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2026

A summary graphic highlighting how land use changes over the last 200 years have impacted Puʻuloa (Pearl Harbor), Hawaiʻi, with pollutants like metals and legacy contaminants

Liu, D., Hansen, L., Comeros, M., Kaiser, L., Webster, L., Allen, A., Schrager, L., Kuniyoshi, K., Nalley, E. M. (2026). Associating contaminant risks with land use changes over time. Science of the Total Environment, 1029, 181696-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181696

2024

A summary graphic highlighting the impact of ciguatera poisoning in Hawaiʻi across species, fishing spots, and fisher health

Nalley, E. M. (2024). Highlighting the impacts of ciguatera poisoning on fishers and fish consumers in Hawai’i to inform future management strategies. Marine Policy, 159, 105875-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105875

A scatterplot graph showing a trend of declining diversity of herbivorous reef fish with increasing human impacts across 28 Pacific Islands

Nalley, E. M., Heenan, A., Toonen, R. J., & Donahue, M. J. (2024). Examining variations in functional homogeneity in herbivorous coral reef fishes in Pacific Islands experiencing a range of human impacts. Ecological Indicators, 162, 111622-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111622

Caldwell, I. R., Hobbs, J.-P. A., Bowen, B. W., Cowman, P. F., DiBattista, J. D., Whitney, J. L., Ahti, P. A., Belderok, R., Canfield, S., Coleman, R. R., Iacchei, M., Johnston, E. C., Knapp, I., Nalley, E. M., Staeudle, T. M., & Láruson, Á. J. (2024). Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(5), 100082-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100082

A figure showing a sample taken from a reef fish gut, then analyzed by three increasingly-precise machines to count microplastic particles

Shaw, K. R., Whitney, J. L., Nalley, E. M., Schmidbauer, M. C., Donahue, M. J., Black, J., Corniuk, R. N., Teague, K., Sandquist, R., Pirkle, C., Dacks, R., Sudnovsky, M., & Lynch, J. M. (2024). Microplastics absent from reef fish in the Marshall Islands: Multistage screening methods reduced false positives. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 198, 115820–115820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115820

2023

A summary graphic with an overview of the research goals, tests, and results for effects of wastewater nutrients on corals

Nalley, E. M., Tuttle, L. J., Conklin, E. E., Barkman, A. L., Wulstein, D. M., Schmidbauer, M. C., & Donahue, M. J. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the direct effects of nutrients on corals. The Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159093–159093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159093

A summary graphic with an overview of the locations and species tested for heavy metal accumulation
A figure showing arsenic concentrations in fishes grouped by site, trophic level, and species

Nalley, E. M., Pirkle, C. M., Schmidbauer, M. C., Lewis, C. J., Dacks, R. S., Thompson, M. D., Sudnovsky, M. D., Whitney, J. L., & Donahue, M. J. (2023). Trophic and spatial patterns of contaminants in fishes from the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the equatorial Pacific. Chemosphere (Oxford), 314, 137593–137593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137593

Mannochio-Russo, H., Swift, S., Nakayama, K., Wall, C., Gentry, E., Panitchpakdi, M., Caraballo-Rodriguez, A., Aron, A., Petras, D., Dorrestein, K., Dorrestein, T., Williams, T., Nalley, E., Altman-Kurosaki, N., Martinelli, M., Kuwabara, J., Darcy, J., Bolzani, V., Wegley Kelly, L., … Nelson, C. (2023). Microbiomes and metabolomes of dominant coral reef primary producers illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses. Communications Biology, 6(1).

2022

A figure of a stacked bar plot with proportions of diet types for each sample and two histograms representing diet diversity and diet richness

Nalley, E. M., Donahue, M. J., & Toonen, R. J. (2022). Metabarcoding as a tool to examine cryptic algae in the diets of two common grazing surgeonfishes, Acanthurus triostegus and A. nigrofuscus. Environmental DNA (Hoboken, N.J.), 4(1), 135–146. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.206

A figure showing a significant positive relationship between two methods of ranking diet diversity

Nalley, E. M., Donahue, M. J., Heenan, A., & Toonen, R. J. (2022). Quantifying the diet diversity of herbivorous coral reef fishes using systematic review and DNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA (Hoboken, N.J.), 4(1), 191–205. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.247

2021

A summary graphic with an overview of the research parameters, systematic review results, and a meta-analysis of coral response to pollutants

Nalley, E. M., Tuttle, L. J., Barkman, A. L., Conklin, E. E., Wulstein, D. M., Richmond, R. H., & Donahue, M. J. (2021). Water quality thresholds for coastal contaminant impacts on corals: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Science of the Total Environment, 794, 148632–148632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148632

2020

A figure of a dendrogram clustering relationships between reef fish species and functional groups of diet preference

Nalley, E. M. (2020). Picky Eater or Generalist Feeder? Diet Diversity and Functional Homogenization in Herbivorous Reef Fishes. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

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