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Shein, Karsten, Loder, Jennifer, Bourne, David G., and Galvis, Nohora (2016) Citizen Science: the next big leap. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium. pp. 590-598. From: 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19-24 June 2016, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Macreadie, Peter, York, Paul, Rasheed, Michael, Bryant, Catherine, Ricart, Aurora, Nielsen, Daniel, Fontes, Maria, Atwood, Tricia, Seymour, Justin, Petrou, Katherina, Kelleway, Jeffrey, Thomson, Alexandra, Trevathan-Tackett, Stacey, Connolly, Rod, and Ralph, Peter (2015) Hot spots and hot moments in seagrass 'blue carbon' science. In: Abstracts from 52nd Australian Marine Science Association Conference. p. 206. From: AMSA 2015: Australian Marine Science Association: Estuaries to Oceans, 5-9 July 2015, Geelong, Victoria.

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Al Moajil-Cole, Grace (2019) Exploring the role of microbes in coral-algal interactions on the inshore Great Barrier Reef. Masters (Research) thesis, James Cook University.

Glasl, Bettina (2019) Microbial indicators for environmental stress and ecosystem health assessments. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Hernández Agreda, Alejandra Isabel (2018) Deciphering the bacterial microworld in corals: structure, variability and persistence. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Ahasan, Md. Shamim (2017) Gut bacterial communities in healthy and compromised green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and an alternative treatment for gastrointestinal disorders. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Buerger, Patrick (2017) Viruses: contributors to and mitigators of black band disease in corals. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Wessels, Wiebke (2016) Molecular bases of soft coral reproduction. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Freckelton, Marnie Louise (2015) Quorum sensing in Australian soft corals. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Casey, Jordan Marie (2015) The role of territorial grazers in coral reef trophic dynamics from microbes to apex predators. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Ogawa, Daisie R. (2014) The effects of climate change on the Acropora aspera holobiont. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Raina, Jean-Baptiste (2013) Production and fate of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in reef-building corals and its integral role in coral health. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Sato, Yui (2012) Ecology and microbiology of black band disease: new insights into the etiology of an old coral disease. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Bell, Sara Christiane (2012) The role of cutaneous bacteria in resistance of Australian tropical rainforest frogs to the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Luter, Heidi M. (2011) The effects of disease and stress on the microbial community of the sponge Ianthella basta. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Sussman, Meir (2009) Coral disease pathogens of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Scardino, Andrew J. (2006) Biomimetic fouling control. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Rowley, Jodi J.L. (2006) Why does Chytridiomycosis drive some frog populations to extinction and not others?: the effects of interspecific variation in host behaviour. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Boyett, Holly Virginia (2006) The ecology and microbiology of black band disease and brown band syndrome on the Great Barrier Reef. Masters (Research) thesis, James Cook University.

Carter, David O. (2005) Forensic taphonomy: processes associated with cadaver decomposition in soil. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Woodhams, Douglas Craig (2003) The ecology of chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of Australian rainforest frogs. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Hendrarto, Ignatius Boedi (1992) Distribution and abundance of benthic diatoms in a tropical mangrove forest and effects of grazing on them by Telescopium telescopium (Linnaeus, 1758). PhD thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.

Ludvianto, Bayu (1992) A study on the biology of Osangularia cf. venusta (Brady): an epiphytic foraminifera on the intertidal seagrass Halodule uninervis in Shelly Bay, Townsville, North Queensland. PhD thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.