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66
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14610
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1705
National Ranking
139

Overview

Colin J. Limpus is affiliated with the Queensland Government in Australia and specializes in environmental science with a focus on conservation and biology. Their research spans various subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and genetics.

Their main areas of study center on turtle biology and conservation, marine animal studies, amphibian and reptile biology, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, ichthyology, marine biology, and veterinary pharmacology and anesthesia.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Limpus include Mark Hamann, Takahiro Shimada, Nancy N. FitzSimmons, Jason P. van de Merwe, and Duncan J. Limpus.

Research contributions are published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Wildlife Research
  • Marine Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Colin J. Limpus include:

  • Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Flooding-induced mortality of loggerhead sea turtle eggs (2020, Wildlife Research)
  • Phylogeography, genetic stocks, and conservation implications for an Australian endemic marine turtle (2020, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems)
  • Optimising sample sizes for animal distribution analysis using tracking data (2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Combining analytical and in vitro techniques for comprehensive assessments of chemical exposure and effect in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) (2021, Chemosphere)

Best Publications

  • GLOBAL POPULATION STRUCTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GREEN TURTLE (CHELONIA MYDAS) IN TERMS OF MATRIARCHAL PHYLOGENY.

    Brian W. Bowen;Anne B. Meylan;J. Perran Ross;Colin J. Limpus

  • Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore

    Milani Chaloupka;Karen A. Bjorndal;George H. Balazs;Alan B. Bolten

  • Trans-Pacific migrations of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) demonstrated with mitochondrial DNA markers.

    B W Bowen;F A Abreu-Grobois;G H Balazs;N Kamezaki

  • Microplastic ingestion ubiquitous in marine turtles

    Emily M. Duncan;Emily M. Duncan;Annette C. Broderick;Wayne J. Fuller;Wayne J. Fuller;Tamara S. Galloway

  • Migration of green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles to and from eastern Australian rookeries

    CJ Limpus;JD Miller;CJ Paramenter;D Reimer

  • Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting grounds to climate change

    M.M.P.B. Fuentes;C.J. Limpus;M. Hamann

  • Hatchling sex in the marine turtle Caretta caretta is determined by proportion of development at a temperature, not daily duration of exposure

    Arthur Georges;Colin Limpus;Ros Stoutjesdijk

  • Geographic structure of mitochondrial and nuclear gene polymorphisms in Australian green turtle populations and male-biased gene flow.

    Nancy N. FitzSimmons;Craig Moritz;Colin J. Limpus;Lisa Pope

  • Ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat use in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) life history

    Karen E. Arthur;Michelle C. Boyle;Colin J. Limpus

  • Chapter 2. Vulnerability of marine turtles to climate change.

    Elvira S Poloczanska;Colin J Limpus;Graeme C Hays

  • Philopatry of male marine turtles inferred from mitochondrial DNA markers.

    Nancy N. FitzSimmons;Colin J. Limpus;Janette A. Norman;Alan R. Goldizen

  • Trends in the abundance of sea turtles resident in southern Great Barrier Reef waters

    Milani Chaloupka;Colin Limpus

  • Mitochondrial DNA control region polymorphisms: genetic markers for ecological studies of marine turtles.

    J. A. Norman;C. Moritz;C. J. Limpus

  • Potential impacts of projected sea‐level rise on sea turtle rookeries

    M.M.P.B. Fuentes;C.J. Limpus;M. Hamann;J. Dawson

  • The genetic structure of Australasian green turtles (Chelonia mydas): exploring the geographical scale of genetic exchange

    Kiki E. M. Dethmers;Kiki E. M. Dethmers;Damien Broderick;Craig Moritz;Craig Moritz;Nancy N. Fitzsimmons

  • Nonparametric regression modelling of green sea turtle growth rates (southern Great Barrier Reef)

    Limpus C;Chaloupka M

  • GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE LOGGERHEAD TURTLE (CARETTA CARETTA) AS INDICATED BY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA HAPLOTYPES.

    Brian W. Bowen;Naoki Kamezaki;Colin J. Limpus;George R. Hughes

  • Past, current and future thermal profiles of green turtle nesting grounds: Implications from climate change

    M.M.P.B. Fuentes;M. Hamann;C.J. Limpus

  • Patterns of lipid storage and mobilisation in the female green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

    Mark Hamann;Colin J Limpus;Joan M Whittier

  • The hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in Queensland : population structure within a southern Great Barrier Reef feeding ground

    Colin J. Limpus

  • Habitat Utilization and Migration in Juvenile Sea Turtles

    John A. Musick;Colin J. Limpus

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark T. Hamann
Mark T. Hamann Medical University of South Carolina
David T. Booth
David T. Booth University of Queensland
Tim S. Jessop
Tim S. Jessop Deakin University
Paul C. Mills
Paul C. Mills University of Queensland
Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes
Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes Florida State University
Milani Chaloupka
Milani Chaloupka University of Queensland
Helene Marsh
Helene Marsh James Cook University
Anton D. Tucker
Anton D. Tucker Mote Marine Laboratory
Craig E. Franklin
Craig E. Franklin University of Queensland
George H. Balazs
George H. Balazs National Marine Fisheries Service

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