Scientific papers + management reports

Scientific papers and management reports that use RLS data, designed for management, policy and building public knowledge on the state of the world's reefs.

Reef life research

Reef Life Survey data supports scientific research, marine management and policy, and broader knowledge exchange.

Because the data are publicly accessible, its full range of applications is difficult to track. However, RLS data has contributed to at least 257 scientific papers and 31 technical and management reports since 2009.

Title	Authors	Journal	Year
Integrating global targets for protected areas and sustainable fisheries	Worm B., Clausius E., Grorud-Colvert K. et al Palardy JE., Pauly D., Pike EP., Pikitch EK., Roberts CM., Roberts GE., Richmonds RH., Schiller L., Stuart-Smith RD. & Sumaila UR.	Marine Policy	2026
Status and trends of coral reefs of the Pacific: 1980-2023	Wicquart J., Towle E. K., Dallison T. et al Staub F., and Planes S. (eds.)	Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)	2025
Conserving the beauty of the world's reef fish assemblages	Matthew McLean, David Mouillot, Juliette Langlois et al Suchinta Arif, Sonia Bejarano, Nicolas Casajus, Graham J. Edgar, Ulysse Flandrin, François Guilhaumon, Aaron B. Judah, Nicolas Loiseau, M. Aaron MacNeil, Eva Maire, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, and Nicolas Mouquet	Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)	2025
Lord Howe Island Marine Park shallow reef ecological assessment	Stuart-Smith R.D., Cooper A.T., Oh E.S. et al Clausius E., Schmid J.K., Edgar G.J.	Report to the Lord Howe Island Marine Park, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, NSW.	2025
Contrasting population trajectories of temperate reef fishes and invertebrates following seasonal and multi-decadal temperature change	Herrera Fuchs Y., Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S. et al Denis-Roy L., Willis S.Y., Forbes H., Stuart-Smith R.D.	Global Change Biology	2025
Habitat and local factors influence fish biomass recovery in marine protected areas	Clausius E., Edgar GJ., Phillips GAC. et al Mellin C., Oh E. & Stuart-Smith R.	Proceedings B	2025
From presence-only to abundance species distribution models using transfer learning	Bourel B., Joly A., Servajean M. et al Bettinger S., Sanabria-Fernandex JA. & Mouillot D.	Ecology Letters	2025
Halos of herbivory, feeding-preference, and predation risk on contemporary Belizean reefs	Tebbet SB., Cox KD., Paul VJ. et al Jones S., Johnson MD., Duffy JE., Hoey AS., Soler Alarcon GA., Edgar GJ. & Ling SD.	Coral Reefs	2025
Predators of the Sea Urchin Diadema mexicanum (Diadematoida: Diadematidae) at the Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs	Hernández, J. C., Alfonso et al B., Guzmán-Mora, A. G., & Alvarado, J. J.	Biologia Tropical	2024
Global Patterns of Herbivorous Reef Fish Productivity: The Role of Prionurus laticlavius in the Galápagos	Tebbett, S.B., Yan et al H.F., Lutzenkirchen, L.L., Siqueira, A.C., & Bellwood, D.R.	Coral Reefs	2024
Marine Protected Areas Promote Stability of Reef Fish Communities Under Climate Warming	Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Bates et al A.E., Strona, G., Bulleri, F., Horta e Costa, B., Edgar, G.J., Hereu, B., Reed, D.C., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Barrett, N.S., Kushner, D.J., Emslie, M.J., García-Charton, J.A., Gonçalves, E.J., & Aspillaga, E.	Nature Communications	2024
From Local Seafloor Imagery to Global Patterns in Benthic Habitat States: Contribution of Citizen Science to Habitat Classification Across Latitudes	Violet, C., Boyé et al A., Dubois, S., Edgar, G.J., Oh, E.S., Stuart-Smith, R.D., & Marzloff, M.P.	bioRxiv	2024
Rarity Mediates Species-specific Responses of Tropical Reef Fishes to Protection	Sanchez, L., Loiseau et al N., Edgar, G.J., Hautecoeur, C., Leprieur, F., Manel, S., McLean, M., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Velez, L., & Mouillot, D.	Ecology Letters	2024
Unveiling Functional Linkages Between Habitats and Organisms: Macroalgal Habitats as Influential Factors of Fish Functional Traits	Sanabria-Fernández, J.A., Génin A. et al Dakos, V.	Marine Environmental Research	2024
Assessing the Response of Marine Fish Communities to Climate Change and Fishing	Huang, M., Chen et al Y., Zhou, W., & Wei, F.	Conservation Biology	2024
Marine Protected Areas are a Useful Tool to Protect Coral Reef Fishes But Not Representative to Conserve their Functional Role	Hernández-Andreu, R., Félix-Hackradt et al F.C., Schiavetti, A., Texeira, J.L.S., & Hackradt, C.W.	Journal of Environmental Management	2024
Global Analysis of Reef Ecosystem Services Reveals Synergies, Trade-offs and Bundles	Pellowe, K.E., Meacham et al M., Peterson, G.D., Lade, S.J.	Ecosystem Services	2023
Disturbance Intensification is Altering the Trait Composition of Caribbean Reefs, Locking them into a Low Functioning State	Mudge, L., & Bruno, J.F.	Scientific Reports	2023
Towards Process-oriented Management of Tropical Reefs in the Anthropocene	Seguin, R., et al.	Nature Sustainability	2023
Forty Years of No-Take Protection Preserves Local Fish Diversity in a Small Urban Marine Protected Area	Davis, T.R., & Harasti, D.	MDPI	2023
Mean Reef Fish Body Size Decreases Towards Warmer Waters	Coghlan, A.R., Blanchard et al J.L., Wotherspoon, S., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar, G.J., Barrett, N., & Audzijonyte, A.	Ecology Letters	2023
Changes in Sea Floor Productivity are Crucial to Understanding the Impact of Climate Change in Temperate Coastal Ecosystems According to a New Size-based Model	Audzijonyte, A., Delius et al G.W., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Novaglio, C., Edgar, G.J., Barrett, N.S., & Blanchard, J.L.	PLoS Biology	2023
Population Parameters and Conservation Implications for One of The World's Rarest Marine Fishes, the Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus)	Bessell, T.J., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Johnson, O.J., Barrett, N.S., Lynch, T.P., Trotter, A.J., & Stuart-Smith, J.	Journal of Fish Biology	2023
Continent-wide Declines in Shallow Reef Life Over a Decade of Ocean Warming	Edgar, GJ., et al.	Nature	2023
Refining the Trophic Diversity, Ecological Network Structure, and Bottom-up Importance of Prey Groups for Temperate Reef Fishes	Zarco-Perello, S., Bennett et al S., Goetze, J., Holmes, T., Stuart-Smith, R.D., & White, E.R.	EcoRxiv	2023
Impacts of Climate Change on Densities of the Urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii Vary among Marine Regions in Eastern Australia	Davis, TR., et al.	Diversity	2023
Sustainable Reference Points for Multispecies Coral Reef Fisheries	Zamborain-Mason, J., Cinner et al J.E., MacNeil, M.A., Graham, N.A.J., Hoey, A.S., Beger, M., Brooks, A.J., Booth, D.J., Edgar, G.J., Feary, D.A., Ferse, S.C.A., Friedlander, A.M., Gough, C.L.A., Green, A.L., Mouillot, D., Polunin, N.V.C., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Wantiez, L., Williams, I.D., Wilson, S.K., & Connolly, S.R.	Nature Communications	2023
Benthic Composition Changes on Coral Reefs at Global Scales	Tebbett, S.B., Connolly et al S.R., Bellwood, D.R.	Nature Ecology & Evolution	2023
Entry Fees Enhance Marine Protected Area Management and Outcomes	Brown, C., Ahmadia et al G.N., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Buelow, C.A., Campbell, M.D., Edgar, G.J., Geldmann, J., Gill, D., & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Biological Conservation	2023
Warming Signals in Temperate Reef Communities Following More Than a Decade of Ecological Stability	Soler, G.A., et al.	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences	2022
Biodiversity change across the Coral Sea Marine Park over the past decade including impacts of severe heatwaves	Heather, F, Stuart-Smith R et al Cooper A, Oh E, Turak E, and Edgar G.		2022
Sea Temperature and Habitat Effects on Juvenile Reef Fishes Along a Tropicalizing Coastline	McCosker, E., Stuart-Smith et al R. D., Edgar, G., Steinberg, P.D., Verges, A.	Diversity and Distributions	2022
Tracking Widespread Climate-driven Change on Temperate and Tropical Reefs	Stuart-Smith, RD., et al.	Current Biology	2022
Reef Life Survey assessment of marine biodiversity in the Norfolk Marine Park.	Heather FJ, Stuart-Smith RD, Cooper AT, and Edgar GJ		2022
Using the Background of Fish Photographs to Quantify Habitat Composition in Marine Ecosystems	Bolt, M.H., Callaghan et al C.T., Poore, A.G.B., Verges, A., Roberts, C.J.	Marine Ecology Progress Series	2022
Mapping Change In Inshore Ecosystems Around Australia	Clausius, E., Cooper et al A.T, Stuart-Smith, R.D, Edgar, G.E.		2022
Cross-ocean Patterns and Processes in Fish Biodiversity on Coral Reefs Through the Lens of eDNA Metabarcoding	Mathon, L., et al.	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences	2022
A Functional Vulnerability Framework for Biodiversity Conservation	Auber, A., et al.	Nature Communications	2022
Biological Trade-offs Underpin Coral Reef Ecosystem Functioning	Schiettekatte, N.M.D, et al.	Nature Ecology & Evolution	2022
The Influence of Boundary Habitat Continuity on Spillover from a Mediterranean Marine Protected Area	Pinillos F, & Riera R.	Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences	2022
The Aesthetic Value of Reef Fishes is Globally Mismatched to Their Conservation Priorities	Langlois, J., Mouquet et al N., et al.	PLOS Biology	2022
Assessing social-ecological vulnerability of coastal systems to fishing and tourism	Lazzari, N., Becerro et al M.A., Sanabria-Fernandez, J.A. and Martín-López, B.	Science of the Total Environment	2021
Conceptualising sustainability through environmental stewardship and virtuous cycles—a new empirically-grounded model	Turnbull, J.W., Clark et al G.F. and Johnston, E.L.	Sustainability Science	2021
Evaluating the social and ecological effectiveness of partially protected marine areas	Turnbull, J.W., Johnston et al E.L. and Clark, G.F.	Conservation Biology	2021
Reef Communities Show Predictable Undulations in Linear Abundance Size Spectra From Copepods to Sharks	Heather, F.J., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Blanchard, J.L., Fraser, K.M., Edgar, G.J.	Ecology Letters	2021
A Standardised National Assessment of the State of Coral and Rocky Reef Biodiversity	Mellin, C., Edgar et al G., Emslie, M., Barrett, N., Turak, E., Gilmour, J., Stuart-Smith, R.		2021
Maximizing regional biodiversity requires a mosaic of protection levels	Loiseau, N.,Thuiller et al W., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Vincent Devictor, V., Edgar, G.J., Velez, L., Cinner, J.E., Graham, N.A.J., Renaud, J., Hoey, A.S., Manel, S., Mouillot, D.	PLOS Biology	2021
Assessing Social-ecological Vulnerability of Coastal Systems to Fishing and Tourism	Lazzari, N., Becerro et al M.A., Sanabria-Fernandez, J.A., Martín-López, B.	Science of the Total Environment	2021
Trait similarity in reef fish faunas across the world’s oceans	McLean, M., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Villéger, S., Auber, A., Edgar, G.J., MacNeil, M.A., Loiseau, N., Leprieur, F. and Mouillot, D.	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	2021
Reef communities show predictable undulations in linear abundance size spectra from copepods to sharks	Heather, F.J., Stuart‐Smith et al R.D., Blanchard, J.L., Fraser, K.M. and Edgar, G.J.	Ecology Letters	2021
Fish heating tolerance scales similarly across individual physiology and populations	Payne, N.L., Morley et al S.A., Halsey, L.G., Smith, J.A., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Waldock, C. and Bates, A.E.	Communications Biology	2021
Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world	Cinner, J.E., Zamborain-Mason et al J., Gurney, G.G., Graham, N.A.J., MacNeil, M.A., Hoey, A.S., Mora, C., Villeger, S., Maire, E., McClanahan, T.R., Maina, J.M., Kittinger, J.N., Hicks, C.C., D'agata, S., Huchery, C., Barnes, M.L., Feary, D.A., Williams, I.D., Kulbikci, M., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, K., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Sandin, S.A., Green, A.L., Beger, M., Friedlander, A.M., Wilson, S.K., Brokovich, E., Brooks, A.J., Cruz-Motta, J.J., Booth, D.J., Chabanet, P., Tupper, M., Ferse, S.C.A., Sumaila, U.R., Hardt, M.J. & Mouillot, D.	Science	2020
Fish Body Sizes Change With Temperature but Not All Species Shrink With Warming	Audzijonyte, A., Richards et al S.A., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Pecl, G., Edgar, G.J., Barrett, N.S., Payne, N. & Blanchard, J.L.	Nature Ecology & Evolution	2020
National-scale marine bioregions for the Southwest Pacific	Beger, M., Wendt et al H., Sullivan, J., Mason, C., LeGrand, J., Davey, K., Jupiter, S., Ceccarelli, D.M., Dempsey, A., Edgar, G., Feary, D.A., Fenner, D., Gauna, M., Grice, H., Noor Kirmani, S., Mangubhai, S., Purkis, S., Richards, Z.T., Rotjan, R., Stuart-Smith, R., Sykes, H., Yakub, N., Bauman, A.G., Hughes, A., Raubani, J., Lewis, A. & Fernandes, L.	Marine Pollution Bulletin	2020
Reef Life Survey Assessment of Marine Biodiversity in Geographe Bay	Stuart-Smith, R., Ceccarelli et al D., Day, P., Edgar, G., Cooper, A., Oh, L. & Mellin, C.		2020
Production of mobile invertebrate communities on shallow reefs from temperate to tropical seas	K.M. Fraser, J.S. Lefcheck, S. D. Ling et al C. Mellin, R. D. Stuart-Smith and G. J. Edgar	Biological Sciences	2020
Conservation challenges for the most threatened family of marine bony fishes (handfishes: Brachionichthyidae)	Jemina Stuart-Smith, Graham J. Edgar, Peter Last et al Christi Linardich, Tim Lynch, Neville Barrett, Tyson Bessell, Lincoln Wong, Rick D. Stuart Smith	Biological Conservation	2020
Latitudinal patterns in trophic structure of temperate reef-associated fishes and predicted consequences of climate change	Holland, M.M., Smith et al J.A., Everett, J.D., Verges, A. & Suthers, I.M.	Fish and Fisheries	2020
Globally consistent reef size spectra integrating fishes and invertebrates	Freddie. J. Heather, Julia L. Blanchard, Graham J.Edgar et al Rowan Trebilco, Rick D. Stuart- Smith	Ecology Letters	2020
Reef Life Survey: Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life	Graham J. Edgar, Antonia Cooper, Susan C. Baker et al William Barker, Neville S. Barrett, Mikel A. Becerro, Amanda E. Bates, Danny Brock, Daniela M. Ceccarelli, Ella Clausius, Marlene Davey, Tom R. Davis, Paul B. Day, Andrew Green, Samuel R. Griffiths, Jamie Hicks, Ivan A. Hinojosa, Ben K. Jones, Stuart Kininmonth, Meryl F. Larkin, Natali Lazzarie, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Scott D. Ling, Peter Mooney, Elizabeth Oh, Alejandro P´erez-Matusu, Jacqueline B. Pocklington, Rodrigo Riera, Jose A. Sanabria-Fernandez, Yanir Seroussi, Ian Shaw, Derek Shields, Joe Shields, Margo Smith, German A. Soler, Jemina Stuart-Smith, John Turnbull, Rick D. Stuart-Smith	Biological Conservation	2020
The awakening of invertebrates: The daily dynamics of fishes and mobile invertebrates at Rapa Nui's multiple use marine protected area	Ivan A.Hinojosa , German Zapata-Hernandez , Amelia E.Fowles et al Carlos F. Gaymer, Rick D. Stuart-Smith	Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystem	2020
Direct and indirect effects of heatwaves on a coral reef fishery.	Christopher J. Brown, Camille Mellin, Graham J. Edgar et al Max D. Campbell, Rick D. Stuart‐Smith	Global Change Biology	2020
Delineating reef fish trophic guilds with global gut content data synthesis and phylogeny	Parravicini V, Casey JM, Schiettekatte NMD et al Brandl SJ, Pozas-Schacre C, Carlot J, Edgar GJ, Graham NAJ, Harmelin-Vivien M, Kulbicki M, Strona G, Stuart-Smith RD	Plos Biology	2020
Lord Howe Island Ecological Assessment Report 2019	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar et al G.J., Cooper, A.T., Gudge, S. & Ceccarelli, D.		2019
Disentangling the response of fishes to recreational fishing over 30 years within a fringing coral reef reserve network	Cresswell, A.K., Langlois et al T.J., Wilson, S.K., Claudet, J., Thomson, D.P., Renton, M., Fulton, C.J., Fisher, R., Vanderklift, M.A., Babcock, R.C., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Haywood, M.D.E., Depczynski, M., Westera, M., Ayling, A.M., Fitzpatrick, B., Halford, A.R., McLean, D.L., Pillans, R.D., Cheal, A.J., Tinkler, P., Edgar, G.J., Graham, N.A.J., Harvey, E.S. & Holmes, T.H.	Biological Conservation	2019
The shape of abundance distributions across temperature gradients in reef fishes	Waldock, C., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Edgar, G.J., Bird, T.J. & Bates, A.E.	Ecology Letters	2019
Body size, reef area and temperature predict global reef-fish species richness across spatial scales	Barneche, D.R., Rezende et al E.L., Parravicini, V., Maire, E., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Arias-Gonzalez, J.E., Ferreira, C.E.L., Friedlander, A.M., Green, A.L., Luiz, O.J., Rodriguez-Zaragoza, F.A., Vigliola, L., Kulbicki, M. & Floeter, S.R.	Global Ecology and Biogeography	2019
Global baselines and benchmarks for fish biomass: comparing remote reefs and fisheries closures	McClanahan, T.R., Schroeder et al R.E., Friedlander, A.M., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., Caselle, J.E., Graham, N.A.J., Wilson, S., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Oddenyo, R.M. & Cinner, J.E.	Marine Ecology Progress Series	2019
Biodiversity surveys of the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Park Reserve 2013 and 2018	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Cooper, A. T.		2018
Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without expanded network of ‘no-fishing’ reserves.	Edgar, G.E., Ward et al T.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Aquatic Conservation	2018
The gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains.	Cinner, J.E., Maire et al E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M.A., Graham, N.A.J., Mora, C., McClanahan, T.R., Barnes, M.L., Kittinger, J.N., Hicks, C.C., D'Agata, S., Hoey, A.S., Gurney, G.G., Feary, D.A., Williams, I.D., Kullbicki, M., Vigliola, L.,Wantiez, L., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Sandin, S.A., Green, A., Hardt, M.J., Beger, M., Friedlander, A.M., Wilson, S.K., Brokovich, E., Brooks, A.J., Cruz-Motta, J.J., Sumaila, U.R., Pardede, S. & Mouillot, D.	PNAS	2018
The importance of sponges and mangroves in supporting fish communities on degraded coral reefs in Caribbean Panama.	Seemann, J., Yingst et al A., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar, G.J. & Altieri, A.H.	PeerJ	2018
Moving beyond trophic groups: evaluating fishing-induced changes to temperate reef food webs.	Soler, G.A., Egar et al G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Smith, A.D. & Thomson, R.J.	Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS)	2018
Fishing-gear restrictions and biomass gains for coral reef fishes in marine protected areas.	Campbell, S.J., Edgar et al G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Soler, G. & Bates, A.E.	Conservation Biology	2018
Species’ thermal ranges predict changes in reef fish community structure during 8 years of extreme temperature variation.	Day, P.B., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Edgar, G.J. & Bates, A.E.	Biodiversity Research	2018
Pollution signature for temperate reef biodiversity is short and simple.	Ling, S.D., Davey et al A., Reeves, S.E., Gaylard, S., Davies, P.L., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Edgar, G.J.	Marine Pollution Bulletin	2018
A global assessment of the direct and indirect benefits of marine protected areas for coral reef conservation.	Strain, E.M.A., Edgar et al G.J., Ceccarelli, D., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Hosack, G.R. & Thomson, R.J.	Diversity & Distributions	2018
Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching.	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Brown et al C.J., Ceccarelli, D.M. & Edgar, G.J.	Nature	2018
BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene	Dornelas, et a.	Global Ecology & Biogeography	2018
Reef fish carbonate production assessments highlight regional variation in sedimentary significance.	Salter, M.A., Perry et al C.T., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar, G.J., Wilson, R.W. & Harborne, A.R.	Geology	2018
Consistent multi-level trophic effects of marine reserve protection across northern New Zealand	Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Thomson, R.J. & Freeman, D.J.	PLOS One	2017
Assessing national biodiversity trends for rocky and coral reefs through the integration of citizen science and scientific monitoring programs	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar et al G.J., Barrett, N.S., Bates, A.E., Baker, S.C., Bax, N.J., Becerro, M.A., Berkhout, J., Blanchard, J.L., Brock, D.J., Clark, G.F., Cooper, A.T., Davis, T.R., Day, P.B., Duffy, E., Holmes, T.H., Howe, S.A., Jordan, A., Kininmonth, S., Knott, N.A., Lefcheck, J.S., Ling, S.D., Parr, A., Strain, E., Sweatman, H. & Thomson, R.	BioScience	2017
New opportunities for conservation of handfishes (Family Brachionichthyidae) and other inconspicuous and threatened marine species through citizen science	Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Cooper, A., Jacques, M. & Valentine, J.	Biological Conservation	2017
Reef Life Survey monitoring of shallow reef habitats in Australian Marine Parks	Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Edgar, G.J.		2017
Assessment of Coral Reef Biodiversity in the North Commonwealth	Edgar, G.J., Ceccareli et al D.M. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.		2017
Reef biodiversity surveys of Australia's Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network: An overview	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
2016 Biodiversity Surveys of the Cod Grounds and Pimpernel Rocks Commonwealth Marine Reserves	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Ceccarelli et al D., Edgar, G.J. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
Reef Life Survey Assessment of Rocky Reef Biodiversity in the South-West Marine Region (Geographe CMR)	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Ceccarelli et al D., Edgar, G.J. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
Translating local benthic community structure to national biogenic reef habitat types.	Creswell, A.K., Edgar et al G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Thomson, R.J., Barrett, N.S. & Johnson, C.R.	Global Ecology & Biogeography	2017
Biodiversity Survey of the Temperate East Coast Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network: Elizabeth & Middleton Reefs, Lord Howe Island & Norfolk Island	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
Thermal limits to the geographic distributions of shallow-water marine species	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar et al G.J. & Bates, A.E.	Nature Ecology & Evolution	2017
Biodiversity survey of Ashmore Reef (Coral Sea) and comparison with surrounding reefs	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
Abundance and local-scale processes contribute to multi-phyla gradients in global marine diversity	Edgar, G.J., Alexander et al T.J., Lefcheck, J.S., Bates, A.E., Kininmonth, S.J., Thomson, R.J., Duffy, E., Costello, M.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Science Advances	2017
Reef Life Survey Assessment of Coral Reef Biodiversity in the North-West Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Cooper, A.T.		2017
Predicting the diet of coastal fishes at a continental scale based on taxonomy and body size	Soler, G.A., Edgar et al G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Smith, A.D.M. & Thomson, R.J.	Journal of Experimental Biology & Ecology	2016
Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges	Mellin, C., Mouillot et al D., Kulbicki, M., McClanahan, T.R., Vigliola, L., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Brainard, R.E., Chabanet, P., Edgar, G.J., Fordham, D.A., Friedlander, A.M., Parravicini, V., Sequeira, A.M.M., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Wantiez, L. & Caley, M.J.	Nature Communications	2016
New Approaches to Marine Conservation Through the Scaling Up of Ecological Data	Edgar, G.J., Bates et al A.E., Bird, T.J., Jones, A.H., Kininmonth, S., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Webb, T.J.	Annual Review of Marine Science	2016
Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs	Cinner, J.E., Hutchery et al C., MacNeil, M.A., Graham, N.A.J., McClanahan, T.R., Maina, J., Maire, E., Kittinger, J.N., Hicks, C.C., Mora, C., Allison, E.H., D'Agata, S., Hoey, A., Feary, D.A., Crowder, L., Williams, I.D., Kulbicki, M., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., Edgar, G., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Sandin, S.A., Green, A.L., Hardt, M., Beger, M., Friedlander, A., Campbell, S.J., Holmes, K.E., Wilson, S.K., Brokovich, E., Brooks, A.J., Cruz-Motta, J.J., Booth, D.J., Chanet, P., Gough, C., Tupper, M., Ferse, S.C.A., Sumaila, U.R. & Mouillot, D.	Nature	2016
Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change	Duffy, J.E., Lefcheck et al J.S., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Navarrete, S.A. & Edgar, G.J.	PNAS	2016
Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean warming hotspot.	Sunday, J.M., Pecl et al G.T., Frusher, S., Hobday, A.J., Hill, N., Holbrook, N.J., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Barrett, N., Wernberg, T., Watson, R.A., Smale, D.A., Fulton, E.A., Slawinski, D., Feng, M., Radford, B.T., Thompson, P.A. & Bates, A.E.	Ecology Letters	2015
Broad-scale impacts of salmon farms on temperate macroalgal assemblages on rocky reefs.	Oh, E.S., Edgar et al G.J., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Barrett, N.S.	Marine Pollution Bulletin	2015
Loss of native rocky reef biodiversity in Australian metropolitan embayments.	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar et al G.J., Stuart-Smith, J.F., Barrett, N.S., Fowles, A.E., Hill, N.A., Cooper, A.T., Myers, A.P., Oh, E.S., Pocklington, J.B. & Thomson, R.J.	Marine Pollution Bulletin	2015
Functional traits reveal early responses in marine reserves following protection from ﬁshing	Coleman, M.A., Bates et al A.E., Stuart-Smith, R.D. Malcolm, H.A., Harasti, D., Jordan, A., Knott, N.A., Edgar, G.J. & Kelaher, B.P.	Biodiversity Research	2015
Marine Biodiversity Hub, National Environmental Research Program, Final report 2011-2015	Bax, N.J. & Hedge, P. [Eds.]		2015
Systematic Surveying of Two Threatened Handfish Species	Edgar, G., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Cooper, A. & Jacques, M.		2015
Assessment of Coral Reef Biodiversity in the Coral Sea	Edgar, G.J., Ceccarelli et al D.M. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.		2015
Thermal biases and vulnerabilities to warming in the world’s marine fauna	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar et al G.J., Barrett, N.S., Kininmonth, S.J. & Bates, A.E.	Nature	2015
Reef fishes at all trophic levels respond positively to effective marine protected areas	Soler, G.A., Edgar et al G.J., Thomson, R.J., Kininmonth, S., Campbell, S.J., Dawson, T.P., Barrett, N.S., Bernard, A.T.F., Galvan, D.E., Willis, T.J., Alexander, T.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	PLOS One	2015
A standardised vocabulary for identifying benthic biota and substrata from underwater imagery: the CATAMI Classification Scheme.	Althaus, F., Hill et al N., Ferrari, R., Edwards, L., Przeslawski, R., Schonberg, C.H.L., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Barrett, N., Edgar, G., Colquhoun, J., Tran, M., Jordan, A., Rees, T. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.	PLOS One	2015
Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities	Bates, A.E., Barrett et al N.S., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Holbrook, N.J., Thompson, P.A. & Edgar, G.J.	Nature Climate Change	2014
Adaptive management of temperate reefs to minimise effects of climate change: Developing new effective approaches for ecological monitoring and predictive modelling	Barrett, N., Bates et al A., Beger, M., Stuart-Smith, R., Syms, C., Holbrook, N., Knott, N., Booth, D., Kelaher, B., Howe, S., Buxton, C. & Edgar, G.		2014
Distinguishing geographic range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort.	Bates, A.E., Bird et al T.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Wernberg, T., Sunday, J.M., Barrett, N.S., Edgar, G.J., Frusher, S., Hobday, A.J., Pecl, G.T., Smale, D.A. & McCarthy, M.	Biodiversity Research	2014
Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program.	Edgar, G.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Scientific Data	2014
Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features.	Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Willis, T.J., Kininmonth, S., Baker, S.C., Banks, S., Barrett, N.S., Becerro, M.A., Bernard, A.T.F., Berkhout, J., Buxton, C.D., Campbell, S.J., Cooper, A.T., Davey, M., Edgar, S.C., Forsterra, G., Galvan, D.E., Irigoyen, A.J., Kushner, D.J., Moura, R., Parnell, P.E., Shears, N.T., Soler, G., Strain, E.M.A. & Thomson, R.J.	Nature	2014
Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets.	Bird, T.J., Bates et al A.E., Lefcheck, J.S., Hill, N.A., Thomson, R.J., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Wotherspoon, S., Krkosek, M., Stuart-Smith, J.F., Pecl, G.T., Barrett, N. & Frusher, S.	Biological Conservation	2014
Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity.	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Bates et al A.E., Lefcheck, J.S., Duffy, J.E., Baker, S.C., Thomson, R.J., Stuart-Smith, J.F., Hill, N.A., Kininmonth, S.J., Airoldi, L., Becerro, M.A., Campbell, S.J., Dawson, T.P., Navarette, S.A., Soler, G.A., Strain, E.M.A., Willis, T.J. & Edgar, G.J.	Nature	2013
Reef Life Survey Assessment of Biodiversity in Northern New Zealand Marine Reserves and Associated Coastlines.	Edgar, G., Stuart-Smith et al R., Thomson, R., Freeman, D. & Southwood, P.		2013
Coral Sea Marine Biodiversity	Stuart-Smith, R.D., Crawford et al T., Cooper, A., Kininmonth, A., Stuart-Smith, J., Berkhout, J. & Edgar, G.		2013
Community-Assisted Scientific Assessment and Management of Western Australian Marine Protected Areas: Ningaloo Marine Park	Day, P., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Edgar, G., Friedman, K., Holmes, T. & Bellchambers, L.		2013
Community-Assisted Scientific Assessment and Management of Western Australian Marine Protected Areas: Rottnest Island Marine Park	Day, P., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Edgar, G., Shortland-Jones, H., Friedman, K. & Bellchambers, L.		2013
Spotted Handfish Monitoring and Recovery Actions: 2011-2012	Green, M.A., Stuart-Smith et al R.D., Valentine, J.P., Einoder, L.D., Barrett, N.S., Cooper, A.T. & Stalker, M.D.		2012
Research challenges to improve the management and conservation of subtropical reefs to tackle climate change threats.	Beger, M., Babcock et al R., Booth, D.J., Bucher, D., Condie, S.A., Creese, B., Cvitanovic, C., Dalton, S.J., Harrison, P., Hoey, A., Jordan, A., Loder, J., Malcolm, H., Purcell, S.W., Roelfsma, C., Sachs, P., Smith, S.D.A., Sommer, B., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Thomson, D., Wallace, C.C., Zann, M. & Pandolfi, J.M.	Ecological Management & Restoration	2011
Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update 2011	Stuart-Smith, R.D. & Edgar, G.J.		2011
Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes.	Mora, C., Aburto-Oropeza et al O., Bocos, A.A., Ayotte, P.M., Banks, S., Bauman, A.G., Beger, M., Bessudo, S., Booth, D.J., Brokovich, E., Brooks, A., Chabanet, P., Cinner, J.E., Cortes, J., Cruz-Motta, J.J., Magana, A.C., DeMartini, E.E., Edgar, G.J., Feary, D.A., Ferse, S.C.A., Friedlander, A.M., Gaston, K.J., Gough, C., Graham, N.A.J., Green, A., Guzman, H., Hardt, M., Kulbicki, M., Letourneur, Y., Perez, A.L., Loreau, M., Loya, Y., Martinez, C., Mascarenas-Osorio, I., Morove, T., Nadon, M.O., Nakamura, Y., Paredes, G., Polunin, N.V.C., Pratchett, M.S., Bonilla, H.R., Tessier, E., Tittensor, D.P., Tupper, M., Ussglio, P., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., Williams, I., Wilson, S.K. & Zapata, F.A.	PLOS Biology	2011
Biogeographical and ecological context for managing threats to coral and rocky reef communities in the Lord Howe Island Marine Park, south-western Pacific	Edgar, G.J., Davey et al A., Kelly, G., Mawbey, R.B. & Parsons, K.	Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems	2009
Exploited reefs protected from fishing transform over decades into conservation features otherwise absent from seascapes	Edgar, G.J., Barrett et al N.S. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Ecological Applications	2009
Baseline Biodiversity Survey of the Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve.	Stuart-Smith, R., Stuart-Smith et al J., Cooper, A. & Edgar, G.		2009
Volunteer Monitoring of Australian Rocky Reef Communities: Pilot Study	Edgar, G. & Stuart-Smith, R.		2009
Ecological effects of marine protected areas on rocky reef communities: a continental-scale analysis	Edgar, G.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D.	Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS)	2009
Standardised Survey Procedures for Monitoring Handfish Populations in the Derwent Estuary.	Cooper, A.T., Green et al M.A., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Valentine, J.P., Einoder, L.D., Barrett, N.S. & Stalker, M.D.
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