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Overview

Jorge Cortés is affiliated with the University of Costa Rica in Costa Rica. Their research spans primarily across Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their main topics of research include the study of Coral and Marine Ecosystems, Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and related phenomena, Marine and fisheries research, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

Jorge Cortés has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Revista de Biología Tropical
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ZooKeys
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Collaboration is an important aspect of their career. Some of the most frequent co-authors are:

  • Erik E. Cordes
  • Lisa A. Levin
  • Juan José Alvarado
  • Jimena Samper-Villarreal
  • Greg W. Rouse

Recent papers by Jorge Cortés demonstrate a wide range of ecological and environmental interests and include:

  • "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people" (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Fungal Communities in Sediments Along a Depth Gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific" (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "A chemosynthetic ecotone-"chemotone"-in the sediments surrounding deep-sea methane seeps" (2021), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • "The dynamic influence of methane seepage on macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates" (2021), published in Ecosphere
  • "Does substrate matter in the deep sea? A comparison of bone, wood, and carbonate rock colonizers" (2022), published in PLoS ONE

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

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

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

  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

    Camilo Mora;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Arturo Ayala Bocos;Paula M. Ayotte;Paula M. Ayotte

  • Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panama, and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)

    P. W. Glynn;N. J. Gassman;C. M. Eakin;J. Cortes;J. Cortes

  • Habitat characteristics provide insights of carbon storage in seagrass meadows.

    Inés Mazarrasa;Inés Mazarrasa;Jimena Samper-Villarreal;Oscar Serrano;Paul S. Lavery

  • Biology and geology of eastern Pacific coral reefs

    J. Cortés

  • Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panamá, and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). II. Poritidae

    P. W. Glynn;S. B. Colley;C. M. Eakin;D. B. Smith

  • Coral mortality associated with dino-flagellate blooms in the eastern Pacific (Costa Rica and Panama)

    HM Guzmán;J. Cortés;PW Glynn;RH Richmond

  • Growth rates of eight species of scleractinian corals in the eastern Pacific (Costa Rica)

    H. M. Guzman;J. Cortes

  • Reef recovery 20 years after the 1982–1983 El Niño massive mortality

    Hector M. Guzman;Jorge Cortés

  • Corals and coral reefs of the Pacific of Costa Rica: history, research and status

    Jorge Cortés;Carlos Jiménez;Carlos Jiménez

  • Arrecifes coralinos del Pacífico Oriental Tropical: Revisión y perspectivas

    Héctor M Guzmán;Jorge Cortés

  • Marine biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America

    Ingo S Wehrtmann;Jorge Cortés

  • Cocos Island (Pacific of Costa Rica) coral reefs after the 1982-83 El Niño disturbance

    Héctor M Guzmán;Jorge Cortés

  • Coral Reef Community Structure at Caño Island, Pacific Costa Rica

    Héctor M. Guzmán;Jorge Cortés

  • Latin American coral reefs

    Jorge Cortés

  • Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panamá, and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). III. Agariciidae ( Pavona gigantea and Gardineroseris planulata )

    P. W. Glynn;S. B. Colley;N. J. Gassman;K. Black

  • Consequences of Coral Bleaching for Sessile Reef Organisms

    T. R. McClanahan;E. Weil;J. Cortés;A. H. Baird

  • Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Provinces, Coral Community Structure and Composition: An Overview

    Peter W. Glynn;Juan J. Alvarado;Stuart Banks;Jorge Cortés

  • Caribbean-wide, long-term study of seagrass beds reveals local variations, shifts in community structure and occasional collapse.

    Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek;Jorge Cortés;Rachel Collin;Ana C. Fonseca

  • Historia de la investigación marina de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica

    Jorge Cortés

  • Changes in reef community structure after fifteen years of natural disturbances in the eastern Pacific (Costa Rica)

    Héctor M. Guzman;Jorge Cortes

Frequent Co-Authors

Hector M. Guzman
Hector M. Guzman Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peter W. Glynn
Peter W. Glynn Stanford University
Christian Wild
Christian Wild University of Bremen
Tim Rixen
Tim Rixen Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Héctor Reyes-Bonilla
Héctor Reyes-Bonilla Autonomous University of Baja California
Erik E. Cordes
Erik E. Cordes Temple University
Ernesto Weil
Ernesto Weil University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
Peter J. Auster
Peter J. Auster University of Connecticut

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