| Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005 CM Eakin, JA Morgan, SF Heron, TB Smith, G Liu, L Alvarez-Filip, B Baca, ... PloS one 5 (11), e13969, 2010 | 753 | 2010 |
| Disease incidence is related to bleaching extent in reef‐building corals ME Brandt, JW McManus Ecology 90 (10), 2859-2867, 2009 | 189 | 2009 |
| Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystems are unlikely climate change refugia TB Smith, J Gyory, ME Brandt, WJ Miller, J Jossart, RS Nemeth Global change biology 22 (8), 2756-2765, 2016 | 149 | 2016 |
| Hurricanes benefit bleached corals DP Manzello, M Brandt, TB Smith, D Lirman, JC Hendee, RS Nemeth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (29), 12035-12039, 2007 | 142 | 2007 |
| Potential role of viruses in white plague coral disease N Soffer, ME Brandt, AMS Correa, TB Smith, RV Thurber The ISME journal 8 (2), 271-283, 2014 | 130 | 2014 |
| The effect of species and colony size on the bleaching response of reef-building corals in the Florida Keys during the 2005 mass bleaching event ME Brandt Coral Reefs 28 (4), 911-924, 2009 | 94 | 2009 |
| Symbiodinium associations with diseased and healthy scleractinian corals AMS Correa, ME Brandt, TB Smith, DJ Thornhill, AC Baker Coral Reefs 28, 437-448, 2009 | 88 | 2009 |
| Deciphering coral disease dynamics: integrating host, microbiome, and the changing environment R Vega Thurber, LD Mydlarz, M Brandt, D Harvell, E Weil, L Raymundo, ... Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 575927, 2020 | 79 | 2020 |
| Targeted disruption of Aurora A causes abnormal mitotic spindle assembly, chromosome misalignment and embryonic lethality K Sasai, JM Parant, ME Brandt, J Carter, HP Adams, SA Stass, AM Killary, ... Oncogene 27 (29), 4122-4127, 2008 | 79 | 2008 |
| Disturbance driven colony fragmentation as a driver of a coral disease outbreak ME Brandt, TB Smith, AMS Correa, R Vega-Thurber PLoS One 8 (2), e57164, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Convergent mortality responses of Caribbean coral species to seawater warming TB Smith, ME Brandt, JM Calnan, RS Nemeth, J Blondeau, E Kadison, ... Ecosphere 4 (7), 1-40, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| 3D photogrammetry reveals dynamics of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) lesion progression across a thermal stress event S Meiling, EM Muller, TB Smith, ME Brandt Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 597643, 2020 | 60 | 2020 |
| Variable species responses to experimental stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) exposure SS Meiling, EM Muller, D Lasseigne, A Rossin, AJ Veglia, N MacKnight, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 670829, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| Coral reef health response to chronic and acute changes in water quality in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands RS Ennis, ME Brandt, KRW Grimes, TB Smith Marine Pollution Bulletin 111 (1-2), 418-427, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| The United States Virgin Islands territorial coral reef monitoring program TB Smith, E Kadison, L Henderson, J Gyory, ME Brandt, JM Calnan, ... 2016 Annual Report. University of the Virgin Islands, United States Virgin …, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| A cooperative multi-agency reef fish monitoring protocol for the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem ME Brandt, N Zurcher, A Acosta, JS Ault, JA Bohnsack, MW Feeley, ... | 47 | 2009 |
| The emergence and initial impact of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in the United States Virgin Islands ME Brandt, RS Ennis, SS Meiling, J Townsend, K Cobleigh, A Glahn, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 715329, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Bleaching events regulate shifts from corals to excavating sponges in algae‐dominated reefs A Chaves‐Fonnegra, B Riegl, S Zea, JV Lopez, T Smith, M Brandt, ... Global change biology 24 (2), 773-785, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Microbial bioindicators of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease identified in corals and overlying waters using a rapid field‐based sequencing approach CC Becker, M Brandt, CA Miller, A Apprill Environmental Microbiology 24 (3), 1166-1182, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
| Effects of grazing, nutrients, and depth on the ciguatera-causing dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus in the US Virgin Islands CR Loeffler, ML Richlen, ME Brandt, TB Smith Marine Ecology Progress Series 531, 91-104, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
