Martial Depczynski
Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr.Martial Depczynski is a Research Scientist: Coral Reef Ecology. He graduated from James Cook University in 2007 with a PhD in marine ecology and joined AIMS in 2008. His main area of research interest is in ecosystem ecology and its application to the management of aquatic systems. In particular, the importance of biodiversity in the functioning of marine ecosystems and the role of key communities in that process. Within this, past research has included the role of fish communities in trophodynamics, quantitative spatial ecology, environmental shifts in community structures, life history theory and the importance of prey life histories to energy allocations and budgets within ecosystems.
Research Interest
Trophodynamics, Quantitative spatial ecology
Publications
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Depczynski M, Bellwood D (2006) Extremes, plasticity and invariance in vertebrate life history traits: insights from coral reef fishes. Ecology 87
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Bellwood D, Depczynski M et al (2006) Coral bleaching, reef fish community phase shifts and the resilience of coral reefs. Global Change Biol 12
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Depczynski M, Bellwood D (2005) Shortest recorded vertebrate lifespan found in a coral reef fish. Curr Biol 15
