Pim is the McCosker Chair of Aquatic Biology and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal "Molecular Ecology". He studies the biodiversity and evolution of tropical reef corals, from close to the surface to well into the twilight zone. As a molecular ecologist, he combines genomics and field ecology to understand how corals diversify and adapt to different and changing environmental conditions. Prior to his appointment at the Academy, he was an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at the Global Change Institute (The University of Queensland), and lead scientist for the Deep Reef component of the "XL Catlin Seaview Survey".

Only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

Differential strategies developed by two light-dependent scleractinian corals to extend their vertical range to mesop...

Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Bongaerts P, Bregere N, Carlot J, Parravicini V, Hedouin L, Under The Pole Consortium (2024)

Coral Reefs

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Different times, similar mechanism? Convergent patterns in light-induced phenotypic plasticity in Devonian and modern...

Majchrzyk A, Jakubowicz M, Bongaerts P, Zapalski MK (2023)

Coral Reefs

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Hidden in the deep: Distinct benthic trajectories call for monitoring of mesophotic reefs

Hernandez‐Agreda A, Sahit FM, Englebert N, Hoegh‐Guldberg O, Bongaerts P (2022)

Conserv. Lett.

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Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems

Bongaerts P (2022)

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Deep connections: Divergence histories with gene flow in mesophotic Agaricia corals

Prata KE, Riginos C, Gutenkunst RN, Latijnhouwers KR, Sánchez JA, Englebert N, Hay KB, Bongaerts P (2022)

Mol Ecol

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In the shadow of a giant reef: Palaeoecology of mesophotic coral communities from the Givetian of Anti-Atlas (Morocco)

Majchrzyk A, Jakubowicz M, Berkowski B, Bongaerts P, Zapalski MK (2022)

Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol

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Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian as...

Pérez-Rosales G, Pichon M, Rouzé H, Villéger S, Torda G, Bongaerts P, Carlot J, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022)

Diversity and Distributions

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Mesophotic depths hide high coral cover communities in French Polynesia

Pérez-Rosales G, Hernández-Agreda A, Bongaerts P, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Carlot J, Torda G, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022)

Science of The Total Environment

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Mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef are understudied and underexplored

Eyal G, Laverick JH, Bongaerts P, Levy O, Pandolfi JM (2021)

Front Mar Sci

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Morphological stasis masks ecologically divergent coral species on tropical reefs

Bongaerts P, Cooke IR, Ying H, Wels D, den Haan S, Hernandez-Agreda A, Brunner CA, Dove S, Englebert N, Eyal G, Forêt S, Grinblat M, Hay KB, Harii S, Hayward DC, Lin Y, Mihaljević M, Moya A, Muir P, Sinniger F, Smallhorn-West P, Torda G, Ragan MA, Van Oppen MJH, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2021)

Curr Biol

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Reefscape Genomics: Leveraging Advances in 3D Imaging to Assess Fine-Scale Patterns of Genomic Variation on Coral Reefs

Bongaerts P, Dubé C, Prata KE, Gijsbers JC, Achlatis M, Hernandez-Agreda A (2021)

Front Mar Sci

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Mesophotic coral communities escape thermal coral bleaching in French Polynesia

Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Torda G, Bongaerts P, Pichon M, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2021)

R Soc Open Sci

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Symbiotic associations of the deepest recorded photosynthetic scleractinian coral (172 m depth)

Rouzé H, Galand PE, Medina M, Bongaerts P, Pichon M, Pérez-Rosales G, Torda G, Moya A, Under The Pole Consortium, Raina J-B, Hédouin L (2021)

ISME J

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The Great Barrier Reef outer-shelf

Bridge TCL, Webster JM, Sih TL, Bongaerts P (2019)

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Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems

Bongaerts P, Perez-Rosales G, Radice VZ, Eyal G, Gori A, Gress E, Hammerman NM, Hernandez-Agreda A, Laverick J, Muir P, Pinheiro H, Pyle RL, Rocha L, Turner JA, Booker R (2019)

Database (Oxford)

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Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems

Turner JA, Andradi-Brown DA, Gori A, Bongaerts P, Burdett HL, Ferrier-Pagès C, Voolstra CR, Weinstein DK, Bridge TCL, Costantini F, Gress E, Laverick J, Loya Y, Goodbody-Gringley G, Rossi S, Taylor ML, Viladrich N, Voss JD, Williams J, Woodall LC, Eyal G (2019)

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Beyond the “Deep Reef Refuge” Hypothesis: A Conceptual Framework to Characterize Persistence at Depth

Bongaerts P, Smith TB (2019)

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The Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea

Bridge TCL, Beaman RJ, Bongaerts P, Muir PR, Ekins M, Sih T (2019)

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Bonaire and Curaçao

Frade PR, Bongaerts P, Baldwin CC, Trembanis AC, Bak RPM, Vermeij MJA (2019)

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Deep reefs of the Great Barrier Reef offer limited thermal refuge during mass coral bleaching

Frade PR, Bongaerts P, Englebert N, Rogers A, Gonzalez-Rivero M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2018)

Nature communications

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