Steven Delean

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined long-term changes in live coral cover on GBR reefs using meta-analyses including historical data from before the mid-1980s, and found greater rates of loss of coral and recorded a marked decrease in living coral cover.

TL;DR: The authors' analyses reveal remarkable consistency in the form of the relationship between propagule pressure and alien population establishment success, using Bayesian meta-analytical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Trade Database to investigate global trends in pangolin trade at the species level, across a broad temporal scale (1977-2014).

TL;DR: Examination of changes in both hard coral and reef-fish assemblages over 15 yr following major losses of coral from exposed reefs in 2 widely separated sectors of the Great Barrier Reef shows that the recovery of the coral community and the complexity of underlying reef framework interact to determine the functional structure of associated fish communi- ties despite differences in regional settings.

TL;DR: Theta‐logistic is a simple and flexible model for describing how the growth rate of a population slows as abundance increases and decreases in a convex or concave way when the population reaches carrying capacity.