Advisor: 

UC Santa Barbara

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Center for Global Discovery & Conservation Science

Research Area

Community ecology of coral reefs

ORCID: 

0000-0002-0016-3606

Kelly Speare - Publications

Year Citations Publication Type Links
2025 Early life stage bottleneck determines rates of coral recovery following severe disturbance. Journal Article
2025 Differential effects of nutrients and consumer pressure on sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.). Journal Article
2024 Corals survive severe bleaching event in refuges related to taxa, colony size and water depth. Journal Article
2024 Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality. Journal Article
2023 Reef habitats’ structure symbiotic microalgal assemblages in corals and contribute to differential heat stress responses. Journal Article
2023 Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality. Journal Article
2022 Priority effects in coral-macroalgae interactions can drive alternate community paths in the absence of top-down control. Journal Article
2022 Size-dependent mortality of corals during marine heatwave erodes recovery capacity of coral reef. Journal Article
2022 Nitrate enrichment has lineage specific effects on Pocillopora acuta adults, but no transgenerational effects in planulae. Journal Article
2021 Energetic and reproductive costs of coral recovery in divergent bleaching responses. Journal Article
2021 Linking coral recruitment to reef recovery in the Anthropocene. Thesis or Dissertation
2020 Nitrogen identity drives differential impacts of nutrients on coral bleaching and mortality. Journal Article
2020 Nitrogen pollution interacts with heat stress to increase coral bleaching across the seascape. Journal Article
2018 Estimates of fish and coral larvae as nutrient subsidies to coral reef ecosystems. Journal Article