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  1. Clever F, Preziosi RF, Nguyen B, De Gracia B, Quintero H, McMillan WO, Altieri AH, O’Dea A, Knowlton N, Leray M. 2024. Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70196
  2. Lin C, O’Dea A. 2025. Remarkable dominance of myctophid otoliths in Upper Miocene Chagres Formation, Caribbean Panama. PeerJ 13:e20155 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20155
  3. Dillon EM#, Arosemena R, Cybulski JD, De Gracia B, Finnegan S, Lin CH, Mora J, Pallacks S, O’Dea A#. 2025. Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. . http://10.1098/rstb.2024.0419 (# = equal contributions)
  4. O’Dea A, Sellers AJ, Pérez-Medina C, Pardo Díaz J, Guzman Bloise A, Pöhlker C, Chiliński MT, Aardema HM, Cybulski JD, Heins L, Paton SR, Slagter HA, Schiebel R, Haug GH. 2025. Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512056122
  5. Perry C, de Bakker D, Webb A, Comeau S, Harvey B, Cornwall C, Alvarez-Filip L, Pérez-Cervantes E, Morris J, Enochs I, Toth L, O’Dea A, Dillon E, Meesters E, Precht W. 2025. Substantial water depth increases above coral reefs unavoidable beyond 2°C warming. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09439-4.
  6. Cybulski J, Sharpe AE, Carvajal-Contreras DR, De Gracia B, Dillon EM, Garcia I, Isaza-Aizpurúa II, Núñez-Cortés Y, Monge-Blanco S, Smith-Guzmán NE, O’Dea A. 2025. Historical Ecology of the Southern Central American Pacific Coast. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0042 [download without paywall]
  7. Smith JA et al. (+122 co-authors). 2025. Big questions in paleontology: A community-driven project to motivate new insights about the history of life on Earth. Paleobiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
  8. O’Dea A#, Dillon EM#, Brandl SJ, Cramer KL, Cybulski JD, de Gracia B, García-Méndez K, Griswold K, Lin C-H, Leray M, Lueders-Dumont JA, Sellers AJ, Wake TA. 2025. Prehistoric archives reveal evidence of predator loss and prey release in Caribbean reef fish communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503986122. (# = equal contributions). [ download pdf without paywall]
  9. Staples TL, Blois J, Cramer KL, Cunningham ET, Dornelas M, Haberle SG, Heger T, Kiessling W, Magurran AE, O’Dea A, Penny AM, Radeloff VC, Smith JA, Thuiller W, Williams JW, Pandolfi JM. 2025. A conceptual framework for measuring ecological novelty. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70005.
  10. Agiadi K, Caswell BA, Almeida R, Becheker A, Blanco A, Brito C, León-Cobo MJ, Cook EME, Costantini F, Karakuş M, Leprieur F, López C, López-López L, O’Dea A, Pallacks S, Rabanal I, Schultz L, Tanner SE, Theodoropoulou T, Thurstan RH, Vieira N, Darnaude AM. 2024. Ancient archives reveal changes in marine functional connectivity through time. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae117.
  11. Schiebel R, Aardema HM, Calleja ML, Dragoneas A, Heins L, Hrabe de Angelis I, Pöhlker C, Slagter H, Vonhof H, Walter D, Arns AI, Adolphs N, Auderset A, Basic S, Bieler A, Brüwer JD, Chaabane S, Cheng Y, Chiliński MT, Cybulski JD, Disper T, Duprey N, Eichele G, Fiedler B, Fischer A, Foreman AD, Fuchs BM, Galer S, Härri J, Jochum KP, Jost A, Jung J, Kleta H, Lammel G, Larink O, Leibold P, Martínez-García A, Moretti S, Müller JG, Nillius B, Pan X, Raj SS, Repschläger J, Rodrigues E, Ruff SE, Schmitt M, Schmitter JL, Sellers Lara A, Silva P, Smart SM, Sörgel M, Stoll B, Su H, Vogt M, Wald T, Weber B, Weber J, Weis U, Amann R, Arístegui J, Dittmar T, González M, O’Dea A, Pöschl U, Haug GH. 2024. Special Issue on Probing the Open Ocean with the Research Sailing Yacht Eugen Seibold for Climate Geochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040581
  12. O’Dea A, García-Méndez K. 2024. Cupuladriid bryozoans. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.055.
  13. McClenachan L, Rick T, Thurstan RH, Trant A, Alagona PS, Alleway HK, Armstrong C, Bird RB, Rubio-Cisneros NT, Clavero M, Colonese AC, Cramer K, Davis AO, Drew J, Early-Capistrán MM, Gil-Romera G, Grace M, Hatch MBA, Higgs E, Hoffman K, Jackson JBC, Jerardino A, LeFebvre MJ, Lotze HK, Mohammed RS, Morueta-Holme N, Munteanu C, Mychajliw AM, Newsom B, O’Dea A, Pauly D, Szabó P, Torres J, Waldman J, West C, Xu L, Yasuoka H, zu Ermgassen PSE, Van Houtan KS. 2024. Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation. Endangered Species Research. doi.org/10.3354/esr01338.
  14. Piwoni-Piórewicz A, Kukliński P, Krzemińska M, Chełchowski M, Iglikowska A, Ronco F, Mazurkiewicz M, Smith AM, Gordon DP, Waeschenbach A, Najorka J, Figuerola B, Boonzaaier-Davids MK, Achilleos K, Mello H, Florence WK, Vieira LM, Shunatova N, Ostrovsky A, Porter JS, Sokolover N, Cumming RL, Novosel M, O’Dea A, Lombardi C, Huang D, Sudhanshi SJ, Liow LH. 2024. Temperature and evolutionary history control skeletal mineralogy in a major calcifying marine phylum. Global Ecology and Biogeography. http://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13874
  15. Hynes M, O’Dea A, Webster JM, Renema W. 2024. RADReef: A global Holocene Reef Rate of Accretion Dataset. Scientific Data 11, 398. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03228-w
  16. Jackson JBC# and O’Dea A#. 2023. Evolution and environment of Caribbean coastal ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307520120 (# shared first authorship).
  17. O’Dea A and Castellanos-GalindoG-CA, 2023. Editorial: Increasing risk of migrations through the Panama Canal. Bulletin of Marine Science. 10.5343/bms.2023.0074.
  18. Eckart Håkansson E, O’Dea A, Rosso A. 2023. Lunulite bryozoan biogeography – a convergent global success with a distinct Western Australian twist. Journal of The Royal Society of Western Australia, 106: 25–44.
  19. Salgado J, Vélez MI, González-Arango C, O’Dea A. 2023. Protected land enhances the survival of native aquatic macrophytes and limits invasive species spread in the Panama Canal. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 10.1002/aqc.3970
  20. Yang H, Macario-González L, Cohuo S, Whitmore T, Salgado J, Perez L, Schwalb A, Rose N, Holmes J, Riedinger-Whitmore M, Hoelzmann P, O’Dea A. 2023. Mercury pollution history in tropical and subtropical American lakes: Multiple impacts and the possible relation with climate change. Environmental Science & Technology. 10.1021/acs.est.2c09870 
  21. Cannon AL, Hynes MG, Brandt M, Wold C, O’Dea A, Altieri A, Cleland E, Levin L, Smith JE. 2023. Simulated green turtle grazing reduces seagrass productivity and alters benthic community structure while triggering further disturbance by feeding stingrays. Caribbean Journal of Science. 10.18475/cjos.v52i2.a16.
  22. Muraoka WT, Cramer KL, O’Dea A, Zhao J-X, Leonard ND, Norris RD. 2022. Historical declines in parrotfish on Belizean coral reefs linked to shifts in reef exploitation following European colonization. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10.3389/fevo.2022.972172.
  23. Jenkins HL, Graham R, Porter JS, Vieira LM, Almeida ACS, Hall A, O’Dea A, Coppard SE, Waeschenbach A. 2022. Unprecedented frequency of mitochondrial introns in colonial bilaterians. Scientific Reports 12, 10889. 10.1038/s41598-022-14477-3
  24. Yasuhara M#, May Huang H-HM#, Reuter M#, Tian SY#, Cybulski JD#, O’Dea A#, Mamo BL#, Cotton LJ#, Martino ED#, Feng R, Tabor CR, Reygondeau G, Zhao Q, Warne MT, Aye K, Zhang J, Chao A, Wei C-L, Condamine FL, Kocsis AT, Kiessling WK, Costello MJ, Tittensor DP, Chaudhary C, Rillo MC, Doi H, Dong Y-W, Cronin TM, Saupe EE, Lotze HK, Johnson KG, Renema W, Pandolfi JM, Harzhauser M, Jackson JBC, Hong Y. 2022. Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology – An Annual Review. 10.1201/9781003288602-5. (#: Equal contributions).
  25. Wilkinson JL, et al. (125 co-authors). 2022. Pharmaceutical Pollution of the World’s Rivers. In Press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(8) e2113947119, 10.1073/pnas.2113947119.
  26. O’Dea A, Flantua SGA, Leray M, Lueders-Dumont JA, Titcomb MC*. 2022. Pleistocene sea level changes and crocodile population histories on the Isthmus of Panama: A comment on Avila-Cervantes et al. (2020). Evolution, 10.1111/evo.14610.
  27. Dillon E*, Bagla A, Plioplys K, McCauley DJ, Lafferty KD, O’Dea A. 2022. Dermal denticle shedding rates vary between two captive shark species. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 682:153-167 10.3354/meps13936.
  28. Leray M, Wilkins L, Apprill A, Bik H, Clever F, Connolly S, De León M, Duffy E, Ezzat L, Gignoux-Wolfsohn S, Herre AE, Kaye J, Kline D, Kueneman J, McCormick M, McMillan O, O’Dea A, Pereira T, Petersen J, Petticord D, Torchin M, Vega Thurber R, Videvall E, Wcislo W, Yuen B, Eisen JA. 2021. Natural experiments in the sea as observatories of host-microbe ecology and evolution. PloS Biology, 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322.
  29. Figuerola B, Grossman E, Lucey N, Leonard N, O’Dea A. 2021. Millennial-scale change on a Caribbean reef system that experiences hypoxia. Ecography. 10.1111/ecog.05606.
  30. Dillon E*, McCauley D, JM Morales-Saldana, ND Leonard, J-x Zhao, O’Dea A. 2021. Fossil shark dermal denticles uncover the pre-exploitation baseline of a Caribbean coral reef shark community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 10.1073/pnas.2017735118.
  31. Sullivan AP*, Marciniak S, O’Dea A, Wake TA, Perry GH. 2021. Modern, archaeological, and paleontological DNA analysis of a human-harvested marine gastropod (Strombus pugilis) from Caribbean Panama. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13361
  32. Gudnitz MN*, Collins LS, O’Dea A. 2021. Foraminiferal Communities of a mid-Holocene Reef: Isla Colón, Caribbean Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110042
  33. Yasuhara M, Huang H-HM, Hull P, Rillo MC, Condamine FL, Tittensor DP, Kučera M, Costello MJ, Finnegan S, O’Dea A, Hong Y, Bonebrake TC, McKenzie NR, Doi H, Wei C-L, Kubota Y, Saup EE. 2020. Time machine biology: cross-time-scale integration of ecology, evolution, and paleoceanography. Oceanography doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.225.
  34. Salgado J*, Vélez MI, González-Arango C, Rose NL, Yang H, Huguet C, Camacho J*, O’Dea A. 2020. A century of limnological evolution and interactive threats in the Panama Canal: long-term assessments from a shallow basin. Science of the Total Environment. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138444.
  35. O’Dea A, Lepore M*, Altieri AH, Chan M*, Morales-Saldaña JM, Muñoz NH*, Pandolfi JM, Toscano MA, Zhao JX, Dillon EM*. 2020. Defining variation in pre-human ecosystems can guide conservation: An example from a Caribbean coral reef. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59436-y.
  36. Dillon E*, Lafferty K, McCauley D, Bradley D, Norris R, Caselle J, O’Dea A. 2020. Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13346.
  37. Cramer K, O’Dea A, Leonard-Pingel J, Norris R. 2020. Millennial‐scale change in the structure of a Caribbean reef ecosystem and the role of human and natural disturbance. Ecography doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04722
  38. Wilkins LGE, Leray M, O’Dea A, Yuen B, Peixoto R, Pereira TJ, Bik HM, Coil DA, Duffy JE, Herre EA, Lessios H, Lucey NM, Mejia LC, Rasher DB, Sharp K, Sogin EM, Thacker RW, Vega Thurber R, Wcislo WT, Wilbanks EG, EisenJ A. 2019. Host-associated microbiomes and their roles in marine ecosystem functions. PloS Biology doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000533.
  39. Grossman EL, Robbins JA, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Tao K*, Saxena D, O’Dea A. 2019. Freshwater input, upwelling, and the evolution of Caribbean coastal ecosystems during formation of the Central American Isthmus. Geology. doi.org/10.1130/G46357.1 
  40. Lin C-H, De Gracia B, Pierotti MER, Andrews AH, Griswold K*, O’Dea A. 2019. Otoliths in coral reef sediments can help reconstruct past reef fish communities. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218413. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218413.
  41. Flantua S*, O’Dea A, Renske RE, Hooghiemstra H. 2019. The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos. Journal of Biogeography 00:1– 18. 10.1111/jbi.13607  (Also preprint: 10.1101/569681v2)
  42. Taylor LD, O’Dea A, Bralower T, Finnegan S. 2019. Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1808759116.
  43. O’Dea A, De Gracia B, Figuerola B, Jagadeeshan S. 2018. Young species of cupuladriid bryozoans occupied new Caribbean habitats faster than old species. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30670-9.
  44. Łukowiak M*, Cramer K, Madzia D, Hynes M*, Norris R, Hynes M*, O’Dea A. 2018. Historical change in a Caribbean reef sponge community and long-term loss of sponge predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi.org/10.3354/meps12694.
  45. O’Dea A et al. 2018. Formation of the Isthmus of Panama: Response to Jaramillo et al. Science Advances. eLetteradvances.sciencemag.org.
  46. Cramer K, O’Dea A, Carpenter C, Norris R. 2018. A 3,000 year record of Caribbean reef urchin communities reveals causes and consequences of long-term decline in Diadema antillarum. Ecography. 10.1111/ecog.02513.
  47. Chan B-LM*, Munoz N-H*, Lepore M* and O’Dea A. 2017. Caribbean Coral Skeleton Identification Guide. https://odealab.github.io/ccsig/. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1117236
  48. O’Dea A, Dillon E*, Altieri A, Lepore M*. 2017. Look to the past for an optimistic future. Conservation Biology. doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12997.
  49. O’Dea A. 2017. Building Bridges. Response to Erkens and Hoorn: “The Panama Isthmus, ‘old’, ‘young’ or both?”. Science Advances. eLetter advances.sciencemag.org.
  50. Graniero LE*, Morales J, Thompson R, Grossman E, Robbins J, O’Dea A. 2017. Conus shell δ13C values can be used as a proxy for δ13Cdic in tropical waters. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 472: 119–127. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.007
  51. Dillon EM*, Norris RD and O’Dea A. 2017. Dermal denticles as a tool to reconstruct shark communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 566:1 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12018
  52. Cramer K, O’Dea A, Clark TR, Zhao J-X, Norris R. 2017. Prehistorical and historical declines in Caribbean coral reef accretion rates driven by loss of parrotfish. Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14160.
  53. O’Dea A, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cione AL, Coates AG, Collins LS, Coppard SE, Cozzuol MA, de Queiroz A, Duque-Caro H, Eytan RI, Farris DW, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Lessios HA, Marko PB, Norris RD, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Stallard RF, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Woodburne MO, Jackson JBC. 2016. Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Science Advances. e1600883.
  54. Graniero LE, Grossman EL, O’Dea A. 2016. Stable isotopes in bivalves as indicators of nutrient source in coastal waters in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama. PeerJ. 4:e2278 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2278.
  55. Pyenson ND, Velez-Juarbe J, Gutstein CS, Little H, Vigil D*, O’Dea A. 2015. Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of ‘river dolphins’ in the Americas. Peer J. 3:e1227 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1227.
  56. Orzechowski EA, Lockwood R, Byrnes JE, Anderson SC, Finnegan S, Finkel ZV, Harnik PG, Lindberg DR, Liow LH, Lotze HK, McClain CR, McGuire JL, O’Dea A, Pandolfi JM, Simpson C, 
Tittensor DP. 2015. Determinants of extinction selectivity over the last 500 million years: a meta-analysis of marine bivalves and gastropods. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12963.
  57. Finnegan S,Anderson SC, Harnik PG, Simpson C, Tittensor DP, Byrnes JE, Finkel ZF, Lindberg DR, Liow LH, Lockwood R, Lotze HK, McClain CM, McGuire JL, O’Dea A, Pandolfi JM. 2015. Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans. Science 348: 567-570. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa6635.
  58. O’Dea A, Leigh EG, Vermeij GJ. 2015. Natural history of Panama’s seas (in Spanish). In: Rodriguez F & O’Dea A (eds). Historia Natural del Istmo de Panamá. SENACYT/Smithsonian, Panama. 170pp.
  59. McClelland HLO, Taylor PD, O’Dea A, Okamura B. 2014. Revising and refining the bryozoan zs-MART seasonality proxy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 410, 412.
  60. O’Dea A, Schafer M*, Wake TA, Doughty D, Rodriguez F. 2014. Evidence of size-selective evolution in the Fighting Conchfrom prehistoric subsistence harvesting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0159
  61. Leigh EG, O’Dea A, Vermeij GJ. 2014. Historical Biogeography of the Isthmus of Panama. Biological Reviews 89:148-72.
  62. O’Dea A, Collins LS. 2013. Environmental, ecological and evolutionary change in seas across the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):769–777.
  63. Schlöder C. O’Dea A, Guzman H. 2013. Benthic community recovery from small-scale physical disturbance on marginal Caribbean reefs: An example from Panama. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):1003–1014.
  64. Jackson JBC & O’Dea A. 2013. Timing of the oceanographic and biological isolation of the Caribbean Sea from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. 89(4):779–800. Bulletin of Marine Science.
  65. Łukowiak M*,Pisera A, O’Dea A. 2013. Do spicules in sediments reflect the living sponge community? A test in a Caribbean shallow water lagoon. Palaios 28:373–385
  66. Okamura B, O’Dea A, Taylor PD, Taylor A. 2013. Evidence of el Niño/la Niña–Southern Oscillation variability in the Neogene- Pleistocene of Panama revealed by a new bryozoan assemblage-based proxy. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):857–876.
  67. Key, MM Jr., Hollenbeck PM, O’Dea A & Patterson WP. 2013. Stable isotope profiling in modern marine bryozoans across the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):837–856.
  68. Fredston-Hermann A*, O’Dea A, Rodriguez F, Thompson WG, Todd JA. 2013. Marked ecological shifts in seagrass and reef molluscan communities since the mid-Holocene in the southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):983–1002.
  69. Tao K*, Robbins JA, Grossman EL, O’Dea A. 2013. Quantifying upwelling and freshening in nearshore tropical environments using stable isotopes in modern Tropical American mollusks. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):815–836.
  70. O’Dea A, Hoyos N, Rodriguez F, Degracia B, De Gracia C*. 2012. History of upwelling in the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the paleogeography of the Isthmus of Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 348–349: 59–66
  71. Sosdian SM, Lear CH, Tao K*, Grossman EL, Rosenthal Y, O’Dea A. 2012. Cenozoic Seawater Sr/Ca Evolution. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. DOI:10.1029/2012GC004240
  72. Harnik PG, Lotze HK, Anderson SC, Finkel ZV, Finnegan S, Lindberg DR, Liow L, Lockwood R, McClain CM, McGuire JL, O’Dea A, Pandolfi JM, Simpson C, Tittensor DP. 2012. Extinctions in ancient and modern seas. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 27:608-617. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.010
  73. Leonard-Pingel JS*, Jackson JBC, O’Dea A. 2012. Featured Article: Changes in bivalve functional and community ecology in response to environmental change in the Caribbean Neogene. Paleobiology 38(4): 509–524.
  74. DeGracia C*, O’Dea A, Rodríguez F, D’Croz L. 2012. Environmental response to the subduction of the aseismic Cocos ridge (Panama and Costa Rica). International Journal of Tropical Biology. 60(2): 893-908.
  75. Jagadeeshan S & O’Dea A. 2012. Integrating fossils and molecules to study cupuladriid evolution in an emerging Isthmus. Evolutionary Ecology. 26(2): 337-355.
  76. O’Dea A, Håkansson E, Taylor, P. Okamura B. 2011. Environmental change prior to the K-T boundary inferred from temporal variation in the morphology of cheilostome bryozoans. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 308: 502–512.
  77. Okamura B, O’Dea A, Knowles T*. 2011. Bryozoan modular growth and the retrospective analysis of environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 430: 133-146.
  78. Anlauf H*, D’Croz L, O’Dea A. 2011. A corrosive concoction: the combined effects of ocean warming and acidification on the early growth of a stony coral are multiplicative. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology. 397(1): 13-20.  
  79. O’Dea A, Ostrovsky AN & Rodriguez F. 2010. Embryonic brooding and clonal propagation in tropical eastern Pacific cupuladriid bryozoans. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90(2): 291-9.
  80. O’Dea A & Jackson JBC. 2009. Environmental change drove macroevolution in cupuladriid bryozoans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 3629-3634.
  81. O’Dea A. 2009. Feature Article: Relation of form to life habit in free-living cupuladriid bryozoans. Aquatic Biology 7: 1-18.
  82. Ostrovsky AN, O’Dea A & Rodríguez F. 2009. Comparative anatomy of the internal incubational sacs in the genera Discoporella and Cupuladria (Bryozoa, Gymnolaemata), and evolution of brooding in the free-living Cheilostomata. Journal of Morphology. 270, 12: 1413-1430.
  83. Robertson DR, Christy J, Collin R, Cooke R, D’Croz L, Kaufmann K, Heckadon S, Mate J, O’Dea A, Torchin M. 2009. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine research, education and conservation in Panama. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 73-93.
  84. D’Croz L & O’Dea A. 2009. Nutrient and Chlorophyll Dynamics in Pacific Central America. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 335-344.
  85. Robertson DR, Christy J, Collin R, Cooke R, D’Croz L, Kaufmann K, Heckadon S, Mate J, O’Dea A, Torchin M. 2009. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine research, education and conservation in Panama. In: Lang MA, MacIntyre IG, Ruetzler K (Eds.), Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium: 73-93. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.
  86. O’Dea A, Jackson JBC, Taylor PD & Rodriguez F. 2008. Modes of reproduction in Recent and fossil cupuladriid bryozoans. Palaeontology 51: 847-864.
  87. Renema W, Bellwood D, Braga JC, Bromfield K, Hall R, Johnson KG, Lunt P, Meyer CP, McMonagle L, Morley RJ, O’Dea A, Todd JA, Wesselingh FP, Wilson MEJ, Pandolfi, JM. 2008. Hopping Hotspots: global shifts in marine biodiversity. Science 321: 654-657.
  88. O’Dea A, Jackson JBC, Fortunato H, Smith T, D’Croz L, Johnson KG & Todd J. 2007. Environmental change preceded Caribbean mass extinction by 2 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 5501-5506.
  89. D’Croz L & O’Dea A. 2007. Variability in upwelling along the Pacific shelf of Panama and implications for the distribution of nutrients and chlorophyll. Estuarine. Coastal and Shelf Science 73: 325-340. 
  90. O’Dea A, Rodríguez F & Romero T*. 2007. Response of zooid size in Cupuladria exfragminis (Bryozoa) to simulated upwelling temperature. Marine Ecology 28: 1-9.
  91. O’Dea A, Rodríguez F, DeGracia C*, Coates, AG. 2007. Marine paleontology on the Isthmus of Panama. Canto Rodado 2: 149-179.
  92. O’Dea A. 2006. Asexual propagation in the marine bryozoan Cupuladria exfragminis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 335: 312-322.
  93. O’Dea A. 2005. Zooid size parallels contemporaneous oxygen isotopes in a large colony of Pentapora foliacea (Bryozoa). Marine Biology. 146: 1075-1081.
  94. O’Dea A, Herrera-Cubilla A, Fortunato H & Jackson JBC. 2004. Life history variation in cupuladriid bryozoans from either side of the Isthmus of Panama. Marine Ecology Progress Series 280: 145-161.
  95. O’Dea A. 2003. Seasonality and variation in zooid size in Panamanian encrusting bryozoans. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 83: 1107-1108.
  96. O’Dea A & Jackson JBC. 2002. Bryozoan growth mirrors contrasting seasonal regimes across the Isthmus of Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 185: 77-94.
  97. O’Dea A & Okamura B. 2000. Life history and environmental inferences through retrospective morphometric analysis of bryozoans: a preliminary study. Journal of the Marine Biological Association. 80: 3596-3599.
  98. O’Dea A & Okamura B. 2000. Intracolony variation in zooid size in cheilostome bryozoans as a new technique for investigating palaeoseasonality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 162: 319-332.  
  99. O’Dea A & Okamura B. 2000. Cheilostome bryozoans as indicators of seasonality in the Neogene epicontinental seas of Western Europe. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference: 74-86.
  100. O’Dea A & Okamura B. 1999. Influence of seasonal variation in temperature, salinity, and food availability on module size and colony growth in the estuarine bryozoan, Conopeum seurati. Marine Biology 135: 581-588.

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published Datasets

O’Dea, A. 2025. Data and code for “Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025”, by O’Dea et al. [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15715993

O’Dea, A. 2025. Supporting Data files for Prehistoric archives reveal evidence of predator loss and prey release in Caribbean reef fish communities [Data set]. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12802950

Hynes M, O’Dea A, Webster JM, Renema W. 2024. RADReef Dataset Files. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25251157.v2

Titcomb M, O’Dea A. 2020. Post-glacial Sea Level rise on the Isthmus of Panama. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25573/data.11919276.

Dillon E*, Lafferty K, McCauley D, Bradley D, Norris R, Caselle J, O’Dea A. 2019. Data from: Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys, v2, UC Santa Barbara, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.25349/D9CP4C

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Books

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2024. A History of Life in 100 Fossils. Natural History Museum/Smithsonian Books [second edition]

Other editions/languages

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2014. A History of Life in 100 Fossils. Natural History Museum/Smithsonian Books.

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2018. 世界を変えた100の化石. Expert knowledge ISBN: 978-4-7678-2497-0. 1st edition.

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2015. Die Geschichte des Lebens in 100 Fossilien. Theiss, Konrad; 1st edition.

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2015. La vie sur Terre racontée en 100 fossiles. Biotope Editions; 1st edition.

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2016. 化石知道生命的旅程. 出版社: 电子工业出版社 (Electronic Industry Press); 1st edition.

Taylor PD & O’Dea A. 2017. La storia della vita in 100 fossili. Editore: Sironi, Collana: Galápagos. 1st edition.

O’Dea & Cooke-Tapía. 2021. Martina y el Puente en el Tiempo. SENACYT/Smithsonian. 52 pp.

O’Dea & Cooke-Tapía. 2021. Martina and the Bridge of Time. SENACYT/Smithsonian. 52 pp.

Rodriguez F & O’Dea A. 2015. Historia Natural del Istmo de Panamá. SENACYT / Smithsonian. 170pp.

O’Dea A, Collins LS. 2013. Environmental, ecological and evolutionary change in seas across the Isthmus of Panama. Special edition of the Bulletin of Marine Science originating from colloquium in Bocas del Toro, 2011.

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Preprints

Clever F, Preziosi RF, Nguyen B, De Gracia B, Quintero H, McMillan WO, Altieri AH, O’Dea A, Knowlton N, Leray M. 2024. Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.22.595166

McClenachan L, Rick T, Thurstan RH, Trant A, Alagona PS, Alleway HK, Armstrong C, Bird RB, Rubio-Cisneros NT, Clavero M, Colonese AC, Cramer K, Davis AO, Drew J, Early-Capistrán MM, Gil-Romera G, Grace M, Hatch MBA, Higgs E, Hoffman K, Jackson JBC, Jerardino A, LeFebvre MJ, Lotze HK, Mohammed RS, Morueta-Holme N, Munteanu C, Mychajliw AM, Newsom B, O’Dea A, Pauly D, Szabó P, Torres J, Waldman J, West C, Xu L, Yasuoka H, zu Ermgassen PSE, Van Houtan KS. 2023. Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2TK5T

Håkansson, E., O’Dea, A. and Rosso, A. 2023. Lunulite bryozoan biogeography – a convergent global success with a distinct Western Australian twist. bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.30.538880

Cannon AL, Hynes MG, Brandt M, Wold C, O’Dea A, Altieri A, Cleland E, Levin L, Smith JE. 2022. Simulated green turtle grazing reduces seagrass productivity and alters benthic community structure while triggering further disturbance by feeding stingrays. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.27.509764

Salgado J, Vélez MI, González-Arango C, O’Dea A. 2021. Terrestrial protected areas maintain freshwater ecosystem resilience to costly aquatic invasive species in the Panama Canal. ResearchSquare, Brief Communication: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-659064/v1

Figuerola B,  Grossman EL, Lucey N, Leonard ND,  O’Dea A. 2020. Millennial-scale change on a Caribbean reef system that experiences hypoxia. bioRxiv 2021.04.06.438665; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.06.438665

Sullivan AP, Marciniak S, O’Dea A, Wake TA, Perry GH. 2020. Modern, archaeological, and paleontological DNA analysis of a human-harvested marine gastropod (Strombus pugilis) from Caribbean Panama. BioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.26.269308

Jorge S*, Vélez MI, González-Arango C, Rose N, Yang H, Hughet C, Camacho J, O’Dea A. 2019. The Panama Canal after a century of human impacts. bioRxiv 777938; doi:10.1101/777938

Wilkins LGE, Leray M, Yuen B, Peixoto R, Pereira TJ, Bik HM, Coil DA, Duffy JE, Herre EA, Lessios H, Lucey NM, Mejia LC, O’Dea A, Rasher DB, Sharp K, Sogin EM, Thacker RW, Vega Thurber R, Wcislo WT, Wilbanks EG, EisenJ A. 2019. Host-associated microbiomes and their roles in marine ecosystem functions. DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27930v1

O’Dea A, Lepore M, Altieri AH, Chan M*, Muñoz N-H*, Pandolfi JM, Zhao J-x, Dillon EM. 2019. Analysis of historical variation can reveal bright spots and aid the conservation of coral reefs. bioRxiv 749382; doi: 10.1101/749382

Flantua, GAS, O’Dea A, Renske RE, Hooghiemstra H. 2019. The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos. bioRxiv; doi: 10.1101/569681v2

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

O’Dea A, Titcomb M*. 2020. Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, Bologna February 2020; Abstract Booklet. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3663054

Verdurmen A*, O’Dea A. 2020. Guía de otolitos para la identificación de peces de importancia económica del género Cynoscion (Sciaenidae) del Pacífico Panameño. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3970515.

Titcomb M*, O’Dea A. 2020. Post-glacial Sea Level rise on the Isthmus of Panama. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25573/data.11919276.

O’Dea A and Solano M. 2019. El ascenso de los mares [The unavoidable rise of the seas], La Prensa [Vivir], 17 December 2019. https://www.prensa.com/impresa/vivir/el-ascenso-de-los-mares/

Dillon E*, Lafferty K, McCauley D, Bradley D, Norris R, Caselle J, O’Dea A. 2019. Data from: Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys, v2, UC Santa Barbara, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.25349/D9CP4C

O’Dea A. 2019. Explorando el paisaje submarino [Exploring an underwater landscape]. La Prensa [Vivir], 3 May 2019. https://impresa.prensa.com/vivir/Explorando-paisaje-submarino_0_5295220492.html

O’Dea A. 2018. Panamá fue una vez un océano, ¿lo será de nuevo? [Panama was once an Ocean – will it be again?]. La Prensa, 17 December 2018. impresa.prensa.com/vivir/Panama-vez-oceano-nuevo_0_5192480746.html

O’Dea A. 2018. Donde se fueron las playas blancas? [Where did all the white sand beaches go?]. La Prensa 9 March 2018. www.prensa.com/opinion/playas-blancas_0_4980252016.html

Collins LS, O’Dea A, 2013. Dedication to Anthony G. Coates. Bulletin of Marine Science. 89(4):767–768.

O’Dea A. 2002. Conservation of the freshwater bryozoan Lophopus crystallinus. Prepared for Action for Invertebrates (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27872.23041

O’Dea A. 1998. A Student’s Guide to Palynology. Prepared for the Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London.

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