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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
32112
World Ranking
1381
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Janice M. Lough is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with key subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, and geology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Janice M. Lough cover a range of studies related to marine ecosystems and coral research. Notable publications include:

  • Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger, 2024, Nature
  • Coral skeletons reveal the history of nitrogen cycling in the coastal Great Barrier Reef, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Impacts of Coral Growth on Geochemistry: Lessons From the Galápagos Islands, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Assessing multiproxy approaches (Sr/Ca, U/Ca, Li/Mg, and B/Mg) to reconstruct sea surface temperature from coral skeletons throughout the Great Barrier Reef, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • SURFACE OCEAN RADIOCARBON FROM A PORITES CORAL RECORD IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: 1945-2017, 2021, Radiocarbon

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Neal E. Cantin
  • Julia E. Cole
  • Lael Vetter
  • Emma V. Reed
  • D. M. Thompson

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs

    T.P. Hughes;A.H. Baird;D.R. Bellwood;M. Card

  • Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

    Terry P. Hughes;James T. Kerry;Mariana Álvarez-Noriega;Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene.

    Terry Hughes;Kristen D. Anderson;Sean R. Connolly;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron

  • Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Terry P. Hughes;Michele L. Barnes;David R. Bellwood;Joshua E. Cinner

  • Losers and winners in coral reefs acclimatized to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations

    Katharina E. Fabricius;Chris Langdon;Sven Uthicke;Craig Humphrey

  • Variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Through a Glacial-Interglacial Cycle

    Alexander W. Tudhope;Alexander W. Tudhope;Colin P. Chilcott;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Edward R. Cook

  • Coral record of increased sediment flux to the inner Great Barrier Reef since European settlement

    Malcolm McCulloch;Stewart Fallon;Stewart Fallon;Timothy Wyndham;Erica Hendy

  • Declining coral calcification on the Great Barrier Reef

    Glenn De'ath;Janice M. Lough;Katharina E. Fabricius

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Environmental controls on growth of the massive coral Porites.

    J.M. Lough;D.J. Barnes

  • The coral reef crisis : the critical importance of < 350 ppm CO2

    J. E. N. Veron;O. Hoegh-Guldberg;T. M. Lenton;J. M. Lough

  • Changes in Climate Extremes Over the Australian Region and New Zealand During the Twentieth Century

    Neil Plummer;M. James Salinger;Neville Nicholls;Ramasamy Suppiah

  • Abrupt decrease in tropical Pacific sea surface salinity at end of Little Ice Age.

    Erica J. Hendy;Michael K. Gagan;Chantal A. Alibert;Malcolm T. McCulloch

  • Declining coral calcification in massive Porites in two nearshore regions of the northern Great Barrier Reef

    Timothy F. Cooper;Timothy F. Cooper;Glenn De'ath;Katharina E. Fabricius;Janice M. Lough

  • Climate change and coral reef connectivity

    P. L. Munday;J. M. Leis;J. M. Lough;J. M. Lough;C. B. Paris

  • Mixed responses of tropical Pacific fisheries and aquaculture to climate change

    Johann D. Bell;Alexandre Ganachaud;Peter C. Gehrke;Shane P. Griffiths

  • Observed climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments

    Alistair J. Hobday;Janice M. Lough

  • On the nature and causes of density banding in massive coral skeletons

    David Barnes;Janice Lough

  • Several centuries of variation in skeletal extension, density and calcification in massive Porites colonies from the Great Barrier Reef: A proxy for seawater temperature and a background of variability against which to identify unnatural change

    J.M. Lough;D.J. Barnes

  • Preindustrial to Modern Interdecadal Variability in Coral Reef pH

    Carles Pelejero;Carles Pelejero;Eva Calvo;Eva Calvo;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Malcolm T. McCulloch;John F. Marshall;John F. Marshall

  • Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef: A vulnerability assessment

    Johanna E Johnson;Paul A Marshall;Lough J;Barrier Reef

Frequent Co-Authors

David Barnes
David Barnes Australian Institute of Marine Science
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
Morgan S. Pratchett
Morgan S. Pratchett James Cook University
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
Scott F. Heron
Scott F. Heron James Cook University
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Thomas Felis
Thomas Felis University of Bremen
Katharina Fabricius
Katharina Fabricius Australian Institute of Marine Science
Hagit P. Affek
Hagit P. Affek Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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