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Overview

Andrew Constable is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

Constable's work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy and law, and atmospheric science. Their research topics cover marine and fisheries research, ocean acidification effects and responses, polar research and ecology, marine animal studies, isotope analysis in ecology, coastal and marine management, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

They have published extensively in various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Marine Science, Global Change Biology, Marine Policy, and npj Urban Sustainability.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment, 2021, One Earth
  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global Drivers on Southern Ocean Ecosystems: Changing Physical Environments and Anthropogenic Pressures in an Earth System, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Status, Change, and Futures of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Global Connectivity of Southern Ocean Ecosystems, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Constable has collaborated frequently with a number of other researchers, including Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Rowan Trebilco, Nadine M. Johnston, Eugene J. Murphy, and Kerrie M. Swadling, contributing to multiple co-authored publications.

In addition to journal articles, Constable has contributed to book publications. One notable publication is titled Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Meeting the Challenge for Conserving Earth Ecosystems in the Long Term, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Stuart P. Corney;Kevin R. Arrigo

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

  • Managing fisheries to conserve the Antarctic marine ecosystem: practical implementation of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

    Andrew J. Constable;William K. de la Mare;David J. Agnew;Inigo Everson

  • Risk maps for Antarctic krill under projected Southern Ocean acidification

    S. Kawaguchi;S. Kawaguchi;A. Ishida;A. Ishida;R. King;B. Raymond;B. Raymond

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Ecology of benthic macro-invertebrates in soft-sediment environments : A review of progress towards quantitative models and predictions

    Andrew J. Constable

  • Modelling Southern Ocean ecosystems: krill, the food-web, and the impacts of harvesting

    S. L. Hill;E. J. Murphy;K. Reid;P. N. Trathan

  • Lessons from CCAMLR on the implementation of the ecosystem approach to managing fisheries

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable

  • Southern Ocean productivity in relation to spatial and temporal variation in the physical environment

    Andrew J. Constable;Stephen Nicol;Peter G. Strutton

  • Developing priority variables (“ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables” — eEOVs) for observing dynamics and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Daniel P. Costa;Oscar Schofield;Louise Newman

  • Global Drivers on Southern Ocean Ecosystems: Changing Physical Environments and Anthropogenic Pressures in an Earth System

    Simon A. Morley;Doris Abele;David K. A. Barnes;César A. Cárdenas

  • Developing integrated models of Southern Ocean food webs: Including ecological complexity, accounting for uncertainty and the importance of scale

    E.J. Murphy;R.D. Cavanagh;E.E. Hofmann;S.L. Hill

  • The Ponto-Caspian 'killer shrimp', Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894), invades the British Isles

    Calum MacNeil;Dirk Platvoet;Jaimie Dick;Nina Fielding

  • Status, Change, and Futures of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean

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  • Delivering Sustained, Coordinated, and Integrated Observations of the Southern Ocean for Global Impact

    Louise Newman;Petra Heil;Petra Heil;Rowan Trebilco;Rowan Trebilco;Katsuro Katsumata

  • Comprehensive evaluation of model uncertainty in qualitative network analyses

    J Melbourne-Thomas;SJ Wotherspoon;SJ Wotherspoon;B Raymond;B Raymond;A Constable;A Constable

  • A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of protected areas in the Southern Ocean.

    Lucinda L. Douglass;Joel Turner;Hedley S. Grantham;Stefanie Kaiser

  • Antarctic environmental protection: Strengthening the links between science and governance

    Kevin A. Hughes;Andrew Constable;Yves Frenot;Jerónimo López-Martínez

  • A Synergistic Approach for Evaluating Climate Model Output for Ecological Applications

    Rachel D. Cavanagh;Eugene J. Murphy;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;John Turner

  • Global connectivity of Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Eugene J. Murphy;Nadine M. Johnston;Eileen E. Hofmann;Richard A. Phillips

  • The Southern Ocean observing system: Initial science and implementation strategy

    S. R. Rintoul;M. Sparrow;M. P. Meredith;V. Wadley

  • The policy relevance of Southern Ocean food web structure: Implications of food web change for fisheries, conservation and carbon sequestration

    Rowan Trebilco;Rowan Trebilco;Rowan Trebilco;Jess Melbourne-Thomas;Jess Melbourne-Thomas;Jess Melbourne-Thomas;Andrew John Constable;Andrew John Constable

  • Testing paradigms of ecosystem change under climate warming in Antarctica.

    Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Andrew Constable;Andrew Constable;Simon Wotherspoon;Simon Wotherspoon;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica Melbourne-Thomas
Jessica Melbourne-Thomas Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
Eugene J. Murphy
Eugene J. Murphy British Antarctic Survey
So Kawaguchi
So Kawaguchi Australian Antarctic Division
José C. Xavier
José C. Xavier University of Coimbra
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Oscar Schofield
Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eileen E. Hofmann
Eileen E. Hofmann Old Dominion University
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Julian Gutt
Julian Gutt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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