2020
Feingold, J. S., B. Riegl, K. Hendrickson, L. T. Toth, H. Cheng, L. Edwards, and R. B. Aronson. 2020. 7700-year persistence of an isolated, free-living coral assemblage in the Galápagos Islands: a model for coral refugia? Coral Reefs 39:639–647. Get a copy.
Gravinese, P. M., R. B. Aronson and L. T. Toth. 2020. Digging into the geologic record of environmentally driven changes in coral reef development. Oceanography 33:85–91. Get a copy.
Randall, C. J., L. T. Toth, J. J. Leichter, J. L. Maté and R. B. Aronson. 2020. Upwelling buffers climate-change impacts on coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific. Ecology 101:e2918. Get a copy.
Rosen, M. N., K. A. Baran, J. N. Sison, B. V. Steffel, C. Long, R. J. Foy, K. E. Smith, R. B. Aronson and Dickinson, G. H. 2020. Mechanical resistance in decapod claw denticles: contribution of structure and composition. Acta Biomaterialia 110:196–207. Get a copy.
Thatje, S., K. E. Smith, J. B. McClintock and R. B. Aronson. 2020. From deep to shallow seas: Antarctic king crab on the move. Ecology 101:e03125. Get a copy.
Wyatt, A. S. J., J. J. Leichter, L. T. Toth, T. Miyajima, R. B. Aronson and T. Nagata. 2020. Heat accumulation on coral reefs mitigated by internal waves. Nature Geoscience 13:28–34. Get a copy.
Zamora-Duran, M. A., R. B. Aronson, J. J. Leichter, J. A. Flannery, J. N. Richey and L. T. Toth. 2020. Imprint of regional oceanography on Foraminifera of eastern Pacific coral reefs. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 50:279–290. Get a copy.
2019
Aronson, R. B. 2019. Conservation, climate change, and the metaphor of deep time. Pages 114–124 in T. E. Lovejoy and L. Hannah, editors. Biodiversity and climate change. Yale University Press, New Haven. Get a copy.
Hellberg, M. E., R. B. Aronson, K. E. Smith, M. I. Duhon, S. T. Ahyong, G. A. Lovrich, S. Thatje and J. B. McClintock. 2019. Population expansion of an Antarctic king crab? Frontiers of Biogeography 11.3:e43165. Get a copy.
Steffel, B. V., K. E. Smith, G. H. Dickinson, J. A. Flannery, K. A. Baran, M. N. Rosen, J. B. McClintock and R. B. Aronson. 2019. Characterization of the exoskeleton of the Antarctic king crab Paralomis birsteini. Invertebrate Biology 138:e12246. Get a copy.
Toth, L. T. and R. B. Aronson. 2019. The 4.2-ka event, ENSO, and coral-reef development. Climate of the Past 15:105–119. Get a copy.
2018
Bruno, J. F., A. E. Bates, C. Cacciapaglia, E. P. Pike, S. C. Amstrup, R. van Hooidonk, S. A. Henson and R. B. Aronson. 2018. Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas. Nature Climate Change 8:499–503. Get a copy.
Dietl, G. P., J. Nagel-Myers and R. B. Aronson. 2018. Indirect effects of climate change altered the cannibalistic behaviour of shell-drilling gastropods in Antarctica during the Eocene. Royal Society Open Science 5:181446. Dietl et al. RSOS 2018
Ellis, D. S., C. V. Z. Cipro, C. A. Ogletree, K. E. Smith and R. B. Aronson. 2018. A 50-year retrospective of persistent organic pollutants in the fat and eggs of penguins of the Southern Ocean. Environmental Pollution 241:155–163. Get a copy.
Ingels, J., R. B. Aronson and C. R. Smith. 2018. The scientific response to Antarctic ice-shelf loss. Nature Climate Change 8:848–851. Get a copy.
2017
Aronson, R. B. 2017. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna. Pages 183–200 in G. P. Dietl and K. W. Flessa, editors. Conservation paleobiology: science and practice. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Smith, K. E., R. B. Aronson, B. V. Steffel, M. O. Amsler, S. Thatje, H. Singh, J. Anderson, C. J. Brothers, A. Brown, D. S. Ellis, J. N. Havenhand, W. R. James, P.-O. Moksnes, A. W. Randolph, T. Sayre-McCord and J. B. McClintock. 2017. Climate change and the threat of novel marine predators in Antarctica. Ecosphere 8:e02017. Smith et al. Ecosphere 2017.
Smith, K. E., R. B. Aronson, S. Thatje, G. A. Lovrich, M. O. Amsler, B. V. Steffel and J. B. McClintock. 2017. Biology of the king crab Paralomis birsteini on the continental slope off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology 40:2313–2322. Smith et al. Polar Biology 2017.
2016
Amsler, M. O., J. T. Eastman, K. E. Smith, J. B. McClintock, H. Singh, S. Thatje and R. B. Aronson. 2016. Zonation of demersal fishes along the outer shelf and upper slope off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 28:44‒50. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B. and W. F. Precht. 2016. Physical and biological drivers of coral-reef dynamics. Pages 261‒275 in D. K. Hubbard, C. S. Rogers, J. H. Lipps and G. D. Stanley Jr., editors. Coral reefs at the crossroads. Springer, Dordrecht. Get a copy.
Brothers, C. J., K. E. Smith, M. O. Amsler, R. B. Aronson, H. Singh and J. B. McClintock. 2016. Covering behavior of deep-water echinoids off the western Antarctic Peninsula: an antipredatory response to king crabs? Marine Ecology Progress Series 553:155–162. Get a copy.
Lebrato, M., A. J. Andersson, J. B. Reis, R. B. Aronson, M. D. Lamare, W. Koeve, A. Oschlies, M. D. Iglesias-Rodriguez, S. Thatje, M. Amsler, S. C. Vos, D. O. B. Jones, H. A. Ruhl, A. R. Gates and J. B. McClintock. 2016. Benthic marine calcifiers coexist with CaCO3-undersaturated seawater worldwide. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30, 16 pp. doi:10.1002/2015GBC005260. Lebrato et al. Biogeochemical Cycles 2016.
Precht, W. F. and R. B. Aronson. 2016. Stability of reef-coral assemblages in the Quaternary. Pages 155‒174 in D. K. Hubbard, C. S. Rogers, J. H. Lipps and G. D. Stanley Jr., editors. Coral reefs at the crossroads. Springer, Dordrecht. Get a copy.
Toth, L. T., I. G. Macintyre, and R. B. Aronson. 2016. Holocene reef development in the eastern tropical Pacific. Pages 177–201 in P. W. Glynn, D. P. Manzello and I. C. Enochs, editors. Coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific: persistence and loss in a dynamic environment. Springer, Dordrecht. Get a copy.
2015
Amsler, M. O., K. E. Smith, J. B. McClintock, H. Singh, S. Thatje, S. C. Vos, C. J. Brothers, A. Brown, D. Ellis, J. Anderson and R. B. Aronson. 2015. In situ observations of a possible skate nursery off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Fish Biology 86:1867‒1872. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., M. Frederich, R. Price and S. Thatje. 2015. Prospects for the return of shell-crushing crabs to Antarctica. Journal of Biogeography 42:1‒7. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., K. E. Smith, S. C. Vos, J. B. McClintock, M. O. Amsler, P.-O. Moksnes, D. S. Ellis, J. W. Kaeli, H. Singh, J. W. Bailey, J. C. Schiferl, R. van Woesik, M. A. Martin, B. V. Steffel, M. E. Deal, S. M. Lazarus, J. N. Havenhand, R. Swalethorp, S. Kjellerup and S. Thatje. 2015. No barrier to emergence of bathyal king crabs on the Antarctic shelf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 12:12997-13002. Aronson et al. PNAS 2015.
Toth, L. T., R. B. Aronson, H. Cheng and R. L. Edwards. 2015. Holocene variability in the intensity of wind-gap upwelling in the tropical eastern Pacific. Paleoceanography 30:1113‒1131. Toth et al. Paleoceanography 2015.
Toth, L. T., R. B. Aronson, K. M. Cobb, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, P. R. Grothe and H. R. Sayani. 2015. Climatic and biotic thresholds of coral-reef shutdown. Nature Climate Change 5:369‒374. Get a copy.
2014
Aronson, R. B., N. L. Hilbun, T. S. Bianchi, T. R. Filley and B. A. McKee. 2014. Land use, water quality, and the history of coral assemblages in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Marine Ecology Progress Series 504:159‒170. Aronson et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2014.
Bruno, J. B., W. F. Precht, P. S. Vroom and . 2014. Coral reef baselines: how much macroalgae is natural? Marine Pollution Bulletin 80:24‒29.
Precht, W. F., K. J. P. Deslarzes, E. L. Hickerson, G. P. Schmahl, M. F. Nuttall and R. B. Aronson. 2014. Back to the future: the history of acroporid corals at the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico, USA. Marine Geology 349:152‒162. Get a copy.
Toth, L. T., R. van Woesik, T. J. T. Murdoch, S. R. Smith, J. C. Ogden, W. F. Precht and R. B. Aronson. 2014. Do no-take reserves benefit Florida’s corals? 14 years of change and stasis in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Coral Reefs 33:565‒577. Get a copy.
2013
Côté, I. M., W. F. Precht, R. B. Aronson and T. A. Gardner. 2013. Is Jamaica a good model for Caribbean coral reef dynamics? Marine Pollution Bulletin 76:28‒31. Get a copy.
Eastman, J. T., M. O. Amsler, R. B. Aronson, S. Thatje, J. B. McClintock, S. C. Vos, J. W. Kaeli, H. Singh and M. La Mesa. 2013. Photographic survey of benthos provides insights into the Antarctic fish fauna from the Marguerite Bay slope and the Amundsen Sea. Antarctic Science 25:31‒43. Get a copy.
Macintyre, I. G. and R. B. Aronson. 2013. Diving into the past: scuba and the temporal dimension of coral reefs. Pages 13‒21 in M. A. Lang, editor. Research and discoveries: the revolution of science through scuba. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, DC. Macintyre Aronson SI Scuba Symposium 2013.pdf.
2012
Toth, L. T., R. B. Aronson, S. V. Vollmer, J. W. Hobbs, D. H. Urrego, H. Cheng, I. C. Enochs, D. J. Combosch, R. van Woesik and I. G. Macintyre. 2012. ENSO drove 2500-year collapse of eastern Pacific coral reefs. Science 337:81−84. Abstract, Reprint, Full Text. (Please note that the Reprint takes a few moments to load.)
Aronson, R. B., W. F. Precht, I. G. Macintyre and L. T. Toth. 2012. Catastrophe and the life span of coral reefs. Ecology 93:303–313. Aronson et al Ecology 2012.pdf.
Burman, S. G., R. B. Aronson and R. van Woesik. 2012. Biotic homogenization of coral assemblages along the Florida reef tract. Marine Ecology Progress Series 467:89–96. Get a copy.
Moody, R. M. and R. B. Aronson. 2012. Predator-induced defenses in a salt-marsh gastropod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 413:78–86. Get a copy.
2011
Enochs, I. C., L. T. Toth, V. W. Brandtneris, J. C. Afflerback and D. P. Manzello. 2011. Environmental determinants of coral reef cryptofauna: an experimental analysis of coral cover, framework porosity, and flow. Marine Ecology Progress Series 438:105–118. Enochs et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2011.
Aronson, R. B., S. Thatje, J. B. McClintock and K. A. Hughes. 2011. Anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems in Antarctica. The Yearbook in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1223:82–107. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre and W. F. Precht. 2011. Natural and anthropogenic catastrophe on the Belizean Barrier Reef. Pages 125–128 in M. L. D. Palomares and D. Pauly, editors. Too precious to drill: the marine biodiversity of Belize. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(6), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B. 2011. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers on coral reefs. Pages 610–612 in G. Cabioch, P. Davies, T. J. Done, E. Gischler, I. G. Macintyre, R. Wood, C. D. Woodroffe and D. Hopley, editors. Encyclopedia of modern coral reefs: structure, form and process. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Get a copy.
Urrego, D.H., B.A. Niccum, C.F. La Drew, M.R. Silman, M.B. Bush. 2011. Fire and drought as drivers of past treeline changes in the Peruvian Andes. Journal of Quaternary Science 26:28–36. Get a copy.
2010
Precht, W. F., R. B. Aronson, R. M. Moody, L. Kaufman. 2010. Changing Patterns of Microhabitat Utilization by the Threespot Damselfish, Stegastes planifrons, on Caribbean Reefs. PLoS ONE 5: e10835. 10.1371/journal.pone.0010835. Get a copy.
Dudgeon, S.R., R.B. Aronson, J.F. Bruno, W. F. Precht. 2010. Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 413:201–216. Dudgeon et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2010.
2009
Thatje, S. and R. B. Aronson. 2009. No future for the Antarctic Treaty? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:175. Thatje Aronson Frontiers 2009 Antarctic Treaty.pdf.
Aronson, R. B. 2009. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in Paleoecology: Climate change in the Antarctic bottom fauna. The Paleontological Society Papers 15:177-194. Aronson Paleo Society Papers 15 2009.pdf.
Aronson, R. B., R. M. Moody, L. C. Ivany, D. B. Blake, J. E. Werner and A. Glass. 2009. Climate change and trophic response of the Antarctic bottom fauna. PLoS ONE 4(2):e4385. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004385. 6 pp. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre, A. M. Moesinger, W. F. Prech and, M.R. Dardeau. 2009. History of reef coral assemblages on the rhomboid shoals of Belize. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 38:313–321. Aronson et al. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.
Aronson, R. B. 2009. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna. Pages 177–194 in G. P. Dietl and K. W Flessa, editors. Conservation paleobiology: using the past to manage for the future. Paleontological Society Papers 15.
Urrego, D. H., R. B. Aronson, Bush, M. B. 2009. Holocene ITCZ and ENSO-driven climate variability from the Panama isthmus. Eos Trans. AGU 90(52) Fall Meeting Supplement., Abstract PP22B-06.
2008
Ivany, L. C., K. C. Lohmann, F. Hasiuk, D. B. Blake, A. Glass, R. B. Aronson and R. M. Moody. 2008. Eocene climate record of a high southern latitude continental shelf: Seymour Island, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120:659–678. Get a copy.
Carpenter, K.E., M. Abrar, G. Aeby, R.B. Aronson, S. Banks, A. Bruckner, A. Chiriboga, J. Cortés, J.C. Delbeek, L. DeVantier, G.J. Edgar, A.J. Edwards, D. Fenner, H.M. Guzmán, B.W. Hoeksema, G. Hodgson, O. Johan, W.Y. Licuanan, S.R. Livingstone, E. R. Lovell, J.A. Moore, D.O. Obura, D. Ochavillo, B.A. Polidoro, W.F. Precht, M.C. Quibilan, C. Reboton, Z.T. Richards, A.D. Rogers, J. Sanciangco, A. Sheppard, C. Sheppard, J. Smith, S. Stuart, E. Turak, J.E.N. Veron, C. Wallace, E. Weil and E. Wood. 2008. One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts. Science 321:560–563. Get a copy.
2007
Aronson, R.B., editor. 2007. Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., S. Thatje, A. Clarke, L. S. Peck, D. B. Blake, C. D. Wilga and B. A. Seibel. 2007. Climate change and invasibility of the Antarctic benthos. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 38:129–154.
Moody, R. M. and R. B. Aronson. 2007. Trophic heterogeneity in salt marshes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 331:49-65. Moody Aronson MEPS 2007.pdf.
2006
Aronson, R. B. and W. F. Precht. 2006. Conservation, precaution, and Caribbean reefs. Coral Reefs 25:441-450. Get a copy.
Macintyre, I. G. and R. B. Aronson. 2006. Lithified and unlithified Mg-calcite precipitates in tropical reef environments. Journal of Sedimentary Research 76:81-9. Get a copy.
Precht, W. F. and R. B. Aronson. 2006. Death and resurrection of Caribbean coral reefs: a paleoecological perspective. Pp. 40-77, In: I. Côté and J. Reynolds (Eds.), Coral Reef Conservation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
2005
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre, S. A. Lewis and N. L. Hilbun. 2005. Emergent zonation and geographic convergence of coral reefs. Ecology 86:2586-2600. Aronson et al Ecology 2005.pdf.
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre and W. F. Precht. 2005. Event preservation in lagoonal reef systems. Geology 33:717-720. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., W. F. Precht, T. J. T. Murdoch and M. L. Robbart. 2005. Long-term persistence of coral assemblages on the Flower Garden Banks, northwestern Gulf of Mexico: implications for science and management. Gulf of Mexico Science 23:84-94. Aronson et al GOMS 2005.pdf.
2004
Precht, W. F. and R. B. Aronson. 2004. Climate flickers and range shifts of reef corals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:307-314. Precht and Aronson Frontiers 2004.pdf.
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre, C. M. Wapnick and M. W. O'Neill. 2004. Phase shifts, alternative states, and the unprecedented convergence of two reef systems. Ecology 85:1876-1891. Aronson et al Ecology 2004.pdf.
Wapnick, C. M., W. F. Precht and R. B. Aronson. 2004. Millennial-scale dynamics of staghorn coral at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Ecology Letters 7:354-361. Wapnick et al 2004 EcoLett.pdf.
2002
Aronson, R. B., I. G. Macintyre, W. F. Precht, T. J. T. Murdoch and C. M. Wapnick. 2002. The expanding scale of species turnover events on coral reefs in Belize. Ecological Monographs 72:233-249. Aronson Ecol Monogr 2002.pdf.
Aronson, R. B., W. F. Precht, M. A. Toscano and K. H. Koltes. 2002. The 1998 bleaching event and its aftermath on a coral reef in Belize. Marine Biology 141:435-447. Get a copy.
2001
Aronson, R. B. and W. F. Precht. 2001. White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs. Hydrobiologia 460:25-38. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., K. L. Heck Jr. and J. F. Valentine. 2001. Measuring predation with tethering experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 214:311-312. Aronson et al 2002 Measuringpredation MEPS.pdf.
2000
Aronson, R. B., W. F. Precht, I. G. Macintyre and T. J. T. Murdoch. 2000. Coral bleach-out in Belize. Nature 405:36. Aronson et al Nature 2000.pdf.
Aronson, R. B. and W. F. Precht. 2000. Herbivory and algal dynamics on the coral reef at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Limnology and Oceanography 45:251-255. Get a copy.
1999
Murdoch, T. J. T. and R. B. Aronson. 1999. Scale-dependent spatial variability of coral assemblages along the Florida Reef Tract. Coral Reefs 18:341-351. Get a copy.
1998
Aronson, R. B. and R. E. Plotnick. 1998. Scale-independent interpretations of macroevolutionary dynamics. Pages 430-450 in M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake, eds. Biodiversity dynamics: turnover of populations, taxa and communities. Columbia University Press, New York. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B., W. F. Precht and I. G. Macintyre. 1998. Succession and species replacement on a Holocene reef in the Belizean shelf lagoon. Coral Reefs 17:223-230. Get a copy.
Richardson, L. L., W. M. Goldberg, K. G. Kuta, R. B. Aronson, G. W. Smith, K. B. Ritchie, J. C. Halas, J. S. Feingold and S. L. Miller. 1998. Florida's mystery coral killer identified. Nature 392:557-558. Richardson et al. 1998.pdf.
1997
Aronson, R. B., D. B. Blake and T. Oji. 1997. Retrograde community structure in the late Eocene of Antarctica. Geology 15:903-906. Get a copy.
Aronson, R. B. and W. F. Precht. 1997. Stasis, biological disturbance, and community structure of a Holocene coral reef. Paleobiology 23:326-346. Get a copy.
1994
Aronson, R. B., P. J. Edmunds, W. F. Precht, D. W. Swanson and D. R. Levitan. 1994. Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: simple, quick, inexpensive techniques. Atoll Research Bulletin 421:1-19. Aronson et al Atoll Res Bull 1994.pdf.