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Aoki LR, CJ Ritter DS Beatty, LK Domke, GL Eckert, OJ Graham, CP Gomes, C Gross, TL Hawthorne, M Hessing-Lewis, K Hovel, K Koehler, ZL Monteith, RS Mueller, AM Olson, C Prentice, B Rappazzo, JJ Stachowicz, F Tomas, B Yang, CD Harvell, JE Duffy. 2025. Seagrass wasting disease prevalence and lesion area increase with invertebrate grazing across the northeastern Pacific. Ecology 106: e4532. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4532
Graham, OJ, LR Aoki, CA Burge, and CD Harvell. 2025. Invertebrate herbivores influence seagrass wasting disease dynamics. Ecology 106: e4493. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4493
Graham, OJ, D Harvell, B Christiaen, J Gaeckle, LR Aoki, B Ratliff, A Vinton^, BH Rappazzo, and T Whitman. Taking the Pulse of Resilience in Conserving Seagrass Meadows. Integrative And Comparative Biology 64: 816-826. doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae120
Berger, A, P Berg, K McGlathery, LR Aoki, and K Kerns. 2024. Eelgrass meadow response to heat stress II. Impacts of ocean warming and marine heatwaves measured by novel metrics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 736:47–62. doi.org/10.3354/meps14588
Yang B, TL Hawthorne, LR Aoki, DS Beatty, T Copeland, LK Domke, GL Eckert, CP Gomes, OJ Graham, CD Harvell, KA Hovel, M Hessing-Lewis, L Harper, RS Mueller, B Rappazzo, L Reshitnyk, JJ Stachowicz, F Tomas, and JE Duffy. 2023. Low-Altitude UAV Imaging Accurately Quantifies Eelgrass Wasting Disease From Alaska to California. Geophysical Research Letters 50: e2022GL101985. doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101985
Aoki, LR, B Yang, OJ Graham, C Gomes, B Rappazzo, TL Hawthorne, JE Duffy, and D Harvell. 2023. UAV High-Resolution Imaging and Disease Surveys Combine to Quantify Climate-Related Decline in Seagrass Meadows Kappel, E.S., Cullen, V, Costello, MJ, et al. [eds.]. Oceanography 36(Supplement 1): 38–39. doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.s1.12
Beatty, D, LR Aoki, LR, B Rappazzo, C Bergman, L Domke, JE Duffy, K DuBois, G Eckert, C Gomes, O Graham, L Harper, CD Harvell, T Hawthorne, M Hessing-Lewis, K Hovel, Z Monteith, R Mueller, A Olson, C Prentice, F Tomas, B Yang, and JJ Stachowicz. 2023. Predictable changes in eelgrass microbiomes with increasing wasting disease prevalence across 23º latitude in the Northeastern Pacific. mSystems 0: e00224-22. doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00224-22.
Aoki†, LR, B Rappazzo†, D Beatty, LK Domke, GL Eckert, ME Eisenlord, OJ Graham, L Harper, TL Hawthorne, M Hessing-Lewis, K Hovel, ZL Monteith, R Mueller, AM Olson, C Prentice, JJ Stachowicz, F Tomas-Nash, B Yang, JE Duffy, CP Gomes, and CD Harvell. 2022. Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links seagrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes. Limnology and Oceanography 67: 1577-1589. doi.org/10.1002/lno.12152
Aoki, LR, MM Brisbin, AG Hounshell, DW Kincaid, E Larson, BJ Sansom, AJ Shogren, RS Smith, and J Sullivan-Stack. 2022. Preparing aquatic research for an extreme future: Call for improved definitions and responsive, multidisciplinary approaches. BioScience 72: 508–520. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac020
Graham†, OJ, LR Aoki†, LR, T Stephens, J Stokes^, S Dayal^, B Rappazzo, CP Gomes, and Harvell, CD. 2021.
Effects of seagrass wasting disease on eelgrass growth and belowground sugar in natural meadows. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 1682. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.768668
Beatty, DS, LR Aoki, OJ Graham, and B Yang. 2021. The future is big- and small: Remote sensing enables cross-scale comparisons of microbiome dynamics and ecological consequences. mSystems 6: e01106-21. doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01106-21
Aoki, LR, KJ McGlathery, PL Wiberg, MPJ Oreska, A Berger, P Berg, and RJ Orth. 2021. Seagrass recovery following marine heat wave influences sediment carbon stocks. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 576784. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.576784
Mueller, P, TJ Mozdzer, A Langley, A, LR Aoki, GL Noyce, and JP Megonigal. 2020. Plant species determine tidal wetland methane response to sea level rise. Nature Communications 11: 5154. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18763-4
Orth, RJ, JS Lefcheck, KJ McGlathery, LR Aoki, ML Luckenback, KA Moore, MPJ Oreska, R Snyder, DJ Wilcox, and B Lusk. 2020. Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystem services. Science Advances 6: eabc6434. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc6434
Oreska, MJP, KJ McGlathery, LR Aoki, AC Berger, P Berg, and L Mullins^. 2020. The greenhouse gas offset potential from seagrass restoration. Scientific Reports, 10:7325. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64094-1
Aoki, LR, KJ McGlathery, PL Wiberg, and A Al-Haj. 2020. Depth affects seagrass restoration success and resilience to marine heat-wave disturbance. Estuaries and Coasts. 43:316-328. doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00685-0
Aoki, LR, MPJ Oreska, and KJ McGlathery. 2020. Seagrass restoration reestablishes the nitrogen filter through enhanced burial. Limnology and Oceanography 65:1-12. doi.org/10.1002/lno.11241
Aoki, LR and KJ McGlathery. 2019. High rates of N fixation in seagrass sediments measured via direct 30N2 push-pull method. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 616:1-11. doi.org/10.3354/meps12961p
LaRoche, C, B Goldstein, JD Cybulski, LJ Raymundo, LR Aoki, and K Kim. 2018. A decade of change in Enhalus acoroides seagrass meadows in Guam, Mariana Islands. Marine and Freshwater Research, 69:1-9. doi.org/10.1071/MF18062
Aoki, LR and KJ McGlathery. 2018. Restoration enhances denitrification and DNRA in Zostera marina seagrass meadows. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 602: 87-102. doi.org/10.3354/meps12678
Aoki, LR and KJ McGlathery. 2017. Push-pull incubation method reveals the importance of denitrification and DNRA in seagrass root zone. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 15: 776-781. doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10197
Lunstrum, AM and LR Aoki. 2016. Oxygen interference with membrane inlet mass spectrometry may overestimate denitrification rates calculated with the isotope pairing technique. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14: 425–431. doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10101