South East Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Seamounts project

Publications

Journal publications

1. Rowden, A.A., T.A. Schlacher, A. Williams, M.R. Clark, R. Stewart, F. Althaus, D.A. Bowden, M. Consalvey, W. Robinson, J. Dowdney. (2010). A test of the seamount oasis hypothesis: Seamounts support higher epibenthic megafaunal biomass than adjacent slopes. Marine Ecology 31 (Suppl.1): 95-106.
2. Williams, A., T.A. Schlacher, A.A. Rowden, F. Althaus, M.R. Clark, D.A. Bowden, R. Stewart, N.J. Bax, M. Consalvey, and R.J. Kloser. (2010). Seamount megabenthic assemblages fail to recover from trawling impacts. Marine Ecology 31 (Suppl.1): 183-199.
3. Althaus, F., A. Williams, T. A. Schlacher, R.J. Kloser, M.A. Green, B.A. Barker, N.J. Bax, P. Brodie, and M.A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger (2009). Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting. Marine Ecology Progress Series 397: 279-294.
4. Williams, A., N.J. Bax, R.J. Kloser, F. Althaus, B. Barker, and G. Keith. (2009) Australia's deep-water reserve network: implications of false homogeneity for classifying abiotic surrogates of biodiversity. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 214–224.

Conference Presentations

1. Althaus, F., K. Gowlett-Holmes, F. McEnnulty, A. Williams, S. Ling, P. Dunstan, L. Marsh, T. O'Hara, M. O'Laughlin, A. Miskelly. (2009). Echinoderm biodiversity of the Australian continental margin (100 – 1500 m depths). 13th international Echinoderm Conference, January 5-9, 2009. Hobart Tas.
2. Williams, A., F. Althaus, T. Schlacher.2, B. Barker, M. Green, P. Alderslade, R.J. Kloser, N.J. Bax. (2008). Patterns of corals on seamounts off Tasmania, SE Australia, related to different histories of bottom trawling. Deep-sea Coral Conference Dec 2008, Wellington NZ.
3. Williams, A., Althaus, F., Schlacher T., Barker, B. A., Green, M. A., Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M. A., et al. Patterns of composition, fine scale distribution and resilience of seamount corals in marine reserves off Tasmania, SE Australia related to different histories of bottom trawling. In: Deep Sea coral symposium 2008; 1-5 December, 2008; Wellington, New Zealand. 2008.
4. Williams, A., Bax, N. J., Kloser, R. J., Althaus, F., Barker, B. A., Keith, G. J. (2007). The deepwater marine protected area network off southeastern Australia: a signpost to the information needed on benthic biodiversity (abstract). In: Marine science in a changing world : the Australian Marine Sciences Association 45th Annual Conference : AMSA 2007; 9-13 July, 2007; Melbourne, Australia. Australian Marine Sciences Association; 2007.

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