Charles Sheppard

One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts

Kent E. Carpenter, Muhammad Abrar, Greta S. Aeby et al. · Science · 2008 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Conservation Biology, Ecology +17

The coral reef crisis: The critical importance of<350ppm CO2

J. E. N. Veron, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Timothy M. Lenton et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2009 · 429 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Ecology, Marine Sciences +17

Predicted recurrences of mass coral mortality in the Indian Ocean

Charles Sheppard · Nature · 2003 · 394 citations

Natural Sciences, Marine Biology, Marine Sciences +14

Coral mortality increases wave energy reaching shores protected by reef flats: Examples from the Seychelles

Charles Sheppard, David J. Dixon, Michael R. Gourlay et al. · Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science · 2005 · 388 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Marine Biology +14

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

Hironobu Fukami, Chaolun Allen Chen, Ann F. Budd et al. · PLoS ONE · 2008 · 341 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +13