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- PhD Marine Biology University of British Columbia
- Masters Marine Biology University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Biology University of Victoria
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Kevin Dulvy is a Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Simon Fraser University. He was the Co-Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Shark Specialist Group from 2009–2020. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on life histories, extinction risk, the ecosystem impacts of fishing and the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of climate change.
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Published Works
- The effects of fishing on sharks, rays, and chimaeras (chondrichthyans), and the implications for marine ecosystems (2000) (1593)
- Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays (2013) (1458)
- The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates (2010) (1335)
- Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries (2009) (1105)
- Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals (2012) (1054)
- Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms (2011) (991)
- Extinction vulnerability in marine populations (2003) (939)
- Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation (2014) (815)
- Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity (2009) (730)
- You can swim but you can't hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays (2008) (718)
- Climate change and deepening of the North Sea fish assemblage: a biotic indicator of warming seas (2008) (677)
- The Gulf: a young sea in decline. (2010) (640)
- The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK (2006) (471)
- Fishery Stability, Local Extinctions, and Shifts in Community Structure in Skates (2000) (457)
- Coral reef cascades and the indirect effects of predator removal by exploitation (2004) (445)
- Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods (2010) (444)
- Global marine primary production constrains fisheries catches. (2010) (381)
- Biology of extinction risk in marine fishes (2005) (378)
- Current and Future Sustainability of Island Coral Reef Fisheries (2007) (377)
- Can marine fisheries and aquaculture meet fish demand from a growing human population in a changing climate (2012) (375)
- Potential consequences of climate change for primary production and fish production in large marine ecosystems (2012) (332)
- Predicting Extinction Vulnerability in Skates (2002) (313)
- Challenges and Priorities in Shark and Ray Conservation (2017) (273)
- Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life. (2013) (267)
- Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016) (265)
- Why have global shark and ray landings declined: improved management or overfishing? (2016) (238)
- Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities (2008) (235)
- The importance of research and public opinion to conservation management of sharks and rays: a synthesis (2011) (234)
- Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays (2020) (223)
- Methods of assessing extinction risk in marine fishes. (2004) (215)
- Global-scale predictions of community and ecosystem properties from simple ecological theory (2008) (211)
- Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators (2014) (209)
- Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems (2014) (207)
- Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects (2004) (200)
- Evolutionary transitions among egg–laying, live–bearing and maternal inputs in sharks and rays (1997) (192)
- Do climate and fishing influence size-based indicators of Celtic Sea fish community structure? (2005) (191)
- Bright spots of sustainable shark fishing (2017) (174)
- Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities. (2010) (170)
- An evaluation of the suitability of non-specialist volunteer researchers for coral reef fish surveys. Mafia Island, Tanzania — A case study (1996) (165)
- Life history correlates of density-dependent recruitment in marine fishes (2006) (163)
- Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning (2007) (159)
- Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis (2021) (156)
- Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras (2018) (153)
- Reference points and reference directions for size-based indicators of community structure (2005) (152)
- Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture (2017) (147)
- Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community. (2009) (142)
- Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes (2016) (134)
- Global population trajectories of tunas and their relatives (2011) (125)
- Life histories of fishes and population responses to exploitation (2001) (123)
- Using informal knowledge to infer human‐induced rarity of a conspicuous reef fish (2004) (120)
- Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: The uncertain future of manta and devil rays (2016) (117)
- Clarifying misconceptions of extinction risk assessment with the IUCN Red List (2016) (116)
- Satellite remote sensing for an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (2011) (116)
- Avoiding fishy growth curves (2013) (116)
- Fuelling the decline in UK fishing communities (2010) (115)
- Life-history correlates of the evolution of live bearing in fishes. (2002) (115)
- Linking removal targets to the ecological effects of invaders: a predictive model and field test. (2014) (111)
- Life Histories and Vulnerability to Exploitation of Elasmobranchs: Inferences from Elasticity, Perturbation and Phylogenetic Analyses (2005) (110)
- Coral identity underpins architectural complexity on Caribbean reefs. (2011) (110)
- Global marine protected areas to prevent extinctions (2017) (109)
- Life Histories, Population Dynamics, and Extinction Risks in Chondrichthyans (2010) (107)
- Diagnosing the dangerous demography of manta rays using life history theory (2014) (107)
- Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species (2012) (100)
- Energy and the Scaling of Animal Space Use (2015) (99)
- Average functional distinctness as a measure of the composition of assemblages (2008) (98)
- Indicators of the impact of climate change on migratory species (2009) (93)
- Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change (2010) (93)
- Region‐wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story? (2011) (93)
- Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty. Final Technical Report. (2005) (89)
- Comparison of threat and exploitation status in North‐East Atlantic marine populations (2005) (83)
- Complex reef architecture supports more small‐bodied fishes and longer food chains on Caribbean reefs (2011) (82)
- Coherent assessments of Europe’s marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss (2017) (82)
- Recruitment variation related to fecundity in marine fishes (2000) (81)
- The survival of discarded lesser-spotted dogfish ( Scyliorhinus canicula) in the Western English Channel beam trawl fishery (2005) (80)
- Black-swan events in animal populations (2017) (79)
- Bridging the Divide Between Fisheries and Marine Conservation Science (2011) (77)
- Drivers of region-wide declines in architectural complexity on Caribbean reefs (2011) (75)
- Linked indicator sets for addressing biodiversity loss (2011) (70)
- Overcoming the Data Crisis in Biodiversity Conservation. (2018) (70)
- Ten principles from evolutionary ecology essential for effective marine conservation (2016) (69)
- assessing the status of demersal elasmobranchs in uk waters: a review (2005) (68)
- Sympathy for the devil: a conservation strategy for devil and manta rays (2017) (68)
- Rethinking Trade-Driven Extinction Risk in Marine and Terrestrial Megafauna (2016) (67)
- Threat and decline in fishes: an indicator of marine biodiversity (2006) (63)
- Report card on ecosystem-based fisheries management in tuna regional fisheries management organizations (2018) (63)
- European Red List of Marine Fishes (2015) (61)
- Maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks, rays, and chimaeras: the importance of survival to maturity (2016) (61)
- Overfishing and habitat loss drive range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction (2021) (61)
- Portfolio conservation of metapopulations under climate change. (2015) (60)
- Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change. (2005) (60)
- Temporal correlations in population trends: Conservation implications from time-series analysis of diverse animal taxa (2015) (57)
- The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2019) (56)
- Population declines of tuna and relatives depend on their speed of life (2015) (55)
- Troubled waters: Threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters (2018) (55)
- Ecological prophets: quantifying metapopulation portfolio effects (2013) (52)
- The false classification of extinction risk in noisy environments (2014) (51)
- Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems (2008) (51)
- What is macroecology? (2012) (50)
- Super‐sized MPAs and the marginalization of species conservation (2013) (49)
- Life in 3-D: life history strategies in tunas, mackerels and bonitos (2013) (49)
- Holocene extinctions in the sea (2009) (45)
- Scale-dependant control of motile epifaunal community structure along a coral reef fishing gradient (2002) (43)
- Avoiding Empty Ocean Commitments at Rio+20 (2012) (41)
- The paradox of inverted biomass pyramids in kelp forest fish communities (2016) (41)
- Growth, productivity, and relative extinction risk of a data-sparse devil ray (2016) (39)
- Reliability of Indicators of Decline in Abundance (2012) (38)
- Salmon subsidize an escape from a size spectrum (2013) (38)
- Threatened Fishes of the World: Bolbometopon muricatum (Valenciennes 1840) (Scaridae) (2004) (37)
- The Conservation and Management of Tunas and Their Relatives: Setting Life History Research Priorities (2013) (37)
- Macroecology of live-bearing in fishes: latitudinal and depth range comparisons with egg-laying relatives (2005) (37)
- Inaccurate and Biased Global Media Coverage Underlies Public Misunderstanding of Shark Conservation Threats and Solutions (2020) (36)
- Sawfish : a global strategy for conservation (2014) (35)
- Reliable Identification of Declining Populations in an Uncertain World (2015) (35)
- Fishery characteristics and abundance estimates of the mangrove crab Scylla serrata in southern Tanzania and northern Moçambique (2002) (35)
- The conservation status of North American, Central American, and Caribbean chondrichthyans (2012) (33)
- Exploitation and Other Threats to Fish Conservation (2008) (33)
- Environmental Concerns for the Future of Gulf Coral Reefs (2012) (32)
- Maternal age effects on Atlantic cod recruitment and implications for future population trajectories (2015) (32)
- Does more maternal investment mean a larger brain? Evolutionary relationships between reproductive mode and brain size in chondrichthyans (2011) (31)
- WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. (2021) (29)
- The role of habitat complexity in shaping the size structure of a temperate reef fish community (2015) (29)
- Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis (2021) (28)
- Eliminating the dark matter of data deficiency by predicting the conservation status of Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea sharks and rays (2020) (28)
- Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA—A decision‐support tool applied to pelagic sharks (2019) (27)
- The birds and the seas: body size reconciles differences in the abundance-occupancy relationship across marine and terrestrial vertebrates (2011) (27)
- A place at the table (2009) (25)
- Extinction risk and conservation of critically endangered angel sharks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (2019) (24)
- Are spatial closures better than size limits for halting the decline of the North Sea thornback ray, Raja clavata? (2011) (23)
- Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture 2 . 1 Climate Change , Ocean Temperature and Productivity 2 (2010) (23)
- Biodiversity: Skates on thin ice (2009) (22)
- Spatially congruent sites of importance for global shark and ray biodiversity (2020) (22)
- Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries:The QUEST_Fish Framework (2011) (21)
- Quantifying the known unknowns: estimating maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in the face of uncertainty (2018) (19)
- Climate change, ecosystem variability and fisheries productivity (2009) (18)
- Incorporating extinction risk and realistic biodiversity futures: implementation of trait-based extinction scenarios (2012) (18)
- Global reconstruction of life‐history strategies: A case study using tunas (2019) (17)
- Fisheries management and governance challenges in a climate change (2011) (17)
- Changes in surface CO2 and ocean PH in ICES shelf sea ecosystems (2008) (16)
- Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays (2020) (16)
- Beverton and Holt's Insights into Life History Theory: Influence, Application and Future Use (2009) (16)
- Tracking the rising extinction risk of sharks and rays in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (2021) (15)
- Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area (2018) (14)
- Fishers’ ecological knowledge of sawfishes in the Sepik and Ramu rivers, northern Papua New Guinea (2018) (14)
- Report of the Working Group on Fish Ecology (WGFE) (2010) (13)
- The Future Species of Anthropocene Seas (2017) (12)
- Ghosts of the deep – Biodiversity, fisheries, and extinction risk of ghost sharks (2020) (12)
- Respiratory capacity is twice as important as temperature in explaining patterns of metabolic rate across the vertebrate tree of life (2021) (11)
- Global scombrid life history dataset (2016) (11)
- Trends in Chondrichthyan Research: An Analysis of Three Decades of Conference Abstracts (2020) (11)
- Near disappearance of the Angelshark Squatina squatina over half a century of observations (2019) (10)
- Fishing for survival: importance of shark fisheries for the livelihoods of coastal communities in Western Ghana (2021) (8)
- Devil in the details: growth, productivity, and extinction risk of a data-sparse devil ray (2016) (8)
- Conservation Biology: Strict Marine Protected Areas Prevent Reef Shark Declines (2006) (8)
- The metabolic pace of life histories across fishes (2020) (7)
- Title: Coral identity underpins reef complexity on Caribbean reefs (2011) (7)
- Seventy years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health (2022) (7)
- Stochasticty, nonlinearity and instability in biological invasions (2006) (7)
- Global Priorities for Conserving Sharks and Rays (2015) (5)
- Life-history, exploitation and extinction risk of the data-poor Baraka's whipray (Maculabatis ambigua) in small-scale tropical fisheries. (2020) (5)
- Extent of Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity (2016) (5)
- Report of the Working Group on Fish Ecology, 2-7 April 2004, ICES, Copenhagen (2004) (5)
- M-Risk: A framework for assessing global fisheries management efficacy of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (2022) (4)
- Extinction Risk and the Small Population Paradigm in the Micro-Endemic Radiation of Epaulette Sharks (2021) (4)
- Ecology: Recovering the potential of coral reefs (2015) (4)
- The role and value of science in shark conservation advocacy (2021) (4)
- foreword shark, skate and ray research at the mba and cefas (2005) (4)
- Global patterns of thermal tolerance and range limits predict climate change responses in ectotherms (2013) (4)
- Aquatic conservation: Environment in Queensland at risk (2012) (3)
- Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean (2017) (3)
- Monitoring extinction risk and threats of the world’s fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index (2020) (3)
- Biodiversity: Sharks and rays in peril too (2015) (3)
- Predicting the conservation status of Europe’s Data Deficient sharks and rays (2019) (3)
- Erratum to “Scale-dependant control of motile epifaunal community structure along a coral reef fishing gradient” [Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 278(2002) 1–29] (2002) (3)
- Chapter 35. Extent of Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity (2015) (3)
- Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series (2022) (2)
- Sharkipedia: Elasmobranch Traits and Trends Global Database (2020) (2)
- Body mass, temperature, and depth shape the maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks and rays (2021) (2)
- Gill slits provide a window into the respiratory physiology of sharks (2020) (2)
- Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras (2018) (2)
- Response to Valderrama and Fields: effect of temperature on biomass production in models of invasive lionfish control. (2015) (2)
- Author response: Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays (2013) (2)
- Reply to Youngflesh and Lynch: Migration and population growth rate in animal black-swan events (2017) (2)
- Analytical methods matter too: Establishing a framework for estimating maximum metabolic rate for fishes (2021) (2)
- Extinction risk, reconstructed catches, and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean (2022) (2)
- Promoting new knowledge of climate change impacts on fisheries. (2005) (2)
- High overexploitation risk due to management shortfall in highly traded requiem sharks (2022) (2)
- Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays (2023) (1)
- Correction: Corrigendum: Coherent assessments of Europe's marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss (2017) (1)
- “Every fish in the sea is meat and so are guitarfishes”: Socio-economic drivers of a guitarfish fishery in Ghana (2022) (1)
- Sustaining fish supplies for food security in a changing climate (2009) (1)
- Report of the Working Group on Fish Ecology (WGFE), 5–9 March 2007, Nantes, France (2007) (1)
- Conservation: Goldilocks Nations for Restoring Reef Sharks (2020) (1)
- Thank you to all of our reviewers in 2019 (2020) (1)
- Erratum to: Environmental Concerns for the Future of Gulf Coral Reefs (2012) (1)
- Fishing for What? Fisher Decision Making in the South-West of England (2010) (1)
- Post-2020 Kunming 30% target can easily protect all endemic sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean and more (2021) (1)
- Review. Biology of extinction risk in marine fishes (2005) (1)
- Overfishing and Climate Change Elevate Extinction Risk of Endemic Sharks and Rays in the Southwest Indian Ocean Hotspot (2021) (1)
- Current and future considerations for shark conservation in the Northeast and Eastern Central Pacific Ocean. (2021) (1)
- Progress of Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations in Applying Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (2016) (1)
- Maternal investment evolves with larger body size and higher diversification rate in sharks and rays (2022) (1)
- Conservation Science and Action EDITED BY WILLIAM J. SUTHERLAND x + 363 pp., 103 figs, photos and tables, 24 × 17 × 2.5 cm, ISBN 0 86542 762 3 paperback, £24.95, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science, 1998 (1999) (1)
- Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays. (2023) (1)
- Gills, growth, and activity across fishes (2022) (1)
- Avoidingfishy growth curves (2013) (1)
- Fear and foraging in the ecosystem size spectrum generate diversity in fish life histories (2023) (0)
- Coherent A ssessments of E urope ’ s M arine F ishes S how R egional D ivergence and M egafauna L oss (0)
- Alternate states in species diverse marine benthic communities (2002) (0)
- Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture (2017) (0)
- Detecting predator–prey relationships in the sea (2003) (0)
- Overfishing endangers oceanic sharks and rays (2021) (0)
- Local ecological knowledge, catch characteristics and evidence of elasmobranch depletions in Western Ghana (2021) (0)
- , production and fish production in large marine ecosystems Potential consequences of climate change for primary Supplementary data (2012) (0)
- Scientific impact in a changing world (2021) (0)
- Paris conference. Extinctions and threat in the sea (2006) (0)
- Could climate change push fish off the menu (2005) (0)
- Tracking the rising extinction risk of sharks and rays in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (2021) (0)
- Life in 3-D: life history strategies in tunas, mackerels and bonitos (2012) (0)
- Supplement 1. Recreating the analyses with the metafolio R package. (2016) (0)
- Workshop invitation, agenda and report: Climate change, fisheriesandpoverty reduction. Impacts of climate change on fisheries and interactions with other natural resource sectors (2005) (0)
- Status of Coral reef 2008 (2016) (0)
- Report of the Working Group on Fisheries Ecology (2005) (0)
- An oft-forgotten source of food security and livelihoods, fisheries must be included in ongoing discussions of how the world's most vulnerable can adapt to climate change. (2009) (0)
- Revisiting a central prediction of Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory: Gill area index and growth performance (2023) (0)
- Tropical rays are intrinsically more sensitive to overfishing than the temperate skates (2023) (0)
- Gill surface area provides a clue for the respiratory basis of brain size in the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). (2021) (0)
- Blue Biophilic Cities - Making the Marine World Visible: Fostering Emotional Connections to the Sea (2017) (0)
- Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series (2022) (0)
- Overcoming the Data Crisis in Biodiversity Conservation - S0169-5347(18)30141-1 (2018) (0)
- Thank you to all of our reviewers in 2019 (2020) (0)
- Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries (2022) (0)
- environmentsfalse classification of extinction risk in noisy (2014) (0)
- Appendix E. An illustration of the correlation between populations. (2016) (0)
- A review of effect of climate change on renewable natural resources sectors and their interactions with the fisheries sector. (2005) (0)
- Asymmetry in knowledge, attitudes, and practices of shark conservation advocates: sustainable shark fisheries vs. bans on fisheries and trade (2021) (0)
- Appendix D. Example simulated time series from alternative conservation scenarios. (2016) (0)
- Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays (2021) (0)
- PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF ICCAT AND IATTC PROGRESS IN APPLYING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2015) (0)
- Using Elasticity, Perturbation Analysis, Demographics and Elasmobranch Species Phylogenic Relationships as Indicators of Vulnerability to Exploitation (2002) (0)
- Guitarfishes are plucked: undermanaged in global fisheries despite declining populations and high volume of unreported international trade (2022) (0)
- Eastern Atlantic & Mediterranean Angel Shark Conservation Strategy (2017) (0)
- Correction to ‘The false classification of extinction risk in noisy environments’ (2015) (0)
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