Journal Articles

  1. Pascoe, S., Anthony, K., Scheufele, G., Pears, R. (2024) Identifying coral reef restoration objectives: A framework, Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 251, 

  2. Harrison D P (2024) An Overview of Environmental Engineering Methods for Reducing Coral Bleaching Stress in Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. Physical and Biological Links in The Great Barrier Reef. Ed. Wolanski E, Kingsford MJ, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.

  3. Gibbs, M., Jackel, K., Ames, J. & McLeod, I. (2024). How the incentives of participating organizations influence the current scales of coral reef restoration activities. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34(1), e4077. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4077
  4. Briggs, N.D., Page, C.A., Giuliano, C. et al. Dissecting coral recovery: bleaching reduces reproductive output in Acropora millepora. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02483-y 
  5. Ramsby, B.D., Emonnot, F., Flores, F. et al. Low light intensity increased survival of coral spat in aquaculture. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02489-6
  6. Selmoni O, Bay LK, Exposito-Alonso M, Cleves PA. Finding genes and pathways that underlie coral adaptation. Trends Genet. 2024 Mar;40(3):213-227. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.003. Epub 2024 Feb 6. PMID: 38320882.
  7. Webber, K., Fabricius, K., Wilson, S.K. et al. The influence of Sargassum biomass and thallus density on the recruitment of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02494-9

  8. Harrison D P (2024) An Overview of Environmental Engineering Methods for Reducing Coral Bleaching Stress in Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. Physical and Biological Links in The Great Barrier Reef. Ed. Wolanski E, Kingsford MJ, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.

  1. Scharfenstein, H. J., Alvarez-Roa, C., Peplow, L. M., Buerger, P., Chan, W. Y., & van Oppen, M. J. H. (2023). Chemical mutagenesis and thermal selection of coral photosymbionts induce adaptation to heat stress with trait trade-offs. Evolutionary Applications, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13586
  2. Matias, A. M. A., Popovic, I., Thia, J. A., Cooke, I. R., Torda, G., Lukoschek, V., Bay, L. K., Kim, S. W., & Riginos, C. (2023). Cryptic diversity and spatial genetic variation in the coral Acropora tenuis and its endosymbionts across the Great Barrier Reef. Evolutionary Applications, 16, 293–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13435
  3. Wolfe, Kennedy, Kenyon, Tania M., Desbiens, Amelia, de la Motte, Kimberley, and Mumby, Peter J.. 2023. “ Hierarchical Drivers of Cryptic Biodiversity on Coral Reefs.” Ecological Monographs 93(3): e1586. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1586
  4. Abdul Wahab, M.A., Ferguson, S., Snekkevik, V.K. et al. Hierarchical settlement behaviours of coral larvae to common coralline algae. Sci Rep 13, 5795 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32676-4 
  5. Álvarez-Noriega, M. et al (2023) Highly conserved thermal performance strategies may limit adaptive potential in coralsProc. R. Soc. B.2902022170320221703http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1703
  6. Fabricius KE, Crossman K, Jonker M, Mongin M, Thompson A (2023) Macroalgal cover on coral reefs: Spatial and environmental predictors, and decadal trends in the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE 18(1): e0279699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279699
  7. Richards, T. J., McGuigan, K., Aguirre, J. D., Humanes, A., Bozec, Y.-M., Mumby, P. J., & Riginos, C. (2023). Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential. Global Change Biology, 29, 3869–3882. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16719
  8. Lachs, L., Humanes, A., Pygas, D.R. et al. No apparent trade-offs associated with heat tolerance in a reef-building coral. Commun Biol 6, 400 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04758-6
  9. Lippmann RB, Helmstedt KJ, Gibbs MT, Corry P (2023) Optimizing facility location, sizing, and growth time for a cultivated resource: A case study in coral aquaculture. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282668. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282668
  10. Baresi, Umberto and Vella, Karen and Lockie, Stewart and Taylor, Bruce M. and Piggott-McKellar, Annah and Eberhard, Rachel, Overcoming Challenges to Large Scale Assisted Ecosystem Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework for Engagement. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4471994 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4471994
  11. Doll, P. C et al. (2023) Settlement cue selectivity by larvae of the destructive crown-of-thorns starfishBiol. Lett.192022039920220399http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0399
  12. Randall, C.J., Giuliano, C., Allen, K., Bickel, A., Miller, M. and Negri, A.P. (2023), Site mediates performance in a coral-seeding trial. Restor Ecol, 31: e13745. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13745
  13. Medcraft, C., Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Harrison, L., Braga, R. C., Butcherine, P., Harrison, D. P. (2023): Size distributions of sea salt aerosols for marine cloud brightening over the Great Barrier Reef, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023) https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-2107
  14. Wing Yan Chan, David Rudd, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Cnidarian spatial metabolomics, , Life Science Alliance May 2023,  6 (8) e202301900; DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202301900
  15. Scott, Abbi, Chartrand, Katie, Curnock, Matt, Taylor, Bruce, Loder, Jennifer, Forster, Rebecca, Randall, Carly, Fisher, Eric, Donnelly, Ryan, Kish, Hannah, and Murgha, Brian (2023) The role of community-based Hubs in reef restoration: Collaborative monitoring at Moore Reef. In: [Presented at the Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference 2023]. From: Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference 2023: Science in Sea Country, 2-7 July 2023, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
  16. Gouezo, M., Doropoulos, C., Slawinski, D., Cummings, B., & Harrison, P. (2023). Underwater macrophotogrammetry to monitor in situ benthic communities at submillimetre scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14175
  17. Kenyon, Tania & Harris, Daniel & Baldock, Tom & Callaghan, David & Doropoulos, Christopher & Webb, Gregory & Newman, Steven & Mumby, Peter. (2023). Mobilisation thresholds for coral rubble and consequences for windows of reef recovery. 10.5194/bg-2023-2
  18. Buccheri, E., Ricardo, G.F., Babcock, R.C. et al. Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits. Coral Reefs (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02431-2
  19. Butcherine, Peter & Tagliafico, Alejandro & Ellis, Sophia & Kelaher, Brendan & Hendrickson, Conor & Harrison, Daniel. (2023). Intermittent shading can moderate coral bleaching on shallow reefs. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1162896
  20. Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Medcraft, C., Braga, R. C., Rosenfeld, D., Harrison, D. (2023): Estimating the portion of Marine Cloud Brightening sea-salt aerosols that activate when incorporated into low-lying marine clouds: preliminary results, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
    https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-2669
  21. Nicole Shumway, Rose Foster, Brian Head, Pedro Fidelman, Policy solutions needed for the future of coral reefs, BioScience, 2023;, biad092, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad092
  22. Turnlund, A.C., Vanwonterghem, I., Botté, E.S. et al. Linking differences in microbial network structure with changes in coral larval settlement. ISME COMMUN. 3, 114 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00320-x 
  23. Remmers, T., Grech, A., Roelfsema, C. et al. Close-range underwater photogrammetry for coral reef ecology: a systematic literature review. Coral Reefs (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02445-w 
  24. Randall, C.J., Giuliano, C., Stephenson, B. et al. Larval precompetency and settlement behaviour in 25 Indo-Pacific coral species. Commun Biol 7, 142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05824-3 
  25. Meziere, Zoe, Popovic, Iva, Prata, Katharine, Ryan, Isobel, Pandolfi, John, and Riginos, Cynthia (2024). Exploring coral speciation: Multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef. Evolutionary Applications 17 (1) ARTN e13644 e13644. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13644
  26. Eckert, C.; Monteforte, K.I.; Harrison, D.P.; Kelaher, B.P. Exploring Meteorological Conditions and Microscale Temperature Inversions above the Great Barrier Reef through Drone-Based Measurements. Drones 2023, 7, 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7120695

  27. Hernandez-Jaramillo, D.C. et al (2023) Evaporative Cooling Does Not Prevent Vertical Dispersion of Effervescent Seawater Aerosol for Brightening Clouds. Environmental Science & Technology 2023 57 (49), 20559-20570. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c04793

  28. Chan WY, Meyers L, Rudd D, Topa SH, van Oppen MJH. Heat-evolved algal symbionts enhance bleaching tolerance of adult corals without trade-off against growth. Glob Chang Biol. 2023 Dec;29(24):6945-6968. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16987. Epub 2023 Nov 1. PMID: 37913765.
  1. Daly, J., Hobbs, R.J., Zuchowicz, N. et al. Cryopreservation can assist gene flow on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 41, 455–462 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02202-x 
  2. Doropoulos C, Roff G (2022) Coloring coral larvae allows tracking of local dispersal and settlement. PLoS Biol 20(12): e3001907 
  3. Howells, E.J., Bay, L.K., Bay, R.A. (2022). Identifying, Monitoring, and Managing Adaptive Genetic Variation in Reef-Building Corals under Rapid Climate Warming. In: van Oppen, M.J.H., Aranda Lastra, M. (eds) Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07055-6_4 
  4. Liu, F., Mao, F., Rosenfeld, D. et al. Opposing comparable large effects of fine aerosols and coarse sea spray on marine warm clouds. Commun Earth Environ 3, 232 (2022).
  5. McLeod IM, Hein MY, Babcock R, Bay L, Bourne DG, Cook N, et al. (2022) Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years. PLoS ONE 17(11): e0273325
  6. Maire J, Buerger P, Chan WY, Deore P, Dungan AM, Nitschke MR, van Oppen MJH. Effects of Ocean Warming on the Underexplored Members of the Coral Microbiome. Integr Comp Biol. 2022 Dec 30;62(6):1700-1709.
  7. Matias, A.M., Popovic, I., Thia, J.A., et al. Cryptic diversity and spatial genetic variation in the coral Acropora tenuis and its endosymbionts across the Great Barrier Reef Evolutionary Applications (2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13435 
  8. Randall, C., Giuliano, C., Allen, K. et al Site mediates performance in a coral-seeding trial. Restoration Ecology (2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13745
  9. Roepke, L., Brefeld, D., Soltmann, U., Randall, C., Negri, A. & Kunzmann, A. (2022). Applying behavioral studies to the ecotoxicology of corals: A case study on Acropora millepora. Frontiers in Marine Science. 
  10. Roepke, L.K., Brefeld, D., Soltmann, U. et al. Antifouling coatings can reduce algal growth while preserving coral settlement. Sci Rep 12, 15935 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19997-6 
  11.  Scharfenstein, H.J., Chan, W.Y., Buerger, P. et al. Evidence for de novo acquisition of microalgal symbionts by bleached adult corals. ISME J (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01203-0 
  12. Tagliafico A, Baker P, Kelaher B, Ellis S and Harrison D (2022) The Effects of Shade and Light on Corals in the Context of Coral Bleaching and Shading Technologies. Front. Mar. Sci. 
  13. Thatcher C, Høj L, Bourne DG. Probiotics for coral aquaculture: challenges and considerations. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2022 Feb;73:380-386. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.09.009. Epub 2021 Nov 5. PMID: 34749049. 
  1. Bay, L.K., Howells, E. J. (2021) Ecosystem Resilience: Mapping the future for coral reefs eLife 
  2. Ferrari R, Lachs L, Pygas DR, Humanes A, Sommer B, Figueira WF, Edwards AJ, Bythell JC, Guest JR. Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration. Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 Dec;36(12):1093-1101. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.07.004. Epub 2021 Aug 14. PMID: 34404550. 
  3. Gibbs, M., Newlands, M., (2021) Restoration heralds’ new management challenges for coral reefs, Marine Policy, 136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104911. 
  4. Gibbs, M. (2021) Technology requirements, and social impacts of technology for at-scale coral reef restoration, Technology in Society, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101622 
  5. Gibbs, M.T. Developing a regional-scale reef restoration activity for the tropics. Reg Environ Change 21, 99 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01843-6 
  6. Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870 
  7. Kleypas, J., Allemand, D.,  Anthony, K et al. (2021). Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival. Biological Conservation. 257. 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109107.
  8. Macadam A, Nowell CJ, Quigley K. Machine Learning for the Fast and Accurate Assessment of Fitness in Coral Early Life History. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(16):3173. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1316317 
  9. Randall Carly J., Giuliano Christine, Heyward Andrew J., Negri Andrew P. (2021). Enhancing Coral Survival on Deployment Devices With Microrefugia. Front. Mar. Sci., 12 May 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.662263
  10. Stoeckl, Natalie & Condie, Scott & Anthony, Ken. (2021). Assessing changes to ecosystem service values at large geographic scale: A case study for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Ecosystem Services. 51. 101352. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101352.
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  11. Vella K, Baresi U, Lockie S, Taylor B (2021) Challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation: International experience and implications for adaptation research. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257868 
  12. Zuchowicz, N., Daly, J., Bouwmeester, J. et al. Assessing coral sperm motility. Sci Rep 11, 61 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79732-x 
  1. Anthony KRN, Helmstedt KJ, Bay LK, Fidelman P, Hussey KE, Lundgren P, et al. (2020) Interventions to help coral reefs under global change—A complex decision challenge. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0236399. 
  2. Baird ME, Green R, Lowe R, Mongin M, Bougeot E (2020) Optimising cool-water injections to reduce thermal stress on coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239978
  3. Ceccarelli DM, McLeod IM, Boström-Einarsson L, Bryan SE, Chartrand KM, Emslie MJ, et al. (2020) Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: State of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240846. 
  4. Randall, C. J., Negri, A. P., Quigley, K. M., Foster, T., Ricardo, G. F., Webster, N. S., Bay, L. K., Harrison, P. L., Babcock, R. C., & Heyward, A. J. (2020). Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 635, 203-232.
  5. Randall, C.J., Speaks, J.E., Lager, C. et al. Rapid counting and spectral sorting of live coral larvae using large-particle flow cytometry. Sci Rep 10, 12919 (2020). 
  6. Sivapalan M, Bowen J (2020) Decision frameworks for restoration & adaptation investment–Applying lessons from asset-intensive industries to the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE 15(11): e0240460. 
  1. Fidelman, P., McGrath, C., Newlands, M., et al. Regulatory implications of coral reef restoration and adaptation under a changing climate. Environmental Science & Policy 100, (2019). 
  2. Randall, C.J., Giuliano, C., Mead, D. et al. Immobilisation of living coral embryos and larvae. Sci Rep 9, 14596 (2019). 
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