OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Coral Reefs is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the ability of coral reefs to protect shorelines in the Republic of Kiribati	52
Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral	42
Natural products from Caribbean octocorals demonstrate bioactivity against Vibrio coralliilyticus strains	33
A user’s guide to coral reef restoration terminologies	30
Distinct lineages and population genomic structure of the coral Pachyseris speciosa in the small equatorial reef system of Singapore	30
The role of parapodia and lack of photoacclimation in kleptoplasts of the sacoglossan sea slug Plakobranchus ocellatus	25
Long-term physiological responses to combined ocean acidification and warming show energetic trade-offs in an asterinid starfish	25
Onset of zooplanktivory and optimal water flow rates for prey capture in newly settled polyps of ten Caribbean coral species	24
Early successional trajectory of benthic community in an uninhabited reef system three years after mass coral bleaching	24
Priority coral conservation areas under global warming in the Amami Islands, Southern Japan	23
Editorial Expression of Concern: Predation risk assessment by larval reef fishes during settlement-site selection	22
Morphological organization and ultrastructural evaluation of the oocyte–sperm bundle of the Southwestern Atlantic coral Mussismilia harttii	22
Effects of social organization on the feeding of the striped parrotfish, Scarus iseri	21
Year-round variations in reserve lipid molecular species of the Indo-Pacific corals Sinularia flexibilis and Millepora platyphylla	21
Polyp dropout in a solitary cold-water coral	20
Prevalence and extent of coral diseases in shallow and mesophotic reefs of the Southwestern Atlantic	20
Conservation of coral reef fishes: a field-hardy method to cryopreserve spermatogonial cells	20
Physiological seasonality in the symbiont and host of the northern star coral, Astrangia poculata	19
Colour pattern has no influence on the visual recognition of conspecifics by coral reef fish juveniles	19
Different times, similar mechanism? Convergent patterns in light-induced phenotypic plasticity in Devonian and modern corals	19
Interactions between invaders: facilitation of boring bivalves leads to reduced adhesive strength of sun corals	19
Did the historic overharvesting of sea cucumbers make coral more susceptible to pathogens?	17
A metagenomic-based study of two sites from the Barbadian reef system	17
Using coral holes to explore the historical ecology of Guam’s coral reefs	17
Depth stratified light trap sampling reveals variation in the depth distribution of late-stage cryptobenthic reef fish larvae	16

Microbial diversity of sub-bottom sediment cores from a tropical reef system	16
Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga	15
Jeju Island: a sentinel for tracking ocean warming impacts on high-latitude benthic communities	15
Feces consumption by nominally herbivorous fishes in the Caribbean: an underappreciated source of nutrients?	15
Telomere dynamics in the Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris): effect of age, diet, and tissue type	15
Latitudinal variation in growth and survival of juvenile corals in the West and South Pacific	14
Impacts of ocean warming on the settlement success and post-settlement survival of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris)	14
Comparative analysis of the skin microbiota between two sea snakes, Hydrophis cyanocinctus and Hydrophis curtus, with versus without skin ulcer	14
Host-specific epibiomes of distinct Acropora cervicornis genotypes persist after field transplantation	14
Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits	14
Biotic resistance on coral reefs? Direct and indirect effects of native predators and competitors on invasive lionfish	14
Growth responses of mixotrophic giant clams on nearshore turbid coral reefs	13
Wave exposure and temperature drive coral community structure at regional scale in the Cuban archipelago	13
Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front	13
Demographic recovery of corals at a wave-exposed reef following catastrophic disturbance	13
Molecular detection and microbiome differentiation of two cryptic lineages of giant barrel sponges from Conch Reef, Florida Keys	13
Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium	13
Remote video surveys unveil the diurnal variability of trophic-based processes by fishes on coral reefs	13
Microbial characterization of the first occurrence of White Plague disease in the endemic brain coral Mussismilia hispida at Alcatrazes Archipelago, Brazil	12
The giant clam Tridacna squamosa quickly regenerates iridocytes and restores symbiont quantity and phototrophic potential to above-control levels in the outer mantle after darkness-induced bleaching	12
Anemone bleaching impacts the larval recruitment success of an anemone-associated fish	12
The reef building coral Stylophora pistillata uses stored carbohydrates to maintain ATP levels under thermal stress	12
Antarctic deep-sea coral larvae may be resistant to end-century ocean warming	12
Depth distribution and depth adaptation of microbiomes in juvenile and adult scleractinian corals (Pocillopora verrucosa) in the central South China Sea	12
High herbivory despite high sediment loads on a fringing coral reef	12
Insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the different heat tolerance of the scleractinian coral Pavona decussata	11
Changes in aerobic metabolism associated with the settlement transition for the leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus)	11
The lunar cycle does not influence catch rates or foraging success of neonatal reef sharks in an amphidromic nursery system	11
Unraveling the influence of environmental variability and cryptic benthic assemblages on reef-scale primary production and calcification	11
Diverse and ecologically unique mesophotic coral ecosystems in the central Indian Ocean	11
Effect of species, provenance, and coral physiology on the composition of Hawaiian coral-associated microbial communities	11
Combination of hermaphroditic and gonochoric sexual modes in the coral Porites cylindrica	11
Symbiodiniaceae diversity in Pocillopora corals in different environments of the Colombian Eastern Pacific: symbiont specificity in spite of coral-host flexibility	11
Spatial distribution, management zoning and depth effects on reef biodiversity and productivity at the largest Brazilian coastal marine protected area	11
DNA metabarcoding confirms primary targets and breadth of diet for coral reef butterflyfishes	11
Cryptofaunal communities are influenced by benthic cover and fish abundance in a large Caribbean coral reef system	11
Significance of fish–sponge interactions in coral reef ecosystems	11
High-resolution in situ thermal metrics coupled with acute heat stress experiments reveal differential coral bleaching susceptibility	10
Deducing photosymbiosis in extinct heliolitid corals	10
Coral–algal competition: allelopathy, temporal variance, and effects on coral microbiomes	10
Pre-exposure to a variable temperature treatment improves the response of Acropora cervicornis to acute thermal stress	10
Juvenile age and available coral species modulate transition probability from herbivory to corallivory in Acanthaster cf. solaris (Crown-of-Thorns Seastar)	10
How does warmer sea water change the sensitivity of a Mediterranean thermophilic coral after immune-stimulation?	10
Spatial and temporal patterns in the coral assemblage at Clipperton Atoll: a sentinel reef in the Eastern Tropical Pacific	10
Re(de)fining degree-heating week: coral bleaching variability necessitates regional and temporal optimization of global forecast model stress metrics	10
The mass coral bleaching event of inshore corals form South China Sea witnessed in 2020: insight into the causes, process and consequence	10
Physiological responses to short-term sediment exposure in adults of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa and adults and recruits of Porites astreoides	10
Suppressed recovery of functionally important branching Acropora drives coral community composition changes following mass bleaching in Indonesia	10
Short-term stress testing predicts subsequent natural bleaching variation	10
Low light intensity increased survival of coral spat in aquaculture	9

The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?	9
Impacts of nursery-based propagation and out-planting on coral-associated bacterial communities	9
Correction to: Latitudinal variation in monthly-scale reproductive synchrony among Acropora coral assemblages in the Indo-Pacific	9
The Cayman Crown: newly protected coral reefs at the edge of the Cayman Trench	9
A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef	9
Frequent disturbances and chronic pressures constrain stony coral recovery on Florida’s Coral Reef	9
Susceptibility of Acropora tenuis to consecutive thermal stress	9
Correction to: Using commercial high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor a nuisance macroalga in the largest marine protected area in the USA	9
Correction to: Maximal species richness in Conus: diversity, diet and habitat on reefs of northeast Papua New Guinea	9
Correction to: Geomorphological drivers of deeper reef habitats around Seychelles	9
Conservation benefits of no-take marine reserves outweigh modest benefits of partially protected areas for targeted coral reef fishes	9
Natural variability in seawater temperature compromises the metabolic performance of a reef-forming cold-water coral with implications for vulnerability to ongoing global change	9
Mesophotic vs. shallow water reefs: ecosystem connectivity in the Silurian of Gotland	9
Correction to: Using commercial high‑resolution satellite imagery to monitor a nuisance macroalga in the largest marine protected area in the USA	9
Projected ocean acidification and seasonal temperature alter the behaviour and growth of a range extending tropical fish	9
Ocean acidification alters the thermal performance curves of brooded larvae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis	9
2bRAD reveals fine-scale genetic structuring among populations within the Mediterranean zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae (Schmidt, 1862)	8
Variable intraspecific genetic diversity effects impact thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral	8
Heat, human, hydrodynamic, and habitat drivers measured from space correlate with metrics of reef health across the South Pacific	8
Deoxygenation following coral spawning and low-level thermal stress trigger mass coral mortality at Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef	8
Structural attributes and macrofaunal assemblages associated with rose gorgonian gardens (Leptogorgia sp. nov.) in Central Chile: opening the door for conservation actions	8
Variability in composition of parrotfish bite scars across space and over time on a central Pacific atoll	8
Highly repetitive space-use dynamics in parrotfishes	8
Reef complexity influences distribution and habitat choice of the corallivorous seastar Culcita schmideliana in the Maldives	8
Identifying metabolic alterations associated with coral growth anomalies using 1H NMR metabolomics	8
Three-dimensional morphological variation and physical functionality of Caribbean corals	8
Exposure to degraded coral habitat depresses oxygen uptake rate during exercise of a juvenile reef fish	8
Do greater coral cover and morphological diversity increase habitat complexity?	8
Genetic confirmation of Tridacna noae (Röding 1798) in the Cook Islands	8
Anvil use by three wrasse species: Halichoeres hortulanus, Thalassoma jansenii, and Thalassoma lunare	8
Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea	7
The mitochondrial genomes of the reef-dwelling spiny lobsters Panulirus echinatus and Panulirus interruptus with insights into the phylogeny and adaptive evolution of protein-coding genes in the Achel	7
Hybridisation and the evolution of coral reef biodiversity	7
Strong genetic differentiation demarks populations of Favia across biogeographic regions of the Atlantic Ocean	7
An extreme storm decreases reef fish abundance and richness but does not impact spatial heterogeneity	7
Photosynthetically stimulated bioerosion in symbiotic sponges: the role of glycerol and oxygen	7
Salinity, not only temperature, drives tropical fish invasions in the Mediterranean Sea, and surface-only variables explain it better	7
Changes of Tiahura (Moorea Island) reef flat habitats using 67 years of remote sensing observations	7
Styles and rates of mesophotic reef accretion on a Caribbean insular slope	7
Inter- and intraspecific diversity in bacterial communities associated with two crustose coralline algae from the NW Mediterranean Sea	7
Diversification and distribution of gall crabs (Brachyura: Cryptochiridae: Opecarcinus) associated with Agariciidae corals	7
Decadal stability of coral reef benthic communities on Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific, through two bleaching events	7
Extreme low-frequency waves on the Ofu, American Samoa, reef flat	7
Long-term dynamics of hard coral cover across Indonesia	7
Species and spatio-environmental effects on coral endosymbiont communities in Southeast Asia	7
Benthic assemblages are more predictable than fish assemblages at an island scale	7
Reconciling slow linear growth and equivocal competitive ability with rapid spread of peyssonnelid algae in the Caribbean	7
Substratum selection in coral reef sponges and their interactions with other benthic organisms	7
Porites astreoides coral populations demonstrate high clonality and connectivity in southeast Florida	7
High-resolution observations of submarine groundwater discharge reveal the fine spatial and temporal scales of nutrient exposure on a coral reef: Faga'alu, AS	6
Wave exposure shapes reef community composition and recovery trajectories at a remote coral atoll	6
Unprecedented erosion of Mussismilia harttii, a major reef-building species in the Southwestern Atlantic, after the 2019 bleaching event	6
Physiological factors facilitating the persistence of Pocillopora aliciae and Plesiastrea versipora in temperate reefs of south-eastern Australia under ocean warming	6
The enhanced expression of heat stress-related genes in scleractinian coral ‘Porites harrisoni’ during warm episodes as an intrinsic mechanism for adaptation in ‘the Persian Gulf’	6
Seasonal shifts in fatty acids and sterols in sponges, corals, and bivalves, in a southern Gulf of Mexico coral reef under river influence	6
Shifts in marine invertebrate bacterial assemblages associated with tissue necrosis during a heat wave	6
Physiological effects of the lunar cycle on the spawning of a coral reef fish, Abudefduf Vaigiensis: in vivo and in vitro trait	6
Symbiotic dinoflagellates of the giant clam, Tridacna squamosa, express an extracellular alpha carbonic anhydrase associated with the plasma membrane to promote HCO3− dehydration and CO2 uptake during	6
Plasticity of symbiont acquisition in new recruits of the massive coral Platygyra daedalea under ocean warming and acidification	6
Remarkable population structure in the tropical Atlantic lace corals Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766) and Stylaster blatteus (Boschma, 1961)	6
Environmental impact on the mechanical properties of Porites spp. corals	6
Cryopreservation of sperm from the brain coral Diploria labyrinthiformis as a strategy to face the loss of corals in the Caribbean	6
Sterols, free fatty acids, and total fatty acid content in the massive Porites spp. corals cultured under different pCO2 and temperature treatments	6
Promoting larval settlement of coral Pocillopora damicornis by calcium	6
“Hidden” biodiversity: a new amphipod genus dominates epifauna in association with a mesophotic black coral forest	6
Thermal stress response of Antipathella wollastoni (Gray, 1857) from the Canary Islands archipelago	6
Changing dynamics of Great Barrier Reef hard coral cover in the Anthropocene	6
Algal turf negatively affects recruitment of a Caribbean octocoral	6
Long-term retention and density-dependent herbivory from Diadema antillarum following translocation onto a reef restoration site	6