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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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Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities
Shaun K. Wilson,Shaun K. Wilson,Rebecca Fisher,Pratchett,Nicholas A. J. Graham,Nicholas K. Dulvy,Rachel A. Turner,A. Cakacaka,Nicholas Polunin,Stephen P Rushton +9 more
TL;DR: It is illustrated that the relative importance of coral cover and fishing in controlling fish abundance on remote Fijian reefs varies between species and functional groups, and that availability of prey is controlled by coral-associated habitat complexity and appears to be a more important driver of total piscivore abundance compared with fishing pressure.
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Effects of body size and environment on diet-tissue δ13C fractionation in fishes
TL;DR: The values from this study suggest that where fish species specific data are not available, a mean ?
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Linking size-based and trophic analyses of benthic community structure
TL;DR: Subject to the persistence of relationships between body mass and trophic level in space and time, the results suggest that size spectra could be parameterised with body mass-trophic level rela- tionships and used to describe the trophics structure of some marine communities and ecosystems.
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Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data
Nicholas Polunin,Beatriz Morales-Nin,W.E. Pawsey,Joan Enric Cartes,John K. Pinnegar,Joan Moranta +5 more
TL;DR: Strong positive correlations between δ 15 N and δ 13 C data for plankton, fishes and crustaceans indicated a single primary source material for these com- munities, which is attributed to marine snow.
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Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes
Nicholas A. J. Graham,Pascale Chabanet,Richard D. Evans,Richard D. Evans,Simon Jennings,Yves Letourneur,M. Aaron MacNeil,Tim R. McClanahan,Marcus C. Öhman,Nicholas Polunin,Shaun K. Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: A novel predictive framework of species extinction vulnerability was developed and applied to coral reef fishes and indicated that the entire community is vulnerable on the many reefs where both stressors co-occur.