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Nicholas Polunin
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 257
Citations - 20071
Nicholas Polunin is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coral reef & Trophic level. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 253 publications receiving 18915 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Polunin include Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission & University of Sheffield.
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Algal production, grazers and habitat partitioning on a coral reef: positive correlation between grazing rate and food availability
David Klumpp,Nicholas Polunin +1 more
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Fishing strategies, fishery development and socioeconomics in traditionally managed Fijian fishing grounds
Simon Jennings,Nicholas Polunin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared three fishing communities at different stages of their development from primitive to market economies and suggested that the fishing rights owners have expanded their fisheries for economic gain, but that such expansion has, to date, had minimal impact on favoured fishing tactics and management regimes.
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Patterns of Coral-Reef Finfish Species Disappearances Inferred from Fishers’ Knowledge in Global Epicentre of Marine Shorefish Diversity
Margarita N. Lavides,Erina Pauline V Molina,Gregorio E dela Rosa,Aileen C. Mill,Stephen P Rushton,Selina M. Stead,Nicholas Polunin +6 more
TL;DR: This work used fishers’ recall of past catch rates of reef-associated finfish to infer species disappearances from catches in five marine key biodiversity areas to provide information as basis for area-based conservation and regional resource management.
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Planktivorous damselfish support significant nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes to Mediterranean reefs
TL;DR: The planktivorous damselfish Chromis chromis acts as an important vector in transferring nutrients from the pelagic into littoral food webs and represents a very important flux of N and P.
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Trophodynamics and functional feeding groups of North Sea fauna: a combined stable isotope and fatty acid approach
Benjamin Kürten,Inmaculada Frutos,Ulrich Struck,S. J. Painting,Nicholas Polunin,Jack J. Middelburg +5 more
TL;DR: Although functional groups of pelagic zooplankton and (supra-) benthic animals represented phylogenetically distinct consumer groups, δ13CPLFA demonstrated that both groups were supported by pelagic primary production and relied on the same macronutrients such as PLFAs.