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Overview

Peter Doherty is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with notable work in subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work covers key topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, and ichthyology and marine biology.

One of their recent publications is titled Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Acanthaster sp. on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, published in 2021 in Biological Bulletin.

  • 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, Biological Bulletin)

Peter Doherty has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Morgan S. Pratchett
  • Ciemon F. Caballes
  • Christopher Cvitanovic
  • Maia Raymundo
  • Russell C. Babcock

Their publications have primarily appeared in the venue Biological Bulletin.

  • Biological Bulletin

Best Publications

  • An empirical test of recruitment limitation in a coral reef fish.

    Peter Doherty;Tony Fowler

  • Spatial and temporal patterns in recruitment

    Peter J. Doherty

  • GENE FLOW AND LARVAL DURATION IN SEVEN SPECIES OF FISH FROM THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

    Peter J. Doherty;Peter J. Doherty;Serge Planes;Peter Mather;Peter Mather

  • Tropical Territorial Damselfishses: Is Density Limited by Aggression or Recruitment?

    Peter J. Doherty;Peter J. Doherty

  • Light-traps: selective but useful devices for quantifying the distributions and abundances of larval fishes

    Peter Doherty

  • High mortality during settlement is a population bottleneck for a tropical surgeonfish

    Peter Doherty;Vincent Dufour;Rene Galzin;Mark Hixon

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

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

  • Predation on juvenile coral reef fishes : an exclusion experiment

    Peter J. Doherty;Peter F. Sale

  • CHAPTER 15 – Variable Replenishment and the Dynamics of Reef Fish Populations

    Peter J. Doherty

  • Coral reef fishes : recruitment-limited assemblages?

    Peter Doherty

  • Larval supply: a good predictor of recruitment of three species of reef fish (Pomacentridae)

    Maria Milicich;Mark Meekan;Peter Doherty

  • Choice of microhabitats by coral reef fishes at settlement

    Peter F. Sale;William A. Douglas;Peter J. Doherty

  • Large scale spatial and temporal variation in recruitment to fish populations on coral reefs.

    P. F. Sale;P. J. Doherty;G. J. Eckert;W. A. Douglas

  • STRONG GENETIC DIVERGENCE AMONG POPULATIONS OF A MARINE FISH WITH LIMITED DISPERSAL, ACANTHOCHROMIS POLYACANTHUS , WITHIN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND THE CORAL SEA

    S. Planes;P. J. Doherty;G. Bernardi

  • Some effects of density on the juveniles of two species of tropical, territorial damselfish

    Peter J. Doherty

  • Larval production drives temporal patterns of larval supply and recruitment of a coral reef damselfish

    Mark Meekan;Maria Milicich;Peter Doherty

  • A comparison of towed nets, purse seine, and light-aggregation devices for sampling larvae and pelagic juveniles of coral reef fishes

    J.H Choat;P.J Doherty;Kerrigan B.A;J M Leis

  • Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

    Roland Pitcher;Peter Doherty;Peter Arnold;John Hooper

  • Bigger is better: size-selective mortality throughout the life history of a fast-growing clupeid, Spratelloides gracilis

    M. G. Meekan;L. Vigliola;A. Hansen;P. J. Doherty

  • Directional Swimming of Fish Larvae Determines Connectivity of Fish Populations on the Great Barrier Reef

    Eric Wolanski;Peter Doherty;John Carleton

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Planes
Serge Planes PSL University
Mark G. Meekan
Mark G. Meekan Australian Institute of Marine Science
Peter F. Sale
Peter F. Sale University of Windsor
John N. A. Hooper
John N. A. Hooper Griffith University
Russell C. Babcock
Russell C. Babcock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brian R. MacKenzie
Brian R. MacKenzie Technical University of Denmark
Peter B. Mather
Peter B. Mather Queensland University of Technology
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Stefan B. Williams
Stefan B. Williams University of Sydney
Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University

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