Dr Nick Graham tackles large-scale ecological and social-ecological coral reef issues under the overarching themes of climate change, human use and resilience.

He has worked extensively on the ecological ramifications of fishing and closed area management. He assessed the long-term impacts of climate induced coral bleaching on coral reef fish assemblages, fisheries and ecosystem stability.

He studies the patterns and processes by which degraded coral reefs recover, and how this can be incorporated into, or influenced by, management action. Increasingly, he works with social scientists and economists to assess methods of linking social-ecological systems for natural resource assessment and management.

Interests

Research

• Impacts of climate change on reef systems
• Predator prey dynamics
• Predicting recovery patterns in disturbed reef systems
• Linking social-ecological data
• Impacts of humans on fish behaviour

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (0602)
• Environmental Science and Management (0502)
• Ecological Applications (0501)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity (9608)
• Ecosystem Assessment and Management (9605)
• Climate and Climate Change (9603)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Cinner J, Maire E, Huchery C, MacNeil M, Graham N, Mora C, McClanahan T, Barnes M, Kittinger J, Hicks C, D'Agata S, Hoey A, Gurney G, Feary D, Williams I, Kulbicki M, Vigliola L, Wantiez L, Edgar G, Stuart-Smith R, Sandin S, Green A, Hardt M, Beger M, Friedlander A, Wilson S, Brokovich E, Brooks A, Cruz-Motta J, Booth D, Chabanet P, Gough C, Tupper M, Ferse S, Sumaila U, Pardede S and Mouillot D (2018) Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (27). pp. E6116-E6125
• Graham N, Wilson S, Carr P, Hoey A, Jennings S and MacNeil M (2018) Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive rats. Nature, 559. pp. 250-253
• Hempson T, Graham N, MacNeil M, Hoey A and Wilson S (2018) Ecosystem regime shifts disrupt trophic structure. Ecological Applications, 28 (1). pp. 191-200
• Hempson T, Graham N, MacNeil M, Hoey A and Almany G (2018) Mesopredator trophodynamics on thermally stressed coral reefs. Coral Reefs, 37 (1). pp. 135-144
• Hughes T, Anderson K, Connolly S, Heron S, Kerry J, Lough J, Baird A, Baum J, Berumen M, Bridge T, Claar D, Eakin C, Gilmour J, Graham N, Harrison H, Hobbs J, Hoey A, Hoogenboom M, Lowe R, McCulloch M, Pandolfi J, Pratchett M, Schoepf V, Torda G and Wilson S (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene. Science, 359 (6371). pp. 80-83
• Maire E, Villéger S, Graham N, Hoey A, Cinner J, Ferse S, Aliaume C, Booth D, Feary D, Kulbicki M, Sandin S, Vigliola L and Mouillot D (2018) Community-wide scan identifies fish species associated with coral reef services across the Indo-Pacific. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 285 (1883).
• Coker D, Nowicki J and Graham N (2017) Influence of coral cover and structural complexity on the accuracy of visual surveys of coral-reef fish communities. Journal of Fish Biology, 90 (6). pp. 2425-2433
• Darling E, Graham N, Januchowski-Hartley F, Nash K, Pratchett M and Wilson S (2017) Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits, and reef fish assemblages. Coral Reefs, 36 (2). pp. 561-575
• Graham N, McClanahan T, MacNeil M, Wilson S, Cinner J, Huchery C and Holmes T (2017) Human disruption of coral reef trophic structure. Current Biology, 27 (2). pp. 231-236
• Hempson T, Graham N, MacNeil M, Williamson D, Jones G and Almany G (2017) Coral reef mesopredators switch prey, shortening food chains, in response to habitat degradation. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (8). pp. 2626-2635
• Januchowski-Hartley F, Graham N, Wilson S, Jennings S and Perry C (2017) Drivers and predictions of coral reef carbonate budget trajectories. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 284 (1847).
• O'Leary J, Micheli F, Airoldi L, Boch C, De Leo G, Elahi R, Ferretti F, Graham N, Litvin S, Low N, Lummis S, Nickols K and Wong J (2017) The resilience of marine ecosystems to climatic disturbances. BioScience, 67 (3). pp. 208-220

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 141+ research outputs authored by Dr Nick Graham from 2003 onwards.

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Diffusion of Gear-based Conservation Innovation in Coral Reef Fisheries (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Coral reef mesopredator trophodynamics in response to reef condition (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Vulnerability to fishing in reef fishes that aggregate (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Fear of Fishers: Anti-Predator Behaviour of Coral Reef Fish and its Relevance to Fisheries Management and Conservation. (2013, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Multiple stressor effects on coral reefs (2014, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Assessment of scale dependent function in reef fish, and application to the evaluation of coral reef resilience (2014, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Ecological structure and processes on disturbed coral reefs (2014, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Variation in structure and function of reef fish assemblages among distinct coral habitats (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Relationships among depth distributions, habitat specialisation and demography in coral reef fish communities (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit the JCU Research Data Catalogue.

• Richardson, L. (2018) PhD thesis data: Variation in structure and function of reef fish assemblages among distinct coral habitats, by Laura E. Richardson (2018). James Cook University
• Hempson, T. (2017) Data from: Regime shifts shorten food chains for mesopredators with potential sublethal effects. James Cook University
• Robinson, J. (2016) Expert interview data for a risk assessment of spawning aggregation fisheries . James Cook University
• Robinson, J. (2016) Multi-species grouper spawning aggregation fishery study in Papua New Guinea. James Cook University
• Robinson, J. (2016) Rabbitfish fishery and spawning aggregation surveys in the Seychelles. James Cook University
• Robinson, J. (2015) The role of fisher knowledge on the susceptibility of spawning aggregations to fishing: interview data from Papua New Guinea. James Cook University
• Graham, N. (2012) Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in the Chagos Archipelago. James Cook University
• Graham, N. (2012) Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in Papua New Guinea. James Cook University
• Graham, N. (2012) Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in the Inner Seychelles. James Cook University

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