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Research in the is motivated by a fundamental desire to understand how human impacts are changing our oceans. We are currently investigating how climate change and other anthropogenic stressors are altering the diversity, structure, and resilience of marine ecosystems.

We focus primarily on tropical coral reefs, and do so using a suite of approaches including statistical models of large observational data sets, field observations and experiments, molecular analyses and bioinformatics, stable isotope analyses, interviews, and meta-analyses. Our research spans across broad temporal and spatial scales, incorporates principles from population, community and ecosystem ecology, conservation science, and fisheries science and is highly collaborative.

We are committed to open science, enhancing equity in science, and outreach to the public and policy-makers. Our overarching goal is to make scientific discoveries that advance understanding of oceanic ecosystems, and inform and inspire effective solutions for their conservation.

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• BIOL 370 Conservation Biology
• BIOL 462 Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Magel, J.M.T., J.H.R. Burns, R.D. Gates and J.K. Baum. 2018. Effects of bleaching-associated mass coral mortality on reef structural complexity across a gradient of local disturbance. Scientific Reports.

Claar, D.C., L. Szostek, J.M. McDevitt-Irwin, J.J. Schanze and J.K. Baum. 2018. Global patterns and impacts of El Niño events on coral reefs: A meta-analysis.  13(2): e0190957; doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190957.

Iacarella, J., E. Adamczyk, D. Bowen, L. Chalifour, A. Eger, W. Heath, S. Helms, M. Hessing-Lewis, B.P.V. Hunt, A. MacInnis, M. O'Connor, C.L.K. Robinson, J. Yakimishyn and J.K. Baum. 2018. Anthropogenic disturbance homogenizes seagrass fish communities. Online early:  1-15 , .

Baum, J.K. and T.G. Martin. 2018. It is time to overcome unconscious bias in ecology.  2: 201.

Hughes, T.P., K.D. Anderson, S.R. Connolly, S.F. Heron, J.T. Kerry, J.M. Lough, A.H. Baird, J.K. Baum, M.L. Berumen, T.C. Bridge, D.C. Claar, C.M. Eakin, J.R. Gilmour, N.A.J. Graham, H. Harrison, J-P.A. Hobbs, A.S. Hoey, M. Hoogenboom, R.J. Lowe, M.T. McCulloch, J.M. Pandolfi, M. Pratchett, V. Schoepf, G. Torda and S.K. Wilson. 2018. Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene.  359(6371): 80-83.

Yeager, L.A., M.C.M. Deith, J.M. McPherson, I.D. William and J.K. Baum. 2017. Scale-dependence of environmental controls on the functional diversity of coral reef fish communities.  26: 1177-1189.

Yeager, L.A., P. Marchand, D.A. Gill, J.K. Baum and J.M. McPherson. 2017. Marine socio-environmental covariates: Queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies.  98(7):1976.

Robinson, J.P.W., I.D. Williams, A.M. Edwards, J. McPherson, L. Yeager, L. Vigliola, R.E. Brainard and J.K. Baum. 2017. Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities.  23(3): 1009-1022.

Robinson, J.P.W. and J.K. Baum. 2016. Trophic roles determine coral reef fish community size structure.  73(4): 496-505.

White, E.R., M.C. Myers, J. Mills Flemming and J.K. Baum. 2015. Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island - an isolated marine protected area.  29(4): 1186-1197.