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Terry Hughes 's Degrees

Bachelors Biology National University of Ireland
Masters Marine Biology National University of Ireland
PhD Marine Biology National University of Ireland

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According to Wikipedia, Terence P. Hughes is a professor of marine biology at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. He is known for research on the global coral bleaching event caused by climate change. Nature dubbed him "Reef sentinel" in 2016 for the global role he plays in applying multi-disciplinary science to securing reef sustainability. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. His research interests encompass coral reef ecology, macroecology and evolution, as well as social-ecological interactions. His recent work has focused on marine ecology, macroecology, climate change, identifying safe planetary boundaries for human development, and on transformative governance of the sea in Australia, Chile, China, the Galapagos Islands, Gulf of Maine and the Coral Triangle. His career citations in Google Scholar exceed 88,000.

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Terry Hughes 's Published Works

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A safe operating space for humanity (2009) (9107)
Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems (2001) (6344)
Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity (2009) (4616)
Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs (2003) (3760)
Confronting the coral reef crisis (2004) (3100)
Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef (1994) (2918)
Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters (2005) (2243)
Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals (2017) (1965)
Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems (2003) (1867)
Phase Shifts, Herbivory, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs to Climate Change (2007) (1447)
RECRUITMENT AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF OPEN MARINE POPULATIONS (1996) (1308)
Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems (2006) (1270)
Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene (2018) (1263)
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene (2017) (1139)
New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems. (2005) (1015)
Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience. (2010) (976)
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (2018) (956)
A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment, and disturbance at several scales in space and time (1997) (747)
Multiple stressors on coral reefs: A long ‐term perspective (1999) (696)
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources (2006) (649)
Regional-Scale Assembly Rules and Biodiversity of Coral Reefs (2001) (560)
RECRUITMENT FAILURE, LIFE HISTORIES, AND LONG‐TERM DECLINE OF CARIBBEAN CORALS (2000) (554)
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications (2012) (539)
Population Dynamics and Life Histories of Foliaceous Corals (1985) (519)
Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef: A globally significant demonstration of the benefits of networks of marine reserves (2010) (492)
Are U.S. Coral Reefs on the Slippery Slope to Slime? (2005) (476)
Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources (2010) (463)
GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY AND GENE FLOW IN BROODING AND SPAWNING CORALS ALONG THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA (2000) (456)
Sleeping Functional Group Drives Coral-Reef Recovery (2006) (428)
Supply-side ecology works both ways: The link between benthic adults, fecundity, and larval recruits (2000) (419)
Population Dynamics Based on Individual Size Rather than Age: A General Model with a Reef Coral Example (1984) (395)
Rebuilding marine life (2020) (378)
Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef (1999) (370)
Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities (2018) (360)
Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs (2002) (360)
Do Corals Lie About Their Age? Some Demographic Consequences of Partial Mortality, Fission, and Fusion (1980) (346)
Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2008) (341)
Herbivory on coral reefs: community structure following mass mortalities of sea urchins (1987) (336)
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions (2009) (335)
Reproductive Strategies of Modular Organisms: Comparative Studies of Reef‐ Building Corals (1996) (328)
Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries (2009) (322)
Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts. (2013) (294)
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective (2015) (288)
Global warming impairs stock–recruitment dynamics of corals (2019) (287)
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events (2012) (284)
Evolution of local recruitment and its consequences for marine populations (2002) (284)
Community Structure and Diversity of Coral Reefs: The Role of History (1989) (281)
Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries. (2013) (259)
Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs (2012) (248)
Algal blooms on coral reefs: What are the causes? (1999) (237)
Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes (2018) (210)
Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs (2013) (208)
The evolutionary ecology of corals. (1992) (208)
A LONG-TERM STUDY OF COMPETITION AND DIVERSITY OF CORALS (2004) (207)
Recruitment Limitation, Mortality, and Population Regulation in Open Systems: A Case Study (1990) (203)
Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems (2015) (202)
An experimental assessment of survival, re-attachment and fecundity of coral fragments (1999) (196)
INDO‐PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY OF CORAL REEFS: DEVIATIONS FROM A MID‐DOMAIN MODEL (2003) (192)
Population Dynamics Based on Size or Age? A Reef-Coral Analysis (1987) (189)
Environmental and geometric constraints on Indo-Pacific coral reef biodiversity (2005) (184)
Species coexistence, keystone species, and succession: a sensitivity analysis (1994) (178)
Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy (2019) (173)
No-take areas, herbivory and coral reef resilience. (2007) (170)
Increasing thermal stress for tropical coral reefs: 1871–2017 (2018) (161)
Community Structure of Corals and Reef Fishes at Multiple Scales (2005) (161)
Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient (2004) (160)
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance (2019) (160)
Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity (2006) (159)
Call to protect all coral reefs (2013) (154)
Genetic differentiation, reproductive mode, and gene flow in the brooding coral Pocillopora damicornis along the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (1997) (148)
Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals (2017) (147)
Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions (2019) (135)
DETECTING REGIONAL VARIATION USING META-ANALYSIS AND LARGE-SCALE SAMPLING: LATITUDINAL PATTERNS IN RECRUITMENT (2002) (127)
Skeletal density and growth form of corals (1987) (126)
Adaptive strategies of coral reef invertebrates: coral reef environments that are regularly disturbed by storms and by predation often favor the very organisms most susceptible to damage by these processes (1985) (121)
Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities (2020) (118)
The population dynamics of reef fishes (1988) (117)
Large-scale bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef. (2017) (117)
The Wicked Problem of China's Disappearing Coral Reefs (2013) (117)
Pulse-Driven Loss of Top-Down Control: The Critical-Rate Hypothesis (2008) (116)
Program on ecosystem change and society : an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems (2012) (115)
Mass mortality of the echinoid Diadema antillarum Philippi in Jamaica (1985) (115)
Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity (2006) (114)
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas (2007) (113)
Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution (2013) (98)
Calcification, Storm Damage and Population Resilience of Tabular Corals under Climate Change (2012) (91)
Assembly Rules of Reef Corals Are Flexible along a Steep Climatic Gradient (2012) (89)
The Role of History in Community Dynamics: A Modelling Approach (1996) (89)
Biogeographical disparity in the functional diversity and redundancy of corals (2018) (89)
Life histories and population dynamics of early successional corals (1985) (89)
Connectivity, regime shifts and the resilience of coral reefs (2009) (84)
Demographic approaches to community dynamics : A coral reef example (1996) (84)
Correlated evolution of sex and reproductive mode in corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) (2011) (83)
Climate engineering reconsidered (2014) (80)
Securing the future of the Great Barrier Reef (2015) (80)
Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs (2016) (69)
Off-reef transport of coral fragments at Lizard Island, Australia (1999) (68)
New Directions for Understanding the Spatial Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems (2017) (64)
Impacts of climate change on world heritage coral reefs: a first global scientific assessment (2017) (61)
Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene (2020) (59)
DENSITY-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS OF SOFT CORAL AGGREGATIONS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CLONAL GROWTH AND FORM' (1996) (58)
Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes (2016) (55)
Reef 2050 long-term sustainability plan: progress on implementation- review by Great Barrier Reef independent review group (2017) (54)
A decline in bleaching suggests that depth can provide a refuge from global warming in most coral taxa (2018) (53)
Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs (2020) (50)
Double Jeopardy and Global Extinction Risk in Corals and Reef Fishes (2014) (50)
Testing species abundance models: a new bootstrap approach applied to Indo-Pacific coral reefs. (2009) (46)
Save reefs to rescue all ecosystems (2019) (45)
Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high‐latitude eastern Australia (2019) (43)
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival (2021) (42)
Portland Stone: A nomination for "Global Heritage Stone Resource" from the United Kingdom (2013) (42)
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef (2020) (42)
Ecological resilience, climate change, and the Great Barrier Reef (2007) (42)
Scale-dependent variation in coral community similarity across sites, islands, and island groups. (2007) (42)
Impacts of simulated overfishing on the territoriality of coral reef damselfish (2006) (41)
Spatial distribution of juvenile and adult corals around Moorea (French Polynesia): implications for population regulation (2007) (39)
Late Pleistocene interactions of East and West Antarctic Ice-flow Regimes: evidence from the McMurdo Ice Shelf (1996) (38)
Back-to-back coral bleaching events on isolated atolls in the Coral Sea (2018) (38)
A unified model explains commonness and rarity on coral reefs. (2017) (38)
Latitudinal variation in reproductive synchrony in Acropora assemblages: Japan vs. Australia (2009) (37)
Local–regional species richness relationships are linear at very small to large scales in west-central Pacific corals (2008) (36)
Aggregation influences coral species richness at multiple spatial scales. (2007) (35)
Spatial variation in coral recruitment around Lizard Island, Australia (1997) (35)
China's Degraded Environment Enters A New Normal. (2016) (31)
Political dynamics and governance of World Heritage ecosystems (2020) (28)
Community-level density dependence: an example from a shallow coral assemblage. (2009) (27)
Emergent properties in the responses of tropical corals to recurrent climate extremes (2021) (24)
A critique of claims for negative impacts of Marine Protected Areas on fisheries. (2016) (23)
Coral Reef Biodiversity and Conservation (2002) (19)
Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (2012) (18)
Geographic ranges of reef corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the Indo-Pacific (2013) (16)
The spatial footprint and patchiness of large‐scale disturbances on coral reefs (2021) (15)
Author Correction: The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales (2021) (15)
Impacts of climate change on world heritage coral reefs: update to the first global scientific assessment (2018) (14)
Causes of coral reef degradation - Response (2003) (13)
Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene (2020) (11)
Long-term dynamics of coral populations: contrasting reproductive modes (1988) (11)
Cambrian Age Welsh Slate:A Global Heritage Stone Resource from the United Kingdom (2016) (10)
Increasing thermal stress for tropical coral reefs: 1871–2017 (2018) (9)
Spatial variance in abundance and occupancy of corals across broad geographic scales. (2011) (9)
Marine Climate Change in Australia: impacts and adaptation responses: 2009 report card (2009) (8)
Human impact on coral reefs (2008) (7)
Coral reefs and rapid climate change: Impacts, risks and implications for tropical societies (2009) (7)
Chapter 4: Ecological resilience, climate change and the Great Barrier Reef (2007) (6)
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems (2006) (6)
Review of the State Party Report on the State of Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia) (2020) (5)
Confronting the global decline of coral reefs (2009) (5)
Geology and ecology of coral reefs (2000) (5)
Askö in Stanford 2000: commentary by Terry Hughes (2011) (5)
The future of marine governance (2011) (4)
Marine Protected Areas, Marine Spatial Planning, and the Resilience of Marine Ecosystems (2012) (3)
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems (2022) (2)
Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs (2016) (2)
Marine Biodiversity and Resources (2010) (2)
Seascape patterns and dynamics of coral reefs (2009) (2)
Enhancing Species Adaptation to Climate Change (2009) (2)
Two degrees from disaster (2009) (1)
Welsh Slate: A Candidate for Global Heritage Stone Status (2013) (1)
The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales (2021) (1)
Author Correction: Political dynamics and governance of World Heritage ecosystems (2020) (1)
Biogeographic comparisons of coral faunas (2003) (1)
Ecosystems Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal (2012) (1)
Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals:potential influence of plate tectonics, environment, and habitat distribution (2013) (1)
Erratum to: Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs (2016) (1)
Coral Reefs: Progress and change as we approach the 21st Century (1997) (1)
Supplementary material from "Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the great barrier reef" (2020) (0)
Urgent need for improved protection of the Coral Sea (2008) (0)
World at a tipping point (2009) (0)
Author Correction: Rebuilding marine life (2021) (0)
Water quality and climate change : Managing for resilience (2011) (0)
Creación de una Trampa Dorada Debido al Alto Valor Económico de la Pesquería de Langosta en Maine (2011) (0)
Life histories and growth of corals over a depth gradient (1983) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Back-to-back coral bleaching events on isolated atolls in the Coral Sea (2018) (0)
Issue : Is there a global tipping point for planet Earth ? Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (2018) (0)
EDE volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2013) (0)
TREE 2033 No . of Pages 3 Science & Society China ' s Degraded Environment Enters A New Normal [ 2 _ TD $ DIFF ] (2015) (0)
New Directions for Understanding the Spatial Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems (2016) (0)
Global warming impairs stock–recruitment dynamics of corals (2019) (0)
Erratum to: Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs (2016) (0)
Scientific Opportunities in the Red Sea: Building Research Strength - Global Networks (2011) (0)
Geographic range extents for Indo-Pacific scleractinian coral species (2013) (0)
The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus (2022) (0)
A LONG-TERM STUDY OF COMPEllllON AND DIVERSITY OF CORALS (2004) (0)
Code and Data for: Emergent properties in the responses of tropical corals to recurrent climate extremes (2021) (0)
Emissions Reduction Targets and the Great Barrier Reef (2009) (0)
Supplementary material from "Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs" (2019) (0)
Biogeography, climate change and evolution of corals reefs (2006) (0)
Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Nomination: a comparative analysis with similar properties (2008) (0)
Local and regional patterns in the community structure of corals (2000) (0)
Rebuilding marine life (2020) (0)
Author Correction: The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales (2021) (0)
Reply to: Conclusions of low extinction risk for most species of reef-building corals are premature (2022) (0)

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