Published in PLoS One on August 08, 2007
Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the Northern Line Islands. PLoS One (2008) 9.10
The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 6.53
Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 5.15
Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs. PLoS Biol (2008) 4.90
Colloquium paper: ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 3.76
Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature. PLoS One (2013) 3.36
Reef ecology. Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: a tipping point that may limit reef recovery. Science (2014) 2.66
Disturbance and the dynamics of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef (1995-2009). PLoS One (2011) 2.59
Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems. PLoS One (2008) 2.55
A global analysis of the effectiveness of marine protected areas in preventing coral loss. PLoS One (2010) 2.45
Doom and boom on a resilient reef: climate change, algal overgrowth and coral recovery. PLoS One (2009) 2.36
Fishery-independent data reveal negative effect of human population density on Caribbean predatory fish communities. PLoS One (2009) 2.35
Cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2012) 2.10
Caribbean-wide decline in carbonate production threatens coral reef growth. Nat Commun (2013) 1.99
Rethinking ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change. PLoS Biol (2010) 1.84
Sediment and turbidity associated with offshore dredging increase coral disease prevalence on nearby reefs. PLoS One (2014) 1.82
Predator crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) outbreak, mass mortality of corals, and cascading effects on reef fish and benthic communities. PLoS One (2012) 1.81
Evidence of large-scale chronic eutrophication in the Great Barrier Reef: quantification of chlorophyll a thresholds for sustaining coral reef communities. Ambio (2013) 1.48
Prioritizing key resilience indicators to support coral reef management in a changing climate. PLoS One (2012) 1.45
Dredging in the Spratly Islands: Gaining Land but Losing Reefs. PLoS Biol (2016) 1.38
Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes. Nature (2015) 1.34
Ecological effects of ocean acidification and habitat complexity on reef-associated macroinvertebrate communities. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.31
Effects of cold stress and heat stress on coral fluorescence in reef-building corals. Sci Rep (2013) 1.27
Palaeoecological evidence of a historical collapse of corals at Pelorus Island, inshore Great Barrier Reef, following European settlement. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 1.26
Unprecedented mass bleaching and loss of coral across 12° of latitude in Western Australia in 2010-11. PLoS One (2012) 1.22
Projected changes to growth and mortality of Hawaiian corals over the next 100 years. PLoS One (2011) 1.20
Threatened reef corals of the world. PLoS One (2012) 1.19
Evaluating social and ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climate change. PLoS One (2013) 1.16
Dynamics of coral reef benthic assemblages of the Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil: inferences on natural and anthropogenic drivers. PLoS One (2013) 1.16
Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 1.16
Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation. PLoS One (2015) 1.14
The lagoon at Caroline/Millennium atoll, Republic of Kiribati: natural history of a nearly pristine ecosystem. PLoS One (2010) 1.12
The urgent need for robust coral disease diagnostics. PLoS Pathog (2011) 1.12
Evidence that glucose is the major transferred metabolite in dinoflagellate-cnidarian symbiosis. J Exp Biol (2012) 1.10
A comprehensive investigation of mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago. PeerJ (2016) 1.07
A cross-ocean comparison of responses to settlement cues in reef-building corals. PeerJ (2014) 1.06
Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales. Nat Commun (2016) 1.04
Acanthaster planci outbreak: decline in coral health, coral size structure modification and consequences for obligate decapod assemblages. PLoS One (2012) 1.03
Predictive modeling of coral disease distribution within a reef system. PLoS One (2010) 1.01
Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 1.01
Wide field-of-view fluorescence imaging of coral reefs. Sci Rep (2015) 1.00
Coverage, diversity, and functionality of a high-latitude coral community (Tatsukushi, Shikoku Island, Japan). PLoS One (2013) 1.00
Regulation of bacterial communities through antimicrobial activity by the coral holobiont. Microb Ecol (2011) 0.99
Caught in the middle: combined impacts of shark removal and coral loss on the fish communities of coral reefs. PLoS One (2013) 0.99
Effects of light, food availability and temperature stress on the function of photosystem II and photosystem I of coral symbionts. PLoS One (2012) 0.98
Coral population trajectories, increased disturbance and management intervention: a sensitivity analysis. Ecol Evol (2013) 0.97
Specialization in habitat use by coral reef damselfishes and their susceptibility to habitat loss. Ecol Evol (2012) 0.97
Habitat associations of juvenile fish at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia: the importance of coral and algae. PLoS One (2010) 0.97
Growth anomalies on the coral genera Acropora and Porites are strongly associated with host density and human population size across the Indo-Pacific. PLoS One (2011) 0.97
Competition induces allelopathy but suppresses growth and anti-herbivore defence in a chemically rich seaweed. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.96
Rapid survey protocol that provides dynamic information on reef condition to managers of the Great Barrier Reef. Environ Monit Assess (2014) 0.95
Sea urchins predation facilitates coral invasion in a marine reserve. PLoS One (2011) 0.95
Coral reef community composition in the context of disturbance history on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. PLoS One (2014) 0.94
The ecology of 'Acroporid white syndrome', a coral disease from the southern Great Barrier Reef. PLoS One (2011) 0.92
Using ecological null models to assess the potential for marine protected area networks to protect biodiversity. PLoS One (2010) 0.92
A framework for responding to coral disease outbreaks that facilitates adaptive management. Environ Manage (2011) 0.92
The influence of coral reef benthic condition on associated fish assemblages. PLoS One (2012) 0.90
Phage therapy treatment of the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus. Microbiologyopen (2012) 0.88
The importance of coral larval recruitment for the recovery of reefs impacted by cyclone Yasi in the central Great Barrier Reef. PLoS One (2013) 0.88
Dynamic stability of coral reefs on the west Australian coast. PLoS One (2013) 0.88
Variations in reactive oxygen release and antioxidant activity in multiple Symbiodinium types in response to elevated temperature. Microb Ecol (2012) 0.88
Climate change, coral reef ecosystems, and management options for marine protected areas. Environ Manage (2009) 0.87
Coral reef degradation is not correlated with local human population density. Sci Rep (2016) 0.87
Taxonomic, spatial and temporal patterns of bleaching in anemones inhabited by anemonefishes. PLoS One (2013) 0.87
Reduced diversity and high sponge abundance on a sedimented Indo-Pacific reef system: implications for future changes in environmental quality. PLoS One (2014) 0.86
Species-specific responses of corals to bleaching events on anthropogenically turbid reefs on Okinawa Island, Japan, over a 15-year period (1995-2009). PLoS One (2013) 0.86
Epizoic communities of prokaryotes on healthy and diseased scleractinian corals in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines. Microb Ecol (2008) 0.83
Competitors as accomplices: seaweed competitors hide corals from predatory sea stars. Proc Biol Sci (2015) 0.83
Assessing Different Causes of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreaks and Appropriate Responses for Management on the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS One (2016) 0.83
Identification of microRNAs in the coral Stylophora pistillata. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
The role of coral-associated bacterial communities in Australian Subtropical White Syndrome of Turbinaria mesenterina. PLoS One (2012) 0.82
Persistence and change in community composition of reef corals through present, past, and future climates. PLoS One (2014) 0.82
Iconic coral reef degraded despite substantial protection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.81
Tolerance of sponge assemblages to temperature anomalies: resilience and proliferation of sponges following the 1997-8 El-Niño southern oscillation. PLoS One (2013) 0.81
The effect of filamentous turf algal removal on the development of gametes of the coral Orbicella annularis. PLoS One (2015) 0.81
Gene expression signatures of energetic acclimatisation in the reef building coral Acropora millepora. PLoS One (2013) 0.81
Assessing global marine biodiversity status within a coupled socio-ecological perspective. PLoS One (2013) 0.81
Composition and Predictive Functional Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Seawater, Sediment and Sponges in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Microb Ecol (2015) 0.81
Effects of reduced dissolved oxygen concentrations on physiology and fluorescence of hermatypic corals and benthic algae. PeerJ (2014) 0.81
Anthropogenic extinction threats and future loss of evolutionary history in reef corals. Ecol Evol (2013) 0.80
Water column productivity and temperature predict coral reef regeneration across the Indo-Pacific. Sci Rep (2015) 0.80
How will coral reef fish communities respond to climate-driven disturbances? Insight from landscape-scale perturbations. Oecologia (2014) 0.80
Coral recovery in the central Maldives archipelago since the last major mass-bleaching, in 1998. Sci Rep (2016) 0.80
From cholera to corals: Viruses as drivers of virulence in a major coral bacterial pathogen. Sci Rep (2015) 0.80
Predicting coral species richness: the effect of input variables, diversity and scale. PLoS One (2014) 0.80
A novel marine mesocosm facility to study global warming, water quality, and ocean acidification. Ecol Evol (2015) 0.79
Size matters: Predator outbreaks threaten foundation species in small Marine Protected Areas. PLoS One (2017) 0.79
Understanding uncertainties in non-linear population trajectories: a Bayesian semi-parametric hierarchical approach to large-scale surveys of coral cover. PLoS One (2014) 0.79
Demography and population dynamics of massive coral communities in adjacent high latitude regions (United Arab Emirates). PLoS One (2013) 0.79
Sewage pollution: mitigation is key for coral reef stewardship. Ann N Y Acad Sci (2015) 0.79
Mycosporine-like amino acids from coral dinoflagellates. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.79
Effect of marine protected areas (MPAs) on consumer diet: MPA fish feed higher in the food chain. Mar Ecol Prog Ser (2015) 0.79
Coral settlement on a highly disturbed equatorial reef system. PLoS One (2015) 0.79
Repeated sampling of white syndrome-affected corals reveals distinct microbiome at disease lesion fronts. Appl Environ Microbiol (2016) 0.78
Baseline coral disease surveys within three marine parks in Sabah, Borneo. PeerJ (2015) 0.78
Ornamental marine species culture in the coral triangle: seahorse demonstration project in the Spermonde Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Environ Manage (2014) 0.78
Coral-algal phase shifts alter fish communities and reduce fisheries production. Glob Chang Biol (2014) 0.78
Time in tortoiseshell: a bomb radiocarbon-validated chronology in sea turtle scutes. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 0.78
Coral reefs in crisis: reversing the biotic death spiral. F1000 Biol Rep (2010) 0.78
Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science (2003) 19.14
Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests. Science (2002) 17.37
Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature (2003) 16.70
Confronting the coral reef crisis. Nature (2004) 14.36
Long-term region-wide declines in Caribbean corals. Science (2003) 13.74
Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef. Science (1994) 12.98
Marine biodiversity hotspots and conservation priorities for tropical reefs. Science (2002) 11.49
Global trajectories of the long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems. Science (2003) 10.68
Depletion, degradation, and recovery potential of estuaries and coastal seas. Science (2006) 10.15
Ecology. Are U.S. coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime? Science (2005) 6.98
Coral decline threatens fish biodiversity in marine reserves. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 6.29
Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks. PLoS Biol (2007) 5.99
Dynamic fragility of oceanic coral reef ecosystems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 4.60
Trophic cascade facilitates coral recruitment in a marine reserve. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 3.80
The future of coral reefs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 2.99
Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. Science (2005) 2.59
Recovery of Diadema antillarum reduces macroalgal cover and increases abundance of juvenile corals on a Caribbean reef. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 2.30
Measuring coral reef decline through meta-analyses. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2005) 2.06
Coral bleach-out in Belize. Nature (2000) 1.55
Reassessing U.S. coral reefs. Science (2005) 1.26
Destruction of Pacific Corals by the Sea Star Acanthaster planci. Science (1969) 1.26
Effects of Some Destructive Fishing Methods on Coral Cover and Potential Rates of Recovery Environ Manage (1997) 1.19
A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science (2008) 21.47
Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks. PLoS Biol (2007) 5.99
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. Nature (2012) 4.63
Assessing evidence of phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominance on coral reefs. Ecology (2009) 3.04
Prioritizing key resilience indicators to support coral reef management in a changing climate. PLoS One (2012) 1.45
Forest conservation delivers highly variable coral reef conservation outcomes. Ecol Appl (2012) 1.29
The distribution of the thermally tolerant symbiont lineage (Symbiodinium clade D) in corals from Hawaii: correlations with host and the history of ocean thermal stress. Ecol Evol (2013) 0.85
Empirical models of transitions between coral reef states: effects of region, protection, and environmental change. PLoS One (2011) 0.75