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Research
Recent Publications (from 2007) and theses (sorted by year)
Cephalopods (octopus and squid)
Bolstad KS (in press). Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Zootaxa.
O'Shea S, Gomez-Villota F, Beatson E (in press). Beak and hook morphology of New Zealand squids of the families Octopoteuthidae and Lepidoteuthidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). New Zealand Journal of Zoology.
Garcia A (2010). Comparative study of the morphology and anatomy of octopuses of the family Octopodidae. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Mensch R (2010). A systematic review of the squid genus Chiroteuthis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in New Zealand waters. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
O'Shea S, Jackson GD (2010). Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda. Pp. 541–559, 565–566, In Cook, S de C (Ed) New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates, Volume 1. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Hoving HJT, Lipinski MR, Videler JJ, Bolstad KS (2009). Sperm storage and mating in the deep-sea squid Taningia danae Joubin, 1931 (Oegopsida: Octopoteuthidae). Marine Biology.
Laptikhovsky V, Arkhipkin A, Bolstad KS (2009). A second species of the squid genus Kondakovia (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) from the sub-Antarctic. Polar Biology 32(1): 21–26.
Bolstad KS (2008). Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Ogopsida). Unpublished PhD thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Bolstad KS (2008). Two new species and a review of the genus Onychoteuthis Lichtenstein, 1818 (Oegopsida: Onychoteuthidae) from the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 83(3): 481–529.
Horstkotte J (2008). The systematics and ecological role of Histioteuthis (Cephalopoda: Histioteuthidae) in New Zealand waters. Unpublished Diploma thesis. Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universitität Kiel, and Auckland University of Technology.
O'Shea S, Smith F (2008). Octopus and Squid. Pp 86–93, in "Treasures of the sea: Nga taonga a Tangaroa. A summary of biodiversity in the New Zealand ecoregion." Ed. MacDiarmid A, WWF New Zealand.
Bolstad KS (2007). Systematics and distribution of the New Zealand onychoteuthid fauna (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida), including a new species. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 17: 305–335.
O'Shea S, Jackson G, Bolstad KS (2007). The nomenclatural status, ontogeny and morphology of Pholidoteuthis massyae (Pfeffer, 1912) new comb (Cephalopoda: Pholidoteuthidae). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 17: 425–435.
Fish and Fisheries
Aswani S, Sabetian A (2010). Implications of urbanization for artisanal parrotfish fisheries in the western Solomon Islands. Conservation Biology 24(2): 520–530.
Jones MRL (2009). Diets of eight fish species from the upper slope off the Wairarapa Coast, North Island, New Zealand, with notes on the diets of others. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 929–939.
Clements KD, Zemke-White WL (2008). Diet of subtropical herbivorous fishes in northeastern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 47–55.
Jones MRL (2008). Dietary analysis of Coryphaenoides serrulatus, C. subserrulatus and several other species of macrourid fish (Pisces: Macrouridae) from northeastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 73–84.
Jones MRL (2008). Biology and diet of Coryphaenoides subserrulatus and Etmopterus baxteri from the Puysegur region, southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 333–337.
Jones MRL, Leschen RAB (2008). Beetles in the diet of six species of deep-sea fish. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 251–253.
Aswani S, Albert S, Sabetian A, Furusawa T (2007). Customary management as precautionary and adaptive principles for protecting coral reefs in Oceania. Coral Reefs 26: 1009–1021.
Jones MRL (2007). Historic trawl data and recent information infers temporal change in the occurence of squid in the diet of orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett) in New Zealand. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 17: 493–499.
Cetaceans
Beatson EL, O'Shea S (2009). Stomach contents of long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas, mass-stranded on Farewell Spit, Golden Bay in 2005 and 2008. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 47–58.
Bui A (2009). Beach burial of cetaceans: implications for conservation, and public health and safety. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Beatson EL (2007). The diet of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) stranded on the New Zealand coastline. Unpublished BAppSc(Hons) thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Beatson EL, O'Shea S, Ogle M (2007). The diet of the long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas, stranded in New Zealand: implications for conservation. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 34: 51–56.
Beatson EL, O'Shea S, Stone C, Shortland T (2007). Notes on New Zealand mammals 6. Second report on the stomach contents of long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 34: 359–362.
Beatson EL (2007). The diet of pygmy sperm whales, Kogia breviceps, stranded in New Zealand: implications for conservation. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 17: 295–303.
Gómez-Villota F (2007). Sperm whale diet in New Zealand. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Marine sediment ecology and processes
Wong KLC, O'Shea S (in press). The effects of a mussel farm on benthic macrofaunal communities in Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.
Wong KLC, O'Shea S (2010). Sediment macrobenthos off eastern Waiheke Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44: 149–165.
Wong KLC (2009). The effects of green-shelled mussel mariculture on benthic communities in Hauraki Gulf. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Dewas SEA (2008). Benthic-invertebrate diversity of Tucetona laticostata (Mollusca: Bivalvia) biogenic substrata in Hauraki Gulf. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Rocky and mangrove shore ecology
Alfaro AC (2009). Diet of the pulmonate gastropod Onchidella nigricans in the intertidal rocky shore, New Zealand. Animal Biology 59(2): 231–240.
Alfaro AC (2008). Diet of Littoraria scabra, while vertically migrating on mangrove trees: gut content, fatty acid, and stable isotope analyses. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 79(4): 718–726.
Alfaro AC, Webb SC, Barnaby C (2008). Variability of growth, health, and population turnover within mussel beds of Perna canaliculus in northern New Zealand. Marine Biology Research 4(5): 376–383.
Palacio MC (2008). The role of biodiversity databases in coastal conservation and resource management. Unpublished MAppSc thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Alfaro AC, Dewas SE, Thomas F (2007). Food and habitat partitioning in grazing snails (Turbo smaragdus), northern New Zealand. Estuaries & Coasts 30(3): 431–440.
Terrestrial ecology and evolution
Najera-Hillman E, King P, Alfaro AC, Breen BB (2009). Effect of pest-management operations on the abundance and size-frequency distribution of the New Zealand endemic frog Leiopelma hochstetteri. New Zealand Journal of Zoology.
Najera-Hillman E, Alfaro AC, O'Shea S, Breen BB, Garret N, King P (2009). Habitat-use model for the New Zealand endemic frog Leiopelma hochstetteri. Endangered Species Research 9: 23–31.
Gillman LN, Keeling DJ, Ross HA, Wright SD (2009). Latitude, elevation and the tempo of molecular evolution in animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1671): 3353–3359.
Najeera-Hillman E (2009). Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger, 1861 (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) habitat ecology in the Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Najeera-Hillman E, Alfaro AC, Breen BB, O'Shea S (2009). Characterisation (C13 and N15 isotopes) of the food webs in a New Zealand stream in the Waitakere Ranges, with emphasis on the trophic level of the endemic frog Leiopelma hochstetteri. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 165–176.
Wright SD, Gillman LN, Ross HA, Keeling DJ (2009). Slower tempo of microevolution in island birds: implications for conservation ecology. Evolution 63(9): 2275–2287.
Gillman LN, Wright SD (2007). Molecular evolution has wheels in the tropics. Biologist 54(4): 195–199.
King PA (2007). The effects of rodents on ground dwelling arthropods in the Waitakere Ranges. Unpublished MPhil thesis. Auckland University of Technology.
Miscellaneous
Gregory MR, Campbell KA, Alfaro AC, Hudson N (2009). Bee and ant burrows in Quaternary "coffee rock" and Holocene sand dunes, Kowhai Bay, Northland, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 273(1–2): 102–110.
New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (2009) (Eds O'Shea S, Costello MJ, O'Connell K). Programme and abstracts for annual conference in Auckland 2–4 September 2009. ISBN 978-1-877314-77-3. Pp 124.
Campbell KA, Peterson DE, Alfaro AC (2008). Two new species of Retiskenea? (Gastropoda: Neomphalidae) from the lower Cretaceaous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates of northern California. Journal of Paleontology 82(1): 140–153.