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| Marine ecology of the Arabian region: patterns and processes in extreme tropical environments C Sheppard, A Price, C Roberts | 846 | 1992 |
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| The coral reef crisis: The critical importance of< 350 ppm CO2 JEN Veron, O Hoegh-Guldberg, TM Lenton, JM Lough, DO Obura, ... Marine pollution bulletin 58 (10), 1428-1436, 2009 | 658 | 2009 |
| Predicted recurrences of mass coral mortality in the Indian Ocean CRC Sheppard Nature 425 (6955), 294-297, 2003 | 482 | 2003 |
| Coral mortality increases wave energy reaching shores protected by reef flats: examples from the Seychelles C Sheppard, DJ Dixon, M Gourlay, A Sheppard, R Payet Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 64 (2-3), 223-234, 2005 | 421 | 2005 |
| Mitochondrial and nuclear genes suggest that stony corals are monophyletic but most families of stony corals are not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria) H Fukami, CA Chen, AF Budd, A Collins, C Wallace, YY Chuang, C Chen, ... PloS one 3 (9), e3222, 2008 | 387 | 2008 |
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| Corals and coral communities of Arabia CRC Sheppard Marine Management (Holdings) Limited, 1991 | 362 | 1991 |
| Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems NAJ Graham, TR McClanahan, MA MacNeil, SK Wilson, NVC Polunin, ... PLoS one 3 (8), e3039, 2008 | 345 | 2008 |
| Coral populations on reef slopes and their major controls W REVIE Mar Ecol Prog Ser 7, 83-115, 1982 | 313 | 1982 |
| Erosion vs. recovery of coral reefs after 1998 El Niño: Chagos reefs, Indian Ocean CRC Sheppard, M Spalding, C Bradshaw, S Wilson AMBIO: A Journal of the human environment 31 (1), 40-48, 2002 | 220 | 2002 |
| Climate change impacts on coral reefs: synergies with local effects, possibilities for acclimation, and management implications M Ateweberhan, DA Feary, S Keshavmurthy, A Chen, MH Schleyer, ... Marine pollution bulletin 74 (2), 526-539, 2013 | 207 | 2013 |
| Physical environment of the Gulf relevant to marine pollution: an overview CRC Sheppard Marine Pollution Bulletin 27, 3-8, 1993 | 201 | 1993 |
| Reef shark declines in remote atolls highlight the need for multi-faceted conservation action. NAJ Graham, MD Spalding, CRC Sheppard | 199 | 2010 |
| Transforming management of tropical coastal seas to cope with challenges of the 21st century PF Sale, T Agardy, CH Ainsworth, BE Feist, JD Bell, P Christie, ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 85 (1), 8-23, 2014 | 192 | 2014 |
| Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no‐take marine protected area CRC Sheppard, M Ateweberhan, BW Bowen, P Carr, CA Chen, C Clubbe, ... Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems 22 (2), 232-261, 2012 | 190 | 2012 |
| The potential effects of climate change on the Scottish tourist industry SJ Harrison, SJ Winterbottom, C Sheppard Tourism Management 20 (2), 203-211, 1999 | 175 | 1999 |
| Coral reefs of the Gulf: adaptation to climatic extremes in the world’s hottest sea BM Riegl, SJ Purkis Coral reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to climatic extremes, 1-4, 2012 | 173 | 2012 |
| Interspecific aggression between reef corals with reference to their distribution CRC Sheppard Marine Ecology Progress Series, 237-247, 1979 | 171 | 1979 |
