Publications
Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences. Nature biotechnology. 31:814–821.
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2013. Thermal stress reveals a genotype-specific tradeoff between growth and tissue loss in restored Acropora cervicornis. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 572:129–139.
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2017. Density dependence drives habitat production and survivorship of Acropora cervicornis used for restoration on a Caribbean coral reef. Frontiers in Marine Science. 3
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2016. Harnessing ecological processes to facilitate coral restoration. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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2018. A response to Doropoulos and Babcock. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16:559–560.
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2018. Near-term impacts of coral restoration on target species, coral reef community structure, and ecological processes. Restoration Ecology. 27:1166–1176.
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2019. Newly dominant benthic invertebrates reshape competitive networks on contemporary Caribbean reefs. Coral Reefs. :1–12.
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2019. Corallivory varies with water depth to influence the growth of Acropora hyacinthus, a reef-forming coral. Ecosphere. 12:e03623.
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2021. Few Herbivore Species Consume Dominant Macroalgae on a Caribbean Coral Reef. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7:676.
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2020. Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology. 95:808–816. koerner_etal_2014_ecology.pdf (4.55 MB)
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2014. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. :1.
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2018. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology.
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2012. Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov. The ISME journal. 13:2938–2953.
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2019. Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25:793–804. kirkman_et_al_j_veg_sci_2014.pdf (446.27 KB)
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2014. Mutualisms and aquatic community structure: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. :175–197.
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2004. Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function. Functional Ecology. 33:1597–1610.
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2019. Surgeonfish feces increase microbial opportunism in reef-building corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 631:81–97.
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2019. Parrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals. Animal Microbiome. 2:5.
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2020. Thermal Stress Interacts With Surgeonfish Feces to Increase Coral Susceptibility to Dysbiosis and Reduce Tissue Regeneration. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12:620458.
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2021. Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia. 175:293–303. eby_et_al_oecologia_2014.pdf (428.54 KB)
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2014. Seasonal regulation of herbivory and nutrient effects on macroalgal recruitment and succession in a Florida coral reef. PeerJ. 4:e2643.
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2016. Fishing, pollution, climate change, and the long-term decline of coral reefs off Havana, Cuba. Bulletin of Marine Science.
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2018. Interactive effects of herbivory and substrate orientation on algal community dynamics on a coral reef. Marine biology. 165:156.
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2018. Feeding behavior in Caribbean surgeonfishes varies across fish size, algal abundance, and habitat characteristics. Marine Ecology. 40:e12561.
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2019. Nutrient pollution and predation differentially affect innate immune pathways in the coral Porites porites. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7:742.
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