Publications


Academic publications

Palola, P., Hills, S., Pittman, S.J., Hernández-Delgado, E.A., Collin, A., & Wedding, L. (2026) Evaluating land-sea linkages using land cover change and coral reef monitoring data: A case study from northeastern Puerto Rico. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70054

Palola, P., Theenathayalan, V., Schröder, C., Martinez-Vicente, V., Collin, A., Wright, R., Ward, M., Thomson, E., Lopez-Garcia, P., Hochberg, E., Malhi, Y., & Wedding, L. (2025) Simulation-based inference advances water quality mapping in shallow coral reef environments. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 12241471. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241471

Palola, P., Pittman, S. J., Collin, A., Benkwitt, C. E., Thomson, E., Malhi, Y., Graham, N. A. J., & Wedding, L. (2025) Nutrientscape ecology: a whole-system framework to support the understanding and management of coastal nutrient connectivity. Landscape Ecology, 40, 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02060-w

Palola, P., Bailey, R., & Wedding, L. (2022). A novel framework to operationalise value-pluralism in environmental valuation: environmental value functions. Ecological Economics, 193, 107327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107327

Wright, R. A., Hills, S., Stuart, C. E., Malhi, K., Palola, P., Benkwitt, C. E., Epstein, H. E., Salmon, T., Ford, H. V., Ward, M., & Wedding, L. (2025). Biophysical drivers of coral reef community structure across a tropical benthic seascape. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02684-z


Open-access repositories

Palola, P. (2024). SIMA (Simulation-based Inference for Marine Analysis). GitHub. https://github.com/pirtapalola/SIMA


Conference presentations

Palola, P., Varunan, T., Martinez-Vicente, V., Collin, A., Stoll, B., Wright, R., Ward, M., Fioretti, A., Giardino, C., Pinardi, M., Malhi, Y., Thomson, E., & Wedding, L. Optical properties of a shallow coral reef environment in the Pacific. Inaugural Science Symposium, Trevor Platt Science Foundation, United Kingdom, August 2023 (talk).

Palola, P., Varunan, T., Martinez-Vicente, V., Collin, A., Stoll, B., Wright, R., Ward, M., Fioretti, A., Giardino, C., Pinardi, M., Malhi, Y., Thomson, E., & Wedding, L. Coral reef reflectance for remote-sensing applications: a case study from French Polynesia. Reef Conservation UK, Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom, December 2022 (poster).

Palola, P., Pittman, S.J., Malhi, Y., Collin, A., & Wedding, L. Nutrientscape ecology: An integrative approach for studying nutrient connectivity in tropical coastal environments. 15th International Coral Reef Symposium, University of Bremen, Germany, July 2022 (talk).

Rowing by the Tvärminne Zoological Station, Finland.