Search Results - "Dunstan, Piers K."

Global patterns of change and variation in sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a by Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., King, Edward, Risbey, James, O’Kane, Terence J., Monselesan, Didier, Hobday, Alistair J., Hartog, Jason R., Thompson, Peter A.

“…Changes over the scale of decades in oceanic environments present a range of challenges for management and utilisation of ocean resources. Here we investigate…”
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Results of efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas by Bax, Nicholas J., Cleary, Jesse, Donnelly, Ben, Dunn, Daniel C., Dunstan, Piers K., Fuller, Mike, Halpin, Patrick N.

“…In 2004, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) addressed a United Nations (UN) call for area-based planning, including for marine-protected…”
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Model based grouping of species across environmental gradients by Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., Darnell, Ross

“…We present a novel approach to the statistical analysis and prediction of multispecies data. The approach allows the simultaneous grouping and quantification…”
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Systematic Conservation Planning: A Better Recipe for Managing the High Seas for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use by Ban, Natalie C, Bax, Nicholas J, Gjerde, Kristina M, Devillers, Rodolphe, Dunn, Daniel C, Dunstan, Piers K, Hobday, Alistair J, Maxwell, Sara M, Kaplan, David M, Pressey, Robert L, Ardron, Jeff A, Game, Edward T, Halpin, Patrick N

“…At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in June 2012, world leaders committed to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological…”
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A systematic approach towards the identification and protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems by Ardron, Jeff A., Clark, Malcolm R., Penney, Andrew J., Hourigan, Thomas F., Rowden, Ashley A., Dunstan, Piers K., Watling, Les, Shank, Timothy M., Tracey, Di M., Dunn, Mathew R., Parker, Steven J.

“…The United Nations General Assembly in 2006 and 2009 adopted resolutions that call for the identification and protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs)…”
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Twenty years of high-resolution sea surface temperature imagery around Australia: inter-annual and annual variability by Foster, Scott D, Griffin, David A, Dunstan, Piers K

“…The physical climate defines a significant portion of the habitats in which biological communities and species reside. It is important to quantify these…”
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Stop ignoring map uncertainty in biodiversity science and conservation policy by Jansen, Jan, Woolley, Skipton N. C., Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., Hill, Nicole A., Haward, Marcus, Johnson, Craig R.

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Identifying Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA): A systematic method and its application to seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean by Clark, Malcolm R., Rowden, Ashley A., Schlacher, Thomas A., Guinotte, John, Dunstan, Piers K., Williams, Alan, O'Hara, Timothy D., Watling, Les, Niklitschek, Edwin, Tsuchida, Shinji

“…The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has adopted a scheme of using scientific criteria for identifying ‘Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine…”
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Integrating modelling of biodiversity composition and ecosystem function by Mokany, Karel, Ferrier, Simon, Connolly, Sean R., Dunstan, Piers K., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Harfoot, Michael B., Harwood, Thomas D., Richardson, Anthony J., Roxburgh, Stephen H., Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., Tittensor, Derek P., Westcott, David A., Wintle, Brendan A.

“…There is increasing reliance on ecological models to improve our understanding of how ecological systems work, to project likely outcomes under alternative…”
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Characterising and predicting benthic biodiversity for conservation planning in deepwater environments by Dunstan, Piers K, Althaus, Franziska, Williams, Alan, Bax, Nicholas J

“…Understanding patterns of biodiversity in deep sea systems is increasingly important because human activities are extending further into these areas. However,…”
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Scales of habitat heterogeneity and megabenthos biodiversity on an extensive Australian continental margin (100-1100 m depths) by Williams, Alan, Althaus, Franziska, Dunstan, Piers K., Poore, Gary C.B., Bax, Nicholas J., Kloser, Rudy J., McEnnulty, Felicity R.

“…The first large systematic collection of benthic invertebrate megafauna from the Australian continental margin (depths > 100 m) revealed high species richness…”
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Taxonomic Resolution, Functional Traits, and the Influence of Species Groupings on Mapping Antarctic Seafloor Biodiversity by Jansen, Jan, Hill, Nicole A., Dunstan, Piers K., Eléaume, Marc P., Johnson, Craig R.

“…Benthic marine biodiversity on the Antarctic continental shelf is high and unique, yet its distributional patterns are still relatively poorly understood. Some…”
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Identifying hotspots for biodiversity management using rank abundance distributions by Dunstan, Piers K., Bax, Nicholas J., Foster, Scott D., Williams, Alan, Althaus, Franziska

“…Aim: Identification of biodiversity hotspots has typically relied on species richness. We extend this approach to include prediction to regional scales of…”
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Model-based thinking for community ecology by Warton, David I., Foster, Scott D., De'ath, Glenn, Stoklosa, Jakub, Dunstan, Piers K.

“…In this paper, a case is made for the use of model-based approaches for the analysis of community data. This involves the direct specification of a statistical…”
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A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities by Stephenson, Robert L., Hobday, Alistair J., Cvitanovic, Christopher, Alexander, Karen A., Begg, Gavin A., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Dunstan, Piers K., Frusher, Stewart, Fudge, Maree, Fulton, Elizabeth A., Haward, Marcus, Macleod, Catriona, McDonald, Jan, Nash, Kirsty L., Ogier, Emily, Pecl, Gretta, Plagányi, Éva E., van Putten, Ingrid, Smith, Tony, Ward, Tim M.

“…Despite frequent calls for Integrated Management (IM) of coastal and marine activities, there is no consensus on the ‘recipe’ for successful adoption and…”
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Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species' ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania by Johnson, Craig R., Banks, Sam C., Barrett, Neville S., Cazassus, Fabienne, Dunstan, Piers K., Edgar, Graham J., Frusher, Stewart D., Gardner, Caleb, Haddon, Malcolm, Helidoniotis, Fay, Hill, Katy L., Holbrook, Neil J., Hosie, Graham W., Last, Peter R., Ling, Scott D., Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica, Miller, Karen, Pecl, Gretta T., Richardson, Anthony J., Ridgway, Ken R., Rintoul, Stephen R., Ritz, David A., Ross, D. Jeff, Sanderson, J. Craig, Shepherd, Scoresby A., Slotwinski, Anita, Swadling, Kerrie M., Taw, Nyan

“…Several lines of evidence show that ocean warming off the east coast of Tasmania is the result of intensification of the East Australian Current (EAC)…”
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Modelling marine protected areas: insights and hurdles by Fulton, Elizabeth A., Bax, Nicholas J., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Dambacher, Jeffrey M., Dichmont, Catherine, Dunstan, Piers K., Hayes, Keith R., Hobday, Alistair J., Pitcher, Roland, Plagányi, Éva E., Punt, André E., Savina-Rolland, Marie, Smith, Anthony D. M., Smith, David C.

“…Models provide useful insights into conservation and resource management issues and solutions. Their use to date has highlighted conditions under which no-take…”
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Determining marine bioregions: A comparison of quantitative approaches by Hill, Nicole, Woolley, Skipton N. C., Foster, Scott, Dunstan, Piers K., McKinlay, John, Ovaskainen, Otso, Johnson, Craig, Pearse, Will

“…Areas that contain ecologically distinct biological content, called bioregions, are a central component to spatial and ecosystem‐based management. We review…”
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Bioregions in Marine Environments: Combining Biological and Environmental Data for Management and Scientific Understanding by WOOLLEY, SKIPTON N. C., FOSTER, SCOTT D., BAX, NICHOLAS J., CURRIE, JOCK C., DUNN, DANIEL C., HANSEN, CECILIE, HILL, NICOLE, O’HARA, TIMOTHY D., OVASKAINEN, OTSO, SAYRE, ROGER, VANHATALO, JARNO P., DUNSTAN, PIERS K.

“…Bioregions are important tools for understanding and managing natural resources. Bioregions should describe locations of relatively homogenous assemblages of…”
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Integrated assessment of the spatial distribution and structural dynamics of deep benthic marine communities by Jansen, Jan, Dunstan, Piers K., Hill, Nicole A., Koubbi, Philippe, Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica, Causse, Romain, Johnson, Craig R.

“…Characterizing the spatial distribution and variation of species communities and validating these characteristics with data from the field are key elements for…”
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