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Overview

Stephen J. Newman is affiliated with the Government of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on marine and aquatic ecosystems.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, notable subfields include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Molecular Biology
  • Aquatic Science

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics such as:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen J. Newman include:

  • Corey B. Wakefield
  • Euan S. Harvey
  • Mark G. Meekan
  • Conrad W. Speed
  • Dianne McLean

Stephen J. Newman has published extensively in several scientific venues, among the most frequent are:

  • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Marine Policy
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Fisheries Research

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen J. Newman include:

  • "Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks," 2020, Nature
  • "eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals fine-scale coral reef community variation across a remote, tropical island ecosystem," 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • "A field and video annotation guide for baited remote underwater stereo-video surveys of demersal fish assemblages," 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Large-scale eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biogeographic break and transitions over tropical north-western Australia," 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Increased connectivity and depth improve the effectiveness of marine reserves," 2021, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment

    Michael Stat;Megan J. Huggett;Rachele Bernasconi;Joseph D. DiBattista

  • Global patterns in the bycatch of sharks and rays

    Shelby Oliver;Matias Braccini;Stephen J. Newman;Stephen J. Newman;Euan S. Harvey

  • Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves

    Ricardo O. Amoroso;C. Roland Pitcher;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Robert A. McConnaughey

  • Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks

    M. Aaron MacNeil;Demian D. Chapman;Michelle Heupel;Colin A. Simpfendorfer

  • Combined use of eDNA metabarcoding and video surveillance for the assessment of fish biodiversity

    Michael Stat;Michael Stat;Jeffrey John;Joseph D. DiBattista;Joseph D. DiBattista;Stephen J. Newman

  • eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals fine-scale coral reef community variation across a remote, tropical island ecosystem.

    Katrina M. West;Michael Stat;Michael Stat;Euan S. Harvey;Craig L. Skepper

  • Phylogeography of the reef fish Cephalopholis argus (Epinephelidae) indicates Pleistocene isolation across the indo-pacific barrier with contemporary overlap in the coral triangle

    Michelle R Gaither;Brian W Bowen;Tiana-Rae Bordenave;Luiz A Rocha

  • Comparison of the relative efficiencies of stereo-BRUVs and traps for sampling tropical continental shelf demersal fishes

    Euan S. Harvey;Stephen J. Newman;Dianne L. McLean;Mike Cappo

  • 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

  • A critical analysis of the direct effects of dredging on fish

    Amelia S. Wenger;Euan Harvey;Shaun Wilson;Chris Rawson

  • Age, growth, mortality rates and corresponding yield estimates using otoliths of the tropical red snappers, Lutjanus erythropterus, L. malabaricus and L. sebae, from the central Great Barrier Reef $

    Stephen J Newman;Michael Cappo;David McB Williams

  • Age validation, growth and mortality rates of the tropical snappers (Pisces: Lutjanidae) Lutjanus adetii (Castelnau, 1873) and L. quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790) from the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Stephen Newman;David Williams;Garry Russ

  • Bait Effects in Sampling Coral Reef Fish Assemblages with Stereo-BRUVs

    Stacey R. Dorman;Stacey R. Dorman;Euan S. Harvey;Stephen J. Newman

  • Toxic effects of polyethylene terephthalate microparticles and Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate on the calanoid copepod, Parvocalanus crassirostris.

    Franz M. Heindler;Fahad Alajmi;Roger Huerlimann;Chaoshu Zeng

  • Large-scale eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biogeographic break and transitions over tropical north-western Australia

    Katrina West;Michael J. Travers;Michael Stat;Euan S. Harvey

  • A little bait goes a long way: The influence of bait quantity on a temperate fish assemblage sampled using stereo-BRUVs

    Jethro Hardinge;Euan S. Harvey;Benjamin J. Saunders;Stephen J. Newman;Stephen J. Newman

  • Growth, Age Validation, Mortality, and other Population Characteristics of the Red Emperor Snapper, Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier, 1828), off the Kimberley Coast of North-Western Australia

    S.J. Newman;I.J. Dunk

  • High Connectivity in the Deepwater Snapper Pristipomoides filamentosus (Lutjanidae) across the Indo-Pacific with Isolation of the Hawaiian Archipelago

    Michelle R. Gaither;Shelley A. Jones;Christopher Kelley;Stephen J. Newman

  • Contrasting patterns of genetic structure in two species of the coral trout Plectropomus (Serranidae) from east and west Australia: Introgressive hybridisation or ancestral polymorphisms

    L. van Herwerden;J.H. Choat;C.L. Dudgeon;G. Carlos

  • Age, growth and mortality of the stripey, Lutjanus carponotatus (Richardson) and the brown-stripe snapper, L. vitta (Quoy and Gaimard) from the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Stephen J Newman;Michael Cappo;David McB Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Euan S. Harvey
Euan S. Harvey Curtin University
David W. Welch
David W. Welch University of Auckland
Tim J. Langlois
Tim J. Langlois University of Western Australia
Mark G. Meekan
Mark G. Meekan Australian Institute of Marine Science
Joseph D. DiBattista
Joseph D. DiBattista Griffith University
Michael Bunce
Michael Bunce Curtin University
Ben Radford
Ben Radford Australian Institute of Marine Science
Ian C. Potter
Ian C. Potter Murdoch University
Jean-Paul A. Hobbs
Jean-Paul A. Hobbs Curtin University
Lynne van Herwerden
Lynne van Herwerden James Cook University

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