Mr Robert Mason

Postdoctoral Fellow
Science
School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Mason RAB; Bozec YM; Mumby PJ, 2025, 'Coral bleaching and mortality overestimated in projections based on Degree Heating Months', Nature Geoscience, 18, pp. 120 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01635-7
    Journal articles | 2025
    Mason RAB; Langlais C; Uribe-Palomino J; Tonks M; Coman F; Choukroun S; Porobic J; Doropoulos C, 2025, 'Reef-scale variation in larval supply and settlement: validating Lagrangian dispersal predictions with observations of coral larvae', Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109506
    Journal articles | 2024
    Mason RAB, 2024, 'Wolanski, Eric., and Michael J.Kingsford [eds.]. 2024. Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL and Abingdon, Oxon, UK: CRC Press. ISBN 978‐1‐032‐34074‐6 (Paperback), xxvi + 458 p. £89.99', Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 33, pp. 190 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lob.10663
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mason RAB; Bozec YM; Mumby PJ, 2023, 'Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C-warmer world', Global Change Biology, 29, pp. 4152 - 4160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16741
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mason RAB; Bozec YM; Mumby PJ, 2023, 'Setting sustainable limits on anchoring to improve the resilience of coral reefs', Marine Pollution Bulletin, 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114721
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mason RAB; Skirving WJ; Dove SG, 2023, 'Photoacclimation dynamics in coral holobionts responding to thermal and irradiance changes correlate with photon pressure per symbiont', Limnology and Oceanography, 68, pp. 2529 - 2543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.12439
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bozec YM; Hock K; Mason RAB; Baird ME; Castro-Sanguino C; Condie SA; Puotinen M; Thompson A; Mumby PJ, 2022, 'Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation', Ecological Monographs, 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1494
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mumby PJ; Mason RAB; Hock K, 2021, 'Reconnecting reef recovery in a world of coral bleaching', Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 19, pp. 702 - 713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10455
    Journal articles | 2020
    Mason RAB; Skirving WJ; Dove SG, 2020, 'Integrating physiology with remote sensing to advance the prediction of coral bleaching events', Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111794
    Journal articles | 2020
    Mason RAB; Wall CB; Cunning R; Dove S; Gates RD, 2020, 'High light alongside elevated PCO2alleviates thermal depression of photosynthesis in a hard coral (Pocillopora acuta)', Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.223198
    Journal articles | 2018
    Mason RAB, 2018, 'Decline in symbiont densities of tropical and subtropical scleractinian corals under ocean acidification', Coral Reefs, 37, pp. 945 - 953, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-1720-z
    Journal articles | 2018
    Skirving W; Enríquez S; Hedley JD; Dove S; Eakin CM; Mason RAB; Cour JLDL; Liu G; Hoegh-Guldberg O; Strong AE; Mumby PJ; Iglesias-Prieto R, 2018, 'Remote sensing of coral bleaching using temperature and light: Progress towards an operational algorithm', Remote Sensing, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10010018
    Journal articles | 2017
    Fang JKH; Mason RAB; Schönberg CHL; Hoegh-Guldberg O; Dove S, 2017, 'Studying interactions between excavating sponges and massive corals by the use of hybrid cores', Marine Ecology, 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12393
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wall CB; Mason RAB; Ellis WR; Cunning R; Gates RD, 2017, 'Elevated pCO2 affects tissue biomass composition, but not calcification, in a reef coral under two light regimes', Royal Society Open Science, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170683
    Journal articles | 2014
    Mason RAB, 2014, 'Biological Oceanography, 2nd edition', AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, 39, pp. e9 - e9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12172
    Journal articles | 2013
    Mason RAB; Price C; Boles WE; Gray KA; Rickard E; Eldridge MDB; Johnson RN, 2013, 'Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci in the bush stone-curlew (burhinus grallarius), a declining australian bird', Australian Journal of Zoology, 61, pp. 421 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO13059
    Journal articles | 2013
    Mason RAB, 2013, 'Wild Mammals in Captivity: Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, 2nd edition', AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, 38, pp. e26 - e26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12096
    Journal articles | 2011
    Mason RAB; Browning TL; Eldridge MDB, 2011, 'Reduced MHC class II diversity in island compared to mainland populations of the black-footed rock-wallaby (Petrogale lateralis lateralis)', Conservation Genetics, 12, pp. 91 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-009-9993-y
    Journal articles | 2008
    Ponder WF; Wilke T; Zhang W-H; Golding RE; Fukuda H; Mason RAB, 2008, 'Edgbastonia alanwillsi n. gen & n. sp (Tateinae&COLFAML; Hydrobiidae s.l.: Rissooidea: Caenogastropoda);: a snail from an artesian spring group in western Queensland, Australia, convergent with some Asian Amnicolidae', MOLLUSCAN RESEARCH, 28, pp. 89 - 106
  • Preprints | 2020
    Bozec Y-M; Hock K; Mason RAB; Baird ME; Castro-Sanguino C; Condie SA; Puotinen M; Thompson A; Mumby PJ, 2020, Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: A mechanistic evaluation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.01.406413