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Ernesto Weil is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant emphasis on ecology and oceanography. Their work integrates multiple subfields including global and planetary change, immunology, and endocrinology.

Their main research topics concentrate on coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, marine and fisheries research, marine ecology and invasive species, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and marine biology and ecology research.

Recent publications by Ernesto Weil include:

  • Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • What does resilience sound like? Coral reef and dry forest acoustic communities respond differently to Hurricane Maria (2021, Ecological Indicators)
  • Assessing the long-term effects of a catastrophic oil spill on subtidal coral reef communities off the Caribbean coast of Panama (1985-2017) (2020, Marine Biodiversity)
  • Similarities and Differences Between Two Deadly Caribbean Coral Diseases: White Plague and Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Lack of recovery of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum Philippi in Puerto Rico 33 years after the Caribbean-wide mass mortality (2020, PeerJ)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weil include:

  • Juan J. Cruz-Motta
  • Stacey M. Williams
  • Daniel A. Toledo-Rodríguez
  • Nikolaos V. Schizas
  • Alex J. Veglia

Ernesto Weil's publications commonly appear in journals such as:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Biodiversity
  • PeerJ
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Best Publications

  • One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts

    Kent E. Carpenter;Muhammad Abrar;Greta Aeby;Richard B. Aronson

  • 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

  • Climate Change Influences on Marine Infectious Diseases: Implications for Management and Society

    Colleen A. Burge;C. Mark Eakin;Carolyn S. Friedman;Brett Froelich

  • Coral disease, environmental drivers, and the balance between coral and microbial associates

    Drew Harvell;Eric Jordán-Dahlgren;Susan Merkel;Eugene Rosenberg

  • Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems

    S. E. Kahng;J. R. Garcia-Sais;H. L. Spalding;E. Brokovich

  • Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean: Regional Estimates and Distribution Patterns

    Patricia Miloslavich;Juan Manuel Díaz;Eduardo Klein;Juan José Alvarado

  • Bacterial diversity and White Plague Disease-associated community changes in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Todd Z DeSantis;Yvette M Piceno;Eoin L Brodie

  • Sibling Species in Montastraea annularis, Coral Bleaching, and the Coral Climate Record

    Nancy Knowlton;Ernesto Weil;Lee A. Weigt;Héctor M. Guzmán

  • Climate change and wildlife diseases: When does the host matter the most?

    Drew Harvell;Sonia Altizer;Isabella M. Cattadori;Isabella M. Cattadori;Laura Harrington

  • Coral Reef Diseases in the Wider Caribbean

    Ernesto Weil

  • Status and progress in coral reef disease research.

    Ernesto Weil;Garriet Smith;Diego L. Gil-Agudelo

  • Ecological effects of a major oil spill on panamanian coastal marine communities.

    J B Jackson;J D Cubit;B D Keller;V Batista

  • Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence

    Jeffrey Maynard;Jeffrey Maynard;Ruben van Hooidonk;Ruben van Hooidonk;C. Mark Eakin;Marjetta Puotinen

  • Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune-related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral

    Jorge H. Pinzón;Bishoy Kamel;Colleen A. Burge;C. Drew Harvell

  • Microbial functional structure of Montastraea faveolata, an important Caribbean reef-building coral, differs between healthy and yellow-band diseased colonies

    Nikole E. Kimes;Joy D. Van Nostrand;Joy D. Van Nostrand;Ernesto Weil;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou

  • Coral recruitment and juvenile mortality as structuring factors for reef benthic communities in Biscayne National Park, USA

    M. W. Miller;E. Weil;A. M. Szmant

  • Connectivity of Caribbean coral populations: complementary insights from empirical and modelled gene flow

    Nicola L. Foster;Nicola L. Foster;Claire B. Paris;Johnathan T. Kool;Johnathan T. Kool;Iliana B. Baums

  • Global coral disease prevalence associated with sea temperature anomalies and local factors

    Diego Ruiz-Moreno;Bette L. Willis;A. Cathie Page;Ernesto Weil

  • Hybridization within the species complex of the scleractinan coral Montastraea annularis

    A. M. Szmant;E. Weil;M. W. Miller;D. E. Colón

  • Short-term ecological consequences of a major oil spill on Panamanian subtidal reef corals

    Héctor M. Guzmán;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Ernesto Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Drew Harvell
C. Drew Harvell Cornell University
Bette L. Willis
Bette L. Willis James Cook University
Jorge E. Cortes
Jorge E. Cortes Augusta University
Hector M. Guzman
Hector M. Guzman Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard S. Appeldoorn
Richard S. Appeldoorn University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Scott F. Heron
Scott F. Heron James Cook University
Jeffrey Maynard
Jeffrey Maynard Wilmington University
C. Mark Eakin
C. Mark Eakin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Carolyn S. Friedman
Carolyn S. Friedman University of Washington
Alina M. Szmant
Alina M. Szmant University of North Carolina Wilmington

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