William K. Fitt

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

William K. Fitt is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William K. Fitt has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Ecology, 47 papers in Oceanography and 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William K. Fitt's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (51 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (30 papers) and Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (17 papers). William K. Fitt is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (51 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (30 papers) and Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (17 papers). William K. Fitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. William K. Fitt's co-authors include Mark E. Warner, Gregory W. Schmidt, Robert K. Trench, Todd C. LaJeunesse, Daniel J. Thornhill, Barbara E. Brown, R. P. Dunne, Dustin W. Kemp, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg and Steven L. Coon and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

William K. Fitt

81 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Damage to photosystem II in symbiotic dinoflagellates: A determinant of coral bleaching

1999 603 citations Mark E. Warner, William K. Fitt et al. profile →
Coral bleaching: interpretation of thermal tolerance limits and thermal thresholds in tropical corals

2001 590 citations William K. Fitt, Barbara E. Brown et al. Coral Reefs profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William K. Fitt United States	43	6.3k	4.9k	2.6k	722	471	81	7.3k
Christian Wild Germany	44	6.1k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	904 1.3×	299 0.6×	210	7.1k
Rafel Coma Spain	46	4.1k 0.7×	2.7k 0.5×	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	339 0.7×	87	5.4k
Paul L. Jokiel United States	45	5.9k 0.9×	4.6k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	497 0.7×	199 0.4×	94	7.2k
Sophie Dove Australia	47	5.9k 0.9×	4.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	808 1.1×	141 0.3×	123	7.2k
Sven Uthicke Australia	52	6.4k 1.0×	6.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	609 0.8×	146 0.3×	180	9.4k
Bert W. Hoeksema Netherlands	38	5.0k 0.8×	3.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	593 0.8×	395 0.8×	259	6.0k
James Davis Reimer Japan	34	4.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	696 1.0×	593 1.3×	313	5.8k
Ruth D. Gates United States	48	7.0k 1.1×	5.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	921 1.3×	176 0.4×	127	8.1k
Craig M. Young United States	48	3.5k 0.5×	4.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	765 1.1×	367 0.8×	185	7.0k
Simon K. Davy New Zealand	45	5.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 1.9×	346 0.7×	162	5.6k

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All Works

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Fitt, William K., Dietrich K. Hofmann, Aki Ohdera, Dustin W. Kemp, & André C. Morandini. (2025). The Effects of Heat Stress on the Physiology and Mortality of the Rhizostome Upside-Down Jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana—Observations Throughout the Life Cycle. Oceans. 6(1). 6–6. 2 indexed citations

Prieto, Laura, Shin-ichi Uye, Thomas K. Doyle, et al.. (2024). Ecology of Rhizostomeae. Advances in marine biology. 98. 397–509. 5 indexed citations

Ohdera, Aki, et al.. (2023). Comparative Genomic Insights into Bacterial Induction of Larval Settlement and Metamorphosis in the Upside-Down Jellyfish Cassiopea. mSphere. 8(3). e0031522–e0031522. 4 indexed citations

Fitt, William K., Dietrich K. Hofmann, Dustin W. Kemp, & Aki Ohdera. (2021). Different Physiology in the Jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana and C. frondosa in Florida Bay. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 811–821. 13 indexed citations

Fitt, William K.. (2020). Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris actively consume the sponge Chondrilla caribensis. PeerJ. 8. e8443–e8443. 1 indexed citations

Hopkinson, Brian M., et al.. (2015). Internal carbonic anhydrase activity in the tissue of scleractinian corals is sufficient to support proposed roles in photosynthesis and calcification. Journal of Experimental Biology. 218(Pt 13). 2039–48. 21 indexed citations

Fitt, William K., et al.. (2015). External carbonic anhydrase in three Caribbean corals: quantification of activity and role in CO2 uptake. Coral Reefs. 34(3). 703–713. 18 indexed citations

Sassi, Roberto, et al.. (2013). Seasonal changes in zooxanthellae harbored by zoanthids (Cnidaria, Zoanthidea) from coastal reefs in northeastern Brazil. 13 indexed citations

Wild, Christian, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Malik S. Naumann, et al.. (2011). Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers. Marine and Freshwater Research. 62(2). 205–215. 211 indexed citations

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Thornhill, Daniel J., Randi Rotjan, Brian D. Todd, et al.. (2011). A Connection between Colony Biomass and Death in Caribbean Reef-Building Corals. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e29535–e29535. 106 indexed citations

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LaJeunesse, Todd C., D. Tye Pettay, Eugenia M. Sampayo, et al.. (2010). Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium. Journal of Biogeography. 37(5). 785–800. 287 indexed citations

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Thornhill, Daniel J., Xiang Yu, William K. Fitt, & Scott R. Santos. (2009). Reef Endemism, Host Specificity and Temporal Stability in Populations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates from Two Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Corals. PLoS ONE. 4(7). e6262–e6262. 98 indexed citations

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LaJeunesse, Todd C., et al.. (2008). Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral‐algal symbioses. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(2). 719–727. 111 indexed citations

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Thornhill, Daniel J., Dustin W. Kemp, Brigitte U. Bruns, William K. Fitt, & Gregory W. Schmidt. (2008). CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COLD TOLERANCE AND TEMPERATE BIOGEOGRAPHY IN A WESTERN ATLANTIC SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYTA) LINEAGE¹. Journal of Phycology. 44(5). 1126–1135. 88 indexed citations

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Todd, Brian D., Daniel J. Thornhill, & William K. Fitt. (2005). Patterns of inorganic phosphate uptake in Cassiopea xamachana: A bioindicator species. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 52(5). 515–521. 23 indexed citations

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Fitt, William K., Barbara E. Brown, Mark E. Warner, & R. P. Dunne. (2001). Coral bleaching: interpretation of thermal tolerance limits and thermal thresholds in tropical corals. Coral Reefs. 20(1). 51–65. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hofmann, D. K., et al.. (1996). Checkpoints in the life-cycle of Cassiopea spp.: control of metagenesis and metamorphosis in a tropical jellyfish. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 40(1). 331–338. 79 indexed citations

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Fitt, William K. & Mark E. Warner. (1995). Bleaching Patterns of Four Species of Caribbean Reef Corals. Biological Bulletin. 189(3). 298–307. 216 indexed citations

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Fautin, Daphne G. & William K. Fitt. (1991). A jellyfish-eating sea anemone (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) from Palau: Entacmaea medusivora sp. nov.. Hydrobiologia. 216-217(1). 453–461. 25 indexed citations

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Fitt, William K., Michael P. Labare, W. Claiborne Fuqua, et al.. (1989). Factors influencing bacterial production of inducers of settlement behavior of larvae of the oysterCrassostrea gigas. Microbial Ecology. 17(3). 287–298. 43 indexed citations

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