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Robert van Woesik, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert van Woesik
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida Institute of Technology
150 West University Boulevard
Melbourne, Florida 32901-6988
USAE-mail: rvw@fit.edu
Phone 321 674 7475
Research Interests
My research interests are broad but ultimately linked to population and community ecology of scleractinian corals. They include the spatial and temporal assessment of coral communities and the application of this ecology to the management of coral reefs. My approach is often multi-disciplinary utilizing a combination of empirical and mathematical techniques to examine the mechanisms underlying large-scale patterns of coral community structure and diversity. Most recently, I have become particularly interested in ecological questions relating to coral bleaching and coral-algal symbioses.
Selected publications
Van Woesik R , Lacharmoise F, Koksal S (2006) Annual cycles of solar insolation predict spawning times of Caribbean corals. Ecology Letters 9: 390-398
Van Woesik R (2004) Comment on coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires. Science 303: 1297
Penland L, Kloulechad J, Idip D, Van Woesik R (2004) Coral spawning in the western Pacific Ocean is related to solar radiation: evidence of multiple spawning events in Palau . Coral Reefs 23: 133-140
Van Woesik R (2002) Processes regulating coral communities. Comments on Theoretical Biology 7: 199-212
Loya Y, Sakai K, Yamazato K, Nakano Y, Sambali H, Van Woesik R (2001) Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers. Ecology Letters 4: 122-131
Van Woesik R (2001) Coral bleaching: transcending spatial and temporal scales. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16(3): 120-122
West K and Van Woesik R (2001) Spatial and temporal variance of river discharge on Okinawa (Japan): inferring the temporal impact on adjacent coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 42(10): 864-872
Nakamura T and Van Woesik R (2001) Differential survival of corals during the 1998-bleaching event is partially explained by water-flow rates and passive diffusion. Marine Ecology Progress Series 212; 301-304
Van Woesik R (2000) A metacommunity model predicts coral diversity regulated by post settlement mortality. Biodiversity and Conservation 9(9): 1219-1233
Van Woesik R, Tomascik T, Blake S (1999) Coral assemblages and physico-chemical characteristics of the Whitsunday Islands: Evidence of recent community changes. Marine and Freshwater Research 50: 427-440
Van Woesik R and Done TJ (1997) Coral communities and reef growth in the southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 16: 103-115
Van Woesik R (1994) Contemporary disturbances to coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Coastal Research 12: 233-252
Affliations:
Council member of the International Society for Reef Studies
Commitee member of UNESCO-IOC-World Bank targeted working group on coral bleaching.
Auistralian Coral Reef Society
Australian Marine Sciences Association
Japanese Coral Reef Society