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Overview

Mark J. A. Vermeij is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily encompasses Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Ecology and Oceanography.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to coral and marine ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, and marine and fisheries research. Other notable areas of study include aquaculture disease management and microbiota, microbial community ecology and physiology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and ichthyology and marine biology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the following:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Current Biology
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers by Mark J. A. Vermeij feature collaborations with various researchers and cover diverse aspects of marine biology and ecology. Examples include:

  • "A multiomic analysis of in situ coral-turf algal interactions," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Assisted gene flow using cryopreserved sperm in critically endangered coral," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Implications of 2D versus 3D surveys to measure the abundance and composition of benthic coral reef communities," 2021, Coral Reefs
  • "Sponges sneeze mucus to shed particulate waste from their seawater inlet pores," 2022, Current Biology
  • "Composite Substrates Reveal Inorganic Material Cues for Coral Larval Settlement," 2022, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Mark J. A. Vermeij frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Kristen L. Marhaver
  • Linda Wegley Kelly
  • Andreas F. Haas
  • Cynthia B. Silveira
  • Benjamin Mueller

Best Publications

  • Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

    Jasper M. de Goeij;Dick van Oevelen;Mark J. A. Vermeij;Ronald Osinga

  • Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

    B. Knowles;C. B. Silveira;B. A. Bailey;K. Barott

  • New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs

    Raphael Ritson-Williams;Suzanne N. Arnold;Nicole D. Fogarty;Robert S. Steneck

  • Density-dependent settlement and mortality structure the earliest life phases of a coral population.

    Mark J. A. Vermeij;Stuart A. Sandin

  • Coral larvae move toward reef sounds

    Mark J. A. Vermeij;Kristen L. Marhaver;Chantal M. Huijbers;Ivan Nagelkerken

  • The Effects of Nutrient Enrichment and Herbivore Abundance on the Ability of Turf Algae to Overgrow Coral in the Caribbean

    Mark J. A. Vermeij;Imke van Moorselaar;Sarah Engelhard;Christine Hörnlein

  • Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors

    Linda W. Kelly;Gareth J. Williams;Katie L. Barott;Katie L. Barott;Craig A. Carlson

  • 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

  • Early life-history dynamics of Caribbean coral species on artificial substratum: the importance of competition, growth and variation in life-history strategy

    M.J.A. Vermeij

  • Survival and settlement success of coral planulae: independent and synergistic effects of macroalgae and microbes.

    M. J. A. Vermeij;J. E. Smith;C. M. Smith;R. Vega Thurber

  • Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate

    Thibaut Brunet;Ben T. Larson;Tess A. Linden;Mark J. A. Vermeij

  • Stable and sporadic symbiotic communities of coral and algal holobionts.

    Eric R Hester;Katie L Barott;Jim Nulton;Mark Ja Vermeij

  • Microbial to reef scale interactions between the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis and benthic algae

    Katie L. Barott;Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller;Merry Youle;Kristen L. Marhaver

  • Pelagic conditions affect larval behavior, survival, and settlement patterns in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata

    M. J. A. Vermeij;Nicole D. Fogarty;M. W. Miller

  • Substrate composition and adult distribution determine recruitment patterns in a Caribbean brooding coral

    M. J. A. Vermeij

  • Natural history of coral-algae competition across a gradient of human activity in the Line Islands

    Katie L. Barott;Gareth J. Williams;Mark J. A. Vermeij;Jill Harris

  • A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes

    Waldan K. Kwong;Javier del Campo;Varsha Mathur;Mark J. A. Vermeij

  • Sharing the slope: depth partitioning of agariciid corals and associated Symbiodinium across shallow and mesophotic habitats (2-60 m) on a Caribbean reef

    Pim Bongaerts;Pedro R. Frade;Julie J. Ogier;Kyra B. Hay

  • New Seeding Approach Reduces Costs and Time to Outplant Sexually Propagated Corals for Reef Restoration

    Valérie F. Chamberland;Dirk Petersen;James R. Guest;Udo Petersen

  • Natural diet of coral-excavating sponges consists mainly of dissolved organic carbon (DOC).

    Benjamin Mueller;Jasper M. de Goeij;Mark J. A. Vermeij;Yannick Mulders

  • Effectiveness of lionfish removal efforts in the Southern Caribbean

    R. de León;K. Vane;P. Bertuol;V.C. Chamberland

Frequent Co-Authors

Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Stuart A. Sandin
Stuart A. Sandin University of California, San Diego
Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith University of California, San Diego
Rolf P. M. Bak
Rolf P. M. Bak Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Petra M. Visser
Petra M. Visser University of Amsterdam
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale Flinders University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Gareth J. Williams
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University

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