| Loss of coral reef growth capacity to track future increases in sea level CT Perry, L Alvarez-Filip, NAJ Graham, PJ Mumby, SK Wilson, PS Kench, ... Nature 558 (7710), 396-400, 2018 | 354 | 2018 |
| Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs HT Pinheiro, C MacDonald, RG Santos, R Ali, A Bobat, BJ Cresswell, ... Nature 619 (7969), 311-316, 2023 | 98 | 2023 |
| Attenuating effects of ecosystem management on coral reefs RS Steneck, PJ Mumby, C MacDonald, DB Rasher, G Stoyle Science advances 4 (5), eaao5493, 2018 | 89 | 2018 |
| Back-to-back coral bleaching events on isolated atolls in the Coral Sea HB Harrison, M Álvarez-Noriega, AH Baird, SF Heron, C MacDonald, ... Coral Reefs 38, 713-719, 2019 | 78 | 2019 |
| Depth, bay position and habitat structure as determinants of coral reef fish distributions: Are deep reefs a potential refuge? C MacDonald, TCL Bridge, GP Jones Marine Ecology Progress Series 561, 217-231, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| The 2014-17 global coral bleaching event: the most severe and widespread coral reef destruction CM Eakin, D Devotta, SF Heron, S Connolly, G Liu, E Geiger, JDL Cour, ... Research Square Platform LLC, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Assembly rules of coral reef fish communities along the depth gradient HT Pinheiro, C MacDonald, JP Quimbayo, B Shepherd, TA Phelps, ... Current Biology 33 (8), 1421-1430. e4, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Variability in the functional composition of coral reef fish communities on submerged and emergent reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia AM Cooper, C MacDonald, TE Roberts, TCL Bridge PLoS One 14 (5), e0216785, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Marginal sinks or potential refuges? Costs and benefits for coral-obligate reef fishes at deep range margins C MacDonald, GP Jones, T Bridge Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 (1890), 20181545, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Depth patterns in microhabitat versatility and selectivity in coral reef damselfishes C MacDonald, MI Tauati, GP Jones Marine Biology 165 (8), 138, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Alternative functional strategies and altered carbon pathways facilitate broad depth ranges in coral‐obligate reef fishes C MacDonald, TCL Bridge, KW McMahon, GP Jones Functional Ecology 33 (10), 1962-1972, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Disturbance and distribution gradients influence resource availability and feeding behaviours in corallivore fishes following a warm-water anomaly C MacDonald, HT Pinheiro, B Shepherd, TAY Phelps, LA Rocha Scientific Reports 11 (1), 23656, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Sexual dimorphism in the horn size of a pair-forming coral reef butterflyfish S Shiratsuchi, C MacDonald, M Srinivasan, GP Jones PloS one 15 (10), e0240294, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Author Correction: Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs HT Pinheiro, C MacDonald, RG Santos, R Ali, A Bobat, BJ Cresswell, ... Nature 623 (7988), E12-E12, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Depth as refuge: depth gradients in ecological pattern, process, and risk mitigation among coral reef fishes C MacDonald James Cook University, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Strength of sexual selection and sex roles vary between social groups in a coral reef cardinalfish T Rueger, C MacDonald, HB Harrison, NM Gardiner, GP Jones, SC Mills | | 2024 |
| Plastic pollution on the world's coral reefs (vol 619, pg 311, 2023) HT Pinheiro, C MacDonald, RG Santos, R Ali, A Bobat, BJ Cresswell, ... NATURE 623 (7988), E12-E12, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Oceans (Science and Solutions for Australia series) Bruce Mapstone, ed. CSIRO, Clayton, 2017. xii + 211 pp. 9781486307937 (paperback), 9781486307944 (epdf … C MacDonald Austral Ecology 45 (6), 851-851, 2020 | | 2020 |