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34
Citations
4715
World Ranking
7603
National Ranking
590

Overview

Piers K. Dunstan is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research focuses on environmental science, with notable contributions to ecology, oceanography, and global and planetary change. They have also engaged in studies related to building and construction as well as economics.

Their work covers a variety of topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, mining and resource management, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and coastal plant biology, marine animal studies, marine biology and ecology research, and natural resources and economic development.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Dunstan include:

  • Stop ignoring map uncertainty in biodiversity science and conservation policy (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • 'Walking along with development': Climate resilient pathways for political resource curses (2021), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Determining marine bioregions: A comparison of quantitative approaches (2020), published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A review of the importance, opportunities and challenges for protecting a global diversity hotspot on the high seas (2021), published in Marine Policy
  • Vulnerable, but Still Poorly Known, Marine Ecosystems: How to Make Distribution Models More Relevant and Impactful for Conservation and Management of VMEs? (2022), published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent co-authors working with Dunstan include:

  • Skipton Woolley
  • Nicole Hill
  • Jan Jansen
  • Scott D. Foster
  • Craig R. Johnson

The venues where Dunstan has published multiple times reflect the diversity of their research interests and include:

  • Marine Policy
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Deep-sea diversity patterns are shaped by energy availability

    Skipton N. C. Woolley;Skipton N. C. Woolley;Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Piers K. Dunstan;Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas: Origins, development, and current status

    Daniel C. Dunn;Jeff Ardron;Nicholas Bax;Nicholas Bax;Patricio Bernal

  • Spatio-temporal variation in coral recruitment at different scales on Heron Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef

    P. K. Dunstan;C. R. Johnson

  • Systematic Conservation Planning: A Better Recipe for Managing the High Seas for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

    Natalie C. Ban;Natalie C. Ban;Nicholas J. Bax;Kristina M. Gjerde;Rodolphe Devillers;Rodolphe Devillers

  • Model-based thinking for community ecology

    David I. Warton;Scott D. Foster;Glenn De’ath;Jakub Stoklosa

  • Scales of habitat heterogeneity and megabenthos biodiversity on an extensive Australian continental margin (100–1100 m depths)

    Alan Williams;Franziska Althaus;Piers K. Dunstan;Gary C.B. Poore

  • Global patterns of change and variation in sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a

    Piers K Dunstan;Scott D Foster;Edward King;James Risbey

  • A systematic approach towards the identification and protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

    Jeff A. Ardron;Malcolm R. Clark;Andrew J. Penney;Thomas F. Hourigan

  • Invasion rates increase with species richness in a marine epibenthic community by two mechanisms

    Piers K Dunstan;Piers K Dunstan;Craig R Johnson

  • Using ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) to implement marine spatial planning

    Piers K. Dunstan;Nicholas J. Bax;Nicholas J. Bax;Jeffrey M. Dambacher;Keith R. Hayes

  • Modelling marine protected areas: insights and hurdles.

    Elizabeth A. Fulton;Nicholas J. Bax;Rodrigo H. Bustamante;Jeffrey M. Dambacher

  • Model based grouping of species across environmental gradients

    Piers K. Dunstan;Scott D. Foster;Ross Darnell

  • Results of Efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to Describe Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

    Nicholas J. Bax;Nicholas J. Bax;Jesse Cleary;Ben Donnelly;Daniel C. Dunn

  • A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities

    Robert L. Stephenson;Robert L. Stephenson;Alistair J. Hobday;Christopher Cvitanovic;Karen A. Alexander

  • To mix or not to mix: comparing the predictive performance of mixture models vs. separate species distribution models.

    Francis K. C. Hui;Francis K. C. Hui;David I. Warton;Scott D. Foster;Piers K. Dunstan

  • Identifying indicators and essential variables for marine ecosystems

    K.R. Hayes;J.M. Dambacher;G.R. Hosack;N.J. Bax;N.J. Bax

  • Identifying Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA): A systematic method and its application to seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean

    Malcolm R. Clark;Ashley A. Rowden;Thomas A. Schlacher;John Guinotte

  • Larval gregariousness and neonate establishment of the eucalypt-feeding beetle Chrysophtharta agricola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Paropsini)

    Helen F. Nahrung;Piers K. Dunstan;Geoff R. Allen

  • Finite Mixture of Regression Modeling for High-Dimensional Count and Biomass Data in Ecology

    Piers K. Dunstan;Scott D. Foster;Francis K. C. Hui;David I. Warton

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Bax
Nicholas J. Bax Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Craig R. Johnson
Craig R. Johnson University of Tasmania
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alan Williams
Alan Williams University of Leeds
Daniel C. Dunn
Daniel C. Dunn University of Queensland
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Patrick N. Halpin
Patrick N. Halpin Duke University
Neville S. Barrett
Neville S. Barrett University of Tasmania
Derek P. Tittensor
Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University

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