William F. Precht

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

William F. Precht is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William F. Precht has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Ecology, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 31 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William F. Precht's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (61 papers), Marine and fisheries research (32 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (28 papers). William F. Precht is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (61 papers), Marine and fisheries research (32 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (28 papers). William F. Precht collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William F. Precht's co-authors include Richard B. Aronson, John F. Bruno, Ian G. Macintyre, Martha L. Robbart, Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch, Elizabeth R. Selig, Virginia G. W. Schutte, Hugh Sweatman, Brooke Gintert and Robert van Woesik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

William F. Precht

68 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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Unprecedented Disease-Related Coral Mortality in Southeastern Florida

2016 256 citations William F. Precht, Brooke Gintert et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William F. Precht

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Reduced Atlantic reef growth past 2 °C warming amplifies sea-level impacts 2025 ·Nature ·Chris T. Perry, Didier M. de Bakker, (unknown), Steeve Comeau, Ben P. Harvey, Christopher E. Cornwall, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip, Esmeralda Pérez‐Cervantes, (unknown), Ian C. Enochs, Lauren T. Toth, Aaron O’Dea, Erin Dillon, Erik H. Meesters, William F. Precht	1
2	Modern coral range expansion off southeast Florida falls short of Late Holocene baseline 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Anton E. Oleinik, Lauren T. Toth, William F. Precht, Richard A. Mortlock	4
3	Probabilistic investigation of global mean sea level during MIS 5a based on observations from Cave Hill, Barbados 2022 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·(unknown), Jacqueline Austermann, Blake Dyer, Oana A. Dumitru, William F. Precht, (unknown), S. L. Goldstein, Maureen E. Raymo	4
4	Failure to respond to a coral disease epizootic in Florida: causes and consequences 2021 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·William F. Precht	15
5	Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development 2021 ·Scientific Reports ·Lauren T. Toth, William F. Precht, (unknown), Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Martha L. Robbart, J. Harold Hudson, Anton E. Oleinik, Bernhard Riegl, Eugene A. Shinn, Richard B. Aronson	28
6	Regional coral disease outbreak overwhelms impacts from a local dredge project 2019 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Brooke Gintert, William F. Precht, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Martha L. Robbart	44
7	Ecology, histopathology, and microbial ecology of a white-band disease outbreak in the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis 2019 ·Diseases of Aquatic Organisms ·Sarah Gignoux‐Wolfsohn, William F. Precht, Esther C. Peters, Brooke Gintert, Leslie S. Kaufman	27
8	TIMING OF LATE HOLOCENE CORAL REEF DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA CONTINENTAL REEF TRACT 2016 ·Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America ·(unknown), Anton E. Oleinik, Richard A. Mortlock, Lauren T. Toth, William F. Precht	2
9	Is Jamaica a good model for understanding Caribbean coral reef dynamics? 2013 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Isabelle M. Côté, William F. Precht, Richard B. Aronson, Toby Gardner	13
10	Catastrophe and the life span of coral reefs 2011 ·Ecology ·Richard B. Aronson, William F. Precht, Ian G. Macintyre, Lauren T. Toth	12
11	Changing Patterns of Microhabitat Utilization by the Threespot Damselfish, Stegastes planifrons, on Caribbean Reefs 2010 ·PLoS ONE ·William F. Precht, Richard B. Aronson, Ryan M. Moody, Les Kaufman	43
12	Assessing evidence of phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominance on coral reefs 2009 ·Ecology ·John F. Bruno, Hugh Sweatman, William F. Precht, Elizabeth R. Selig, Virginia G. W. Schutte	360
13	Post-Hurricane Assessment of Sensitive Habitats of the Flower Garden Banks Vicinity 2009 ·University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) ·Martha L. Robbart, Richard B. Aronson, (unknown), William F. Precht, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	5
14	The potential listing of Acropora species under the US Endangered Species Act 2004 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·William F. Precht, Martha L. Robbart, Richard B. Aronson	26
15	The 1998 bleaching event and its aftermath on a coral reef in Belize 2002 ·Marine Biology ·Richard B. Aronson, William F. Precht, Marguerite A. Toscano, Karen Koltes	187
16	Origin of the Pelican Cays Ponds, Belize 2000 ·Atoll research bulletin ·Ian G. Macintyre, William F. Precht, Richard B. Aronson	27
17	Coral bleach-out in Belize 2000 ·Nature ·Richard B. Aronson, William F. Precht, Ian G. Macintyre, Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch	117
18	Photographic versus visual census techniques for the quantification of juvenile corals 1998 ·Bulletin of Marine Science ·Peter J. Edmunds, Richard B. Aronson, Dione W. Swanson, Don R. Levitan, William F. Precht	41
19	Preface: The geological side of the International Year of the Reef 1998 ·Carbonates and Evaporites ·William F. Precht	1
20	Stasis, biological disturbance, and community structure of a Holocene coral reef 1997 ·Paleobiology ·Richard B. Aronson, William F. Precht	165

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