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2025

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Overview

David A. Ebert is affiliated with the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity in South Africa. Their research focuses mainly on ichthyology and marine biology, with significant contributions to fish biology and ecology studies as well as fish ecology and management studies. The primary fields of study encompassing their work are environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's research interests also extend into subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, aquatic science, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and ecology. Main topics covered throughout their career include ichthyology and marine biology, fish biology and ecology studies, fish ecology and management studies, identification and quantification in food, marine ecology and invasive species, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as marine animal studies overview.

David A. Ebert has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Marc Dando
  • Sarah Fowler
  • Rima W. Jabado
  • Nicholas K. Dulvy

Their work appears regularly in scientific journals with notable publication venues such as:

  • Marine Biodiversity
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Zootaxa
  • Environmental Biology of Fishes
  • Revista de biología marina y oceanografía

Recent papers coauthored or authored by David A. Ebert include:

  • "Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis," 2021, Current Biology
  • "The thin edge of the wedge: Extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes," 2020, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • "An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa," 2021, Zootaxa
  • "Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays," 2024, Science

David A. Ebert has also contributed extensively to books published by Princeton University Press, including multiple editions and titles such as Sharks of the World (2021), A Pocket Guide to Sharks of the World (2021), and Field Guide to Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras of Europe and the Mediterranean (2020). A recent book on the east coast of North America was published in 2024.

Another book publication includes Highly migratory shark fisheries research by the National Shark Research Consortium (NSRC), 2002-2007 (2021), published by UNESCO.

Best Publications

  • Extinction risk and conservation of the world's sharks and rays

    Nicholas K. Dulvy;Sarah L. Fowler;John A. Musick;Rachel D. Cavanagh

  • Sharks of the World

    David Ebert;Sarah Fowler;Leonard Compagno

  • Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis.

    Nicholas K. Dulvy;Nathan Pacoureau;Cassandra L. Rigby;Riley A. Pollom

  • Sharks of the World: A Fully Illustrated Guide

    David A. Ebert;Sarah Fowler;Leonard Compagno

  • Guide to the Sharks and Rays of Southern Africa

    Leonard J. V. Compagno;David A. Ebert;Malcolm J. Smale

  • Standardized diet compositions and trophic levels of skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei)

    David A. Ebert;Joseph J. Bizzarro

  • Breaking with tradition: redefining measures for diet description with a case study of the Aleutian skate Bathyraja aleutica (Gilbert 1896)

    Simon C. Brown;Joseph J. Bizzarro;Joseph J. Bizzarro;Gregor M. Cailliet;David A. Ebert

  • Reproductive biology of skates, Bathyraja(Ishiyama), along the eastern Bering Sea continental slope

    D. A. Ebert

  • Comparative feeding ecology of four sympatric skate species off central California, USA

    Joseph J. Bizzarro;Heather J. Robinson;Christopher S. Rinewalt;David A. Ebert

  • Biodiversity and systematics of skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei)

    David A. Ebert;Leonard J. V. Compagno

  • Resurrection and redescription of Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) from the North Pacific, with comments on the Squalus acanthias subgroup (Squaliformes: Squalidae)

    David A. Ebert;William T. White;Kenneth J. Goldman;Leonard J. V. Compagno

  • Ontogenetic changes in the diet of the sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus)

    David A. Ebert

  • Distribution of offshore demersal cartilaginous fish (Class Chondrichthyes) off the west coast of southern Africa, with notes on their systematics

    L. J. V. Compagno;D. A. Ebert;P. D. Cowley

  • The thin edge of the wedge: Extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes

    Peter M. Kyne;Rima W. Jabado;Cassandra L. Rigby;Dharmadi

  • Observations on the predatory behaviour of the sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus

    D. A. Ebert

  • A preliminary investigation of the feeding ecology of skates (Batoidea: Rajidae) off the west coast of southern Africa

    D. A. Ebert;P. D. Cowley;L. J. V. Compagno

  • Troubled waters: threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters

    Rima W. Jabado;Peter M. Kyne;Riley A. Pollom;David A. Ebert

  • Diet of the sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus off southern Africa

    D. A. Ebert

  • Diet, feeding behaviour and habitat utilisation of the blue stingray Dasyatis chrysonota (Smith, 1828) in South African waters

    David A. Ebert;Paul D. Cowley

  • Reproductive biology of catsharks (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) off the west coast of southern Africa

    David A. Ebert;Leonard J.V. Compagno;Paul D. Cowley

  • 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

  • An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa.

    David A. Ebert;Sabine P. Wintner;Peter M. Kyne

  • Comparative feeding ecology of four sympatric skate species off central California, USA

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  • Chondrichthyans of High Latitude Seas

    David Ebert;Megan Winton

  • Food habits of the sandpaper skate, Bathyraja kincaidii (Garman, 1908) off central California: seasonal variation in diet linked to oceanographic conditions

    Christopher S. Rinewalt;David A. Ebert;Gregor M. Cailliet

  • Author response: Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays

    Nicholas K Dulvy;Sarah L Fowler;John A Musick;Rachel D Cavanagh

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor M. Cailliet
Gregor M. Cailliet Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
William T. White
William T. White Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Nicholas K. Dulvy
Nicholas K. Dulvy Simon Fraser University
Peter Kyne
Peter Kyne Charles Darwin University
Paul D. Cowley
Paul D. Cowley South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Gavin J. P. Naylor
Gavin J. P. Naylor Florida Museum of Natural History
Colin A. Simpfendorfer
Colin A. Simpfendorfer James Cook University
John A. Musick
John A. Musick Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Janine N. Caira
Janine N. Caira University of Connecticut
Malcolm P. Francis
Malcolm P. Francis National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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