Fish Ecology Lab

Congratulations to Kirsty Richards who got her second chapter of her PhD published today. This research documents how fish assemblages change across an inverse salinity gradient across the Eastern Gulf of Shark Bay and up into Hamelin Pool.

You can read the paper at https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1lN1eW5UJVSPw

Abstract
Variation in environmental conditions drive changes within aquatic ecosystems and their associated inhabitants, with salinity and temperature influencing the spatial and temporal patterns of biological communities. An extreme salinity gradient exists within the Eastern Gulf of Shark Bay UNESCO World Heritage Area, Western Australia, reaching

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Dion Boddington has published the second chapter in his masters, this one on the life-history characteristics and mortality of the frostback rockcod. You can access the paper at

Life-history characteristics and mortality of the protogynous hermaphroditic frostback rockcod (Epinephelus bilobatus) from the eastern Indian Ocean The frostback rockcod, Epinephelus bilobatus, is a small epinephelid (

Congratulations to Simon McKinley who has just published the second paper from his master's thesis.
The research explores the functional diversity of reef fish assemblages in the Galapagos archipelago using stereo-BRUVs. It finds that the reef ecosystems of Galapagos are vulnerable to reduced fish functional diversity if fish species are lost. Environmental variation and habitat complexity were important predictors of functional diversity across the Galapagos.
Thanks to Ben Saunders, Etienne Rastoin-Laplane, Pelayo Salinas-de-Leon and Euan Harvey for collaboration on the project.

Functional vulnerability and biogeography of reef fish assemblages in the Galapagos Archipelago The Galapagos archipelago's unique reef biodiversity and fish distribution patterns are well documented. However, reef ecosystem vulnerability to losi…