Dr Andrew Baird
Principal Research Fellow
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Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University (2007-); Senior Research Fellow, JCU (2005-2006); ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, JCU (2002-2005); Postdoctoral Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of the Ryukyus (2001-2002). Research Interests
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Research Interests
My research interests include biogeography, community ecology, evolution, larval ecology, reproductive biology, systematics and coral bleaching. My recent work has documented the effects of the Asian tsunami on coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia (Baird et al. 2005). My PhD research highlighted the role of larval ecology in determining patterns of adult distribution from depth zonation (Baird et al 2003) to geographical range size (Baird 2004). My APD research on the reproductive biology of tropical corals has demonstrated that, contrary to the prevailing paradigm, multi-specific spawning is a feature of all speciose coral assemblages (Guest et al. 2005). My coral bleaching research has identified the hierarchy of species susceptibility to thermal stress (Marshall & Baird 2000), dynamic and varied response of different coral species to thermal stress (Baird & Marshall 2002), and a recent review on the future of coral reefs (Hughes et al. 2003). I have pioneered the use of coral larval as a model system to investigate many aspects of coral symbioses, such as the source of anti-bacterial compounds (Marquis et al 2005) and sunscreens in coral eggs (Yakovleva & Baird 2005). I am currently working to describe two new Acropora species discovered during my APD research in Indonesia.
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[1] Baird, A (2008). Coral adaptation in the face of climate change. Science 320: 315-316.
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[2] Baird, A and Kerr, A (2008). Landscape analysis and tsunami damage in aceh: Comment on iverson and prasad (2007). Landscape Ecology 23(1): 3-5.
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[3] Baird, AH, Cumbo, VR, Leggat, W and Rodriguez-Lanetty, M (2007). Fidelity and flexibility in coral symbioses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 347: 307-309.
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[4] Baird, AH and Kerr, AM (2007). The dangerous myth of tsunami greenbelts. Science 314(5798): E-Letter.
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[5] Kerr, AM and Baird, AH (2007). Natural barriers to natural disasters. Bioscience 57(2): 102.
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[6] Markey, KL, Baird, AH, Humphrey, C and Negri, AP (2007). Insecticides and a fungicide affect multiple coral life stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330: 127-137.
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[7] Baird (2006). Myth of green belts. Samudra 44: 14-19.
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[8] Baird, AH, Salih, A and Trevor-Jones, A (2006). Fluorescence census techniques for the early detection of coral recruits. Coral Reefs 25(1): 73-76.
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[9] Baird, AH, Campbell, SJ, Anggoro, AW, Ardiwijaya, RL, Fadli, N, Herdiana, Y, Kartawijaya, T, Mahyiddin, D, Mukminin, A, Pardede, ST, Pratchett, MS, Rudi, E and Siregar, AM (2005). Acehnese reefs in the wake of the asian tsunami. Current Biology 15(21): 1926-1930.
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[10] Guest, JR, Baird, AH, Goh, BPL and Chou, LM (2005). Seasonal reproduction in equatorial reef corals. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development 48: 207-218.
[11] Baird, AH and Morse, ANC (2004). Induction of metamorphosis in larvae of the brooding corals acropora palifera and stylophora pistillata. Marine and Freshwater Research 55(5): 469-472.
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[12] Hughes, TP, Baird, AH, Bellwood, DR, Card, M, Connolly, SR, Folke, C, Grosberg, R, Hoegh-Guldberg, O, Jackson, JBC, Kleypas, J, Lough, JM, Marshall, P, Nystrom, M, Palumbi, SR, Pandolfi, JM, Rosen, B and Roughgarden, J (2003). Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science 301(5635): 929-933.
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[13] Baird, AH, Bellwood, DR, Connell, JH, Cornell, HV, Hughes, TP, Karlson, RH, Rosen, R., B, Briggs, C., J, Roberts, CM, McClean, CJ, Veron, JEN, Hawkins, JP, Allen, GR, McAllister, DE, Mittermeier, CG, Schueler, FW, Spalding, M, Wells, F, Vynne, C and Werner, TB (2002). Coral reef biodiversity and conservation. Science 296(5570): 1026-1028.
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[14] Baird, AH and Babcock, RC (2000). Morphological differences among three species of newly settled pocilloporid coral recruits. Coral Reefs 19(2): 179-183.
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[15] Marshall, PA and Baird, AH (2000). Bleaching of corals on the great barrier reef: Differential susceptibilities among taxa. Coral Reefs 19(2): 155-163.
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[16] Baird, AH and Marshall, PA (1998). Mass bleaching of corals on the great barrier reef. Coral Reefs 17(4): 376-376.
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