Smith, J.G., Fujii, J.A., Gaddam, R., Konrad, L., Lyon, S., Nicholson, T.E., Raimondi, P.T., Ridlon, A.D., Staedler, M., Tomoleoni, J.A. and Yee, J.L., Tinker, M. T. (2025). Keystone interdependence: Sea otter responses to a prey surplus following the collapse of a rocky intertidal predator. Science Advances, 11(18), eadu1028.

Smith JG, C Lopazanski, CM Free, J Brun, C Anderson, MH Carr, J Claudet, JE Dugan, JG Eurich, TB Francis, DA Gill, SL Hamilton, K Kaschner, D Mouillot, PT Raimondi, RM Starr, SL Ziegler, D Malone, ML Marraffini, A Parsons-Field, B Spiecker, M Yeager, K Nikols, JE Caselle. (2025). Conservation benefits of a large marine protected area network that spans multiple ecosystems. Conservation Biology, e14435. 

Smith JG, D Malone, MH Carr. 2024. Consequences of kelp forest ecosystem shifts and predictors of persistence through multiple stressors. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biology. 291: 20232749. 

Free CM, JG Smith, J Brun,  TB Francis, JG Eurich, J Claudet, JE Dugan, D Gill, SL Hamilton, K Kaschner, CJ Lopazanski, D Mouillot, SL Ziegler, JE Caselle, KJ Nickols. 2023. If you build it, they will come: coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas. People and Nature.

Smith JG, J Caselle, P Raimondi, M Carr, S Hamilton, S Ziegler, J Claudet, C Free, C Anderson, J Dugan, J Eurich, T Francis, R Starr, K Nickols. 2023. A network of marine protected areas does not improve community structure climate resilience across multiple nearshore ecosystems. Global Change Biology.

Gaynor K, T Azevedo, C Boyajian, J Brun, A Budden, A Cole, S Csik, J Decesaro, H Do-Linh, J Dudney, C Galaz Garcia, S Leonard, N Lyon, A Marks, C Vargas Poulsen, J Ranganathan, C Scarborough, JG Smith, M Thompson, CR Fong. 2022. Ten simple rules to cultivate belonging in collaborative data science research teams. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(11): e1010567.

Smith JG, MT Tinker. 2022. Alternations in the foraging behavior of a primary consumer drives patch dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem. Ecology Letters.

Technical report
Caselle, J.E., Nickols, K.J., Smith, J.G., Lopazanski, C., Brun, Julien, Free, C., Anderson, C., Carr, M., Claudet, J., Dugan, J., Eurich, J., Francis, T.,Gill, D., Hamilton, S.L., Kaschner, K., Mouillot, D., Raimondi, P., Starr, R., and S. Ziegler. A synthesis of ecological and social outcomes from the California Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network. NCEAS Working Group Final Report to the CA Ocean Protection Council and the CA Department of Fish and Wildlife. December 2022.

Technical report
Raimondi PT, JG Smith. 2021. Assessment of rocky intertidal habitats for the California marine protected area monitoring program. Technical report submitted to the California Ocean Protection Council. 

Smith JG, J Tomoleoni, M Staedler, S Lyon, J Fujii, T Tinker. 2021. Behavioral responses across a mosaic of ecosystem states restructure a sea otter-urchin trophic cascade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(11).

Smith JG, SC Garcia (undergraduate). 2021. Variation in purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) morphological traits in relation to resource availability. PeerJ 9: e11352

Smith JG, M McPherson. 2020. A cross-campus professional development program strengthens graduate student leadership in environmental problem solving. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene: 8 (1): 085

Smith JG, D Malone, DS Baetscher, MH Carr. 2018. Evaluation and application of BIOPOLE, a biopsy device for in situ non-lethal tissue extraction for fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 595: 149-156.

Smith JG, J Lindholm. 2016. Vertical stratification in the distribution of demersal fish assemblages along the walls of the La Jolla and Scripps submarine canyons, California, USA. Continental Shelf Research Journal 125:60-70.

Technical report

Lindholm J, A Knight, F Moye, A Cramer, M Esgro, H Bolton, S Finstad, JG Smith, R McCollough, M Freddle. 2014. South coast marine protected areas baseline characterization and monitoring of mid-depth and soft-bottom ecosystems. California Sea Grant 09-015.