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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
9126
World Ranking
6660
National Ranking
125

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Comanagement of coral reef social ecological systems

    Joshua E. Cinner;Tim R. McClanahan;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A. J. Graham

  • Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

    Joshua E. Cinner;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Nicholas A.J. Graham

  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

    Camilo Mora;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Arturo Ayala Bocos;Paula M. Ayotte;Paula M. Ayotte

  • The growing need for sustainable ecological management of marine communities of the Persian Gulf.

    Peter F. Sale;David A. Feary;John A. Burt;Andrew G. Bauman

  • Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

    Joshua E. Cinner;Eva Maire;Eva Maire;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil

  • Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Tim R McClanahan;Joseph Maina;Georgina G Gurney

  • Habitat choice, recruitment and the response of coral reef fishes to coral degradation

    David A. Feary;Glenn R. Almany;Mark I. McCormick;Geoffrey P. Jones

  • The Evolution of the Carbonate Platforms of Northeast Australia

    Peter J. Davies;Philip A. Symonds;David A. Feary;Christopher J. Pigram

  • Climate change impacts on coral reefs: synergies with local effects, possibilities for acclimation, and management implications.

    Mebrahtu Ateweberhan;David A. Feary;Shashank Keshavmurthy;Allen Chen

  • Latitudinal shifts in coral reef fishes: why some species do and others do not shift

    David A Feary;Morgan S Pratchett;Micheal J Emslie;Ashley M Fowler

  • Transforming management of tropical coastal seas to cope with challenges of the 21st century

    Peter F Sale;Tundi Agardy;Cameron H Ainsworth;Blake E Feist

  • Holocene carbonate sedimentation on the west Eucla Shelf, Great Australian Bight: a shaved shelf

    Noel P. James;Thomas D. Boreen;Yvonne Bone;David A. Feary

  • Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity

    David R. Braun;David R. Braun;Vera Aldeias;William Benjamin Dean Sipho Archer;J Ramon Arrowsmith

  • Fear of Fishers: Human Predation Explains Behavioral Changes in Coral Reef Fishes

    Fraser A. Januchowski-Hartley;Nicholas A. J. Graham;David A. Feary;Tau Morove

  • Tectonic controls on carbonate platform evolution in southern Papua New Guinea: Passive margin to foreland basin

    C. J. Pigram;P. J. Davies;D. A. Feary;P. A. Symonds

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

    J R Guest;K Tun;J Low;A Vergés

  • Tropical harmful algal blooms: an emerging threat to coral reef communities?

    Andrew G. Bauman;John A. Burt;David A. Feary;David A. Feary;Elise Marquis;Elise Marquis

  • Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world

    Joshua E. Cinner;Jessica Zamborain-Mason;Georgina G. Gurney;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Nicholas A. J. Graham

  • Crucial knowledge gaps in current understanding of climate change impacts on coral reef fishes

    S. K. Wilson;M. Adjeroud;D. R. Bellwood;M. L. Berumen;M. L. Berumen;M. L. Berumen

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel P. James
Noel P. James Queen's University
Albert C. Hine
Albert C. Hine University of South Florida
Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
Christian Betzler
Christian Betzler Universität Hamburg
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Finn Surlyk
Finn Surlyk University of Copenhagen
David J. Mallinson
David J. Mallinson East Carolina University

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