PUBLISHED (*indicates student author)
  1. Kopecky, K. L., Holbrook, S. J., *Partlow, E., *Cunningham, M., & Schmitt, R. J. (2024). Changing disturbance regimes, material legacies, and stabilizing feedbacks: Dead coral skeletons impair key recovery processes following coral bleaching. Global Change Biology, 30(9), e17504. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17504.
  2. Kopecky, K. L., Pavoni, G., Nocerino, E.; Brooks, A. J., Corsini, M., Menna, F., Gallagher, J. P., Capra, A., Castagnetti, C., Rossi, P., et al. (2023). Quantifying the loss of coral from a bleaching event using underwater photogrammetry and AI-assisted image segmentation. Remote Sensing, 5, 4077. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15164077.
  3. Kopecky, K. L., Stier, A. C., Schmitt, R. J., Holbrook, S. J., & Moeller, H. V. (2023). Contrasting impacts of different disturbance types on coral reefs: Wave disturbance vs. coral bleaching. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 104(2), e02061. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2061
  4. Kopecky, K. L., Stier, A. C., Schmitt, R. J., Holbrook, S. J., & Moeller, H. V. (2023). Material legacies can degrade resilience: Structure‐retaining disturbances promote regime shifts on coral reefs. Ecology, e4006. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4006.
  5. Ingeman, K. E., Zhao, L. Z., Wolf, C., Williams, D. R., Ritger, A. L., Ripple, W. J., Kopecky, K. L., Dillon, E. M., DiFiore, B. P., Curtis, J. S., Csik, S. R., Bui, A., & Stier, A. C. (2022). Glimmers of hope in global apex predator recoveries. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 10005. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13671-7.
  6. Kopecky, K. L., Cook, D. T., Schmitt, R. J., & Stier, A. C. (2021). Effects of corallivory and coral colony density on coral growth and survival. Coral Reefs, 40, 283-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02076-z.
SUBMITTED
  1. Kopecky, K. L., Pavoni, G., Corsini, M., DiFiore, B. P., Brooks, A. B., Nocerino, E., & Menna, F. Clearing a path to resilience: removal of dead coral skeletons mitigates impacts of marine heatwaves. Ecological Applications. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172542290.03787750/v1.
IN PREPARATION (*indicates equal first authorship)
  1. *Schmitt, R. J., *Kopecky, K. L., Brooks, A. B., Gallagher, J. P., & Holbrook, S. J. From resilience to regime shift: Marine heat waves catalyze macroalgal stability domains on coral reefs. Planned submission date and journal: November 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  2. DiFiore, B. P., Reed, D. C., Miller, R. J., Castorani, M. C. N., Kui, L., Detmer, R., Beckley, B., Bui, A., Kopecky, K. L., Moeller, H. V., Samhouri, J., & Stier, A. C. Historical variability in a marine foundation species mediates benthic competition to determine current community structure. Planned submission date and journal: November 2024, Oecologia.
  3. Kopecky, K. L., Pavoni, G., Corsini, M., Holbrook, S. J., & Schmitt, R. J. Tracking individual coral colony fates at ecologically relevant scales using AI-assisted image analysis. Planned submission date and journal: December 2024, Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
DISSERTATION
Kopecky, K. L. (2024). The Remains of Change: How the Legacies of Shifting Disturbance Regimes Impact the Resilience of Contemporary Coral Reefs. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/remains-change-how-legacies-shifting-disturbance/docview/3099561094/se-2?accountid=14503
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