Peer-reviewed publications of the Baumann Lab

2025

Akopyan, M., Jacobs, A., Rick, J., Wilder, A., Baumann, Z., Conover, D., Baumann, H., and Therkildsen, N.
Multiple chromosomal inversions modulate continuous local adaptation along a steep thermal cline
Science (in revision)

Zavell, M.D.*, Mouland, M.E.P.*, Barnum, D.F.*, Chen, Z., Siedlecki, S., O’Donnell, J., De Vos, M., Matassa, C.M., Schultz, E.T., and Baumann, H.
Experiments and ocean models predict diminishing benefits of offshore overwinter migration in northern stock black sea bass (Centropristis striata)
Marine Ecology Progress Series (resubmitted)

Zavell, M.D.*, Mouland, E.P.*, Barnum, D.L.*, Matassa, C.M., Schultz, E.T., and Baumann, H. (2025)
Can adult Black Sea Bass overwinter in Long Island Sound, USA?
Marine and Coastal Fisheries 17:vtaf014 (published online 18 July 2025)

Brennan, R.S., deMayo, J.A., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, H., Dam, H., and Pespeni, M. H. (2025)
Complementary genetic and epigenetic changes facilitate rapid adaptation to multiple global change stressors
PNAS 122:e2422782122 (published 15 July 2025)

Schembri, S., Bouchard, C., Jones, L.*, Baumann, H., and Maps, F. (2025)
Larval and juvenile fish assemblages in the Hudson Bay system
Polar Research 48:58

Mosca, K.C.*, Savoy, T., R. Benway, J., Ingram, E.C., Schultz, E.T., and Baumann, H. (2025)
Age structure and seasonal movement patterns of Atlantic sturgeon aggregating in eastern Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River
Fishery Bulletin 123:127-142 | UConn Today

Jones, L.F.*, Schembri, S., Bouchard, C., and Baumann, H. (2025)
Molecular identification of larval sand lance (Ammodytes spp.) caught in the Hudson Bay System 2010-2018
Environmental Biology of Fishes 108:305–316

Batta-Lona, P.G., Wojcicki, M.L., Zavell, M.D.*, Bucklin, A., and Baumann, H. (2025)
Using DNA metabarcoding to reveal prey diversity in diets of juvenile black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in Long Island Sound in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Fishery Bulletin 123:22-33

2024

Zavell, M.D.* and Baumann, H. (2024)
Resiliency of Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata, early life stages to future high CO₂ conditions
Environmental Biology of Fishes 107:677–691

Jacobs, A., Velotta, J.P., Tigano, A., Wilder, A.P., Baumann, H., and Therkildsen, N.O. (2024)
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside
Evolution 78:1133–1149

Zavell, M.D.*, Mouland, M.E.P., Matassa, C.M., Schultz, E.T., and Baumann, H. (2024)
Temperature- and ration-dependent winter growth in Northern stock Black Sea Bass juveniles
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 153:163-179

2023

deMayo, J., Finiguerra, M., Norton, L., Park, G., Brennan, R., Pespeni, M., Baumann, H., and Dam, H. (2023)
Simultaneous warming and acidification limit population fitness and reveal phenotype costs for a marine copepod
Proceedings of the Royal Society:B 290:20231033

Jones, L.F.*, Lou, R.N., Murray, C.S., Robert, D., Bourne, C.M., Bouchard, C., Kučka, M., Chan, Y.F., Carlon, D.B., Wiley, D.N., Therkildsen, N.O., and Baumann, H. (2023)
Two distinct population clusters of Northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) on the Northwest Atlantic shelf revealed by whole genome sequencing
ICES Journal of Marine Science 80:122-132 | Press release | Hakai Magazine

2022

Reid S. Brennan, R.S., deMayo, J.A., Dam, H.G., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, H., Buffalo, V., and Pespeni, M.H. (2022)
Experimental evolution reveals the synergistic genomic mechanisms of adaptation to ocean warming and acidification in a marine copepod
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119:e2201521119

Akopyan, M., Tigano, A., Jacobs, A., Wilder, A.P., Baumann, H., and Therkildsen N.O. (2022)
Comparative linkage mapping uncovers massive chromosomal inversions that suppress recombination between locally adapted fish populations
Molecular Ecology 31:3323-3341

Baumann, H., Jones, L.F.*, Murray, C.S., Siedlecki, S.A., Alexander, M., and Cross, E.L. (2022)
Impaired hatching exacerbates the high CO₂ sensitivity of embryonic sand lance, Ammodytes dubius
Marine Ecology Progress Series 687:147-162 | UConn Today press release | OCB highlights

Suca, J.J., Ji, R., Baumann, H., Pham, K., Silva, T.L., Wiley, D.N., Feng, Z., and Llopiz, J. (2022)
Larval transport pathways from three prominent sand lance habitats in the Gulf of Maine
Fisheries Oceanography 31:333-352

Brennan, R.S., deMayo, J.A., Dam, H.G., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, H., and Pespeni, M.H. (2022)
Loss and recovery of transcriptional plasticity after long-term adaptation to global change conditions in a marine copepod
Nature Communications 13:1147

Baumann, H. (2022)
Chapter 11: Fish Ecology
In: Pan, J. and Pratolongo, P.D. (eds) Marine Biology: a functional approach to the oceans and their organisms. CRC Press/Science Publishers (Taylor & Francis)
ISBN 978-0-367-02498-7 (hardback), 978-0-429-39924-4 (e-book) | published March 3rd 2022

2021

Concannon, C.A.*, Cross, E.L., Jones, L.F.*, Murray, C.S., Matassa, C. McBride, R.S., and Baumann, H. (2021)
Temperature-dependent effects on fecundity in a serial broadcast spawning fish after whole-life high-CO₂ exposure
ICES Journal of Marine Science 78:3724–3734

Dam, H.G., deMayo, J.A., Park, G., Norton, L., He, X., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, H., Brennan, R.S., and Pespeni, M.H. (2021)
Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification
Nature Climate Change 11:780–786

Rooker, J.R., Wells, D.R.J., Block, B.A., Liu, H., Baumann, H., Chiang, W.-C., Zapp, M., Miller, N.R., Ohshimo, S., Tanaka, Y., Dance, M.A., Dewar, H., Snodgrass, O.E., and Shiao, J.-C. (2021)
Natal origin and age-specific egress of Pacific bluefin tuna from coastal nurseries revealed with geochemical markers
Scientific Reports 11:14216

Suca, J., Wiley, D., Silva, T., Robuck, A., Richardon, D., Glancy, S., Clancey, E., Giandonato, T., Solow, A.R., Thompson, M.A., Hong, P., Baumann, H., Kaufman, L., and Llopiz, J.K. (2021)
Sensitivity of sand lance to shifting prey and hydrography indicates forthcoming change to the Northeast US shelf forage fish complex
ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 78:1023–1037

Baumann, H. Suca, J.J., Wiley, D.N., and Llopiz, J.K. (2021)
Origin and fate of sandlance Ammodytes dubius offspring from Stellwagen Bank, inferred from Lagrangian drift simulations.
BOEM white paper in partial fulfillment to grant #M17PG0019 Productivity and ecology of sand habitats

2020

Schwemmer, T.S., Baumann, H., Murray, C.S.*, Molina, A.I., and Nye, J. (2020)
Synergistic metabolic responses of embryos, but not larvae, of a coastal forage fish to acidification and hypoxia
Journal of Experimental Biology 223:jeb228015

Silva, T., Wiley, D., Thompson, M., Hong, P., Kaufman, L., Suca, J., Llopiz, J., Baumann, H. and Fay, G. (2020)

High collocation of sand lance and top predators in the southwestern Gulf of Maine: implications for conservation and management
Conservation Science and Practice 3:e274

Murray, C.S.* and Baumann, H. (2020)

Are long-term growth responses to elevated pCO₂ sex-specific in fish?
PLOS One 15:e0235817 | Press release | NSF news

Staudinger, M., Goyert, H., Suca, J., Coleman, K., Welch, L., Llopiz, J., Wiley, D., Altman, I., Applegate, A., Auster, P., Baumann, H., Beaty, J., Boelke, D., Kaufman, L., Loring, P., Moxley, J., Paton, S., Powers, K., Richardson, D.E., Robbins, J., Runge, J., Smith, B.E., Spiegel, C., and Steinmetz, H. (2020)
The role of sand lances (Ammodytes sp.) in the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem: a synthesis of current knowledge with implications for conservation and management
Fish and Fisheries 21:522-556

Therkildsen, N.O. and Baumann, H. (2020)
A comprehensive non-redundant reference transcriptome for the Atlantic silverside Menidia menidia
Marine Genomics 53:100738

2019

Pringle, J.W.* and Baumann, H. (2019)
Otolith-based growth reconstructions in young-of-year Atlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) and their implications for sex-selective survival
Marine Ecology Progress Series 632:193-204

Breitburg, D.L., Baumann, H., Sokolova, I.M., and Frieder, C.A. (2019)
Chapter 6. Multiple stressors – forces that combine to worsen deoxygenation and its effects.
In: Ocean deoxygenation: everyone’s problem. Causes, impacts, consequences and solutions
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Report xxii, 562p.

Cross, E.L., Murray, C.S.*, and Baumann, H. (2019)
Diel and tidal pCO₂ × O₂ fluctuations provide physiological refuge to a coastal forage fish
Scientific Reports 9:18146

Munday, P.L., Rummer, J.L. and Baumann, H. (2019)
Chapter 10. Adaptation and evolutionary responses to high CO₂ pp 369-395
In: Grosell, M. Munday, P.L., Brauner, C. and Farell, A.P. (eds) Fish Physiology Volume 37: Carbon Dioxide Elsevier (Dec 10th, 2019)

Murray, C.S.*, Wiley, D., and Baumann, H. (2019)
High sensitivity of a keystone forage fish to elevated CO₂ and temperature
Conservation Physiology 7:1-12

Therkildsen, N.O., Wilder, A.P., Conover, D.O., Munch, S.B., Baumann, H., and Palumbi, S.R. (2019)
Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing
Science 365:487-490
Related perspective: Fishing for answers Science 365: 443-444 | Cornell Press release

Baumann, H. (2019)
Experimental assessments of marine species sensitivities to ocean acidification and its co-stressors: how far have we come?
Canadian Journal of Zoology 97:399-408

Snyder, J.T.*, Whitney, M.M., Dam, H.G., Jacobs, M.W., and Baumann, H. (2019)
Citizen science observations reveal rapid, multi-decadal ecosystem changes in eastern Long Island Sound
Marine Environmental Research 146: 80-88
News coverage: TheConversation New Haven Register UConn Today WSHU public radio

2018

Baumann, H., Cross, E.L., and Murray, C.S. (2018)
Robust quantification of fish early life CO₂ sensitivities via serial experimentation
Biology Letters 14:20180408

Murray, C.S. and Baumann, H. (2018)
You better repeat it: complex temperature × CO₂ effects in Atlantic silverside offspring revealed by serial experimentation
Diversity 10:69

Madigan, D.J., Li, M., Runsheng, Y., Baumann, H., Snodgrass, O.E., Dewar, H., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Baumann, Z., Fisher, N.S., Balcom, P., and Sunderland, E.M. (2018)
Mercury stable isotopes reveal influence of foraging depth on mercury concentrations and growth in Pacific bluefin tuna
Environmental Science & Technology 52:6256-6264

Baumann, H., Parks, E.M.*, and Murray, C.S.* (2018)
Starvation rates in larval and juvenile Atlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) are unaffected by high CO₂ conditions
Marine Biology 165:75-83

Cross, E. L., Harper, E. M. and Peck, L. S. (2018)
A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods
Global Change Biology 24:2262-2271

Snyder, J.T.*, Murray, C.S.*, and Baumann, H. (2018)
Potential for maternal effects on offspring CO₂ sensitivities in the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia)
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 499:1-8

Baumann, H. and Smith, E. (2018)
Quantifying metabolically-driven pH and oxygen fluctuations in US nearshore habitats at diel to interannual time-scales
Estuaries & Coasts 41:1102-1117

2017

Dam, H.G. and Baumann, H. (2017)
Climate change, zooplankton and fisheries
In: Phillips B, Perez-Ramirez M (eds) The impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture. Wiley/Blackwell (September 2017)

Baumann, Z., Mason, R.P., Conover, D.O., Balcom, P., Chen, C.Y., Buckman, K.L., Fisher, N.S., and Baumann, H. (2017)
Mercury bioaccumulation increases with latitude in a coastal marine fish (Atlantic silverside Menidia menidia)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:1009-1015

Murray, C.S.*, Fuiman, L., and Baumann, H. (2017)
Consequences of elevated CO₂ exposure across multiple life stages in a coastal forage fish
ICES Journal of Marine Science 74:1051-1061

2016

Gobler, C.J. and Baumann, H. (2016)
Hypoxia and acidification in ocean ecosystems: Coupled dynamics and effects on marine life
Biology Letters 12:20150976

Baumann, H. (2016)
Combined effects of ocean acidification, warming, and hypoxia on marine organisms
Limnology and Oceanography e-Lectures 6:1-43

O'Leary, S.J., Martinez, C.M., Baumann, H., Abercrombie, D.L., Conover, D.O., Poulakis, G.R., Murray, C.H., Feldheim, K.A., Chapman, D.D. (2016)
Population genetics and geometric morphometrics of the Key silverside, Menidia conchorum, a marine fish in a highly fragmented inland habitat
Bulletin of Marine Science 92:33-50

2015

Yencho, M.A, Jordaan, A., Cerrato, R.M., Baumann, H., and Frisk, M.G. (2015)
Growth and mortality in coastal populations of Winter Flounder: implications for recovery of a depleted population
Marine and Coastal Fisheries 7: 246-259.

Peck, M.A., Baumann, H., Clemmesen, C., Herrmann, J.-P., Moyano, M., and Temming A. (2015)
Calibrating and comparing somatic-, nucleic acid-, and otolith-based indicators of growth and condition in young juvenile European sprat (Sprattus sprattus)
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 147: 217-225.

Baumann, H., Wells, R.J.D., Rooker, J.R., Zhang, S., Baumann, Z., Madigan, D.J., Dewar, H., Snodgrass, O.E., and Fisher, N. (2015)
Combining otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses to infer the arrival of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna in the California Current Ecosystem
ICES Journal of Marine Science 72: 2128-2138.

Malvezzi, A.J.*, Murray, C.M., Feldheim, K.A., Dibattista, J.D., Garant, D., Gobler, C.J., Chapman, D.D., and Baumann, H. (2015)
A quantitative genetic approach to assess the evolutionary potential of a coastal marine fish to ocean acidification
Evolutionary Applications 8: 352-362 | Press Release

Depasquale, E.*, Baumann, H., and Gobler, C.J. (2015)
Variation in early life stage vulnerability among Northwest Atlantic estuarine forage fish to ocean acidification and low oxygen
Marine Ecology Progress Series 523: 145–156

Baumann, H., Wallace, R.B., Tagliaferri, T., and Gobler, C.J. (2015)
Large natural pH, CO₂ and O₂ fluctuations in a temperate tidal salt marsh on diel, seasonal, and interannual time scales
Estuaries & Coasts 38: 220–231

2014

Murray, C.M.*, Malvezzi, A., Gobler, C.J., and Baumann, H. (2014)
Offspring sensitivity to ocean acidification changes seasonally in a coastal marine fish
Marine Ecology Progress Series 504: 1-11 (Feature Article)

Brown, E.E., Baumann, H., and Conover, D.O. (2014)
Temperature and photoperiod effects on sex determination in a fish
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 461:39-43

Pfister, C., Esbaugh, A., Frieder, C., Baumann, H., Bockmon, E., White, M., Carter, B., Benway, H., Blanchette, C. Carrington, E., McClintock, J., McCorkle, D., McGillis, W., Mooney, T., Zivieri, P. (2014)
Detecting the unexpected: A research framework for ocean acidification
Environmental Science & Technology 48: 9982-9994

Wallace, R.B., Baumann, H., Grear, J., Aller, R.C., and Gobler, C.J. (2014)
Coastal ocean acidification: The other eutrophication problem
Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science 148: 1-13.

Gobler, C.J., Depasquale, E., Griffith, A., and Baumann, H. (2014)
Hypoxia and acidification have additive and synergistic negative effects on the growth, survivial, and metamorphosis of early life stage bivalves
PLOS One 9(1): e83648. | Press Release

2013

Baumann, H. and Doherty, O. (2013)
Decadal changes in the world’s coastal latitudinal temperature gradients
PLOS One 8:e67596

Baumann, Z., Casacuberta, N., Baumann, H., Masqué, P., and Fisher, N. S. (2013)
Natural and Fukushima-derived radioactivity in macroalgae and mussels along the Japanese shoreline
Biogeosciences 10: 3809 – 3815

Baumann, H., Sutherland, S.J., and McBride, R.S. (2013)
Longitudinal length back-calculations from otoliths and scales differ systematically in haddock
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142: 184-192

2012

Buesseler, K.O., Jayne, S.R., Fisher, N.S., Rypina, I.I., Baumann, H., Baumann, Z., Breier, C.F., Douglass, E.M., George, J., Macdonald, A.M., Miyamoto, H., Nishikawa, J., Pike, S.M., Yoshida, S. (2012)
Fukushima-derived radionuclides in the ocean and biota off Japan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 5984-5988

Baumann, H., Talmage, S.C., and Gobler, C.J. (2012)
Reduced early life growth and survival in a fish as a direct response to elevated CO₂ levels
Nature Climate Change 2: 38-41

Voss, R., Peck, M.A., Hinrichsen, H.-H., Clemmesen, C., Baumann, H., Stepputtis, D., Bernreuther, M., Schmidt, J.O., Temming, A., and Koester, F.W. (2012)
Recruitment processes in Baltic sprat – a re-evaluation of GLOBEC-Germany hypotheses
Progress in Oceanography 107:61-79

Peck, M.A., Baumann, H., Bernreuther, M., Clemmesen, C., Herrmann, J.-P., Haslob, H., Kanstinger, P., Koester, F., Petereit, C., Temming, A., and Voss, R. (2012)
The ecophysiology of Sprattus sprattus in the Baltic and North Seas
Progress in Oceanography 103:42-57.

Günther, C.C., Temming, A., Herrman, J.-P., Huwer B., Baumann H., Clemmesen-Bockelmann, C., Möllmann, C. (2012)
A novel length back-calculation approach accounting for ontogenetic changes in the fish length – otolith size relationship during the early life of sprat (Sprattus sprattus L.)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69:1-16

Brown, E.E., Baumann, H., and Conover, D.O. (2012)
Absence of countergradient and cogradient variation in an oceanic silverside, the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis)
Marine Ecology Progress Series 461:175-186

Baumann, H., Rosales-Casián, J.A., and Conover, D.O. (2012)
Contrasting latitudinal variations in vertebral number and sex determination in Pacific versus Atlantic silverside fishes
Copeia 2012: 342-351

2003-2011

Baumann, H. and Gagliano, M. (2011)
Changing otolith:fish size ratios during settlement in two tropical damselfishes
Helgoland Marine Research 65: 425-429

Baumann, H. and Conover, D.O. (2011)
Adaptation to climate change: contrasting patterns of thermal-reaction-norm evolution in Pacific vs. Atlantic silversides
Proceedings of the Royal Society:B 278: 2265-2273

Conover, D. O. and Baumann, H. (2009)
The role of experiments in understanding fishery-induced evolution
Evolutionary Applications 2: 276-290

Baumann, H., Voss, R., and Malzahn, A., and Temming, A. (2009)
The German Bight (North Sea) is a nursery area for both locally and externally produced sprat juveniles
Journal of Sea Research 61:234-243

Baumann, H., Voss, R., Hinrichsen, H.-H., Mohrholz, V., Schmidt, J.O., and Temming, A. (2008)
Investigating the selective survival of summer- over spring-born sprat, Sprattus sprattus, in the Baltic Sea
Fisheries Research 91: 1-14

Stransky, C., Baumann, H., Fevolden, S.-E., Harbitz, A., Høie, H., Nedreass, K.H., Salberg, A.-B., Skarstein, T.H. (2007)
Separation of Norwegian coastal cod and Northeast Arctic cod by outer otolith shape analysis
Fisheries Research 89: 159-166

Baumann, H., Peck, M.A., Götze, E., and Temming, A. (2007)
Starving early juvenile sprat, Sprattus sprattus L., in Western Baltic coastal waters: evidence from combined field and laboratory observations in August/September 2003
Journal of Fish Biology 70: 853-866

Baumann, H., Hinrichsen, H.-H., Voss, R., Stepputtis, D., Grygiel, W., Clausen, L.W., and Temming, A. (2006)
Linking growth- to environmental histories in central Baltic young-of-the-year sprat, Sprattus sprattus: an approach based on otolith microstructure analysis and hydrodynamic modeling
Fisheries Oceanography 15: 465-476

Baumann, H., Gröhsler, T., Kornilovs, G., Makarchouk, A., Feldman, V., and Temming, A. (2006)
Temperature-induced regional and temporal growth differences in Baltic young-of-the-year sprat, Sprattus sprattus
Marine Ecology Progress Series 317: 225-236

Baumann, H., Hinrichsen, H.-H., Moellmann, C., Koester, F.W., Malzahn, A.M., and Temming, A. (2006)
Recruitment variability in Baltic sprat, Sprattus sprattus, is tightly coupled to temperature and transport patterns affecting the larval and early juvenile stages
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 2191-2201

Voss, R., Clemmesen, C., Baumann, H., and Hinrichsen, H.-H. (2006)
Baltic sprat larvae: Coupling food availability, larval condition and survival
Marine Ecology Progress Series 308: 243-254

Hinrichsen, H.-H., Kraus, G., Voss, R., Stepputtis, D., and Baumann, H. (2005)
The general distribution pattern and mixing probability of Baltic sprat juvenile populations
Journal of Marine Systems 58: 52-66

Baumann, H., Peck, M.A., and Herrmann, J.-P. (2005)
Short-term decoupling of otolith and somatic growth induced by food level changes in post-larval Baltic sprat, Sprattus sprattus
Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 539-547

Baumann, H., Pepin, P., Davidson, F.J.M., Mowbray, F., Schnack, D., and Dower, J.F. (2003)
Reconstruction of environmental histories to investigate patterns of larval radiated shanny (Ulvaria subbifurcata) growth and selective survival in a large bay of Newfoundland
ICES Journal of Marine Science 60: 243-258