Fish habitats

Monitoring fish communities in nursery seascapes

This project aims to monitor fish communities in nursery seascape, using a range of underwater camera technology. This enhances our understanding of the role habitats play in fish abundance and size.

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Native fish are vital to Australian waterways. They support ecosystem health and serve recreational, commercial, and cultural needs.

We monitor fish habitats and species in both freshwater and marine environments. This research monitors fish populations, tracks invasive fish species and helps understand fish communities.

BACK

We are using environmental DNA to understand the distribution of fish species, allowing us to identify structures that act as barriers to fish migration.

Using eDNA to detect barriers to fish in Australian waterways

Research, Monitoring

COMING SOON

We closely monitor coral reefs around Great Barrier Reef islands to understand their condition. We assess the impacts of disturbances such as cyclones, floods, and coral bleaching, and help track the patterns of recovery following these events.

Long-term monitoring of coral reefs at inshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Monitoring

COMING SOON

Our rapid visual surveys mapped 3,500 km² of benthic fauna and seagrass in five reef lagoons of the Coral Sea Marine Park, leading to further research on potential fish nurseries in deepwater marine vegetation areas.

Reef lagoon benthic habitat mapping in the Coral Sea Marine Park

Monitoring, Research

COMING SOON

This project aims to monitor fish communities in nursery seascape, using a range of underwater camera technology. This enhances our understanding of the role habitats play in fish abundance and size.

Monitoring fish communities in nursery seascapes

Monitoring, Community

COMING SOON

Research

ACCESS

Donaldson J, Maeda K, Iida M, Kobayashi H, Ebner BC, Tran HD.

Fish habitats

New distributional records of four amphidromous gobies (Gobioidie: Sicydiinae) in contential Vietnam.

ACCESS

Moy K, Schaffer J, Hammer MP, et al.

Fish habitats

Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the running River rainbowfish.

ACCESS

Jahanbakht M, Azghadi MR, Waltham NJ.

Fish habitats

Semi-supervised and weakly-supervised deep neural networks and dataset for fish detection in turbid underwater videos.

ACCESS

Harrison HB, Drane L, Berumen ML, Cresswell BJ, Evans RD, Galbraith GF, Srinvasan M, Taylor BM, Williamson DH, Jones GP.

Fish habitats

Ageing of juvenile coral grouper (Plectropomus maculatus) reveals year-round spawning and recruitment: Implication for seasonal closures.

ACCESS

Bradley M, Sheaves M, Waltham NJ.

Fish habitats

Urban-industrial seascapes can be abundant and dynamic fish habitat.

ACCESS

Lear KO, Ebner BC, Fazeldean T, Whitty J, Morgan DL.

Fish habitats

Inter-decadal variation in diadromous and potamodromous fish assemblanges in a near pristine tropical dryland river.

ACCESS

Douglas SRL, Tebbett SB, Choukroun S, Goatley CHR, Bellwood DR.

Fish habitats

Depth stratified light trap sampling reveals variation in the depth distribution of late-stage cryptobenthic reef fish larvae.

ACCESS

Sheaves M, Mattone C, Barnett A, Abrantes K, Bradley M, Sheaves A, Sheaves J, Waltham NJ.

Fish habitats

Fish habitats

Monitoring fish communities in nursery seascapes

Featured project

Native fish are vital to Australian waterways. They support ecosystem health and serve recreational, commercial, and cultural needs.

Using eDNA to detect barriers to fish in Australian waterways

Long-term monitoring of coral reefs at inshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Reef lagoon benthic habitat mapping in the Coral Sea Marine Park

Monitoring fish communities in nursery seascapes

Research

New distributional records of four amphidromous gobies (Gobioidie: Sicydiinae) in contential Vietnam.

Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the running River rainbowfish.

Semi-supervised and weakly-supervised deep neural networks and dataset for fish detection in turbid underwater videos.

Ageing of juvenile coral grouper (Plectropomus maculatus) reveals year-round spawning and recruitment: Implication for seasonal closures.

Urban-industrial seascapes can be abundant and dynamic fish habitat.

Inter-decadal variation in diadromous and potamodromous fish assemblanges in a near pristine tropical dryland river.

Depth stratified light trap sampling reveals variation in the depth distribution of late-stage cryptobenthic reef fish larvae.

Whale sharks as oceanic nurseries for Golden Trevally.

Reports and publications