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Overview

Melinda A. Coleman is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on oceanography, ecology, and global and planetary change. Additional subfields include management, monitoring, policy and law, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work emphasizes marine and coastal plant biology, coral and marine ecosystems, and marine biology and ecology research. Other main topics covered in their research include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and coastal and marine management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Melinda A. Coleman include:

  • Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition, 2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species, 2023, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests, 2020, Current Biology
  • Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Curtis Champion, Thomas Wernberg, Brendan P. Kelaher, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, and Peter D. Steinberg.

Publications by Melinda A. Coleman appear frequently in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Phycology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Marine Environmental Research

Best Publications

  • The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

    Adriana Vergés;Peter D. Steinberg;Mark E. Hay;Alistair G. B. Poore

  • Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming

    Thomas Wernberg;Bayden D. Russell;Pippa J. Moore;Pippa J. Moore;Scott D. Ling

  • Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

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  • Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress.

    Thomas Wernberg;Melinda A. Coleman;Scott Bennett;Mads S. Thomsen;Mads S. Thomsen

  • Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions

    Adriana Vergés;Adriana Vergés;Erin McCosker;Erin McCosker;Mariana Mayer‐Pinto;Mariana Mayer‐Pinto;Melinda A. Coleman;Melinda A. Coleman

  • ABSENCE OF A LARGE BROWN MACROALGA ON URBANIZED ROCKY REEFS AROUND SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND EVIDENCE FOR HISTORICAL DECLINE(1)

    Melinda A Coleman;Brendan P Kelaher;Peter David Steinberg;Alan J K Millar

  • Long‐term trends in the East Australian Current separation latitude and eddy driven transport

    P. Cetina-Heredia;M. Roughan;E. van Sebille;M. A. Coleman

  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia

    Cayne Layton;Melinda A. Coleman;Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli;Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli;Peter David Steinberg;Peter David Steinberg

  • Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests.

    Carlos Frederico Deluqui Gurgel;Olga Camacho;Antoine J.P. Minne;Thomas Wernberg

  • Variation in the strength of continental boundary currents determines continent-wide connectivity in kelp

    Melinda A. Coleman;Melinda A. Coleman;Moninya Roughan;Helen S. Macdonald;Sean D. Connell

  • Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration

    Melinda Ann Coleman;Melinda Ann Coleman;Georgina Wood;Karen Filbee-Dexter;Antoine J. P. Minne

  • Towards Restoration of Missing Underwater Forests

    Alexandra H. Campbell;Ezequiel M. Marzinelli;Adriana Vergés;Melinda A. Coleman

  • Forgotten underwater forests: The key role of fucoids on Australian temperate reefs.

    Melinda A. Coleman;Thomas Wernberg

  • Biology and Ecology of the Globally Significant Kelp Ecklonia radiata

    Thomas Wernberg;Melinda A. Coleman;Russell C. Babcock;Sahira Y. Bell

  • Appropriate set times to represent patterns of rocky reef fishes using baited video

    David Harasti;Hamish Malcolm;Christopher Gallen;Melinda A. Coleman

  • Morphology of Ecklonia radiata (Phaeophyta: Laminarales) along its geographic distribution in south-western Australia and Australasia

    Thomas Wernberg;M. Coleman;A. Fairhead;S. Miller

  • Future climate change is predicted to affect the microbiome and condition of habitat-forming kelp.

    Zhiguang Qiu;Melinda A Coleman;Euan J Provost;Alexandra H Campbell;Alexandra H Campbell

  • Seventy-one important questions for the conservation of marine biodiversity

    E. C.M. Parsons;Brett Favaro;Brett Favaro;A. Alonso Aguirre;A. Alonso Aguirre;Amy L. Bauer

  • Small-scale spatial variability in intertidal and subtidal turfing algal assemblages and the temporal generality of these patterns

    M.A Coleman

  • Optimisation of baited remote underwater video sampling designs for estuarine fish assemblages

    William Gladstone;Steven Lindfield;Melinda Coleman;Brendan P Kelaher

  • Connectivity within and among a Network of Temperate Marine Reserves

    Melinda A. Coleman;Justine Chambers;Nathan A. Knott;Hamish A. Malcolm

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan P. Kelaher
Brendan P. Kelaher Southern Cross University
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli University of New South Wales
Adriana Vergés
Adriana Vergés University of New South Wales
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
Moninya Roughan
Moninya Roughan University of New South Wales
Emma L. Johnston
Emma L. Johnston University of New South Wales
Melanie J. Bishop
Melanie J. Bishop Macquarie University
Bayden D. Russell
Bayden D. Russell University of Hong Kong

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