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Carden C. Wallace

Carden C. Wallace

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Ecology and Evolution

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40
Citations
11874
World Ranking
5970
National Ranking
472

Overview

Carden C. Wallace is affiliated with the Queensland Museum in Australia. Their research spans several areas within environmental science, with particular attention to ecology, nature and landscape conservation, oceanography, sociology and political science, as well as global and planetary change.

The scientist's work covers diverse main topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, ichthyology and marine biology, polar research and ecology, marine and coastal plant biology, various aspects of tourism research, and marine and fisheries research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Wallace include:

  • "Money-Making in Antarctica and Related Challenges to the Antarctic Treaty System" (2024) in The Yearbook of Polar Law Online
  • "Earliest western Atlantic staghorn corals (Acropora) from the lower Oligocene Suwannee Limestone of Florida, USA, and their significance for modern coral distribution" (2022) in Journal of Paleontology
  • "Basket Case!" (2021) in Queensland Review
  • "Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate corals in Australasia revisited based on new data from the Kimberley" (2024) in Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement

Wallace frequently collaborates with several researchers including Kees Bastmeijer, Julia Jabour, David Leary, Roger W. Portell, and Zoe T. Richards.

Their work is published across a range of venues such as The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, Journal of Paleontology, Queensland Review, and Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement.

Best Publications

  • One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts

    Kent E. Carpenter;Muhammad Abrar;Greta Aeby;Richard B. Aronson

  • Reproduction, dispersal and recruitment of scleractinian corals

    Peter Lynton Harrison;C C Wallace

  • A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment, and disturbance at several scales in space and time

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace

  • Mass spawning in tropical reef corals

    Peter L. Harrison;Russell C. Babcock;Gordon D. Bull;James K. Oliver

  • Synchronous spawnings of 105 scleractinian coral species on the Great Barrier Reef

    R C Babcock;G D Bull;Peter Lynton Harrison;A J Heyward

  • Reproduction, recruitment and fragmentation in nine sympatric species of the coral genus Acropora

    C. C. Wallace

  • Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

    Hironobu Fukami;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen;Ann F. Budd;Allen Gilbert Collins

  • Patterns in the mass spawning of corals on the Great Barrier Reef from 1981 to 1984

    B L Willis;R C Babcock;Peter Lynton Harrison;J K Oliver

  • A LONG-TERM STUDY OF COMPETITION AND DIVERSITY OF CORALS

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace;Jason E. Tanner

  • The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

    Joshua S. Madin;Kristen D. Anderson;Magnus Heide Andreasen;Tom C.L. Bridge;Tom C.L. Bridge

  • Experimental hybridization and breeding incompatibilities within the mating systems of mass spawning reef corals

    Bette Willis;Russell Babcock;Peter Harrison;Carden Wallace

  • Staghorn corals of the world

    Carden C. Wallace

  • Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora

    Carden Wallace

  • Limited scope for latitudinal extension of reef corals

    Paul R. Muir;Carden C. Wallace;Terence Done;Terence Done;J. David Aguirre;J. David Aguirre

  • Analysis of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene supports a two-clade hypothesis of the evolutionary history of scleractinian corals.

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Carden C. Wallace;Jackie Wolstenholme;Jackie Wolstenholme

  • Diverse staghorn corals (Acropora) in high-latitude Eocene assemblages: implications for the evolution of modern diversity patterns of reef corals

    Carden C Wallace;Brian R Rosen

  • Secondary Structure and Phylogenetic Utility of the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) in Scleractinian Corals

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Chau-Ching Chang;Nuwei Vivian Wei;Chien-Hsun Chen

  • DNA barcoding reveals the coral "laboratory-rat", Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities

    Shashank Keshavmurthy;Sung Yin Yang;Sung Yin Yang;Ada Alamaru;Yao Yang Chuang;Yao Yang Chuang

  • Diversity of Scleractinia and Octocorallia in the mesophotic zone of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    T. C. L. Bridge;K. E. Fabricius;P. Bongaerts;C. C. Wallace

  • SYSTEMATICS OF THE CORAL GENUS ACROPORA: Implications of New Biological Findings for Species Concepts

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  • A diverse assemblage of reef corals thriving in a dynamic intertidal reef setting (Bonaparte archipelago, Kimberley, Australia)

    Zoe T. Richards;Rodrigo A. Garcia;Carden C. Wallace;Natalie L. Rosser

Frequent Co-Authors

Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Zoe Richards
Zoe Richards Curtin University
Bette L. Willis
Bette L. Willis James Cook University
Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison Southern Cross University
Russell C. Babcock
Russell C. Babcock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tom C. L. Bridge
Tom C. L. Bridge Queensland Museum
Chang-Feng Dai
Chang-Feng Dai National Taiwan University
Pim Bongaerts
Pim Bongaerts California Academy of Sciences
John M. Pandolfi
John M. Pandolfi University of Queensland
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney

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