2017 Publications

Publication is vital in science. It invokes the quality assurance of peer review and shares the research with everyone.

Projects at Lizard Island are rarely ready for publication when the scientists leave the island.  There is always more work to be done back in their home institutions, analysing samples and data, incorporating other research, consulting with colleagues, drafting and revising papers and submitting for peer review prior to publication.  This can take many months, sometimes years.

The library at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station collects publications based on local research.  It already has  2,ooo+ and over a hundred more are added each year – see LIRS > Publications & Projects.  This remarkable concentration of multi-year local research and the amazing Lizard Island Field Guide help make the Station a preferred facility for research on the Reef.

Dr Lyle Vail briefing LIRRF Trustees Kate Hayward and Helen Wellings in the Shuetrim Library at the Lizard Island Research Station.

The following 2017 title links indicate the range of publications received.  See also Closing COTS knowledge gaps.  A comprehensive list will be included in the Station’s 2017 Research Report, currently in preparation.

• Patterns of biophonic periodicity on coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef – reporting a study in marine soundscapes and how they vary with time, location and environmental factors, including temperature and moonlight.

• Soundscape diversity in the Great Barrier Reef: Lizard Island; a case study

• Radiolar Eyes of Serpulid Worms (Annelida, Serpulidae): Structures, Function, and Phototransduction – photoreceptors that function as silhouette-detecting “burglar alarms”.

• Low-Resolution Vision—at the Hub of Eye Evolution

• Crustacean Larvae—Vision in the Plankton

• A decrease in the abundance and strategic sophistication of cleaner fish after environmental perturbations

• Variation in growth rates of branching corals along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

• Strong homing does not predict high site fidelity in juvenile reef fishes

• Cross-scale habitat structure driven by coral species composition on tropical reefs and Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats

• Ocean acidification alters predator behaviour and reduces predation rate (and media release)

• Temperature and light patterns at four reefs along the Great Barrier Reef during the 2015–2016 austral summer: understanding patterns of observed coral bleaching

• Revision of Neolebouria Gibson, 1976 (Digenea: Opecoelidae), with Trilobovarium n. g., for species infecting tropical and subtropical shallow-water fishes ( proposing a new genus of fish parasites)

• The Effects of Algal Turf Sediments and Organic Loads on Feeding by Coral Reef Surgeonfishes

• Algal Turf Sediments and Sediment Production by Parrotfishes across the Continental Shelf of the Northern Great Barrier Reef

• Symbiosis and microbiome flexibility in calcifying benthic foraminifera of the Great Barrier Reef

• Variation in sensitivity of large benthic Foraminifera to the combined effects of ocean warming and local impacts