Shannen M Smith

Ruđer Bošković Institute | RBI · Centre for Marine Research

With global change accelerating the rate of species' range shifts, predicting which are most likely to establish viable populations in their new habitats is key to understanding how biological systems will respond. Annually, in Australia, tropical fish larvae from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are transported south via the East Australian Current (E...

Partial migration affects the ecology and evolution of animal populations, and is an important consideration for the management of harvested species, yet the phenomenon is understudied in fish. We provide the first insights into partially diadromous migration of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) in Australia by examining the otolith chemistry of old ind...

Background and Aims Globally, rising seawater temperatures contribute to the regression of marine macroalgal forests. Along the Istrian coastline (northern Adriatic), an isolated population of Gongolaria barbata persists in a coastal lagoon, representing one of the last marine macroalgal forests in the region. Our objective was to examine the impac...

Essential for healthy oceans, coastal communities, fisheries, economies, and marine biodiversity from the subtropics to the polar regions, kelp forests are an integral and threatened ocean ecosystem. Their benefits are connected to over 740 million people who live beside a kelp forest, and their economic potential is valued at least 500 billion USD...

Marine kelp forests cover 1/3 of our world's coastlines, are heralded as a nature-based solution to address socio-environmental issues, connect hundreds of millions of people with the ocean, and support a rich web of biodiversity throughout our oceans. But they are increasingly threatened with some areas reporting over 90% declines in kelp forest c...

Biotic interactions such as predation are difficult ecological processes to quantify in the wild. This is especially the case in the marine environment due to logistical difficulties in capturing animal behaviour. Common approaches use aquarium‐based experiments, live‐tethering, or assays with bait as proxies for quantifying predation pressure. How...

Citation: Gljušćić, E.; Bilajac, A.; Smith, S.M.; Najdek, M.; Iveša, L. First Restoration Experiment for Endemic Fucus virsoides on the Western Istrian Coast-Is It Feasible? Plants 2023, 12, 1445. Abstract: Fucus virsoides is an endemic species of the Mediterranean limited to the Adriatic Sea. In recent decades, it has undergone a severe regression...

Jadranski fukus, poznat i kao jadranski bračić (Fucus virsoides) je jedini autohtoni predstavnik mediteranskih fukusa u Sredozemlju te endem Jadrana. Od osamdesetih godina, od kad su se počeli pojavljivati prvi zapisi o smanjenju populacije, pojasevi jadranskog fukusa, karakteristični za kamenite, poluzaštićene uvale istarskog poluotoka, u potpunos...

The structure of ecological communities is rapidly changing across the globe due to climate‐mediated shifts in species distributions, with novel ecosystem states emerging as new species become dominant. While it is clear that such changes restructure habitat properties and their associated assemblages, how new nutritional resources and consumers ma...

Climate‐mediated species redistributions are causing novel interactions and leading to profound regime shifts globally. For species that expand their distribution in response to warming, survival depends not only on their physiological capacity, but also on the ability to coexist or be competitive within the established community. In temperate mari...

Range shifts of tropical marine species to temperate latitudes are predicted to increase as a consequence of climate change. To date, the research focus on climate-mediated range shifts has been predominately dealt with the physiological capacity of tropical species to cope with the thermal challenges imposed by temperate latitudes. Behavioural tra...

Table S2: Position and ecological rationale for each morphological trait used for landmarking in current study (adapted from Farré et al 2013)

Table S1. List of bony fish species (residents and tropical vagrants) used in morphometric analysis

Table S1. List of bony fish species (residents and tropical vagrants) used in morphometric analysis

Table S2: Position and ecological rationale for each morphological trait used for landmarking in current study (adapted from Farré et al 2013)