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Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching by Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Brown, Christopher J., Ceccarelli, Daniela M., Edgar, Graham J.

“…Global warming is markedly changing diverse coral reef ecosystems through an increasing frequency and magnitude of mass bleaching events 1 – 3 . How local…”
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Trait similarity in reef fish faunas across the world’s oceans by McLean, Matthew, Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Villéger, Sébastien, Auber, Arnaud, Edgar, Graham J., MacNeil, M. Aaron, Loiseau, Nicolas, Leprieur, Fabien, Mouillot, David

“…Species’ traits, rather than taxonomic identities, determine community assembly and ecosystem functioning, yet biogeographic patterns have been far less…”
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Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change by Duffy, J. Emmett, Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Navarrete, Sergio A., Edgar, Graham J.

“…Fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates, play key functional roles in aquatic ecosystems, and provide protein for a billion people, especially in the…”
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Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection? by Devillers, Rodolphe, Pressey, Robert L, Grech, Alana, Kittinger, John N, Edgar, Graham J, Ward, Trevor, Watson, Reg

“…As systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) expand globally, there is a risk that new MPAs will be biased toward places that are remote or unpromising for…”
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A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme by Althaus, Franziska, Hill, Nicole, Ferrari, Renata, Edwards, Luke, Przeslawski, Rachel, Schönberg, Christine H L, Stuart-Smith, Rick, Barrett, Neville, Edgar, Graham, Colquhoun, Jamie, Tran, Maggie, Jordan, Alan, Rees, Tony, Gowlett-Holmes, Karen

“…Imagery collected by still and video cameras is an increasingly important tool for minimal impact, repeatable observations in the marine environment. Data…”
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Refining Mark Burgin’s Case against the Church–Turing Thesis by Daylight, Edgar Graham

“…The outputs of a Turing machine are not revealed for inputs on which the machine fails to halt. Why is an observer not allowed to see the generated output…”
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Changes in sea floor productivity are crucial to understanding the impact of climate change in temperate coastal ecosystems according to a new size-based model by Audzijonyte, Asta, Delius, Gustav W, Stuart-Smith, Rick D, Novaglio, Camilla, Edgar, Graham J, Barrett, Neville S, Blanchard, Julia L

“…The multifaceted effects of climate change on physical and biogeochemical processes are rapidly altering marine ecosystems but often are considered in…”
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Delineating reef fish trophic guilds with global gut content data synthesis and phylogeny by Parravicini, Valeriano, Casey, Jordan M, Schiettekatte, Nina M D, Brandl, Simon J, Pozas-Schacre, Chloé, Carlot, Jérémy, Edgar, Graham J, Graham, Nicholas A J, Harmelin-Vivien, Mireille, Kulbicki, Michel, Strona, Giovanni, Stuart-Smith, Rick D

“…Understanding species' roles in food webs requires an accurate assessment of their trophic niche. However, it is challenging to delineate potential trophic…”
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Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets by Bird, Tomas J., Bates, Amanda E., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Hill, Nicole A., Thomson, Russell J., Edgar, Graham J., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Wotherspoon, Simon, Krkosek, Martin, Stuart-Smith, Jemina F., Pecl, Gretta T., Barrett, Neville, Frusher, Stewart

“…•Citizen-scientist (CS) datasets offer unique opportunities and challenges to the study of global conservation priorities.•Fortunately, issues of error and…”
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Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean‐warming hotspot by Sunday, Jennifer M, Pecl, Gretta T, Frusher, Stewart, Hobday, Alistair J, Hill, Nicole, Holbrook, Neil J, Edgar, Graham J, Stuart‐Smith, Rick, Barrett, Neville, Wernberg, Thomas, Watson, Reg A, Smale, Dan A, Fulton, Elizabeth A, Slawinski, Dirk, Feng, Ming, Radford, Ben T, Thompson, Peter A, Bates, Amanda E, Worm, Boris

“…Species' ranges are shifting globally in response to climate warming, with substantial variability among taxa, even within regions. Relationships between range…”
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Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients by Burrows, Michael T., Bates, Amanda E., Costello, Mark J., Edwards, Martin, Edgar, Graham J., Fox, Clive J., Halpern, Benjamin S., Hiddink, Jan G., Pinsky, Malin L., Batt, Ryan D., García Molinos, Jorge, Payne, Benjamin L., Schoeman, David S., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Poloczanska, Elvira S.

“…As ocean temperatures rise, species distributions are tracking towards historically cooler regions in line with their thermal affinity 1 , 2 . However,…”
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Thermal biases and vulnerability to warming in the world’s marine fauna by Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Edgar, Graham J., Barrett, Neville S., Kininmonth, Stuart J., Bates, Amanda E.

“…A critical assumption underlying projections of biodiversity change associated with global warming is that ecological communities comprise balanced mixes of…”
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Global patterns in the impact of marine herbivores on benthic primary producers by Poore, Alistair G. B., Campbell, Alexandra H., Coleman, Ross A., Edgar, Graham J., Jormalainen, Veijo, Reynolds, Pamela L., Sotka, Erik E., Stachowicz, John J., Taylor, Richard B., Vanderklift, Mathew A., Emmett Duffy, J.

“…Despite the importance of consumers in structuring communities, and the widespread assumption that consumption is strongest at low latitudes, empirical tests…”
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Oyster Reefs at Risk and Recommendations for Conservation, Restoration, and Management by Beck, Michael W, Brumbaugh, Robert D, Airoldi, Laura, Carranza, Alvar, Coen, Loren D, Crawford, Christine, Defeo, Omar, Edgar, Graham J, Hancock, Boze, Kay, Matthew C, Lenihan, Hunter S, Luckenbach, Mark W, Toropova, Caitlyn L, Zhang, Guofan, Guo, Ximing

“…Native oyster reefs once dominated many estuaries, ecologically and economically. Centuries of resource extraction exacerbated by coastal degradation have…”
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Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity by Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Bates, Amanda E., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baker, Susan C., Thomson, Russell J., Stuart-Smith, Jemina F., Hill, Nicole A., Kininmonth, Stuart J., Airoldi, Laura, Becerro, Mikel A., Campbell, Stuart J., Dawson, Terence P., Navarrete, Sergio A., Soler, German A., Strain, Elisabeth M. A., Willis, Trevor J., Edgar, Graham J.

“…Global reef fish diversity is studied with metrics incorporating species abundances and functional traits; these identify diversity hotspots corresponding to…”
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Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program by Edgar, Graham J, Stuart-Smith, Rick D

“…The assessment of patterns in macroecology, including those most relevant to global biodiversity conservation, has been hampered by a lack of quantitative data…”
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Marine protected areas need accountability not wasted dollars by Edgar, Graham J.

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Maximizing regional biodiversity requires a mosaic of protection levels by Loiseau, Nicolas, Thuiller, Wilfried, Stuart-Smith, Rick D, Devictor, Vincent, Edgar, Graham J, Velez, Laure, Cinner, Joshua E, Graham, Nicholas A J, Renaud, Julien, Hoey, Andrew S, Manel, Stephanie, Mouillot, David

“…Protected areas are the flagship management tools to secure biodiversity from anthropogenic impacts. However, the extent to which adjacent areas with distinct…”
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Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features by Edgar, Graham J., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Willis, Trevor J., Kininmonth, Stuart, Baker, Susan C., Banks, Stuart, Barrett, Neville S., Becerro, Mikel A., Bernard, Anthony T. F., Berkhout, Just, Buxton, Colin D., Campbell, Stuart J., Cooper, Antonia T., Davey, Marlene, Edgar, Sophie C., Försterra, Günter, Galván, David E., Irigoyen, Alejo J., Kushner, David J., Moura, Rodrigo, Parnell, P. Ed, Shears, Nick T., Soler, German, Strain, Elisabeth M. A., Thomson, Russell J.

“…Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an important and increasing component of marine conservation strategy, but their effectiveness is variable and debated; now a…”
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Coral responses to a catastrophic marine heatwave are decoupled from changes in total coral cover at a continental scale by Mellin, Camille, Stuart-Smith, Rick D, Heather, Freddie, Oh, Elizabeth, Turak, Emre, Edgar, Graham J

“…The services provided by the world's coral reefs are threatened by increasingly frequent and severe marine heatwaves. Heatwave-induced degradation of reefs has…”
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