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Peter Kyne is a researcher affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia, specializing in Environmental Science with a significant focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Aquatic Science. Their work spans a range of studies within these fields, covering areas such as Global and Planetary Change and Molecular Biology.

The main topics explored in Peter Kyne's research include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, as well as Marine animal studies overview. Additional topics encompass Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Peter Kyne has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in several academic venues. The most notable publication outlets for their work include Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Endangered Species Research, Science Advances, and Oryx.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Kyne are:

  • The thin edge of the wedge: Extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2020), published in Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays (2021), published in Nature
  • Overfishing and habitat loss drive range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction (2021), published in Science Advances
  • Putting sharks on the map: A global standard for improving shark area-based conservation (2022), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa (2021), published in Zootaxa

Their collaborative research includes partnerships with several frequent co-authors such as Rima W. Jabado, Katelyn B. Herman, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Cassandra L. Rigby, and Colin A. Simpfendorfer, indicating a network of active scientific cooperation.

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

  • Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

    Nathan Pacoureau;Cassandra L. Rigby;Peter M. Kyne;Richard B. Sherley

  • An integrated risk assessment for climate change: analysing the vulnerability of sharks and rays on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

    Andrew Chin;Peter M. Kyne;Terence I. Walker;Rory B. McAULEY

  • Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes

    Nicholas K. Dulvy;Lindsay N. K. Davidson;Peter M. Kyne;Colin A. Simpfendorfer

  • Limited potential to recover from overfishing raises concerns for deep-sea sharks, rays and chimaeras.

    Colin A. Simpfendorfer;Peter M. Kyne

  • Overfishing and habitat loss drive range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction

    Helen F. Yan;Peter M. Kyne;Rima W. Jabado;Ruth H. Leeney

  • Ecological risk assessment and its application to elasmobranch conservation and management

    A. J. Gallagher;P. M. Kyne;N. Hammerschlag

  • 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

  • The status of chondrichthyan conservation in the Indo-Australasian region.

    William White;Peter Kyne

  • Environmental DNA detects Critically Endangered largetooth sawfish in the wild

    Colin A. Simpfendorfer;Peter M. Kyne;Tansyn H. Noble;Julie Goldsbury

  • 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

  • Putting sharks on the map: A global standard for improving shark area-based conservation

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  • The conservation status of Australasian chondrichthyans: Report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Australia and Oceania Regional Red List Workshop, Queensland, Australia, 7–9 March 2003

    Rachel D. Cavanagh;Peter M. Kyne;Sarah L. Fowler;John A. Musick

  • An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa.

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

  • Diet of the eastern shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata (Shaw & Nodder, 1794), from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia

    Peter M. Kyne;Michael B. Bennett

  • Comparing the diet of two sympatric urolophid elasmobranchs (Trygonoptera testacea Müller & Henle and Urolophus kapalensis Yearsley & Last): evidence of ontogenetic shifts and possible resource partitioning

    A. D. Marshall;P. M. Kyne;M. B. Bennett

  • Reproductive biology of the eastern shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata (Shaw & Nodder, 1794), from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia

    Peter Kyne;Michael Bennett

  • The Conservation Status of Australasian Chondrichthyans

    R. Cavanagh;P. M. Kyne;S. Fowler;J. Musick

  • Categorising use patterns of non-marine environments by elasmobranchs and a review of their extinction risk

    Michael I. Grant;Peter M. Kyne;Colin A. Simpfendorfer;William T. White

  • Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA—A decision-support tool applied to pelagic sharks

    Richard B. Sherley;Henning Winker;Cassandra L. Rigby;Peter M. Kyne

  • Observations on the distribution, biology, short-term movements and habitat requirements of river sharks Glyphis spp. in northern Australia

    Richard D. Pillans;John D. Stevens;Peter M. Kyne;John Salini

  • Rediscovery of the Threatened River Sharks, Glyphis garricki and G. glyphis, in Papua New Guinea.

    William T. White;Sharon A. Appleyard;Benthly Sabub;Peter M. Kyne

  • 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

Colin A. Simpfendorfer
Colin A. Simpfendorfer James Cook University
Michael B. Bennett
Michael B. Bennett University of Queensland
David A. Ebert
David A. Ebert South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
William T. White
William T. White Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Nicholas K. Dulvy
Nicholas K. Dulvy Simon Fraser University
Nicholas J. Bax
Nicholas J. Bax Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
David A. Crook
David A. Crook Charles Darwin University
Malcolm P. Francis
Malcolm P. Francis National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Michelle R. Heupel
Michelle R. Heupel University of Tasmania
John A. Musick
John A. Musick Virginia Institute of Marine Science

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