News & Events
Marine Biology Program news and events:
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New Paper: Predicting the Distribution of Commercially Important Invertebrate Stocks under Future Climate
A new paper involving Environment Institute members Bayden Russell, Sean Connell, Camille Mellin (also Australian Institute of Marine Science), Barry Brook, Owen Burnell and Damien Fordham has recently been published in the journal PLOS One. The journa...Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:06:03 +0930
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Silver lining to coral reef climate cloud
A team of Researchers, led by Merinda Nash from Australian National University (ANU), have found parts of our coral reefs are more resistant to ocean acidification than first thought. The study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change today ...Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:22:09 +0930
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Fish earbones as a tool to examine climate variability: development of a marine growth chronology – Guest blogger Gretchen Grammer
Guest post by Gretchen Grammer, Gretchen is a PhD student in the Marine Biology Program, School of Earth & Environmental Science at The University of Adelaide. Her current research centres on the use of fish otoliths as a proxy to examine oceanographic...Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:39:47 +0930
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EI member wins Future Fellowship
Environment Institute member Assoc. prof. Ivan Nagelkerken was recently announced as a winner of a Future Fellowship for funding commencing in 2012 by the Australian Research Council. Ivan’s project title is ‘Ocean acidification and rising sea temperat...Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:33:09 +0930
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New Paper: The impact of food availability on snapper
A new paper titled ‘The use of food resources by 0+ snapper, Chrysophrys auratus, from northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia‘ investigates the availability of food as an important factor in survival and growth of juvenile fish. Food is proposed to pla...Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:11:28 +0930
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New Paper: Using fish ear bones to investigate the importance of estuaries
A new paper titled ‘Temporal variability in estuarine fish otolith elemental fingerprints: Implications for connectivity assessments‘ investigates using the chemical composition of fish ear bones to provide important information for understanding the v...Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:22:53 +0930
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New Report: A stock assessment and future management report on the Australian Sardine
A new report titled ‘Movement patterns and stock structure of Australian sardine, Sardinops sagax, off South Australia and the East Coast: implications for future stock assessment and management‘ helps to determine the structure and movement of sardine...Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:00:51 +0930
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New Paper: Effects of Marine Reserves versus Nursery Habitat Availability on Structure of Reef Fish Communities
A new paper involving Environment Institute member Ivan Nagelkerken, as well as Monique Grol (from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Peter Mumby (from the University of Queensland) has recently been published in the journal PLoS ONE...Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:06:48 +0930
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New Paper: Context-Dependency in the Effects of Nutrient Loading and Consumers on the Availability of Space in Marine Rocky Environments
A new paper written by Environment Institute members Fabio Bulleri (also from the University of Pisa and the University of Sassari, Italy), Bayden Russell and Sean Connell has recently been published in the journal PLoS one. The paper, titled ‘Context-...Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:44 +0930
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New Paper – A test of the senses: Fish select novel habitats by responding to multiple cues
A new paper involving Environment Institute member Ivan Nagelkerken, as well as Chantal Huijbers, Pauline Lössbroek, Ines Schulten, Andjin Siegenthaler (all from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Marc Holderied and Stephen Simpson (bot...Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:04:47 +0930

















