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Overview

Adam Barnett is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work spanning 155 publications in this field.

Their research interests incorporate several subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aquatic Science
  • Molecular Biology

They contribute extensively to topics related to marine and aquatic biology. The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation

Adam Barnett has published numerous papers in a range of academic journals with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Oecologia
  • Ecology and Evolution

Notable recent papers include:

  • Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology (2022, Science Advances)
  • Continental-scale acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal new insights into stock structure (2021, Fish and Fisheries)
  • Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: Fromfishingfor populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics (2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change (2021, Oecologia)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Adam Barnett are:

  • Marcus Sheaves
  • Charlie Huveneers
  • Kátya G. Abrantes
  • Christine L. Dudgeon
  • Paul A. Butcher

Best Publications

  • Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

    Nuno Queiroz;Nuno Queiroz;Nicolas E. Humphries;Ana Couto;Marisa Vedor

  • Variation in depth of whitetip reef sharks: does provisioning ecotourism change their behaviour?

    Richard Fitzpatrick;Kátya G. Abrantes;Jamie Seymour;Adam Barnett

  • Residency and spatial use by reef sharks of an isolated seamount and its implications for conservation

    Adam Barnett;Kátya G. Abrantes;Jamie Seymour;Richard Fitzpatrick

  • Stable isotope‐based community metrics as a tool to identify patterns in food web structure in east African estuaries

    Kátya G. Abrantes;Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Steven Bouillon

  • A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

    Christopher S. Bird;Christopher S. Bird;Ana Veríssimo;Sarah Magozzi;Kátya G. Abrantes

  • Are we killing them with kindness? Evaluation of sustainable marine wildlife tourism

    Claudia Trave;Juerg Brunnschweiler;Marcus Sheaves;Amy Diedrich

  • Non-lethal method to obtain stomach samples from a large marine predator and the use of DNA analysis to improve dietary information

    Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Kevin S. Redd;Stewart D. Frusher;John D. Stevens

  • Site fidelity and sex-specific migration in a mobile apex predator: implications for conservation and ecosystem dynamics

    Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Kátya G. Abrantes;Kátya G. Abrantes;John D. Stevens;Jayson M. Semmens

  • Opportunistic visitors: long-term behavioural response of bull sharks to food provisioning in Fiji.

    Juerg M. Brunnschweiler;Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett

  • Ecotourism increases the field metabolic rate of whitetip reef sharks

    Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Nicholas L. Payne;Nicholas L. Payne;Jayson M. Semmens;Richard Fitzpatrick

  • Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world’s largest fish, the whale shark

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  • A comparison of the seasonal movements of tiger sharks and green turtles provides insight into their predator-prey relationship.

    Richard Fitzpatrick;Michele Thums;Michele Thums;Ian Bell;Mark G. Meekan

  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology

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  • Integrating acoustic telemetry into mark-recapture models to improve the precision of apparent survival and abundance estimates

    Christine L. Dudgeon;Kenneth H. Pollock;J. Matias Braccini;Jayson M. Semmens

  • An overview on the role of Hexanchiformes in marine ecosystems: biology, ecology and conservation status of a primitive order of modern sharks

    A. Barnett;J. M. Braccini;C. A. Awruch;C. A. Awruch;D. A. Ebert;D. A. Ebert

  • Intrapopulation variations in diet and habitat use in a marine apex predator, the broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus

    Kátya G. Abrantes;Adam Barnett

  • Importance of terrestrial subsidies for estuarine food webs in contrasting East African catchments

    Kátya G. Abrantes;Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Trent R. Marwick;Steven Bouillon

  • Long-term changes in species composition and relative abundances of sharks at a provisioning site.

    Juerg M. Brunnschweiler;Kátya G. Abrantes;Adam Barnett

  • Sequential movement into coastal habitats and high spatial overlap of predator and prey suggest high predation pressure in protected areas

    Adam Barnett;Jayson M. Semmens

  • Conservation potential of apex predator tourism

    Catherine Macdonald;Austin J. Gallagher;Austin J. Gallagher;Adam Barnett;Juerg Brunnschweiler

  • Fine-Scale Movements of the Broadnose Sevengill Shark and Its Main Prey, the Gummy Shark

    Adam Barnett;Adam Barnett;Kátya G. Abrantes;Kátya G. Abrantes;John D. Stevens;Barry D. Bruce

  • Combining abundance and performance data reveals how temperature regulates coastal occurrences and activity of a roaming apex predator

    Nicholas L. Payne;Nicholas L. Payne;Carl G. Meyer;James A. Smith;Jonathan D. R. Houghton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jayson M. Semmens
Jayson M. Semmens University of Tasmania
Marcus Sheaves
Marcus Sheaves James Cook University
Yuuki Y. Watanabe
Yuuki Y. Watanabe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Mark G. Meekan
Mark G. Meekan Australian Institute of Marine Science
Yannis P. Papastamatiou
Yannis P. Papastamatiou Florida International University
Charlie Huveneers
Charlie Huveneers Flinders University
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Austin J. Gallagher
Austin J. Gallagher University of Miami
Bradley M. Wetherbee
Bradley M. Wetherbee University of Rhode Island
Michele Thums
Michele Thums Australian Institute of Marine Science

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