Derek Tittensor
Publications

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1. Mora, C. Tittensor, D. P., Adl, S., Simpson, A. G. B., Worm, B. (2011). How many species on earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biology, 9: e1001127, 1-8. (Commentary by Lord R. May in same issue).

2. Worm, B. & Tittensor, D. P. (2011) Range contraction in large pelagic predators.. PNAS, 108: 11942 - 11947.(Commentary by J. H. Brown in same issue).

3. Mora, C., Treml, E. A., Roberts, J., Crosby, K., Roy, D., Tittensor, D. P. (In Press) The lack of isolation in the ocean precludes the effect of dispersal on the range size of tropical reef fishes. Ecography.

4. Tittensor, D. P., Rex, M. A., Stuart, C. T., McClain, C. R. & Smith, C. R. (2011). Species-energy relationships in deep-sea mollusks. Biology Letters, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1174.

5. Stuart, C. T., Rex, M. A., Tittensor, D. P., Smith, C. R. (2011). Elevated species diversity in abyssal gastropods off Newfoundland: the potential role of food supply. Marine Biodiversity, doi: 10.1006/s12526-011-0082-3.

6. Kaschner, K., Tittensor, D. P., Ready, J., Gerrodette, T., Worm, B. (2011). Predicting the impact of climate change on global hotspots of marine mammal biodiversity. PLoS One, 6: e19635, 1-13. pdf

7. Mora, C. et al. (inc. Tittensor, D. P.) (2011). Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes. PLoS Biology, 9: e1000606, 1-9. pdf

8. Tittensor, D. P., Mora, C., Jetz, W., Lotze, H. K., Ricard, D., Vanden Berghe, E., Worm, B. (2010). Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa. Nature, 466: 1098-1011. pdf data

9. Ramirez-Llodra, E., Brandt, A., Danovaro, R., Escobar, E., German, C. R., Levin, L. A., Martinez Arbizu, P., Menot, L., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Narayanaswamy, B. E., Smith, C., Tittensor, D. P., Tyler, P. A., Vanreusel, A., Vecchione, M. (2010). Deep, diverse, and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem. Biogeosciences, 7: 2851-2899. pdf

10. McCauley, D. J., Micheli, F., Young, H., Tittensor, D. P., Brumbaugh, D. R., Madin, E. M. P., Holmes, K. E., Dunbar, R., Smith, J., Lotze, H. K., Arnold, S. N., Worm, B. (2010). Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef. Marine Biology, 157: 2739-2750. pdf

11. Tittensor, D. P., Baco, A. R., Hall-Spencer, J. M., Rogers, A. D. (2010). Seamounts as refugia from ocean acidification for cold-water stony corals. Marine Ecology, 31: 212-225. pdf

12. Clark, M R. and Tittensor, D. P. (2010). An index to assess the risk to stony corals from bottom trawling on seamounts. Marine Ecology, 31: 200-211. pdf

13. O'Hara, T. and Tittensor, D. P. (2010). Environmental drivers of ophiuroid species richness on seamounts. Marine Ecology, 31: 26-38. pdf

14. Tittensor, D. P., Myers, R. A., Worm, B. (2009). Macroecology of exploited marine systems. In: Marine Macroecology (eds. Witman J. and Roy, K.), University of Chicago Press.

15. Tittensor, D. P., Baco, A., Brewin, P., Clark, M. R., Consalvey, M., Hall-Spencer, J., Rowden, A. A., Schlacher, T., Stocks, K., Rogers, A. D. (2009). Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1111-1128. pdf

16. Boyce, D., Tittensor, D. P., Worm B. (2008). Effects of temperature on global patterns of tuna and billfish. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 355: 267-276. pdf

17. Mora, C., Tittensor, D. P., Myers, R. A. (2008). The completeness of taxonomic inventories for describing the global diversity and distribution of marine fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 149-155. pdf

18. Tittensor, D. P., Micheli, F., Nystrom, M., Worm, B. (2007). Human impacts on the species area relationship in reef fish assemblages. Ecology Letters, 10: 760-772. pdf

19. Clark, M., Tittensor, D. P., Rogers, A., Brewin, P., Schlacher, T., Rowden, A., Stocks, K., Consalvey, M. (2006). Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries: vulnerability of deep-sea corals to fishing on seamounts beyond areas of national jurisdiction. UNEP. pdf

20. Tittensor, D. P., deYoung, B., Tang, C. (2003). Modelling the distribution, sustainability and diapause emergence timing of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the Labrador Sea. Fish. Oceanogr. 12: 299-316. pdf



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