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Colin
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Ecology, conservation and management of sharks

Background

 

Academic qualifications

PhD (Zoology) JCU

Membership of key national committees

Commonwealth Threatened Species Scientific Committee

Stories

9 March 2019

Young hammerhead sharks like staying close to home

27 October 2015

Why is a predator perfected by millions of years suddenly unfit for the sea?

Projects

Project A5 - Defining the connectivity of Australia’s hammerhead sharks

Publications

Marine Biodiversity Hub publications by: Simpfendorfer, Colin

  • The Action Plan for Australian Sharks and Rays 2021 (2021)
    P.M. Kyne; M.R. Heupel; W.T. White; C. Simpfendorfer
  • Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays (2021)
    N. Pacoureau; C.L. Rigby; P.M. Kyne; R.B. Sherley; H. Winker; J.K. Carlson; S.V. Fordham; R. Barreto; D. Fernando; M.P. Francis; R.W. Jabado; K.B. Herman; K.M. Liu; A.D. Marshall; R.A. Pollom; E. Romanov; C. Simpfendorfer; J.S. Yin; H.K. Kindsvater; N.K. Dulvy
  • The Action Plan For Australian Sharks and Rays 2021: QA fact sheet (2021)
    P.M. Kyne
  • Examination of connectivity of hammerhead sharks in northern Australia (2020)
    M.R. Heupel; C. Simpfendorfer; A. Chin; S.A. Appleyard; D. Barton; M. Green; G. Johnson; R. McAuley; W. White
  • The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2020)
    P.M. Kyne; R.W. Jabado; C.L. Rigby; ; M.A. Gore; C.M. Pollock; K.B. Herman; J. Cheok; D.A. Ebert; C. Simpfendorfer; N.K. Dulvy
  • Shark Action Plan Policy Report (2019)
    M.R. Heupel; P.M. Kyne; W.T. White; C. Simpfendorfer
  • Categorising use patterns of non-marine environments by elasmobranchs and a review of their extinction risk (2019)
    M.I. Grant; P.M. Kyne; C. Simpfendorfer; W.T. White; A. Chin
  • Troubled waters: Threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters (2018)
    R.W. Jabado; P.M. Kyne; R.A. Pollom; D.A. Ebert; C. Simpfendorfer; G.M. Ralph; S.S.Al Dhaheri; K.V. Akhilesh; K. Ali; M.Hassan Ali; T.M.S.Al Mamari; K.K. Bineesh; I.S.El Hassan; D. Fernando; E.M. Grandcourt; M.Moazzam Khan; A.B.M. Moore; F. Owfi; D.P. Robinson; E. Romanov; A.L. Soares; J.L.Y. Spaet; D. Tesfamichael; T. Valinassab; N.K. Dulvy
  • Crossing lines: a multidisciplinary framework for assessing connectivity of hammerhead sharks across jurisdictional boundaries (2017)
    A. Chin; C. Simpfendorfer; W.T. White; G.J. Johnson; R.B. McAuley; M.R. Heupel
  • Environmental DNA detects critically endangered largetooth sawfish in the wild (2016)
    C. Simpfendorfer; P.M. Kyne; T.H. Noble; J. Goldsbury; R.K. Basiita; R. Lindsay; A. Shields; C. Perry; D.R. Jerry
  • Exploring the status of Australia’s hammerhead sharks (2015)
    M.R. Heupel; W.T. White; C. Simpfendorfer
  • Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays (2014)
    N.K. Dulvy; S.L. Fowler; J.A. Musick; R.D. Cavanagh; P.M. Kyne; L.R. Harrison; J.K. Carlson; L.N.K. Davidson; S.V. Fordham; M.P. Francis; C.M. Pollock; C. Simpfendorfer; G.H. Burgess; K.E. Carpenter; L.J.V. Compagno; D.A. Ebert; C. Gibson; M.R. Heupel; S.R. Livingstone; J. Sanciangco; J.D. Stevens; S. Valenti; W.T. White
  • Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes (2014)
    N.K. Dulvy; L.N.K. Davidson; P.M. Kyne; C. Simpfendorfer; L.R. Harrison; J.K. Carlson; S.V. Fordham
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