Jeremy B. C. Jackson

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regi...

Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems

Ecological extinction caused by overfishing precedes all other pervasive human disturbance to coastal ecosystems, including pollution, degradation of water quality, and anthropo...

Reefs since Columbus

What was natural in the coastal oceans?

Humans transformed Western Atlantic coastal marine ecosystems before modern ecological investigations began. Paleoecological, archeological, and historical reconstructions demon...

Adaptation and Diversity of Reef Corals

Journal Article Adaptation and Diversity of Reef Corals: Patterns result from species differences in resource use and life histories and from disturbances Get access Jeremy B. C...

Biological Determinants of Present and Past Sessile Animal Distributions

Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas

Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequence...

Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems

Degradation of coral reef ecosystems began centuries ago, but there is no global summary of the magnitude of change. We compiled records, extending back thousands of years, of t...

Are U.S. Coral Reefs on the Slippery Slope to Slime?

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