Ben Gilby
Lecturer
Animal Ecology
University of Sunshine Coast
Australia
Biography
Ben is a marine ecologist with interests in the fields of fish biology, and marine ecosystem management and conservation. His research focuses on no-take marine protected area ecology and functioning, water quality, catchment management, and predator-prey interactions. Ben’s aim is to disentangle the multiple sources of marine ecosystem variability and disturbance, with a view to optimising ecosystem management and conservation in multiple settings.
Research Interest
Marine ecology, ecological processes, ecosystem management and conservation, fish biology and ecology
Publications
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Gilby BL, Henderson CJ, Tibbetts IR, Burfeind DD. Quantifying the influence of small omnivorous fishes on seagrass epiphyte load. Journal of fish biology. 2016 Sep 1;89(3):1905-12.
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Gilby BL, Olds AD, Connolly RM, Stevens T, Henderson CJ, Maxwell PS, Tibbetts IR, Schoeman DS, Rissik D, Schlacher TA. Optimising land-sea management for inshore coral reefs. PloS one. 2016 Oct 20;11(10):e0164934.
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Gilby BL, Tibbetts IR, Stevens T. Low functional redundancy and high variability in Sargassum browsing fish populations in a subtropical reef system. Marine and Freshwater Research. 2017 Feb 21;68(2):331-41.
