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Adriana Vergés is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their scientific output covers a broad range of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems. These include marine and coastal plant biology, coral and marine ecosystem studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, coastal and marine management, and species distribution and climate change.

Vergés has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Biological Conservation
  • Global Change Biology
  • Diversity and Distributions

Recent notable papers by Vergés include:

  • The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Seagrass Restoration Is Possible: Insights and Lessons From Australia and New Zealand, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions, 2022, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

The frequent collaborators in their research include the following individuals:

  • Alistair G. B. Poore
  • Ezequiel M. Marzinelli
  • Peter D. Steinberg
  • Aaron M. Eger
  • Thomas Wernberg

Vergés's publication record reflects sustained contributions to scientific understanding in areas crucial to marine ecosystem restoration and management, especially focusing on kelp forests and seagrass ecosystems. Their work addresses ecosystem services, restoration methodologies, and future directions for habitat recovery within marine environments.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

    Gretta T. Pecl;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia Blanchard

  • The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

    Adriana Vergés;Peter D. Steinberg;Mark E. Hay;Alistair G. B. Poore

  • Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp

    Adriana Vergés;Christopher Doropoulos;Hamish A. Malcolm;Mathew Skye

  • The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

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  • Tropical rabbitfish and the deforestation of a warming temperate sea

    Adriana Vergés;Fiona Tomas;Fiona Tomas;Emma Cebrian;Enric Ballesteros

  • Managing consequences of climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science

    Timothy C. Bonebrake;Christopher J. Brown;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia L. Blanchard

  • Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions

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  • Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions

    Adriana Vergés;Adriana Vergés;Erin McCosker;Erin McCosker;Mariana Mayer‐Pinto;Mariana Mayer‐Pinto;Melinda A. Coleman;Melinda A. Coleman

  • Continental-scale variation in seaweed host-associated bacterial communities is a function of host condition, not geography.

    Ezequiel M. Marzinelli;Alexandra H. Campbell;Enrique Zozaya Valdes;Adriana Vergés

  • Seagrass Restoration Is Possible: Insights and Lessons From Australia and New Zealand

    Yi Mei Tan;Oliver Dalby;Gary A. Kendrick;John Statton

  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia

    Cayne Layton;Melinda A. Coleman;Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli;Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli;Peter David Steinberg;Peter David Steinberg

  • Accelerating tropicalization and the transformation of temperate seagrass meadows

    Glenn A. Hyndes;Kenneth L. Heck;Adriana Vergés;Euan S. Harvey

  • 27 years of benthic and coral community dynamics on turbid, highly urbanised reefs off Singapore.

    J R Guest;K Tun;J Low;A Vergés

  • Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration

    Melinda Ann Coleman;Melinda Ann Coleman;Georgina Wood;Karen Filbee-Dexter;Antoine J. P. Minne

  • Towards Restoration of Missing Underwater Forests

    Alexandra H. Campbell;Ezequiel M. Marzinelli;Adriana Vergés;Melinda A. Coleman

  • Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data

    Corey T Callaghan;Alistair G B Poore;Thomas Mesaglio;Angela T Moles

  • Compensation and resistance to herbivory in seagrasses: induced responses to simulated consumption by fish

    Adriana Vergés;Marta M. Pérez;Teresa Alcoverro;Javier Romero

  • Spatial Patterns in Herbivory on a Coral Reef Are Influenced by Structural Complexity but Not by Algal Traits

    Adriana Vergés;Mathew A. Vanderklift;Mathew A. Vanderklift;Christopher Doropoulos;Glenn A. Hyndes

  • Biology and Ecology of the Globally Significant Kelp Ecklonia radiata

    Thomas Wernberg;Melinda A. Coleman;Russell C. Babcock;Sahira Y. Bell

  • Role of fish herbivory in structuring the vertical distribution of canopy algae Cystoseira spp. in the Mediterranean Sea

    Adriana Vergés;Teresa Alcoverro;Enric Ballesteros

  • Selection of multiple seagrass indicators for environmental biomonitoring

    Begoña Martínez-Crego;Adriana Vergés;Teresa Alcoverro;Javier Romero

  • Experimental evidence of chemical deterrence against multiple herbivores in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica .

    Adriana Vergés;Mikel A. Becerro;Teresa Alcoverro;Javier Romero

  • Variation in multiple traits of vegetative and reproductive seagrass tissues influences plant-herbivore interactions.

    Adriana Vergés;Mikel A. Becerro;Teresa Alcoverro;Javier Romero

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli University of New South Wales
Alistair G. B. Poore
Alistair G. B. Poore University of New South Wales
Melinda A. Coleman
Melinda A. Coleman Southern Cross University
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia
Teresa Alcoverro
Teresa Alcoverro Spanish National Research Council
Gary A. Kendrick
Gary A. Kendrick University of Western Australia
Javier Romero
Javier Romero Harvard University
Enric Ballesteros
Enric Ballesteros Spanish National Research Council
Torsten Thomas
Torsten Thomas University of New South Wales

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