Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Perspectives & Textbook Contributions
Wood GV, Filbee-Dexter K, Coleman MA, Valckenaere J, Aguirre DJ, Bentley PM, Carnell P, Dawkins PD, Dykman LN, Earp HS, Ennis LB, Francis P, Franco JN, Hayford H, Ling SD, Lamb JB, Layton C, Lis E, Masters B, Miller N, Moore PJ, Neufield C, Pocklington JB, Smale D, Stahl F, Starko S, Steell SC, Verbeek J, Verges A, Wildling CE and Wernberg T. (2024, in press). Upscaling kelp forest restoration: Challenges, solutions and key recommendations. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Dawkins PD, Paz-Lacavex A, Fiorenza EA, Rush MA, Beas-Luna R, Lorda J, Malpica-Cruz L, Sandoval-Gil JM, McHugh TA, Han MK, Bracken MES, Lamb JB (2024, in press). Field collection and laboratory maintenance to facilitate restoration of canopy-forming giant kelp. Journal of Visualized Experiments.
Wear S, Cunningham SK, Feller IC, Fiorenza EA, Friedlaender A, Gobbler C, Halpern BS, Hirashiki C, Lamb JB, Lovelock CE, McLean J, Nichols RC, Rogers R, Silliman B, da Piedade Silva D, Tuholske C, Vega Thurber B, Wenger A (2024). Wastewater pollution impacts on estuarine and marine environments. Human-induced changes. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, second edition. PDF
Arkema KK, Cunningham SK, Delevaux J, Balderas Guzman C, Klain S, Lamb JB, Nelson L, Scyphers S, Stewart H, Sutton-Grier A (2024). Beneficiaries, equity, and trade-offs in estuarine and coastal ecosystem services. Values and governance. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, second edition. PDF
Epstein H, Brown T, Akinrinade AO, McMinds R, Pollock FJ, Sonett D, Smith S, Bourne DG, Carpenter CS, Knight R, Willis BL, Medina M, Lamb JB, Vega Thurber R, Zaneveld JR (2024). Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution. PDF
Cunningham SK, Murillo K, Chan KYK, and JB Lamb (2023). Managing marine seascapes through community-based conservation. Lessons in Conservation, Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History 13(1): 15-37. PDF
Wakwella A, Wenger A, Jenkins A, Lamb J, Kuempel CD, Claar D, Corbin C, Falinski K, Rivera A, Grantham HS, Jupiter SD (2023). Integrated watershed management solutions for healthy coastal ecosystems and people. Coastal Futures 1, E27. PDF
Tarnas, MC, Ching C, Lamb JB, Parker DM, and MH Zaman (2023). Analyzing health of forcibly displaced communities through an integrated ecological lens. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 108(3): 465-469. PDF
Olander L, Mason S, Tallis H, Lamb JB, Masuda Y and R Kramer (2021). Climate change, ecosystem services and human health. Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice. Eds Luber G & J Lemery. Wiley & Sons Publishing, second edition, 537-560. PDF
Vega Thurber RL, Mydlarz L, Brandt M, Harvell CD, Weil E, Raymundo L, Willis B, Langevin S, Tracy A, Littman R, Kemp K, Garren M and JB Lamb (2020). Deciphering coral disease dynamics: Integrating host, microbiome and the changing environment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 575927. PDF
Littman RL, Fiorenza EA, Wenger AS, Berry KLE, van de Water JAJM, Nguyen L, Aung ST, Parker DM, Rader DN, Harvell CD and JB Lamb. Coastal urbanization influences human pathogens and microdebris contamination in seafood (2020). Science of the Total Environment 736, 139081. PDF
Campbell Biology (2020, 12th Edition). Plastic waste. Eds Urry L, Cain M, Wasserman S, Minorsky P, and J Reece. Pearson Publishing, p 1277. PDF
Galloway T, Haward M, Mason SA, Babayemi JO, Hardesty BD, Krause S, Lamb JB, Hinojosa IA , Horton A (2020). Science-based solutions to plastic pollution. One Earth (Cell Press), 2(1): 5-7.
Harvell CD and JB Lamb (2020). Disease outbreaks threaten marine biodiversity. Marine Disease Ecology, Eds Lafferty K, Behringer D, and Silliman B. 141, Oxford University Press. PDF
Raymundo L, Burge C and JB Lamb (2020). The role of disease ecology in conservation and management. Marine Disease Ecology, Eds Lafferty K, Behringer D, and Silliman B. 159, Oxford University Press. PDF
Darling ES, McClanahan TR, Maina JM, Gurney GA, Graham NAJ, Januchowski-Hartley F, Cinner JE, Mora C, Hicks CC, Maire E, Puotinen M, Skirving WJ, Adjeroud M, Ahmadia G, Arthur R, Bauman A, Beger M, Berumen M, Bigot L, Bouwmeester J, Brenier A, Bridge T, Brown E, Campbell S, Cannon S, Cauvin B, Chen C, Claudet J, Denis V, Donner S, Estradivari E, Fadli N, Feary D, Fenner D, Fox H, Franklin E, Friedlander A, Gilmour J, Goiran C, Guest J, Hobbs J, Hoey A, Houk P, Johnson S, Jupiter S, Kayal M, Kuo C, Lamb J, Lee M, Low J, Muthiga N, Muttaqin E, Nand Y, Nash K, Nedlic O, Pandolfi J, Pardede S, Patankar V, Penin L, Ribas-Deulofeu L, Richards Z, Roberts T, Rodgers K, Safuan C, Sala E, Shedrawi G, Sin T, Smallhorn-West P, Smith J, Sommer B, Steinberg P, Sutthacheep M, Tan C, Williams G, Wilson S, Yeemin T, Bruno JF, Fortin MJ, Krkosek M and D Mouillot. 2019. Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology and Evolution, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0953-8.
Lamb JB*, Pollock FJ*, van de Water JAJM, Smith H, Schaffelke B, Willis BL, and DG Bourne (2019). Reduced diversity and stability of coral-associated bacterial communities and suppressed immune function precedes disease onset in corals. Royal Society Open Science 6, 190355. *shared first authors
Lamb JB, Willis BL, Fiorenza EA, Couch CS, Howard R, Rader DN, True JD, Kelly LA, Ahmad A, Jompa J, and CD Harvell (2018). Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs. Science 359, 460-462.
Lamb JB, van de Water JAJM, Bourne DG, Altier C, Fiorenza EA, Abu N, Hein MY, Jompa J, and CD Harvell (2017). Seagrass ecosystems reduce exposure to bacterial pathogens of humans, fishes and invertebrates. Science 355: 731- 733.
Page CA, Field SN, Pollock FJ, Lamb JB, Shedrawi G, and SK Wilson (2017). Assessing coral health and disease from digital photographs and in situ surveys. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189 (18).
Lamb JB, Wenger AS, Devlin M, Cecarelli D, Williamson DH, and BL Willis (2016). Reserves as tools for mitigating marine disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B. 371 (1689), 20150210.
van de Water JAJM, Lamb JB, van Oppen MJH, Heron SF, and BL Willis (2016). Temporal patterns in innate immunity parameters in reef‐building corals and linkages with local climatic conditions. Ecosphere 7 (11), e01505.
Kelly LA, Heintz T, Lamb JB, Ainsworth T, BL Willis (2016). Ecological and histopathological characterization of a novel plaque-like growth anomaly affecting a reef-building coral. Frontiers in Marine Science 3 (151).
Lamb JB, Williamson DH, Russ GR, and BL Willis (2015). Protected areas mitigate diseases of reef-building corals by reducing damage from fishing. Ecology 96 (9), 2555–2567.
Maynard JA, van Hooidonk R, Eakin CM, Puotinen M, Garren M, Williams GJ, Heron SF, Lamb JB, Weil E, Willis BL, and CD Harvell (2015). Climate projections of conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen virulence. Nature Climate Change 5 (7), 688–694.
Lamb JB*, van de Water JAJM*, van Oppen, MJH, Willis BL, and Bourne DG (2015). Comparative immune responses of corals to stressors associated with offshore reef-based tourist platforms. Conservation Physiology 3 (1), cov032. *shared first authors
Hein MY, Lamb JB, Scott C, and BL Willis (2015). Assessing baseline levels of coral health in a newly established marine protected area in a global scuba diving hotspot. Marine Environmental Research 103, 56–65.
Lamb JB, True JD, Piromvaragorn S, and BL Willis (2014). Scuba diving damage and intensity of tourist activities increases coral disease prevalence. Biological Conservation 178, 88–96.
Pollock FJ, Lamb JB, Field SN, Shedrawi G, Bourne DG, and BL Willis (2014). Dredging increases coral disease prevalence on nearby reefs. PLoS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone. 0102498.
Maynard JA, Anthony KRN, Burgman MA, Harvell CD, Beeden R, Heron S, Lamb JB, and BL Willis (2011). Predicting outbreaks of a climate-driven coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 30 (2), 485–495.
Lamb JB and BL Willis (2011). Using coral disease prevalence to assess the effect of concentrating tourism activities on offshore reefs in a tropical marine park. Conservation Biology 25 (5), 1044–1052.
Policy Reports, Theses & Popular Media Articles
Vibrant Oceans Initiative. Managing watersheds for coral reefs and public health (2022). Wakwella A, Wenger A, Jupiter S, Lamb J, Kuempel K, Jenkins A, Claar D, Corbin C, Falinski, Rivera A, and Grantham H. Wildlife Conservation Society and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme. Plastics and shallow water coral reefs - Synthesis of the science for policy-makers (2019). Sweet M, Stelfox M, and JB Lamb Eds Grimsditch G, Tamelander J, Savelli-Soderberg H, and Hamilton J.
The Conversation. Lamb JB (2018). Eleven billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs (English and Indonesian).
Fauna & Flora International. Marine biodiversity of Myeik Archipelago, Myanmar (2018). Maung A, Benbow S, Deardon P, Freeman C, Jones B, Jones S, Karr K, Lamb J, McKeon S, Obura D, Russel B, Nyi S, Thiha S, Aung S, Tun S, Lunn Z. Eds Howard R.
Wildlife Conservation Society. Coral reef conservation solutionscape: Implementing 50 Reefs (2017). Wenger A, Ahmadia G, Alvarez-Romero J, Barnes M, Blythe J, Brodie J, Fox H, Gill D, Auil Gomez N, Gurney G, Holmes K, Jupiter S, Lamb JB, Mangubhai S, Matthews E, Matthews K, Pressey W, Teneva L, Tewfik A, Wells S, and Darling E.
Ecological Society of America. Lamb JB, Williamson DH, Russ GR, and BL Willis (2015). Protected areas moderate diseases of reef-building corals. Issue 96 (4), 647-650.
PhD Thesis. Lamb JB. (2014). Influence of marine-based industries on coral health and disease. Australian Institute of Marine Science at James Cook University, 200 pp.