Publications

Our research is grounded in rigorous, evidence-based science and a commitment to advancing the understanding and conservation of aquatic ecosystems. This publications collection showcases the breadth of work produced by our researchers, spanning marine, estuarine and freshwater environments. Together, these studies reflect our focus on high-quality, impactful science that informs management, policy and conservation outcomes.

Featured work

Nicholson, K. (2023). Entanglement in recreational fishing gear poses a threat to estuarine and coastal dolphins: Animal welfare and population level impacts should guide intervention decision making. Marine pollution bulletin, 192, 115094.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115094

Details dolphin entanglements in Mandurah, Western Australia

Addicoat, R., Tweedley, J.R., Ryan, T., Cottingham, A., Morgan, D.L. & Beatty, S.J. (2025). Determining the fine-scale movement of an estuarine fish through a tidal-exclusion barrier improves the understanding of mass fish mortality risk. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 313: 109085.

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Baldwin, C., Gain, A. K., & Fritsch, D. O. (2025). The Great Barrier Reef, human dimensions and climate change. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 32(1): 1–5.

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2025

  1. Addicoat, R., Tweedley, J.R., Ryan, T., Cottingham, A., Morgan, D.L. & Beatty, S.J. (2025). Determining the fine-scale movement of an estuarine fish through a tidal-exclusion barrier improves the understanding of mass fish mortality risk. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 313: 109085.
  2. Atkinson, S. T., Chester, E. T., & Robson, B. J. (2025). Functional trait distributions alone may not predict invertebrate community responses to stream catchment clearing. Hydrobiologia (2025).
  3. Baldwin, C., Gain, A. K., & Fritsch, D. O. (2025). The Great Barrier Reef, human dimensions and climate change. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 32(1): 1–5.
  4. Barry, C., Lester, E., Doane, M. P., Ferreira, L. C., Thums, M., Gleiss, A. C. & Meekan, M. G. (2025). Love bites? Precopulatory behaviours of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Frontiers in Marine Science 11: 1507072.
  5. Beale, C.S. et al. (2025). Deep diving behaviour in oceanic manta rays and its potential function. Frontiers in Marine Science 12. 
  6. Biskis, V.N., Townsend, K.A., Morgan, D.L., Lear, K.M., Holmes, B.E. and Wueringer, B.E. (2025). Fine tuning established morphometric models through citizen science data. Conservation Science and Practice e13308.
  7. Bolan, S., Sharma, S., Mukherjee, S., Isaza, D. F. G., Rodgers, E. M., Zhou, P., Hou, D., Scordo, F., Chandra, S., Siddique, K. H. M., & Bolan, N. (2025). Wildfires under changing climate, and their environmental and health impacts. Journal of Soils and Sediments 2025.
  8. Byrnes, E., Hounslow, J., Heim, V., White, C. E., Smukall, M., Beatty, S. & Gleiss, A. (2025). Intraspecific scaling of home range size and its bioenergetic association. Ecology 106(2): e70003.
  9. Cottingham, A., Bossie, A., Valesini, F., Maus, C., Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Tweedley, J. R., & Galimany, E. (2025). Potential of mussel habitat enhancement to alleviate eutrophication in nutrient‐enriched estuaries. Ecological Management & Restoration 26(2): e70004.
  10. Cottingham, A., Newsome, R., Gillies, C., & Tweedley, J. R. (2025). Can ecosystem transformations by non-indigenous mussel introductions inform shellfish reef restoration? Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13(3): 441.
  11. Cribb, T. H., Barton, D. P., Blair, D., Bott, N. J., Bray, R. A., Corner, R. D., Cutmore, S. C., De Silva, M. L. I., Duong, B., Faltýnková, A., Gonchar, A., Hechinger, R. F., Herrmann, K. K., Huston, D. C., Johnson, P. T. J., Kremnev, G., Kuchta, R., Louvard, C., Luus-Powell, W. J., et al. (2025). Challenges in the recognition of trematode species: Consideration of hypotheses in an inexact science. Journal of Helminthology 99: e54.
  12. Cribb, T. H., Martin, S., & Cutmore, S. C. (2025). Neohexangitrema spp. (Trematoda: Microscaphidiidae) in indo-West Pacific Acanthuridae: Richness, distribution, diet and contemporary naming issues. Parasitology International 108: 103033.
  13. Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Cottingham, A., Kalnejais, L. H., Lynch, K. & Tweedley, J. R. (2025). Tidal exclusion barriers fragment an invertebrate community into taxonomically and functionally distinct estuarine and wetland assemblages. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13(4).
  14. Cutmore, S. C., Bray, R. A., Huston, D. C., Martin, S. B., Miller, T. L., Wee, N. Q.-X., Yong, R. Q.-Y., & Cribb, T. H. (2025). Twenty thousand fishes under the seas: Insights into the collection and storage of trematodes from the examination of 20,000 fishes in the tropical Indo west-Pacific. Journal of Helminthology 99: e45.
  15. D’Antonio, B., Ferreira, L. C., Fisher, R., Thums, M., Pattiaratchi, C. B., Sequeira, A. M. M., Faubel, C., Reynolds, S., Norman, B., & Meekan, M. (2025). Natural and artificial structures influence the movement and habitat connectivity of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) across seascapes. Diversity & Distributions 31(1): e13950.
  16. Daviot, J. R., Lymbery, A. J., & Beatty, S. J. (2025). Biofiltration by an imperilled freshwater mussel: implications for water quality in a drying climate. Hydrobiologia 852: 3349-3363.
  17. Duong, B., Martin, S. B., Cutmore, S. C., & Cribb, T. H. (2025). Zoogonids (Trematoda) infecting Indo-West Pacific damselfishes (Pomacentridae), including the proposal of a new genus and two new species. Parasitology 152(40: 436–452.
  18. Ebner, B.C. & Morgan, D.L. (2025). Another novel feeding mode in the Labridae: juvenile tuskfish fan sands with vigorous single pectoral swipes. Marine Ecology 46: e70034.
  19. Ferdousi, L., Gain, A. K., Bithi, U. H., Begum, M., Yeasmin, Mst. S., Siddique, Md. A. B., Tasnim, N., Al Noman, Z., Khatun, Mst. R., Shaikh, Md. E. A., Sharmin, S., Ahmed, S., Goshwami, A., & Rodgers, E. M. (2025). Nutritional prospects and heavy metal risks in fattened versus wild mud crabs of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta: Implications for sustainable management. Aquaculture 595(2).
  20. Grundlehner, A., Smith, J. N., Bannister, J. L., Andrews-Goff, V., Brasier, M., Double, M. C., & Corney, S. P. (2025). The end of an era? trends in abundance and reproduction of Australian southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) suggest failure to re-establish pre-whaling population size. Global Change Biology 31(5): e70218.
  21. Hammer, M.P, Morgan, D.L., Beatty, S.J., Allen, M.G., Unmack, P.J., Buckley, S.J., Beheregaray, L.B., Murphy, J. & Adams, M. (2025). Species delineation, phylogeography, and conservation of temperate perches (Actinopterygii: Percichthyidae) from an endemism and climate change hotspot. Marine and Freshwater Research 76(14): MF24257.
  22. Harrison, H.L., White, S., Loneragan, N., Hazell, J., Lorenzen, K. (2025). Fish(eries) management on the third rail: Defusing and advancing the dialogue on hatcheries and stocking for enhancement, conservation, and restoration through an innovative roundtable Fisheries, 2025: vuaf042.
  23. Haslam, V. M., Maroni, P. J., Bessey, C., Chaplin, J. A., Lawrie, A. D., & van Keulen, M. (2025). Evidence of two species within the corallivore gastropod Drupella cornus and new Drupella records in the Indo-Pacific. Marine Biodiversity 55(6): 93.
  24. Haslam, V. M., Maroni, P. J., Chaplin, J. A., Bessey, C., & van Keulen, M. (2025). High levels of genetic connectivity in the corallivorous gastropod Drupella cornus (Rӧding, 1798) in an expanding latitudinal range along Western Australia. Marine Biodiversity 55: 7.
  25. Hector, L., Loneragan, N.R., Fourie, S.A., Fulton, E.A. & Yeoh, D. (2025). Ecological network analysis and ecological indicators for an intensively used temperate marine embayment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 320: 109285. 
  26. Hounslow, J. L., Fossette, S., van Rooijen, A., Tucker, A. D., Whiting, S. D., & Gleiss, A. C. (2025). Incorporating fine-scale behaviors into habitat suitability modeling: A case study for sea turtles. Ecological Applications 35(6): e70095.
  27. Ingelbrecht, J., Santoro, A., Morgan, D.L., Sturm, A.L., Gordon, K.A., Lymbery, A.J. & Beatty, S.J. (2025). Decomposed cadaver tissue provides insight into genetic variation in a freshwater turtle (Chelodina oblonga) population in southwestern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 76(16): MF25004.
  28. Kendrick, G. A., Mulligan, R. S., Ferretto, G., Van Keulen, M., & Verduin, P. J. (2025). Lessons learnt from revisiting decades of seagrass restoration projects in Cockburn Sound, southwestern Australia. Restoration Ecology 33(4): e70040.
  29. Krispyn, K. N., Florisson, J. H. & Tweedley, J. R. (2025). Artificial reefs act as cleaning stations in temperate waters. Pacific Conservation Biology 31(5): PC25049.
  30. Kwambai, C. S., Ennaceri, H., Lymbery, A. J., Laird, D. W., Cosgrove, J., & Moheimani, N. R. (2025). Toxic Alexandrium treatment in Western Australia: Investigating the efficacy of modified nano clay. Toxins 17(10): 495.
  31. Lim, R., Fourie, S., Stout, E., Roots, B., Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Rodgers, E., & Tweedley, J. (2025). Testing the Remane diagram: occurrences of benthic macroinvertebrates in oligohaline to hyperhaline salinities. Water 17(11): 1642.
  32. Lim, R., & Tweedley, J. (2025). Climate change facilitates the formation of natural barriers in low-inflow estuaries, altering environmental conditions and faunal assemblages. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13 (10): 1978. 
  33. Mayaud, R., Smith, J. N., Peel, D., Wilson, C., Franklin, W., Stevens, T., & Bengtson Nash, S. (2025). Differences in the functional use of two migratory stopovers by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). PloS One 20(5): e0321010.
  34. McKnight, D., Bower, D., Ariel, E., Beatty, S., Clulow, S., Connell, M., Deppe, A., Doody, J., Freeman, A., Georges, A., Hannabass, S., Hollender, E., Howell, H., Krochmal, A., Ligon, D., Munscher, E., Nordberg, E., Roth, T., Santoro, A., et al. (2025). Does a lack of juveniles indicate a threat? Understanding body size distributions in a group of long-lived vertebrates. Dryad.
  35. Miller, I. B., Fitzpatrick, R., Abrantes, K. G., Norman, B., Pierce, S. J., Erdmann, M. V., Hoopes, L. A., Dudgeon, C., Dunbabin, M. D., Dove, A. D. M., Beaman, R. J., Reynolds, S. D., Rohner, C., Williams, S. M., Paton, D., Lewis, S., & Barnett, A. (2025). The needle in the haystack: uncovering the first whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregation in the Coral Sea. Ecology and Evolution 15(6): e71552.
  36. Mitchell, P. J., Yeoh, D. E., Krispyn, K. N., Greenwell, C. N., Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Chabanne, D. B. H., Hyndes, G. A., Johnston, D., Fairclough, D. V., Wellington, C., Cottingham, A., Jackson, G., Norriss, J. V., Braccini, M., Lozano-Montes, H., Kent, C. P. S., Clitheroe, E., Tate, A., Penn, J. W., et al. (2025). Ecological resources of a heavily modified and utilised temperate coastal embayment: Cockburn Sound. Frontiers in Marine Science 12: 1563654.
  37. Morgan, DL, Lear KO, Ingelbrecht, J, Fazeldean, T. & Fleming, PA (2025). The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) as a novel invasive predator in a Critically Endangered sawfish nursery. Pacific Conservation Biology 31 (PC24009), 1-6.
  38. Morgan, DL, Allen, MG, Haywood, M, Ward, C, Donohue, C, Daviot, J & Beatty, S. (2025). The Western Dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella munda), a recent addition to Australia’s threatened species list. FiSHMED: Fishes in Mediterranean Environments 2025.002: 1-6.
  39. Mundy, D. Loneragan, N.R., Admiraal, R. & Hart, A. (2025). Estimating abalone growth and shell morphometrics on a sea ranch in south-western Australia. Asian Fisheries Science 38:8-18.
  40. Nakanishi, K., Akanuma, H., Kobayashi, R., Yokomizo, H., Hayashi, T. I., Robson, B., & Usio, N. (2025). Experimental test of the effects of prolonged flooding practices on animal communities in rice paddy fields. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 379: 109369.
  41. O’Shannessy, B., Moller, L., McCauley, R. D., Parra, G. J., Smith, J. N., Burnell, S., & Charlton, C. M. (2025). Decadal shifts in southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) recovery in South Australian waters: implications for conservation and management. Marine Mammal Science 41(4): e70045.
  42. Pilmer, L., Partridge, G., Woods, C., Foysal, M. J., Chaklader, M. R., Lymbery, A., & Woolley, L. (2025). Alternative proteins in Aquafeeds: Evaluating methanotrophic and hydrogenotrophic bacterial meals in yellowtail kingfish diets. Aquaculture 613(1): 743371.
  43. Pilmer, L., Woolley, L., Lymbery, A., Dam, C., Elizur, A., Foysal, M. J., & Partridge, G. (2025). Exploring single cell microbial protein as a sustainable fishmeal alternative in yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) diets: impacts on health and gut microbiome. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 16(1): 16 (2025).
  44. Rodgers, E., Baldanzi, S., Collins, M., Dowd, W. W., Feugere, L., Mottola, G., Vermandele, F., & Gomez Isaza, D. (2025). Protective multi-stressor interactions in the Anthropocene: Key considerations for investigating cross-tolerance in a conservation context. Conservation Physiology 31(1): coaf052.
  45. Rodgers, E. M., Ferdousi, L., Hani, U. e., Fritsch, O. & Gain, A. K. (2025). Fire, rain and runoff: addressing the overlooked impacts of wildfires on aquatic systems. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 32(3): 205–216. 
  46. Roots, B., Lim, R., Fourie, S., Rodgers, E., Stout, E., Cronin-O’Reilly, S., & Tweedley, J. (2025). Hypersalinity drives dramatic shifts in the invertebrate fauna of estuaries. Animals 15(11): 1629.
  47. Santoro, A., Summers, V., Chambers, J.M., & Beatty, S.J. (2025). Post‐translocation movements of a freshwater turtle include homing behaviour. Aquatic Conservation 35: e70116.
  48. Smith, J. N., Van Issum, H., Patterson, T., & Kelly, N. (2025). Persistence of breeding philopatry and cultural memory of the Great Barrier Reef as a humpback whale breeding ground. Biological Conservation 308: 111212.
  49. Tweedley, J.R. & Krispyn, K.N. (2025). Fishes and salinities of low-inflow e estuaries in the Fitzgerald Biosphere. FiSHMED: Fishes in Mediterranean Environments 2025.002: 1-6.
  50. Warwick, R., Tweedley, J., Camplin, M., & Bullimore, B. (2025). Ecological condition of the benthos in Milford Haven Waterway: the centre of the UK’s oil and gas industry in an area of high conservation value. Oceans 6(1): 2.
  51. Wei, X., Wang, Y., Tweedley, J.R., Loneragan, N.R., Tian, T., Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., An, W., Xu, L., Wu, Z. (2025). Diet and trophic niches of sympatric Seriola species revealed by stomach content and multi-tissue stable isotope analyses. Fisheries Research 282: 107272.
  52. Whitfield, A. K., Harrison, T. D., & Tweedley, J. R. (2025). Comparisons between estuary-associated ichthyofaunas in ecoregions around the Indian Ocean. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 321: 109335.
  53. Windstein, M., Harry, A. V., Rangers, K., Waltrick, D., Gleiss, A. C., & Travers, M. J. (2025). First record of a mature female dwarf sawfish, Pristis clavata. Journal of Fish Biology 107(4): 1460–1463.

2024

  1. Andrzejaczek, S., Gleiss, A., Lear, K., McGregor, F., Chapple, T. and Meekan, M. (2024). Stomach eversion and retraction by a tagged Tiger Shark at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Fisheries Research 269.
  2. Bateman, R.L., Morgan, D.L., Wueringer, B.E., McDavitt, M. & Lear, K.O. (2024). Collaborative methods identify a remote global diversity hotspot of threatened, large bodied rhino rays. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 2024: 1-17. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.4047
  3. Buckley, S.J., Brauer, C.J., Unmack, P.J., Hammer, M.P., Adams, M., Beatty, S.J., Morgan, D.L. & Beheregaray, L.B. (2024). Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot. Heredity https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-024-00700-6
  4. Emery-Butcher, H., S.J. Beatty and B.J. Robson. (2024). Long-term differences in population structure, body size and distribution patterns of amphipods and isopods in wetlands with declining hydroperiods. Freshwater Biology, in press.
  5. Emery-Butcher, H. E., Beatty, S. J., & Robson, B. J. (2024). Responses to desiccation vary among populations of an endemic freshwater isopod, Paramphisopus palustris. Freshwater Biology 69: 112–126.
  6. Gomez Isaza, D.F. & Rodgers, E.M. (2024). Upper thermal limits are ‘hard-wired’ across body mass but not populations of an estuarine fish. Journal of Thermal Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103970
  7. Herdiana, Y., Wiryawan, B., Wisudo, S.H., Tweedley, J.R., Yulianto, I., Retnoningtyas, H. Loneragan, N.R. (2024). Untangling the Complexity of Small-Scale Fisheries: Building an Understanding of Grouper-Snapper Fisheries Dynamics in Saleh Bay, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Fishes 2024, 2.
  8. Ingelbrecht, J., Lear, K.O., Martin, S.B., Lymbery, A.J., Norman, B.M., Boxshall, G.A. & Morgan, D.L. (2024). Ectoparasites of the Critically Endangered green sawfish Pristis zijsron and sympatric elasmobranchs in Western Australia. Parasitology International 101: 102900. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-024-00918-8
  9. Ingelbrecht, J., Lear, K.O., Phillips, N.M., Wueringer, B.E., Lymbery, A.J., Norman, B.M. & Morgan, D.L. (2024). Kinship assessment and insights into reproductive behaviour of Critically Endangered green sawfish Pristis zijsron in Western Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 34: e4213. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4213
  10. Ingelbrecht, J., Lear, K.O., Lymbery, A.J., Bateman, R.L., Norman, B.M., Martin, S.B., Fazeldean, T. & Morgan, D.L. (2024). Ectoparasites of the Critically Endangered giant shovelnose ray Glaucostegus typus in the eastern Indian Ocean, with a summary of the known metazoan parasites. Acta Parasitologica https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-024-00918-8
  11. Jense, C., Adams, M., Raadik, T.A., Waters, J.M., Morgan, D.L., Barmuta, L.A., Hardie, S.A., Deagle, B.E. & Burridge, C.P. (2024). Cryptic diversity within two widespread diadromous freshwater fishes (Teleostei: Galaxiidae). Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11201
  12. Lear, K.O., Ebner, B.C., Fazeldean, T., Bateman, R.L. & Morgan, D.L. (2024). Effects of coastal development on sawfish movements and the need for marine animal crossings. Conservation Biology 38: e14263. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14263
  13. Lear, K.O., Estrabeau, C., Morgan, D.L., Whitney, N.M., Gleiss, A.C., Bignell, C., Pillans, R. & Bateman, R.L. (2024). The secret lives of wedgefish: first insights into fine-scale behaviour and movement ecology of a globally imperiled ray. Marine Biology 171: 180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04500-8
  14. Maus, C., Cottingham, A., Bossie, A. and Tweedley, J.R. (2024). Assessing the efficacy of a Bouchot-Style shellfish reef as a restoration option in a temperate estuary. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12: 87.
  15. Marfurt, S. M., Chabanne, D. B., Wittwer, S., Bizzozzero, M. R., Allen, S. J., Gerber, L., Nicholson, K & Krützen, M. (2024). Demographic History and Adaptive Evolution of Indo‐Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Western Australia. Molecular ecology, 33(22), e17555. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17555
  16. Morgan, D.L., Allen, M.G. & Beatty, S.J. (2024). The enigmatic Salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Mees, 1961) in acidic, ephemeral peat swamps of south-western Australia. FiSHMed 2024.002. 
  17. Reynolds, S.D., Redcliffe, J., Norman, B.M., Wilson, R.P., Holton, M., Franklin, C.E. and Dwyer, R.G. (2024). Swimming with humans: biotelemetry reveals effects of “gold standard” regulated tourism on whale sharks. Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  18. Roberts, B.H., Morrongiello, J.R., Morgan, D.L., King, A.J., Saunders, T.M., Banks, S.C. & Crook, D.A. (2024). Monsoonal wet season influences the migration tendency of a catadromous fish (barramundi Lates calcarifer). Journal of Animal Ecology 93: 83-94.
  19. Santoro, A., Chambers, J.M., Ebner, B.C., Sturm, A.L. & Beatty, S.J. (2024). Long-term habitat degradation affects nest site selection behaviour by a freshwater turtle (Chelodina oblonga) in Western Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 34, e4085. 
  20. Tweedley, J.R., Beatty, S.J., Cottingham, A., Morgan, D.L., Lynch, K. & Lymbery, A.J. (2024). Spatial and temporal changes in the fish fauna of a low-inflow estuary following a mass mortality event and natural and artificial bar breaches. Coasts 4: 366-391. https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4020019
  21. Tweedley J.R., Krispyn K.N. (2024) Protracted bar closure temporarily transforms an estuary into a salt lake. Pacific Conservation Biology 30, PC24007. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC24007
  22. Wright, D.W., Thiem, J.D., Blackman, E., Beatty, S.J., Lymbery, A.J. & Davis, S. (2024). Differences in desiccation tolerance of two Australian freshwater mussel species with different life history characteristics is temperature dependent. Hydrobiologia 851, 4123–4134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05570-x

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