Publications

The listed publications have either been led or co-authored by SOSF-DRC staff or project students or have used SOSF-DRC data.

2026

• Pouponeau DK, Harris JL, Grimmel HMV, Moulinie EE & Bullock RW. Manta munchies: plankton dynamics and feeding behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) around D’Arros Island in the Seychelles. Frontiers in Marine Science 12: 1645268 (JANUARY)

2025

• Debaere SF, Weideli OC, Daly R, Milanesi EMC, Trujillo JE, Bouyoucos IA, Mourier J, Chin A, Planes S, de Boeck G & Rummer JL. The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks. Journal of Fish Biology 106: 1777–1788 (JANUARY)

2024

• Lavigne A, Bullock R, Shah N, Tagg C, Zora A & Hemmings N. Understanding early reproductive failure in turtles and tortoises. Animal Conservation. Animal Conservation 28(3): 353-364 (SEPTEMBER)
• Newsome RJ, Grimmel HMV, Pouponeau DK, Moulinie EM, Andre AA, & Bullock RW. Eat-clean-repeat: reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) undertake repetitive feeding-cleaning cycles at an aggregation site in Seychelles.  Frontiers of Marine Science 11: 1422655 (AUGUST)
• Keys ZD, Bullock RW, Keating C & Pistorius PA. Rapid increase in size of wedge-tailed shearwater Ardenna pacifica colony following rat eradication. Marine Ornithology 52: 149-155 (APRIL)
• Bullock R, Fermor D, Pouponeau D, Moulinie E & Grimmel H. Using Drones to Reveal the Distribution and Population Abundance of Threatened Dasyatid Rays at a Nursery Site in Seychelles. Drones 2024, 8(2): 48 (FEBRUARY)
• Peel L, Remote hideaways: first insights into the population sizes, habitat use and residency of manta rays at aggregation areas in Seychelles. Marine Biology 171: 83 (FEBRUARY)

2023

• Bullock RW, Foster C & Lea JSE. Just keep swimming? Observations of resting behavior in gray reef sharks Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856). Journal of Fish Biology 2203, 1-3, Brief Communication (NOVEMBER)
• Humble E, Hosegood J, Carvalho G, de Bruyn M, Creer S, Stevens G, Armstrong A, Bonfil R, Deakos M, Fernando D, Froman N, Peel L, Pollett S, Ponzo A, Poquita A, Stewart J, Wintner S & Ogden R. Comparative Population Genomics of Manta Rays Has Global Implications for Management. Molecular Ecology 34 (4): e17220 (NOVEMBER)
• Weideli OC, Daly R, Peel LR, Heithaus MR, Shivji MS, Planes S & Papastamatious YP. Elucidating the role of competition in driving spatial and trophic niche patterns in sympatric juvenile sharks. Oecologica 2023 (MARCH)
• Naiken S, Bullock R & Laing S. Assessing the Morphological Trends of Juvenile Populations of Two Threatened Carcharhinid Shark Species at St. Joseph Atoll, Seychelles. Seychelles Research Journal  5(1): 3-18 (FEBRUARY)

2022

• Bullock RW,  Grimmel HMV, Moulinie EE, Pouponeau DK & Lea JSE. Using Global Red List Data to Inform Localised Research and Conservation Priorities-A Case Study in the Republic of Seychelles. Diversity 2022 14(8): 681 (AUGUST)
• Elston C, Cowley PD, von Brandis RG & Lea J. Stingray Habitat Use Is Dynamically Influenced by Temperature and Tides. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 754404 (JANUARY)

2021

• Bullock RW & Grimmel HMV. First Record of the Cymothoid Isopod Nerocila exocoeti Pillai, 1954 (Crustacea, Isopoda) in the South-West Indian Ocean and First Record of a Perciform Host, Echeneis naucrates, for this Species. Acta Parasitologica  (JUNE)
• Daly R, Filmalter JD, Peel LR, Mann BQ, Lea JSE, Clarke CR & Cowley PD. Ontogenetic shifts in home range size of a top predatory reef-associated fish (Caranx ignobilis): implications for conservation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 664: 165 – 182 (APRIL)
• Elston C, Cowley PD, von Brandis RG & Lea JSE. Residency and habitat use patterns by sympatric stingrays at a remote atoll in the Western Indian Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series  662: 97-114 (MARCH)
• Byrnes EE, Daly R, Leos-Barajas V, Langrock R & Gleiss AC. Evaluating the constraints governing activity patterns of a coastal marine top predator. Marine Biology 168: 11. (JANUARY)

2020

• Gore M, Ormond R, Clarke C, Kohler J, Millar C & Brooks E. Application of Photo-Identification and Lengthened Deployment Periods to Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) Abundance Estimates and Identification of Coral Reef Sharks. Oceans 1: 274-299. (NOVEMBER)
• Lea JSE, Humphries NW, Bortoluzzi J, Daly R, von Brandis RG, Patel E, Patel E, Clarke CR & Sims DW. At the Turn of the Tide: Space Use and Habitat Partitioning in Two Sympatric Shark Species Is Driven by Tidal Phase. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 624. (AUGUST)
• Peel LR, Stevens GMW, Daly R, Daly CAK, Collin SP, Nogués J & Meekan MG. Regional Movements of Reef Manta Rays (Mobula alfredi) in Seychelles Waters. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 558. (JULY)
• Elston C, Cowley PD, von Brandis RG & Fisk A. Dietary niche differentiation in a mesopredatory dasyatid assemblage. Marine Biology 167: 89. (JUNE)
• Daly R, Keating-Daly, CA, Gray AE, Peel LR, Gordon L, Lea JSE, Clarke CR & Weng KC. Investigating the efficacy of a proposed marine protected area for the Endangered humphead wrasse Cheilinus undulatus at a remote island group in Seychelles. Endangered Species Research 43: 7-20. (MAY)

2019

• Weideli OC, Bouyoucos IA, Papastamatiou YP, Mescam G, Rummer JL & Planes S. Same species, different prerequisites: investigating body condition and foraging success in young reef sharks between and atoll and an island system. Scientific Reports 9: 13447. (SEPTEMBER)
• Peel LR, Daly R, Daly CAK, Stevens GMW, Collin SP & Meekan MG. Stable isotope analyses reveal unique trophic role of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) at a remote coral reef. Royal Society Open Science 6: 190599.  (AUGUST)
• Daly R, Filmalter JD, Keating-Daly CA, Bennett RH, Pereira MAM, Mann BQ, Dunlop SW & Cowley PD. Acoustic telemetry reveals multi-seasonal spatiotemporal dynamics of a giant trevally Caranx ignobilis aggregation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 621: 185-197. (JULY)
• Greenfiel DW & Gordon L. Eviota dalyi, a new dwarfgoby from the Amirantes Islands, Seychelles (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 33: 9-15. (MAY)
• Weideli OC, Papastamatiou YP & Planes S. Size frequency, dispersal distances and variable growth rates of young sharks in a multi-species aggregation. Journal of Fish Biology 94: 789-797. (MARCH)
• Gadoutsis E, Daly CAK, Hawkins JP & Daly R. Post bleaching mortality of a remote coral reef community in Seychelles, Western Indian Ocean. WIO Journal of Marine Science 18(1): 11-18.
• Moxham EJ, Cowley PD, Bennett RH & von Brandis RG. Movement and predation: a catch-and-release study on the acoustic tracking of bonefish in the Indian Ocean. Environmental Biology of Fishes 102: 365–381. (JANUARY)
• Daly R, Keating-Daly CA, Hounslow JL & Byrnes EE. New Host Record for the Marine Leech, Pontobdella macrothela (Hirudinida:Piscicolidae) from Sicklefin Lemon Sharks, Negaprion acutidens (Chondrichthyes: Carcharinidae) in St. Joseph Atoll, Republic of Seychelles, West Indian Ocean. Comparative Parasitology 86(1): 58-60. (JANUARY)

2018

• Lea, JSE, Daly R, Leon CA, Daly CAK. & Clarke C. Life after death: behaviour of multiple shark species scavenging a whale carcass. Marine and Freshwater Research 70(2): 302-306.
• Stewart JD, Jaine FR, Armstrong AJ, Armstrong AO, Bennett MB, Burgess KB, Couturier LIE, Croll DA, Cronin ES, Hall MA, Hinojosa-Alvarez S, Hosegood JE, Kashiwagi T, Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Palacios MD, Peel LR, Richardson AJ, Rubin RD, Townsend KA, Venables SK & Stevens GMW. Research priorities to support effective manta and devil ray conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 314.
• Daly R, Stevens G & Daly CK. Rapid marine biodiversity assessment records 16 new marine fish species for Seychelles, West Indian Ocean.  Marine Biodiversity Records 11: 6.

2017

• Daly CK. First record of Franklin’s Gull Leucophaeus Pipixcan for Seychelles. Marine Ornithology 45: 223–224.
• Elston C, von Brandis RG & Cowley PD. Dietary composition and prey selectivity of juvenile porcupine rays Urogymnus asperrimus. Journal of Fish Biology 91(2): 429–422.
• von Brandis RG, Mortimer JA, van de Geer C & Lea JSE. A Long Migratory Record for aSmall Post-Pelagic Hawksbill. Marine Turtle Newsletter 152: 13-15.

2016

• Lea JSE, Humphries NE, von Brandis RG, Clarke CR & Sims DW. Acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal the space use of multiple reef predators and enhance marine protected area design. Proceedings of the Royal Society 283: 20160717.

2015

• Lea JSE, Humphries NE, Clarke CR & Sims DW. Brief Communication: To Madagaskar and back: long-distance, return migration across open ocean by a pregnant female bull shark Carcharhinus leucas. Journal of Fish Biology 87(6).
• Elston C, von Brandis RG & Cowley PD. Gastric lavage as a non-lethal method for stingray (Myliobatiformes) diet sampling. African Journal of Marine Science 37: 415–419.

2014

• von Brandis RG, Mortimer JA, Reilly BK, van Soest RWM & Branch GM. Diet Composition of Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Republic of Seychelles. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science 13: 81–91.

2013

• Filmalter JD, Dagorn L & Cowley PD. Spatial behaviour and site fidelity of the sicklefin lemon shark Negaprion acutidens in a remote Indian Ocean atoll. Marine Biology 160(9): 2425-2436.

2012

• Kappes  M, Coustat K & Le Corre M. Census of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus Pacificus breeding at D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll, Seychelles. Marine Ornithology: 41: 29-34.
• von Brandis RG. 2012. Rehabilitation of abandoned coconut plantations at D’Arros Island, Republic of Seychelles. Ocean and Coastal Management 69: 340-346.

Pre SOSF-DRC

• Mortimer JA, Matyot P, Labrosse W & Bristol D., 2011. Traumatic encounter between Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) and Hermit Crab (Coenobita perlatus) at D’Arros Island, Amirantes Group, Seychelles. Ornithological Observations 2: 58-59.
• Mortimer JA, Camille J & Boniface N, 2011. Seasonality and Status of Nesting Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) at D’Arros Island, Amirantes Group, Seychelles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 10(1): 26–33.
• von Brandis RG, Mortimer JA, Reilly BK, 2010. In-Water Observations of the Diving Behaviour of Immature Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on a Coral Reef at D’Arros Island, Republic of Seychelles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9(1):26-32.
• Skerrett A & Rocamora G, 2007. New breeding records of Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii in Seychelles. Bull ABC 14(1): 62-67.
• Monticelli D, Ramos J, von Brandis R & Skerrett A, 2006. First data on productivity and reproductive parameters of tropical roseate terns breeding on St Joseph Atoll, Seychelles. Phelsuma 15:9-18.