Publications: Dr. Nina Bednaršek

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9177-6626

Citations: 4698, h-index: 36; 64 publications)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S4_kKE8AAAAJ&hl=en

2025:

1. Bednaršek, N., Pelletier, G., van de Mortel, H., García-Reyes, M., Feely, R. and Dickson, A., 2024. Assessment framework to predict sensitivity of marine calcifiers to ocean alkalinity enhancement – identification of biological thresholds and importance of precautionary principle. Biogeosciences, 22(2), https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/473/2025/
2. Bednaršek, N., Pelletier, G., Kimoto, K., MacCready, P., Klinger, T. and Newton, J., 2025. Sensitivity of pteropod calcification to multi stressor variability in coastal habitats. Marine Environmental Research, 204, p.106868. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113624005294
3. van de Mortel, H., Bednaršek, N., Pelletier, G., Feely, R.A., Müller, J.D. and Gruber, N., 2025. Substantial Limitations of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Calcifiers. Environmental Science & Technology. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5c09298
4. Nguyen, T., Pelletier, G., Bednaršek, and Gracey, A., 2025. Single‐Larva RNA Sequencing Reveals That Red Sea Urchin Larvae Are Vulnerable to Co‐Occurring Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia. Molecular Ecology, p.e17658. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.17658
5. Findlay, H.S., Feely, R.A., Jiang, L.Q., Pelletier, G. and Bednaršek, N., Ocean acidification: another planetary boundary crossed. Global Change Biology, 31(6), p.e70238. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.70238
6. Bednaršek, N., Ambrose, R.F., Calosi, P., Feely, R.A., Litvin, S.Y., Long, W.C., Spicer, J.I., Štrus, J., Kessouri, F., Sutula, M. and Weisberg, S.B., 2025. Commentary: Synthesis of thresholds of ocean acidification impacts on decapods. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, p.1581303. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113624005294

2024:

7. Bednaršek, N., Pelletier, G., Beck, M.W., Feely, R.A., Siegrist, Z., Kiefer, D., Davis, J. and Peabody, B., 2024. Predictable patterns within the kelp forest can indirectly create temporary refugia from ocean acidification. Science of The Total Environment, 945, p.174065. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972404213X
8. Hofmann Elizondo, U., Vogt, M., Bednaršek, N., Münnich, M. and Gruber, N., 2024. The impact of aragonite saturation variability on shelled pteropods: An attribution study in the California Current System. Global Change Biology, 30(6), p.e17345. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17345
9. Feely, R.A., Carter, B.R., Alin, S.R., Greeley, D. and Bednaršek, N., 2024. The combined effects of ocean acidification and respiration on habitat suitability for marine calcifiers along the west coast of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(4), p.e2023JC019892.
10. Rose, K.A., Holsman, K., Nye, J.A., Markowitz, E.H., Banha, T.N., Bednaršek, N., Bueno-Pardo, J., Deslauriers, D., Fulton, E.A., Huebert, K.B., Huret, M. and Ito, S.I., 2024. Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 732, pp.193-221.

2023:

11. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R.A., Pelletier, G. and Desmet, F., 2023. Global synthesis of the status and trends of ocean acidification impacts on shelled pteropods. Oceanography, 36(2/3), pp.130-137.
12. Bednaršek, N., Guilloux, B., Canu, D.M., Galdies, C., Guerra, R., Simoncelli, S., Feely, R.A., Pelletier, G., Gašparović, B., Godrijan, J. 2023. Ocean Acidification as a Governance Challenge in the Mediterranean Sea: Impacts from Aquaculture and Fisheries. Ocean Governance, p.403 (book chapter in Ocean Governance: Knowledge Systems, Policy Foundations and Thematic Analyses(p. 436). Springer Nature). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20740-2_18
13. Feely, R.A., Jiang, L.Q., Wanninkhof, R., Carter, B.R., Alin, S.R., Bednaršek, N. and Cosca, C.E., 2023. Acidification of the global surface ocean.  Oceanography, 36(2/3), pp.120-129.
14. Feely, R., Jiang, L.Q., Wanninkhof, R., Carter, B., Alin, S., Bednaršek, N. and Cosca, C., 2023. PMEL Ocean Climate Stations as Reference Time Series and Research Aggregate Devices.
15. Saenger, C.P., McElhany, P., Norton, E.L., Busch, D.S., Siedlecki, S.A., Alin, S.R., Feely, R.A., Hermann, A.J. and Bednaršek, , 2023. Evaluating environmental controls on the exoskeleton density of larval Dungeness crab via micro computed tomography. Frontiers in Marine Science.
16. Knecht, N.S., Benedetti, F., Elizondo, U.H., Bednaršek, N., Chaabane, S., de Weerd, C., Peijnenburg, K.T., Schiebel, R. and Vogt, M., 2023. The impact of zooplankton calcifiers on the marine carbon cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, p.e2022GB007685.

2022:

17. Bednaršek , Beck, M: W., Greg Pelletier, Scott Lee Applebaum, Richard A. Feely, Robert Butler, Maria Byrne, Betsy Peabody, Jonathan Davis, and Jasna Štrus. 2022. Natural Analogues in pH Variability and Predictability across the Coastal Pacific Estuaries: Extrapolation of the Increased Oyster Dissolution under Increased pH Amplitude and Low Predictability Related to Ocean Acidification; Environmental Science & Technology, 56 (12), 9015-9028; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c00010
18. Bednaršek, N., Carter, B.R., McCabe, R.M., Feely, R.A., Howard, E., Chavez, F.P., Elliott, M., Fisher, J.L., Jahncke, J. and Siegrist, Z. 2022. Pelagic calcifiers face increased mortality and habitat loss with warming and ocean acidification. Ecological Applications. e2674. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2674
19. Guo X, Bednaršek , Wang H, Feely RA and Laurent A. 2022. Editorial: Acidification and Hypoxia in Marginal Seas. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:861850. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.861850
20. Aguilera, V.M. and Bednaršek, N., 2022. Variations in phenotypic plasticity in a cosmopolitan copepod species across latitudinal hydrographic gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, p.925648.

2021:

21. Bednaršek, N., Naish, K.A., Feely, R.A., Hauri, C., Kimoto, K., Hermann, A.J., Michel, C., Niemi, A. and Pilcher, D., 2021. Integrated Assessment of Ocean Acidification Risks to Pteropods in the Northern High Latitudes: Regional Comparison of Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity. Frontiers in Marine Science, p.1282.
22. Bednaršek, N., Newton, J. A., Beck, M. W., Alin, S. R., Feely, R. A., Christman, N., & Klinger, T. 2021. Severe biological effects under present-day estuarine acidification in the seasonally variable Salish Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 142689.
23. Bednaršek, N., Feely, M. Byrne, K.Y. Chan, Dupont, S., Calosi, P., Spicer, J., Kessouri, F., Sutula, M. 2021. Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Calcifying Echinoderms. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
24. Bednaršek, N., Ambrose, R., Feely, M. Byrne, K.Y., Calosi, P., Spicer, J., Kessouri, F., Sutula, M., Sutula M. 2021Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Decapods (Frontiers in Marine Science, Special issue on Ocean acidification and Hypoxia; October 2020).
25. Kessouri, F., McWilliams, J., Bianco, D., Sutula, M., Deutsch, C., Feely, R.A. McLAughlin, Ho, M., Bednaršek, N., Damien, P., Molemaker, J., Weisberg, S. Coastal eutrophication drives acidification, oxygen loss and ecosystem change in a major oceanic upwelling system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, 21.
26. Mekkes, L., Renema, W., Bednaršek,, Alin, S. R., Feely, R. A., Huisman, J., … & Peijnenburg, K. T. 2021. Pteropods make thinner shells in the upwelling region of the California Current Ecosystem. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-11.
27. Niemi, A., Bednaršek,, Feely, R. A., Scott, Kumiko. 2021. Biological impact of ocean acidification in the Canadian Arctic: widespread severe pteropod shell dissolution in Amundsen Gulf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7.
28. Estes Jr, M., Anderson, C., Appeltans, W., Bax, N., Bednaršek, N., Canonico, G., Djavidnia, S., Escobar, E., Fietzek, P., Gregoire, M. and Hazen, E. 2021. Enhanced monitoring of life in the sea is a critical component of conservation management and sustainable economic growth. Marine Policy, 132, p.104699.

2020:

29. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R., Beck, Alin, S., Siedlecki, S., Calosi, P., Spicer, J., Nezlin, N., Strus, J., Norton, E. 2020. Exoskeleton dissolution and mechanoreceptor damages in Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients. Science of The Total Environment, 1366 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136610
30. Bednaršek, N., Pelletier, G., Ahmed, A., & Feely, R. A. (2020). Chemical Exposure Due to Anthropogenic Ocean Acidification Increases Risks for Estuarine Calcifiers in the Salish Sea: Biogeochemical Model Scenarios. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 580.
31. Norton, E. L., Siedlecki, S. A., Kaplan, I. C., Hermann, A. J., Fisher, J. L., Morgan, C. A., & Bednaršek, N. (2020). The importance of environmental exposure history in forecasting Dungeness crab megalopae occurrence using J-SCOPE, a high-resolution model for the US Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 102.
32. Cai, W.-J., Feely, R.A., Jeremy Testa, J., Li, M., Evans, W., Alin, S. R., Xu, Y., Pelletier, G., Ahmed, A., Greeley, D., Newton, J.A., Bednaršek, N. (2020). Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries. Annual Review of Marine Science, 13.

2019:

33. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R.A., Howes, E.L., Hunt, B., Kessouri, F., León, P., Lischka, S., Maas, A.E., McLaughlin, K., Nezlin, N. and Sutula, M., 2019. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Towards Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Calcifying Pteropods and Interactions with Warming. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, p.227.
34. Leon, P., Bednaršek, N., Wall-Palmer, D. 2019. Relationship between shell integrity of pelagic gastropods and carbonate chemistry parameters at a Scottish Coastal Observatory monitoring site. ICES journal of Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz178.
35. Buitenhuis, E.T., Le Quere, C., Bednaršek, N., Schiebel, R. 2019. Large contribution of pteropods to shallow CaCO3 export. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
36. Janssen, A.W., Bush, S.L. and Bednaršek, N. 2019. The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda), 13(1), pp.305-346.
37. Baltar, F., Bayer, B., Bednaršek, N., Deppeler, S., Escribano, R., Gonzalez, C.E., Hansman, R.L., Mishra, R.K., Moran, M.A., Repeta, D.J. and Robinson, C. 2019. Towards Integrating Evolution, Metabolism, and Climate Change Studies of Marine Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
38. Canonico, G., Buttigieg, P.L., Montes, E., Stepien, C.A., Wright, D., Benson, A., Bednaršek, N., 2019. Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity. 2019. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, p.367.
39. Engström-Öst, J., Glippa, O., Feely, R.A., Kanerva, M., Keister, J.E., Alin, S.R., Carter, B.R., McLaskey, A.K., Vuori, K.A. and Bednaršek, N. 2019. Eco-physiological responses of copepods and pteropods to ocean warming and acidification. Scientific reports, 9(1), p.4748.

2018:

40. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R., Beck, M., Glippa, O., Kanerva, M. and Engström-Öst, J., 2018. El Niño-Related Thermal Stress Coupled with Upwelling-Related Ocean Acidification Negatively Impacts Cellular to Population-Level Responses in Pteropods along the California Current System with Implications for Increased Bioenergetic Costs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 486.
41. Feely, R.A., Okazaki, R.R., Cai, W.J., Bednaršek, N., Alin, S.R., Byrne, R.H. and Fassbender, A., The combined effects of acidification and hypoxia on pH and aragonite saturation in the coastal waters of the California current ecosystem and the northern Gulf of Mexico. Continental Shelf Research, 152, 50-60.
42. Bausch, A.R., Gallego, M.A., Harianto, J., Thibodeau, P., Bednaršek, N., Havenhand, J.N. and Klinger, T., 2018. Influence of bacteria on shell dissolution in dead gastropod larvae and adult Limacina helicina pteropods under ocean acidification conditions. Marine Biology, 165(2), 40.

2017:

43. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R.A., Tolimieri, N., Hermann, A.J., Siedlecki, S.A., Waldbusser, G.G., McElhany, P., Alin, S.R., Klinger, T., Moore-Maley, B. and Pörtner, H.O. 2017. Exposure history determines pteropod vulnerability to ocean acidification along the US West Coast. Scientific reports, 7(1), 4526.
44. Bednaršek, N.; Harvey, C.J., McCabe, R.M., Tolimieri, N., Klinger, T. New Ocean, New Needs: Application of Pteropod Shell Dissolution as a Biological Indicator for Marine Resource Management, Ecological Indicators, 76, 240-244.
45. Manno, C., Bednaršek, N., Tarling, G.A., Peck, V.L., Comeau, S., Adhikari, D., Bakker, D.C., Bauerfeind, E., Bergan, A.J., Berning, M.I. and Buitenhuis, E. 2017. Shelled pteropods in peril: Assessing vulnerability in a high CO2 ocean. Earth-science reviews, 169, 132-145.
46. Turk, D., Bednaršek, N., Evans, W., García-Ibáñez, M.I., Hales, B. and Cross, J. 2017. Role of Technology in Ocean Acidification: Monitoring, Water-Quality Impairments, CO₂ Mitigation, and Machine Learning. 125-133.
47. Wall-Palmer, D., Burridge, A.K., Goetze, E., Stokvis, F.R., Janssen, A.W., Mekkes, L., Moreno-Alcántara, M., Bednaršek, N., Schiøtte, T., Sørensen, M.V. and Smart, C.W. 2017. Biogeography and genetic diversity of the atlantid heteropods. Progress in Oceanography.

2016:

48. Bednaršek, N., Harvey, C.J., Kaplan, I.C., Feely, R.A., Možina, J. 2016. Pteropods on the edge: Cumulative effects of ocean acidification, warming, and deoxygenation. Progress in Oceanography, 145, 1-24.
49. Bednaršek, N., Johnson, J., Feely, R.A. Vulnerability of pteropod (Limacina helicina) to ocean acidification: shell dissolution occurs despite an intact organic layer. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography127: 53-56.
50. Feely, R., Alin, S., Carter, B., Bednaršek, N. 2016: Chemical and biological impact of ocean acidification off the West Coast of North America. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 183, 260-270.
51. Weisberg, S., Bednaršek, N., Feely, R., Chan, F., Boehm, A., Sutula, M., Ruesink, J., Hales, B., Largier, J., Newton, J. 2016. Water quality criteria for an acidifying ocean: Challenges and opportunities for improvement. Ocean & Coastal Management, 126, 31-41.

2015:

52. Bednaršek, N., Ohman, M.D. 2015. Changes in pteropod vertical distribution, abundance and species richness in the California Current System due to ocean acidification. Marine Ecology Progress Series, doi: 3354/meps11199.
53. Reum, J. C., Alin, S. R., Harvey, C. J., Bednaršek, N., Evans, W., Feely, R. A., Sabine, C. L. 2015. Interpretation and design of ocean acidification experiments in upwelling systems in the context of carbonate chemistry co-variation with temperature and oxygen.ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil
54. Andersson, A.J, Kline, D.I, Edmunds, P.J, Archer, S.D, Bednaršek,, Carpenter, R.C. et al. 2015. Understanding ocean acidification impacts on organismal to ecological scales. Oceanography. 28(2).
55. Alin, S.R., Brainard, R.E, Price, N.N, Newton, J.A, Cohen, A.L, Peterson, W.T, Bednaršek, et al. 2015. Characterizing the natural system: toward sustained, integrated coastal ocean acidification observing networks to facilitate resource management and decision support. Oceanography. 28(2).

2014:

56. Bednaršek, N., Feely, R.A., Peterson, W., Reum, J., Alin S.R., Hales, B. Limacina helicinashell dissolution as an indicator of declining habitat suitability owing to ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem. Proceedings to the Royal Society B, 281, 1785
57. Bednaršek, N., Tarling, G. A., Bakker, D. C. E., Fielding, S., Feely, R.A. Dissolution Dominating Calcification Process in Polar Pteropods Close to the Point of Aragonite Undersaturation.PloS one, 9(10), e109183
58. Howes, E. L., Bednaršek N., et al. 2014. Sink and swim, a status review of thecosome pteropod culture techniques. Journal of Plankton Research, doi: 1093/plankt/fbu002.

2013:

59. Buitenhuis E. T., Vogt M., Moriarty R., Swan C., Bednaršek et al. 2013. MAREDAT: Towards a world ocean atlas of marine ecosystem data, Earth System Science Data Discussions, 5, 1077-1106.

2012:

60. Bednaršek, N., Tarling, G. A., Bakker, D. C. E., Fielding, S., Jones, E.M., Venables, H. J., Ward, P., Kuzirian, A., Lézé, B., Feely, R. A. Murphy, E.J. Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean. Nature Geoscience 5, 881-885
61. Bednaršek, N., Možina, J., Vogt, M., O’Brien, C., Tarling, G.A. The global distribution of pteropods and their contribution to carbonate and carbon biomass in the modern ocean. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 4, 167-186.
62. Bednaršek, N., Tarling, G. A., Bakker, D. C., Fielding, S., Cohen, A., Kuzirian, A., McCorkle, D., Lézé, B. and Montagna, R. Description and quantification of pteropod shell dissolution: a sensitive bioindicator of ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, 18, 2378–2388
63. Bednaršek, N., Tarling G., Bakker D., Fielding, S. Population dynamics and biogeochemical significance of Limacina helicina ant. in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Deep Sea Research II, 59-60, 105-116

2010:

64. Hunt, B., Strugnell, J., Bednaršek, N. et al. 2010. Poles Apart: The “Bipolar” Pteropod species Limacina helicina is genetically distinct between the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. PLoS ONE 5,3, e9835.