Publications
The IMBIBE Research Laboratory is committed to publishing our results in scientific journals for information dissemination and reference.
2025
Maningas, J. A. C., Ticzon, V. S., & Rodriguez, M. V. B. (2024). Characterization of coral communities in the shallow hydrothermal vents of Mabini, Batangas, Philippines. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 81, 103943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103943
Prasetyo, M. A. H., Wijayanti, D. P., Haryanti, D., Suga, T., Puryajati, A. D., Yasunaka, S., Wirasatriya, A., Fauziah, S., Putranto, R. T., Adiwira, H., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. B., Wetchayont, P., Abdillah, M. R., & Susanto, R. D. (2025). The possible contribution of marine heatwaves on the declining healthy coral reef cover in Nusa Dua, Bali. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2025.2592906
Francisco, R., Amedo-Repollo, C. L., Libatog, C. M., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2025). Evolution of marine heatwave in the Philippines during and after the 2023/24 El Niño. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 1496(1), 012028. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1496/1/012028
McFadden, C. S., Erickson, K. L., Lane, A., Nassongole, B., Aguilar, S., Dunakey, S. K., Durkin, K. M., Lalas, J. A. A., Kushida, Y., Macrina, L., Minor, N. P., Morales-Paredes, M., Nelson, J., Peddada, A., Poole, S., Porto, R., Purow-Ruderman, R., Snyder, K. E., Wismar, T., . . Baria-Rodriguez, M.V., ..... Benayahu, Y. (2025). Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 15461. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98790-7
Galpo, N. F., Horigue, V., Matorres, D. E., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V., Fabinyi, M., and Quibilan, M. C. (2025). White Paper: “Strengthening governance and institutional arrangements for coral restoration in the Philippines.” Prepared under the “Institutional Effectiveness and Political Economy of Coral Reef Restoration in the Philippines” Project [FIS 2021/ 112]. Copyright by the authors is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/rgpkh_v1.
2024
Matorres, D. E., Fabinyi, M., Horigue, V., Novilla, C. T., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2024). Institutional dimensions of coral reef restoration in the Philippines. Environmental Science & Policy, 156, 103734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103734
Cvitanovic, C., Acedera, M. M., Samonte, P. C., Baria‐Rodriguez, M. V., Cabaitan, P., Dzung, N. T. P., Binh, N. T., Luyen, N. H., Bat, N. K., Tran, N. A., Wibowo, A., Roeroe, M. P. K., Muawanah, U., Camp, E. F., Chartrand, K. M., Diedrich, A., Donnelly, R., Bee, C., Fabinyi, M., . . . Van Putten, I. (2024). Roadmap for improving coral reef restoration practices in Southeast Asia. Ecological Management & Restoration, 25(3), 160–167. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12615
Haryanti, D., Cahyadi, A. T., Haliim, F. F. A., Mahira, H., Karissa, E., Wirasatriya, A., Hutasoit, P., Wijayanti, D. P., Munasik, M., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V., & Puryajati, A. D. (2024). Coral-killing and competitive sponges in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 80, 103921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103921
2023
Baran, C. C., Luciano, R. M. A., Segumalian, C. S., Valino, D. A. M., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2023). Genus and size-specific susceptibility of soft corals to 2020 bleaching event in the Philippines. Marine Biology Research, 19(2–3), 165–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2023.2198242
Lalas, J. A. A., Manzano, G. G., Desabelle, L. A. B., Salvador‐Reyes, L. A., Aliño, P. M., & Baria‐Rodriguez, M. V. (2023). Notes on the distribution, ecology and open sea mariculture trials of the Philippine blue sponge, Xestospongia sp. (Porifera). Aquaculture Fish and Fisheries, 3(2), 132–148. https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.98
Bonilla, K. G., Guest, J. R., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2023). Contrasting reproductive strategies between stress-tolerant and competitive coral taxa. Coral Reefs, 42(3), 717–728. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02380-w
Chan, Y. K. S., Affendi, Y. A., Ang, P. O., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V., Chen, C. A., Chui, A. P. Y., Giyanto, Glue, M., Huang, H., Kuo, C., Kim, S. W., Lam, V. Y. Y., Lane, D. J. W., Lian, J. S., Lin, S. M. N. N., Lunn, Z., Nañola, C. L., Nguyen, V. L., Park, H. S., . . . Huang, D. (2023). Decadal stability in coral cover could mask hidden changes on reefs in the East Asian Seas. Communications Biology, 6(1), 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05000-z
Lalas, J. A. A., Manzano, G. G., Desabelle, L. A. B., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2023). Spatial variation in the benthic community structure of a coral reef system in the central Philippines: Highlighting hard coral, octocoral, and sponge assemblages. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 61, 102859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.102859
Bay, L.K., Ortiz, J.C.,.....Baria-Rodriguez, M.V.,...Palumbi, S. (2023). CORDAP R&D Technology Roadmap for Understanding the Natural Adaptation and Assisted Evolution of Corals to Climate Change. CORDAP. cordap.org. Read more.
Guest, J., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V., Toh, T. C., Cruz, D. D., Vicentuan, K., Gomez, E., Villanueva, R., Steinberg, P., & Edwards, A. (2023). Live slow, die old: larval propagation of slow-growing, stress-tolerant corals for reef restoration. Coral Reefs, 42(6), 1365–1377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02440-1
2022
Lalas, J. A. A., Lim, R. T. S., Cabasan, J. P., Segumalian, C. S., Luciano, R. M. A., Valino, D. A. M., Jacinto, M. R., Arceo, H. O., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2022). Spatial and Short-Term temporal patterns of octocoral assemblages in the West Philippine Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.782977
2021
Lalas, J. A. A., Benayahu, Y., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2020). Community structure and size-frequency distribution of soft corals in a heavily disturbed reef system in northwestern Philippines. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 162, 111871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111871
Baran, C. C., & Baria‐Rodriguez, M. V. (2021). Sexual reproduction in the soft coral Lobophytum schoedei in Bolinao‐Anda Reef Complex, Pangasinan, northwestern Philippines. Invertebrate Biology, 140(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12316
Valino, D. A. M., Baria-Rodriguez, M. V., Dizon, R. M., & Aliño, P. M. (2021). Responses of Buluan Island turbid fringing reefs, southern Philippines to the 2016 thermal anomaly. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 43, 101704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101704
Bonilla, K. G., Guest, J. R., Cruz, D. W. D., & Baria-Rodriguez, M. V. (2021). Onset of sexual maturity of sexually propagated and wild colonies of the massive coral Favites abdita in northwestern Philippines. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, 65(3), 201–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2021.1935334
Cabasan, J.P., Arceo, H.O., Pata, P., Labrador, K.L., Casauay, R.B., Miller, N., Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (2021) Combining information on otolith morphometrics and larval connectivity models to infer stock structure of Plectropomus leopardus in the Philippines. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 679:115-131 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13874
2020
Rodriguez, M. V. B., Segumalian, C. S., Lalas, J. A. A., & Maningas, J. M. C. (2020). Octocorals outcompete scleractinian corals in a degraded reef. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 420(1), 012027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/420/1/012027
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