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Recent Publications
Selected Publications of the Reef and Ocean Ecology Laboratory.
Some publications are provided as downloadable reprints from the laboratory (pdf files)..

  1. Burgess, S.C., Kingsford, M.J., and Black, K.P., (2007). Influence of tidal eddies and wind on the distribution of presettlement fishes around One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Series.  341: 233-242
  2. Elsdon T.S., Wells B.K., Campana S.E., Gillandersi B.M., Jones C.M., Limburg K.E., Secor D.H., Thorrold S.R., Walther B.D., (2008). Otolith chemistry to describe movements and life-history parameters of fishes: Hypotheses, assumptions, limitations and inferences. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 46:297-330
  3. Ettinger Epstein, P., Kingsford, M.J., (2008). Interrelationships between habitat and the abundance and movement of Turbo torquatus Austral Ecology 33: 594-606
  4. Gerlach, G., Atema, J., Kingsford, M.J., Black, K.P., Miller-Sims, V., (2007). Smelling home can prevent dispersal of reef fish larvae. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, US 104: 858-863.
  5. Gillanders B.M., Kingsford, M.J. (2003). Spatial variation in elemental composition of otoliths of three species of fish (family Spardae). Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science 56:1-16
  6. Grimes, C.B., Kingsford, M.J., (1996). How do estuarine and riverine plumes of different sizes influence fish larvae: do they enhance recruitment? Mar. Freshwater Res. 47: 191-208
  7. Faunce C.H., Patterson, H.M., Lorenz, J.J., (2002). Age, growth and mortality of the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma uropthalmus) from the southeastern Everglades. Fisheries Bulletin 100:42-50 Faunce et al 2002
  8. Gray C.A., Kingsford, M.J., (2003). Variability in thermocline depth and strength relationships with vertical distributions of fish larvae and mesozooplankton in dynamic coastal waters. Marine Ecology Progress Series 247:211-224 Gray & Kingsford 2003
  9. Kingsford, M.J., (2009). Contrasting patterns of reef utilization and recruitment of coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) and snapper (Lutjanus carponotatus) at One Tree Island, southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs (2009) 28:251–264. Kingsford 2009
  10. Kingsford, M.J., Hughes, J.M., Patterson, H.M., (2009). Otolith chemistry of the non-dispersing reef fish Acanthochromis polyacanthus: cross-shelf patterns from the central Great Barrier Reef. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. Vol. 377: 279–288, 2009. Kingsford et al 2009
  11. Kingsford, M.J. Hughes, J.M. (2005). Patterns of growth, mortality and demographics of a tropical damselfish Acanthochromis polyacanthus across the central Great Barrier Reef continental shelf. Fish. Bull. 103: 561-573
  12. Kingsford, M.J., (2001). Diel patterns of arrival of reef fish to a coral reef: One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef. Mar. Biol. 138: 853-868 Kingsford 2001
  13. Kingsford, M.J., Gillanders, B.M., (2001). Variation in concentrations of trace elements in the otoliths and eye lenses of a temperate reef fish, Parma microlepis: comparisons by depth, spatial scale and age. Mar. Biol. 137: 403-416 Kingsford & Gillanders 2000
  14. Kingsford, M.J., Pitt, K.A., Gillanders, B.M., (2000). Management of jellyfish fisheries, with special reference to the O. Rhizostomeae. Oceanogr.Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev.38: 85-156
  15. Kingsford, M.J., (1999). Fish Attraction Devices (FADs) and Experimental Designs. Scientia Marina. 63: 181-190
  16. Kingsford, M.J., Battershill, C.N., (1998). Studying temperate marine environments: a handbook for ecologists. University of Canterbury Press, Christchurch, 344 pp
  17. Atema, J., Kingsford, M.J., Gerlach, G., (2002). Larval reef fish could use odour for detection retention and orientation to reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 241:151-160. Atema et al 2002
  18. Kingsford, M.J., Leis, J., Shanks, A., Lindeman, K., Morgan, S., Pineda, J., (2002). Sensory environments, larval abilities and local self-recruitment. Bull. Mar. Sci. Suppl. 70:309-340. Kingsford et al 2002
  19. Kingsford, M.J., Patterson, H.M., and Flood, M.J., (2008). Incremental spacing in reef fish otoliths: does elemental chemistry have a role?  Fish.Bull. US: 106: 135-142.
  20. Peplow, L.M., Kingsford, M.J., Seymour, J.E., Van Oppen, M.J.H., (2009). Eight microsatellite loci for the Irukandji syndrome-causing carybdeid jellyfish, Carukia barnesi (Cubozoa, Cnidaria). Molecular Ecology Resources (2009) 9, 670–672. Peplow et al 2009
  21. Pitt, K.A., Kingsford, M.J., (2000). Geographic separation of stocks of the edible jellyfish, Catostylus mosaicus (Rhizostomeae) in New South Wales, Australia. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 196: 143-155. Pitt & Kingsford 2000
  22. Pitt, K.A., Kingsford, M.J., Rissik, D., Koop, K., (2007). The influence of pulses of nutrients on planktonic assemblages in the presence and absence of large predatory jellyfish. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.  35: 1-13  (selected as Special Feature Article for December 2007)
  23. Sanchez-Jerez, P., Gillanders, B. M., Kingsford, M.J., (2002). Spatial variability of trace elements in fish otoliths: comparison with dietary items and habitat constituents in seagrass meadows. J. Fish. Biol. 60: 801-821
  24. Walther, B.D., Thorrold, S.R., Olney, J.E., (2008). Geochemical signatures in otoliths record natal origins of American shad. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:57-69