Sven Uthicke
Principal Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr.Sven Uthicke is a Principal Research Scientist in the Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems and Industries in Tropical Australia program. Team leader: Understanding and managing Crown of Thorns Seastar outbreaks. He did PhD in Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany in 1998.His current research activities include molecular and ecological research to develop indicators for changes in water quality and to investigate cumulative impacts on the Great Barrier Reef. This work combines field-based ecological techniques with state-of-the-art molecular and other laboratory based methods. He have worked on echinoderm population dynamics for a long time and currently investigate causes for crown-of-thorns-seastar outbreaks. He has strong expertise in experimental ecology, molecular ecology and population genetics. In previous studies he investigated genetic connectivity and ecological function of coral reef invertebrates (specifically echinoderms).
Research Interest
Ecology
Publications
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Uthicke S, Patel F, Ditchburn R (2012) Elevated land runoff after European settlement perturbs persistent foraminiferal assemblages on the Great Barrier Reef. Ecology 93: 111-121
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Uthicke S, Fabricius K (2012) Productivity gains do not compensate for reduced calcification under near-future ocean acidification in the photosynthetic benthic foraminifera Marginopora vertebralis. Global Change Biology 18: 2781-2791
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Uthicke S, Logan M, Liddy M, Francis D, Hardy N, Lamare M (2015) Climate change as an unexpected co-factor promoting coral eating seastar (Acanthaster planci) outbreaks. Sci. Rep. 5, DOI: 10.1038/srep08402
