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Andrew C. Baker
Researcher at University of Miami
Publications - 112
Citations - 10202
Andrew C. Baker is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coral & Coral reef. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 110 publications receiving 8829 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew C. Baker include Wildlife Conservation Society & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook
TL;DR: The short- and long-term ecological impacts of coral bleaching on reef ecosystems are reviewed, and recovery data worldwide is quantitatively synthesized to maintain ecosystem resilience by restoring healthy levels of herbivory, macroalgal cover, and coral recruitment.
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Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium
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TL;DR: Unusual symbionts normally found only in larval stages, marginal environments, uncommon host taxa, or at latitudinal extremes may prove critical in understanding the long-term resilience of coral reef ecosystems to environmental perturbation.
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Coral reefs: corals' adaptive response to climate change
TL;DR: Corals containing unusual algal symbionts that are thermally tolerant and commonly associated with high-temperature environments are much more abundant on reefs that have been severely affected by recent climate change, indicating that these devastated reefs could be more resistant to future thermal stress.
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Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching.
TL;DR: It is found that the ecologically dominant Caribbean corals Montastraea annularis and M. faveolata can act as hosts to dynamic, multi-species communities of Symbiodinium, implying that physiological acclimatization is not the only mechanism by which corals cope with environmental heterogeneity.
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Coral bleaching and mortality in Panama and Ecuador during the 1997-1998 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event : Spatial/temporal patterns and comparisons with the 1982-1983 event
TL;DR: Overall, the very strong 1997-98 and 1982-83 ENSOs were similar in magnitude and duration, but varied spatially, resulting in different patterns of elevated sea temperature stress and coral responses during the two disturbance events.