By Dr Graeme Frederick Clark

Journal articles

Mills E; Clark GF; Simpson MJ; Baird M; Adams MP, 2025, 'A generalised sigmoid population growth model with energy dependence: Application to quantify the tipping point for Antarctic shallow seabed algae', Environmental Modelling and Software, 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106397

Bracewell SA; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2024, 'Variation in Successional Dynamics Shape Biodiversity Patterns over a Tropical-Temperate Latitudinal Gradient', American Naturalist, 204, pp. 327 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/731905

Schaefer N; Dafforn KA; Johnston EL; Clark GF; Mayer-Pinto M, 2024, 'Investigating the interactive effects of habitat type and light intensity on rocky shores', Oecologia, 205, pp. 627 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05591-2

Zaiko A; Cardeccia A; Carlton JT; Clark GF; Creed JC; Davidson I; Floerl O; Galil B; Grosholz E; Hopkins GA; Johnston EL; Kotta J; Marchini A; Ojaveer H; Ruiz G; Therriault TW; Inglis GJ, 2024, 'Structural and functional effects of global invasion pressure on benthic marine communities—patterns, challenges and priorities', Diversity and Distributions, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13838

Gacutan J; Tait H; Clark GF, 2024, 'Assessing drivers of estuarine debris using a Bayesian spatial modelling approach (INLA-SPDE)', Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108592

Griffin KJ; Johnston EL; Poore AGB; Vergés A; Clark GF, 2024, 'Reducing direct physical disturbance also mitigates hidden drivers of decline in a threatened seagrass meadow', Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1463637

Gacutan J; Tait H; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2023, 'Assessing human and physical drivers of macro-plastic debris spatially across Queensland, Australia', Environmental Pollution, 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121731

Sherow B; Gacutan J; Tait H; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2023, 'Land use and COVID-19 lockdowns influence debris composition and abundance in stormwater drains', Science of the Total Environment, 871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161908

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Tucker JP; Santos IR; Kelaher BP; Green M; Clark GF; Butcher PA, 2022, 'Increased shark bite survivability revealed by two centuries of Australian records', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16950-5

Gacutan J; Foulsham E; Turnbull JW; Smith SDA; Clark GF, 2022, 'Mapping marine debris risk using expert elicitation, empirical data, and spatial modelling', Environmental Science and Policy, 138, pp. 44 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.017

Sherow BA; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2022, 'Piers are hotspots for benthic marine debris in an urbanised estuary', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274512

Johnston EL; Clark GF; Bruno JF, 2022, 'The speeding up of marine ecosystems', Climate Change Ecology, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2022.100055

Kelaher BP; Clark GF; Johnston EL; Ingleton T; Knott NA; Coleman MA, 2022, 'Desalination Discharge Influences the Composition of Reef Invertebrate and Fish Assemblages', Environmental Science and Technology, 56, pp. 11300 - 11309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00723

Gacutan J; Johnston EL; Tait H; Smith W; Clark GF, 2022, 'Continental patterns in marine debris revealed by a decade of citizen science', Science of the Total Environment, 807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150742

Vadillo Gonzalez S; Clark GF; Johnston EL; Turney CSM; Fogwill CJ; Steinberg PD; Marzinelli EM, 2022, 'Spatial variation in microbial communities associated with sea-ice algae in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica', Microbiology (United Kingdom), 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001176

Turnbull JW; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2021, 'Conceptualising sustainability through environmental stewardship and virtuous cycles—a new empirically-grounded model', Sustainability Science, 16, pp. 1475 - 1487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00981-4

Bracewell SA; Dafforn KA; Lavender JT; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2021, 'Latitudinal variation in the diversity–disturbance relationship demonstrates the context dependence of disturbance impacts', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, pp. 1389 - 1402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13305

Turnbull JW; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2021, 'Evaluating the social and ecological effectiveness of partially protected marine areas', Conservation Biology, 35, pp. 921 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13677

Clark GF; Gacutan J; Lawther R; Johnston EL; Tait H; Bednarz T, 2021, 'A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data', Water International, 46, pp. 211 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1888495

Folpp HR; Schilling HT; Clark GF; Lowry MB; Maslen B; Gregson M; Suthers IM, 2020, 'Artificial reefs increase fish abundance in habitat-limited estuaries', Journal of Applied Ecology, 57, pp. 1752 - 1761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13666

Turnbull JW; Johnston EL; Kajlich L; Clark GF, 2020, 'Quantifying local coastal stewardship reveals motivations, models and engagement strategies', Biological Conservation, 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108714

Tagliafico A; Butcher PA; Colefax AP; Clark GF; Kelaher BP, 2020, 'Variation in cownose ray Rhinoptera neglecta abundance and group size on the central east coast of Australia', Journal of Fish Biology, 96, pp. 427 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14219

Kelaher BP; Clark GF; Johnston EL; Coleman MA, 2020, 'Effect of Desalination Discharge on the Abundance and Diversity of Reef Fishes', Environmental Science and Technology, 54, pp. 735 - 744, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b03565

Turnbull JW; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2020, 'LESI: A quantitative indicator to measure local environmental stewardship', MethodsX, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.101141

Clark GF; Pastorino S; Marzinelli EM; Turney CSM; Fogwill CJ; Johnston EL, 2019, 'Nearshore marine communities at three New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands', Polar Biology, 42, pp. 2193 - 2203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02591-4

Bolton DK; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2019, 'Novel in situ predator exclusion method reveals the relative effects of macro and mesopredators on sessile invertebrates in the field', Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 513, pp. 13 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.02.002

Lawes JC; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2018, 'Disentangling settlement responses to nutrient-rich contaminants: Elevated nutrients impact marine invertebrate recruitment via water-borne and substrate-bound cues', Science of the Total Environment, 645, pp. 984 - 992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.234

Clark GF; Knott NA; Miller BM; Kelaher BP; Coleman MA; Ushiama S; Johnston EL, 2018, 'First large-scale ecological impact study of desalination outfall reveals trade-offs in effects of hypersalinity and hydrodynamics', Water Research, 145, pp. 757 - 768, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.08.071

Bolton DK; Johnston EL; Coleman MA; Clark GF, 2018, 'Caught between a rock and a hard place: Fish predation interacts with crevice width and orientation to explain sessile assemblage structure', Marine Environmental Research, 140, pp. 31 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.03.001

Bracewell SA; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2018, 'Habitat complexity effects on diversity and abundance differ with latitude: an experimental study over 20 degrees', Ecology, 99, pp. 1964 - 1974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2408

Bugnot AB; Lyons MB; Scanes P; Clark GF; Fyfe SK; Lewis A; Johnston EL, 2018, 'A novel framework for the use of remote sensing for monitoring catchments at continental scales', Journal of Environmental Management, 217, pp. 939 - 950, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.03.058

Turnbull JW; Shah Esmaeili Y; Clark GF; Figueira WF; Johnston EL; Ferrari R, 2018, 'Key drivers of effectiveness in small marine protected areas', Biodiversity and Conservation, 27, pp. 2217 - 2242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1532-z

Lawes JC; Dafforn KA; Clark GF; Brown MV; Johnston EL, 2017, 'Multiple stressors in sediments impact adjacent hard substrate habitats and across biological domains', Science of the Total Environment, 592, pp. 295 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.083

Stuart-Smith RD; Edgar GJ; Barrett NS; Bates AE; Baker SC; Bax NJ; Becerro MA; Berkhout J; Blanchard JL; Brock DJ; Clark GF; Cooper AT; Davis TR; Day PB; Duffy JE; Holmes TH; Howe SA; Jordan A; Kininmonth S; Knott NA; Lefcheck JS; Ling SD; Parr A; Strain E; Sweatman H; Thomson R, 2017, 'Corrigendum: Assessing National Biodiversity Trends for Rocky and Coral Reefs through the Integration of Citizen Science and Scientific Monitoring Programs.', Bioscience, 67, pp. 774, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix070

Bracewell SA; Johnston EL; Clark GF, 2017, 'Latitudinal variation in the competition-colonisation trade-off reveals rate-mediated mechanisms of coexistence', Ecology Letters, 20, pp. 947 - 957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12791

Stuart-Smith RD; Edgar GJ; Barrett NS; Bates AE; Baker SC; Bax NJ; Becerro MA; Berkhout J; Blanchard JL; Brock DJ; Clark GF; Cooper AT; Davis TR; Day PB; Emmett Duffy J; Holmes TH; Howe SA; Jordan A; Kininmonth S; Knott NA; Jonathan LS; Ling SD; Parr A; Strain E; Hugh S; Russell T, 2017, 'Assessing national biodiversity trends for rocky and coral reefs through the integration of citizen science and scientific monitoring programs', BioScience, 67, pp. 134 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw180

Bolton D; Mayer-Pinto M; Clark GF; Dafforn KA; Brassil WA; Becker A; Johnston EL; Mayer Pinto M, 2017, 'Coastal urban lighting has ecological consequences for multiple trophic levels under the sea', Science of the Total Environment, 576, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.037

Clark GF; Stark JS; Palmer AS; Riddle MJ; Johnston EL, 2017, 'The roles of sea-ice, light and sedimentation in structuring shallow antarctic benthic communities', PLoS ONE, 12, pp. e0168391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168391

Clark GF; Stark JS; Johnston EL, 2017, 'Tolerance rather than competition leads to spatial dominance of an Antarctic bryozoan', Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 486, pp. 222 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.10.008

Turney CSM; Klekociuk A; Fogwill CJ; Zunz V; Goosse H; Parkinson CL; Compo G; Lazzara M; Keller L; Allan R; Palmer J; Clark G; Marzinelli E, 2017, 'Brief communication: Changing mid-twentieth century Antarctic sea ice variability linked to tropical forcing', The Cryosphere Discussions, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-2017-51

Turney CSM; Fogwill CJ; Palmer J; van Sebille E; Thomas Z; McGlone M; Richardson S; Wilmshurst JM; Fenwick P; Zunz V; Goosse H; Wilson K-J; Carter L; Lipson M; Jones RT; Harsch M; Clark G; Marzinelli E; Rogers T; Rainsley E; Ciasto L; Waterman S; Thomas ER; Visbeck M, 2017, 'Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction', Climate of the Past, 13, pp. 231 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-231-2017

Fogwill CJ; van Sebille E; Cougnon EA; Turney CSM; Rintoul SR; Galton-Fenzi BK; Clark GF; Marzinelli EM; Rainsley EB; Carter L, 2016, 'Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B', TC, 10, pp. 2603 - 2609, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

Stelling-Wood TP; Clark GF; Poore AGB, 2016, 'Responses of ghost crabs to habitat modification of urban sandy beaches', Marine Environmental Research, 116, pp. 32 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.02.009

Lawes JC; Neilan BA; Brown MV; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2016, 'Elevated nutrients change bacterial community composition and connectivity: high throughput sequencing of young marine biofilms', Biofouling, 32, pp. 57 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2015.1126581

Lawes JC; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2016, 'Contaminant cocktails: Interactive effects of fertiliser and copper paint on marine invertebrate recruitment and mortality', Marine Pollution Bulletin, 102, pp. 148 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.11.040

Turney CSM; McGlone M; Palmer J; Fogwill C; Hogg A; Thomas ZA; Lipson M; Wilmshurst JM; Fenwick P; Jones RT; Hines B; Clark GF, 2016, 'Intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds 2000-1000 years ago: evidence from the subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (52-50°S)', Journal of Quaternary Science, 31, pp. 12 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2828

Clark GF; Marzinelli EM; Fogwill CJ; Turney CSM; Johnston EL, 2015, 'Effects of sea-ice cover on marine benthic communities: a natural experiment in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica', Polar Biology, 38, pp. 1213 - 1222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1688-x

Byers JE; Smith RS; Pringle JM; Clark GF; Gribben PE; Hewitt CL; Inglis GJ; Johnston EL; Ruiz GM; Stachowicz JJ; Bishop MJ, 2015, 'Invasion Expansion: Time since introduction best predicts global ranges of marine invaders', Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 12436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12436

Clark GF; Raymond B; Riddle MJ; Stark JS; Johnston EL, 2015, 'Vulnerability of Antarctic shallow invertebrate-dominated ecosystems', Austral Ecology, 40, pp. 482 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12237

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