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For World Reef Day, postdoctoral Fellow Carlos Gomez gave a public presentation about coral reefs to a general audience of children and their families at STRI’s Punta Culebra Nature Center. He provided an overview of what of corals and coral reefs are, why their healthy functioning is important for people, and the threats they currently […]

RaMP-UP Fellow Richie Montes Lemus joined the Q?rioso team for a visit to students at at Escuela Benjamín Quintero on Taboga Island, Panama. Q?rioso is an initiative of STRI’s Punta Culebra Nature Center, a science outreach program that delivers educational modules to students throughout Panama. Richie contributed to a coral bleaching education module developed last […]

Glynn, V.M., L.F.B. Marangoni, M. Guglielmetti, E.R. Tapia, V. Ali, H. Quintero, E.C. Rodriguez Guerra, M. Yuval, D.I. Kline, M. Leray, S.R. Connolly, R.D.H. Barrett. 2025. The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.035 Coral reefs support approximately 25% of all marine life, making it […]

Zamborain-Mason, J., S. R. Connolly, M. A. Macneil,  M. L Barnes, A. G Bauman, D. A Feary, V. Huertas, F. A Januchowski-Hartley, J.D Lau, M. Mihalistis, and J. E Cinner. 2025. Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14440. Multispecies coral reef fisheries are typically managed by local communities who often lack research and monitoring capacity, which prevents estimation of well-defined sustainable reference points to perform locally relevant […]

Lazarus, M., N. Kimmerling, T. Gurevich, M. Kiflawi, S. R. Connolly, R. Holzman, and J. Belmaker. In press. Post-larval processes reduce the diversity of coral reef fish communities. Ecology Letters 28: e70058. The difficulties in obtaining species-level abundance estimates of marine larvae have hindered comparisons of diversity across life stages, severely limiting our knowledge of how adult diversity is […]

Tsai, C.H.and S. R. Connolly. 2025. Environmental gradients linked to human impacts, not species richness, drive regional variation in community stability in coral reef fishes. Ecology Letters 28: e70001. The stabilizing effect of biodiversity on aggregate community properties is well-established experimentally, but its importance in naturally assembled communities at larger scales requires considering its co-variation with other biotic […]