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Overview

Danwei Huang is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on marine and coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, and environmental change.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields covered in their research are:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Molecular Biology

Danwei Huang's research encompasses several main topics, such as:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Recent publications by Danwei Huang include:

  • Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Takeaways from Mobile DNA Barcoding with BentoLab and MinION, 2020, Genes
  • Maximising resilience to sea-level rise in urban coastal ecosystems through systematic conservation planning, 2022, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Responses of urban reef corals during the 2016 mass bleaching event, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Seeing through sedimented waters: environmental DNA reduces the phantom diversity of sharks and rays in turbid marine habitats, 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Zheng Bin Randolph Quek
  • Benjamin J. Wainwright
  • Yin Cheong Aden Ip
  • Loke Ming Chou
  • Jia Jin Marc Chang

Danwei Huang often publishes in journals and platforms such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Coral Reefs
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Slow Mitochondrial COI Sequence Evolution at the Base of the Metazoan Tree and Its Implications for DNA Barcoding

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Rudolf Meier;Peter A. Todd;Loke Ming Chou

  • 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

  • Urban coral reefs: Degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia.

    Eliza C. Heery;Bert W. Hoeksema;Nicola K. Browne;Nicola K. Browne;James D. Reimer

  • A Trait-Based Approach to Advance Coral Reef Science

    Joshua S. Madin;Mia O. Hoogenboom;Sean R. Connolly;Emily S. Darling

  • Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

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  • Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Francesca Benzoni;Hironobu Fukami;Nancy Knowlton;Nancy Knowlton

  • Extraordinary diversity of reef corals in the South China Sea

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Wilfredo Y. Licuanan;Bert W. Hoeksema;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management

    David O. Obura;Greta Aeby;Natchanon Amornthammarong;Ward Appeltans

  • Threatened Reef Corals of the World

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang

  • The new systematics of scleractinia: Integrating molecular and morphological evidence

    Marcelo V. Kitahara;Marcelo V. Kitahara;Hironobu Fukami;Francesca Benzoni;Danwei Huang

  • Cleaning up the 'Bigmessidae': Molecular phylogeny of scleractinian corals from Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae and Trachyphylliidae

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Wilfredo Y Licuanan;Andrew H Baird;Hironobu Fukami

  • Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history

    Caroline M. Tucker;Caroline M. Tucker;Tracy Aze;Marc W. Cadotte;Juan L. Cantalapiedra;Juan L. Cantalapiedra

  • AN INVENTORY OF ZOOXANTHELLATE SCLERACTINIAN CORALS IN SINGAPORE, INCLUDING 33 NEW RECORDS

    Danwei Huang;Karenne P. P. Tun;L. M. Chou;Peter A. Todd

  • The future of evolutionary diversity in reef corals.

    Danwei Huang;Kaustuv Roy

  • More evidence for pervasive paraphyly in scleractinian corals: systematic study of Southeast Asian Faviidae (Cnidaria; Scleractinia) based on molecular and morphological data.

    Danwei Huang;Rudolf Meier;Peter A. Todd;Loke Ming Chou

  • Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes.

    D Mouillot;D Mouillot;V Parravicini;David R. Bellwood;F Leprieur

  • Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo‐Pacific genera Merulina, Goniastrea and Scapophyllia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae)

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Francesca Benzoni;Roberto Arrigoni;Andrew H. Baird

  • Light limitation selects for depth generalists in urbanised reef coral communities.

    Gwendolyn S.E. Chow;Y.K. Samuel Chan;Sudhanshi Sanjeev Jain;Danwei Huang

  • Comparing patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in reef coral communities

    Joy S. Y. Wong;Y. K. Samuel Chan;C. S. Lionel Ng;Karenne P. P. Tun

  • The paradox of environmental symbiont acquisition in obligate mutualisms

    Aaron C. Hartmann;Aaron C. Hartmann;Aaron C. Hartmann;Andrew H. Baird;Nancy Knowlton;Danwei Huang

  • Corrigendum: 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Loke Ming Chou
Loke Ming Chou National University of Singapore
Peter A. Todd
Peter A. Todd National University of Singapore
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Francesca Benzoni
Francesca Benzoni King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
Rudolf Meier
Rudolf Meier Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Daniel A. Friess
Daniel A. Friess Tulane University
Emily S. Darling
Emily S. Darling Wildlife Conservation Society

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