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Robert van Woesik is affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant work in related subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy and law, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, marine and coastal plant biology, coastal and marine management, marine animal studies overview, economic and environmental valuation, and land use and ecosystem services.

Frequent publication venues for Robert van Woesik include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Scientific Data

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert van Woesik are:

  • Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves, 2021, Science
  • Spatial Epidemiology of the Stony-Coral-Tissue-Loss Disease in Florida, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Turbid reefs moderate coral bleaching under climate-related temperature stress, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments, 2020, Ecological Applications

Collaborations have frequently included co-authors such as:

  • Tom Shlesinger
  • Chelsey Kratochwill
  • Shannon Sully
  • Erinn M. Muller
  • Andréa G. Grottoli

Best Publications

  • Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers

    Y. Loya;K. Sakai;K. Yamazato;Y. Nakano

  • A global analysis of coral bleaching over the past two decades

    S. Sully;D. E. Burkepile;M. K. Donovan;G. Hodgson

  • Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals, relative to those of the Caribbean

    Todd C. LaJeunesse;William K. W. Loh;Robert van Woesik;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

  • Revisiting the winners and the losers a decade after coral bleaching

    R. van Woesik;K. Sakai;A. Ganase;Y. Loya

  • Water-flow rates and passive diffusion partially explain differential survival of corals during the 1998 bleaching event

    T. Nakamura;R. van Woesik

  • Unprecedented Disease-Related Coral Mortality in Southeastern Florida.

    William F. Precht;Brooke E. Gintert;Martha L. Robbart;Ryan Fura

  • Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers

    Christian Wild;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Malik S. Naumann;M. Florencia Colombo-Pallotta

  • Repair Machinery of Symbiotic Photosynthesis as the Primary Target of Heat Stress for Reef-Building Corals

    Shunichi Takahashi;Takashi Nakamura;Manabu Sakamizu;Robert van Woesik

  • Prioritizing Key Resilience Indicators to Support Coral Reef Management in a Changing Climate

    Tim R. McClanahan;Simon D. Donner;Jeffrey A. Maynard;M. Aaron MacNeil

  • Corals at their latitudinal limits: laser ablation trace element systematics in Porites from Shirigai Bay, Japan

    Stewart J Fallon;Malcolm T McCulloch;Robert van Woesik;Daniel J Sinclair

  • Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves

    Mary K. Donovan;Mary K. Donovan;Deron E. Burkepile;Chelsey Kratochwill;Tom Shlesinger

  • Bleaching increases likelihood of disease on Acropora palmata (Lamarck) in Hawksnest Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands

    E. M. Muller;E. M. Muller;Caroline S. Rogers;Anthony S. Spitzack;R. van Woesik

  • Climate-change refugia in the sheltered bays of Palau: analogs of future reefs

    Robert van Woesik;Peter Houk;Adelle L. Isechal;Jacques W. Idechong

  • Corals escape bleaching in regions that recently and historically experienced frequent thermal stress

    D. M. Thompson;D. M. Thompson;R. van Woesik

  • Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching

    W.K. Fitt;R.D. Gates;O. Hoegh-Guldberg;J.C. Bythell

  • Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

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  • Survival under chronic stress from sediment load: Spatial patterns of hard coral communities in the southern islands of Singapore

    Angela Dikou;Robert van Woesik

  • ENSO drove 2500-year collapse of eastern Pacific coral reefs.

    Lauren T. Toth;Richard B. Aronson;Richard B. Aronson;Steven V. Vollmer;Jennifer W. Hobbs

  • Coral communities and reef growth in the southern Great Barrier Reef

    R. van Woesik;T. J. Done

  • Symbiotic zooxanthellae provide the host-coral Montipora digitata with polyunsaturated fatty acids.

    M. Papina;T. Meziane;R. van Woesik

  • Effects of Cyclone 'Joy' on nearshore coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef

    R. Van Woesik;LM De Vantier;JS Glazebrook

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark B. Bush
Mark B. Bush Florida Institute of Technology
Erinn M. Muller
Erinn M. Muller Mote Marine Laboratory
Ian C. Enochs
Ian C. Enochs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Richard B. Aronson
Richard B. Aronson Florida Institute of Technology
Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
Tim R. McClanahan
Tim R. McClanahan Wildlife Conservation Society
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Tyler B. Smith
Tyler B. Smith University of the Virgin Islands
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland

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