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James P. W. Robinson
Researcher at Lancaster University
Publications - 37
Citations - 824
James P. W. Robinson is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coral reef & Reef. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 27 publications receiving 440 citations. Previous affiliations of James P. W. Robinson include University of St Andrews & University of Victoria.
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Productive instability of coral reef fisheries after climate-driven regime shifts
James P. W. Robinson,Shaun K. Wilson,Jan Robinson,Calvin Gerry,J. Lucas,C. Assan,Rodney Govinden,Simon Jennings,Nicholas A. J. Graham +8 more
TL;DR: Twenty years of catch data and habitat surveys in coral reef fisheries in the Seychelles reveal that total yields can be maintained after severe bleaching and associated regime shifts, but the stability of fisheries is reduced.
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Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities.
James P. W. Robinson,Ivor D. Williams,Andrew M. Edwards,Andrew M. Edwards,Jana M. McPherson,Lauren A. Yeager,Laurent Vigliola,Russell E. Brainard,Julia K. Baum +8 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that community size structure may be a more robust indicator than fish biomass to increasing human presence and that size spectra are reliable indicators of exploitation impacts across regions of different fish community compositions, environmental drivers, and fisheries types.
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Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data
Andrew M. Edwards,Andrew M. Edwards,James P. W. Robinson,Michael J. Plank,Michael J. Plank,Julia K. Baum,Julia L. Blanchard +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used R code for fitting and plotting results of size spectra and found that maximum likelihood estimation is the only method that is consistently accurate, and the only one that yields reliable confidence intervals for the exponent of the size spectrum.
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Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs
Filipe França,Filipe França,Cassandra E. Benkwitt,Guadalupe Peralta,James P. W. Robinson,Nicholas A. J. Graham,Jason M. Tylianakis,Erika Berenguer,Erika Berenguer,Alexander C. Lees,Alexander C. Lees,Joice Ferreira,Joice Ferreira,Julio Louzada,Jos Barlow,Jos Barlow +15 more
TL;DR: An overview of how and where climate extremes are affecting the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth and how interactions between global, regional and local stressors are affecting tropical forest and coral reef systems through impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem resilience is provided.
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Thermal stress induces persistently altered coral reef fish assemblages
TL;DR: Using a 23-year time series spanning a thermal stress event, this work describes and model structural changes and recovery trajectories of fish communities after mass bleaching and shows that fish communities historically associated with coral reefs will not re-establish.