Craig R. McClain

Global bathymetric patterns of standing stock and body size in the deep-sea benthos

MA Rex, RJ Etter, Jennifer Crouse et al. · Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2006 · 476 citations · Full text

Coastal Engineering, Engineering, Deep-sea Ecology +22

Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

Jonathan L. Payne, Alison G. Boyer, James H. Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 310 citations · Full text

A Source‐Sink Hypothesis for Abyssal Biodiversity

Michael A. Rex, Craig R. McClain, Nicholas A. Johnson et al. · The American Naturalist · 2005 · 243 citations

Biodiversity Loss, Engineering, Source‐sink Hypothesis +18

Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons

Craig R. McClain, James Barry · Ecology · 2010 · 230 citations

Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans

Seth Finnegan, Sean C. Anderson, Paul G. Harnik et al. · Science · 2015 · 183 citations