Coral Reefs - Coral Reefs Best Paper Awards
The Editors of Coral Reefs congratulate the winners of the annual Coral Reefs Best Paper Award. The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board have reviewed the published papers within a given year and have agreed on the following winning publications. The Award consists of a two-year electronic subscription to Coral Reefs and a cash prize of USD 1000 offered to the first or corresponding author of the winning paper. Congratulations to all of the Best Paper winning authors!
Best Paper Award Winners 2022
M. C. Buckingham, C. D’Angelo, T. B. Chalk, G. L. Foster, K. G. Johnson, Z. Connelly, C. Olla, M. Saeed & J. Wiedenmann
Winning article:
Impact of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) enrichment and skewed N:P stoichiometry on the skeletal formation and microstructure of symbiotic reef corals
Best Paper Award Winners 2021
Olivia M. Williamson, Corinne E. Allen, Dana E. Williams, Matthew W. Johnson, Margaret W. Miller & Andrew C. Baker
Winning article:
Neighboring colonies influence uptake of thermotolerant endosymbionts in threatened Caribbean coral recruits
Best Paper Award Winners 2020
Georgina M. Nicholson and Kendall D. Clements
Winning article:
Resolving resource partitioning in parrotfishes (Scarini) using microhistology of feeding substrata
Best Paper Award Winners 2019
Hannah R. Nelson and Andrew H. Altieri
Winning article:
Oxygen: the universal currency on coral reefs
Best Paper Award Winners 2018
Ross Cunning, Rachel N. Silverstein and Andrew C. Baker
Winning article:
Symbiont shuffling linked to differential photochemical dynamics of Symbiodinium in three Caribbean reef corals
Best Paper Award Winners 2017
Didier M. de Bakker, Fleur C. van Duyl, Rolf P. M. Bak, Maggy M. Nugues, Gerard Nieuwland, and Erik H. Meesters
Winning article:
40 Years of benthic community change on the Caribbean reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire: the rise of slimy cyanobacterial mats
Best Paper Award Winners 2016
Daniel M. Holstein, Claire B. Paris, Ana C. Vaz & Tyler B. Smith
Winning article:
Modeling vertical coral connectivity and mesophotic refugia
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Ashley J. Frish, Matthew Ireland, Justin R. Rizzari, Oona M. Lönnstedt, Katalin A. Magnenat, Christopher E. Mirbach & Jean-Paul A. Hobbs
Winning article:
eassessing the trophic role of reef sharks as apex predators on coral reefs
Best Paper Award Winners 2015
R. Cunning, P. Gillette, T. Capo, K. Galvez & A.C. Baker
Winning article:
Growth tradeoffs associated with thermotolerant symbionts in the coral Pocillopora damicornis are lost in warmer oceans
Best Paper Award Winners 2014
Scott A. Wooldridge
Winning article:
Differential thermal bleaching susceptibilities amongst coral taxa: re-posing the role of the host
Best Paper Award Winners 2012
S. Agostini, Y. Suzuki, T. Higuchi, B.E. Casareto, K. Yoshinaga, Y. Nakano & H. Fujimura
Winning article:
Biological and chemical characteristics of the coral gastric cavity
Best Paper Award Winners 2011
H. Sweatman, S. Delean & C. Syms
Winning article:
Assessing loss of coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over two decades, with implications for longer-term trends