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Terry P. Hughes is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed significantly to environmental science, focusing particularly on coral and marine ecosystems. Their research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy, law, and sociology and political science.

The main topics in Hughes's work encompass coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, coastal and marine management, marine and coastal plant biology, sustainability and climate change governance, climate change and health impacts, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Hughes's recent published papers include:

  • "Rebuilding marine life" (2020, Nature)
  • "Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival" (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • "Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene" (2020, One Earth)
  • "Emergent properties in the responses of tropical corals to recurrent climate extremes" (2021, Current Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hughes include Tiffany H. Morrison, Sean R. Connolly, W. Neil Adger, Andreas Dietzel, and Michael Bode.

Publications by Hughes have often appeared in the following venues:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature
  • One Earth
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems.

    Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Michael Xavier Kirby;Wolfgang H. Berger;Karen A. Bjorndal

  • Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs

    T.P. Hughes;A.H. Baird;D.R. Bellwood;M. Card

  • Confronting the coral reef crisis

    D. R. Bellwood;T. P. Hughes;T. P. Hughes;C. Folke;C. Folke;M. Nyström

  • Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef.

    Terrence P. Hughes

  • Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

    W. Neil Adger;Terry P. Hughes;Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

    Terry P. Hughes;James T. Kerry;Mariana Álvarez-Noriega;Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero

  • Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems

    John M. Pandolfi;Roger H. Bradbury;Enric Sala;Terence P. Hughes

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene.

    Terry Hughes;Kristen D. Anderson;Sean R. Connolly;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron

  • Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Terry P. Hughes;Michele L. Barnes;David R. Bellwood;Joshua E. Cinner

  • Phase shifts, herbivory, and the resilience of coral reefs to climate change.

    Terence P. Hughes;Maria J. Rodrigues;David R. Bellwood;Daniela Ceccarelli

  • Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems

    Louis Lebel;John M. Anderies;Bruce Campbell;Carl Folke

  • RECRUITMENT AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF OPEN MARINE POPULATIONS

    M. J. Caley;M. H. Carr;M. A. Hixon;T. P. Hughes

  • Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

    Terry P. Hughes;James T. Kerry;Andrew H. Baird;Sean R. Connolly

  • New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems

    Terence P. Hughes;David R. Bellwood;Carl Folke;Robert S. Steneck

  • Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience.

    Terry P. Hughes;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Jeremy B.C. Jackson;Peter J. Mumby

  • A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment, and disturbance at several scales in space and time

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace

  • Rebuilding marine life

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agusti;Edward Barbier;Gregory L. Britten

  • Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources

    F. Berkes;T. P. Hughes;R. S. Steneck;J. A. Wilson

  • Multiple stressors on coral reefs: a long-term perspective

    T. P. Hughes;J. H. Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Sean R. Connolly
Sean R. Connolly James Cook University
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
David R. Bellwood
David R. Bellwood James Cook University
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
Scott F. Heron
Scott F. Heron James Cook University
Brian Walker
Brian Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Morgan S. Pratchett
Morgan S. Pratchett James Cook University

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