Dr Nicola Browne
Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology
School of the Environment
Book Chapter
Browne, Nicola K., Cuttler, Michael, Moon, Katie, Morgan, Kyle, Ross, Claire L., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Kennedy, Emma, Harris, Dan, Barnes, Peter, Bauman, Andrew, Beetham, Eddie, Bonesso, Joshua, Bozec, Yves-Marie, Cornwall, Christopher, Dee, Shannon, DeCarlo, Thomas, D’Olivo, Juan P., Doropoulos, Christopher, Evans, Richard D., Eyre, Bradley, Gatenby, Peter, Gonzalez, Manuel, Hamylton, Sarah, Hansen, Jeff, Lowe, Ryan, Mallela, Jennie, O’Leary, Michael, Roff, George, Saunders, Benjamin J. and Zweilfer, Adi (2021). Predicting responses of geo-ecological carbonate reef systems to climate change: a conceptual model and review. Oceanography and marine biology: an annual review. (pp. 229-370) edited by S. J. Hawkins, A. J. Lemasson, A. L. Allcock, A. E. Bates, M. Byrne, A. J. Evans, L. B. Firth, E. M. Marzinelli, B. D. Russell, I. P. Smith, S. E. Swearer and P. A. Todd. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003138846-4
Journal Articles
Naciri, Walid, Boom, Arnoud, Watanabe, Takaaki K., Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter, Hathorne, Edmund, Nagarajan, Ramasamy, Browne, Nicola, McIlwain, Jennifer and Zinke, Jens (2024). Paired coral Sr/Ca and δ18O records reveal increasing ENSO influence on Malaysian Borneo's hydroclimate. Science of the Total Environment, 955 176943, 176943. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176943
Zweifler, Adi, Dee, Shannon and Browne, Nicola K. (2024). Resilience of turbid coral communities to marine heatwave. Coral Reefs, 43 (5), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00338-024-02538-0
Dee, Shannon, Zweifler, Adi, Cuttler, Michael, Nilsen, Jake, Bonesso, Joshua, O'Leary, Michael and Browne, Nicola K. (2024). The application of carbonate and sediment budgets to assess the stability of marginal reef systems. Marine Geology, 473 107324, 107324. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107324
Zweifler, Adi, Browne, Nicola K., Levy, Oren, Hovey, Renae and O’Leary, Mick (2024). Acropora tenuis energy acquisition along a natural turbidity gradient. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11 1288296. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1288296
Morris, Rebecca L., Campbell-Hooper, Erin, Waters, Elissa, Bishop, Melanie J., Lovelock, Catherine E., Lowe, Ryan J., Strain, Elisabeth M.A., Boon, Paul, Boxshall, Anthony, Browne, Nicola K., Carley, James T., Fest, Benedikt J., Fraser, Matthew W., Ghisalberti, Marco, Gillanders, Bronwyn M., Kendrick, Gary A., Konlechner, Teresa M., Mayer-Pinto, Mariana, Pomeroy, Andrew W.M., Rogers, Abbie A., Simpson, Viveka, Van Rooijen, Arnold A., Waltham, Nathan J. and Swearer, Stephen E. (2024). Current extent and future opportunities for living shorelines in Australia. Science of The Total Environment, 917 170363, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170363
Cartwright, Paula, Browne, Nicola, Fearns, Peter, O'Leary, Mick and Lowe, Ryan (2024). Applying ensemble climate models to predict the fate of marginal coral reefs already existing at thermal and turbidity limits in arid tropical Australia. Climate Resilience and Sustainability, 3 (1). doi: 10.1002/cli2.66
Zweifler, Adi, Evans, Richard D., Browne, Nicola K. and Thomas, Luke (2024). Symbiont community dynamics in the turbid reef specialist, Turbinaria reniformis, along a latitudinal and environmental gradient in Western Australia. Coral Reefs, 43 (4), 1161-1171. doi: 10.1007/s00338-024-02528-2
Schoepf, Verena, Baumann, Justin H., Barshis, Daniel J., Browne, Nicola K., Camp, Emma F., Comeau, Steeve, Cornwall, Christopher E., Guzman, Hector M., Riegl, Bernhard, Rodolfo-Metalpa, Riccardo and Sommer, Brigitte (2023). Corals at the edge of environmental limits: a new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities. Science of the Total Environment, 884 163688, 163688. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163688
Bonesso, Joshua L., Cuttler, Michael V. W., Browne, Nicola K., Mather, Caroline C., Paumard, Victorien, Hiscock, William T., Callow, John N. and O'Leary, Michael (2023). Reef island evolution in a turbid-water coral reef province of the Indo-Pacific. Depositional Record, 9 (4), 921-934. doi: 10.1002/dep2.242
Browne, Nicola K. and Bauman, Andrew G. (2023). Marginal Reef Systems: Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World. Diversity, 15 (6) 703, 703. doi: 10.3390/d15060703
Cartwright, Paula J., Browne, Nicola K., Belton, David, Parnum, Iain, O'Leary, Michael, Valckenaere, Jurgen, Fearns, Peter and Lowe, Ryan (2023). Long-term spatial variations in turbidity and temperature provide new insights into coral-algal states on extreme/marginal reefs. Coral Reefs, 42 (4), 859-872. doi: 10.1007/s00338-023-02393-5
Naciri, Walid, Boom, Arnoud, Payne, Matthew, Browne, Nicola, Evans, Noreen J., Holdship, Philip, Rankenburg, Kai, Nagarajan, Ramasamy, McDonald, Bradley J., McIlwain, Jennifer and Zinke, Jens (2023). Massive corals record deforestation in Malaysian Borneo through sediments in river discharge. Biogeosciences, 20 (8), 1587-1604. doi: 10.5194/bg-20-1587-2023
Dee, Shannon, DeCarlo, Thomas, Lozic, Ivan, Nilsen, Jake and Browne, Nicola K. (2023). Low bioerosion rates on inshore turbid reefs of Western Australia. Diversity, 15 (1) 62, 62. doi: 10.3390/d15010062
Bonesso, Joshua L., Browne, Nicola K., Murley, Matilda, Dee, Shannon, Cuttler, Michael V. W., Paumard, Victorien, Benson, Dylan and O'Leary, Michael (2022). Reef to island sediment connections within an inshore turbid reef island system of the eastern Indian Ocean. Sedimentary Geology, 436 106177. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106177
Cartwright, Paula J., Fearns, Peter R. C. S., Branson, Paul, Cuttler, Michael V. W., O'Leary, Michael, Browne, Nicola K. and Lowe, Ryan J. (2021). Identifying metocean drivers of turbidity using 18 years of MODIS satellite data: implications for marine ecosystems under climate change. Remote Sensing, 13 (18) 3616, 3616. doi: 10.3390/rs13183616
Dee, Shannon, Cuttler, Michael, Cartwright, Paula, McIlwain, Jennifer and Browne, Nicola (2021). Encrusters maintain stable carbonate production despite temperature anomalies among two inshore island reefs of the Pilbara, Western Australia. Marine Environmental Research, 169 105386, 105386. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105386
Zweifler (Zvifler), Adi, O'Leary, Michael, Morgan, Kyle and Browne, Nicola K. (2021). Turbid coral reefs: past, present and future-a review. Diversity, 13 (6) ARTN 251, 251. doi: 10.3390/d13060251
Moon, Katie and Browne, Nicola K. (2021). Developing shared qualitative models for complex systems. Conservation Biology, 35 (3), 1039-1050. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13632
Cornwall, Christopher E., Comeau, Steeve, Kornder, Niklas A., Perry, Chris T., van Hooidonk, Ruben, DeCarlo, Thomas M., Pratchett, Morgan S., Anderson, Kristen D., Browne, Nicola, Carpenter, Robert, Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo, D’Olivo, Juan P., Doo, Steve S., Figueiredo, Joana, Fortunato, Sofia A. V., Kennedy, Emma, Lantz, Coulson A., McCulloch, Malcolm T., González-Rivero, Manuel, Schoepf, Verena, Smithers, Scott G. and Lowe, Ryan J. (2021). Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (21) e2015265118, 1-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015265118
Moon, Katie, Cvitanovic, Christopher, Blackman, Deborah A., Scales, Ivan R. and Browne, Nicola K. (2021). Five questions to understand epistemology and its influence on integrative marine research. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 574158. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.574158
Cuttler, Michael V. W., Vos, Kilian, Branson, Paul, Hansen, Jeff E., O'Leary, Michael, Browne, Nicola K. and Lowe, Ryan J. (2020). Interannual response of reef islands to climate-driven variations in water level and wave climate. Remote Sensing, 12 (24) 4089, 4089-18. doi: 10.3390/rs12244089
Newnham, Tahlia J., Browne, Nicola K., Bumbak, Joshua, Loudon, Luke, Wellington, Harry, Shedrawi, George, Hacker, Jorg and O'Leary, Michael (2020). Long-term (70-year) monitoring of reef structure through high-resolution multidecadal aerial imagery. Coral Reefs, 39 (6), 1859-1870. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-02012-7
Bonesso, Joshua Louis, Cuttler, Michael V. W., Browne, Nicola, Hacker, Jorg and O'Leary, Michael (2020). Assessing reef island sensitivity based on LiDAR-derived morphometric indicators. Remote Sensing, 12 (18) 3033, 3033. doi: 10.3390/rs12183033
Dee, Shannon, Cuttler, Michael, O'Leary, Michael, Hacker, Jorg and Browne, Nicola (2020). The complexity of calculating an accurate carbonate budget. Coral Reefs, 39 (6), 1525-1534. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-01982-y
Krawczyk, Hedwig, Zinke, Jens, Browne, Nicola, Struck, Ulrich, McIlwain, Jennifer, O'Leary, Michael and Garbe-Schoenberg, Dieter (2020). Corals reveal ENSO-driven synchrony of climate impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems in northern Borneo. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 3678. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60525-1
Browne, Nicola, Braoun, Christina, McIlwain, Jennifer, Nagarajan, Ramasamy and Zinke, Jens (2019). Borneo coral reefs subject to high sediment loads show evidence of resilience to various environmental stressors. PeerJ, 7 (8) e7382, e7382. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7382
Heery, Eliza C., Hoeksema, Bert W., Browne, Nicola K., Reimer, James D., Ang, Put O., Huang, Danwei, Friess, Daniel A., Chou, Loke Ming, Loke, Lynette H. L., Saksena-Taylor, Poonam, Alsagoff, Nadia, Yeemin, Thamasak, Sutthacheep, Makamas, Si Tuan Vo,, Bos, Arthur R., Gumanao, Girley S., Hussein, Muhammad Ali Syed, Waheed, Zarinah, Lane, David J. W., Johan, Ofri, Kunzmann, Andreas, Jompa, Jamaluddin, Suharsono,, Taira, Daisuke, Bauman, Andrew G. and Todd, Peter A. (2018). Urban coral reefs: degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 135, 654-681. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.07.041
Wenger, Amelia S., Rawson, Christopher A., Wilson, Shaun, Newman, Stephen J., Travers, Michael J., Atkinson, Scott, Browne, Nicola, Clarke, Douglas, Depczynski, Martial, Erftemeijer, Paul L. A., Evans, Richard D., Hobbs, Jean-Paul A., McIlwain, Jennifer L., McLean, Dianne L., Saunders, Benjamin J. and Harvey, Euan (2018). Management strategies to minimize the dredging impacts of coastal development on fish and fisheries. Conservation Letters, 11 (5) e12572, e12572. doi: 10.1111/conl.12572
Browne, Nicola K., Yaakub, Siti Maryam, Tay, Jason K. L. and Todd, Peter A. (2017). Recreating the shading effects of ship wake induced turbidity to test acclimation responses in the seagrass Thalassia hemprichii. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 199, 87-95. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.09.034
Larsen, Trine C., Browne, Nicola K., Erichsen, Anders C., Tun, Karenne and Todd, Peter A. (2017). Modelling for management: coral photo-physiology and growth potential under varying turbidity regimes. Ecological Modelling, 362, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.08.018
Wenger, Amelia S., Harvey, Euan, Wilson, Shaun, Rawson, Chris, Newman, Stephen J., Clarke, Douglas, Saunders, Benjamin J., Browne, Nicola, Travers, Michael J., Mcilwain, Jennifer L., Erftemeijer, Paul L. A., Hobbs, Jean-Paul A., Mclean, Dianne, Depczynski, Martial and Evans, Richard D. (2017). A critical analysis of the direct effects of dredging on fish. Fish and Fisheries, 18 (5), 967-985. doi: 10.1111/faf.12218
Wenger, Amelia S., Williamson, David H., da Silva, Eduardo T., Ceccarelli, Daniela M., Browne, Nicola K., Petus, Caroline and Devlin, Michelle J. (2016). Effects of reduced water quality on coral reefs in and out of no-take marine reserves. Conservation Biology, 30 (1), 142-153. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12576
Browne, Nicola K., Tay, Jason and Todd, Peter A. (2015). Recreating pulsed turbidity events to determine coral-sediment thresholds for active management. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 466, 98-109. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.02.010
Browne, Nicola K., Tay, Jason K. L., Low, Jeffrey, Larson, Ole and Todd, Peter A. (2015). Fluctuations in coral health of four common inshore reef corals in response to seasonal and anthropogenic changes in water quality. Marine Environmental Research, 105, 39-52. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.02.002
Junjie, Reef K., Browne, Nicola K., Erftemeijer, Paul L. A. and Todd, Peter A. (2014). Impacts of sediments on coral energetics: partitioning the effects of turbidity and settling particles. PLoS One, 9 (9) e107195. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107195
Browne, Nicola K., Precht, Elimar, Last, Kim S. and Todd, Peter A. (2014). Photo-physiological costs associated with acute sediment stress events in three near-shore turbid water corals. Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 502, 129-143. doi: 10.3354/meps10714
Browne, N. K., Smithers, S. G. and Perry, C. T. (2013). Carbonate and terrigenous sediment budgets for two inshore turbid reefs on the central Great Barrier Reef. Marine Geology, 346, 101-123. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.08.011
Browne, N. K., Smithers, S. G. and Perry, C. T. (2013). Spatial and temporal variations in turbidity on two inshore turbid reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 32 (1), 195-210. doi: 10.1007/s00338-012-0965-1
Browne, N. K., Smithers, S. G. and Perry, C. T. (2012). Coral reefs of the turbid inner-shelf of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: an environmental and geomorphic perspective on their occurrence, composition and growth. Earth - Science Reviews, 115 (1-2), 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.06.006
Browne, Nicola K., Smithers, Scott G., Perry, Chris T. and Ridd, Peter V. (2012). A field-based technique for measuring sediment flux on coral reefs: application to turbid reefs on the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Coastal Research, 28 (5), 1247-1262. doi: 10.2112/jcoastres-d-11-00171.1
Perry, C. T., Smithers, S. G., Gulliver, P. and Browne, N. K. (2012). Evidence of very rapid reef accretion and reef growth under high turbidity and terrigenous sedimentation. Geology, 40 (8), 719-722. doi: 10.1130/g33261.1
Browne, N. K. (2012). Spatial and temporal variations in coral growth on an inshore turbid reef subjected to multiple disturbances. Marine Environmental Research, 77, 71-83. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.02.005
Browne, N. K., Smithers, S. G. and Perry, C. T. (2010). Geomorphology and community structure of Middle Reef, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia: an inner-shelf turbid zone reef subject to episodic mortality events. Coral Reefs, 29 (3), 683-689. doi: 10.1007/s00338-010-0640-3
Browne, N. K., Huang, Z., Dockrell, M., Hashmi, P. and Price, R. G. (2010). Evaluation of new chromogenic substrates for the detection of coliforms. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 108 (5), 1828-1838. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04588.x
Conference Paper
Helmholz, Petra, Bassett, Tahlia, Boyle, Liam, Browne, Nicola, Parnum, Iain, Moustaka, Molly and Evans, Richard (2024). Evaluating linear coral growth estimation using photogrammetry and alternative point cloud comparison methods. ISPRS TC II Mid-term Symposium “The Role of Photogrammetry for a Sustainable World”, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 11-14 June 2024. Goettingen, Germany: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-2-2024-121-2024