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Samuel J. Purkis is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research contributions include publications in ecological and marine science domains, focusing on coral reef management and functional diversity of marine species.

Their recent publication includes:

  • Integrating spatial patterns of herbivorous fish functional diversity to inform coral reef management, 2025, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Samuel J. Purkis include:

  • Courtney E. Stuart
  • Cassandra E. Benkwitt
  • Kostantinos A. Stamoulis
  • Simon J. Pittman
  • Stephanie Green

The main venue for their publications has been:

  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • The Gulf: a young sea in decline.

    Charles Sheppard;Mohsen Al-Husiani;F. Al-Jamali;Faiza Al-Yamani

  • The Emerging Role of Lidar Remote Sensing in Coastal Research and Resource Management

    John C. Brock;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

    Samuel J. Purkis;Victor V. Klemas

  • Present Limits to Heat-Adaptability in Corals and Population-Level Responses to Climate Extremes

    Bernhard Riegl;Samuel J. Purkis;Ashraf S. Al-Cibahy;Mohammed A. Abdel-Moati

  • Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no-take marine protected area.

    Charles (Charles R. C.) Sheppard;M. Ateweberhan;B. W. Bowen;P. Carr

  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of Arabian Gulf coral assemblages quantified from remote-sensing and in situ monitoring data

    Samuel J. Purkis;Samuel J. Purkis;Bernhard Riegl

  • Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes in the World’s Hottest Sea

    Bernhard Riegl;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Model of coral population response to accelerated bleaching and mass mortality in a changing climate

    Bernhard M. Riegl;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Predictability of reef fish diversity and abundance using remote sensing data in Diego Garcia (Chagos Archipelago)

    Samuel J. Purkis;N. A. J. Graham;Bernhard Riegl

  • A "Reef-Up" approach to classifying coral habitats from IKONOS imagery

    S.J. Purkis

  • Coral reef remote sensing: a guide for mapping, monitoring and management

    James Ansell Goodman;Samuel J. Purkis;Stuart R. Phinn

  • Coral Reefs of the Gulf

    Bernhard M. Riegl;Sam J. Purkis

  • Mapping bathymetry and depositional facies on Great Bahama Bank

    Paul Mitch Harris;Samuel J. Purkis;James Ellis;Peter K. Swart

  • Open and closed seascapes: Where does habitat patchiness create populations with high fractions of self-recruitment?

    Malin L. Pinsky;Stephen R. Palumbi;Serge Andrefouet;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Population collapse dynamics in Acropora downingi, an Arabian/Persian Gulf ecosystem‐engineering coral, linked to rising temperature

    Bernhard Riegl;Matthew Johnston;Samuel J. Purkis;Emily Howells

  • Detection of shallow subtidal corals from IKONOS satellite and QTC View (50, 200 kHz) single-beam sonar data (Arabian Gulf; Dubai, UAE)

    Bernhard M. Riegl;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Spatial analysis of the invasion of lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean

    Matthew W. Johnston;Samuel J. Purkis

  • Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories Over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size

    Bernhard M. Riegl;Andrew W. Bruckner;Gwilym P. Rowlands;Sam J. Purkis

  • An algorithm for optically-deriving water depth from multispectral imagery in coral reef landscapes in the absence of ground-truth data

    Jeremy Kerr;Samuel J. Purkis

  • High-resolution habitat and bathymetry maps for 65,000 sq. km of Earth’s remotest coral reefs

    Samuel J. Purkis;Arthur C. R. Gleason;Charlotte R. Purkis;Alexandra C. Dempsey

  • Remote Sensing of Geomorphology and Facies Patterns on a Modern Carbonate Ramp (Arabian Gulf, Dubai, U.A.E.)

    Samuel J. Purkis;Bernhard M. Riegl;Serge Andréfouët

  • Satellite imaging coral reef resilience at regional scale. A case-study from Saudi Arabia.

    Gwilym Rowlands;Samuel J. Purkis;Bernhard Riegl;Liisa Metsamaa

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Riegl
Bernhard Riegl Nova Southeastern University
Victor Klemas
Victor Klemas University of Delaware
Charles Sheppard
Charles Sheppard University of Warwick
Paul M. Harris
Paul M. Harris University of Miami
Francesca Benzoni
Francesca Benzoni King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami
David Jones
David Jones Newcastle University
Nicholas K. Dulvy
Nicholas K. Dulvy Simon Fraser University
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University

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