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4086
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Overview

Diego Lirman is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences with a particular emphasis on marine ecosystems and coral reef research.

The main fields of study in their research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their work covers several subfields:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The primary topics of research explored by Diego Lirman consist of:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products

Frequent publication venues associated with Diego Lirman comprise:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Bulletin of Marine Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PeerJ

Some recent papers authored by Diego Lirman include:

  • "Census of heat tolerance among Florida's threatened staghorn corals finds resilient individuals throughout existing nursery populations," 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Differential survival of nursery-reared Acropora cervicornis outplants along the Florida reef tract," 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • "Genotype by environment interactions in coral bleaching," 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Developing best practices for the restoration of massive corals and the mitigation of predation impacts: influences of physical protection, colony size, and genotype on outplant mortality," 2021, Coral Reefs
  • "Fish predation hinders the success of coral restoration efforts using fragmented massive corals," 2020, PeerJ

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Diego Lirman include:

  • Martine D'Alessandro
  • Erinn M. Muller
  • Andrew C. Baker
  • Dalton Hesley
  • Joseph Unsworth

Best Publications

  • Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005.

    C. Mark Eakin;Jessica A. Morgan;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron;Tyler B. Smith

  • Competition between macroalgae and corals: effects of herbivore exclusion and increased algal biomass on coral survivorship and growth

    D. Lirman

  • A Review of Reef Restoration and Coral Propagation Using the Threatened Genus Acropora in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic

    C.N. Young;S.A. Schopmeyer;Diego Lirman

  • Fragmentation in the branching coral Acropora palmata (Lamarck): growth, survivorship, and reproduction of colonies and fragments

    Diego Lirman

  • 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

  • Ecological solutions to reef degradation: optimizing coral reef restoration in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic.

    Diego Lirman;Stephanie Schopmeyer

  • Is proximity to land-based sources of coral stressors an appropriate measure of risk to coral reefs? An example from the Florida Reef Tract

    Diego Lirman;Peggy Fong

  • The Influence of Salinity on Seagrass Growth, Survivorship, and Distribution within Biscayne Bay, Florida: Field, Experimental, and Modeling Studies

    Diego Lirman;Wendell P. Cropper

  • Development and application of a video-mosaic survey technology to document the status of coral reef communities

    Diego Lirman;Nuno Ricardo Gracias;Brooke Erin Gintert;Arthur Charles Rogde Gleason

  • Propagation of the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis: methods to minimize the impacts of fragment collection and maximize production

    D. Lirman;T. Thyberg;J. Herlan;C. Hill

  • Growth dynamics of the threatened Caribbean staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis: influence of host genotype, symbiont identity, colony size, and environmental setting.

    Diego Lirman;Stephanie Schopmeyer;Victor Galvan;Crawford Drury

  • Caribbean Acropora restoration guide : best practices for propagation and population enhancement.

    Meaghan E. Johnson;Caitlin Lustic;Erich Bartels;Iliana B. Baums

  • Hurricanes benefit bleached corals.

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

  • Seasonal Dynamics of Macroalgal Communities of the Northern Florida Reef Tract

    D. Lirman;P. Biber

  • Ecological conceptual models: a framework and case study on ecosystem management for South Florida sustainability.

    J.H. Gentile;M.A. Harwell;W. Cropper;C. C. Harwell

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

    Crawford Drury;Derek Manzello;Diego Lirman

  • Regional restoration benchmarks for Acropora cervicornis

    Stephanie A. Schopmeyer;Diego Lirman;Erich Bartels;David S. Gilliam

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

    Diego Lirman;Beth Orlando;Silvia Maciá;Derek Manzello

  • Reef fish communities associated with Acropora palmata: Relationships to benthic attributes

    Diego Lirman

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

    Diego Lirman;Derek Manzello

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. Serafy
Joseph E. Serafy University of Miami
Derek P. Manzello
Derek P. Manzello National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew C. Baker
Andrew C. Baker University of Miami
Ian C. Enochs
Ian C. Enochs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peggy Fong
Peggy Fong University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth A. Babcock
Elizabeth A. Babcock University of Miami
Iliana B. Baums
Iliana B. Baums Pennsylvania State University
Margaret W. Miller
Margaret W. Miller National Marine Fisheries Service
Wendell P. Cropper
Wendell P. Cropper University of Florida
Jerald S. Ault
Jerald S. Ault University of Miami

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