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Overview

David J. Suggett is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, biotechnology, and immunology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, ocean acidification effects and responses, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

David J. Suggett has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Coral restoration - A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Symbiodiniaceae-bacteria interactions: rethinking metabolite exchange in reef-building corals as multi-partner metabolic networks (2020, Environmental Microbiology)
  • Coral microbiome composition along the northern Red Sea suggests high plasticity of bacterial and specificity of endosymbiotic dinoflagellate communities (2020, Microbiome)

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Emma F. Camp
  • Christian R. Voolstra
  • David Hughes
  • John Edmondson
  • Jean-Baptiste Raina

David J. Suggett's research addresses complex marine environmental issues, including coral holobiont adaptation and coral reef responses to climate stressors such as ocean deoxygenation.

Best Publications

  • Coral restoration - A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions.

    Lisa Boström-Einarsson;Russell C. Babcock;Elisa Bayraktarov;Daniela Ceccarelli

  • Is photoinhibition of zooxanthellae photosynthesis the primary cause of thermal bleaching in corals

    David J. Smith;David J. Suggett;Neil R. Baker

  • Large-scale distribution of Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by iron availability

    C. Mark Moore;C. Mark Moore;Matthew M. Mills;Eric P. Achterberg;Richard J. Geider

  • Interpretation of fast repetition rate (FRR) fluorescence: signatures of phytoplankton community structure versus physiological state

    D. J. Suggett;C. M. Moore;Anna Hickman;R. J. Geider

  • New interventions are needed to save coral reefs

    Ken Anthony;Line K Bay;Robert Costanza;Jennifer Firn

  • Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications

    David J. Suggett;Ondrej Prášil;Michael A. Borowitzka

  • The Future of Coral Reefs Subject to Rapid Climate Change: Lessons from Natural Extreme Environments

    Emma F. Camp;Verena Schoepf;Peter J. Mumby;Leonardo A. Hardtke

  • Phytoplankton photoacclimation and photoadaptation in response to environmental gradients in a shelf sea

    C. Mark Moore;David J. Suggett;Anna E. Hickman;Young-Nam Kim

  • The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world

    Juliet Brodie;Christopher J Williamson;Christopher J Williamson;Dan A Smale;Nicholas A Kamenos

  • Thermal refugia against coral bleaching throughout the northern Red Sea

    Eslam O. Osman;Eslam O. Osman;David J. Smith;Maren Ziegler;Benjamin Kürten

  • Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

    Christian R. Voolstra;David J. Suggett;Raquel S. Peixoto;Raquel S. Peixoto;John E. Parkinson

  • Evaluation of biophysical and optical determinations of light absorption by photosystem II in phytoplankton

    David J. Suggett;Hugh L. MacIntyre;Richard J. Geider

  • Rapid Coral Decay Is Associated with Marine Heatwave Mortality Events on Reefs

    William P. Leggat;William P. Leggat;Emma F. Camp;David J. Suggett;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron

  • Photobiology of Symbiodinium revisited: bio-physical and bio-optical signatures

    S J Hennige;David J Suggett;Mark E Warner;K E McDougall

  • Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

    David J. Hughes;Rachel Alderdice;Christopher Cooney;Michael Kühl;Michael Kühl

  • A mechanistic model for the photosynthesis-light response based on the photosynthetic electron transport of photosystem II in C3 and C4 species.

    Zi Piao Ye;David J. Suggett;Piotr Robakowski;Hua Jing Kang

  • Fast repetition rate and pulse amplitude modulation chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements for assessment of photosynthetic electron transport in marine phytoplankton

    David J Suggett;Kevin Oxborough;Neil R Baker;Hugh L MacIntyre

  • Direct estimation of functional PSII reaction center concentration and PSII electron flux on a volume basis: a new approach to the analysis of Fast Repetition Rate fluorometry (FRRf) data

    Kevin Oxborough;C. Mark Moore;David J. Suggett;Tracy Lawson

  • Differential effects of ocean acidification on growth and photosynthesis among phylotypes of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae)

    Patrick Brading;Mark E. Warner;Phillip Davey;David J. Smith

  • Photosynthesis and production of hydrogen peroxide by Symbiodinium (Pyrrhophyta) phylotypes with different thermal tolerances

    David J. Suggett;Mark E. Warner;David J. Smith;Phillip Davey

  • Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking.

    David J. Suggett;David J. Smith

  • Symbiotic dinoflagellate functional diversity mediates coral survival under ecological crisis

    David J. Suggett;Mark E. Warner;William Leggat

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Ralph
Peter J. Ralph University of Technology Sydney
Mark E. Warner
Mark E. Warner University of Delaware
Richard J. Geider
Richard J. Geider University of Essex
C. Mark Moore
C. Mark Moore University of Southampton
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Michael Kühl
Michael Kühl University of Copenhagen
Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martina A. Doblin
Martina A. Doblin University of Technology Sydney
Tracy Lawson
Tracy Lawson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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