Research Papers and Reports

Peer-Reviewed Research Papers

• Wilson SK, Fisher R, Pratchett MS, Graham NAJ, Dulvy NK, Turner RA, Cakacaka A, Polunin NVC 2010. Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities. Ecological Applications 20: 442-451
• Pring I, Polunin NVC 2010. Effects of seismic exploration on mangrove habitat in Tanzania. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science :
• MacNeil MA, Graham NAJ 2010. Enabling regional management in a changing climate through Bayesian meta-analysis of al arge-scale disturbance. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 412–421
• Hicks CC, Fitzsimmons C, Polunin NVC 2010. Interdisciplinarity in the environmental sciences: barriers and frontiers. Environmental Conservation 37:
• Greenwood N, Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC 2010. Elucidating the trophodynamics of four coral reef fishes of the Solomon Islands using δ15N and δ13C. Coral Reefs 29: 785-792
• Galván DE, Sweeting CJ, Reid WDK 2010. The power of stable isotope techniques to detect size based feeding in marine fishes. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 407: 271-280
• Wilding TA, Palmer EJL, Polunin NVC 2009. Comparison of three methods for quantifying topographic complexity on rocky shores. Marine Environmental Research 69: 143–151
• Wilson SK, Dolman AM, Cheal AJ, Emslie MJ, Pratchett MS, Sweatman HPA 2009. Maintenance of fish diversity on disturbed coral reefs. Coral Reefs 28: 3-14
• Sweeting CJ, Badalamenti F, D’Anna G, Pipitone C, Polunin NVC 2009. Steeper biomass spectra of demersal fish communities after trawler exclusion in Sicily. ICES Journal of Marine Science 66: 195-202
• Paddack MJ, Reynolds JD, Aguilar C, Appeldoorn RS, Beets J, Burkett EW, Chittaro PM, Clarke K, Esteves R, Fonseca AC, Forrester GE, Friedlander AM, Garcia-Sais J, Gonzalez-Sanson G, Jordan LKB, McClellan DB, Miller MW, Molloy PP, Mumby PJ, Nagelkerken I, Nemeth M, Navas-Camacho R, Pitt J, Polunin NVC, Reyes-Nivia MC, Robertson DR, Rodriguez-Ramirez A, Salas E, Smith SR, Spieler RE, Steele MA, Williams ID, Wormald CL, Watkinson AR, Cote IM 2009. Recent region-wide declines in Caribbean reef fish abundance. Current Biology 19: 590-595
• McClanahan TR, Cinner JE, Graham NAJ, Daw TM, Maina J, Stead SM, Wamukota A, Brown K, Venus V, Polunin NVC 2009. Identifying reefs of hope and hopeful actions: contextualizing environmental, ecological, and social parameters to respond effectively to climate change. Conservation Biology 23: 662-671
• MacNeil MA, Graham NAJ, Polunin NVC, Kulbicki M, Galzin R, Harmelin-Vivien M, Rushton SP 2009. Hierarchical drivers of reef-fish metacommunity structure. Ecology 90: 252-264
• Lavides MN, Polunin NVC, Stead SM, Tabaranza DG, Comeros MT, Dongallo JR 2009. Finfish disappearances around Bohol, Philippines inferred from traditional ecological knowledge. Environmental Conservation 36: 235-244
• Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Pratchett MS, Polunin NVC, Spalding MD 2009. Coral mortality versus structural collapse as drivers of corallivorous butterflyfish decline. Biodiversity Conservation 18: 3325-3336
• Graham NAJ, Purkis SJ, Harris A 2009. Diurnal, land-based predation on shore crabs by moray eels in the Chagos Archipelago. Coral Reefs 28: 397
• Cinner JE, McClanahan TR, Daw TM, Graham NAJ, Maina J, Wilson SK, Hughes TP 2009. Linking social and ecological systems to sustain coral reef fisheries. Current Biology 16: 206-212
• Cinner JE, McClanahan TR, Graham NAJ, Pratchett MS, Wilson SK, Raina JB 2009. Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 724-732
• Wilson SK, Fisher R, Pratchett MS, Graham NAJ, Dulvy NK, Turner RA, Cakacaka A, Polunin NVC, Rushton SP 2008. Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities. Global Change Biology 14: 2796-2809
• Wilson SK, Burgess SC, Cheal AJ, Emslie M, Fisher R, Miller I, Polunin NVC, Sweatman HPA 2008. Habitat utilization by coral reef fish: implications for specialists vs. generalists in a changing environment. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 220-228
• Purkis SJ, Graham NAJ, Riegl BM 2008. Predictability of reef fish diversity and abundance using remote sensing data in Diego Garcia (Chagos Archipelago). Coral Reefs 27:167-178
• Pratchett MS, Munday PL, Wilson SK, Graham NAJ, Cinner JE, Bellwood DR, Jones GP, Polunin NVC, McClanahan TR 2008. Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes — ecological and economic consequences. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 46: 251-296
• Polunin NVC (ed) 2008. Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects. Cambridge University Press
  Nystrom M, Graham NAJ, Lokrantz J, Norstrom AV 2008. Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice. Coral Reefs 27: 795-809
• Mill AC, Sweeting CJ, Barnes C, Al-Habsi S, MacNeil MA 2008. Mass-spectrometer bias in stable isotope ecology. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods 6: 34-39
• MacNeil MA, Tyler EHM, Fonnesbeck CJ, Rushton SP, Polunin NVC, Conroy MJ 2008. Accounting for detectability in reef-fish biodiversity estimates. Marine Ecology Progres Series 367: 249-260
• MacNeil MA, Graham NAJ, Conroy MJ, Fonnesbeck CJ, Polunin NVC, Rushton SP, Chabanet P, McClanahan TR 2008. Detection heterogeneity in underwater visual-census data. Journal of Fish Biology 73: 1748-1763
• MacNeil MA 2008. Making empirical progress in observational ecology. Environmental Conservation 35: 193-196
• Gray T, Hatchard J, Daw T, Stead S 2008. New cod war of words: 'Cod is God' versus 'sod the cod' - Two opposed discourses on the North Sea Cod Recovery Programme. Fisheries Research 93: 1-7
• Graham NAJ, McClanahan TR, MacNeil MA, Wilson SK, Polunin NVC, Jennings S, Chabanet P, Clark S, Spalding MD, Letourneur Y, Bigot L, Galzin R, Ohman MC, Garpe KC, Edwards AJ, Sheppard CRC, 2008. Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems. PLoS One 3(8): e303
• Jennings S, Barnes C, Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC 2008. Application of nitrogen stable isotope analysis in size-based marine food web and macroecological research. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22: 1673-1680
• Ding H, Xu H, Jun W, Le Quesne WJF, Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC 2008. An overview of spatial management and marine protected areas in the East China Sea. Coastal Management 36: 443–457
• Cheal AJ, Wilson SK, Emslie MJ, Dolman AM, Sweatman H 2008. Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 372: 211-223
• Carassou L, Kulbicki M, Nicola TJR, Polunin NVC 2008. Assessment of fish trophic status and relationships by stable isotope data in the coral reef lagoon of New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. Aquatic Living Resources 21: 1-12
• Barnes C, Jennings S, Polunin NVC, Lancaster JE 2008. The importance of quantifying inherent variability when interpreting stable isotope field data. Oecologia 155(2): 227-235
• Badalamenti F, Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC, Pinnegar JK, D'Anna G, Pipitone C 2008. Limited trophodynamic effects of trawling on three Mediterranean fishes. Marine Biology 154: 765-773
• Al-Habsi SH, Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC, Graham NAJ 2008. δ15N and δ13C elucidation of size-structured food webs in a Western Arabian Sea demersal trawl assemblage. Marine Ecology Progress Series 353: 55-63
• Wilson SK, Graham NAJ, Polunin NVC 2007. Appraisal of visual assessments of habitat complexity and benthic composition on coral reefs. Marine Biology 151: 1069-1076
• Turner RA, Cakacaka A, Graham NAJ, Polunin NVC, Pratchett MS, Stead SM, Wilson SK 2007. Declining reliance on marine resources in remote South Pacific societies: ecological vs socio-economic drivers. Coral Reefs 26: 997-1008
• Sweeting CJ, Barry JT, Polunin NVC 2007. Effects of body size and environment on diet-tissue delta C-13 fractionation in fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 352 (1): 165-176
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Videler JJ, De Wijes JJ 2007. Daily carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for the Mediterranean planktivorous damselfish Chromis chromis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 352: 378-391
• Mühlig-Hofmann A 2007. Local Marine Resource Management – the role of Fijian villagers in co-managing a small-scale fishery. Journal of Maritime Studies (MAST) 6(1): 57-81.
• Mill AC, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2007. Explaining isotope trophic-step fractionation: why herbivorous fish are different. Functional Ecology 21: 1137-1145
• McClanahan TR, Graham NAJ, Maina J, Chabanet P, Bruggemann JH, Polunin NVC 2007. Influence of instantaneous variation on estimates of coral reef fish populations and communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 340: 221-234 20
• McClanahan TR, Graham NAJ, Calnan J, MacNeil MA 2007. Towards pristine biomass: reef fish recovery in coral reef marine protected areas in Kenya. Ecological Applications 17: 1055-1067
• McClanahan TR, Ateweberhan M, Ruiz Sebastian C, Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Bruggemann JH, Guillaume MMM 2007. Predictability of coral bleaching from synoptic satellite and in situ temperature observations. Coral Reefs 26: 695-701
• McClanahan TR, Ateweberhan M, Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Ruiz Sebastian C, Bruggemann JH, Guillaume MMM 2007. Western Indian Ocean coral communities: bleaching responses and susceptibility to extinction. Marine Ecology Progress Series 337: 1-13
• Mangubhai S, Harris A, Graham NAJ 2007. Synchronous daytime spawning of the solitary coral Fungia danai (Fungiidae) in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs 26:15
• Ledlie MH, Graham NAJ, Bythell JC, Wilson SK, Jennings S, Polunin NVC, Hardcastle J 2007. Phase shifts and the role of herbivory in the resilience of coral reefs. Coral Reefs 26: 641-653
• Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Jennings S, Polunin NVC, Robinson J, Bijoux JP, Daw TM 2007. Lag effects in the impacts of mass coral bleaching on coral reef fish, fisheries, and ecosystems. Conservation Biology 21: 1291-1300
• Graham NAJ, McClanahan TR, Letourneur Y, Galzin R 2007. Anthropogenic stressors, inter-specific competition and ENSO effects on a Mauritian coral reef. Environmental Biology of Fishes 78: 57-69
• Graham NAJ 2007. Ecological versatility and the decline of coral feeding fishes following climate driven coral mortality. Marine Biology 153: 119-127
• Chaniotis P, Stead S 2007. Interviewing people about the coast on the coast: Appraising the wider adoption of ICZM in North East England. Marine Policy 31: 517-526
• Barnes C, Sweeting CJ, Jennings S, Barry JT, Polunin NVC 2007. Effect of temperature and ration size on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope trophic fractionation. Functional Ecology 21: 357-363
• Wilson SK, Graham NAJ, Pratchett MS, Jones GP, Polunin NVC 2006. Multiple disturbances and the global degradation of coral reefs: are reef fishes at risk or resilient? Global Change Biology 12: 1-15
• Wilson SK, Wilson DT, Lamont C, Evans M 2006. Identifying individual great barracuda Sphyraena barracuda using natural body marks. Journal of Fish Biology 69: 928-932
• Sweeting CJ, Barry J, Barnes C, Polunin NVC, Jennings S 2006. Effects of body size and environment on diet-tissue δ15N fractionation in fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 340: 1-10
• Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC, Jennings S 2006. Effects of chemical lipid extraction and arithmetic lipid correction on stable isotope ratios of fish tissues. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 20: 595-601
• Pratchett MS, Wilson SK, Baird AH 2006. Long-term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Fish Biology 69: 1269-1280
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2006. Planktivorous fishes: links between the littoral and the pelagic in the western Mediterranean. Marine Biology 148: 1089-1099
• Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Jennings S, Polunin NVC, Bijoux JP, Robinson J 2006. Dynamic fragility of oceanic coral reef ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103: 8425-8429
• Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC, Jennings S 2005. Variance in isotopic signatures as a descriptor of tissue turnover and degree of omnivory. Functional Ecology 19: 777-784
• Sale PF, Cowen RK, Danilowicz BS, Jones GP, Kritzer JP, Lindeman KC, Planes S, Polunin NVC, Russ GR, Sadovy YJ, Steneck RS 2005. Critical science gaps impede use of no-take fishery reserves. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 74-80
• McClanahan TR, Graham NAJ 2005. Recovery trajectories of coral reef fish assemblages within Kenyan marine protected areas. Marine Ecology Progress Series 294: 241-248
• Kaiser MJ, Attrill MJ, Jennings S, Thomas DN, Barnes DKA, Brierley AS, Polunin NVC, Raffaelli DG, Williams PLeB 2005. Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems and Impacts. Oxford University Press
• Graham NAJ, Dulvy NK, Jennings S, Polunin NVC 2005. Size-spectra as indicators of the effects of fishing on coral reef fish assemblages. Coral Reefs 24: 118-124
• Sweeting CJ, Polunin NVC, Jennings S 2004. Tissue and fixative dependent shifts of and in preserved ecological material. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 18: 2587-2592
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2004. The use of ECOSIM dynamic modelling to predict trophic cascades resulting from intensive fishing in the Mediterranean rocky littoral. Ecological Modelling 172: 249-267
• Dulvy NK, Polunin NVC, Mill AC, Graham NAJ 2004. Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: evidence for weak indirect effects. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 466-475
• Dulvy NK, Polunin NVC 2004 Using informal knowledge to infer human-induced rarity of a conspicuous reef fish. Animal Conservation 7: 365-374
• Dulvy NK, Freckleton RP, Polunin NVC 2004. Coral reef cascades and the indirect effects of consumer removal by exploitation. Ecology Letters 7: 410-416
• Donaldson TJ, Dulvy NK 2004. Threatened fishes of the world: Bolbometopon muricatum (Valenciennes 1840) (Scaridae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 70: 373-373
• Deudero S, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Morey G, Morales-Nin B 2004. Spatial variation and ontogenic shifts in the isotopic composition of Mediterranean littoral fishes. Marine Biology 145: 971-981
• Darnaude AM, Salen-Picard C, Polunin NVC, Harmelin-Vivien ML 2004. Trophodynamic linkage between river run-off and coastal fishery yield elucidated by stable isotope data in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean). Oecologia 138: 325-332
• Pinnegar JK, Badalamenti F, Polunin NVC 2003. Long-term changes in the trophic level of western Mediterranean fishery and aquaculture landings. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60: 222-235
• Olive PJW, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2003. Isotopic trophic-step fractionation: a dynamic equilibrium model. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 608-617
• Dulvy NK, Sadovy Y, Reynolds JD 2003. Extinction vulnerability in marine populations. Fish and Fisheries 4: 25-64
• Reñones O, Polunin NVC, Goñi R 2002. Size related dietary shifts of the dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe 1834) in a Western Mediterranean littoral ecosystem: an isotope and stomach contents analysis. Journal of Fish Biology 61: 122-137
• Polunin NVC, Pinnegar JK 2002. Trophic ecology and the structure of marine food webs. pp 310-320 In: PJB Hart & JD Reynolds Handbook of Fish and Fisheries, Volume I, Blackwell, Oxford
• Polunin NVC 2002. Marine protected areas, fish and fisheries. pp 293-318 In: PJB Hart & JD Reynolds Handbook of Fish and Fisheries, Volume II, Blackwell, Oxford
• Pinnegar JK, Jennings S, O’Brien CM, Polunin NVC 2002. The effects of exploitation and environmental variability on the trophic structure of the Celtic Sea fish community. Journal of Applied Ecology 39: 377-390
• McClanahan TR, Polunin NVC, Done TJ 2002. Resilience of coral reefs. pp 111-163 In: L. Gunderson, B.-O. Jansson, C. S. Hollings, and C. Folke, Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Ecosystems. Island Press, Washington, DC.
• McClanahan T, Polunin N, Done T 2002. Ecological states and the resilience of coral reefs. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 18. [online, URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art18]
• Jennings S, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Warre KJ 2002. Linking size-based and trophic analyses of benthic community structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series 226: 77-85
• Goodwin, NB; Dulvy, NK; Reynolds, JD 2002. Life-history correlates of the evolution of live bearing in fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 357: 259-267
• Dulvy NK, Reynolds JD 2002. Predicting extinction vulnerability in skates. Conservation Biology 16: 440-450
• Dulvy NK, Mitchell RE, Watson D, Sweeting C, Polunin NVC 2002. Spatial scale-dependent top-down control of mesoinvertebrates along a Fijian fishing gradient. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 278: 1-29
• Deudero S, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2002. Insights into fish host-parasite trophic relationships revealed by stable isotope analysis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 52: 77-86
• Badalamenti F, D’Anna G, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2002. Size-related trophodynamic changes in three target fish species recovering from intensive trawling. Marine Biology 141: 561-570
• Williams ID, Polunin NVC, Hendrick V 2001. Limits to grazing by herbivorous fishes and the impact of low coral cover on macroalgal abundance on a coral reef in Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series 222: 187-196
• Williams ID, Polunin NVC 2001. Large-scale associations between macroalgal cover and grazer biomass on mid-depth reefs in the Caribbean. Coral Reefs 19: 358-366
• Polunin NVC, Morales-Nin B, Herod WE, Cartes JE, Pinnegar JK. 2001. Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by carbon and nitrogen stable-isotope data. Marine Ecology Progress Series 220: 13-23
• Pinnegar JK, Campbell N, Polunin NVC 2001. Unusual stable isotope fractionation patterns observed for host-parasite trophic relationships. Journal of Fish Biology 59: 494-503
• Jennings S, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Warr KJ 2001. Impacts of trawling disturbance on the trophic structure of benthic invertebrate communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 213: 127-142
• Jennings S, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Boon T 2001. Weak cross-species relationships between body size and trophic level belie powerful size-based trophic structuring in fish communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 934-944
• Williams ID, Polunin NVC 2000. Differences between protected and unprotected Caribbean reefs in attributes preferred by dive tourists. Environmental Conservation 27: 382-391
• Stevens JD, Bonfil R, Dulvy NK, Walker P 2000. The effects of fishing on chondrichthyans, and the implications for marine ecosystems. ICES Journal of Marine Science 57: 476-494
• Rickman SJ, Dulvy NK, Jennings S, Reynolds JD 2000. Recruitment variation associated with fecundity in marine fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57: 116-124
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC, Francour P, Badalamenti F, Chemello R, Harmelin-Vivien M-L, Hereu B, Milazzo M, Zabala M 2000. Trophic cascades in fisheries and protected-area management of benthic marine ecosystems. Environmental Conservation 27: 179-200
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 2000. The relative merits of stable isotope and gut contents analysis in elucidating trophic relationships of Mediterranean rocky littoral ecosystems. Oecologia 122: 399-409
• García-Charton, JA, Williams ID, Pérez-Ruzafa A, Milazzo M, Chemello R, Marcos C, Kitsos M-S, Koukouras A & Riggio S 2000. Evaluating the ecological effects of Mediterranean marine reserves: habitat, scale and the natural variability of ecosystems. Environmental Conservation 27: 159-178
• Dulvy NK, Metcalfe JD, Glanville J, Pawson MG, Reynolds JD 2000. Fishery stability, local extinctions and shifts in community structure of skates. Conservation Biology 13: 1466-1475
• Cooke A, Polunin NVC, Moce K 2000. Comparative assessment of stakeholder management in traditional Fijian fishing-grounds. Environmental Conservation 27: 291-299
• Barnes DKA, Dulvy NK, Priestley SH, Darwall WRT, Choiseul V, Whittington M 2000. Fishery characteristics and abundance estimates of the mangrove crab (Scylla serrata) in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. South African Journal of Marine Science
• Reñones O, Morales-Nin B, Deudero S 1999. Population size structure, age and growth of Naucrates ductor in the small scale FADs fishery of Mallorca Island (western Mediterranean). Scientia Marina 63: 355-366
• Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC 1999. Differential fractionation of 13C and 15N among fish tissues: implications for the study of trophic interactions. Functional Ecology 13: 225-231
• McClanahan TR, Hendrick V, Polunin NVC 1999. Varying responses of herbivorous and invertebrate-feeding fishes to macroalgal reduction on a coral reef. Coral Reefs 18: 195-203
• Massutí E, Morales-Nin B, Deudero S 1999. Fish fauna associated with floating objects sampled by experimental and commercial purse nets. Scientia Marina 63: 219-227
• Jennings S, Reynolds JD, Polunin NVC 1999. Predicting the vulnerability of tropical reef fishes to exploitation: an approach based on phylogenies and life histories. Conservation Biology 13: 1466-1475
• Deudero S, Merella P, Morales-Nin B, Massutí E, Alemany F 1999. Fish communities associated with FADs. Scientia Marina 63: 199-207
• Polunin NVC, Jennings S 1998. Differential effects of small-scale fishing on predatory and prey fishes on Fijian reefs. pp 95-124 In: DM Newbery, HHT Prins, N Brown (Eds) Dynamics of Tropical Communities, Symposia of the British Ecological Society 37. Blackwell, Oxford
• Munro JL, Polunin NVC 1997. A decade of progress in coral reef fisheries research: 1986-1995. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2: 2003-2008
• Jennings S, Reñones O, Morales-Nin B, Polunin NVC, Moranta J, Coll J 1997. Spatial variation in the 15N and 13C stable isotope composition of plants, invertebrates and fishes on Mediterranean reefs: implications for the study of trophic pathways. Marine Ecology Progress Series 146:109-116
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1997. Impacts of predator depletion by fishing on the biomass and diversity of non-target reef fish communities. Coral Reefs 16: 71-82
• Hardman-Mountford NJ, Polunin NVC, Boullé D 1997. Can the age of tropical species be determined by otolith measurement? A study using Pristipomoides filamentosus (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the Mahé Plateau, Seychelles. Naga The ICLARM Quarterly 20 (2): 27-31
• Polunin NVC, Roberts CM, Pauly D 1996. Developments in tropical reef fisheries science and management. pp 361-377 In: N.V.C. Polunin & C.M. Roberts (Eds) Reef Fisheries. London: Chapman & Hall
• Polunin NVC, Roberts CM (ed.) 1996. Reef Fisheries. Chapman & Hall, London.
• Polunin NVC 1996. Trophodynamics of reef fish productivity. pp 113-135 In: NVC Polunin, CM Roberts (Eds) Reef Fisheries. London: Chapman & Hall
• Osborne PL, Polunin NVC, Totome RG 1996. Sediments as indicators of ecosystem function in four contrasting lakes in Papua New Guinea. pp. 131-149 In: F Schiemer, KT Boland (Eds) Perspectives in Tropical Limnology. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1996. Fishery development, fishing strategies and socioeconomics in Fijian qoliqoli. Fisheries Management and Ecology 3: 335-347
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1996. Effects of fishing on the biomass and structure of target reef fish communities. Journal of Applied Ecology 33: 400-412
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1996. Impacts of fishing on tropical reef ecosystems. Ambio 25: 44-49
• Jennings S, Marshall SF, Polunin NVC 1996. Seychelles' marine protected areas: comparative structure and status of reef fish communities. Biological Conservation 75: 201-209
• Jennings S, Boullé D, Polunin NVC 1996. Habitat correlates of the distribution and biomass of Seychelles reef fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 46: 15-25
• Dalzell P, Adams TJH, Polunin NVC 1996. Coastal fisheries in the South Pacific islands. Oceanography Marine Biology Annual Review 34: 395-531
• Polunin NVC, Harmelin-Vivien M, Galzin R 1995. Contrasts in food-processing among five herbivorous coral-reef fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 47: 455-465
• Man A, Law R, Polunin NVC. 1995. Role of marine reserves in recruitment to reef fisheries: a metapopulation model. Biological Conservation 71: 197-204
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1995. Biased underwater visual census biomass estimates for target species in tropical reef fisheries. Journal of Fish Biology 47: 733-736
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1995. Relationships between catch and effort in Fijian multispecies reef fisheries subject to different levels of exploitation. Fisheries Management and Ecology 2: 89-101
• Jennings S, Polunin NVC 1995. Comparative size and composition of yield from six Fijian reef fisheries. Journal of Fish Biology 46: 28-46
• Jennings S, Grandcourt FM, Polunin NVC 1995. The effects of fishing on the diversity, biomass and trophic structure of Seychelles' reef fish communities. Coral Reefs 14: 225-235
• Bowler K, Polunin NVC (Editors). 1995. Physiological and Ecological Effects of Rising Temperature on Aquatic Organisms. Journal of Thermal Biology 20 (1/2), Special Issue, 244pp
• Roberts CM, Polunin NVC 1994. Hol Chan: demonstrating that marine reseves can be remarkably effective. Coral Reefs 13: 90
• Roberts CM, Polunin NVC 1993. Marine reserves: simple solutions to managing complex fisheries? Ambio 22: 363-368
• Polunin NVC, Roberts CM 1993. Greater biomass and value of target coral-reef fishes in two small Caribbean marine reserves. Marine Ecology Progress Series 100: 167-176
• Osborne PL, Humphreys GS, Polunin NVC 1993. Sediment deposition and late Holocene environmental change in a tropical lowland basin: Waigani Lake, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Biogeography 20: 599-613
• Roberts CM, Polunin NVC 1992. Effects of marine reserve protection on northern Red Sea fish populations. Proceedings of the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium 2: 969-977
• Polunin NVC, Klumpp DW 1992. Algal food supply and grazer demand in a very productive coral-reef zone. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 164: 1-15
• Polunin NVC, Klumpp DW 1992. A trophodynamic model of fish production on a windward coral-reef tract. pp. 213-233 In: DM John, SJ Hawkins, JH Price (Eds), Plant-Animal Interactions in the Marine Benthos. Systematics Association Special Vol. 46. Oxford: Clarendon
  

Other Papers and Reports

• (2009) Defining the Northumberland lobster fishery. RA Turner, MH Hardy, J Green, NVC Polunin, Marine & Fisheries Agency, 32pp
• (2009) Effects of small prohibited trawling areas on the abundance of fish. NVC Polunin, HJ Bloomfield, CJ Sweeting, DT McCandless, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, 34pp
• (2009) Developing indicators of MPA effectiveness: finfish abundance and diversity in a Yorkshiore prohibited trawling area. NVC Polunin, HJ Bloomfield, CJ Sweeting, DT McCandless, Marine & Fisheries Agency, 46pp
• (2008) Analysing ecosystem effects of selected marine protected areas with Ecospace spatial ecosystem models. WJF Le Quesne, F Arreguín-Sánchez, M Albañez-Lucero, H-Q Cheng, VH Cruz Escalona, G Daskalov, H Ding, E González Rodríguez, JJ (Sheila) Heymans, H Jiang, D Lercari, C López-Ferreira, JA López-Rocha, S Mackinson, JK Pinnegar, NVC Polunin, J Wu, H-G Xu, MJ Zetina-Rejón, University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre Research Reports 16(2), 67 pp
• (2008) Ownership of Fijian inshore fishing grounds: community-based management efforts, issues of traditional authority and proposed changes in legislation. A Mühlig-Hofmann. Ocean Yearbook 22: 291-321
• (2007) An environmental impact assessment of the P & O Nedlloyd Obock grounding on Falahiyat Reef, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. NVC Polunin, JC Bythell, CJ Sweeting, D Hallam, Al-Mushtaraka Marine Services Ltd. (Jeddah)
• (2007) An environmental impact assessment of the MV Cabanos grounding on Falahiyat Reef, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. NVC Polunin, JC Bythell, CJ Sweeting, D Hallam, Al-Mushtaraka Marine Services Ltd. (Jeddah)
• (2007) An environmental impact assessment of the Bao Fu Men grounding on Falahiyat Reef, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. NVC Polunin, JC Bythell, CJ Sweeting, D Hallam, Al-Mushtaraka Marine Services Ltd. (Jeddah)
• (2007) Analysis of the ecosystem effects of selected MPAs using Ecospace spatial ecosystem models. www.incofish.org
• (2007) Traditional authority and community leadership: key factors in community-based marine resource management and conservation. A Muehlig-Hofmann, SPC Traditional Management Information Bulletin 21: 31-44
• (2006) Community-based marine resource management in Fiji – from yesterday to tomorrow. A Mühlig-Hofmann, J Veitayaki, NVC Polunin, S Stead, NAJ Graham. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan.
• (2006) A review of the similarities and differences of planning, operation, stakeholder involvement and effectiveness of selected MPAs. CJ Sweeting, WJF Le Quesne, NVC Polunin, H Xu, H Ding, J Wu, F Arreguín-Sánchez, D Lercari, MJ Zetina-Rejón, www.incofish.org
• (2006) An Environmental Impact Assessment of the Holland Klipper grounding on Jeddah Reef, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. NVC Polunin, SK Wilson, CJ Sweeting, Ince & Co, London, 27pp.
• (2005) Pemba Research Centre Business Plan. SF Walmsley, CT Barnes, NVC Polunin, Government of Mozambique, Maputo.
• (2004) Marine protected areas in management of coral reefs. Briefing Paper 1, International Society for Reef Studies.
• (2004) Economic valuation of coral reefs and adjacent habitats in American Samoa. Jacobs, UK, 100pp
• (2004) Effects of fishing on biodiversity in the North Sea. Briefing Paper 3 (NVC Polunin, NAJ Graham), Fisheries Society of the British Isles
• (2003) Impacts of fishing on coral reef populations. NVC Polunin & NAJ Graham, Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, Hawaii, 48pp.
• (2002) Alternative states in species diverse marine benthic communities. NVC Polunin & NK Dulvy, Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, 5pp.
• (2001) Marine protected areas in the North Sea. Briefing Paper 1 (NVC Polunin, CC Wabnitz), Fisheries Society of the British Isles
• (2000) Fishing down the Mediterranean food webs? K Stergiou & NVC Polunin, Commission Internationale pour l’Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée Workshop Series 12, CIESM, Monaco
• (1999) Fishery-independent assessment and management effects on community fishery resources in Fiji and Vanuatu. NVC Polunin (Chapter 2, Volume 3 in The Performance of Customary Marine Tenure in the Management of Community Fishery Resources in Melanesia), MRAG, London, 31pp.
• (1997) Reef condition and recovery in the Caribbean. I Williams, N Polunin, Department of Marine Sciences & Coastal Management, University of Newcastle.
• (1997) Related current or planned studies in the Caribbean region. I Williams, J Bar, N Polunin, Department of Marine Sciences & Coastal Management, University of Newcastle
• (1997) Ecological and social impacts in planning Caribbean marine reserves: summary of a workshop, Richmond Hill Inn, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 14-15 April 1997. N Polunin, J Carrier, J Woodley, Department of Marine Sciences & Coastal Management, University of Newcastle.
• (1997) Ecological and social impacts in planning Caribbean marine reserves. NVC Polunin, ID Williams, JG Carrier & LF Robertson, DFID Land/Water Interface, HTS Consultants, Swindon, 74pp.
• (1997) Ecological impacts of Caribbean marine reserves. NVC Polunin & ID Williams, DFID Land/Water Interface, Newcastle, 45pp.
• (1997) Country profiles: Caribbean. Research Linkages paper. NVC Polunin, DFID Systems Management Office, London, 8pp.
• (1997) Technical report on the UVC component of the project [The performance of customary marine tenure in the management of community fishery resources in Melanesia], based on field work in Fiji and Vanuatu in 1996, and analysis in Newcastle. NVC Polunin, MRAG Ltd, London, 20pp.
• (1996) Report on programme development visit in Caribbean, 7-19 January 1996. JJF Barr, J Douglas, FM Homer & NVC Polunin, DFID NRSP Land/Water Interface Production System Portfolio Management, Newcastle, 9pp.
• (1996) Report on the environmental effects of the grounding of the m/v Kapitan Kissa on the reef on the East side of the Grafton Passage, Strait of Tiran, Egypt. University of Newcastle Centre for Tropical Coastal Management Studies [NVC Polunin, S Clark & MDA LeTissier], UK P&I Club, 25pp.
• (1996) Impacts of predator depletion by fishing in traditional Fijian fishing grounds on species diversity in three prominent families of coral reef fishes. NVC Polunin & S Jennings, Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, 6pp.
• (1996-ongoing) Environmental Conservation, International Journal of Environmental Science, edited by NVC Polunin, Cambridge University Press
• (1995) Multi-species responses of reef-fisheries to exploitation in the Indo-Pacific. NVC Polunin & S Jennings, Overseas Development Administration Fish Management Science Programme, 60pp.
• (1995) Identification of primary sources of carbon and nitrogen for carnivorous fish production on coral reefs. NVC Polunin, Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, 8pp.
• (1994) Preliminary comments on 'The Environmental Benefits Accruing from the Salving of the MV Nicol' by Environmental Auditors Limited. NVC Polunin & S Jennings, Holmes Hardingham, 13pp.
• (1994) Valuation of the environmental effects of the Okha in the Straits of Tiran. NVC Polunin & S Jennings, UK P&I Club, 8pp.
• (1994) Multi-species responses of reef-fisheries to exploitation in the Indo-Pacific. NVC Polunin, ODA Fish Management Science Programme, 11pp.
• (1994) Reef fish communities and management of local fishing in BIOT: Report on a reconnaissance visit to Diego Garcia, Egmont Islands, Peros Banhos and Salomon Islands. CC Mees & NVC Polunin, ODA Environment Programme, 38pp.
• (1994) Baltiskiye Zori: comments on the measure of loss. NVC Polunin, UK P&I Club, 7pp.
• (1994) Baltiskiye Zori: ecological assessment of reef and diving-tourism impact. NVC Polunin, UK P&I Club, 14pp.
• (1993) Multi-species responses of reef-fisheries to exploitation in the Pacific. NVC Polunin, ODA Fish Management Science Programme, 12pp.
• (1992) Fecundity, software for predicting fecundity effects on fish of varying mortality regimes, including protection in areas closed to fishing. Polunin N, Morton D, Department of Marine Sciences & Coastal Management, Newcastle University
• (1992) Responses of reef fisheries to area closure. NVC Polunin & CM Roberts, ODA Fisheries Management Science Programme, 14pp.
• (1992) Attitudes of coastal fishers to management of inshore fishery stocks: case study of three selected harbours on the North East coast of England. NVC Polunin & M Kucharek, Commission of the European Communities, 41pp.