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Kelly Newton
Researcher at South Australian Water Corporation
Publications - 37
Citations - 1267
Kelly Newton is an academic researcher from South Australian Water Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Threatened species & Seabird. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 37 publications receiving 1076 citations. Previous affiliations of Kelly Newton include Flinders University & University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The Importance of Islands for the Protection of Biological and Linguistic Diversity
TL;DR: Islands are a priority area for integrated conservation efforts because they have 14 times greater density of critically endangered terrestrial species and 6 times greater densityof critically endangered languages than continental areas.
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Foraging behavior of humpback whales: kinematic and respiratory patterns suggest a high cost for a lunge.
Jeremy A. Goldbogen,John Calambokidis,Donald A. Croll,James T. Harvey,Kelly Newton,Erin M. Oleson,Greg Schorr,Robert E. Shadwick +7 more
TL;DR: High-resolution digital tags on foraging humpback whales used to determine the number of lunges executed per dive as well as respiratory frequency between dives suggest that the high energetic cost associated with lunge feeding in blue and fin whales also occurs in intermediate sized rorquals.
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Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: The uncertain future of manta and devil rays
Donald A. Croll,Heidi Dewar,Nicholas K. Dulvy,Daniel Fernando,Malcolm P. Francis,Felipe Galván-Magaña,Martin Hall,Shawn Heinrichs,Andrea D. Marshall,Douglas J. McCauley,Kelly Newton,Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara,Mary P. O’Malley,John O'Sullivan,Marloes Poortvliet,Marloes Poortvliet,Marlon Román,Guy Stevens,Bernie R. Tershy,William T. White +19 more
TL;DR: Manta and devil rays of the subfamily Mobulinae (mobulids) are rarely studied, large, pelagic elasmobranchs, with all eight of well-evaluated species listed on the IUCN Red List as threatened or near threatened.
The Global Islands Invasive Vertebrate Eradication Database: A tool to improve and facilitate restoration of island ecosystems
TL;DR: The vision is to maintain an accurate, web-accessible, regularly updated database that can be used to promote and improve the protection of island ecosystems by eradicating invasive vertebrates.
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Metagenomic comparison of microbial communities inhabiting confined and unconfined aquifer ecosystems
Renee J. Smith,Thomas C. Jeffries,Ben Roudnew,Alison J. Fitch,Justin R. Seymour,Marina W. Delpin,Kelly Newton,Melissa H. Brown,James G. Mitchell +8 more
TL;DR: The unconfined and confined aquifers were taxonomically and metabolically more similar to each other than to any other environment, which suggests that intrinsic features of groundwater ecosystems, including low oxygen levels and a lack of sunlight, have provided specific niches for evolution to create unique microbial communities.