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Publisher Correction: Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas Open

John F. Bruno, Amanda E. Bates, Chris Cacciapaglia, Elizabeth P. Pike, Steven C. Amstrup , et al. · 2025

Spatial variability of sedimentary assemblages reflects variations in bioerosion pressure of adjacent coral reefs Open

Victor Rodriguez-Ruano, Richard B. Aronson, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip, Esmeralda Pérez‐Cervantes, Nuria Estrada‐Saldívar , et al. · 2024

The composition of coral-reef sediments is highly variable across space and time, and differences in the life histories of the dominant calcifying organisms on reefs contribute to the heterogeneity of reef sediments. Previous studies have …

Publisher Correction: The potential for coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise Open

Lauren T. Toth, Curt D. Storlazzi, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Ellen Quataert, Johan Reyns , et al. · 2024

The potential for coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise Open

Lauren T. Toth, Curt D. Storlazzi, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Ellen Quataert, Johan Reyns , et al. · 2023

Climate Change and The Persistence of Coral-Reef Development in Upwelling Zones Open

Victor Rodriguez-Ruano, Lauren T. Toth, Ian C. Enochs, Carly J. Randall, Richard B. Aronson · 2023

Upwelling exerts a major control on coral-reef development in the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP). Upwelling zones exhibit conditions that are detrimental to coral growth, such as low sea-surface temperatures and high levels of turbidity. D…

Upwelling, climate change, and the shifting geography of coral reef development Open

Victor Rodriguez-Ruano, Lauren T. Toth, Ian C. Enochs, Carly J. Randall, Richard B. Aronson · 2023

The snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, displays body-wide exoskeletal resistance to the effects of long-term ocean acidification Open

Tait Algayer, Ahmed Mahmoud, Sanjana Saksena, W. Christopher Long, Katherine M. Swiney , et al. · 2022

Structural and mechanical properties of the decapod exoskeleton affect foraging, defense, and locomotion, making the ability of decapods to maintain their calcified exoskeleton a crucial physiological process. Ocean acidification (OA) pose…

Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open

Catherine Alves, Abel Valdivia, Richard B. Aronson, Nadia Bood, Karl D. Castillo , et al. · 2022

Disease, storms, ocean warming, and pollution have caused the mass mortality of reef-building corals across the Caribbean over the last four decades. Subsequently, stony corals have been replaced by macroalgae, bacterial mats, and inverteb…

Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open

Catherine Alves, Abel Valdivia, Richard B. Aronson, Nadia Bood, Karl D. Castillo , et al. · 2022

Disease, storms, ocean warming, and pollution have caused the mass mortality of reef-building corals across the Caribbean over the last four decades. Subsequently, stony corals have been replaced by macroalgae, bacterial mats, and inverteb…

Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs Open

Steve Dudgeon, Richard B. Aronson, John F. Bruno, William F. Precht · 2021

Recent transitions from coral to macroalgal dominance on some tropical reefs have engendered debate about their causes and effects. A widely accepted view is that reef environments support stable, alternative coral or non-coral assemblages…

Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development Open

Lauren T. Toth, William F. Precht, Alexander B. Modys, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Martha L. Robbart , et al. · 2021

Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open

Catherine Alves, Richard B. Aronson, Nadia Bood, Karl D. Castillo, Courtney Cox , et al. · 2021

Disease, ocean warming, and pollution have caused catastrophic declines in the cover of living coral on reefs across the Caribbean. Subsequently, reef-building corals have been replaced by invertebrates and macroalgae, leading to changes i…

Ocean acidification alters properties of the exoskeleton in adult Tanner crabs, <i>Chionoecetes bairdi</i> Open

Gary H. Dickinson, Shai Bejerano, Trina Salvador, Christine Makdisi, Shrey Patel , et al. · 2021

Ocean acidification can affect the ability of calcifying organisms to build and maintain mineralized tissue. In decapod crustaceans, the exoskeleton is a multilayered structure composed of chitin, protein and mineral, predominately magnesi…

Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research Open

Jeroen Ingels, Richard B. Aronson, Craig R. Smith, Amy R. Baco, Holly M. Bik , et al. · 2020

The calving of A‐68, the 5,800‐km 2 , 1‐trillion‐ton iceberg shed from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017, is one of over 10 significant ice‐shelf loss events in the past few decades resulting from rapid warming around the Antarctic Penin…

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Kathryn L. Cottingham, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, The Scientifi C Naturalist, William K. Michener , et al. · 2020

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From deep to shallow seas: Antarctic king crab on the move Open

Sven Thatje, Kathryn E. Smith, James B. McClintock, Richard B. Aronson · 2020

The fauna of decapod crustaceans in the Southern Ocean has historically been considered impoverished, with only about a dozen species of decapod shrimp overall, of which only three species are common and abundant on the Antarctic continent…

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Kathryn L. Cottingham, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, The Scientifi C Naturalist, William K. Michener , et al. · 2020

Parameterized maximum entropy

Mechanical Resistance in Decapod Claw Denticles: Contribution of Structure and Composition Open

Miranda N. Rosen, Kerstin A. Baran, Justin N. Sison, Brittan V. Steffel, W. Christopher Long , et al. · 2020

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Kathryn L. Cottingham, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, The Scientifi C Naturalist, William K. Michener , et al. · 2020

18 years of data to show that the stability of the emblematic marine foundation species, the giant kelp M. pyrifera, can benefi t the stability of the diverse assemblage of understory algae and sessile invertebrates that compete for space …

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Kathryn L. Cottingham, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, The Scientifi C Naturalist, William K. Michener , et al. · 2020

Spatial and temporal turnover of soil microbial

Digging into the Geologic Record of Environmentally Driven Changes in Coral Reef Development Open

Philip M. Gravinese, Richard B. Aronson, Lauren T. Toth · 2020

This lesson uses data based on real-world geological archives to guide students toward understanding how climate and oceanographic conditions have impacted coral reef growth over the last 5,000 years.The objective of the lesson is for stud…

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Kathryn L. Cottingham, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, The Scientifi C Naturalist, William K. Michener , et al. · 2020

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Donald R. Strong, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Joseph B. Yavitt, William K. Michener, The Scientifi , et al. · 2019

COVER PHOTO: Spartina cordgrass is an iconic group of species that can not only shape coastal ecosystems worldwide -such as the Patagonian rocky marsh photographed here by biologist and wildlife photographer Nicolás Battini -but also aff e…

Upwelling buffers climate change impacts on coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific Open

Carly J. Randall, Lauren T. Toth, James J. Leichter, Juan L. Maté, Richard B. Aronson · 2019

Corals of the eastern tropical Pacific live in a marginal and oceanographically dynamic environment. Along the Pacific coast of Panamá, stronger seasonal upwelling in the Gulf of Panamá in the east transitions to weaker upwelling in the Gu…

Height, width, and mass of the coral Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama, 2018-2019 Open