Coral REEF Lab Publications:
* denotes graduate student authors
Harper, L.*, L.K. Huebner, E. O’Cain*, R. Ruzicka, D.F. Gleason, N.D. Fogarty. 2023. Multi-year coral recruitment study across the Florida Reef Tract reveals boom-or-bust pattern among broadcast spawners and consistency among brooders. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 721:39-58. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14399
Bove, Coleen, B., Katharine Greene, Sharla Sugierski*, Nicola G Kriefall, Alexa K Huzar, Annabel M Hughes, Koty Sharp, Nicole D Fogarty, Sarah W Davies. 2023. Exposure to global change and microplastics elicits an immune response in an endangered coral. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1037130. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1037130
Harper, L.*, L.K. Huebner, E. O’Cain*, R. Ruzicka, D.F. Gleason, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Methodological considerations for assessing Scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles. PeerJ 9: e12549. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12549
VanWynen C. M.*, M.V. Hightshoe, N.D. Fogarty, C. P. Dahlgren, D.S. Gilliam. 2021. Hybrids in coral restoration: A comparison of Caribbean Acropora spp. and their hybrid; Frontiers in Marine Science 8:669966. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.669966
Rushmore M.*, C. Ross, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Physiological responses to short-term sediment exposure in adults of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa and adults and recruits of Porites astreoides Coral Reefs. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-021-02156-0
Kitchen S.A., C. Osborne, N.D. Fogarty, I.B. Baums. 2021. The “bushy” morphotype of Caribbean acroporid hybrids is not linked to their mitochondrial haplogroup. Coral Reefs https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02135-5
Reich H.G., Kitchen, S.A., Stankiewicz, K.H., Devlin-Durante, M.D., Fogarty, N.D., Baums, I.B. 2021. Genomic variation of an endosymbiotic dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium ‘fitti’) among closely related coral hosts. Target: Molecular Ecology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.15952
Nylander-Asplin H.F.*, R.L. Hill, J.C. Doerr, L. Greer, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Population dynamics and genotypic richness of the threatened Acropora species and their hybrid in the U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Reefs: 40:965-971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02093-y
Page, C., N.D. Fogarty, and David E. Vaughan. 2021. Active Reef Restoration: Technologies for a Changing Planet. Sexual Reproduction and Rearing Corals for Restoration. Chapter 8. J. Ross Publishing, Inc. D.E. Vaughan editor.
Kitchen, S.A., G.Von Kuster, K.L. Vasquez Kuntz, H.G. Reich, W. Miller, S. Griffin, N.D. Fogarty, I.B. Baums. STAGdb: a 30K SNP genotyping array and Science Gateway for Acroporacorals and their dinoflagellate symbionts. Pre-printat bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1038/s415. 98-020-69101-z, Scientific Reports
Pitts, K.A.*, J.E. Campbell, J. Figueiredo, and N.D. Fogarty. 2020. Ocean warming partially mitigates the negative effects of warming on the recruitment of the coral, Orbicella faveolata. Coral Reefs 39(2): 281-292. https://rdcu.be/b0Hs3
Fogarty, N.D. and K.L. Marhaver. 2019. Coral spawning, unsynchronized. A breakdown in coral spawning synchrony may threaten coral reef recovery. Science, 365(6457): 987-988. http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/365/6457/987?ijkey=.lY3BMo4uJlPA&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
Kitchen, S.A., A. Ratan, O.C. Bedoya-Reina, R. Burhans, N.D. Fogarty, W. Miller, I.B. Baums (2019). Genomic variants among threatened Acropora corals. G3: Marine Pollution Bulletin Genes/Genomes/Genetics. 9:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400125
Lenz, B.*, N.D. Fogarty, J. Figueiredo (2019). Effects of ocean warming and acidification on fertilization success and early larval development in the green sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus. Marine Pollution Bulletin 141:70-78.
O’ Cain*, E.D., M.E., Frischer, J.S. Harrison, N.D. Fogarty, R. Ruzicka, and D.F. Gleason (2019). Development of a molecular assay for Caribbean coral identification. Coral Reefs, 38(1):79-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-01763-8
Ross, C., N.D. Fogarty, R. Ritson-Williams, V.J. Paul (2017). Interspecific variation in coral settlement and fertilization success in response to hydrogen peroxide exposure. Biological Bulletin. 233(3):206-218.
Devlin-Durante, M.K., M.W. Miller, Caribbean Acropora Research Group (L. Carne, T.B. Smith, A. T. Banaszak, L. Greer, Adele Irwin, N.D. Fogarty), W.F. Precht, I.B. Baums (2016). How old are you? Age estimates in a clonal animal. Molecular Ecology. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13865/epdf
GIGA community scientists (2014). Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes; Journal of Heredity: 105(1):1-18. http://repository.kaust.edu.sa/kaust/handle/10754/575591
Kirk, N.L., R.Ritson-Williams, M.A. Coffroth, M.W. Miller, N.D. Fogarty, S.R. Santos. (2013). Tracking Transmission of Apicomplexan Symbionts in Diverse Caribbean Corals. PLoS ONE. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080618
Jeffery, C.F.G., S.D. Hile, C.M. Addison, J. Ault, C. Currin, D. Field, N.D. Fogarty, J. Luo, V. McDonough, D. Morrison, G.A. Piniak, V. Ransibrahmanakul, S.G. Smith, S. Viehman (2012). Assessment of natural resource condition in and adjacent to the Dry Tortugas National Park. Natural Resource Report NPS/DRTO/NRR: 1-178.
Fogarty, N.D., M. Lowenberg, M.N. Ojima, and N. Knowlton, D.R. Levitan (2012). Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). The Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2481-2488. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02625.x/full
Fogarty, N.D. Caribbean acroporid hybrids are viable across life history stages (2012). Caribbean acroporid coral hybrids are viable across life history stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 446: 145-159. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2011/446/m446p145.pdf
Fogarty, N.D., S.V. Vollmer, D.R. Levitan. 2011. Weak prezygotic isolating mechanisms in threatened Caribbean Acropora species. PLoS ONE 7(2) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030486
Levitan, D.R., N.D. Fogarty, J. Jara, Kathleen Lotterhos, and N.Knolwton. 2011. Genetic, spatial and temporal components to precise spawning synchrony in reef building corals of the Montastraea annularis species complex. Evolution 65 (5): 1254–1270 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01235.x/full
Greg Piniak, Shay Viehman, Christine Addison and Nicole Fogarty (2011). Characterization of Benthic Communities. pp 31-42. In: C.F.G. Jeffrey, V.R. Leeworthy, M.E., Monaco, G. Piniak, M. Fonseca (eds.). 2010. An Integrated Biogeographic Assessment of Reef Fish Populations and Fisheries in Dry Tortugas: Effects of No-take Reserves. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 111. Prepared by the NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Branch. Silver Spring, MD. 147 pp. http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/coralreef/TortugasAssessmentReport_final.pdf
Fogarty, N.D. (2010). Reproductive isolation and hybridization dynamics in threatened Caribbean acroporid corals. [dissertation] Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=occ_facetd
Arnold, M.L., N.D. Fogarty (2009). Reticulate Evolution and Marine Organisms: The Final Frontier? 2009. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10(9): 3836-3860.
http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/9/3836/html
Ritson-Williams, R., S. Arnold, N.D. Fogarty, R. Steneck, M. Vermeij and V. Paul (2009). New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Science, 38:437-457. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1544&context=occ_facarticles
Levitan, D.R., C.P. terHorst, N.D. Fogarty (2007). The risk of excess sperm in three congeneric sea urchins. Evolution. 61(8):2007-2014.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00150.x/full
Vermeij, M.J.A., N.D. Fogarty, M.W. Miller (2006). Pre- and post-settlement dynamics of Caribbean coral planulae in a variable planktonic environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:119-128. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2006/310/m310p119.pdf
3- Piniak, G.A, N.D. Fogarty, C.M. Addison. (2005). Fluorescence census techniques for coral recruits. Coral Reefs 24(3): 496-500. http://rdcu.be/k2sz
Fogarty, N.D. and M. Enstrom (2002). Sea Stewards a volunteer ecological monitoring program. Pages 27-30 in US Department of Commerce. Sanctuary Monitoring Report 2000. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Marathon, Florida USA.
http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=occ_facreports
Fogarty, N.D., B.D. Keller, and P.B. Dye (2001). Effects of installing flow-through culverts on canal water quality and benthic communities at Jolly Roger Estates. Final Report. The Nature Conservancy, Key West, Florida.
* denotes graduate student authors
Harper, L.*, L.K. Huebner, E. O’Cain*, R. Ruzicka, D.F. Gleason, N.D. Fogarty. 2023. Multi-year coral recruitment study across the Florida Reef Tract reveals boom-or-bust pattern among broadcast spawners and consistency among brooders. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 721:39-58. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14399
Bove, Coleen, B., Katharine Greene, Sharla Sugierski*, Nicola G Kriefall, Alexa K Huzar, Annabel M Hughes, Koty Sharp, Nicole D Fogarty, Sarah W Davies. 2023. Exposure to global change and microplastics elicits an immune response in an endangered coral. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1037130. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1037130
Harper, L.*, L.K. Huebner, E. O’Cain*, R. Ruzicka, D.F. Gleason, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Methodological considerations for assessing Scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles. PeerJ 9: e12549. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12549
VanWynen C. M.*, M.V. Hightshoe, N.D. Fogarty, C. P. Dahlgren, D.S. Gilliam. 2021. Hybrids in coral restoration: A comparison of Caribbean Acropora spp. and their hybrid; Frontiers in Marine Science 8:669966. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.669966
Rushmore M.*, C. Ross, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Physiological responses to short-term sediment exposure in adults of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa and adults and recruits of Porites astreoides Coral Reefs. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-021-02156-0
Kitchen S.A., C. Osborne, N.D. Fogarty, I.B. Baums. 2021. The “bushy” morphotype of Caribbean acroporid hybrids is not linked to their mitochondrial haplogroup. Coral Reefs https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02135-5
Reich H.G., Kitchen, S.A., Stankiewicz, K.H., Devlin-Durante, M.D., Fogarty, N.D., Baums, I.B. 2021. Genomic variation of an endosymbiotic dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium ‘fitti’) among closely related coral hosts. Target: Molecular Ecology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.15952
Nylander-Asplin H.F.*, R.L. Hill, J.C. Doerr, L. Greer, N.D. Fogarty. 2021. Population dynamics and genotypic richness of the threatened Acropora species and their hybrid in the U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Reefs: 40:965-971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02093-y
Page, C., N.D. Fogarty, and David E. Vaughan. 2021. Active Reef Restoration: Technologies for a Changing Planet. Sexual Reproduction and Rearing Corals for Restoration. Chapter 8. J. Ross Publishing, Inc. D.E. Vaughan editor.
Kitchen, S.A., G.Von Kuster, K.L. Vasquez Kuntz, H.G. Reich, W. Miller, S. Griffin, N.D. Fogarty, I.B. Baums. STAGdb: a 30K SNP genotyping array and Science Gateway for Acroporacorals and their dinoflagellate symbionts. Pre-printat bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1038/s415. 98-020-69101-z, Scientific Reports
Pitts, K.A.*, J.E. Campbell, J. Figueiredo, and N.D. Fogarty. 2020. Ocean warming partially mitigates the negative effects of warming on the recruitment of the coral, Orbicella faveolata. Coral Reefs 39(2): 281-292. https://rdcu.be/b0Hs3
Fogarty, N.D. and K.L. Marhaver. 2019. Coral spawning, unsynchronized. A breakdown in coral spawning synchrony may threaten coral reef recovery. Science, 365(6457): 987-988. http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/365/6457/987?ijkey=.lY3BMo4uJlPA&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
Kitchen, S.A., A. Ratan, O.C. Bedoya-Reina, R. Burhans, N.D. Fogarty, W. Miller, I.B. Baums (2019). Genomic variants among threatened Acropora corals. G3: Marine Pollution Bulletin Genes/Genomes/Genetics. 9:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400125
Lenz, B.*, N.D. Fogarty, J. Figueiredo (2019). Effects of ocean warming and acidification on fertilization success and early larval development in the green sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus. Marine Pollution Bulletin 141:70-78.
O’ Cain*, E.D., M.E., Frischer, J.S. Harrison, N.D. Fogarty, R. Ruzicka, and D.F. Gleason (2019). Development of a molecular assay for Caribbean coral identification. Coral Reefs, 38(1):79-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-01763-8
Ross, C., N.D. Fogarty, R. Ritson-Williams, V.J. Paul (2017). Interspecific variation in coral settlement and fertilization success in response to hydrogen peroxide exposure. Biological Bulletin. 233(3):206-218.
Devlin-Durante, M.K., M.W. Miller, Caribbean Acropora Research Group (L. Carne, T.B. Smith, A. T. Banaszak, L. Greer, Adele Irwin, N.D. Fogarty), W.F. Precht, I.B. Baums (2016). How old are you? Age estimates in a clonal animal. Molecular Ecology. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13865/epdf
GIGA community scientists (2014). Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes; Journal of Heredity: 105(1):1-18. http://repository.kaust.edu.sa/kaust/handle/10754/575591
Kirk, N.L., R.Ritson-Williams, M.A. Coffroth, M.W. Miller, N.D. Fogarty, S.R. Santos. (2013). Tracking Transmission of Apicomplexan Symbionts in Diverse Caribbean Corals. PLoS ONE. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080618
Jeffery, C.F.G., S.D. Hile, C.M. Addison, J. Ault, C. Currin, D. Field, N.D. Fogarty, J. Luo, V. McDonough, D. Morrison, G.A. Piniak, V. Ransibrahmanakul, S.G. Smith, S. Viehman (2012). Assessment of natural resource condition in and adjacent to the Dry Tortugas National Park. Natural Resource Report NPS/DRTO/NRR: 1-178.
Fogarty, N.D., M. Lowenberg, M.N. Ojima, and N. Knowlton, D.R. Levitan (2012). Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). The Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2481-2488. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02625.x/full
Fogarty, N.D. Caribbean acroporid hybrids are viable across life history stages (2012). Caribbean acroporid coral hybrids are viable across life history stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 446: 145-159. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2011/446/m446p145.pdf
Fogarty, N.D., S.V. Vollmer, D.R. Levitan. 2011. Weak prezygotic isolating mechanisms in threatened Caribbean Acropora species. PLoS ONE 7(2) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030486
Levitan, D.R., N.D. Fogarty, J. Jara, Kathleen Lotterhos, and N.Knolwton. 2011. Genetic, spatial and temporal components to precise spawning synchrony in reef building corals of the Montastraea annularis species complex. Evolution 65 (5): 1254–1270 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01235.x/full
Greg Piniak, Shay Viehman, Christine Addison and Nicole Fogarty (2011). Characterization of Benthic Communities. pp 31-42. In: C.F.G. Jeffrey, V.R. Leeworthy, M.E., Monaco, G. Piniak, M. Fonseca (eds.). 2010. An Integrated Biogeographic Assessment of Reef Fish Populations and Fisheries in Dry Tortugas: Effects of No-take Reserves. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 111. Prepared by the NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Branch. Silver Spring, MD. 147 pp. http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/coralreef/TortugasAssessmentReport_final.pdf
Fogarty, N.D. (2010). Reproductive isolation and hybridization dynamics in threatened Caribbean acroporid corals. [dissertation] Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=occ_facetd
Arnold, M.L., N.D. Fogarty (2009). Reticulate Evolution and Marine Organisms: The Final Frontier? 2009. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10(9): 3836-3860.
http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/9/3836/html
Ritson-Williams, R., S. Arnold, N.D. Fogarty, R. Steneck, M. Vermeij and V. Paul (2009). New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Science, 38:437-457. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1544&context=occ_facarticles
Levitan, D.R., C.P. terHorst, N.D. Fogarty (2007). The risk of excess sperm in three congeneric sea urchins. Evolution. 61(8):2007-2014.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00150.x/full
Vermeij, M.J.A., N.D. Fogarty, M.W. Miller (2006). Pre- and post-settlement dynamics of Caribbean coral planulae in a variable planktonic environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:119-128. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2006/310/m310p119.pdf
3- Piniak, G.A, N.D. Fogarty, C.M. Addison. (2005). Fluorescence census techniques for coral recruits. Coral Reefs 24(3): 496-500. http://rdcu.be/k2sz
Fogarty, N.D. and M. Enstrom (2002). Sea Stewards a volunteer ecological monitoring program. Pages 27-30 in US Department of Commerce. Sanctuary Monitoring Report 2000. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Marathon, Florida USA.
http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=occ_facreports
Fogarty, N.D., B.D. Keller, and P.B. Dye (2001). Effects of installing flow-through culverts on canal water quality and benthic communities at Jolly Roger Estates. Final Report. The Nature Conservancy, Key West, Florida.
University of North Carolina @ Wilmington | Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Ln | Wilmington, NC 28409 United States
Nicole Fogarty | (910) 962-2301 | fogartyn@uncw.edu
5600 Marvin K. Moss Ln | Wilmington, NC 28409 United States
Nicole Fogarty | (910) 962-2301 | fogartyn@uncw.edu