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Neville S. Barrett

Neville S. Barrett

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
48
Citations
13041
World Ranking
4142
National Ranking
321

Overview

Neville S. Barrett is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Aquatic Science.

Their work covers multiple topics related to marine and coastal environments. Key areas of focus include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Barrett has published numerous papers, with notable recent works including:

  • Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • A field and video annotation guide for baited remote underwater stereo-video surveys of demersal fish assemblages (2020), published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • Continent-wide declines in shallow reef life over a decade of ocean warming (2023), published in Nature
  • Increased connectivity and depth improve the effectiveness of marine reserves (2021), published in Global Change Biology

The frequent publication venues for Barrett include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Biological Conservation
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Marine Environmental Research

Barrett collaborates regularly with several researchers, with the most frequent co-authors being:

  • Jacquomo Monk
  • Rick D. Stuart-Smith
  • Graham J. Edgar
  • Alan Jordan
  • Nathan A. Knott

Best Publications

  • Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

    Graham J. Edgar;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Trevor J. Willis;Stuart Kininmonth;Stuart Kininmonth

  • Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species' ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania

    Craig R. Johnson;Sam C. Banks;Neville S. Barrett;Fabienne Cazassus

  • Decadal trends in marine reserves reveal differential rates of change in direct and indirect effects

    RC Babcock;Nicholas Shears;AC Alcala;NS Barrett

  • Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

    Tomas J. Bird;Tomas J. Bird;Amanda E. Bates;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Nicole A. Hill

  • Effects of the declaration of marine reserves on Tasmanian reef fishes, invertebrates and plants

    Graham J Edgar;Neville S Barrett

  • Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean‐warming hotspot

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Jennifer M. Sunday;Gretta T. Pecl;Stewart Frusher;Alistair J. Hobday

  • Biases associated with the use of underwater visual census techniques to quantify the density and size-structure of fish populations

    Graham J. Edgar;Neville S. Barrett;Alastair J. Morton

  • The conservation significance of estuaries: a classification of Tasmanian estuaries using ecological, physical and demographic attributes as a case study

    Graham J. Edgar;Neville S. Barrett;David J. Graddon

  • A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme

    Franziska Althaus;Nicole Hill;Renata Ferrari;Luke Edwards

  • Monitoring of Benthic Reference Sites: Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

    S. B. Williams;O. R. Pizarro;M. V. Jakuba;C. R. Johnson

  • Thermal biases and vulnerability to warming in the world’s marine fauna

    Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Graham J. Edgar;Neville S. Barrett;Stuart J. Kininmonth;Stuart J. Kininmonth

  • Changes in fish assemblages following 10 years of protection in Tasmanian marine protected areas

    Neville S. Barrett;Graham J. Edgar;Colin D. Buxton;Malcolm Haddon

  • Short term monitoring of biotic change in Tasmanian marine reserves

    Graham J Edgar;Neville S Barrett

  • Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities

    Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Neville S. Barrett;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Neil J. Holbrook;Neil J. Holbrook

  • A field and video annotation guide for baited remote underwater stereo-video surveys of demersal fish assemblages

    Tim Langlois;Jordan Goetze;Todd Bond;Jacquomo Monk

  • Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

    Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Robert S.C. Cooke;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Graham J. Edgar

  • Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming

    Asta Audzijonyte;Shane A Richards;Rick D Stuart-Smith;Gretta Pecl

  • Benthic macrofauna in Tasmanian estuaries: scales of distribution and relationships with environmental variables

    Graham J. Edgar;Neville S. Barrett

  • Changes in invertebrate and macroalgal populations in Tasmanian marine reserves in the decade following protection

    Neville S. Barrett;Colin D. Buxton;Graham J. Edgar

  • Do marine substrates 'look' and 'sound' the same? Supervised classification of multibeam acoustic data using autonomous underwater vehicle images

    Vanessa Lucieer;Nicole A. Hill;Neville S. Barrett;Scott Nichol

  • The conservation-related benefits of a systematic marine biological sampling programme: The Tasmanian reef bioregionalisation as a case study

    GJ Edgar;GJ Edgar;JH Moverley;NS Barrett;D Peters

  • Short- and Long-term Movement Patterns of Six Temperate Reef Fishes (Families Labridae and Monacanthidae)

    Neville S. Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Rick D. Stuart-Smith
Rick D. Stuart-Smith University of Tasmania
Scott L. Nichol
Scott L. Nichol Geoscience Australia
Amanda E. Bates
Amanda E. Bates Memorial University of Newfoundland
Craig R. Johnson
Craig R. Johnson University of Tasmania
Stewart Frusher
Stewart Frusher University of Tasmania
Neil J. Holbrook
Neil J. Holbrook University of Tasmania
Stefan B. Williams
Stefan B. Williams University of Sydney
Alan Williams
Alan Williams University of Leeds
Tim J. Langlois
Tim J. Langlois University of Western Australia

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