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Overview

Simon D. Donner is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has made contributions across environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine animal studies, environmental education and sustainability, and climate change communication and perception.

Simon D. Donner has published several papers, including:

  • Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • How well do people understand the climate impact of individual actions? (2020, Climatic Change)
  • Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Emergent increase in coral thermal tolerance reduces mass bleaching under climate change (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Increase in the extent of mass coral bleaching over the past half-century, based on an updated global database (2023, PLoS ONE)

Frequent coauthors of Simon D. Donner include:

  • Sara E. Cannon
  • James R. Guest
  • Liam Lachs
  • Seth Wynes
  • Peter J. Mumby

Their publications appear in several key venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Climatic Change
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

    Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Simon N. Stuart;Jean-Christophe Vié

  • Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change

    Simon D. Donner;William J. Skirving;Christopher M. Little;Michael Oppenheimer

  • Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs

    K. Frieler;M. Meinshausen;M. Meinshausen;A. Golly;M. Mengel

  • Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River

    Simon D. Donner;Christopher J. Kucharik

  • Characterizing the Spatial Patterns of Global Fertilizer Application and Manure Production

    Philip Potter;Navin Ramankutty;Elena M. Bennett;Simon D. Donner

  • Modeling denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at regional scales.

    Elizabeth W. Boyer;Richard B. Alexander;William J. Parton;Changsheng Li

  • 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

  • Coping with commitment: projected thermal stress on coral reefs under different future scenarios.

    Simon D. Donner

  • The Impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters

    Sandra Banholzer;James Kossin;Simon Donner

  • Incorporating adaptive responses into future projections of coral bleaching.

    Cheryl A. Logan;Cheryl A. Logan;John P. Dunne;C. Mark Eakin;Simon D. Donner

  • Model-based assessment of the role of human-induced climate change in the 2005 Caribbean coral bleaching event

    Simon D. Donner;Thomas R. Knutson;Michael Oppenheimer

  • Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Tim R McClanahan;Joseph Maina;Georgina G Gurney

  • Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success

    Seth Wynes;Simon D. Donner;Steuart Tannason;Noni Nabors

  • Historical Temperature Variability Affects Coral Response to Heat Stress

    Jessica Carilli;Simon D. Donner;Aaron C. Hartmann

  • Impact of changing land use practices on nitrate export by the Mississippi River

    Simon D. Donner;Christopher J. Kucharik;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Modeling the impact of hydrological changes on nitrate transport in the Mississippi River Basin from 1955 to 1994

    Simon D. Donner;Michael T. Coe;John D. Lenters;Tracy E. Twine

  • Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data

    Kieran Findlater;Sophie Webber;Milind Kandlikar;Simon Donner

  • How climate controls the flux of nitrogen by the Mississippi River and the development of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico

    Simon D. Donner;Donald Scavia

  • A new, high-resolution global mass coral bleaching database

    Simon D. Donner;Gregory J. M. Rickbeil;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron

  • The Inequity of the Global Threat to Coral Reefs

    Simon D. Donner;David Potere

  • Impact of changing land use practices on nitrate export by the

    Mississippi River;Simon D. Donner;Christopher J. Kucharik;Jonathan A. Foley

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Kucharik
Christopher J. Kucharik University of Wisconsin–Madison
Scott F. Heron
Scott F. Heron James Cook University
William J. Skirving
William J. Skirving National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Maria Beger
Maria Beger University of Leeds
Emily S. Darling
Emily S. Darling Wildlife Conservation Society
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marwan A. Hassan
Marwan A. Hassan University of British Columbia
Nandita B. Basu
Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University

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