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Brendan P. Kelaher is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics focus on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine and fisheries research, Marine animal studies overview, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

Brendan P. Kelaher has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Pollution Bulletin, The Science of The Total Environment, and Ocean & Coastal Management.

Some recent notable publications include:

  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Assessing White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Behavior Along Coastal Beaches for Conservation-Focused Shark Mitigation, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A deep learning algorithm to detect and classify sun glint from high-resolution aerial imagery over shallow marine environments, 2021, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • The influence of plastic pollution and ocean change on detrital decomposition, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Frequently collaborating co-authors include Paul A. Butcher, Melinda A. Coleman, Daniel P. Harrison, Thomas A. Schlacher, and Andrew P. Colefax.

Best Publications

  • Ingestion of microplastic has limited impact on a marine larva.

    Katrina L. Kaposi;Benjamin Mos;Brendan P. Kelaher;Symon A. Dworjanyn

  • Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress.

    Thomas Wernberg;Melinda A. Coleman;Scott Bennett;Mads S. Thomsen;Mads S. Thomsen

  • ABSENCE OF A LARGE BROWN MACROALGA ON URBANIZED ROCKY REEFS AROUND SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND EVIDENCE FOR HISTORICAL DECLINE(1)

    Melinda A Coleman;Brendan P Kelaher;Peter David Steinberg;Alan J K Millar

  • The potential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to conduct marine fauna surveys in place of manned aircraft

    Andrew P Colefax;Paul A Butcher;Paul A Butcher;Brendan P Kelaher

  • Changes in habitat complexity negatively affect diverse gastropod assemblages in coralline algal turf.

    B. P. Kelaher;B. P. Kelaher

  • Spatial patterns of diverse macrofaunal assemblages in coralline turf and their associations with environmental variables

    B.P. Kelaher;M.G. Chapman;A.J. Underwood

  • Paleoreconstruction of estuarine sediments reveal human‐induced weakening of coastal carbon sinks

    Peter I. Macreadie;Katie Allen;Brendan P. Kelaher;Peter J. Ralph

  • Variation in the strength of continental boundary currents determines continent-wide connectivity in kelp

    Melinda A. Coleman;Melinda A. Coleman;Moninya Roughan;Helen S. Macdonald;Sean D. Connell

  • Rapid loss of genetically based resistance to metals after the cleanup of a Superfund site

    Jeffrey S. Levinton;E. Suatoni;William Wallace;Ruth Junkins

  • The challenge of choosing environmental indicators of anthropogenic impacts in estuaries

    Katherine A. Dafforn;Stuart L. Simpson;Brendan P. Kelaher;Graeme F. Clark

  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences

    Alec P. Christie;David Abecasis;Mehdi Adjeroud;Juan C. Alonso

  • Condition-specific competition allows coexistence of competitively superior exotic oysters with native oysters

    Frederick R. Krassoi;Kenneth R. Brown;Melanie J. Bishop;Brendan P. Kelaher

  • Future climate change is predicted to affect the microbiome and condition of habitat-forming kelp.

    Zhiguang Qiu;Melinda A Coleman;Euan J Provost;Alexandra H Campbell;Alexandra H Campbell

  • Seventy-one important questions for the conservation of marine biodiversity

    E. C.M. Parsons;Brett Favaro;Brett Favaro;A. Alonso Aguirre;A. Alonso Aguirre;Amy L. Bauer

  • Optimisation of baited remote underwater video sampling designs for estuarine fish assemblages

    William Gladstone;Steven Lindfield;Melinda Coleman;Brendan P Kelaher

  • Opposing organizing forces of deposit-feeding marine communities

    Jeffrey Levinton;Brendan Kelaher

  • Influence of physical characteristics of coralline turf on associated macrofaunal assemblages

    Brendan P. Kelaher

  • Climate‐driven disparities among ecological interactions threaten kelp forest persistence

    Euan J. Provost;Brendan P. Kelaher;Symon A. Dworjanyn;Bayden D. Russell;Bayden D. Russell

  • Connectivity within and among a Network of Temperate Marine Reserves

    Melinda A. Coleman;Justine Chambers;Nathan A. Knott;Hamish A. Malcolm

  • Variation in detrital enrichment causes spatio-temporal variation in soft-sediment assemblages

    Brendan P. Kelaher;Jeffrey S. Levinton

Frequent Co-Authors

Melinda A. Coleman
Melinda A. Coleman Southern Cross University
Melanie J. Bishop
Melanie J. Bishop Macquarie University
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Emma L. Johnston
Emma L. Johnston University of New South Wales
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
David J. Booth
David J. Booth University of Technology Sydney
Will F. Figueira
Will F. Figueira University of Sydney
Katherine A. Dafforn
Katherine A. Dafforn Macquarie University
Leslie Christidis
Leslie Christidis Southern Cross University
Stuart L. Simpson
Stuart L. Simpson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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