Outputs

2025

  • Villaseñor-Derbez, J. C., Lynham, J., Garibay-Toussaint, I., Narchi, N. E., O’Connor, R., Olguín-Jacobson, C., … & Micheli, F. (2025). Climate-resilient fisheries are more resilient in general. npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1), 56. doi: doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00154-1
  • Arafeh-Dalmau N, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Schoeman DS, Mora-Soto A, Bell TW, Butler CL, et al. Global floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying marine heatwave threats. Nature Communications. 2025;16: 3173. doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58054-4
  • Englander G, Zhang J, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Jiang Q, Hu M, Deschenes O, et al. Input subsidies and the depletion of natural capital: Chinese distant water fishing. J Environ Econ Manage. 2025;130: 103127. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103127

2024

  • Lynham J, Villaseñor-Derbez JC. Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries. Science. 2024;386: 1276–1281. doi:10.1126/science.adn1146
  • Kumagai JA, Goodman MC, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Schoeman DS, Cavanuagh KC, Bell TW, et al. Marine protected areas that preserve trophic cascades promote resilience of kelp forests to marine heatwaves. Glob Chang Biol. 2024;30: e17620. doi:10.1111/gcb.17620
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Arafeh-Dalmau N, Micheli F. Past and future impacts of marine heatwaves on small-scale fisheries in Baja California, Mexico. Commun Earth Environ. 2024;5: 623. doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01696-x
  • Villasenor-Derbez JC, Costello C, Plantinga AJ. A market for 30x30 in the ocean. Science. 2024;384: 1177–1179. doi:10.1126/science.adl4019

2023

  • Arafeh-Dalmau N, Munguia-Vega A, Micheli F, Vilalta-Navas A, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Précoma-de la Mora M, et al. Integrating climate adaptation and transboundary management: Guidelines for designing climate-smart marine protected areas. One Earth. 2023;6: 1523–1541. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.002
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Fulton S, Hernández-Velasco A, Amador-Castro IG. Biomass accrual benefits of community-based marine protected areas outweigh their operational costs. Front Mar Sci. 2023;10: 1180920. doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1180920
  • Pearson HC, Savoca MS, Costa DP, Lomas MW, Molina R, Pershing AJ, et al. Whales in the carbon cycle: can recovery remove carbon dioxide? Trends Ecol Evol. 2023;38: 238–249. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.012

2022

  • Wilson MW, Lawson JM, Rivera-Hechem MI, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Gaines SD. Evaluating conditions for moored fish aggregating device fisheries development in the Caribbean and Bermuda. Front Mar Sci. 2022;9: 827068. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.827068
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Amador-Castro IG, Hernández-Velasco A, Torre J, Fulton S. Two decades of community-based marine conservation provide the foundations for future action. Front Mar Sci. 2022;9: 893104. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.893104
  • Wintergalen EW, Oyanedel R, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Fulton S, Molina R. Opportunities and challenges for livelihood resilience in urban and rural Mexican small-scale fisheries. Ecol Soc. 2022;27. doi:10.5751/es-13471-270346

2021

  • Ramírez-Valdez A, Rowell TJ, Dale KE, Craig MT, Allen LG, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, et al. Asymmetry across international borders: Research, fishery and management trends and economic value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas). Fish and Fisheries. 2021;22: 1392–1411.
  • Tuholske C, Halpern BS, Blasco G, Villasenor JC, Frazier M, Caylor K. Mapping global inputs and impacts from of human sewage in coastal ecosystems. PLoS One. 2021;16: e0258898. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258898
  • Millage KD, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Bradley D, Burgess MG, Lenihan HS, Costello C. Self-financed marine protected areas. Environ Res Lett. 2021;16: 125001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac3439

2020

  • Wilson MW, Lawson JM, Rivera-Hechem MI, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Gaines SD. Status and trends of moored fish aggregating device (MFAD) fisheries in the Caribbean and Bermuda. Mar Policy. 2020;121: 104148. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X20304796
  • Lynham J, Nikolaev A, Raynor J, Vilela T, Villaseñor-Derbez JC. Impact of two of the world’s largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates. Nat Commun. 2020;11: 979. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14588-3
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Lynham J, Costello C. Environmental market design for large-scale marine conservation. Nature Sustainability. 2020;3: 234–240.

2019

  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Aceves-Bueno E, Fulton S, Suarez A, Hernández-Velasco A, Torre J, et al. An interdisciplinary evaluation of community-based TURF-reserves. PLoS One. 2019;14: e0221660. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221660
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Fitzgerald S. Spatial variation in allometric growth of invasive lionfish has management implications. PeerJ. 2019;7: e6667. doi:10.7717/peerj.6667
  • O’Hara CC, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Ralph GM, Halpern BS. Mapping status and conservation of global at-risk marine biodiversity. Conservation Letters. 2019;12: e12651.

2018

  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Faro C, Wright M, Martínez J, Fitzgerald S, Fulton S, et al. A user-friendly tool to evaluate the effectiveness of no-take marine reserves. PLoS One. 2018;13: e0191821. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191821
  • Peake J, Bogdanoff AK, Layman CA, Castillo B, Reale-Munroe K, Chapman J, et al. Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) in the temperate and tropical western Atlantic. Biological Invasions. 2018;20: 2567–2597. Available: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-018-1720-5

2016

  • Hernández-Velasco A, Fernández-Rivera-Melo FJ, Melo‐Merino SM, Villaseñor‐Derbez JC. Occurrence of Holacanthus clarionensis (Pomacanthidae), Stegastes leucorus, and Stegastes acapulcoensis (Pomacentridae) at Magdalena Bay, B.C.S., Mexico. Mar Biodivers Rec. 2016;9: 1–7. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0062-1

2015

  • Dreyfus-León MJ, Mejía-Trejo A, Villaseñor-Derbez JC. Analysis of null sets (zero catch) made by the Mexican tuna purse seine fleet (2000–2013). Ciencias Marinas. 2015;41: 85–92.
  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Hernández-Velasco A, Erauskin M, Fulton S, Cota-Nieto JJ, Torre J, et al. Effects of short-term marine reserves on grouper and bass populations. DataMares InteractiveResource http://dx doi org/1013022/M33K52. 2015.
  • Dreyfus-León MJ, Mejía-Trejo A. Analysis of null sets (zero cat ch) made by the Mexican tuna pur se seine fleet (2000–2013). Cienc Mar. 2015. Available: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/480/48039202001.pdf

2014

  • Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Herrera-Pérez R. Brief description of prey selectivity and ontogenetic changes in the diet of the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (Actinopterygii, Scorpaenidae) in the Mexican Caribbean. Panam J Aquat Sci. 2014;9: 131–135.

In review

  • Schiller L.L., Villaseñor-Derbez J.C., Lynham J., and Worm B. Global impacts of drifting fish aggregating devices on marine protected areas. In review at Science.
  • Villaseñor-Derbez J.C. et al., Digital technologies and the study of adaptation in small-scale fisheries. In review at Ocean and Coastal Management | working paper
  • Molina R., Villaseñor-Derbez J.C., McDonald G., and McDermott. The Economic and Environmental Cost of Pirate Avoidance. In review at Nature Communications | working paper

In prep

  • Villaseñor-Derbez J.C., Costello C., and Deschênes O.Subsidizing the tragedy of the commons: Fuel subsidies modify fishing behavior and drive overfishing. | working paper
  • Villaseñor-Derbez J.C. et al., Generalizability of Adaptive Responses in Small-Scale Fisheries: Insights from Latin America | working paper

Datasets

Software

  • EventHorizon: An R Package to build panels for event-study models based on a user-specified time horizon for repeated interventions
  • EVR628tools: An R Package with datasets, palettes, and functions to help in the instruction of EVR 528 / 628 Introduction to Data Management and Visualization for Environmental Scientists.

2025

  • Rhodes A. An Impromptu Fuel Subsidy Reform Decreases Effort by Tuna Longliners in the Gulf Of Mexico. GCFI78
  • Villaseñor-Derbez J.C. Subsidizing the tragedy of the commons: Evidence from fuel subsidies in Mexican industrial fisheries. Workshop on Energy and Environmental Research. University of Hawaii.
  • Villaseñor-Derbez J.C. Evidence of Spillover Benefits from Large-scale Marine Protected Areas to Purse Seine Fisheries. 2025 Measuring Development Conference. The World Bank.