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People and ecosystems

Understanding of the links between coral reef ecosystems, the goods and services they provide to people, and the wellbeing of human societies.

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Ecosystem dynamics: past, present and future

Examining the multi-scale dynamics of reefs, from population dynamics to macroevolution

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Responding to a changing world

Advancing the fundamental understanding of the key processes underpinning reef resilience.

Coral Bleaching

Coral Bleaching

Coral Reef Studies

From 2005 to 2022, the main node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies was headquartered at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland (Australia)

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Dr. Veronica Radice

Dr. Veronica Radice


Postdoctoral Research Fellow


National Park Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow


Ph.D. 2019, The University of Queensland


Old Dominion University




About:

Currently Veronica is a US National Park Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow studying shallow and mesophotic coral reefs in the National Park of American Sāmoa with the lab of A/Prof Daniel Barshis at Old Dominion University (USA). Her research investigates coral acclimatization to local environmental conditions. She uses field-based experiments and biogeochemical techniques to study how corals acclimate to shallow versus deep reef environments, with a focus on lower-light mesophotic coral ecosystems. Veronica’s current work is focused on understanding the impacts of ocean warming on coral recovery following coral bleaching.

Veronica is also an adjunct associate research fellow in the Coral Reef Ecosystems Laboratory at the University of Queensland (Australia), where she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and A/Prof Sophie Dove at UQ. Veronica completed her Ph.D. at UQ studying the trophic ecology of shallow and deep reef-building corals. As an XL Catlin Seaview Survey Ocean Scholar, she was involved in surveying shallow and deep coral reefs across the Coral Triangle and central Indian Ocean.

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Publications:

Wepfer PH, Nakajima Y, Sutthacheep M, Radice VZ, Ang P, Terraneo T, Richards Z, Sudek M, Fujimura A, Toonen R, Mikheyev AS, Economo EP, and S Mitarai (2021). Inclusivity is key to progressing coral biodiversity research: Reply to comment by Bonito et al. 2021. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107135.

Radice VZ,* Fry B, Dove S, and O Hoegh-Guldberg (2021). Biogeochemical variability and trophic status of reef water column following a coral bleaching event. Coral Reefs 40, 1-7. doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02021-6

Rodriguez-Ramirez A, González-Rivero M, Beijbom O, Bailhache C, Bongaerts P, Brown KT, Bryant D, Dalton P, Dove S, Ganase A, Kennedy EV, Kim C, Lopez-Marcano S, Neal BP, Radice VZ, Vercelloni J, Beyer H, and O Hoegh-Guldberg (2020). A contemporary baseline record of the world’s coral reefs. Scientific Data 7, 355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00698-6

Wepfer PH, Nakajima Y, Sutthacheep M, Radice VZ, Ang P, Terraneo T, Richards Z, Sudek M, Fujimura A, Toonen R, Mikheyev AS, Economo EP, and S Mitarai (2020). Evolutionary biogeography of the reef-building coral genus Galaxea across the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 151, 106905. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790320301779?via%3Dihub

Bongaerts P, Pérez-Rosales G, Radice VZ, Eyal G, Gori A, Gress E, Hammerman N, Hernandez-Agreda A, Laverick J, Muir P, Pinheiro H, Pyle R, Rocha L, Turner J, and R Booker (2019). Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems. Database baz140.  https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baz140  (authors contributed equally)

González-Rivero M, Rodriguez-Ramirez A, Beijbom O, Dalton P, Kennedy EV, Neal BP, Vercelloni J, Bongaerts P, Ganase A, Bryant DEP, Brown K, Kim C, Radice VZ, Lopez-Marcano S, Dove S, Bailhache C, Beyer HL, and O Hoegh-Guldberg (2019). Seaview Survey Photo-quadrat and Image Classification Dataset. The University of Queensland. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2019.930

Radice VZ,* Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fry B, Fox MD, and S Dove (2019). Upwelling as the major source of nitrogen for shallow and deep reef-building corals across an oceanic atoll system. Functional Ecology 33, 1120-1134. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13314

Top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric: https://wiley.altmetric.com/details/57333030

Radice VZ,* Brett M, Fry B, Fox MD, Hoegh-Guldberg O, and S Dove (2019). Evaluating coral trophic strategies using fatty acid composition and indices. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0222327. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222327

Fox MD, Williams GJ, Johnson MD, Radice VZ, Zgliczynski BJ, Kelly ELA, Rohwer FL, Sandin SA, and JE Smith (2018). Gradients in Primary Production Predict Trophic Strategies of Mixotrophic Corals across Spatial Scales. Current Biology 28, 3355–3363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.057

Featured article Wiedenmann & D’Angelo (2019). High-carb diet of reef corals as seen from space. Current Biology Dispatch, 28, R1243-R1265.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.056

Radice VZ,* Quattrini AM, Wareham VE, Edinger EN, and EE Cordes (2016). Vertical water mass structure in the North Atlantic influences the bathymetric distribution of species in the deep-sea coral genus Paramuricea. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 116, 253-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2016.08.014

 

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