Griffith University

Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido

Research Expertise

• Coral reef ecology
• Algal physiology and ecology
• Climate change impacts on coral reefs
• Ocean acidification
• Coral-algal phase shifts
• Marine biology
• Algal taxonomy

 Publications

• Venera-Ponton, D.E., Diaz-Pulido, G., McCook, L.J., & Rangel-Campo, A. 2010. Macroalgae reduce growth of juvenile corals but protect them from parrotfish damage. Marine Ecology Progress Series, doi: 10.3354/meps08869.
• Anthony, K. R. N., Maynard, J., Diaz-Pulido, G., Mumby, P.J., Marshall, P.A., Cao, L. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2010. Ocean acidification and warming will lower coral reef resilience. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02364.x
• Diaz-Pulido, G., Gouezo, M., Tilbrook, B., Dove, S. & Anthony, K.R.N. 2010. High CO2 enhances the competitive strength of seaweeds over corals. Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01565.x
• Eakin, M. & 59 authors, incl. Diaz-Pulido, G. 2010. Caribbean corals in crisis: Record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005. PLoS ONE, 11: e13969. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013969
• Venera-Ponton, D.E., Diaz-Pulido, G., Rodriguez-Lanetty, M. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2010. Presence of Symbiodinium spp. in macroalgal microhabitats from the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 29: 1049-1060.
• Diaz-Pulido, G., Harii, S., McCook, L.J. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2010. The impact of benthic algae on the settlement of a reef-building coral. Coral Reefs 29: 203-208
• Diaz-Pulido, G, McCook, LJ, Dove. S., Berkelmans, R., Roff, G., Kline, D.I., Weeks, S., Evans, R.D., Williamson, D.H. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2009. Doom and boom on a resilient reef: Climate change, algal overgrowth and coral recovery. PLoS ONE 4: e5239.
• Anthony, K.R.N., Kline, D.I., Diaz-Pulido, G., Dove, S. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2008. Ocean acidification causes bleaching and productivity loss in coral reef builders. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Science of USA 105 (45): 17442–17446
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & McCook, L. 2008. Macroalgae (Seaweeds). In: Chin, A. (Ed). State of the Great Barrier Reef On-line. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville.
• Diaz-Pulido G. 2008. Macroalgae. In: Hutchings, P., Kingsford, M.J. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (Eds) The Great Barrier Reef Biology, Environment and Management. Australian Coral Reef Society, CSIRO Publishing. pp 146-156.
• Birrell, C.L., McCook, L.J., Willis, B. & Diaz-Pulido, G. 2008. Effects of benthic algae on the replenishment of corals and the implications for the resilience of coral reefs. Oceanography & Marine Biology Annual Review 46: 25-64
• Diaz-Pulido, G., Chin, A., Davidson, J. & McCook, L.J. 2007. Cyclone promotes rapid colonisation of benthic diatoms in the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 26: 787-787.
• Diaz-Pulido, G., McCook, L.J., Larkum, A.W.D., Lotze, H.K., Raven, J.A., Schaffelke, B., Smith, J. & Steneck, R.S. 2007. Vulnerability of macroalgae of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change. In: Johnson, J. & Marshall, P. (Eds). Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority & The Australian Greenhouse Office.  Pp 151-192
• Diaz-Pulido, G., Villamil, L. & Almanza, V. 2007. Herbivory effects on the morphology of the brown alga Padina boergesenii (Phaeophyta). Phycologia 46(2): 131-136
• García, C.B. & Diaz-Pulido, G. 2006. Dynamics of a macroalgal rocky intertidal community in the Colombian Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research 35: 7-18.
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & McCook, L.J. 2005. Effects of nutrient enhancement of the fecundity of a coral reef macroalga. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 317 (1): 13-24
• Diaz-Pulido, G., Sánchez, J.A., Zea, S., Díaz, J.M. & Garzón-Ferreira, J. 2004. Spatial distribution patterns of benthic communities of continental and oceanic coral reefs of the Colombian Caribbean. Journal of the Colombian Academy of Sciences 28 (108): 337-347 (In Spanish)
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & McCook, L.J. 2004. Effects of live coral, epilithic algal communities and substrate type on algal recruitment. Coral Reefs 23(2): 225-233.
• Diaz-Pulido, G., & Díaz-Ruíz, M. 2003. Diversity of benthic marine algae of the Colombian Atlantic. Biota Colombiana, 5(1): 203-246. ISSN 0124 5276
• Davis, T.A., Llanes, F., Volesky, B., Diaz-Pulido, G., McCook, L.J. & Mucci, A. 2003. A 1H-NMR study of Na-alginates extracted from Sargassum spp. in relation to metal biosorption. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 110: 75-90
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & McCook, L.J. 2003. Relative roles of herbivory and nutrients in the recruitment of coral reef seaweeds. Ecology 84 (8): 2026-2033
• Diaz-Pulido, G. 2002. Microbial degradation of the crustose alga Peyssonnelia spp. on reefs of the Caribbean and Great Barrier Reef. Proceedings of the Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, 2:1257-1260
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & McCook, L.J. 2002. The fate of bleached corals: patterns and dynamics of algal recruitment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 232: 115-128
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & Garzón-Ferreira, J. 2002. Seasonality in algal assemblages on upwelling-influenced coral reefs in the Colombian Caribbean. Botanica Marina 45 (3): 284–292
•  McCook, L.J., J. Jompa & Diaz-Pulido, G. 2001. Competition between corals and algae on coral reefs: A review of evidence and mechanisms. Coral Reefs 19: 400-417
• Diaz, J.M., Diaz-Pulido, G. & Sánchez, J.A. 2000. Distribution and structure of the southernmost Caribbean coral reefs: Golfo de Urabá, Colombia. Scientia Marina 64(3): 327-336
• Navas, G.R., Moreno-Forero, S.K., Solano, O.D. & Diaz-Pulido, G. 1998. Epilithic reef assemblages of dead coral Acropora palmata, Rosario Islands, Colombian Caribbean. Caribbean Journal of Science 34 (1-2): 58-66.
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & Bula-Meyer, G. 1997. Marine algae from oceanic atolls in the Southwestern Caribbean (Albuquerque Cays, Courtown Cays, Serrana Bank, and Roncador Bank). Atoll Research Bulletin 448: 1-18.
• Diaz-Pulido, G. & Díaz, J.M. 1997. Algal assemblages in lagoonal reefs of Caribbean Oceanic Atolls. Proceedings 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama, 1: 827-832.