Ph.D.
in Marine Science,
University of South Florida,
College of Marine Science,
The Influence of Disturbance and Management on Coral Reef Community Structure in Belize 1996 - 2001
Kjerfve, Bjorn, McField, Melanie, Thattai, Deeptha, and Giro, Ana. 2021. "Coral reef health in the Gulf of Honduras in relation to fluvial runoff, hurricanes, and fishing pressure." Marine pollution bulletin 172:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.1128652021
Kline, David, I., Dehgan, Alex, Bunje, Paul, Selbe, Shah, Chirayath, Ved, Pizarro, Oscar, Leray, Matthieu, Connolly, Sean, Bongaert, Pim, Treibitz, Tali, Levy, Oren, Kriegman, David, Andersson, Andreas, McField, Melanie D., and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2021. "The Coral Reef Sentinels Program: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health." Marine Technology Society Journal, 118–118. 55, (3), Columbia; Maryland: The Marine Technology Society Incorporated. https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.55.3.51.
2021
Deichmann, Jessica L., Canty, Steven W. J., Akre, Thomas S. B., and McField, Melanie. 2019. "Broadly defining "working lands"." Science 363 (6431):1046-1047. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw30072019
Suchley, Adam, McField, Melanie D., and Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo. 2016. "Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs." PeerJ 4:e2084. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20842016
Rocha, Luiz A., Rocha, Claudia R., Baldwin, Carole C., Weigt, Lee A., and McField, Melanie D. 2015. "Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish - Springer." Coral Reefs 34 (3):803-806. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-015-1293-z2015
Edwards, Helen J., Elliott, Ian A., Eakin, C. Mark, Irikawa, Akiyuki, Madin, Joshua S., McField, Melanie D., Morgan, Jessica A., Van Woesik, Robert, and Mumby, Peter J. 2011. "How much time can herbivore protection buy for coral reefs under realistic regimes of hurricanes and coral bleaching?." Global Change Biology 17 (6):2033-2048. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02366.x2011
Carilli, Jessica E., Norris, Richard D., Black, Bryan, Walsh, Sheila M., and McField, Melanie D. 2010. "Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold." Global Change Biology 16 (4):1247-1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02043.x2010
chapter
Precht, William F., Aronson, Richard B., Gardner, Toby A., Gill, Jennifer A., Hawkins, Julie P., Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A., Jaap, Walter C., McClanahan, Tim R., McField, Melanie D., Murdoch, Thaddeus J. T., Nugues, Maggy M., Roberts, Callum M., Schelten, Christiane K., Watkinson, Andrew R., and Côté, Isabelle M. 2020. "The timing and causality of ecological shifts on Caribbean reefs." in Advances in Marine Biology, 331-360. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2020.08.0082020
McField, Melanie D., Drysdale, Ian, Marisol, Rueda Flores, Pott, Roberto, and Giro, Ana. 2017. "Collaborative, adaptive management of the Mesoamerican Reef." in Handbook on the Economics and Management for Sustainable Oceans, edited by Nunes, P., Svenssona L.E., and Markandya A., 201-220. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2017