Publications
A comparison of diver vs. acoustic methodologies for surveying fishes in a shallow water coral reef ecosystem. Fisheries Research. 189:62–66.
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2017. Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales. Nature communications. 7 zaneveld_et_al_natcomms_2016.pdf (1.69 MB)
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2016. Isolation of an antifreeze peptide from the Antarctic sponge Homaxinella balfourensis. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS. 59:2210–2215.
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2002. Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna-grassland. Ecology.
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2020. Bacterial predation in a marine host-associated microbiome. The ISME journal. 10:1540-1544. welsh_et_al_ismej_2016.pdf (1.33 MB)
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2016. Corals and their microbiomes are differentially affected by exposure to elevated nutrients and a natural thermal anomaly. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5:101.
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2018. Macroalgae decrease growth and alter microbial community structure of the reef-building coral, Porites astreoides. Plos One. 7:e44246.
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2012. Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching. Global change biology. 20:544–554. vega_thurber_et_al_gcb_2014.pdf (502.69 KB)
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2014. A global analysis of coral bleaching over the past two decades. Nature communications. 10:1–5.
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2019. Nitrate enrichment has lineage specific effects on Pocillopora acuta adults, but no transgenerational effects in planulae. Coral Reefs. 41:303–317.
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2022. Size-dependent mortality of corals during marine heatwave erodes recovery capacity of a coral reef. Global Change Biology. 28:1342–1358.
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2022. Sediment associated with algal turfs inhibits the settlement of two endangered coral species. Marine pollution bulletin. 144:189–195.
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2019. Shared Drivers but Divergent Ecological Responses: Insights from Long-Term Experiments in Mesic Savanna Grasslands. BioScience. 66:666–682. smith_et_al_bioscience_2016.pdf (1.6 MB)
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2016. Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching. Nature Ecology & Evolution. :1.
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2018. Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the success and microbiome of a foundational coral. Ecology. 98:830–839.
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2017. Fish-derived nutrient hotspots shape coral reef benthic communities. Ecological Applications. 25:2142–2152. shantz_et_al_eco_apps_2015.pdf (472.55 KB)
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2015. Context-dependent effects of nutrient loading on the coral-algal mutualism. Ecology. 95:1995–2005. shantz_and_burkepile_ecology_2014.pdf (191.58 KB)
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2014. Positive interactions between corals and damselfish increase coral resistance to temperature stress. Global Change Biology. 29:417–431.
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2023. Overfishing and the ecological impacts of extirpating large parrotfish from Caribbean coral reefs. Ecological Monographs.
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2020. Nutrient loading alters the performance of key nutrient exchange mutualisms. Ecology letters. 19:20–28. shantz_et_al_ecology_letters_2016.pdf (431.44 KB)
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2016. Saturation Diving and Underwater Laboratories: How Underwater Technology Has Aided Research on Coral Biology and Reef Ecology. Research and Discoveries. :39.
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2013. Intestinal microbes: an axis of functional diversity among large marine consumers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287:20192367.
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2020. Integrating herbivore assemblages and woody plant cover in an African savanna to reveal how herbivores respond to ecosystem management. Plos one. 17:e0273917.
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2022. Nutrient limitation, bioenergetics, and stoichiometry: a new model to predict elemental fluxes mediated by fishes. Functional Ecology.
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2020. Biological trade-offs underpin coral reef ecosystem functioning. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6:701–708.
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