Also see the Marine Biodiversity Hub’s fact sheet “Ensuring a future for life in Australia’s oceans”

Fact Sheet

Recent Publications
Anderson, T., Brooke, B., Radke, L., McArthur, M., and Hughes, M. 2009. Mapping and characterising soft-sediment habitats, and evaluating physical variables as surrogates of biodiversity in Jervis Bay, NSW. Geoscience Australia, Record 2009/10. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. 43pp.

Butler, A.J., Rees, T., Beesley, P. Bax, N.J. (in press) Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography – Regional Comparisons of Global Issues: Marine Biodiversity in the Australian Region. PLoS

Clark, M.R., Rowden A.A., Schlacher T., Williams A., Consalvey M., Stocks K.I., Rogers A.D., O’Hara T.D., White M., Shank T.M., Hall-Spencer J.M. (2010) The ecology of seamounts: structure, function, and human impacts. Annual Reviews in Marine Science, 2, 253-278

Huang, Z., Brooke, B., Harris, P. (in press). A new approach to mapping marine benthic habitats using physical environmental data. Continental Shelf Research

McCallum, A.W. and Poore, G.C.B. (2010). Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia. Zootaxa 2372: 157-168

McArthur, M.A., Brooke, B.P., Przeslawski, R., Ryan, D.A., Lucieer, V.L., Nichol, S., McCallum, A.W., Mellin, C., Cresswell, I.D., Radke, L.C. (in press). On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Mellin, C., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Meekan, M.G. and Caley, M.J. (2010). Environmental and spatial predictors of species richness and abundance in coral reef fishes Global Ecology and Biogeography 19, 212-222.

Miller K., Williams A., Rowden A.A., Knowles C., Dunshea G. (in press) Connectivity among deep-sea coral populations on seamount and slope habitats in the Australian and New Zealand region. Marine Ecology (CenSeam special issue)

Taylor, J. (2010). The sand shrimp genus Philocheras (Caridea: Crangonidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia including the description of a new species and a key to Australian species. Zootaxa 2372:1570168

Williams, A., Althaus, F., Dunstan, P.K., Poore, G.C.B., Bax, N.J., Kloser R.J. and McEnnulty, F.R. (2010). Scales of habitat heterogeneity and megabenthos biodiversity on an extensive Australian continental margin (100-1,000m depths). Marine Ecology, Volume 31 Issue 1, 222-236

Williams, A., Althaus, F., Clark, M.R. and Gowlett-Holmes, K. (accepted). Composition and distribution of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna on the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge, southwest Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research (Lord Howe special issue).

Williams, A., Schlacher, T.A., Rowden, A.A., Althaus, F., Clark, M.R., Bowden, D.A., Stewart, R., Bax, N.J., Consalvey, M and Kloser, R.J. (in press). Seamount benthos fails to recover from trawling impacts. Marine Ecology (CenSeam special issue)

Zintzen, V.,, Roberts, C.D., Clark, M.R., Williams, A., Althaus, F. and Last, P.R. (accepted). Composition, distribution and regional affinities of the deepwater ichthyofauna of the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge, south-west Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research (Lord Howe special issue).

See other publications, abstracts, posters and fact sheets on our website.