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List of works by Rick D. Stuart-Smith

A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme.

scientific article

A community and functional comparison of coral and reef fish assemblages between four decades of coastal urbanisation and thermal stress

scientific article published on 22 March 2022

A global assessment of the direct and indirect benefits of marine protected areas for coral reef conservation

scientific article published in 2018

A shift in the habitat use pattern of a lentic galaxiid fish: an acute behavioural response to an introduced predator

Abundance and local-scale processes contribute to multi-phyla gradients in global marine diversity

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

An experimental assessment of impacts of pollution sources on sessile biota in a temperate urbanised estuary

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebrates

scientific article published on 21 April 2022

Assessing National Biodiversity Trends for Rocky and Coral Reefs through the Integration of Citizen Science and Scientific Monitoring Programs.

scientific article

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

scientific article

Biological interactions both facilitate and resist climate-related functional change in temperate reef communities.

scientific article

Biological trade-offs underpin coral reef ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 05 April 2022

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Broad-scale impacts of salmon farms on temperate macroalgal assemblages on rocky reefs

scientific article published on 11 July 2015

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the ‘Protection Paradox’

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Conservation challenges for the most threatened family of marine bony fishes (handfishes: Brachionichthyidae)

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Consistent multi-level trophic effects of marine reserve protection across northern New Zealand

scientific article

Corrigendum: Assessing National Biodiversity Trends for Rocky and Coral Reefs through the Integration of Citizen Science and Scientific Monitoring Programs.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Delineating reef fish trophic guilds with global gut content data synthesis and phylogeny

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

Direct and indirect effects of heatwaves on a coral reef fishery

scientific article published on 19 December 2020

Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort

scientific article published in 2014

Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching

scientific article published in Nature

Effects of Pollution From Anthropogenic Point Sources on the Recruitment of Sessile Estuarine Reef Biota

Effects of urbanisation on macroalgae and sessile invertebrates in southeast Australian estuaries

article

Establishing the Foundation for the Global Observing System for Marine Life

scientific article

Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey

scientific article published in December 2020

Exploited reefs protected from fishing transform over decades into conservation features otherwise absent from seascapes

scientific article

Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Fish heating tolerance scales similarly across individual physiology and populations

scientific article published on 01 March 2021

Fishing-gear restrictions and biomass gains for coral reef fishes in marine protected areas

scientific article

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

scientific article (publication date: 5 February 2014)

Global gut content data synthesis and phylogeny delineate reef fish trophic guilds

Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

Globally consistent reef size spectra integrating fishes and invertebrates

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes

scientific article

Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges.

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

scientific article

Interactive responses of primary producers and grazers to pollution on temperate rocky reefs

scientific article published in March 2018

Loss of native rocky reef biodiversity in Australian metropolitan embayments

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Low human interest for the most at-risk reef fishes worldwide

scientific article published on 19 July 2024

Maximizing regional biodiversity requires a mosaic of protection levels

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

National-scale marine bioregions for the Southwest Pacific

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

New Approaches to Marine Conservation Through the Scaling Up of Ecological Data

scientific article

New opportunities for conservation of handfishes (Family Brachionichthyidae) and other inconspicuous and threatened marine species through citizen science

Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Out of sight, out of mind: threats to the marine biodiversity of the Canary Islands (NE Atlantic Ocean).

scientific article

Persistent thermally driven shift in the functional trait structure of herbivorous fishes: Evidence of top‐down control on the rebound potential of temperate seaweed forests?

scientific article published on 04 January 2022

Pollution signature for temperate reef biodiversity is short and simple

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Predicting the diet of coastal fishes at a continental scale based on taxonomy and body size

article

Prioritising conservation actions for extremely data-poor species: A risk assessment for one of the world's rarest marine fishes

scientific article published in 2022

Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without an expanded network of ‘no-fishing’ reserves

article

Reef Fishes at All Trophic Levels Respond Positively to Effective Marine Protected Areas

scientific article

Reef fish carbonate production assessments highlight regional variation in sedimentary significance

scholarly article

Research challenges to improve the management and conservation of subtropical reefs to tackle climate change threats

scientific article published on 28 March 2011

Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities

scholarly article by Amanda E. Bates et al published 1 December 2013 in Nature Climate Change

Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial patterns in impacts of fishing on temperate rocky reefs: Are fish abundance and mean size related to proximity to fisher access points?

scientific article published in 2008

Species richness and identity both determine the biomass of global reef fish communities

scholarly article

Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot.

scientific article

Species’ thermal ranges predict changes in reef fish community structure during 8 years of extreme temperature variation

scientific article published in 2018

Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

article

Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program

scientific article

The aesthetic value of reef fishes is globally mismatched to their conservation priorities

scientific article published on 07 June 2022

The importance of sponges and mangroves in supporting fish communities on degraded coral reefs in Caribbean Panama

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

The potential of trait-based approaches to contribute to marine conservation

article

The shape of abundance distributions across temperature gradients in reef fishes

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Thermal biases and vulnerability to warming in the world's marine fauna

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Thermal limits to the geographic distributions of shallow-water marine species

article

Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae

scientific article published on 4 July 2019

Trait similarity in reef fish faunas across the world's oceans

scientific article published on 01 March 2021

Translating local benthic community structure to national biogenic reef habitat types

scientific article published in 2017