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John K. Keesing is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing primarily on marine ecosystems and related fields.

The main fields of study for Keesing include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science. Their work addresses a variety of topics related to marine science including coral and marine ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, fisheries research, marine biology and ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine ecology with an emphasis on invasive species.

They have published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Regional Studies in Marine Science
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Communications Biology

Their recent research articles highlight diverse marine science topics. Selected papers include:

  • Maximizing fish detection with eDNA metabarcoding (2020) in Environmental DNA
  • Passive eDNA collection enhances aquatic biodiversity analysis (2021) in Communications Biology
  • Role of C4 carbon fixation in Ulva prolifera, the macroalga responsible for the world's largest green tides (2020) in Communications Biology
  • Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Acanthaster sp. on Australia's Great Barrier Reef (2021) in Biological Bulletin
  • Wildfires enhance phytoplankton production in tropical oceans (2022) in Nature Communications

Keesing has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Cindy Bessey, Dongyan Liu, Pere Masqué, Zineng Yuan, and Nick Mortimer.

Best Publications

  • World's largest macroalgal bloom caused by expansion of seaweed aquaculture in China.

    Dongyan Liu;John K. Keesing;Qianguo Xing;Ping Shi

  • Jellyfish blooms in China: dominant species, causes and consequences.

    Zhijun Dong;Dongyan Liu;John K. Keesing;John K. Keesing

  • The world's largest macroalgal bloom in the Yellow Sea, China: Formation and implications

    Dongyan Liu;John K. Keesing;John K. Keesing;Peimin He;Zongling Wang

  • Inter- and intra-annual patterns of Ulva prolifera green tides in the Yellow Sea during 2007–2009, their origin and relationship to the expansion of coastal seaweed aquaculture in China

    John K. Keesing;Dongyan Liu;Peter Fearns;Rodrigo Garcia;Rodrigo Garcia

  • Recurrence of the world's largest green-tide in 2009 in Yellow Sea, China: Porphyra yezoensis aquaculture rafts confirmed as nursery for macroalgal blooms

    Dongyan Liu;John K. Keesing;John K. Keesing;Zhijun Dong;Yu Zhen

  • Fertilization biology of the abalone Haliotis laevigata: laboratory and field studies

    Russ Babcock;John Keesing

  • A Review of Sea Cucumber Aquaculture, Ranching, and Stock Enhancement in China

    Qingxi Han;John K. Keesing;Dongyan Liu

  • Predictable and unpredictable spawning events: in situ behavioural data from free-spawning coral reef invertebrates

    Russell Babcock;Craig Mundy;John Keesing;Jamie Oliver

  • Maximizing fish detection with eDNA metabarcoding

    Cindy Bessey;Simon N. Jarman;Simon N. Jarman;Oliver Berry;Ylva S. Olsen

  • Passive eDNA collection enhances aquatic biodiversity analysis

    Cindy Bessey;Cindy Bessey;Simon Neil Jarman;Tiffany Simpson;Haylea Miller

  • Field measurement of feeding and movement rates of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (L.)

    John K. Keesing;John S. Lucas

  • Quantification of floating macroalgae blooms using the scaled algae index

    Rodrigo A. Garcia;Peter Fearns;John K. Keesing;John K. Keesing;Dongyan Liu

  • IMPORTANCE OF POSTSETTLEMENT PROCESSES FOR THE POPULATION-DYNAMICS OF ACANTHASTER-PLANCI (L)

    JK Keesing;AR Halford

  • Field measurement of survival rates of juvenile Acanthaster piano, techniques and preliminary results

    John Keesing;Andrew Halford

  • Test of a Model of Regulation of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish by Fish Predators

    Rupert Ormond;Roger Bradbury;Scott Bainbridge;Katarina Fabricius

  • Reproduction and feeding in the abalone Haliotis roei gray

    FE Wells;JK Keesing

  • Retention and dispersal of shelf waters influenced by interactions of ocean boundary current and coastal geography

    Ming Feng;Dirk Slawinski;Lynnath E. Beckley;John K. Keesing

  • Wildfires enhance phytoplankton production in tropical oceans

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  • Feeding biology of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus)

    John Kenneth Keesing

  • A new species of Philocheras (Decapoda: Caridea: Crangonidae) from Western Australia, with a key to all species of this genus worldwide.

    Qingxi Han;John K. Keesing

  • Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star, Acanthaster sp., on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

    Morgan S. Pratchett;Ciemon F. Caballes;Christopher Cvitanovic;Maia L. Raymundo

  • Macroalgal blooms favor heterotrophic diazotrophic bacteria in nitrogen-rich and phosphorus-limited coastal surface waters in the Yellow Sea

    Xiaoli Zhang;Yanjing Song;Dongyan Liu;John K. Keesing

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell C. Babcock
Russell C. Babcock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Peter A. Thompson
Peter A. Thompson CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard University of La Rochelle
Gary A. Kendrick
Gary A. Kendrick University of Western Australia
Simon N. Jarman
Simon N. Jarman University of Western Australia
Meixun Zhao
Meixun Zhao Ocean University of China
Zoe Richards
Zoe Richards Curtin University
Maria Byrne
Maria Byrne University of Sydney
Ming Feng
Ming Feng Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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