Robert Day

Ecological vulnerability of the chondrichthyan fauna of southern Australia to the stressors of climate change, fishing and other anthropogenic hazards

Terence I Walker, Robert W Day, Cynthia A Awruch, Justin D Bell, Juan Matias Braccini, Derek R Dapp, Licia Finotto, Lorenz H Frick, Karla C Garces-Garcia, Leonardo Guida, Charlie Huveneers, Camila L Martins, Bastien EA Rochowski, Javier Tovar-avila, Fabian I Trinnie, Richard D Reina

Journal article  |  2021  |  FISH AND FISHERIES

We develop a potentially widely applicable framework for analysing the vulnerability, resilience risk and exposure of chondrichthy..

Elasmobranch bycatch by prawn trawls in the Gulf of California: First comprehensive analysis and the effect of fish escape devices

Karla C Garces-Garcia, Javier Tovar-Avila, Bibiana Vargas-Trejo, Dario A Chavez-Arrenquin, Terence Walker, Robert W Day

Journal article  |  2020  |  FISHERIES RESEARCH

We report results from the first detailed investigation of elasmobranch bycatch that contains data on species, sex, and length-fre..

Haliotis tuberculata, a generalist marine herbivore that prefers a mixed diet, but with consistent individual foraging activity

Sabine Roussel, Pierre Poitevin, Robert Day, Fabienne Le Grand, Valerie Stiger-Pouvreau, Catherine Leblanc, Sylvain Huchette

Journal article  |  2020  |  ETHOLOGY

While population foraging behaviour of herbivores has been extensively studied, individual choice is still poorly understood. Very..

Immunity-related genes and signaling pathways under hypoxic stresses in Haliotis diversicolor: a transcriptome analysis

Yulong Sun, Xin Zhang, Yilei Wang, Robert Day, Huiping Yang, Ziping Zhang

Journal article  |  2019  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Due to increased temperatures and aquaculture density, thermal and hypoxia stresses have become serious problems for the aquacultu..

Anti-predator response of Haliotis tuberculata is modified after only one generation of domestication

S Roussel, T Bisch, S Lachambre, P Boudry, JL Gervois, C Lambert, S Huchette, R Day

Journal article  |  2019  |  Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Domestication of Haliotis tuberculata has only recently begun. During the process, we expect that behavioural and physiological tr..

Environmental drivers of growth and predicted effects of climate change on a commercially important fish, Platycephalus laevigatus

Joshua Barrow, John Ford, Rob Day, John Morrongiello

Journal article  |  2018  |  MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Human-driven climate change and habitat modification are negatively impacting coastal ecosystems and the species that reside withi..

Stress response of farmed European abalone reveals rapid domestication process in absence of intentional selection

S Lachambre, R Day, P Boudry, S Huchette, A Rio-Cabello, T Fustec, S Roussel

Journal article  |  2017  |  Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Farming, and thus the domestication of Haliotis tuberculata, began recently. We compared the responses of unselected farmed and wi..

Relationships between growth, survival, physiology and behaviour - A multi-criteria approach to Haliotis tuberculata phenotypic traits

Sebastien Lachambre, Sylvain Huchette, Rob Day, Pierre Boudry, Antoine Rio-Cabello, Timothee Fustec, Sabine Roussel

Journal article  |  2017  |  AQUACULTURE

Abalone growth rate is often identified among important traits to improve through selective breeding. However, the rapid success o..

Contrasting patterns of population connectivity between regions in a commercially important mollusc Haliotis rubra: integrating population genetics, genomics and marine LiDAR data

AD Miller, A van Rooyen, G Rasic, DA Ierodiaconou, HK Gorfine, R Day, C Wong, AA Hoffmann, AR Weeks

Journal article  |  2016  |  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Estimating contemporary genetic structure and population connectivity in marine species is challenging, often compromised by genet..

H-1-NMR metabolite profiling of abalone digestive gland in response to short-term starvation

John R Sheedy, Sebastien Lachambre, David K Gardner, Robert W Day

Journal article  |  2016  |  AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL

The effect of a short-term feeding and starvation experiment on juvenile abalone (Haliotis rubra × H. laevigata) was investigat..