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Email

r.day@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Senior Fellow)
School of BioSciences
Education
PhD
University of Sydney
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Cape Town
ORCID

0000-0001-5913-2292

A/Prof Robert Day

Honorary (Senior Fellow)
School of BioSciences

107 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    From reproductive behaviour to responses to predators: Ocean acidification does not impact the behaviour of an herbivorous marine gastropod
    DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167526
  • 2021

    Journal article

    No evident effect of domestication on the anti-predator behaviour of European abalone (Haliotis tuberculata): Implications for stock enhancement programs
    DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105470
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Ecological vulnerability of the chondrichthyan fauna of southern Australia to the stressors of climate change, fishing and other anthropogenic hazards
    DOI: 10.1111/faf.12571
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Elasmobranch bycatch by prawn trawls in the Gulf of California: First comprehensive analysis and the effect of fish escape devices
    DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2020.105639
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Haliotis tuberculata, a generalist marine herbivore that prefers a mixed diet, but with consistent individual foraging activity
    DOI: 10.1111/eth.13020
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Immunity-related genes and signaling pathways under hypoxic stresses in Haliotis diversicolor: a transcriptome analysis
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56150-2
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Anti-predator response of Haliotis tuberculata is modified after only one generation of domestication
    DOI: 10.3354/aei00300
Robert Day

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
2018 Aust Council of Graduate Research Award
2003
For contributions to research on abalone biology International Abalone Society
2003
For scientific collaorative research Feast-France
1972
Research Travel Award Australian Museum

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2018

    Journal article

    Environmental drivers of growth and predicted effects of climate change on a commercially important fish, Platycephalus laevigatus
    DOI: 10.3354/meps12234
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Stress response of farmed European abalone reveals rapid domestication process in absence of intentional selection
    DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2017.07.004
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Relationships between growth, survival, physiology and behaviour — A multi-criteria approach to Haliotis tuberculata phenotypic traits
    DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.04.028

RECENT PROJECTS

  • Research Grant

    Abalone Industry Development: Local Assessment and Management by Industry, Integrated Into State Zonal Assessment
  • 2007

    Research Contracts

    Rapid Response to Abalone Virus Depletion in Western Victoria: Information Acquisition and Reef Code Assessment Models
  • Research Grant

    Abalone Aquaculture Subprogram: Investigating the Immunology of Stressed Abalone (Haliotis Species)

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