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A safe operating space for humanity

scientific article

A unified model explains commonness and rarity on coral reefs

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon world heritage areas

scientific article published in November 2007

Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef: a globally significant demonstration of the benefits of networks of marine reserves

scientific article

Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene

scientific article

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

article

Aggregation influences coral species richness at multiple spatial scales

scientific article

Assembly rules of reef corals are flexible along a steep climatic gradient

scientific article

Author Correction: Rebuilding marine life

scientific article

Back-to-back coral bleaching events on isolated atolls in the Coral Sea

scientific article

Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs

scientific article published in 2002

Biogeographical disparity in the functional diversity and redundancy of corals

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities

scholarly article by Joshua E. Cinner et al published 29 January 2018 in Nature Climate Change

Calcification, Storm Damage and Population Resilience of Tabular Corals under Climate Change

scientific article published on October 4, 2012

Call to protect all coral reefs

article

China's Degraded Environment Enters A New Normal

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Climate and conservation. Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems

scientific article

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Climate change, genotypic diversity and gene flow in reef-building corals

article

Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs

scientific article (publication date: 15 August 2003)

Climate engineering reconsidered

article

Community structure of corals and reef fishes at multiple scales

scientific article published in August 2005

Community-level density dependence: an example from a shallow coral assemblage

scientific article published in February 2009

Confronting the coral reef crisis

scientific article (publication date: 24 June 2004)

Connectivity, regime shifts and the resilience of coral reefs

Coral Reef Biodiversity and Conservation

scientific article published in Science

Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient

scientific article published on 16 June 2004

Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

scientific article published in March 2006

Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

scientific article published in Nature

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

scientific article

Correlated evolution of sex and reproductive mode in corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2011)

Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Creation of a gilded trap by the high economic value of the Maine lobster fishery.

scientific article

Data set on restoration projects of coastal marine habitats reported worldwide

Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival

scientific article

Do corals lie about their age? Some demographic consequences of partial mortality, fission, and fusion

scientific article published on 01 August 1980

Double jeopardy and global extinction risk in corals and reef fishes.

scientific article

Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes

Ecology. Are U.S. coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime?

scientific article published in March 2005

Ecology. Globalization, roving bandits, and marine resources.

scientific article published in March 2006

Environmental and geometric constraints on Indo-Pacific coral reef biodiversity

article published in 2005

Erratum to: Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

article

Geographic ranges of reef corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the Indo-Pacific

scientific article published in 2013

Geology and ecology of coral reefs

scholarly article by Terry P. Hughes published in March 2000

Global trajectories of the long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems

scientific article

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

scientific article

Global warming impairs stock–recruitment dynamics of corals

article

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Herbivory on coral reefs: community structure following mass mortalities of sea urchins

scientific article published in 1987

Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2001)

Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Linking social and ecological systems to sustain coral reef fisheries.

scientific article

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

scientific article

Local–regional species richness relationships are linear at very small to large scales in west-central Pacific corals

article

Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions

scientific article published in Science

Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs

scientific article published in 2013

Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals

Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs

scientific article published on 16 April 2016

Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries

scientific article

Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

scholarly article

Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources

scientific article

New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems

scientific article published in July 2005

No-take areas, herbivory and coral reef resilience

scientific article

Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef

scientific article published in Nature

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

scientific article published on 8 February 2007

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

article

Political dynamics and governance of World Heritage ecosystems

scientific article

Population Dynamics Based on Individual Size Rather than Age: A General Model with a Reef Coral Example

article

Preface

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

article

Pulse-Driven Loss of Top-Down Control: The Critical-Rate Hypothesis

RECRUITMENT AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF OPEN MARINE POPULATIONS

article

Rebuilding marine life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high-latitude eastern Australia

scientific article published on 31 August 2019

Regional-scale assembly rules and biodiversity of coral reefs

scientific article

Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience

scientific article

Save reefs to rescue all ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Scale-dependent variation in coral community similarity across sites, islands, and island groups

scientific article

Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Shifting base-lines, declining coral cover, and the erosion of reef resilience: comment on Sweatman et al. (2011)

Sleeping Functional Group Drives Coral-Reef Recovery

scientific article (publication date: December 2006)

Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters

scientific article

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

article

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

scientific article

Spatial variance in abundance and occupancy of corals across broad geographic scales

scientific article

Testing species abundance models: a new bootstrap approach applied to Indo-Pacific coral reefs

scientific article published on November 2009

The 2014-17 Global Coral Bleaching Event: The Most Severe and Widespread Coral Reef Destruction

The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance

scientific article

The evolutionary ecology of corals

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales

scientific article

The spatial footprint and patchiness of large‐scale disturbances on coral reefs

scientific article

The wicked problem of China's disappearing coral reefs

scientific article