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The Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration program has been in operation for over 25 years. The efforts of over 2 decades of collaborative data collection and science are reflected here.

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Publications

Title	Authors	Journal	Reference Type	Published
Ecological Monitoring of reef fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae at Lord Howe Island Marine Park, New South Wales, 2006-2010	Graham J. Edgar, Joe Valentine, Antonia Cooper et al Rick Stuart-Smith, Sallyann Gudge, Ian Kerr	Report for New South Wales Marine Parks Authority by Aquenal Pty Ltd, Kingston, Tasmania	Report	2011
Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features	Graham J. Edgar, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Trevor J. Willis et al Stuart Kininmonth, Susan C. Baker, Stuart Banks, Neville S. Barrett, Mikel A. Becerro, Anthony T. F. Bernard, Just Berkhout, Colin D. Buxton, Stuart J. Campbell, Antonia T. Cooper, Marlene Davey, Sophie C. Edgar, Günter Försterra, David E. Galván, Alejo J. Irigoyen, David J. Kushner, Rodrigo Moura, P. Ed Parnell, Nick T. Shears, German Soler, Elisabeth M. A. Strain & Russell J. Thomson	Nature	Report	2014
Baseline surveys of the subtidal reef biota of the Kent Group Marine Nature Reserve 2004-2006.	Barrett N.S. Edgar G J Polacheck A.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Internal Report	Report	2007
Relationships between mobile macroinvertebrates and reef structure in a temperate marine reserve	Alexander T. J., G. J. Edgar, N. S. Barrett, and M. Haddon	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Journal Article	2009
Wilderness ecosystems baseline studies interim report 1994: invertebrate community delineation and mapping of Bathurst Harbour	Last P. R., Edgar G. J.	Unpublished report to Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania	Report	1994
Short term monitoring of biotic change in Tasmanian marine reserves	Edgar G.J., Barrett N. S.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	1997
The conservation-related benefits of a systematic marine biological sampling program: the Tasmanian reef bioregionalisation as a case study	Edgar G.J., Moverley J., Barrett N. S. et al Peters D., Reed, C.	Biological Conservation	Journal Article	1997
A preliminary investigation of the distribution, range and extent of reef habitats and communities in Port Davey, March 1998.	Barrett N.S., Edgar G.J., and Mooney P.	Technical Report for the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute	Report	1998
Effects of the declaration of marine reserves on Tasmanian reef fishes, invertebrates and plants	Edgar G.J., Barrett N. S.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	1999
Impact of the Iron Baron oil spill on subtidal reef assemblages in Tasmania	Edgar G. J., and N. S. Barrett	Marine Pollution Bulletin	Journal Article	2000
An assessment of the potential for volunteer monitoring programs and summary of changes within the Maria Island Marine Reserve from 1992-2001.	Barrett N.S., Edgar G. J., Morton A. J.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2002
A baseline survey for ecosystem monitoring within the proposed Jurien Bay Marine Park	Barrett N.S., Edgar G J., Morton A J	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute Internal Report	Report	2002
Baseline surveys for ecosystem monitoring within the Jurien Bay Marine Park, 1999-2003	Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S., Bancroft K.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Internal Report	Report	2003
A quantitative video baseline survey of reef biota and survey of marine habitats within Bathurst Channel, SW Tasmania 2002	Barrett N S., Edgar G. J., Lawler M., Halley V	Unpublished report, TAFI, University of Tasmania	Report	2004
Biases associated with the use of underwater visual census techniques to quantify the density and size-structure of fish populations	Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S., Morton A.J.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2004
Patterns of fish movement on eastern Tasmanian rocky reefs	Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S., Morton A.J.	Environmental Biology of Fishes	Journal Article	2004
Effects of algal canopy clearance on plant, fish and macroinvertebrate communities on eastern Tasmanian reefs	Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S., Morton A.J., Samson C.R.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2004
Subtidal macroflora of Althorpe and Haystack Islands, South Australia	Baker J. L., G. J. Edgar, and N. S. Barrett	Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia	Journal Article	2005
Evaluating the effectiveness of marine protected areas as a fisheries management tool	Buxton CD, Barrett NS, Haddon M, Gardner C and Edgar GJ	Report to FRDC, TAFI, University of Tasmania	Report	2005
Ecosystem monitoring in different management zones within the Jurien Bay Marine Park - results of 2004 surveys.	Edgar G. J., Barrett N.S., Bancroft K. et al Brook J., Crane K	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2005
Species extinction in the marine environment: Tasmania as a regional example of overlooked losses in biodiversity	Edgar G. J., Samson C. R., Barrett N. S.	Conservation Biology	Journal Article	2005
Baseline Surveys of Subtidal Reefs in the South West National Park Marine Nature Reserve 2004-2005	Barrett N.S., and Edgar G.J., and Polacheck A.S.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2006
Ecosystem monitoring inside and outside proposed Sanctuary Zones within the Encounter Marine Park - 2005 baseline surveys	Edgar G. J., Barrett N.S., Brook J. et al McDonald B., Bloomfield, A.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2005
Baseline Surveys of the Subtidal Reef Biota of the Batemans Bay Marine Park 2005-2007	Neville Barrett, Rick Stuart-Smith, Carolina J. Zagal et al Arianna Polacheck, Tim Lynch, Graham Edgar & Fran Clements	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2006
Changes in fish assemblages following 10 years of protection in Tasmanian marine protected areas	Barrett N. S., Edgar G. J., Buxton C. D., Haddon M.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2007
Ecosystem monitoring of subtidal reefs in different management zones of the Jurien Bay Marine Park. 1999–2007	Edgar G. J., Barrett N.S., Crane K. et al Bancroft, K.	Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Technical Report Series	Report	2007
Marine protected areas	Edgar G. J., G. R. Russ and R. C. Babcock	Marine Ecology	Book	2007
Spatial patterns in impacts of fishing on temperate rocky reefs: Are fish abundance and mean size related to proximity to fisher access points?	Stuart-Smith R. D., Barrett N. S., Crawford C. M. et al Frusher S. D., Stevenson D. G., Edgar G. J.	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2008
Relationships between mobile macroinvertebrates and reef structure in a temperate marine reserve	Alexander T. J., Edgar G. J., Barrett N. S., Haddon M.	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Journal Article	2009
Changes in invertebrate and macroalgal populations in Tasmanian marine reserves in the decade following protection	Barrett Neville S, Colin D. Buxton, Graham J.Edgar	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2008
Exploited reefs protected from fishing transform over decades into conservation features otherwise absent from seascapes	Edgar G. J., Barrett N. S., Stuart-Smith R. D.	Ecological Applications	Journal Article	2009
Decadal trends in marine reserves reveal differential rates of change in direct and indirect effects	Babcock R. C., Shears N. T., Alcala A.C. et al Barrett N. S., Edgar G. J., Lafferty K. D., McClanahan T. R., Russ G. R.	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Journal Article	2010
Distribution of benthic communities in the fjord-like Bathurst Channel ecosystem, south-western Tasmania, a globally anomalous estuarine protected area	Barrett N. S., Edgar G J	Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	Journal Article	2010
Biotic affinities of rocky reef fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae in different zones of the Port Davey marine protected area, south-western Tasmania	Edgar G. J., Barrett N. S.	Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	Journal Article	2010
Conservation of natural wilderness values in the Port Davey marine and estuarine protected area, south-western Tasmania	Edgar G. J., Last P. R., Barrett N. S. et al Gowlett-Holmes K., Driessen M., Mooney P.	Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	Journal Article	2010
Quantifying wave exposure in shallow temperate reef systems: Applicability of fetch models for predicting algal biodiversity	Hill N., Pepper A., Puotinen M. et al Hughes M., Edgar G. J., Barrett N. S., Stuart-Smith R. D., Leaper R.	Marine Ecology - Progress Series	Journal Article	2010
Stability in temperate reef communities over a decadal time scale despite concurrent ocean warming	Stuart-Smith Rick D., Barrett N. S., Stevenson D. G., Edgar G. J.	Global Change Biology	Journal Article	2010
Climate change cascades: shifts in oceanography, species’ ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania	Johnson Craig R., Banks Sam C., Barrett Neville S. et al Cazassus Fabienne, Dunstan Piers K., Edgar Graham J., Frusher Stewart D., Gardner Caleb, Haddon Malcolm, Helidoniotis Fay, Hill Katy L., Holbrook Neil J., Hosie Graham W., Last Peter R., Ling Scott D., Melbourne-Thomas Jessica, Miller Karen, Pecl Gretta T., Richardson Anthony J., Ridgway Ken R., Rintoul Stephen R., Ritz David A., Ross D. Jeff, Sanderson J. Craig, Shepherd Scoresby A., Slotwinski Anita, Swadling Kerrie M., Taw Nyan	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	Journal Article	2011
Long-term shifts in abundance and distribution of a temperate fish fauna: A response to climate change and fishing practices	Last P. R., White W. T., Gledhill D. et al Hobday A. J., Brown R., Edgar G. J., Pecl G.	Global Ecology and Biogeography	Journal Article	2011
Predictions of beta diversity for reef macroalgae across southeastern Australia	Leaper R., N. A. Hill G. J. Edgar N. Ellis E. Lawrence C. R. Pitcher N. S. Barrett and R. Thomson	Ecosphere	Journal Article	2011
An assessment of population responses of common inshore fishes and invertebrates following declaration of five Australian marine protected areas	Edgar G.J., Barrett N. S.	Environmental Conservation	Journal Article	2012
Comparing large-scale bioregions and fine-scale community-level biodiversity predictions from subtidal rocky reefs across south-eastern Australia	Leaper R. , Dunstan P. K., Foster S. D., Barrett N. J. and Edgar G. J.	Journal of Applied Ecology	Journal Article	2012
Rare macroalgae of southern Australia	Scott, FJ	PhD Thesis	Report	2012
Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs: the Unique South	Edgar G.J, Scoresby A. Shepherd	CSIRO Publishing	Book	2013
Ecosystem model of Tasmanian waters explores impacts of climate-change induced changes in primary productivity	Watson Reg. A., Gabrielle B. Nowara, Sean R.Tracey et al Elizabeth A. Fulton, Cathy M. Bulman, Graham J. Edgar, Neville S.Barrett, Jeremy M.Lyle, Stewart D. Frusher, Colin D. Buxton	Ecological Modelling	Journal Article	2013
Long‑term trends in invertebrate–habitat relationships under protected and fished conditions	Alexander Tim. J, Craig R. Johnson, Malcolm Haddon et al Neville S. Barrett, Graham J. Edgar	Marine Biology	Journal Article	2014
Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities	Bates A. E., Barrett N. S., Stuart-Smith R. D. et al Holbrook N. J., Thompson P. A., Edgar G. J.	Nature Climate Change	Journal Article	2014
Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems	Bates Amanda E., Pecl Gretta T., Frusher Stewart et al Hobday Alistair J., Wernberg Thomas, Smale Dan A., Sunday Jennifer M., Hill Nicole A., Dulvy Nicholas K., Colwell Robert K., Holbrook Neil J., Fulton Elizabeth A., Slawinski Dirk, Feng Ming, Edgar Graham J., Radford Ben T., Thompson Peter A., Watson Reg A.	Global Environmental Change	Journal Article	2014
Understanding community-habitat associations of temperate reef fishes using fine-resolution bathymetric measures of physical structure	Cameron MJ, Lucieer VL, Barrett NS et al Johnson CR, Edgar GJ	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Journal Article	2014
Do communities exist? Complex patterns of overlapping marine species distributions	Leaper R., Dunstan P. K., Foster S. D., Barrett N. S. and Edgar G. J.	Ecology	Journal Article	2014
Congruence in demersal fish, macro invertebrate and macroalgal community turnover on shallow temperate reefs	Thomson RJ, Hill NA, Leaper R et al Ellis N, Pitcher CR, Barrett NS, Edgar GJ.	Ecological Applications	Journal Article	2014
Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort	Bates A. E., Bird T. J., Stuart-Smith R. D. et al Wernberg T., Sunday J. M., Barrett N. S., Edgar G. J., Frusher S. D., Hobday A. J., Pecl G. T., Smale D. A., McCarthy M. I.	Diversity and Distributions	Journal Article	2015
Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot	Sunday J. M., Pecl G. T., Frusher S. et al Hobday A. J., Hill N., Holbrook N. J., Edgar G. J., Stuart-Smith R., Barrett N., Wernberg T., Watson R. A., Smale D. A., Fulton E. A., Slawinski D., Feng M., Radford B. T., Thompson P. A., Bates A. E.	Ecology Letters	Journal Article	2015
Biological interactions both facilitate and resist climate-related functional change in temperate reef communities	Bates Amanda E., Stuart-Smith Rick D., Barrett Neville S., Edgar Graham J.	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences	Journal Article	2017
Translating local benthic community structure to national biogenic reef habitat types	Cresswell Anna K., Edgar Graham J., Stuart-Smith Rick D. et al Thomson Russell J., Barrett Neville S., Johnson Craig R.	Global Ecology and Biogeography	Journal Article	2017
Assessing national biodiversity trends for rocky and coral reefs through the integration of citizen science and scientific monitoring programs	Stuart-Smith Rick D., Edgar Graham J., Barrett Neville S. et al Bates Amanda E., Baker Susan C., Bax Nicholas J., Becerro Mikel A., Berkhout Just, Blanchard Julia L., Brock Daniel J., Clark Graeme F., Cooper Antonia T., Davis Tom R., Day Paul B., Duffy J. Emmett, Holmes Thomas H., Howe Steffan A., Jordan Alan, Kininmonth Stuart, Knott Nathan A., Lefcheck Jonathan S., Ling Scott D., Parr Amanda, Strain Elisabeth, Sweatman Hugh, Thomson Russell	BioScience	Journal Article	2017
Moving beyond trophic groups: evaluating fishing-induced changes to temperate reef food webs	Soler GA, Edgar GJ, Stuart-Smith RD et al Smith ADM, Thomson RJ	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Journal Article	2018
Title	Authors	Journal	Reference Type	Published