Ronald H. Karlson, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
Biological Sciences University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States 
Area:
marine ecology, community ecology
Website:
http://www.bio.udel.edu/users/rkarlson
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Bio:

Biological Oceanography Program, Expedition 19 to eastern
tropical Pacific Ocean, Stanford University, 1968,
B.A. (Zoology), Pomona College, 1969
M.A. (Zoology), Duke University, 1972
Ph.D. (Zoolgy), Duke University, 1975, advisor: John P.
Sutherland
Postdoctoral Fellow (Earth and Planetary Sciences), The
Johns Hopkins University, 1976-1978; advisor: Jeremy B.C.
Jackson
Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware 2010-present
Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center, Edgewater, Maryland 2009-2015
Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral
Reef Studies, James Cook University,
Townsville, Queensland, Australia 2005-2013

Students and postdocs:

Michael A. Shenk, Ph.D., 1986,
Yusef H. Fadlallah, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1981-1982
Don R. Levitan, Ph.D., 1989
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Hughes TP, Bellwood DR, Connolly SR, et al. (2014) Double jeopardy and global extinction risk in corals and reef fishes. Current Biology : Cb. 24: 2946-51
Karlson RH, Osman RW. (2012) Species composition and geographic distribution of invertebrates in fouling communities along the east coast of the USA: A regional perspective Marine Ecology Progress Series. 458: 255-268
Karlson RH, Connolly SR, Hughes TP. (2011) Spatial variance in abundance and occupancy of corals across broad geographic scales. Ecology. 92: 1282-91
Cornell HV, Karlson RH, Hughes TP. (2008) Local-regional species richness relationships are linear at very small to large scales in west-central Pacific corals Coral Reefs. 27: 145-151
Idjadi JA, Karlson RH. (2007) Spatial arrangement of competitors influences coexistence of reef-building corals. Ecology. 88: 2449-54
Cornell HV, Karlson RH, Hughes TP. (2007) Scale-dependent variation in coral community similarity across sites, islands, and island groups. Ecology. 88: 1707-15
Karlson RH, Cornell HV, Hughes TP. (2007) Aggregation influences coral species richness at multiple spatial scales. Ecology. 88: 170-7
Connolly SR, Hughes TP, Bellwood DR, et al. (2005) Community structure of corals and reef fishes at multiple scales. Science (New York, N.Y.). 309: 1363-5
Karlson RH, Cornell HV, Hughes TP. (2004) Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature. 429: 867-70
Beekey MA, Karlson RH. (2004) Apparent sibling rivalry in the freshwater fingernail clam Sphaerium striatinum Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 57: 17-22
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