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4630
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640

Overview

Shane P. Griffiths is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and aquatic science.

The scientist's work spans several interconnected fields, emphasizing ichthyology and marine biology, marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, turtle biology and conservation, mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine animal studies, and broader fish biology and ecology studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • A 40-year chronology of the vulnerability of spinetail devil ray (Mobula mobular) to eastern Pacific tuna fisheries and options for future conservation and management, 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecological risk assessment of species impacted by fisheries in waters off eastern Taiwan, 2020, Fisheries Management and Ecology
  • Shark mortality cannot be assessed by fishery overlap alone, 2021, Nature
  • Spatial and ontogenetic variation in the trophic ecology of skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 2021, Marine Biology

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jon López, Hilário Murua, Leanne Fuller, Anaïs Médieu, and David Point.

Griffiths has published in a variety of scientific journals, with multiple works appearing in Marine Biology and individual papers published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Fisheries Management and Ecology, Nature, and Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Ecological risk assessment for the effects of fishing

    A.J. Hobday;A.D.M. Smith;I.C. Stobutzki;C. Bulman

  • A guide to eliciting and using expert knowledge in Bayesian ecological models

    Petra M. Kuhnert;Tara G. Martin;Shane P. Griffiths

  • Mixed responses of tropical Pacific fisheries and aquaculture to climate change

    Johann D. Bell;Alexandre Ganachaud;Peter C. Gehrke;Shane P. Griffiths

  • Effects of climate-driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation

    C.J. Brown;C.J. Brown;E.A. Fulton;A.J. Hobday;R.J. Matear

  • The use of clove oil as an anaesthetic and method for sampling intertidal rockpool fishes

    S. P. Griffiths

  • Sustainability Assessment for Fishing Effects (SAFE): A new quantitative ecological risk assessment method and its application to elasmobranch bycatch in an Australian trawl fishery

    Shijie Zhou;Shane P. Griffiths

  • Rockpool ichthyofaunas of temperate Australia: species composition, residency and biogeographic patterns

    Shane P. Griffiths

  • Factors Influencing Fish Composition in an Australian Intermittently Open Estuary. Is Stability Salinity-Dependent?

    S.P. Griffiths

  • Ecological effects of longline fishing and climate change on the pelagic ecosystem off eastern Australia

    Shane P. Griffiths;Jock W. Young;Matt J. Lansdell;Robert A. Campbell

  • Tiger shark ( Galeocerdo cuvier ) movement patterns and habitat use determined by satellite tagging in eastern Australian waters

    Bonnie J. Holmes;Julian G. Pepperell;Shane P. Griffiths;Fabrice R. A. Jaine

  • EDITOR'S CHOICE: Evaluating marine spatial closures with conflicting fisheries and conservation objectives

    Catherine M. Dichmont;Nick Ellis;Rodrigo H. Bustamante;Roy Deng

  • Age and growth of longtail tuna (Thunnus tonggol) in tropical and temperate waters of the central Indo-Pacific

    Shane P. Griffiths;Gary C. Fry;Fiona J. Manson;Dong C. Lou

  • Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs

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  • Validating ecological risk assessments for fisheries: assessing the impacts of turtle excluder devices on elasmobranch bycatch populations in an Australian trawl fishery

    Shane P. Griffiths;David T. Brewer;Don S. Heales;David A. Milton

  • Species composition and temporal variation of prawn trawl bycatch in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, northwestern Australia

    M.L. Tonks;S.P. Griffiths;D.S. Heales;D.T. Brewer

  • Temporal and size-related variation in the diet, consumption rate, and daily ration of mackerel tuna (Euthynnus affinis) in neritic waters of eastern Australia

    Shane P. Griffiths;Petra M. Kuhnert;Gary F. Fry;Fiona J. Manson

  • Vulnerability of open ocean food webs in the tropical Pacific to climate change

    Robert Le Borgne;Valerie Allain;Shane P. Griffiths;Richard J. Matear

  • Preliminary assessment of shallow water fish in three small intermittently open estuaries in southeastern Australia

    S. P. Griffiths;R. J. West

  • Feeding dynamics, consumption rates and daily ration of longtail tuna (Thunnus tonggol) in Australian waters, with emphasis on the consumption of commercially important prawns

    Shane P. Griffiths;Gary C. Fry;Fiona J. Manson;Richard D. Pillans

  • Sustainability assessment for fishing effects (SAFE) on highly diverse and data-limited fish bycatch in a tropical prawn trawl fishery

    Shijie Zhou;Shane P. Griffiths;Margaret Miller

  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of temperate Australian rockpool ichthyofaunas

    Shane P. Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Richard J. Matear
Richard J. Matear CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere
Jock W. Young
Jock W. Young Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rodrigo H. Bustamante
Rodrigo H. Bustamante Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andrew R. Davis
Andrew R. Davis University of Wollongong
Johann D. Bell
Johann D. Bell University of Wollongong
Janice M. Lough
Janice M. Lough Australian Institute of Marine Science
Jeffrey J. Polovina
Jeffrey J. Polovina National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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