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Overview

Howard R. Lasker is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences with an emphasis on marine ecosystems.

The main areas of Lasker's work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the scientist's subfields of study are:

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

Lasker's research topics demonstrate a focus on marine and coastal ecosystems, particularly coral and related biological studies:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology

The scientist has contributed to multiple research articles published in prominent venues frequently chosen for their work, including:

  • Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
  • Coral Reefs
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Some selected research papers by Howard R. Lasker are:

  • Resilience of Octocoral Forests to Catastrophic Storms, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Algal turf negatively affects recruitment of a Caribbean octocoral, 2021, Coral Reefs
  • Early Life-History Dynamics of Caribbean Octocorals: The Critical Role of Larval Supply and Partial Mortality, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Spawning, embryogenesis, settlement, and post-settlement development of the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla, 2021, Invertebrate Biology
  • What makes a winner? Symbiont and host dynamics determine Caribbean octocoral resilience to bleaching, 2023, Science Advances

Lasker has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Peter J. Edmunds
  • Christopher D. Wells
  • Kaitlyn J. Tonra
  • Lorenzo Bramanti
  • Ángela Martínez-Quintana

Best Publications

  • DNA fingerprints of a gorgonian coral: a method for detecting clonal structure in a vegetative species

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Howard R. Lasker;Margaret E. Diamond;Jeremy A. Bruenn

  • Molecular phylogenetic analyses of shallow-water Caribbean octocorals

    J. A. Sánchez;J. A. Sánchez;C. S. McFadden;H. R. Lasker

  • Sediment rejection by reef corals: The roles of behavior and morphology in Montastrea cavernosa (Linnaeus)

    Howard R. Lasker

  • Bleaching of reef coelenterates in the San Blas Islands, Panama

    Howard R. Lasker;Esther C. Peters;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Sexual reproduction in octocorals

    Samuel E. Kahng;Yehuda Benayahu;Howard R. Lasker

  • Clonal Propagation and Population Dynamics of a Gorgonian Coral

    Howard R. Lasker

  • Sexual reproduction and external brooding by the Caribbean gorgonian Briareum asbestinum

    D. A. Brazeau;H. R. Lasker

  • Repeated loss of coloniality and symbiosis in scleractinian corals

    Marcos S. Barbeitos;Sandra L. Romano;Howard R. Lasker

  • POPULATION STRUCTURE OF A CLONAL GORGONIAN CORAL: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CLONAL REPRODUCTION AND DISTURBANCE.

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Howard R. Lasker

  • Symbiodinium sp. associations in the gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae in the Bahamas: high levels of genetic variability and population structure in symbiotic dinoflagellates

    S. R. Santos;S. R. Santos;C. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;C. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;H. R. Lasker;M. A. Coffroth

  • Long-term variation of octocoral populations in St. John, US Virgin Islands

    Elizabeth A. Lenz;Lorenzo Bramanti;Howard R. Lasker;Peter J. Edmunds

  • In situ Rates of Fertilization Among Broadcast Spawning Gorgonian Corals

    Howard R. Lasker;Daniel A. Brazeau;Julio Calderon;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Egg production by colonies of a gorgonian coral

    Elizabeth A. Beiring;Howard R. Lasker

  • Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize

    HR Lasker;MA Coffroth

  • The Reproductive Cycle and Spawning in a Caribbean Gorgonian

    Daniel A. Brazeau;Howard R. Lasker

  • Prey preferences and browsing pressure of the butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus on Caribbean gorgonians

    H. R. Lasker

  • Spatial and temporal variability during periods of recovery' after mass bleaching on Western Atlantic coral reefs

    Judith C. Lang;Howard R. Lasker;Elizabeth H. Gladfelter;Pamela Hallock

  • Phylogenetic analyses among octocorals (Cnidaria): mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (lsu-rRNA, 16S and ssu-rRNA, 18S) support two convergent clades of branching gorgonians.

    Juan Armando Sánchez;Howard R. Lasker;Derek J. Taylor

  • Asexual reproduction fragmentation and skeletal morphology of a plexaurid gorgonian

    H. R. Lasker

  • Reproductive success in the Caribbean octocoral Briareum asbestinum

    Daniel A. Brazeau;Howard R. Lasker

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Edmunds
Peter J. Edmunds California State University, Northridge
Mary Alice Coffroth
Mary Alice Coffroth University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Scott R. Santos
Scott R. Santos University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Lorenzo Bramanti
Lorenzo Bramanti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lyubov E. Burlakova
Lyubov E. Burlakova Buffalo State College
Derek J. Taylor
Derek J. Taylor University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Catherine S. McFadden
Catherine S. McFadden Harvey Mudd College
Yehuda Benayahu
Yehuda Benayahu Tel Aviv University
Pamela Hallock
Pamela Hallock University of South Florida
Alexander Y. Karatayev
Alexander Y. Karatayev Buffalo State College

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