2023
Managing herbivores for reef resilience
Donovan MK, Counsell CWW, Donahue MJ, Lecky J, Gajdzik L, Marcoux S, Sparks S, Teague C. Proceedings of the Royal Society – Biology 290:20232101
Complex drivers of invasive macroalgae boom and bust in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i
Winston M, Fuller K, Neilson BJ, Donovan MK. Marine Pollution Bulletin 197: 115744
Coral reefs benefit from reduced land-sea impacts under ocean warming
Gove JM, Williams GJ, Lecky J, Brown E, Conklin E, Counsell C, Davis G, Donovan MK, Falinski K, Kramer L, Kozar K, Li N, Maynard JA, McCutcheon A, McKenna SA, Neilson BJ, Safaie A, Teague C, Whittier B, Asner A. Nature 621: 536–542
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology
Frazier A, Kedron P, Donovan MK. Landscape Ecology 38: 613-617
2022
Integrating herbivore assemblages and woody plant cover in an African savanna to reveal how herbivores respond to ecosystem management
Schmitt MH, Stears K, Donovan MK, Burkepile DE, Thompson DI. PLoS One 17(8): e0273917
Coral taxonomy and local stressors drive bleaching prevalence across the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2019
Winston W, Oliver T, Couch C, Donovan MK, Asner GP, Conklin E, Fuller L, Grady BW, Huntington B, Kageyama K, Kindinger TL, Kozar K, Kramer L, Martinez T, McCutcheon A, McKenna S, Rodgers K, Shayler CK, Vargas-Angel B, Zgliczynski B. PLoS One 17(9): e0269068
From polyps to pixels: understanding coral reef resilience to local and global change across scales
Donovan MK, Alves C, Burns J, Drury C, Meier OW, Ritson-Williams R, Cunning R, Dunn RP, Goodbody-Gringley G, Henderson LM, Knapp ISS, Levy J, Logan CA, Mudge L, Sullivan C, Gates RD, Asner GP. Landscape Ecology
Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales
van Woesik R, Shlesinger T, Grottoli AG, Toonen RJ, Vega Thurber R, Warner M, Hulver AM, Chapron L, McLachlan RH, Albright R, Crandall E, DeCarlo TM, Donovan MK, Eirin-Lopez J, Harrison HB, Heron SF, Huang D, Humanes A, Krueger T, Madin JS, Manzello D, McManus LC, Matz M, Muller EM, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Vega-Rodriguez M, Voolstra CR, Zaneveld J. Global Change Biology 28(14): 4229-4250
2021
Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves
Donovan MK, Burkepile DE, Kratochwill C, Shlesinger T, Sully S, Oliver TA, Hodgson G, Freiwald J, van Woesik R. Science 372(6545) [pdf of full text]
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans
Cramer KL, Donovan MK, Jackson JBC, Greenstein BJ, Korpanty CA, Cook, J, Pandolfi JM. Ecology and Evolution 11(15): 10098-10118
2020
Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences
Christie AP, Abecasis D, Adjeroud M, … Donovan MK, … Sutherland WJ. Nature Communications 11(6377)
Dominance of endemics in the reef fish assemblages of the Hawaiian archipelago
Friedlander AM, Donovan MK, DeMartini EE, Bowen BW. Journal of Biogeography: doi/10.1111/jbi.13966
Linking land and sea through ecological-economic model of coral reef recreation
Oleson KLL, Bagstad KJ, Fezzi C, Barnes MD, Donovan MK, Falinski KA, Gorospe KD, Htun Hla, Lecky J, Villa F, Wong T. Ecological Economics 117(106788)
Caribbean reefs of the Anthropocene: variance in ecosystem metrics indicate bright spots on coral depauperate reefs
Lester SE, Rassweiler A, McCoy SJ, Dubel AK, Donovan MK, Miller MW, Miller SD, Ruttenberg BI, Samhouri JF, Hay ME. Global Change Biology
Shared insights across the ecology of coral reefs and African savannas: are parrotfish wet wildebeest?
Burkepile DE, Schmitt MH, Stears K, Donovan MK, Thompson DI. BioScience, biaa063
Nitrogen pollution interacts with heat stress to increase coral bleaching across the seascape
Donovan MK, Adam TC, Shantz AA, Munsterman KS, Rice MM, Speare KE, Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ, Burkepile DE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (10) 5351-5357 [link to data] [link to code]
Widespread loss of Caribbean acroporid corals was underway before coral bleaching and disease outbreaks
Cramer KL, Greenstein BJ, Donovan MK, Jackson JBC, Korpanty CA, Pandolfi JM. Science Advances 6(17):eaax9395