Search Results - "Loneragan, N.R."

Foraging preferences of an apex marine predator revealed through stomach content and stable isotope analyses by McCluskey, S.M., Sprogis, K.R., London, J.M., Bejder, L., Loneragan, N.R.

“…Insights into the food habits of predators are essential for maintaining healthy predator populations and the functioning of ecosystems. Stomach content and…”
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A New Approach for Detecting and Mapping Sewage Impacts by Costanzo, S.D., O’Donohue, M.J., Dennison, W.C., Loneragan, N.R., Thomas, M.

“…Increased nitrogen loading has been implicated in eutrophication occurrences worldwide. Much of this loading is attributable to the growing human population…”
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Habitat selection of juvenile banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis de Man: Testing the roles of habitat structure, predators, light phase and prawn size by Meager, J.J., Williamson, I., Loneragan, N.R., Vance, D.J.

“…The effects of fish predators, light phase, habitat structure and prawn size on the habitat preferences of juvenile Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis de Man…”
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Light intensity and the interactions between physiology, morphology and stable isotope ratios in five species of seagrass by Grice, A.M., Loneragan, N.R., Dennison, W.C.

“…The effects of light intensity on stable isotope ratios, physiology and morphology of five seagrass species were investigated in an outdoor, light controlled…”
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Empirical evidence of alternative stable states in an estuary by Cronin-O'Reilly, S., Krispyn, K.N., Maus, C., Standish, R.J., Loneragan, N.R., Tweedley, J.R.

“…Due to human activity, ecosystems are exceeding their ecological thresholds and shifting into undesired alternative stable states with new ecological…”
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Feeding ecology of a threatened coastal seabird across an inner shelf seascape by Greenwell, C.N., Tweedley, J.R., Moore, G.I., Lenanton, R.C.J., Dunlop, J.N., Loneragan, N.R.

“…Feeding studies provide important information about animals and the environments in which they live. Yet little is known about the diet of the Australian Fairy…”
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Abundance of fish and crustacean postlarvae on portable artificial seagrass units: daily sampling provides quantitative estimates of the settlement of new recruits by Kenyon, R.A, Haywood, M.D.E, Heales, D.S, Loneragan, N.R, Pendrey, R.C, Vance, D.J

“…Artificial collectors and seagrass units have mainly provided qualitative samples of epifaunal abundance or have been difficult and time-consuming to sample…”
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Impact of cyclones and aquatic macrophytes on recruitment and landings of tiger prawns Penaeus esculentus in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia by Loneragan, N.R., Kangas, M., Haywood, M.D.E., Kenyon, R.A., Caputi, N., Sporer, E.

“…The cover of seagrasses and macroalgae, landings and fishery-independent measures of spawning stock and recruitment for brown tiger prawns, were monitored…”
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A broad-scale analysis of links between coastal fisheries production and mangrove extent: A case-study for northeastern Australia by Manson, F.J., Loneragan, N.R., Harch, B.D., Skilleter, G.A., Williams, L.

“…The paradigm that mangroves are critical for sustaining production in coastal fisheries is widely accepted, but empirical evidence has been tenuous. This study…”
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Mechanism for the small-scale movement of carbon among estuarine habitats: organic matter transfer not crab movement by Guest, M.A, Connolly, R.M, Lee, S.Y, Loneragan, N.R, Breitfuss, M.J

“…In theory, carbon is highly mobile in aquatic systems. Recent evidence from carbon stable isotopes of crabs (Parasesarma erythrodactyla and Australoplax…”
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Effects of Acid Washing on Stable Isotope Ratios of C and N in Penaeid Shrimp and Seagrass: Implications for Food-Web Studies Using Multiple Stable Isotopes by Bunn, S. E., Loneragan, N. R., Kempster, M. A.

“…We investigated the effects of acid washing on the carbon and nitrogen composition and stable isotope ratios of C and N in shrimp (Metapenaeus spp.) and…”
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Prawn landings and their relationship with the extent of mangroves and shallow waters in western peninsular Malaysia by Loneragan, N.R., Ahmad Adnan, N., Connolly, R.M., Manson, F.J.

“…This study investigated changes in landings of all prawns, white prawns (mainly Penaeus merguiensis), mangrove extent, rainfall and the area of shallow water…”
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Spatial and temporal variation in distribution of mangroves in Moreton Bay, subtropical Australia: a comparison of pattern metrics and change detection analyses based on aerial photographs by Manson, F.J., Loneragan, N.R., Phinn, S.R.

“…An assessment of the changes in the distribution and extent of mangroves within Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland, Australia, was carried out. Two assessment…”
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Effects of light deprivation on the survival and recovery of the seagrass Halophila ovalis (R.Br.) Hook by Longstaff, B.J, Loneragan, N.R, O'Donohue, M.J, Dennison, W.C

“…Survival and recovery of the seagrass Halophila ovalis (R.Br.) Hook during and after light deprivation was investigated to assist in the interpretation of…”
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Allopatric distribution of juvenile red-legged banana prawns ( Penaeus indicus H. Milne Edwards, 1837) and juvenile white banana prawns ( Penaeus merguiensis De Man, 1888), and inferred extensive migration, in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, northwest Australia by Kenyon, R.A., Loneragan, N.R., Manson, F.J., Vance, D.J., Venables, W.N.

“…During October to December 1997, we trawled estuarine habitats in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (JBG) to determine the distribution of juvenile red-legged banana…”
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Microhabitat distribution of juvenile Penaeus merguiensis de Man and other epibenthic crustaceans within a mangrove forest in subtropical Australia by Meager, J.J, Vance, D.J, Williamson, I, Loneragan, N.R

“…The distribution of juvenile Penaeus ( Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis de Man and other epibenthic crustaceans in different microhabitats within a riverine…”
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Investigation of artifacts from chronographic tethering experiments—interactions between tethers and predators by Haywood, M.D.E., Manson, F.J., Loneragan, N.R., Toscas, P.J.

“…We used a submersible chronographic tethering device to compare the survival time of tethered juvenile brown tiger prawns ( Penaeus esculentus [Haswell, 1897])…”
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Blood refractive index and whole-body lipid content as indicators of nutritional condition for penaeid prawns (Decapoda: Penaeidae) by Moore, L.E, Smith, D.M, Loneragan, N.R

“…To assess potential indices of nutritional condition, we examined changes in lipid content and the blood refractive index (BRI) of postlarval, juvenile and…”
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Size and time of day affect the response of postlarvae and early juvenile grooved tiger prawns Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan (Decapoda: Penaeidae) to natural and artificial seagrass in the laboratory by Liu, H., Loneragan, N.R.

“…Juvenile tiger prawns ( Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan and P. esculentus Haswell) show a strong association with vegetated habitats and are rarely caught on…”
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The influence of seagrass type on the distribution and abundance of postlarval and juvenile tiger prawns ( Penaeus esculentus and P. semisulcatus) in the western Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia by Loneragan, N.R, Kenyon, R.A, Staples, D.J, Poiner, I.R, Conacher, C.A

“…Postlarval and juvenile tiger prawns ( Penaeus esculentus and P. semisulcatus) were sampled by beam trawls in different seagrass communities of the western…”
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