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People and ecosystems

Understanding of the links between coral reef ecosystems, the goods and services they provide to people, and the wellbeing of human societies.

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Ecosystem dynamics: past, present and future

Examining the multi-scale dynamics of reefs, from population dynamics to macroevolution

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Responding to a changing world

Advancing the fundamental understanding of the key processes underpinning reef resilience.
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From 2005 to 2022, the main node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies was headquartered at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland (Australia)

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Michael Berumen

Michael Berumen

PhD Graduate

James Cook University

After finishing his PhD, Michael returned to his home state of Arkansas and spent two years working on as a postdoc and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the biology department of the University of Arkansas. In 2007, he took a position as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Fish Ecology Lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Recently he joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology where he is helping to get the Red Sea Research Center up and running. His lab is involved in nutritional ecology of corallivorous fishes, movement ecology of adult fishes within and among reefs, seascape connectivity – large-scale movements of large fish (tunas, sharks, etc), larval connectivity, fisheries studies, including life history, population genetics, and connectivity of targeted reef fishes, evolutionary biology and ecology of Red Sea fishes. In 2008, Michael was named a Sir Keith Murdoch Fellow by the American Australian Association to do several months of fieldwork on the Great Barrier Reef.

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12 Oct 2022
DNA reveals the past and future of coral reefs

New DNA techniques are being used to understand how coral reacted to the end of the last ice age in order to better predict how they will cope with current changes to the climate. James Cook Univer
06 Jul 2022
The double burden of climate change

A new study on the effects of climate change in five tropical countries has found fisheries are in more trouble than agriculture, and poor people are in the most danger. Distinguished Profess

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07 Mar
The Centre closed on the 31st December, 2022
14 Sep
Exploring the heat tolerance of a common reef-building coral: variability, symbionts, and life history trade-offs

Abstract: As marine species adapt to climate change, their heat tolerance will likely be under strong selection. Individual variation in heat tolerance and its heritability underpin the potential fo

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