Publications

2024

• 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)
• 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)

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.