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Peer-reviewed papers, commentaries & reports 2014

Dulvy NK, Davidson LNK, Kyne PM, Simpfendorfer CA, Harrison LR, Carlson JK, Fordham SV.
Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes.
Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Online early

Anderson SC
, Moore JW, McClure MM, Dulvy NK, Cooper AB. Accepted.
Portfolio conservation of metapopulations under climate change.
Ecological Applications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-0266.1 preprint

d-Eon-Eggertson, F.
, Dulvy N.K., Peterman RM. Accepted.
Reliable Identification of Declining Populations in an Uncertain World.
Conservation Letters.  DOI: 10.1111/conl.12123 preprint

Harrison, L. R.
, Dulvy, N. K. 2014. Sawfish: A Global Strategy for Conservation. International Union for the Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Shark Specialist Group, Vancouver, Canada. 112 pp.

Connors, B. M., Cooper, A. B., Peterman, R. M., Dulvy, N. K. 2014. The false classification of extinction risk in noisy environments.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20132935.

Dulvy , N. K., Pardo, S. A., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Carlson, J. K. 2014. Diagnosing the dangerous demography of manta rays using life history theory.
PeerJ 2: e400. Supplementary data on FigShare

Bates AE, Pecl GT, Frusher SD, Hobday AJ, Wernberg T, Smale DA, Sunday JM, Hill N, Dulvy NK, Colwell R, K., et al. 2014. Defining and observing climate-mediated range shifts in ocean systems. Global Environmental Change 26: 27-38.

Sunday, J. M
., Bates, A.E., Kearney, M.R., Colwell, R, K., Dulvy, N.K., Longino, J.T., Huey, R.B. 2014 PNAS 111, 5610–5615.
Thermal safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1316145111

Commentary
| Bernardo J. 2014. Biologically grounded predictions of species resistance and resilience to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 5450-5451.

Dulvy, N. K., S. L. Fowler, J. A. Musick, R. D. Cavanagh, P. M. Kyne, L. R. Harrison, J. K. Carlson, L. N. K. Davisdson, S. Fordham, M. P. Francis, C. M. Pollock, C. A. Simpfendorfer, G. H. Burgess, K. E. Carpenter, L. V. J. Compagno, D. A. Ebert, C. Gibson, M. R. Heupel, S. R. Livingstone, J. C. Sanciangco, J. D. Stevens, S. Valenti, and W. T. White 2014
Extinction risk and conservation of the world's sharks and rays.

eLIFE: DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00590

Commentary | Bradley, D. and S. D. Gaines 2014. Counting the cost of overfishing on sharks and rays. eLife 3.
e02199

Green, S. J., Dulvy, N. K. Brooks, A. L. M.  Akins,J. L. Cooper, A. B. Miller, S. &  Côté, I. M. 2014
Setting removal targets to minimise the the ecosystem consequences of  impact of invaders: a predictive model and field test
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Ecological Applications.

Commentary
| Hoag, H. 2014
Invasive-species control: Bounty hunters, Nature 513: 294-5

Heupel, M., D. M. Knip, C. A. Simpfendorfer, and N. K. Dulvy. 2014
Sizing up the role of ecological role of sharks as predators
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Marine Ecology Progress Series 495, 291-298.  doi: 10.3354/meps10597

Dulvy,  N. K., Pardo, S.A., Simpfendorfer, C.A., and Carlson, J.K. 2014.
Diagnosing the dangerous demography of manta rays using life history theory.
PeerJ PrePrints 1:e162v161.
http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.162v1

Juan-Jordá M.J., Mosqueira I., Freire J. and N.K. Dulvy. 2013. Life history correlates of marine fisheries vulnerability: a review and a test with tunas and mackerel species pp. 113 - 128 in CIESM Workshop Monograph n°45 [F. Briand, ed.] Marine extinctions - patterns and processes, 188 p., CIESM Publisher, Monaco.














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2013


Juan-Jordá, M. J., Mosqueira, I., Freire, J. & Dulvy, N. K. 2013 The conservation and management of tunas and their relatives: setting life history research priorities. PloS One 8(8): e70405. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070405
Anderson, S. C., Cooper, A. B. & Dulvy, N. K. 2013 Ecological prophets: quantifying metapopulation portfolio effects. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4,971–981
Dulvy, N. K. 2013 Super-sized MPAs and the marginalization of species conservation. Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 23, 357-362.
Trebilco, R., Baum, J. K., Salomon, A. K. and Dulvy, N.K. 2013 Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life. Trends In Ecology & Evolution 28,423–431. F1000 write-up
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Pardo, S., Cooper, A. B. & Dulvy, N. K. 2013 Avoiding fishy growth curves. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4, 353–360.
Juan-Jordá, M. J., Mosqueira, I., Freire, J. & Dulvy, N. K. 2013 Life in 3-D: life history strategies of tunas, bonitos and mackerels. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 23, 135-155.
Hocking, M. D., Dulvy, N. K., Reynolds, J. D., Ring, R. A. & Reimchen, T. E. 2013 Salmon subsidize an escape from a size spectrum. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, 20122433.

2012


Blanchard, J. L., Jennings, S., Holmes, R., Harle, J., Merino, G., Allen, J. I., Holt, J., Dulvy, N. K. & Barange, M. 2012 Potential consequences of climate change for primary production and fish production in large marine ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, 2979-2989.

Keith, S. A., Webb, T. J., Böhning-Gaese, K., Connolly, S. R., Dulvy, N. K., Eigenbrod, F., Jones, K. E., Price, T., Redding, D. W., Owens, I. P. F. & Isaac, N. J. B. 2012 What is macroecology? Biology Letters 8, 904-906.
Kyne, P. M., Carlson, J. K., Ebert, D. A., Fordham, S. V., Bizzarro, J. J., Graham, R. T., Kulka, D. W., Tewes, E. E., Harrison, L. R. and Dulvy, N. K. (2012) The Conservation Status of North American, Central American, and Caribbean Chondrichthyans. IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 148.

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McClenachan, L., Cooper, A. B., Carpenter, K. E. & Dulvy, N. K. 2012 Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species. Conservation Letters 5, 73-80.
Merino, G., Barange, M., Blanchard, J. L., Harle, J., Holmes, B. H., Allen, I., Allison, E. A., Badjeck, M. C., Dulvy, N. K., Holt, J., Jennings, S., Mullon, C. & Rodwell, L. D. 2012 Can marine fisheries and aquaculture meet fish demand from a growing human population in a changing climate? Global Change Biology 22, 795–806.
ISI Highly Cited
Pardo, S., Cooper, A. B. & Dulvy, N. K. 2012 Critical review and analysis of existing risk-based techniques for determining sustainable mortality levels of bycatch species. In DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc., pp. v + 30. Ottawa: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Porszt, E., Peterman, R. M., Dulvy, N. K., Cooper, A. B. & Irvine, J. R. 2012 Reliability of indicators of declines in abundance. Conservation Biology 26, 894–904.
Sheppard, C., Al-Husiani, M., Al-Jamali, F., Al-Yamani, F., Baldwin, R., Bishop, J., Benzoni, F., Dutrieux, E., Dulvy, N. K., Durvasula, S. R. V., Jones, D. A., Loughland, R., Medio, D., Nithyanandan, M., Pilling, G. M., Polikarpov, I., Price, A. R. G., Purkis, S., Riegl, B., Saburova, M., Samimi Namin, K., Taylor, O., Wilson, S. & Zainal, K. 2012 Environmental concerns for the future of Gulf coral reefs. In Coral reefs of the Gulf: adaptation to climatic extremes  - Coral reefs of the world: 3, vol. 60 (ed. B. Riegl & S. Purkis), pp. 349-373: Springer.

Solan, M., Scott, F., Dulvy, N. K., Godbold, J. & Parker, R. 2012 Incorporating extinction risk and realistic biodiversity futures: Implementation of trait based extinction scenarios. In Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Frameworks, methodologies, and integration (ed. M. Solan, R. J. Aspden & D. M. Paterson), pp. 127-148. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sunday, J. M., Bates, A. E. & Dulvy, N. K. 2012 Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals. Nature Climate Change 2, 686–690. F1000 prime write-up

Hottest paper | top 10 most influential climate change paper of 2012
Brook BW and Fordham DA. Hot topics in biodiversity and climate change research [version 1; referees: 2 approved] F1000Research 2015, 4(F1000 Faculty Rev):928 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6508.1)
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Veitch, L., Dulvy, N. K., Koldewey, H., Lieberman, S., Pauly, D., Roberts, C. M., Rogers, A. D. & Baillie, J. E. M. 2012 Avoiding empty ocean commitments at Rio +20. Science 336, 1383-1385.


2011

Alvarez-Filip, L., Côté, I. M., Gill, J. A., Watkinson, A. R. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Region-wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story? Global Change Biology 17, 2470–2477.

Alvarez-Filip, L., Dulvy, N. K., Côté, I. M., Watkinson, A. R. & Gill, J. A. 2011 Coral identity underpins reef complexity on Caribbean reefs. Ecological Applications 21, 2223–2231.

Alvarez-Filip, L., Gill, J. A. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Complex reef architecture supports more small-bodied fishes and longer food chains on Caribbean reefs. Ecosphere 2, art118.

Alvarez-Filip, L., Gill, J. A., Dulvy, N. K., Perry, A., Watkinson, A. R. & Côté, I. M. 2011 Drivers of region-wide declines in architectural complexity on Caribbean reefs. Coral Reefs 30, 1051-1060

Barange, M., Allen, I., Allison, E. H., Badjeck, M.-C., Blanchard, J. L., Drakeford, B., Dulvy, N. K., Harle, J., Holmes, R., Holt, J., Jennings, S., Lowe, J., Merino, G., Mullon, C., Pilling, G., Tompkins, E. & Werner, F. 2011 Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries: the QUEST_Fish framework. In World Fisheries: a social-ecological analysis (ed. R. Ommer, R. I. Perry, P. Cury & K. Cochrane), pp. 31-59. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Chassot, E., Bonhommeau, S., Reygondeau, G., Nieto, K., Polovina, J. J., Huret, M., Dulvy, N. K. & Demarcq, H. 2011 Satellite remote sensing for an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science 68, 651-666.

Dulvy, N. K., Reynolds, J. D., Pilling, G., Pinnegar, J. K., Scutt Phillips, J., Allison, E. H. & Badjeck, M. C. 2011 Fisheries management and governance challenges in a climate change. In The economics of adapting fisheries to climate change (ed. OECD), pp. 31-88: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Publishing. [This report was originally censured by the Bush administration]

Juan-Jordá, M. J., Mosqueira, I., Cooper, A. B., Freire, J. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Global population trajectories of tunas and their relatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 20650-20655.

Mull, C. G., Yopak, K. E. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Does more maternal investment mean a larger brain? Evolutionary relationship between reproductive mode and brain size in chondrichthyans. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 567-575.

Salomon, A. K., Gaichas, S., Jensen, O. P., Agostini, V. N., Sloan, N. A., Rice, J. M., T. R., Fujita, R., Ruckelshaus, M., Levin, P., Dulvy, N. K. & Babcock, E. A. 2011 Bridging the divide between fisheries and marine conservation science Bulletin of Marine Science 87, 251-274.

Simpfendorfer, C. A., Heupel, M. R., White, W. T. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 The importance of research and public opinion to conservation management of sharks and rays: a synthesis. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 518-527.

Sparks, T. H., Butchart, S. H. M., Balmford, A., Bennun, L. A., Stanwell-smith, D. P., Walpole, M., Bates, N., Bomhard, B., Buchanan, G. M., Chenery, A. M., Collen, B., Csirke, J., Diaz, R. J., Dulvy, N. K., Fitzgerald, C., Kapos, V., Mayaux, P., Selig, E. R. T., M., Waycott, M., Wood, L. & Green, R. E. 2011 Linked indicator sets for addressing biodiversity loss. Oryx 45, 411-419.

Sunday, J. M., Bates, A. E. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, 1823-1830. F1000 prime recommendation

Webb, T. J., Dulvy, N. K., Jennings, S. & Polunin, N. V. C. 2011 The birds and the seas: body size reconciles differences in the abundance-occupancy relationship across marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Oikos 120, 537-549.

Wiegand, J., Hunter, E. & Dulvy, N. K. 2011 Are spatial closures better than size limits for halting the decline of the North Sea thornback ray Raja clavata? Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 722-733.

2010


Abernethy KE, Trebilcock P, Kebede B, Allison EH, Dulvy NK. 2010. Fuelling the decline in UK fishing communities?
ICES Journal of Marine Science 67: 1076-1085.

Badjeck MC, Allison EH, Halls AS, Dulvy NK. 2010. Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods.
Marine Policy 34: 375-383.

Chassot E, Bonhommeau S, Dulvy NK, Melin F, Watson R, Gascuel D, Le Pape O. 2010. Global marine primary production constrains fisheries catches. Ecology Letters 13: 495-505.

Dulvy NK, Forrest RE. 2010. Life histories, population dynamics, and extinction risks in chondrichthyans. In Sharks and Their Relatives II: Biodiversity, Adaptive Physiology, and Conservation, Carrier JC, Musick JA, Heithaus MR (eds). CRC Press: Boca Raton; 635-676.

Hoffmann M, Hilton-Taylor C, Angulo A, Bohm M, Brooks TM, Butchart SHM, Carpenter KE, Chanson J, Collen B, Cox NA, et al. 2010.
The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates. Science 330: 1503-1509.

Juan-Jordá MJ, Dulvy NK, Cooper AB, Frere J, Mosqueira I. 2010. Trends in spawning stock biomass, mean age, mean size at capture and threat status in relation to exploitation status in Atlantic scombrids. International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT), Standing Committee on Research and Statistics, Madrid. 1-23 pp.

MacNeil MA, Graham NAJ, Cinner JE, Dulvy NK, Loring PA, Jennings S, Polunin NVC, Fisk AT, McClanahan TR. 2010.
Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365: 3753-3763.

Sheppard C, Al-Husiani M, Al-Jamali F, Al-Yamani F, Baldwin R, Bishop J, Benzoni F, Dutrieux E, Dulvy NK, Durvasula SRV, et al. 2010.
The Gulf: A young sea in decline. Marine Pollution Bulletin 60: 13-38.

Wilson SK, Fisher R, Pratchett MS, Graham NAJ, Dulvy NK, Turner RA, Cakacaka A, Polunin NVC. 2010.
Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities.
Ecological Applications 20: 442-451.


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