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Alistair Cheal
Tropical Fish |
Alistair Cheal has worked as a reef fish ecologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science for over a decade. He is particularly interested in the effects of major disturbances on reef fish communities, their resilience to these perturbations, and the application of this knowledge to gauge how future climate changes may impact reef fishes. He is also interested in broad scale patterns of reef fish community structure and population dynamics, and the mechanisms that drive them, including ENSO events. Australian Iinstitue of Marine Science. PMB 3, Townsville MC, QLD 4810, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Nick Graham is an applied coral reef scientist working on large scale ecological questions directly relevant to sustainable management and conservation. He has assessed the long-term impacts of climate induced coral bleaching on coral reef fish assemblages, fisheries and ecosystem stability. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University. Townsville QLD 4811, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 
Mark Meekan
Tropical Fish |
Dr Mark Meekan works as the Scientist in Charge of the Darwin office of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. He received his PhD at Griffith University, Australia in 1992, completing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Laval University, Quebec Canada (1992-1995). His research activities cover a very broad range of subjects, with a principal (but not exclusive) focus on the biology of coral reef fishes and elasmobranchs. With over 60 scientific and technical papers in international journals, recent publications include studies of population demography and dynamics, sampling techniques, feeding, selective mortality, plankton communities, and navigation and migration. Australian Institute of Marine Science. PO Box 40197, Casuarina MC. NT 0811, Australia. Telephone: (08) 8920 9240 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Philip L. Munday has broad interests in the biology and ecology of marine fishes. His current research focuses on understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change on populations and communities of coral reef fishes, both directly through changes in the physical environment and indirectly through effects on coral reef habitat. Using a range of laboratory and field experiments he is investigating the effects of increased temperature and ocean acidification on reef fish populations and testing their capacity for acclimation and adaptation to a rapidly changing environment. James Cook University. Townsville QLD 4811, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Morgan Pratchett is a post-doctoral fellow within the Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity at James Cook University, researching the effects of disturbances and community resilience in coral reef ecosystems. His doctoral research explored effects of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on both coral populations and coral-dependent reef fishes (specifically, coral feeding butterflyfishes and coral-dwelling damselfishes). This research identified considerable complexities in the interactions between coral reef fishes and scleractinian corals, but also demonstrated that any disturbances affecting scleractinian corals (e.g., outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish, but also climate induced coral bleaching) may have significant indirect effects on coral reef fishes. Results from this research will facilitate effective science-based management of coral reef ecosystems, in order to protect and conserve coral reefs from ongoing environmental change. James Cook University. Townsville QLD 4811, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Associate professor Marcus Sheaves, is a senior lecturer in Marine Biology at James Cook University. As a tropical coastal ecosystems ecologist, he has a special interest is in understanding the biological questions important to the long-term health of crucial habitats of mangrove, seagrass, estuarine and coastal wetland ecosystems. In particular, the role that these systems play in the resource dynamics, trophic interactions and life histories of associated fish and invertebrate fauna, and the effects that habitat modification will have on inhabitants. James Cook University. Townsville QLD 4811, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Hugh Sweatman is the leader of the AIMS long-term Monitoring Program on the Great Barrier Reef. His work focuses on the ecology and behaviour of coral reef fishes, and reef ecology in general, with a special interest in the patterns of change on the Great Barrier reef and their underlying causes.
Dr Shaun Wilson received his PhD in Marine Biology from James Cook University (1991). Since then he has developed his primary interest; the impact of habitat loss on coral reef fish communities. In collaboration with colleagues at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Newcastle university, UK, and JCU, we have demonstrated that although initial loss of coral effects a relatively small component of the fish community, the subsequent loss of reef structure and complexity can have severe consequences for the entire fish community. We are currently investigating how the interaction between loss of structural complexity and fishing; another widely recognised anthropogenic form of disturbance on coral reefs. My other major interest is coral reef trophodynamics, in particular the flux of detritus based resources. Biochemical work in this area has demonstrated that detritus is of much higher nutritional value than we previously believed and that many of the fish often classified as herbivores actually feed directly on detritus. The work emphasises the importance of detritivorous fish and detritus in reef food webs, challenging traditional ideas of trophodynamics. Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation. Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre WA 6983, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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