Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
Australian Society of Fish Biology and Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference 2016
Days
Sunday, 4th September
Monday, 5th September
Tuesday, 6th September
Wednesday, 7th September
Tracks
Early life history of fishes: implications for conservation and management
Monitoring and observing systems, environmental data and applications to fish and fisheries
Fish movement and population connectivity
Invasive species: impacts, detection and control
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
Fish evolution, phylogeny and systematics
Fish research in action
Recreational and commercial fisheries
The emergence of socio-ecology in fish and fisheries research
Physiology
Biology, Ecology and Behaviour
Threatened species
Search
Speakers
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling.
1:20PM - 2:50PM
Monday, 5th September
Tasman B
Chairs: Heidi Pethybridge & Jordan Matley
Should we sweat the trophodynamic details?
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Beth Fulton
Using stable isotope data to advance marine food web modelling
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Stacey A McCormack
Putting adaptive dynamics into food web models
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Romain Forestier
The guts of ecosystem models: are they still needed and can new methods assist?
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Catherine Bulman
the role of cephalopods in ecosystems, the importance of modelling these species impact and ecology with groups of different habitats.
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Thibaut de la Chesnais
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling.
3:20PM - 5:05PM
Monday, 5th September
Tasman B
Chairs: Heidi Pethybridge & Jordan Matley
The importance of habitat structural complexity in the assessment of marine reserve performance
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Matt Rees
Acute climate-mediated disturbances – the defining role in structuring coral reef futures?
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Anna Cresswell
Ecoregionalization of coral reef fish in New Caledonia using gradient forest modeling.
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Jessica Garcia
Microhabitat specialisation underpins coral-seaweed niche segregation in tropical reef fishes
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Lucy N Wenger
Grey reef shark dependence to habitat characteristics and community composition in the central GBR
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Stacy L Bierwagen
Fish fuction as a sensitive indicator of coral reef degradation
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Christopher Goatley
Functional distinctions among browsing herbivorous fishes: reduced redundancy and the importance of large individuals
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Robert P Streit
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman B
Chairs: Heidi Pethybridge & Jordan Matley
Trophic ecology of a whale shark aggreagtion at Ningaloo Reef (Western Australia), from stable isotope anlaysis
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Lara Marcus
Mucus in elasmobranch dietary studies using stable isotope analysis: preliminary findings from the giant manta ray
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Katherine Burgess
Determining the functional limitations of using fatty acid profiles for diet determination with punch biopsies and degraded tissue samples
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Lauren Meyer
Examining diet variation in euryhaline and coastal elasmobranchs using fatty acid and stable isotope biomarkers
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Sharon L Every
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman B
Chair: Heidi Pethybridge
At the junction where predators, temperate reefs and marine resource management interact
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Natasha A Hardy
Trophic ecology of coral trout: Is one sampling approach enough?
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Jordan K Matley
Extreme inverted trophic pyramid of reef sharks supported by spawning groupers
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Johann Mourier
The trophic impact of an estuarine pelagic fish: a bioenergetics approach
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Christopher Lawson
Trout in a New Zealand river: Disturbers of the trophic peace or not?
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Adam Canning
Physical and biological changes during the filling of a temperate upland reservoir following its enlargement
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Sally Hatton