Chakraborty, Subhendu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2904-9313, Andersen, Ken H., Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Riemann, Lasse (2025) Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean. Science Advances, 11 (8). DOI https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq4693.

To, Sze-Wing ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-3385, Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Smith, Sherwood Lan, Chakraborty, Subhendu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2904-9313 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2024) Ecological and environmental factors influencing exclusion patterns of phytoplankton size classes in lake systems. Ecological Complexity, 61 . p. 101115. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2024.101115.

Steiglechner, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-5983, Keijzer, Marijn A., E. Smaldino, Paul, Moser, Deyshawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1789-9393 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2024) Noise and opinion dynamics: how ambiguity promotes pro-majority consensus in the presence of confirmation bias. Royal Society Open Science, 11 (4). DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231071.

To, Sze Wing ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-3385, Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4222-7062, Chakraborty, Subhendu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2904-9313, Pomati, Francesco and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2024) Grazing strategies determine the size composition of phytoplankton in eutrophic lakes. Limnology and Oceanography . DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12538.

Post, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-5186, Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Barton, Andrew D. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2024) The XSO framework (v0.1) and Phydra library (v0.1) for a flexible, reproducible, and integrated plankton community modeling environment in Python. Geoscientific Model Development, 17 (3). pp. 1175-1195. DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1175-2024.

Steiglechner, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-5983, Smaldino, Paul E., Moser, Deyshawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1789-9393 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2023) Social identity bias and communication network clustering interact to shape patterns of opinion dynamics. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 20 (209). DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0372.

Hohn, Sönke, Dal Corso, Jacopo, Hoke, Kim Lisa, Thoms, Silke and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2023) Environmental and physiological conditions that led to the rise of calcifying nannoplankton in the Late Triassic. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11 . DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.747059.

Steiglechner, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-5983 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2022) Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Deforestation, Settlement, and Land Use on Easter Island Prior to European Arrivals. In: The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). , ed. by Rull, Valentí and Stevenson, Christopher. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 22 . Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 401-426. ISBN 978-3-030-91127-0

Raharinirina, Nomenjanahary Alexia, Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2022) Modelling the acclimation capacity of coral reefs to a warming ocean. PLOS Computational Biology, 18 (5). e1010099. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010099.

Owusu, Kwabena A., Kulesz, Micaela M. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2021) Communication Among Harvesters Leads to Sustainable Fishing Behaviour in a Continuous Time Common Pool Resource Experiment. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 . p. 1151. DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.644056.

Dal Corso, Jacopo, Preto, Nereo, Agnini, Claudia, Hohn, Sönke, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Willems, Helmut and Gianolla, Piero (2021) Rise of calcispheres during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic). Global and Planetary Change, 200 . p. 103453. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103453.

Hohn, Sönke, Trejos, Esteban, Abrams, J.F., Fulgencio de Moura, Jailson, Spranz, R. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2020) The long-term legacy of plastic mass production. Science of The Total Environment, 746 . p. 141115. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141115.

Owusu, Kwabena A., Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Fall, Mouhamed M. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2020) Effects of cooperation and different characteristics of Marine Protected Areas in a simulated small-scale fishery. Ecological Complexity, 44 . p. 100876. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100876.

Dal Corso, Jacopo, Bernardi, Massimo, Sun, Yadong, Song, Haijun, Seyfullah, Leyla J., Preto, Nereo, Gianolla, Piero, Ruffell, Alastair, Kustatscher, Evelyn, Roghi, Guido, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Hohn, Sönke, Schmidt, Alexander R., Marzoli, Andrea, Newton, Robert J., Wignall, Paul B. and Benton, Michael J. (2020) Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science Advances, 6 (38). eaba0099. DOI https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba0099.

Guan, Yi, Hohn, Sönke, Wild, Christian and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2020) Vulnerability of global coral reef habitat suitability to ocean warming, acidification and eutrophication. Global Change Biology, 26 (10). pp. 5646-5660. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15293.

Tavares, Davi C., Moura, J. F., Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Siciliano, S. (2020) Mortality of seabirds migrating across the tropical Atlantic in relation to oceanographic processes. Animal Conservation . DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12539.

Tavares, Davi Castro, Moura, Jailson Fulgêncio, Ceesay, Adam and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2020) Density and composition of surface and buried plastic debris in beaches of Senegal. Science of The Total Environment, 737 . p. 139633. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139633.

Tavares, Davi, Moura, J.F. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (In Press / Accepted) Anthropogenic debris accumulated in nests of seabirds in an uninhabited island in West Africa. Biological Conservation . DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.043.

Owusu, Kwabena, Kulesz, Micaela and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2019) Extraction Behaviour and Income Inequalities Resulting from a Common Pool Resource Exploitation. Sustainability, 11 (2). p. 536. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020536.

Dal Corso, Jacopo, Gianolla, Piero, Rigo, Manuel, Franceschi, Marco, Roghi, Guido, Mietto, Paolo, Manfrin, Stefano, Raucsik, Béla, Budai, Tamás, Jenkyns, Hugh C., Reymond, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5669-3721, Caggiati, Marcello, Gattolin, Giovanni, Breda, Anna, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Preto, Nereo (2018) Multiple negative carbon-isotope excursions during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic). Earth-Science Reviews, 185 . pp. 732-750. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.07.004.

Moura, Jailson F., Tavares, Davi C., Lemos, Leila S., Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Saint’Pierre, Tatiana Dillenburg, Siciliano, Salvatore and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2018) Interspecific variation of essential and non-essential trace elements in sympatric seabirds. Environmental Pollution, 242 A . pp. 470-479. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.06.092.

Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Marañón, Emilio and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2018) Phytoplankton size diversity and ecosystem function relationships across oceanic regions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285 (1879). p. 20180621. DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0621.

Abrams, Jesse, Hohn, Sönke, Rixen, Tim and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2018) Sundaland Peat Carbon Dynamics and Its Contribution to the Holocene Atmospheric CO2 Concentration. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32 (4). pp. 704-719. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005763.

Schlüter, Achim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-7263 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2018) Humans: A Key Component of Sustainability. In: Scientific Partnership for a Better Future. , ed. by Hempel, Gotthilf, Hempel, Irmtraut and Hornidge, Anna-Katharina. Edition Falkenberg, Bremen, pp. 119-121. ISBN 978-3-95494-151-3

Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2017) Models of Easter Island Human-Resource Dynamics: Advances and Gaps. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 . DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00154.

Brandt, Gunnar, Kulesz, Micaela M., Nissen, Dennis and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2017) OGUMI—A new mobile application to conduct common-pool resource experiments in continuous time. PLOS ONE, 12 (6). e0178951. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178951.

Tavares, D.C., Moura, J.F., Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Siciliano, S. (2017) Incidence of marine debris in seabirds feeding at different water depths. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 119 (2). pp. 68-73. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.04.012.

Raharinirina, Alexia, Brandt, Gunnar and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2017) A Trait-Based Model for Describing the Adaptive Dynamics of Coral-Algae Symbiosis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 . DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00031.

Schlüter, Achim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-7263 and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2017) Menschen sind der Schlüssel für Nachhaltigkeit. In: Klüger nutzen – besser schützen – Bremer Forschung an tropischen Küsten. , ed. by Hempel, Gotthilf, Hempel, I and Hornidge, Anna-Katharina. Edition Falkenberg, Bremen, pp. 123-126. ISBN 978-3-95494-134-6

Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Brandt, Gunnar, Smith, S. Lan and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2016) PhytoSFDM version 1.0.0: Phytoplankton Size and Functional Diversity Model. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 9 (11). pp. 4071-4085. DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-102.

Smith, S. Lan, Vallina, Sergio M. and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2016) Phytoplankton size-diversity mediates an emergent trade-off in ecosystem functioning for rare versus frequent disturbances. Scientific Reports, 6 (1). p. 34170. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34170.

Smith, S. Lan, Pahlow, Markus, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Sasai, Yoshikazu, Yoshikawa, Chisato, Sasaoka, Kosei, Fujiki, Tetsuichi, Matsumoto, Kazuhiko and Honda, Makio C. (2016) Flexible phytoplankton functional type (FlexPFT) model: size-scaling of traits and optimal growth. Journal of Plankton Research, 38 (4). pp. 977-992. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbv038.

Moura, Jailson F., Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Tavares, Davi C., Meirelles, Ana C. O., Silva, Cristine P. N., Oliveira, Larissa R., Santos, Roberta A., Wickert, Janaína C., Machado, Rodrigo, Siciliano, Salvatore and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2016) Stranding Events of Kogia Whales along the Brazilian Coast. PLOS ONE, 11 (1). e0146108. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146108.

Abrams, Jesse F, Hohn, Sönke, Rixen, Tim, Baum, Antje and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2016) The impact of Indonesian peatland degradation on downstream marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle. Global Change Biology, 22 (1). pp. 325-337. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13108.

Guan, Yi, Hohn, Sönke and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2015) Suitable Environmental Ranges for Potential Coral Reef Habitats in the Tropical Ocean. PLOS ONE, 10 (6). e0128831. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128831.

Tavares, Davi Castro, Guadagnin, Demétrio Luis, Moura, Jailson Fulgencio, Siciliano, Salvatore and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2015) Environmental and anthropogenic factors structuring waterbird habitats of tropical coastal lagoons: Implications for management. Biological Conservation, 186 . pp. 12-21. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.027.

Tyrrell, Toby, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Armstrong McKay, David Ian (2015) Severity of ocean acidification following the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (21). pp. 6556-6561. DOI https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418604112.

Hohn, Sönke and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2015) Quantifying the relative importance of transcellular and paracellular ion transports to coral polyp calcification. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2 . p. 37. DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2014.00037.

Wild, Christian, Rixen, Tim, Sánchez-Noguera, Celeste, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Jimenez, Carlos, Cortés, Jorge and Naumann, Malik S (2015) A carbonate platform associated with shallow cold methane seeps in Golfo Dulce, Pacific Costa Rica. Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies, 17 (1). pp. 13-14. DOI https://doi.org/10.3755/galaxea.17.13.

Wild, Christian, Rixen, Tim, Sanchez-Noguera, Celeste, Stuhldreier, Ines, Jimenez, Carlos and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2014) Massive coral tissue ablations in reefs of Pacific Costa Rica. Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies, 16 (1). pp. 13-14. DOI https://doi.org/10.3755/galaxea.16.13.

Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Brandt, Gunnar, Smith, S. Lan and Oliver, Marcel (2014) Sustaining diversity in trait-based models of phytoplankton communities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2 . p. 59. DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2014.00059.

Smith, SL, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056, Hohn, Sönke and Brandt, G (2014) Sizing-up nutrient uptake kinetics: combining a physiological trade-off with size-scaling of phytoplankton traits. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 511 . pp. 33-39. DOI https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10903.

Acevedo-Trejos, Esteban, Brandt, Gunnar, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Smith, S. Lan (2013) Biogeographical patterns of phytoplankton community size structure in the oceans. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22 (12). p. 1315. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12071.

Brandt, Gunnar and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2013) Tipping points and user-resource system collapse in a simple model of evolutionary dynamics. Ecological Complexity, 13 . pp. 46-52. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2012.12.003.

Hohn, Sönke and Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 (2012) Modelling coral polyp calcification in relation to ocean acidification. Biogeosciences, 9 (11). pp. 4441-4454. DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4441-2012.

Smith, S. Lan, Pahlow, Markus, Merico, Agostino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8056 and Wirtz, Kai W. (2011) Optimality-based modeling of planktonic organisms. Limnology and Oceanography, 56 (6). pp. 2080-2094. DOI https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2080.