Nancy Knowlton
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Nancy Knowlton's Degrees
- PhD Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Life She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. She was a professor at Yale University, then joined the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Nancy Knowlton's Published Works
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Published Works
- Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification (2007) (5186)
- Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. (2012) (2106)
- Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography. (2007) (1419)
- Sibling species in the sea (1993) (1256)
- Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria (2002) (1096)
- New dates and new rates for divergence across the Isthmus of Panama (1998) (833)
- Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands (2008) (811)
- Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching (1997) (761)
- Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs. (1981) (626)
- Molecular genetic analyses of species boundaries in the sea (2000) (611)
- Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs (2008) (585)
- Formation of the Isthmus of Panama (2016) (547)
- Intraspecific diversity and ecological zonation in coral-algal symbiosis. (1995) (540)
- Thresholds and Multiple Stable States in Coral Reef Community Dynamics (1992) (535)
- Divergence in proteins, mitochondrial DNA, and reproductive compatibility across the isthmus of Panama. (1993) (516)
- The evolution of interspecific mutualisms. (1998) (437)
- Diversity of bacteria associated with the Caribbean coral Montastraea franksi (2001) (436)
- Multispecies Microbial Mutualisms on Coral Reefs: The Host as a Habitat (2003) (416)
- Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands (2008) (414)
- DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity (2015) (394)
- Rebuilding marine life (2020) (378)
- The future of coral reefs (2001) (364)
- Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) (2012) (333)
- GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006) (331)
- Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals (2004) (310)
- Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria) (2008) (308)
- Sibling Species in Montastraea annularis, Coral Bleaching, and the Coral Climate Record (1992) (282)
- Role of Elevated Organic Carbon Levels and Microbial Activity in Coral Mortality (2006) (277)
- Marine Ecosystem-based Management in Practice: Scientific and Governance Challenges (2008) (262)
- Zooxanthellae of the Montastraea annularis Species Complex: Patterns of Distribution of Four Taxa of Symbiodinium on Different Reefs and Across Depths (2001) (248)
- GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN SPECIES BOUNDARIES AMONG MEMBERS OF THE MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS COMPLEX BASED ON MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL MARKERS (2004) (245)
- MECHANISMS OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AMONG SYMPATRIC BROADCAST-SPAWNING CORALS OF THE MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS SPECIES COMPLEX (2004) (237)
- Species Richness on Coral Reefs and the Pursuit of Convergent Global Estimates (2015) (228)
- Multiple “stable” states and the conservation of marine ecosystems (2004) (212)
- Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions (2020) (210)
- Repopulation of Zooxanthellae in the Caribbean Corals Montastraea annularis and M. faveolata following Experimental and Disease-Associated Bleaching (2001) (209)
- Coral Reef Biodiversity (2010) (208)
- Variable investment, the Continuous Prisoner's Dilemma, and the origin of cooperation (1999) (207)
- Mitochondrial pseudogenes are pervasive and often insidious in the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus. (2001) (201)
- A multi-character analysis of the Caribbean coral Montastraea annularis (Ellis and Solander, 1786) and its two sibling species, M. Faveolata (Ellis and Solander, 1786) and M. Franksi (Gregory, 1895) (1994) (198)
- The Diversity of Coral Reefs: What Are We Missing? (2011) (197)
- Case Study of Natural Population Collapse: Post-Hurricane Predation on Jamaican Staghorn Corals (1990) (196)
- Evidence for delayed mortality in hurricane-damaged Jamaican staghorn corals (1981) (188)
- New taxonomy and niche partitioning on coral reefs: jack of all trades or master of some? (1994) (181)
- Specimen collection: an essential tool. (2014) (181)
- Direct evidence for reproductive isolation among the three species of the Montastraea annularis complex in Central America (Panamá and Honduras) (1997) (174)
- Climate change promotes parasitism in a coral symbiosis (2018) (174)
- SEXUAL SELECTION AND DIMORPHISM IN TWO DEMES OF A SYMBIOTIC, PAIR‐BONDING SNAPPING SHRIMP (1980) (165)
- Tropical dead zones and mass mortalities on coral reefs (2017) (165)
- Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) (2014) (144)
- Censusing marine eukaryotic diversity in the twenty-first century (2016) (141)
- Risk‐sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change (2018) (136)
- CRYPTIC AND SIBLING SPECIES AMONG THE DECAPOD CRUSTACEA (1986) (124)
- Metazoan mitochondrial gene sequence reference datasets for taxonomic assignment of environmental samples (2017) (119)
- Male sperm competition avoidance mechanisms: the influence of female interests (1984) (117)
- Random sampling causes the low reproducibility of rare eukaryotic OTUs in Illumina COI metabarcoding (2017) (115)
- Reproductive synchrony, parental investment, and the evolutionary dynamics of sexual selection (1979) (114)
- Evidence for three major clades within the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequence data. (2001) (112)
- Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change (2013) (108)
- GenBank is a reliable resource for 21st century biodiversity research (2019) (108)
- Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs (2011) (105)
- Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (2009) (98)
- Molecular determination of species boundaries in corals: genetic analysis of the Montastraea annularis complex using amplified fragment length polymorphisms and a microsatellite marker. (1999) (98)
- Larvae which fall far short of their potential: highly localized recruitment in an alpheid shrimp with extended larval development (1986) (95)
- Commonness and rarity in the marine biosphere (2014) (95)
- The Marine Indo-West Pacific Break: Contrasting the Resolving Power of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes1 (2002) (91)
- PCR Primers for Metazoan Nuclear 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences (2012) (89)
- Long Distance Dispersal and Connectivity in Amphi-Atlantic Corals at Regional and Basin Scales (2011) (87)
- Patterns of association between Symbiodinium and members of the Montastraea annularis species complex on spatial scales ranging from within colonies to between geographic regions (2006) (85)
- Who Should Pick the Winners of Climate Change? (2017) (80)
- Analysis of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of three members of the Montastraea annularis coral species complex (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) (2005) (78)
- GENETIC, SPATIAL, AND TEMPORAL COMPONENTS OF PRECISE SPAWNING SYNCHRONY IN REEF BUILDING CORALS OF THE MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS SPECIES COMPLEX (2011) (78)
- Implications of isolation and low genetic diversity in peripheral populations of an amphi‐Atlantic coral (2009) (72)
- Long-term reduced spawning in Orbicella coral species due to temperature stress (2014) (71)
- Re-evaluation of the systematics of the endemic corals of Brazil by molecular data (2008) (69)
- Novel Group I Introns Encoding a Putative Homing Endonuclease in the Mitochondrial cox1 Gene of Scleractinian Corals (2007) (67)
- Superorganisms and Holobionts (2013) (66)
- Empty Niches after Extinctions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals (2016) (65)
- Graft rejection in sponges. Genetic structure of accepting and rejecting populations. (1982) (65)
- Two more sibling species of alpheid shrimps associated with the Caribbean sea anemones Bartholomea annulata and Heteractis lucida (1985) (64)
- The Ecology of Coral Reefs (2004) (60)
- The Paradox of Environmental Symbiont Acquisition in Obligate Mutualisms (2017) (58)
- A new, sibling species of snapping shrimp associated with the Caribbean Sea anemone Bartholomea annulata (1983) (57)
- A MULTILOCUS TEST OF SIMULTANEOUS DIVERGENCE ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA USING SNAPPING SHRIMP IN THE GENUS ALPHEUS (2009) (57)
- Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape (2019) (57)
- Productivity links morphology, symbiont specificity and bleaching in the evolution of Caribbean octocoral symbioses (2015) (57)
- Sea urchin recovery from mass mortality: New hope for Caribbean coral reefs? (2001) (57)
- Symbiodinium necroappetens sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): an opportunist ‘zooxanthella’ found in bleached and diseased tissues of Caribbean reef corals (2015) (55)
- Distribution, abundance, and microhabitat characterization of small juvenile corals at Palmyra Atoll (2009) (51)
- Genetic evidence for a protozoan (phylum Apicomplexa) associated with corals of the Montastraea annularis species complex (2002) (49)
- Oceans and Marine Resources in a Changing Climate: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment (2013) (48)
- Species of marine invertebrates: a comparison of the biological and phylogenetic species concepts (1997) (45)
- Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) (2016) (44)
- Coral Reef Biodiversity--Habitat Size Matters (2001) (42)
- The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama (1992) (42)
- MECHANISMS OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AMONG SYMPATRIC BROADCAST‐SPAWNING CORALS OF THE MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS SPECIES COMPLEX (2004) (41)
- The evolution of territory size-some ESS models. (1980) (41)
- An evolutionarily stable strategy approach to indiscriminate spite (1979) (40)
- Cross-shelf investigation of coral reef cryptic benthic organisms reveals diversity patterns of the hidden majority (2018) (40)
- Symmetric fights as a measure of escalation potential in a symbiotic, territorial snapping shrimp (1982) (39)
- A note on the evolution of gamete dimorphism. (1974) (38)
- Ecological speciation in anemone‐associated snapping shrimps (Alpheus armatus species complex) (2013) (37)
- Do large molecular sequence divergences imply an early closure of the Isthmus of Panama? (2015) (33)
- How Good Science and Stories Can Go Hand‐In‐Hand (2013) (33)
- Why Earth Optimism? (2017) (33)
- Deep COI sequencing of standardized benthic samples unveils overlooked diversity of Jordanian coral reefs in the northern Red Sea. (2016) (32)
- Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) (2008) (32)
- Revisiting climate thresholds and ecosystem collapse (2011) (30)
- WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. (2021) (29)
- Discrimination of Species in the Montastrea annularis Complex using Multiple Genetic Loci (1997) (29)
- Three transisthmian snapping shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus ) associated with innkeeper worms (Echiura: Thalassematidae) in Panama (2007) (28)
- Revision of the Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt) species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific (2007) (28)
- PCR Primers for Metazoan Mitochondrial 12S Ribosomal DNA Sequences (2012) (28)
- Doom and gloom won't save the world (2017) (27)
- Caribbean massive corals not recovering from repeated thermal stress events during 2005–2013 (2017) (26)
- Description of cryptic taxa within the Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 and A. hebes Kim and Abele, 1988 species complexes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) (2009) (26)
- Ocean Optimism: Moving Beyond the Obituaries in Marine Conservation. (2020) (25)
- Dietary partitioning promotes the coexistence of planktivorous species on coral reefs (2019) (25)
- Revision of the Alpheus cristulifrons species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Atlantic (2008) (23)
- Differences among Major Taxa in the Extent of Ecological Knowledge across Four Major Ecosystems (2011) (22)
- Outcomes of higher education: Quality relevance and impact (2008) (22)
- Who are the players on coral reefs and does it matter? The importance of coral taxonomy for coral reef management (2001) (21)
- Rebuilding Coral Reefs: A Decadal Grand Challenge (2021) (20)
- The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes. (2014) (19)
- The role of SCUBA diver user fees as a source of sustainable funding for coral reef marine Protected areas (2010) (19)
- Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) (2012) (18)
- Marine dock pilings foster diverse, native cryptobenthic fish assemblages across bioregions (2017) (16)
- Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Organisms (2013) (14)
- Iconic coral reef degraded despite substantial protection (2012) (14)
- Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example (2011) (13)
- Ancient DNA from Coral-Hosted Symbiodinium Reveal a Static Mutualism over the Last 172 Years (2013) (13)
- Revision of the Alpheus cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. vanderbilti Boone, 1930 (2008) (12)
- The Application of a Novel Multispectral Imaging System to the in vivo Study of Fluorescent Compounds in Selected Marine Organisms (2002) (12)
- Revision of the Alpheus websteri Kingsley, 1880 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. arenensis (Chace, 1937) (2008) (12)
- Citizens of the sea : wonderous creatures from the census of marine life (2010) (11)
- Coral Reef Conservation: Coral reef coda: what can we hope for? (2006) (11)
- Coral reefs of the world (vols 1–3) (1989) (9)
- MIDORI2: A collection of quality controlled, preformatted, and regularly updated reference databases for taxonomic assignment of eukaryotic mitochondrial sequences (2022) (8)
- Hyperdiverse Macrofauna Communities Associated with a Common Sponge, Stylissa carteri, Shift across Ecological Gradients in the Central Red Sea (2019) (8)
- Ocean Calamities: Hyped Litany or Legitimate Concern? (2015) (8)
- Visualizing Patterns of Marine Eukaryotic Diversity from Metabarcoding Data Using QIIME. (2016) (8)
- Biobehavioral Aspects of Aggression (1982) (7)
- Trench warfare on the shore: interclonal aggression in sea anemones. (1996) (7)
- Exploring Coral Reefs Using the Tools of Molecular Genetics (2015) (7)
- Coral reefs (2008) (6)
- US-Cuba Scientific Collaboration: Emerging Issues and Opportunities in Marine and Related Environmental Sciences (2012) (6)
- Chadic lexical roots : (a first evaluation of the Marburg Chadic word catalogue) (1981) (5)
- Ocean health and human health. (2004) (5)
- Molecular characterization reveals the complexity of previously overlooked coral-exosymbiont interactions and the implications for coral-guild ecology (2017) (5)
- Earth Optimism—recapturing the positive (2019) (5)
- Chapter 4 Coral Reef Biodiversity (2010) (4)
- Corals and Coral Reefs (2013) (4)
- Effects of low pH on the coral reef cryptic invertebrate communities near CO2 vents in Papua New Guinea (2021) (4)
- The aquatic automated dosing and maintenance system (AADAMS) (2006) (4)
- Reply to Locatelli et al.: Evaluating species-level accuracy of GenBank metazoan sequences will require experts’ effort in each group (2020) (4)
- Base-substitution mutation rate across the nuclear genome of Alpheus snapping shrimp and the timing of isolation by the Isthmus of Panama (2020) (3)
- Ways to mix multiple PCR amplicons into single 454 run for DNA barcoding. (2012) (3)
- Editorial: Gulf of Mexico Reefs: Past, Present and Future (2021) (3)
- Ecology. Coral reef biodiversity--habitat size matters. (2001) (3)
- Earth Optimism: Success Stories in Plant Conservation1 (2017) (3)
- Local management matters for coral reefs (2021) (3)
- #OceanOptimism: Balancing the Narrative About the Future of the Ocean (2022) (2)
- 13 November 1981 , Volume 214 , Number 4522 Hurricane Allen ' s Impact o Jamaican Coral Reel (2005) (2)
- World Atlas of Coral Reefs.ByMark D Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, and, Edmund P Green.Published by the University of California, Berkeley (California), in association with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge (United Kingdom). $45.00. 424 p; ill.; i (2002) (2)
- Correction: PCR Primers for Metazoan Nuclear 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences (2015) (2)
- Title Ancient DNA from coral-hosted symbiodinium reveal a staticmutualism over the last 172 years (2013) (2)
- Book Review:Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection T. R. Birkhead, A. P. Moller (2000) (1)
- Linking photoacclimation responses and microbiome shifts between depth-segregated sibling species of reef corals (2021) (1)
- Book Review:Recent Advances in Sponge Biodiversity Inventory and Documentation Philippe Willenz (1999) (0)
- Base-substitution mutation rate across the nuclear genome of Alpheus snapping shrimp and the timing of isolation by the Isthmus of Panama (2021) (0)
- Life on Planet Ocean : Present , Past and Future (2005) (0)
- Author Correction: Rebuilding marine life (2021) (0)
- The search for ocean solutions (2022) (0)
- Stories of forgiveness in Holocaust literature (2014) (0)
- The Paradox of Environme ntal Symbiont Acquisition in Obligate Mutualisms Highlights (2017) (0)
- Confusion of kingdoms (1992) (0)
- A Multimedia, Project Status Report (1993) (0)
- Empty Niches after Extinc tions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals Highlights (2016) (0)
- Optima for Animals. R. McNeill Alexander (1983) (0)
- Review of Thorson, Gunnar. 1971. Life in the Sea. World University Library, McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, Toronto, 256 pp., numerous illustrations (1972) (0)
- Can We “ Save ” the Ocean ? (2015) (0)
- Book Review:Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology. Jeffrey S. Levinton (1997) (0)
- Beach and Other Ocean-Inspired Books (Reading List) (2012) (0)
- Rebuilding marine life (2020) (0)
- Letting students take over (2006) (0)
- Microbes take center stage on the coral reef (2011) (0)
- Corrigendum: #OceanOptimism: Balancing the narrative about the future of the ocean (2022) (0)
- Genetic evidence for a protozoan (phylum Apicomplexa) associated with corals of the Mivddmm annu/a& species complex (2002) (0)
- Sequences for b-tubulin 2 (2010) (0)
- Genetic diversity and stability of coral-algal symbiosis AWARD PERIOD : 01 AUG 94-31 JUL 95 OBJECTIVE : To characterize ecological differences between different genotypes of symbiotic algae in the corals (1999) (0)
- Climate change promotes parasitism in a coral symbiosis (2018) (0)
- Nancy Knowlton (2011) (0)
- Erratum: Molecular characterization reveals the complexity of previously overlooked coral-exosymbiont interactions and the implications for coral-guild ecology (2017) (0)
- Biogeochemical patterns among invert-microbe symbioses (2014) (0)
- Colloquium The future of coral reefs (2001) (0)
- Cross-shelf investigation of coral reef cryptic benthic organisms reveals diversity patterns of the hidden majority (2018) (0)
- Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape (2020) (0)
- How rats wreak havoc on coral reefs (2018) (0)
- How rats wreak havoc on coral reefs (2018) (0)
- Reply from N. Knowlton and j.B.C. Jackson. (1994) (0)
- The Year of the Reef–Special Issue–Plenaries from the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama (1997) (0)
- Genetic Diversity and Stability of Coral - Algal Symbiosis. (1999) (0)
- Adaptational analysis: the explanation of organic diversity. (1984) (0)
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