Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey

Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world

(2020) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   SCIENCE

Comments on the evidence for the recent claim on the state of Australian fish stocks

(2019) L. Richard Little et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

The shape of abundance distributions across temperature gradients in reef fishes

(2019) Conor Waldock et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Comments on Edgar et al. (2018) paper for south‐western Australia

(2019) Dan Gaughan et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral-reef ecosystem functioning

(2019) Simon J. Brandl et al.   SCIENCE

Weaknesses in stock assessment modelling and management practices affect fisheries sustainability

(2019) Graham J. Edgar et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Marine protected areas are more effective but less reliable in protecting fish biomass than fish diversity

(2019) Jose A. Sanabria-Fernandez et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Alpha and beta diversity across coastal marine social-ecological systems: Implications for conservation

(2019) Natali Lazzari et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without an expanded network of ‘no-fishing’ reserves

(2018) Graham J. Edgar et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Using opportunistic citizen science data to estimate avian population trends

(2018) Joshua J. Horns et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fishing-gear restrictions and biomass gains for coral reef fishes in marine protected areas

(2018) Stuart J. Campbell et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Species’ thermal ranges predict changes in reef fish community structure during 8 years of extreme temperature variation

(2018) Paul B. Day et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Effects of urbanisation on macroalgae and sessile invertebrates in southeast Australian estuaries

(2018) Amelia E. Fowles et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Moving beyond trophic groups: evaluating fishing‑induced changes to temperate reef food webs

(2018) GA Soler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Pollution signature for temperate reef biodiversity is short and simple

(2018) S.D. Ling et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

(2018) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Moving beyond trophic groups: evaluating fishing‑induced changes to temperate reef food webs

(2018) GA Soler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Reef fish communities are spooked by scuba surveys and may take hours to recover

(2018) Michael J. Emslie et al.   PeerJ

Facilitation of Australia’s southernmost reef-building coral by sea urchin herbivory

(2018) S. D. Ling et al.   CORAL REEFS

A global assessment of the direct and indirect benefits of marine protected areas for coral reef conservation

(2018) Elisabeth M. A. Strain et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching

(2018) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Reliability and utility of citizen science reef monitoring data collected by Reef Check Australia, 2002–2015

(2017) Terence Done et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Ubiquity of microplastics in coastal seafloor sediments

(2017) S.D. Ling et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally

(2017) David A. Gill et al.   NATURE

Abundance and local-scale processes contribute to multi-phyla gradients in global marine diversity

(2017) Graham J. Edgar et al.   Science Advances

Thermal limits to the geographic distributions of shallow-water marine species

(2017) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Consistent multi-level trophic effects of marine reserve protection across northern New Zealand

(2017) Graham J. Edgar et al.   PLoS One

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

(2016) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

(2016) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluation and optimisation of underwater visual census monitoring for quantifying change in rocky-reef fish abundance

(2015) Timothy Jones et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Functional traits reveal early responses in marine reserves following protection from fishing

(2015) M. A. Coleman et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach

(2015) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of native rocky reef biodiversity in Australian metropolitan embayments

(2015) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Thermal biases and vulnerability to warming in the world’s marine fauna

(2015) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Reef Fishes at All Trophic Levels Respond Positively to Effective Marine Protected Areas

(2015) German A. Soler et al.   PLoS One

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity

(2015) Matthieu Leray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

(2015) Susan M. Kidwell   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, a new species of sweetlips (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from northern Australia and the resurrection of P. unicolor (Macleay, 1883), species previously confused with P. schotaf (Forsskål, 1775)

(2015) JEFFREY W. JOHNSON et al.   ZOOTAXA

Squidpops: A Simple Tool to Crowdsource a Global Map of Marine Predation Intensity

(2015) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   PLoS One

Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

(2014) Rodolphe Devillers et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Enigmatic declines of Australia’s sea snakes from a biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Vimoksalehi Lukoschek et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

(2013) Tomas J. Bird et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Congruence in demersal fish, macroinvertebrate, and macroalgal community turnover on shallow temperate reefs

(2013) Russell J. Thomson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Observer bias and detection probability in underwater visual census of fish assemblages measured with independent double-observers

(2013) A.T.F. Bernard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

(2013) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem model of Tasmanian waters explores impacts of climate-change induced changes in primary productivity

(2012) Reg A. Watson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

An assessment of population responses of common inshore fishes and invertebrates following declaration of five Australian marine protected areas

(2012) GRAHAM. J. EDGAR et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Variation in reef fish and invertebrate communities with level of protection from fishing across the Eastern Tropical Pacific seascape

(2011) Graham J. Edgar et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats

(2011) Dean Roemmich et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Exploited reefs protected from fishing transform over decades into conservation features otherwise absent from seascapes

(2009) Graham J. Edgar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Ecological effects of marine protected areas on rocky reef communities—a continental-scale analysis

(2009) GJ Edgar et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Key biodiversity areas as globally significant target sites for the conservation of marine biological diversity

(2008) Graham J. Edgar et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS