Sustainability.
Brun, V., Celis, A. I. J., Dubrana, C., Saludsod, M. M., Creencia, L. A., Gajardo, L. J. A., Gill, D. A., Madarcos, J. R. V., Madarcos, K. G., & Ventilacion, T. A. (2025). From ocean to markets: Fish exports threaten nutrition security in coastal communities. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 892.
Mark Andrachuk„ Nathan J Bennett, Jessica Blythe, Joachim Claudet, Neil Dawson, et al.. INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE Guidebook for assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation. IUCN. 2025.
Cui, C., Zhang, Y., Yang, S., Reich, B. J., & Gill, D. A. (2025). Matching estimators of causal effects in clustered observational studies. Journal of Causal Inference, 13(1), 20240061.
Bennett, N.J., Relano, V., Roumbedakis, K., Blythe, J.L., Andrachuk, M., Claudet, J., Dawson, N., Gill, D., Lazzari, N., Mahajan, S.L., et al. (2025). Ocean Equity: From assessment to action to improve social equity in ocean governance. Front. Mar. Sci. 12.
Smith, J.G., Lopazanski, C., Free, C.M., Brun, J., Anderson, C., Carr, M.H., Claudet, J., Dugan, J.E., Eurich, J.G., Francis, T.B., Gill, D. A., et al. (2025). Conservation benefits of a large marine protected area network that spans multiple ecosystems. Conservation Biology n/a, e14435.
Mast, A., Gill, D., Ahmadia, G.N., Darling, E.S., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Geldman, J., Epstein, G., and MacNeil, M.A. (2025). Shared governance increases marine protected area effectiveness. PLOS ONE 20, e0315896.
Horta e Costa, B., de Benito-Abelló, C., Pike, E., Turnbull, J., MacCarthy, J., Harasta, N., Fragkopoulou, E., Roessger, J., Sullivan-Stack, J., Grorud-Colvert, K., Gill, D., Morgan, L., Gonçalves, E. J., Zupan, M., Gonçalves, J. M.S., Claudet, J. (2025). Marine protected areas stage of establishment and level of protection are good predictors of their conservation outcomes. Cell Reports Sustainability.
2024
Son, D., Reich, B. J., Schliep, E. M., Yang, S., & Gill, D. A. (2024). Spatial causal inference in the presence of preferential sampling to study the impacts of marine protected areas (No. arXiv:2410.21213). arXiv.
Viana, D.F., Gill, D.A., Ahmadia, G., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Valdivia, A., Bennett, N.J. and Golden, C.D., 2024. Sustainable-use marine protected areas provide co-benefits to human nutrition. One Earth, 7(10), pp.1762-1771.
Claudet, J., Blythe, J., Gill, D. A., Bennett, N. J., Gurney, G. G., Evans, L., Mahajan, S. L., Turner, R. A., Ahmadia, G. N., & Ban, N. C. (2024). Advancing ocean equity at the nexus of development, climate and conservation policy. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(7), 1205–1208.
Gill, D. A., Lester, S. E., Free, C. M., Pfaff, A., Iversen, E., Reich, B. J., Yang, S., Ahmadia, G., Andradi-Brown, D. A., Darling, E. S., Edgar, G. J., Fox, H. E., Geldmann, J., Trung Le, D., Mascia, M. B., Mesa-Gutiérrez, R., Mumby, P. J., Veverka, L., & Warmuth, L. M. (2024). A diverse portfolio of marine protected areas can better advance global conservation and equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(10), e2313205121.
Le, D., Gill, D., Pakiding, F., Mascia, M., Glew, L., Ahmadia, G., Ratih, I., Claborn, K., Estradivari, E., Lazuardi, M. E., Matualage, D., Mohebalian, P., Nanlohy, H., Rasolofoson, R., Salosso, K., & Timisela, N. (2024). Environmental Conservation and Social Equality: Distributional Impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Eastern Indonesia. Research Square.
2023
Ban, N. C., Darling, E. S., Gurney, G. G., Friedman, W., Jupiter, S. D., Lestari, W. P., Yulianto, I., Pardede, S., Tarigan, S. A. R., Prihatiningsih, P., Mangubhai, S., Naisilisili, W., Dulunaqio, S., Naggea, J., Ranaivoson, R., Agostini, V. N., Ahmadia, G., Blythe, J., Campbell, S. J., … McClanahan, T. (2023). Effects of management objectives and rules on marine conservation outcomes. Conservation Biology, 37(6), e14156.
Baker, D.M., Bennett, N., Gruby, R.L., Mangubhai, S., Rotjan, R.D., Sterling, E., Sullivan-Wiley, K., Gill, D., Johnson, D., Singh, G.G., White, S.C., Gray, N.J., Imirzaldu, M., Ban, N.C., 2023. Improving human well-being outcomes in marine protected areas through futures thinking. One Earth 6, 1286–1290.
Free, C. M., Smith, J. G., Lopazanski, C. J., Brun, J., Francis, T. B., Eurich, J. G., Claudet, J., Dugan, J. E., Gill, D. A., Hamilton, S. L., Kaschner, K., Mouillot, D., Ziegler, S. L., Caselle, J. E., & Nickols, K. J., 2023. If you build it, they will come: Coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas. People and Nature, 5, 1592–1609.
Brown, C., Ahmadia, G. N., Andradi-Brown, D. A., Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Buelow, C. A., Campbell, M. D., Edgar, G. J., Geldmann, J., Gill, D., & Stuart-Smith, R. D. (2023). Entry fees enhance marine protected area management and outcomes. Biological Conservation, 283, 110105.
Gill, D.A., Blythe, J., Bennett, N., Evans, L., Brown, K., Turner, R.A., Baggio, J.A., Baker, D., Ban, N.C., Brun, V., Claudet, J., Darling, E., Franco, A.D., Epstein, G., Gray, N.J., Gurney, G.G., Horan, R.P., 2023. Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities. One Earth in press.
Andradi-Brown, D.A., Veverka, L., Amkieltiela, A., Crane, N.L., Estradivari, E., Fox, H., Gill, D., Goetze, J., Gough, C., Krueck, N., et al. 2023. Diversity in Marine Protected Area regulations: partial protection approaches for locally appropriate marine management. Frontiers in Marine Science 10, 160.
Blythe J.L., Gill D.A., Claudet J., Bennett N.J., Gurney G.G., Baggio J.A., Ban N.C., Bernard M.L., Brun V., Darling E.S., Di Franco A., Epstein G., Franks P., Horan R., Jupite S. D., Lau J., Lazzari N., Mahajan S. L., Mangubhai S., Naggea J., Turner R.A., Zafra-Calvo N., 2023. Blue justice: a review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements. Cambridge Prisms Coastal futures. Jan 26;1–36.
2022
Cui, C., Yang, S., Reich, B. J., & Gill, D. A. (2022). Matching Estimators of Causal Effects in Clustered Observational Studies with Application to Quantifying the Impact of Marine Protected Areas on Biodiversity (No. arXiv:2210.03890). arXiv.
Joachim Claudet, Natalie C. Ban, Jessica Blythe, Johnny Briggs, Emily Darling, Georgina G. Gurney, James E. Palardy, Elizabeth P. Pike, Vera N. Agostinim Gabby N. Ahmadia, Stuart J. Campbell, Graham Epstein, Estradivari, David Gill, Amber Himes-Cornell, Harry D. Jonas, Stacy D. Jupiter, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Lance Morgan. 2022. Avoiding the Misuse of other effective area-based conservation measures in the wake of the blue economy. One Earth 5:9 pp. 969-974.
Nathan J. Bennett, Molly Dodge, Thomas S. Akre, Steven W.J. Canty, Rafael Chiaravalloti, Ashley A. Dayer, Jessica L. Deichmann, David Gill, Melanie McField, James McNamara, Shannon E. Murphy, A. Justin Nowakowski, Melissa Songer. 2022. Social science for conservation in working landscapes and seascapes. Frontiers in Conservation Science 3:954930
Lisa M. Campbell, Robin Fail, Rebecca Horan, Leslie Acton, Jeffrey E. Blackwatters, Alejandro Garcia Lozano, David Gill, Noella Gray, Rebecca Gruby, Emily Melvin, Grant Murray, Emilie Wiehe. Architecture and agency for equity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Earth System Governance vol. 13.
Robert Y. Fidler, Gabby N. Ahmadia, Amkieltiela, Awaludinnoer, Courtney Cox, Estradivari, Louise Glew, Christian Handayani, Shauna L. Mahajan, Michael B. Mascia Fitryanti Pakiding, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Stuart J. Campbell, Kelly Clarborn, Matheus De Nardo, Helen E. Fox, David Gill, Nur I. Hidayat, Raymond Jakub, Duong T. Le, Purwanto, Abel Valdivia, Alastair R. Harborne. 2022. Participation, not Penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas. Science Advances 8:18.
Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson. 2022. Statistical matching for conservation science revisited: response to Schleicher et. al. 2020. Conservation Biology.
2021
Nathan J. Bennett, Laure Katz, Whitney Yadao-Evans, Gabby N. Ahmadia, Scott Atkinson, Natalie C. Ban, Neil M. Dawson, Asha de Vos, Juno Fitzpatrick, David Gill, Mael Imirizaldu, Naia Lewis, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Leah Meth, Ella-Kari Muhl, David Obura, Ana K. Spalding, Angelo Villagomez, Daniel Wagner, Alan White, and Aulani Wilhelm., 2021. Advancing social equity in and through marine conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science, p.994.
Anderson, S.C., Elsen, P.R., Hughes, B.B., Tonietto, R.K., Bletz, M.C., Gill, D.A., Holgerson, M.A., Kuebbing, S.E., McDonough MacKenzie, C., Meek, M.H. and Veríssimo, D., 2021. Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Grorud-Colvert, K., Sullivan-Stack, J., Roberts, C., Constant, V., Horta e Costa, B., Pike, E. P., Kingston, N., Laffoley, D., Sala, E., Claudet, J., Friedlander, A. M., Gill, D. A., Lester, S. E., Day, J. C., Gonçalves, E. J., Ahmadia, G. N., Rand, M., Villagomez, A., Ban, N. C., … Lubchenco, J. (2021). The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean. Science, 373(6560), eabf0861.
Gurney, G. G., Darling, E. S., Ahmadia, G. N., Agostini, V. N., Ban, N. C., Blythe, J., Claudet, J., Epstein, G., Estradivari, Himes-Cornell, A., Jonas, H. D., Armitage, D., Campbell, S. J., Cox, C., Friedman, W. R., Gill, D., Lestari, P., Mangubhai, S., McLeod, E., … Jupiter, S. D. (2021). Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: Use OECMs. Nature, 595(7869), 646–649.
Phua, C., Andradi-Brown, D. A., Mangubhai, S., Ahmadia, G. N., Mahajan, S. L., Larsen, K., Friel, S., Reichelt, R., Hockings, M., Gill, D., Veverka, L., Anderson, R., Cédrique Augustave, L., Awaludinnoer, Bervoets, T., Brayne, K., Djohani, R., Kawaka, J., Kyne, F., … Wells, S. (2021). Marine protected and conserved areas in the time of COVID. PARKS, 27, 85–102.
Baker, D., Murray, G., Kaijage, J., Levine, A., Gill, D., & Makupa, E. (2021). Relationships Matter: Assessing the Impacts of a Marine Protected Area on Human Wellbeing and Relational Values in Southern Tanzania. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Sykora-Bodie, S. T., Álvarez-Romero, J. G., Arata, J. A., Dunn, A., Hinke, J. T., Humphries, G., Jones, C., Skogrand, P., Teschke, K., Trathan, P. N., Welsford, D., Ban, N. C., Murray, G., & Gill, D. A. (2021). Using Forecasting Methods to Incorporate Social, Economic, and Political Considerations Into Marine Protected Area Planning. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 669135.
2020
Bennett, N. J., Finkbeiner, E. M., Ban, N. C., Belhabib, D., Jupiter, S. D., Kittinger, J. N., Mangubhai, S., Scholtens, J., Gill, D.,& Christie, P. 2020. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries, and Coastal Fishing Communities. Coastal Management,48(4), 336-347.
Brooks W.R., Rudd M.E., Cheng S.H., Silliman B.R., Gill D.A., et al. 2020. Social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions in tropical coastal marine ecosystems: a systematic map protocol. EnvironmentalEvidence;9(1):9.
Cheng S.H., McKinnon M.C., Masuda Y.J., Garside R., Jones K.W., Miller D.C., Pullin, A.S., Sutherland, W.J., Augustin, C., Gill, D.A., et al. 2020. Strengthen causal models for better conservation outcomes for human well-being. PLOS ONE. 15(3):e0230495.
2019
Gill, D.A., Cheng, S.H., Glew, L., Aigner, E., Bennett, N.J., Mascia, M.B. 2019. Social Synergies, Tradeoffs, and Equity in Marine Conservation Impacts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources44:1.
Schuhmann, P., Skeete, R., Waite, R., Bangwayo-Skeete, P., Casey, J., Oxenford, H.A., Gill, D.A., 2019. Coastal and Marine Quality and Tourists ’ Stated Intention to Return to Barbados. Water 11, 1265.
Fisher, B., Herrera, D., Adams, D., Fox, H. E., Gallagher, L., Gerkey, Gill, D.A., Golden, C., Hole, D., Johnson, K., Mulligan, M., Myers, S.S., Naidoo, R., Pfaff, A., Rasolofoson, R., Selig, E.R., Tickner, D., Treuer, T., Ricketts, T. 2019. Can nature deliver on the sustainable development goals? The LancetPlanetary Health, 3(3), e112–e113.
Schuhmann, P.W., Skeete, R., Waite, R., Lorde, T., Bangwayo-Skeete, P., Oxenford, H.A.,Gill, D., Moore, W., Spencer, F. 2019. Visitors’ willingness to pay marine conservation fees in Barbados.Tourism Management, 71, 315–326.
Gill, D.A., Oxenford, H.A., Turner, R.A., Schuhmann, P.W. Making the most of data-poor fisheries: lowcost mapping of small island fisheries to inform policy. 2019.Marine Policy101: 198–207.
2018
Gill, D.A., Oxenford, H.A., Schuhmann, P.W. Values associated with reef-related fishing in the Caribbean: A comparative study. in Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Springer, Cham, 2019. 295-328.
Turner, R.A., Gill, D., Fitzsimmons, C., Forster, J., Mahon, R. Peterson, A., Stead, S. Supporting Enhancement of Stewardship in Small-Scale Fisheries: Perceptions of Governance Among Caribbean Coral Reef Fishers. in Viability and Sustainability of Small-ScaleFisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Springer, Cham, 2019.473-494
Guerrero, A., Bennett, N., Wilson, K., Carter, N., Gill. D., Mills, M., Ives, C., Selinske, M., Larrosa, C., Bekessy, S., Januchowski-Hartley, F., Travers, H., Wyborn, C., Nuno, A. 2018. Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: A review and prospectus. Ecology & Society. 23(3):38.
Ahmadia, G.N, Darling, E., Andradi-Brown, D., Barnes, M., Estradivari, Gill, D.et al. (2018) Recruit young scientists and local talent to safeguard coral reefs. Nature 557 (7706) (co-signatory)
Cheng, S.H., Augustin, C., Bethel, A., Gill, D., Anzaroot, S., Brun, J., DeWilde, B., Minnich, R.C., Garside, R., Masuda, Y.J., Miller, D.C., Wilkie, D., Wongbusarakum, S., McKinnon, M. C.2018. Using machine learning to advance synthesis and use of conservation and environmental evidence. conservation biology. 32(4), 762–764
2017
Turner, R.A., Forster, J., Fitzsimmons, C., Gill, D., Mahon, R.Peterson, A., Stead, S.2017. Social fit of coral reef governance varies among individuals. Conservation Letters. 00:e12422.
Mascia, M.B., Fox, H.E., Glew, L., Ahmadia, G., Agrawal, A., Barnes, M., Basurto, X., Craigie, I., Darling, E., Geldmann, J., Gill, D.A., et al. 2017. Analyzing Conservation Impacts: Evaluation, Theory, and Marine Protected Areas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1399:93–115.
Bennett, N.J., Teh, L., Ota, Y., Christie, P., Ayers, A., Day, J.C., Franks, P., Gill, D., et al. 2017. An appeal for a code of conduct for marine conservation. Marine Policy. 81:411-418.
Yeager, L.A., Marchand, P., Gill, D.A., Baum, J.K. and McPherson, J.M. 2017.MSEC: Queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies. Ecology. 98:1976.
Gill, D.A., Mascia, M.B., Ahmadia, G., Glew, L., Lester, S., Barnes, M., Craigie, I., Darling, E., Free, C., Geldmann, J., Holst, S., Jensen, O., White, A.T., Basurto, X., Coad, L., Gates, R.D., Guannel, G., Mumby, P.J., Thomas, H., Whitmee, S., Woodley, S., Fox, H.E. 2017. Global capacity gaps hinder the conservation performance of marine protected areas. Nature. 543(7647): 665–669.
2016
Schuhmann, P.W., Bass, B.E., Casey, J.F., Gill, D.A.2016. Visitor preferences and willingness to pay for coastal attributes in Barbados. Ocean & Coastal Management. 134:240-250.
2015
Ahmadia, G.N., Glew, L., Provost, M., Gill, D., Hidayat, N.I., Mangubhai, S., Purwanto, Fox, H.E. 2015. Integrating impact evaluation in the design and implementation of monitoring marine protected areas. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B.370:20140275.
Vallès, H., Gill, D.and Oxenford, H.A. 2015. Parrotfish size is a useful indicator of fishing effects in small Caribbean islands. Coral Reefs. 34 (3): 789-801.
Gill, D.A., Schuhmann, P.W., Oxenford, H.A. 2015. Recreational diver preferences for reef fish attributes: Economic implications of future change. Ecological Economics. 111:48–57.
2013
Schuhmann, P.W. Cazabon-Mannette, M., Gill, D., Casey, J.F., and Hailey, A. 2013. Willingness to pay to avoid high encounter levels at dive sites in the Caribbean. Tourism in Marine Environments. 9 (1-2): 81-94.
2011
Mahon, R., Almerigi, S., Appeldoorn, R., Baldwin, K., Bustamante, G., Cramer, J., Ehrhardt, N., Gill, D., et al. 2011. The vision for EBM of coral reef ecosystems in the wider Caribbean region. In TowardsMarine Ecosystem-based Management in the Wider Caribbean. Ed. Fanning, L., R. Mahon and P.McConney. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011 pp. 323-334
