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D-Index
40
Citations
6531
World Ranking
6101
National Ranking
2073

Overview

Derek P. Manzello is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics in their work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine animal studies overview, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Coral reefs in peril in a record-breaking year," 2023, Science
  • "Increased dominance of heat-tolerant symbionts creates resilient coral reefs in near-term ocean warming," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pre-exposure to a variable temperature treatment improves the response of Acropora cervicornis to acute thermal stress," 2022, Coral Reefs
  • "Surface Water CO2 variability in the Gulf of Mexico (1996-2017)," 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequently publishing in venues such as Frontiers in Marine Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library, Global Change Biology, Coral Reefs, and Scientific Reports, Derek P. Manzello has contributed multiple papers to these journals, with the highest counts being seven papers in Frontiers in Marine Science and six in NOAA Central Library.

Their collaborative work often involves coauthors Ian C. Enochs, Graham Kolodziej, Erick Geiger, Gang Liu, and Jacqueline L. De La Cour, with multiple joint publications spanning their research themes.

Best Publications

  • Bioerosion and Coral Reef Growth: A Dynamic Balance

    Peter W. Glynn;Derek P. Manzello

  • Poorly cemented coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific: possible insights into reef development in a high-CO2 world.

    Derek P. Manzello;Joan A. Kleypas;David A. Budd;C. Mark Eakin

  • Loss of coral reef growth capacity to track future increases in sea level

    Chris T. Perry;Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Peter J. Mumby

  • Severe 2010 cold-water event caused unprecedented mortality to corals of the Florida reef tract and reversed previous survivorship patterns.

    Diego Lirman;Stephanie Schopmeyer;Derek Manzello;Lewis J. Gramer

  • Opposite latitudinal gradients in projected ocean acidification and bleaching impacts on coral reefs

    Ruben van Hooidonk;Ruben van Hooidonk;Jeffrey Allen Maynard;Jeffrey Allen Maynard;Derek Manzello;Derek Manzello;Serge Planes

  • Coral growth with thermal stress and ocean acidification: lessons from the eastern tropical Pacific

    D. P. Manzello

  • Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

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  • Shift from coral to macroalgae dominance on a volcanically acidified reef

    I C Enochs;I C Enochs;Derek P Manzello;E M Donham;E M Donham;Graham Kolodziej;Graham Kolodziej

  • Ocean acidification alters the otoliths of a pantropical fish species with implications for sensory function

    Sean Bignami;Ian C. Enochs;Ian C. Enochs;Derek P. Manzello;Derek P. Manzello;Su Sponaugle

  • Ocean Acidification Refugia of the Florida Reef Tract

    Derek P. Manzello;Derek P. Manzello;Ian C. Enochs;Ian C. Enochs;Nelson Melo;Nelson Melo;Dwight K. Gledhill

  • Coral bleaching indices and thresholds for the Florida Reef Tract, Bahamas, and St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

    Derek P. Manzello;Ray Berkelmans;James C. Hendee

  • Ocean acidification hotspots: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the seawater CO2 system of eastern Pacific coral reefs

    Derek P. Manzello

  • Role of host genetics and heat-tolerant algal symbionts in sustaining populations of the endangered coral Orbicella faveolata in the Florida Keys with ocean warming.

    Derek P Manzello;Mikhail V Matz;Ian C Enochs;Lauren Valentino;Lauren Valentino

  • Hurricanes benefit bleached corals.

    Derek P. Manzello;Marilyn Brandt;Tyler B. Smith;Diego Lirman

  • Rapid Recent Warming of Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys

    Derek P. Manzello

  • Genotype and local environment dynamically influence growth, disturbance response and survivorship in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis.

    Crawford Drury;Derek Manzello;Diego Lirman

  • Taking the Metabolic Pulse of the World's Coral Reefs

    Tyler Cyronak;Andreas J. Andersson;Chris Langdon;Rebecca Albright

  • Coral communities of Biscayne Bay, Florida and adjacent offshore areas: diversity, abundance, distribution, and environmental correlates

    Diego Lirman;Beth Orlando;Silvia Maciá;Derek Manzello

  • Autonomous seawater p CO 2 and pH time series from 40 surface buoys and the emergence of anthropogenic trends

    Adrienne J. Sutton;Richard A. Feely;Stacy Maenner-Jones;Sylvia Musielwicz;Sylvia Musielwicz

  • Patterns of resistance and resilience of the stress-tolerant coral Siderastrea radians (Pallas) to sub-optimal salinity and sediment burial.

    Diego Lirman;Derek Manzello

  • Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Peter W. Glynn;Derek P. Manzello;Ian C. Enochs

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian C. Enochs
Ian C. Enochs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Diego Lirman
Diego Lirman University of Miami
Peter W. Glynn
Peter W. Glynn Stanford University
Chris Langdon
Chris Langdon Oregon State University
Tyler B. Smith
Tyler B. Smith University of the Virgin Islands
Hildegard Westphal
Hildegard Westphal Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Bernhard Riegl
Bernhard Riegl Nova Southeastern University
Adrienne Sutton
Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Jochen Halfar
Jochen Halfar University of Toronto
Robert van Woesik
Robert van Woesik Florida Institute of Technology

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