Peter W. Glynn

Research activities center on coral community structure and function with emphasis on natural and anthropogenic disturbances to coral reefs. Major attention has been directed toward an analysis of the impacts of the 1982-83 (Panamá, Galápagos Islands) and El Niño warming events 1997-98 on eastern Pacific coral reef. The severely affected coral reefs in the eastern Pacific region are being studied with respect to (1) initial and long-term disturbance effects (predation, competition, symbiosis, bioerosion), (2) causes of coral bleaching and mortality, (3) coral community recovery, and (4) records of El Niño disturbances in the past, based on evidence from core drilling, sclerochronology, stable isotope and trace metal signals.

Fong, P. and P.W. Glynn. (2002).  A regional model to predict coral population dynamics in response to El Niño-Southern Oscillation.  Ecol. Appl. 10:842-854.

Fong, P. and P. W. Glynn. (2001). Population abundance and size-structure of an eastern tropical Pacific reef coral after the 1997-98 ENSO: a simulation model predicts field measures. Bull. Mar. Sci., 69:187-202.

Glynn, P. W. (2001). Eastern Pacific coral reef ecosystems. pp. 281-305. In: U. Seeliger and B. Kjerfve (eds.), Coastal marine ecosystems of Latin America. Springer, Berlin.

Glynn, P. W. (2001). Eastern Pacific coral reefs: new revelations in the Twentieth Century. Atoll Res. Bull. 494:119-158.

Glynn, P. W. (Editor). (2001). A collection of studies on the effects of the 1997-98 El Niño Southern Oscillation event on corals and coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific. Bull. Mar. Sci., 69:1-288.

Glynn, P. W., J L. Maté and T. A. Stemann. (2001). Pavona chiriquiensis, a new species of zooxanthellate scleractinian coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Agariciidae) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Bull. Bio. Soc. Wash., 10:210-225.

Glynn, P. W., J L. Maté, A. C. Baker and M. O. Calderón. (2001). Coral bleaching and mortality in Panama and Ecuador during the 1997-1998 El Niño-outhern Oscillation event: spatial/temporal patterns and comparisons with the 1982-1983 event. Bull. Mar. Sci., 69:79-109.

Podestá G. P. and P. W. Glynn. (2001). The 1997-98 El Niño event in Panama and Galápagos: an update of thermal stress indices relative to coral bleaching. Bull Mar. Sci., 69:43-59.

Wellington, G. M., P. W. Glynn, A. E. Strong, S. A. Navarrete, E. Wieters and D. Hubbard. (2001). Crisis on coral reefs linked to climate change. Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 82:1 & 5.

Glynn, P.W.  (2000).  El Niño-Southern Oscillation mass mortalities of reef corals:  a model of high temperature marine extinctions?  In: E. Insalaco, P. Skelton and T. Palmer (eds.), Organism-Environment Feedbacks in Carbonate Platforms and Reefs.  Geological Society Special Pub. No. 151, 178: 117-133.

Glynn, P.W. and Ault, J.S. (2000).  A biogeographic analysis and review of the far eastern Pacific coral reef region.  Coral Reefs, 19: 1-23.

Glynn, P.W., Colley S.B., Ting J.H., Maté and Guzmán H.M. (2000).  Reef coral reproduction, recruitment and recovery in the eastern Pacific:  Costa Rica, Panamá and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). IV.  Agariciidae (Pavona varians and Pavona sp. a.).  Marine Biology, 136: 785-805.