Nancy KnowltonSant Chair for Marine Science

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Full Publications:
Baker, David M., Weigt, Lee A., Fogel, Marilyn and Knowlton, Nancy 2013. Ancient DNA from Coral-Hosted Symbiodinium Reveal a Static Mutualism over the Last 172 Years. Plos One, 8(2): 1-6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055057

Ruckelshaus, M., Doney, S. C., Galindo, H. M., Barry, J. P., Chan, F., Duffy, J. E., English, C. A., Gaines, S. D., Grebmeier, J. M., Hollowed, A. B., Knowlton, N., Polovina, J., Rabalais, N. N., Sydeman, W. J. and Talley, L. D. 2013. Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change. Marine Policy, 40: 154-159. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.01.009

Knowlton, Nancy 2012. Iconic coral reef degraded despite substantial protection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(44): 17734-17735. doi:10.1073/pnas.1215836109

Budd, Ann F., Fukami, Hironobu, Smith, Nathan D. and Knowlton, Nancy 2012. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 166(3): 465-529. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x

Doney, Scott C., Ruckelshaus, Mary, Duffy, J. Emmett, Barry, James, Chan, Francis, English, Chad A., Hines, Heather M., Grebmeier, Jacqueline M., Hollowed, Anne B., Knowlton, Nancy, Polovina, Jeffrey, Rabalais, Nancy N., Sydeman, William J. and Talley, Lynne D. 2012. Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems. Annual Review of Marine Science, 4: 11-37. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-041911-111611

Machida, Ryuji J. and Knowlton, Nancy 2012. Ways to mix multiple PCR amplicons into single 454 run for DNA barcoding. In: DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press,(Methods in molecular biology) pp.355-361.

Fogarty, N. D., Lowenberg, M., Ojima, M. N., Knowlton, N. and Levitan, D. R. 2012. Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(12): 2481-2488. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02625.x

Machlis, Gary, Frankovich, Thomas A., Alcolado, Pedro M., Garcia-Machado, Erik, Caridad Hernandez-Zanuy, Aida, Hueter, Robert E., Knowlton, Nancy, Perera, Erick and Tunnell, John W., Jr. 2012. OCEAN POLICY US-Cuba Scientific Collaboration Emerging Issues and Opportunities in Marine and Related Environmental Sciences. Oceanography, 25(2): 227-231. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.63

Machida, Ryuji J. and Knowlton, Nancy 2012. PCR Primers for Metazoan Nuclear 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences. Plos One, 7(9): 1-11. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046180

Machida, Ryuji J., Kweskin, Matthew and Knowlton, Nancy 2012. PCR Primers for Metazoan Mitochondrial 12S Ribosomal DNA Sequences. PLoS ONE, 7(4): 1-6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035887

Fisher, Rebecca, Knowlton, Nancy, Brainard, Russell E. and Caley, M. Julian 2011. Differences among Major Taxa in the Extent of Ecological Knowledge across Four Major Ecosystems. PLoS ONE, 6(11): e26556-8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026556

Levitan, Don R., Fogarty, Nicole D., Jara, Javier, Lotterhos, Katie E. and Knowlton, Nancy 2011. Genetic, Spatial, and Temporal Components of Precise Spawning Synchrony in Reef Building Corals of the Montastraea Annularis Species Complex. Evolution, 65(5): 1254-1270. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01235.x

Mumby, Peter J., Iglesias-Prieto, Roberto, Hooten, Anthony J., Sale, Peter F., Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, Edwards, Alasdair J., Harvell, C. Drew, Gomez, Edgardo D., Knowlton, Nancy, Hatziolos, Marea E., Kyewalyanga, Margareth S. and Muthiga, Nyawira 2011. Revisiting climate thresholds and ecosystem collapse. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 9(2): 94-96. doi:10.1890/11.WB.002

Plaisance, Laetitia, Caley, M. Julian, Brainard, Russell E. and Knowlton, Nancy 2011. The Diversity of Coral Reefs: What Are We Missing?. PLoS ONE, 6: e25026 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025026

Knowlton, Nancy 2011. Q&A Nancy Knowlton. Current Biology, 21(8): R270-R271.

Fisher, R., Radford, B. T., Knowlton, Nancy, Brainard, R. E., Michaelis, F. B. and Caley, M. J. 2011. Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs. Conservation Letters, 4(1): 64-72. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00146.x

Plaisance, Laetitia, Brainard, Russell, Caley, M. Julian and Knowlton, Nancy 2011. Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example. Diversity, 3(4): 581-591. doi:10.3390/d3040581

Knowlton, Nancy and Jackson, Jeremy B. C. 2011. Beyond the obituaries. Solutions: For a Sustainable and Desirable Future, 2(1)

Knowlton, Nancy 2011. First steps as a scientist – preface. In: Graham, M. K., Parker, J. and Dayton, P. K., In Pursuit of Natural History: Selected Readings and Commentaries. Chicago: Univ. Chicago, pp.

Terk, Elizabeth and Knowlton, Nancy 2010. The role of SCUBA diver user fees as a source of sustainable funding for coral reef marine protected areas. Biodiversity, 11(1-2): 78-84. doi:10.1080/14888386.2010.9712651

Knowlton, Nancy 2010. Citizens of the sea : wonderous creatures from the census of marine life Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Knowlton, Nancy, Brainard, Russell E., Fisher, Rebecca, Moews, Megan, Plaisance, Laetitia and Caley, M. Julian 2010. Coral reef biodiversity. In: McIntyre, Alasdair D., Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance. Wiley-Blackwell, pp.65-77.

Nunes, F., Norris, R. D. and Knowlton, Nancy 2009. Implications of isolation and low genetic diversity in peripheral populations of an amphi-Atlantic coral. Molecular ecology, 18(20): 4283-4297.

Roth, M. S. and Knowlton, Nancy 2009. Distribution, abundance, and microhabitat characterization of small juvenile corals at Palmyra Atoll. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 376: 133-142. doi:10.3354/meps07787

Plaisance, Laetitia, Knowlton, Nancy, Paulay, Gustav and Meyer, Christopher P. 2009. Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding. Coral Reefs, 28(4): 977-986. doi:10.1007/s00338-009-0543-3

Hurt, Carla, Anker, Arthur and Knowlton, Nancy 2009. A Multilocus Test of Simultaneous Divergence Across the Isthmus of Panama using Snapping Shrimp in the Genus Alpheus. Evolution, 63(2): 514-530. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00566.x

Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Coral reefs. Current Biology, 18(1): R18-R21.

Knowlton, Nancy and Jackson, Jeremy B. C. 2008. Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs. Plos Biology, 6(2): 215-220.

Anker, Arthur, Hurt, Carla and Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea : Decapoda : Alpheidae). Zootaxa, 1707: 1-22.

Anker, Arthur, Hurt, C. and Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Revision of the Alpheus websteri Kingsley, 1880 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. arenensis (Chace, 1937). Zootaxa, 1694: 51-68.

Sandin, S. A., Smith, J. E., DeMartini, Edward E., Dinsdale, E. A., Donner, S. D., Friedlander, A. M., Konotchick, T., Malay, M., Maragos, James E., Obura, D., Pantos, O., Paulay, G., Richie, M., Rohwer, F., Schroeder, Robert E., Walsh, S., Jackson, Jeremy B. C., Knowlton, Nancy and Sala, E. 2008. Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the northern Line Islands. PLoS One, 3: e1548-1559.

Dinsdale, E. A., Pantos, O., Smriga, S., Edwards, R. A., Angly, F., Wegley, L., Hatay, M., Hall, D., Brown, E., Haynes, M., Krause, L., Sala, E., Sandin, S. A., Thurber, R. V., Willis, B. L., Azam, F., Knowlton, Nancy and Rohwer, F. 2008. Microbial ecology of four coral atolls in the northern Line Islands. PLoS One, 3: 1584-1601.

Nunes, F., Fukami, H., Vollmer, S. V., Norris, R. D. and Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Re-evaluation of the systematics of the endemic corals of Brazil by molecular data. Coral Reefs, 27: 423-432.

Fukami, Hironobu, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Budd, Ann F., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Wallace, Carden, Chuang, Yao-Yang, Chen, Chienhsun, Dai, Chang-Feng, Iwao, Kenji, Sheppard, Charles and Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria). PLoS ONE, 3(9): e3222

Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Marine biodiversity in jeopardy: the attrition of the world's coral reefs signals far broader and graver problems. American Prospect Special Report: Oceans and Coasts, 19(12): 15-16.

Ruckelshaus, M., Klinger, T., Knowlton, Nancy and DeMaster, D. P. 2008. Marine ecosystem-based management in practice: Considering resilience in a broader context. Bioscience, 58: 53-63.

Anker, Arthur, Hurt, C. and Knowlton, Nancy 2007. Revision of the Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt) species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific. Zootaxa, 1577(41): 60

Fukami, H., Chen, C. A., Chiou, C. -Y and Knowlton, Nancy 2007. Novel group I introns encoding a putative homing endonuclease in the mitochondrial coxI gene of scleractinian corals. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 64: 591-600.

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Mumby, P. J., Hooten, A. J., Steneck, Robert S., Greenfield, P., Gomez, E., Harvell, C. D., Sale, P. F., Edwards, A. J., Caldeira, K., Knowlton, Nancy, Eakin, C. M., Iglesias-Prieto, R., Muthiga, N., Bradbury, Roger H., Dubi, A. and Hatziolos, M. E. 2007. Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification. Science, 318(5857): 1737-1742.