Publications: NERP

Funded by the National Environmental Research Program (includes peer reviewed articles – submitted, in review, accepted, in press, published).

N1.    Addison, P. F. E, de Bie, K., and Rumpff, L. (in review). A novel participatory modelling approach to set conservation management thresholds. Conservation Biology.

N2.    Addison, P. F. E., Flander, L. B., and Cook, C. N. (2015). Are we missing the boat? Current uses of long-term biological monitoring data in the evaluation and management of marine protected areas. Journal of Environmental Management 149, 148–156. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.10.023

N3.    Althaus, F., Hill, N. A., Edwards, L., and Ferrari, R. (2013). CATAMI Classification Scheme for scoring marine biota and substrata in underwater imagery – A pictorial guide to the Collaborative and Annotation Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery and Video (CATAMI) classification scheme.

N4.    Althaus, F., Hill, N. A., Ferrari, R., Edwards, L., Przeslawski, R., Schonberg, C. H. L., Stuart-Smith, R., Barrett, N., Edgar, G., Colquhoun, J., Tran, M., Jordan, A., and Rees, T. (submitted). Standardized classification of benthic biota and substrata from underwater imagery: the CATAMI Classification Scheme. PLoS ONE.

N5.    Anderson, A., Cook, G., and Bax, N. J. (2014). Mining and biodiversity IN Biodiversity – Science and Solutions for Australia. In Biodiversity – Science and Solutions for Australia. Biodiversity – Science and Solutions for Australia. pp. 167–178. (CSIRO Publishing.)

N6.    Ban, N. C., Bax, N. J., Gjerde, K. M., Devillers, R., Dunn, D. C., Dunstan, P. K., Hobday, A. J., Maxwell, S. M., Kaplan, D. M., Pressey, R. L., Ardron, J. A., Game, E. T., and Halpin, P. N. (2013). Systematic conservation planning: A better recipe for managing the high seas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. Conservation Letters. doi:10.1111/conl.12010

N7.    Ban, N. C., Maxwell, S. M., Dunn, D. C., Hobday, A. J., Bax, N. J., Ardron, J. A., Gjerde, K. M., Game, E. T., Devillers, R., Kaplan, D. M., Dunstan, P. K., Halpin, P. N., and Pressey, R. L. (2013). Better integration of sectoral planning and management approaches for the interlinked ecology of the open oceans. Marine Policy. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.11.024

N8.    Bird, T. J., Bates, A. E., Lefcheck, J. S., Hill, N. A., Thomson, R. J., Edgar, G. J., Rick D Stuart-Smith, Wotherspoon, S., Krkosek, M., Stuart-Smith, J. F., Pecl, G. T., Barrett, N. S., and Frusher, S. (2014). Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.037

N9.    Bouchet, P. J., Meeuwig, J. J., Kent, C. P. Salgado, Letessier, T. B., and Jenner, C. K. (2014). Topographic determinants of mobile predator hotspots: Current knowledge and future directions. Biological Reviews. doi:10.1111/brv.12130

N10.    Bouchet, P., Meeuwig, J., Huang, Z., Letessier, T., Nichol, S., Watson, R. (in review). Continental-scale models of pelagic fish hotspots: can geoscience guide the conservation of mobile oceanic predators? Ecology Letters.

N11.    Bouchet, P. J. and Meeuwig J. J. (in review). Drifting baited stereo-videography: A novel sampling tool for surveying pelagic wildlife in offshore marine reserves. Ecosphere.

N12.    Bridge, T. C. L., Ferrari, R., Bryson, M., Hovey, R., Figueira, W. F., Williams, S. B., Pizarro, O., Harborne, A. R., and Byrne, M. (2014). Variable responses of benthic communities to anomalously warm sea temperatures on a high-latitude coral reef. PLoS ONE 9, e113079. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113079

N13.    Bruce, B. D. and Bradford, R. W. (submitted). Segregation or aggregation? Sex-specific patterns in the seasonal occurrence of white sharks at the Neptune Islands, South Australia. Journal of Fish Biology.

N14.    Burgess, G. H., Bruce, B. D., Cailliet, G. M., Goldman, K. J., R. Grubbs, D., Lowe, C. G., MacNeil, A. M., Mollet, H. F., Weng, K. C., and O’Sullivan, J. B. (2014). A re-evaluation of the size of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) population off California, USA. PLoS ONE 9, e98078. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098078

N15.    Burton, M. Richert, C and Rogers, A.A. (in revision). Community acceptance of biodiversity offsets: evidence from a choice experiment. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

N16.    Cameron M.J., Lucieer V.L., Barrett N., Johnson C.R., Edgar G.J. (2014). Understanding community-habitat associations of temperate reef fishes using fine-resolution bathymetric measures of physical structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi: 10.3354/meps10788

N17.    Ceccarelli, D. M., A. McKinnon, D., Andréfouët, S., Allain, V., Young, J. W., Gledhill, D. C., Flynn, A., Bax, N. J., Beaman, R., Borsa, P., Brinkman, R., Bustamante, R. H., Campbell, R., Cappo, M., Cravatte, S., D’Agata, S., Dichmont, C. M., Dunstan, P. K., Dupouy, Cecile, Edgar, G. J., Farman, R., Furnas, M., Garrigue, C., Hutton, T., Kulbicki, M., Letourneur, Y., Lindsay, D., Menkes, C., Mouillot, D., Parravicini, V., Payri, C., Pelletier, B., de Forges, B. Richer, Ridgway, K., Rodier, M., Samadi, S., Schoeman, D., Skewes, T., Swearer, S., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., Williams, A., Williams, A., and Richardson, A. J. (2013). The Coral Sea: Physical Environment, Ecosystem Status and Biodiversity Assets. Advances in Marine Biology. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-408096-6.00004-3

N18.    Chen, X., Kyne, P. M., Pillans, R. D., and Feutry, P. (2015). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Endangered Narrow Sawfish Anoxypristis cuspidata (Rajiformes: Pristidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.1003898

N19.    Chen, X., Liu, M., Grewe, P. M., Kyne, P. M., and Feutry, P. (2013). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Critically Endangered speartooth shark Glyphis glyphis (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.809443

N20.    Chen, X., Wiley, T., Kyne, P. M. and Feutry, P. (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Critically Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish Pristis pectinata (Rajiformes: Pristidae). Mitochondrial DNA.

N21.    Coleman M. A., Bates A. E., Stuart-Smith R. D., Malcolm H. A., Harasti D., Jordan A., Knott N. A., Edgar G. J. and Kelaher B. P. (in press). Functional traits reveal early responses in marine reserves following protection from fishing. Diversity and Distributions.

N22.    Daley, R., and Webb, H. (2013). Evaluation of information used in CITES Appendix II proposals, for three sharks and two rays: Porbeagle (Lamna nasus), Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), Scalloped Hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and manta rays (Manta and Mobula species). Report to the Department of Sustainability Environment, Water Populations and Communities.

N23.    Devitt, K. R., Adams, V. M., and Kyne, P. M. (2015). Australia’s protected area network fails to adequately protect the world’s most threatened marine fishes. Global Ecology and Conservation 3, 401 –411. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2015.01.007

N24.    Dolan, M. F. J., and Lucieer, V. L. (2014). Variation and uncertainty in bathymetric slope calculations using geographical information systems. Marine Geodesy 37, 187–219. doi:10.1080/01490419.2014.902888

N25.    Dulvy, N. K., Davidson, L. N. K., Kyne, P. M., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Harrison, L. R., Carlson, J. K., and Fordham, S. V. (2014). Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. doi:10.1002/aqc.2525

N26.    Dulvy, N. K., Fowler, S. L., Musick, J. A., Cavanagh, R. D., Kyne, P. M., Harrison, L. R., Carlson, J. K., Davidson, L. N. K., Fordham, S. V., Francis, M. P., Pollock, C. M., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Burgess, G. H., Carpenter, K. E., Compagno, L. J. V., Ebert, D. A., Gibson, C., Heupel, M. R., Livingstone, S. R., Sanciangco, J., Stevens, J. D., Valenti, S., and White, W. T. (2014). Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays. eLIFE. doi:10.7554/eLife.00590.001

N27.    Dunn, D. C., Ardron, J. A., Bax, N. J., Bernal, P., Cleary, J., Cresswell, I., Donnelly, B., Dunstan, P. K., Gjerde, K. M., Johnson, D., Kaschner, K., Lascelles, B., Rice, J., von Nordheim, H., Wood, L., and Halpin, P. N. (2014). The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas: Origins, development, and current status. Marine Policy. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.12.002

N28.    Dunstan, P. K., Foster, S. D., Hui, F. K. C., and Warton, D. I. (2013). Finite mixture of regression modeling for high-dimensional count and biomass data in ecology. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 18, 357–375. doi:10.1007/s13253-013-0146-x

N29.    Durden, J.M., Schoening, T., Althaus, F. Friedman, A., Garcia, R., Glover, A., Greinert, J., Jacobson Stout, N., Jones, D.O.B., Jordt, A., Kaeli, J.W., Köser, K., Kuhnz, L.A., Lindsay, D., Morris, K.J., Nattkemper, T.W., Osterloff, J., Ruhl, H.A., Singh, H., Tran, M. and Bett, B.J. (submitted). Perspectives in visual imaging for marine biology and ecology: from acquisition to understanding. Oceanography and Marine Biology: Annual Review

N30.    Edgar, G. J., and Stuart-Smith, R. D. (2014). Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program. Scientific Data 1. doi:10.1038/sdata.2014.7

N31.    Edgar, G. J., Rick D Stuart-Smith, Willis, T. J., Kininmonth, S. J., Baker, S. C., Banks, S., Barrett, N. S., Becerro, M. A., Bernard, A. T. F., Berkhout, J., Buxton, C. D., Campbell, S. J., Cooper, A. T., M, D., Edgar, S. C., Fosterra, G., Galvan, D. E., Irigoyen, A. J., Kushner, D. J., Moura, R., Parnell, P. E., Shears, N. T., Soler, G., Strain, E. M. A., and Thomson, R. J. (2014). Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature13022

N32.    Ferrari, R., Malcolm, H. A., Byrne, M., Jordan, A.R., Williams, S. B., Friedman, A., Schultz, A., Figueira, W.F. (in review). Effects of multiscale habitat structural complexity on fish abundance: do functional groups respond consistently? Diversity and Distributions.

N33.    Feutry, P., Every, S. L., Kyne, P. M., Sun, R., and Chen, X. (2014). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Pigeye Shark Carcharhinus amboinensis (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.982590

N34.    Feutry, P., Grewe, P. M., Kyne, P. M., and Chen, X. (2014). Complete mitogenomic sequence of the Critically Endangered Northern River Shark Glyphis garricki (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.861428

N35.    Feutry, P., Kyne, P. M., Grewe, P. M., Chen, X., and Liu, M. (2013). Whole mitogenome of the Endangered dwarf sawfish Pristis clavata (Rajiformes: Pristidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.830297

N36.    Feutry, P., Kyne, P. M., Peng, Z., Pan, L., and Chen, X. (2014). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Freshwater Whipray Himantura dalyensis. Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.958682

N37.    Feutry, P., Kyne, P. M., Pillans, R. D., Chen, X., Naylor, G. J. P., and Grewe, P. M. (2014). Mitogenomics of the Speartooth Shark challenges ten years of control region sequencing. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0232-x

N38.    Feutry, P., Kyne, P. M., Pillans, R. D., Chen, X., Marthick, J., Grewe, P.M. (in review). Whole mitogenome sequencing reveals the population structure of the Critically Endangered Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis in northern Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

N39.    Feutry, P., Pillans, R. D., Kyne, P. M., and Chen, X. (2014). Complete mitogenome of the Graceful Shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.892094

N40.    Foster, S. D., Dunstan, P. K., Althaus, F., and Williams, A. (2015). The cumulative effect of trawl fishing on a multispecies fish assemblage in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology 52, 129–139. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12353

N41.    Foster, S. D., Givens, G. H., Dornan, G. J., Dunstan, P. K., and Darnell, R. (2013). Modelling biological regions from multi-species and environmental data. Environmetrics 24, 489–499. doi:10.1002/env.v24.710.1002/env.2245

N42.    Foster, S. D., Griffin, D. A., and Dunstan, P. K. (2014). Twenty years of high-resolution sea surface temperature imagery around Australia: inter-annual and annual variability. PLoS ONE 9, e100762. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100762

N43.    Foster, S. D., Hosack, G. R., Hill, N. A., Barrett, N. S., and Lucieer, V. L. (2014). Choosing between strategies for designing surveys: autonomous underwater vehicles. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5, 287–297. doi:10.1111/mee3.2014.5.issue-310.1111/2041-210X.12156

N44.    Hayes, K. R., Dambacher, J. M., Hosack, G. R., Bax, N.J., Dunstan, P., Fulton, E. A., Thompson, P., Hartog, J. R., Hobday, A. J., Bradford, R., Foster, S., Hedge, P., Smith, D. C., Marshall, C. (in review). Identifying and evaluating biological indicators for marine ecosystems. Ecological Indicators.

N45.    Harris, P. T. (2014). Shelf and deep-sea sedimentary environments and physical benthic disturbance regimes: A review and synthesis. Marine Geology 353, 169–184. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.023

N46.    Harris, P. T., Bridge, T. C. L., Beaman, R. J., Webster, J. M., Nichol, S. L., and Brooke, B. P. (2012). Submerged banks in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, greatly increase available coral reef habitat. ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fss165

N47.    Hernandez S., Daley R., Walker T., Braccini M., Varela A., Francis M. P., Ritchie P.A. (2015). Demographic history and the South Pacific dispersal barrier for school shark (Galeorhinus galeus) inferred by mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite DNA mark. Fisheries Research. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2015.02.010

N48.    Hill N.A., Barrett N., Lawrence E., Hulls J., Dambacher J.M., Nichol S., Williams A., and Hayes K.R. (2014). Quantifying fish assemblages in large, offshore marine protected areas: an Australian case study. PLoS ONE. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110831

N49.    Huang, Z. and Feng, M. (in review). Remotely sensed spatial and temporal variability of the Leeuwin Current using Time-series MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment.

N50.    Huang, Z., Nichol, S. L., Harris, P. T., and Caley, M. Julian (2014). Classification of submarine canyons of the Australian continental margin. Marine Geology 357, 362–383. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.07.007

N51.    Huang, Z., Przeslawski, R., Kool, J., Li, J., Bouchet, P., and Nichol, S. L. (2013). Australian Marine Environmental Data: Descriptions and Metadata. Geoscience Australia Record 2013/21. Geoscience Australia.

N52.    Hui, F. K. C., Taskinen, S., Pledger, S., Foster, S. D., and Warton, D. I. (2014). Model-based approaches to unconstrained ordination R. B. O’Hara. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12236

N53.    Hui, F. K. C., Warton, D. I., and Foster, S. D. (2014). Tuning Parameter Selection for the Lasso Regression using ERIC. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 00–00 ?? is this correct?. doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.951444

N54.    Hui, F. K. C., Warton, D. I., Foster, S. D., and Dunstan, P. K. (2013). To mix or not to mix: comparing the predictive performance of mixture models vs. separate species distribution models. Ecology 94, 1913–1919. doi:10.1890/12-1322.1

N55.    Hui, F.K.C., Warton, D.I., Foster, S.D. (in review). An Akaike information criterion for mixture models. Biometrika.

N56.    Hui, F.K.C., Warton, D.I., Foster, S.D. (in review). The group lasso for finite mixture of regression models, with applications to species distribution modelling. Annals of Applied Statistics.

N57.    Innes, J., Pascoe, S., Wilcox, C., Jennings, S., and Paredes, S. (in review). Mitigating undesirable impacts in the marine environment: a review of market-based management measures. Frontiers in Marine Science.

N58.    Iwasa-Arai, T, McCallum, A. W. and Taylor, J., (accepted). Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve survey reveals new records of xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from northern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria.

N59.    Kloser, R. J., and Keith, G. (2013). Seabed multi-beam backscatter mapping of the Australian continental margin. Acoustics Australia 41.

N60.    Kloser, R.J., Althaus, F., Keith, G., and Williams, A. (in review) Submarine canyons and seabed hard grounds (“reefs”) on the outer continental shelf and upper slope of Australia. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia, A report to the NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub, 25pp.

N61.    Kool, J.T., Huang, Z., and Nichol S. (submitted). Simulated larval connectivity among Australia’s South-west submarine canyons. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

N62.    Kool, J. T., and Nichol, S. L. (2015). Four-dimensional connectivity modelling with application to Australia’s north and northwest marine environments. Environmental Modelling & Software 65, 67–78. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.11.022

N63.    Kyne, P. M. (2014). Extinction risk categories and how to cite them. Mitochondrial DNA, 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.905831

N64.    Kyne, P. M., Bax, N. J., and Dulvy, N. K. (2015). Biodiversity: sharks and rays in peril too. Nature 518, 167–167. doi:10.1038/518167e

N65.    Kyne, P. M., Carlson, J. K., Ebert, D. A., Fordham, S. V., Bizzarro, J. J., Graham, R. T., Kulka, D. W., Tewes, E. E., Harrison, L. R., and Dulvy, N. K. (2012). The Conservation Status of North American, Central American, and Caribbean Chondrichthyans. (IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group: Vancouver, Canada.)

N66.    Kyne, P. M. (2014). Threatened fishes and marine turtles of Kakadu National Park (with notes on marine mammals). Pp. 58–74. In: Winderlich S & Woinarski J (eds) 2014. Kakadu National Park Landscape Symposia Series. Symposium 7: Conservation of threatened species, 26-27 March 2013, Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu National Park. Internal Report 623, Supervising Scientist, Darwin.

N67.    Kyne, P. M. (in press). Occurrence of a Sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) on a Northern River Shark (Glyphis garricki) in a tidal riverine habitat. Northern Territory Naturalist

N68.    Last, P. R., Pogonoski, J. J., Gledhill, D. C., White, W. T., and Walker, C. J. (2014). The deepwater demersal ichthyofauna of the western Coral Sea. Zootaxa 3887, 191. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3887.210.11646/zootaxa.3887.2.4

N69.    Leaper, R., Dunstan, P. K., Foster, S. D., Barrett, N. S., and Edgar, G. J. (2014). Do communities exist? Complex patterns of overlapping marine species distributions. Ecology, 140203151921008. doi:10.1890/13-0789.1

N70.    Letessier, T. B., Bouchet, P. J., Reisser, J., and Meeuwig, J. J. (2014). Baited videography reveals remote foraging and migration behaviour of sea turtles. Marine Biodiversity. doi:10.1007/s12526-014-0287-3

N71.    Letessier, T. B., Juhel, J.-B., Vigliola, L., and Meeuwig, J. J. (2015). Low-cost action cameras can be used for accurate underwater stereo measurements of fish. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 466, 120–126. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2015.02.013

N72.    Letessier, T. B., Meeuwig, J J., Gollock, M., Groves, L., Bouchet, P. J., Chapuis, L., Vianna, G. M. S., Kemp, K., and Koldewey, H. J. (2013). Assessing pelagic fish populations: the application of demersal video techniques to the mid-water environment. Methods in Oceanography 8, 41–55. doi:10.1016/j.mio.2013.11.003

N73.    Lucieer, V. L., Huang, Z., Siwabessy, J.W. (in review). Analysing uncertainty in multibeam bathymetry data and the impact on derived seafloor attributes. Marine Geodesy.

N74.    Marre, J-B., Thebaud, O., Pascoe, S., Jennings, S., Boncoeur, J., and Coglan, L. (submitted). The use of ecosystem services valuation in Australian coastal zone management. Marine Policy.

N75.    Marzinelli, E. M., Williams, S., Babcock, R., Barrett, N., Johnson, C., Jordan, A., Kendrick, G., Pizarro, O., Smale, D., Steinberg, P. (in press). Large-scale geographic variation in distribution and abundance of Australian deep-water kelp forests. PLoS ONE.

N76.    McKinnon, D., Williams, A., Young, J. W., Ceccarelli, D. M., Dunstan, P. K., Brewin, R. J. W., Watson, R., Brinkman, R., Cappo, M., Duggan, S., Kelley, R., Ridgway, K., Lindsay, D., Gledhill, D. C., Hutton, T., and Richardson, A. J. (2014). Tropical Marginal Seas: Priority Regions for Managing Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Annual Review of Marine Science 6, 415–437. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010213-135042

N77.    Mellin, C., Bradshaw, C. J. A., Fordham, D. A., and Caley, M. Julian (2014). Strong but opposing β-diversity-stability relationships affect coral reef conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1777), 20131993. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1993

N78.    Mellin C., MacNeil M. A., Cheal A. J., Emslie, M. J., and Caley M. J. (in review). Marine protected areas increase the resilience of coral reef communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

N79.    Mellin, C., Mengersen, K., Bradshaw, C. J. A., and Caley, M. Julian (2014). Generalizing the use of geographical weights in biodiversity modelling. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi:10.1111/geb.12203

N80.    Moura, T., Jones, E., Clarke, M. W., Cotton, C. F., Crozier, P., Daley, R. K., Diez, G., Dobby, H., Dyb, J. E., Fossen, I., Irvine, S. B., Jakobsdottir, K., López-Abellán, L. J., Lorance, P., Pascual-Alayón, P., Severino, R. B., and Figueiredo, I. (2014). Large-scale distribution of three deep-water squaloid sharks: Integrating data on sex, maturity and environment. Fisheries Research 157, 47–61. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2014.03.019

N81.    Nichol, S. L., Howard, F., Kool, J., Stowar, M., Bouchet, P., Radke, L. C., Siwabessy, J. P. W., Przeslawski, R., Picard, K., B de Glasby, A., Colquhoun, J., Letessier, T. B., and Heyward, A. (2013). Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Timor Sea) Biodiversity Survey: Post Survey Report. GA Record 2013/38.

N82.    O’Hara, T. D., England, P. R., Gunasekera, R. M., and Naughton, K. M. (2014). Limited phylogeographic structure for five bathyal ophiuroids at continental scales. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 84, 18–28. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.09.009

N83.    O’Hara, T. D., Hugall, F., Thuy, B., and Moussalli, A. (2014). Phylogenomic resolution of the Class Ophiuroidea unlocks a global microfossil record. Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.060

N84.    Perkins, N. R., Foster, S. D., Hill, N. A., and Barrett, N. S. (in review). Sampling strategies for benthic imagery for large-scale ecological monitoring programs. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.

N85.    Perkins, N. R., Hill, N. A., Foster, S. D., and Barrett, N. S. (2015). Altered niche of an ecologically significant species, Centrostephanus rodgersii, in its extended range revealed using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 155, 56–65. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2015.01.014

N86.    Pethybridge, H. R., Parrish, C. C., Bruce, B. D., Young, J. W., and Nichols, P. D., and Pond, D.W. (2014). Lipid, fatty acid and energy density profiles of white sharks: insights into the feeding ecology and ecophysiology of a complex top predator. PLoS ONE 9, e97877. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.009787710.1371

N87.    Pitcher, C. R., Ellis, N., Venables, B., Wassenberg, T. J., Burridge, C. Y., Smith, G. P., Browne, M., Pantus, F., Poiner, I. R., Doherty, P. J., Hooper, J. N. A., and Gribble, N. (accepted). Effects of trawling on sessile megabenthos in the Great Barrier Reef, and evaluation of the efficacy of management strategies. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

N88.    Poore C. B. G., and Andreakis, N. (2014). More species of the Agononida incerta complex revealed by molecules & morphology 5 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae). Zootaxa. 3860: 201–225. doi:0.11646/zootaxa.3860.3.1

N89.    Poore, G. C. B., Avery, L., Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M., Browne, J., Bruce, N. L., Gerken, S., Glasby, C., Greaves, E., McCallum, A. W., Staples, D., Syme, A., Taylor, J., Walker-Smith, G., Warne, M., Watson, C., Williams, A., Wilson, R. S., and Woolley, S. N. C. (2014). Invertebrate diversity of the unexplored marine western margin of Australia: taxonomy and implications for global biodiversity. Marine Biodiversity. doi:10.1007/s12526-014-0255-y

N90.    Przeslawski, R., Alvarez, B., Battershill, C., and Smith, T. (2014). Sponge biodiversity and ecology of the Van Diemen Rise and eastern Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, northern Australia. Hydrobiologia 730, 1–16. doi:10.1007/s10750-013-1799-8

N91.    Przeslawski, R., Byrne, M., and Mellin, C. (2015). A review and meta-analysis of the effects of multiple abiotic stressors on marine embryos and larvae. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.12833

N92.    Przeslawski, R., de Glasby, B. Alvarez, Smit, N., Evans-Illidge, L., and Dethmers, K. (2013). Benthic Biota of Northern Australia: SS2012t07 Post-survey Report. GA Record 2013/07.

N93.    Radke, L., Li, J., Douglas, G., Przeslawski, R., Nichol, S., Siwabessy, J., Huang, Z., Trafford, J., Watson, T., Whiteway, T. (2015). Characterising sediments of a tropical sediment-starved continental shelf using cluster analysis of physical and geochemical variables. Environmental Chemistry. doi: 10.1071/EN14126

N94.    Richert, C., Rogers, A. A., and Burton, M. (2015). Measuring the extent of a Social License to Operate: The influence of marine biodiversity offsets in the oil and gas sector in Western Australia. Resources Policy 43, 121–129. doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.12.001

N95.    Stuart-Smith, R. D., Bates, A. E., Lefcheck, J. S., Duffy, J.E., Baker, S. C., Thomson, R. J., Stuart-Smith, J. F., Hill, N. A., Kininmonth, S. J., Airoldi, L., Becerro, M. A., Campbell, S. J., Dawson, T. P., Navarrete, S. A., Soler, G. A., Strain, E. M. A., Willis, T. J., and Edgar, G.J. (2013). Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity. Nature 501, 539–542. doi:10.1038/nature12529

N96.    Robbins, R., Bruce, B. D., and Fox, A. (2013). First reports of proliferative lesions in the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias L., and bronze whaler shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus Gunther. Journal of Fish Diseases. doi:10.1111/jfd.12203

N97.    Rogers, A. A. (2013). Public and expert preference divergence: evidence from a choice experiment of marine reserves in Australia. Land Economics, 346–370.

N98.    Rogers, A. A. (2013). Social welfare and marine reserves – is willingness to pay for conservation dependent on management process? A discrete choice experiment of the Ningaloo Marine Park in Australia. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d’agroeconomie 61, 217–238. doi:10.1111/cjag.12008

N99.    Rogers, A. A., Burton, M., Richert, C., and Kay, A. (2014). Community acceptance of marine biodiversity offsets in Australia: a pilot study.

N100.    Schluessel, V., Giles, J., and Kyne, P. M. (2014). Notes on female reproductive biology and embryos of the brown guitarfish Rhinobatos schlegelii from the Penghu Islands, Taiwan. Ichthyological Research. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0431-x

N101.    Sequeira, A. M. M., Mellin, C., Delean, S., Meekan, M. G., and Bradshaw, C. J. A. (2013). Spatial and temporal predictions of inter-decadal trends in Indian Ocean whale sharks. Marine Ecology Progress Series 478, 185–195. doi:10.3354/meps10166

N102.    Sequeira, A. M. M., Mellin, C., Lozano-Montes, H. M., Vanderklift, M. A., Babcock, R. C., Haywood, M., Meeuwig, J. J., and Caley, M. J. (in review). Transferability of predictive models of coral reef fish species density. Journal of Applied Ecology.

N103.    Sequeira, A. M. M., Mellin, C., Meekan, M. G., Sims, D. W., and Bradshaw, C. J. A. (2013). Inferred global connectivity of whale shark Rhincodon typus populations. Journal of Fish Biology 82, 367–389. doi:10.1111/jfb.12017

N104.    Soler, G. A., Edgar, G. J., Thomson, R. J., Kininmonth, S., Campbell, S. J., Dawson, T. P., Barrett, N. S., Bernard, A. T. F., Galván, D. E., Willis, T. J., Alexander, T. J., Stuart-Smith, R. D. (submitted). Reef fishes at all trophic levels respond positively to effective marine protected areas. PLoS ONE.

N105.    Stoklosa, J., Daly, C., Foster, S. D., Ashcroft, M. B., and Warton, D. I. (2014). A climate of uncertainty: accounting for error and spatial variability in climate variables for species distribution models R. B. O’Hara. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12217

N106.    Stuart-Smith, R., Edgar, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Barrett, N., Fowles, A., Hill, N., Cooper, A., Myers, A., Oh, E., Pocklington, J., Thomson, R. (accepted). Loss of rocky reef biodiversity in Australian metropolitan embayments. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

N107.    Sunday, J. M., Bates, A. E., Pecl, G. T., Frusher, S., Hobday, A. J., Hill, N., Holbrook, N. J., Edgar, G. J., Stuart-Smith, R., Barrett, N., Wernberg, T., Watson, R. A., Smale, D. A., Fulton, E. A., Slawinski, D., Feng, M., Radford, B. T., Thompson, P.A. (in review). Species traits and climate velocity explain range shifts in an ocean warming hotspot. Ecology Letters.

N108.    Thebaud, O., Boschetti, F., Jennings, S., Smith, A. D. M., Pascoe S. (submitted). Of sets of offsets: cumulative impacts and strategies for compensatory restoration. Ecological Modelling.

N109.    Thomas, L., Kendrick, G., Kennington, W. J., Richards, Z. T., and Stat, M. (2014). Exploring Symbiodinium diversity and host specificity in Acropora coral from geographical extremes of Western Australia. Molecular Ecology 23, 3113–3126. doi:10.1111/mec.12801

N110.    Thomas, L., Kendrick, G., Stat, M., Travaille, K. L., Shedrawi, G., and Kennington, W. J. (2014). Population genetic structure of the Pocillopora damicornis morphospecies along Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 513, 111–119. doi:10.3354/meps10893

N111.    Thomas, L., Kennington, W. J., Stat, M., Wilkinson, S., Kool, J. T., Kendrick, G. A. (submitted). Environmental drivers of genetic patchiness across a complex coral reef seascape. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

N112.    Thomas, L., Stat, M., Kendrick, G., and Hobbs, J.-P. A. (2014). Severe loss of anemones and anemone fishes from a premier tourist attraction at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Marine Biodiversity. doi:10.1007/s12526-014-0242-3

N113.    Uiblein, F., and Gledhill, D. C. (2014). A new goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from Australia and Vanuatu, with inter- and intraspecific comparisons. Marine Biology Research, 1–17. doi:10.1080/17451000.2014.958088

N114.    Warton, D. I., Foster, S. D’eath, G., Stoklosa, J., and Dunstan, P. K. (2014). Model-Based Thinking for Community Ecology. Plant Ecology. doi:10.1007/s11258-014-0366-3

N115.    Woolley, S. N. C., McCallum, A. W., Wilson, R. S., O’Hara, T. D., and Dunstan, P. K., and Rouget, M. (2013). Fathom out: biogeographical subdivision across the Western Australian continental margin – a multispecies modelling approach. Diversity and Distributions 19, 1506–1517. doi:10.1111/ddi.2013.19.issue-1210.1111/ddi.12119

N116.    Yates, K. L., Mellin, C., Caley, M. J., Radford, B. T., and Meeuwig J. J. (in review). Remotely sensed data outperformed by visual habitat classification in biodiversity modelling reveals trade-offs for conservation planning. Journal of Applied Ecology.