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Overview

Bernhard Riegl is affiliated with Nova Southeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular emphasis on ecology and oceanography.

The scientist's work covers several subfields of study, including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and planetary change
  • Ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics
  • Nature and landscape conservation

Riegl's research topics involve:

  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ocean acidification effects and responses
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Coastal and marine management
  • Botany and geology in Latin America and the Caribbean

They have published extensively in prominent scientific venues, notably:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Scientific Reports
  • Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecological Applications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Bernhard Riegl are:

  • Insights from extreme coral reefs in a changing world, 2020, Coral Reefs
  • Contrasting shifts in coral assemblages with increasing disturbances, 2020, Coral Reefs
  • Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Recruitment and larval connectivity of a remnant Acropora community in the Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates, 2021, Coral Reefs

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter W. Glynn
  • Joshua Dominguez
  • Phillip Gillette
  • Kyle Dettloff
  • John A. Burt

Best Publications

  • Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook

    Andrew C. Baker;Andrew C. Baker;Peter W. Glynn;Bernhard Riegl

  • Environmental Impacts of Dredging and Other Sediment Disturbances on Corals: A Review

    Paul L.A. Erftemeijer;Bernhard Riegl;Bert W. Hoeksema;Peter A. Todd

  • The Gulf: a young sea in decline.

    Charles Sheppard;Mohsen Al-Husiani;F. Al-Jamali;Faiza Al-Yamani

  • Multi-site evaluation of IKONOS data for classification of tropical coral reef environments

    Serge Andréfouët;Philip Kramer;Damaris Torres-Pulliza;Karen E. Joyce

  • Possible refugia for reefs in times of environmental stress

    Bernhard Riegl;Bernhard Riegl;Werner Piller

  • Effects of sediment on the energy budgets of four scleractinian (Bourne 1900) and five alcyonacean (Lamouroux 1816) corals

    Bernhard Riegl;George M. Branch

  • Holocene coral reef rubble and its binding agents

    M. Rasser;Bernhard Riegl

  • Effects of the 1996 and 1998 positive sea-surface temperature anomalies on corals, coral diseases and fish in the Arabian Gulf (Dubai, UAE)

    Bernhard Riegl

  • Implications of reef ecosystem change for the stability and maintenance of coral reef islands

    Chris T. Perry;Paul S. Kench;Scott G. Smithers;Bernhard Riegl

  • Climate change and coral reefs: different effects in two high-latitude areas (Arabian Gulf, South Africa)

    Bernhard Riegl

  • Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as models for thermotolerant reef-builders: prevalence of clade C3 Symbiodinium, host fluorescence and ex situ temperature tolerance.

    B. Hume;C. D'Angelo;John A. Burt;Andrew Baker

  • Present Limits to Heat-Adaptability in Corals and Population-Level Responses to Climate Extremes

    Bernhard Riegl;Samuel J. Purkis;Ashraf S. Al-Cibahy;Mohammed A. Abdel-Moati

  • Thermal tolerances of reef corals in the Gulf: a review of the potential for increasing coral survival and adaptation to climate change through assisted translocation.

    Steve L. Coles;Bernhard M. Riegl

  • Coral reefs: threats and conservation in an era of global change.

    Bernhard Riegl;Andy Bruckner;Steve L. Coles;Philip Renaud

  • Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no-take marine protected area.

    Charles (Charles R. C.) Sheppard;M. Ateweberhan;B. W. Bowen;P. Carr

  • Corals in a non-reef setting in the southern Arabian Gulf (Dubai, UAE): fauna and community structure in response to recurring mass mortality

    Bernhard Riegl

  • A Coral Damage Index and its Application to Diving Sites in the Egyptian Red Sea

    S. C. Jameson;M. S. A. Ammar;E. Saadalla;H. M. Mostafa

  • Effects of sand deposition on scleractinian and alcyonacean corals

    Bernhard Riegl

  • How many damaged corals in Red Sea reef systems? A quantitative survey

    Bernhard Riegl;Branko Velimirov

  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of Arabian Gulf coral assemblages quantified from remote-sensing and in situ monitoring data

    Samuel J. Purkis;Samuel J. Purkis;Bernhard Riegl

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel J. Purkis
Samuel J. Purkis University of Miami
Werner E. Piller
Werner E. Piller University of Graz
Peter W. Glynn
Peter W. Glynn Stanford University
Jochen Halfar
Jochen Halfar University of Toronto
Charles Sheppard
Charles Sheppard University of Warwick
Hildegard Westphal
Hildegard Westphal Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Morgan S. Pratchett
Morgan S. Pratchett James Cook University
Francesca Benzoni
Francesca Benzoni King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
John A. Burt
John A. Burt New York University Abu Dhabi
Anthony H. Knap
Anthony H. Knap Texas A&M University

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