A5016012020- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Image Enhancement Techniques
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Image and Signal Denoising Methods
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
James Cook University
2016-2025
Reef Ecologic
2017-2021
Marine Research Centre
2020
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
2018
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2018
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
2007
Abstract Coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems are highly productive serve a nursery function for important fisheries species. They also suffer some of the highest rates degradation from human impacts any ecosystems. Identifying valuing habitats is critical part their conservation, but current assessment practices typically take static approach by considering as individual homogeneous entities. Here, we review definitions habitat propose novel assigning areas mobile fauna that incorporates...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 391:107-115 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08121 REVIEW Consequences of ecological connectivity: coastal ecosystem mosaic Marcus Sheaves School and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 4811 *Email: marcus.sheaves@jcu.edu.au ABSTRACT: Connectivity links...
Abstract Trophic studies are fundamental components of our understanding biology and ecology, from observing individual organisms to modelling ecosystem function. When measuring fish gut contents, we rely on collecting samples that represent snapshots in time. Many limitations extrapolating these well understood. However, there seems be a widespread belief when quantifying the composition more detail always provides information. We highlight some problems with apparently quantitative...
OPINION article Front. Mar. Sci., 20 February 2020Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology Volume 7 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00071
Tidal wetlands are expected to respond dynamically global environmental change, but the extent which wetland losses have been offset by gains remains poorly understood. We developed a analysis of satellite data simultaneously monitor change in three highly interconnected intertidal ecosystem types-tidal flats, tidal marshes, and mangroves-from 1999 2019. Globally, 13,700 square kilometers lost, these substantially 9700 km2, leading net -4000 km2 over two decades. found that 27% were...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 302:293-305 (2005) - doi:10.3354/meps302293 Nature and consequences of biological connectivity in mangrove systems Marcus Sheaves* School Biology Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, 4815 Queensland, Australia *Email: marcus.sheaves@jcu.edu.au ABSTRACT: Mangroves are important nursery feeding areas...
We review the status of marine shellfish ecosystems formed primarily by bivalves in Australia, including: identifying ecosystem-forming species, assessing their historical and current extent, causes for decline past present management. Fourteen species were identified as developing complex, three-dimensional reef or bed intertidal subtidal areas across tropical, subtropical temperate Australia. A dramatic extent condition Australia's two most common ecosystems, developed Saccostrea glomerata...
Visual analysis of complex fish habitats is an important step towards sustainable fisheries for human consumption and environmental protection. Deep Learning methods have shown great promise scene when trained on large-scale datasets. However, current datasets tend to focus the classification task within constrained, plain environments which do not capture complexity underwater habitats. To address this limitation, we present DeepFish as a benchmark suite with dataset train test several...
Citizen science includes a suite of research approaches that involves participation by citizens, who are not usually trained scientists, in scientific projects. projects have the capacity to record observations species with high precision and accuracy, offering potential for collection biological data support diversity investigations. Moreover, via involvement project participants, these engage public on issues possibly contribute changes community knowledge, attitudes behaviours. However,...
Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface between catchment ocean. They are also among most degraded ecosystems on Earth. Freshwater flow regimes drive ecological processes contributing to their economic value, but have been modified extensively in many systems by upstream water use. Knowledge freshwater requirements for estuaries (environmental flows or E-flows) lags behind that rivers floodplains. Generalising estuarine E-flows is further...
Abstract Marine scientists use remote underwater image and video recording to survey fish species in their natural habitats. This helps them get a step closer towards understanding predicting how respond climate change, habitat degradation fishing pressure. information is essential for developing sustainable fisheries human consumption, preserving the environment. However, enormous volume of collected videos makes extracting useful daunting time‐consuming task being. A promising method...
Significance Global vessel traffic is increasing alongside world economic growth. The potential for rising lethal ship strikes on endangered species of marine megafauna, such as the plankton-feeding whale shark, remains poorly understood since areas highest overlap are seldom determined across an entire range. Here we show how satellite tracking sharks and large movements globally provides a means to localize high-overlap determine collision risk changes in time. Our results point high...
Marine ecosystems and their fish habitats are becoming increasingly important due to integral role in providing a valuable food source conservation outcomes. Due remote difficult access nature, marine environments often monitored using underwater cameras record videos images for understanding life ecology, as well preserve the environment. There currently many permanent camera systems deployed at different places around globe. In addition, there exists numerous studies that use temporary...
In the marine environment, greening of grey infrastructure (GGI) is a rapidly growing field that attempts to encourage native life colonize artificial structures enhance biodiversity, thereby promoting ecosystem functioning and hence service provision. By designing multifunctional sea defences, breakwaters, port complexes off-shore renewable energy installations, these can yield myriad environmental benefits, in particular, addressing UN SDG 14: Life below water. Whilst GGI has shown great...
Despite the recent global increase in mangrove restoration efforts, our understanding of outcomes and recovery biodiversity re‐establishing functionality, such as productive fish habitat, is limited due to lack long‐term monitoring. Here, we used a space‐for‐time approach investigate whether restored mangroves attain similar communities natural same age (5–11 years old). Fish forests along Guyana coastline, South America, were sampled using trammel nets collect data compare abundance,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 199:97-109 (2000) - doi:10.3354/meps199097 Short-circuit in mangrove food chain Marcus Sheaves1,*, Brett Molony2 1Department of Biology, James Cook University, Australia 2W. A. Research Laboratories, North Beach, Western Australia, *E-mail: marcus.sheaves@jcu.edu.au ABSTRACT: Crabs subfamily Sesarminae are...