In press

Brierley A.S. Pelagic Ecosystems. In Kaiser M.J. et al. Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems and Impacts.Oxford University Press.

2005

Anderson, C.I.H., Brierley A.S. and Armstrong F. (2005). Spatio-temporal variability in the distribution of epi- and meso-pelagic acoustic backscatter in the Irminger Sea, North Atlantic, with implications for predation on Calanus finmarchicus. Marine Biology, 146 (6): 1177-1188.

Brierley, A.S., Boyer, D.C., Axelsen, B.E., Lynam, C.P., Sparks, C.A.J., Boyer, H.J. and Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Towards the acoustic estimation of jellyfish abundance. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 295: 105-111.

Conti, S.G., Demer, D.A. and Brierley, A.S. (2005). Broad bandwidth sound scattering and absorption from krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica), mysids (Praunus flexuousus and Neomysis integer), and shrimp (Crangon crangon). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 62: 956-965.

Lynam, C.P., Hay, S.J. and Brierley, A.S. (2005). Jellyfish abundance and climatic variation: contrasting responses in oceanographically distinct regions of the North Sea, and possible implications for fisheries. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85: 435-450.

Lynam, C.P., Heath, M.R., Hay, S.J. and Brierley, A.S. (2005). Evidence for impacts by jellyfish on North Sea herring recruitment. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 298: 157-167.

Mair, A.M., Fernandes, P.G., LeBourges-Dhaussy, A. and Brierley, A.S. (2005). An investigation into the zooplankton composition of a prominent 38-kHz scattering layer in the North Sea. Journal of Plankton Research, 27 (7): 623-633.

Sparks, C., Brierley, A.S., Buecher E., Boyer, D., Axelsen, B. and Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Submersible observations on the daytime vertical distribution of Aequorea ?forskalea off the west coast of southern Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85: 519-521

2004

Brierley, A.S., Axelsen, B.E., Boyer, D.C., Lynam, C.P., Didcock, C.A., Boyer, H.J., Sparks, C.A.J., Purcell, J.E., and Gibbons, M.J. (2004). Single target echo detections of jellyfish. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 61 (3): 297-440.

Hewitt, R.P., Watkins, J.L., Naganobu, M., Sushin, V., Brierley, A.S., Demer, D., Kasatkina, S., Takao, Y., Goss, C., Malyshko, A., Brandon, M.A., Kawaguchi, S., Siegel, V., Trathan, P.N., Emery, J., Everson, I. and Miller, D. (2004). Biomass of Antarctic krill in the Scotia sea in January/February 2000 and its use in revising an estimate of precautionary yield. Deep-Sea Research II, 51 (12-13): 1215-1236.

Lynam C.P., Hay S.J. and Brierley A.S. (2004). Interannual variability in abundance of North Sea jellyfish and links to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Limnology and Oceanography, 49 (3): 637-643.

2003

Brierley, A.S., Fernandes, P.G., Brandon, M.A., Armstrong, F., Millard, N.W., McPhail, S.D., Stevenson, P., Pebody, M., Perrett, J., Squires, M., Bone, D.G. and Griffiths, G. (2003). An investigation of avoidance by Antarctic krill of RRS James Clark Ross using the Autosub-2 autonomous underwater vehicle. Fisheries Research, 60 (2-3): 569-576.

Brierley, A.S., Gull, S.F. and Wafy, M.H. (2003). Bayesian Maximum Entropy reconstruction of stock distribution and inference of stock density from line-transect acoustic survey data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 60 (3): 446-452.

Fernandes, P. G., Stevenson, P., Brierley, A. S., Armstrong, F. and Simmonds, E. J. (2003). AUVs: future platforms for fisheries acoustics. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 60 (3): 684-691.

Priddle, J., Whitehouse, M.J., Ward, P., Shreeve, R.S., Brierley, A.S., Atkinson, A., Watkins, J.L., Brandon, M.A. and Cripps, J.C. (2003). Biogeochemistry of a Southern Ocean plankton ecosystem: Using natural variability in community composition to study the role of metazooplankton in carbon and nitrogen cycles. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 (C4): art. no. 8082.

Trathan, P.N., Brierley, A.S., Brandon, M.A., Bone, D.G., Goss, C., Grant, S.A., Murphy, E.J. and Watkins, J.L. (2003). Oceanographic variability and changes in Antarctic krill abundance at South Georgia. Fisheries Oceanography, 12 (6): 569-583.

Wafy, M.H., Brierley, A.S., Gull, S.F. and Watkins, J.L. (2003). MaxEnt reconstructions of krill distribution and estimates of krill density from acoustic surveys at South Georgia 1996-2000. CCAMLR Science, 10: 91-100.

Woodd-Walker, R.S., Watkins, J.L. and Brierley, A.S. (2003). Identification of Southern Ocean acoustic targets using aggregation backscatter and shape characteristics. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 60 (3): 641-649.

2002

Anderson, C.I.H. and Rodhouse, P.G. (2002). Distribution of juvenile squid in the Scotia Sea, in relation to regional oceanography. Bulletin of Marine Science, 71 (1): 97-108.

Barlow, K.E., Boyd, I.L., Croxall, J.P., Reid, K., Staniland, I.J. and Brierley, A.S. (2002). Are penguins and seals in competition for Antarctic krill at South Georgia? Marine Biology, 140: 205-213.

Brierley, A.S., Fernandes, P.G., Brandon, M.A., Armstrong, F., Millard, N.W., McPhail, S.D., Stevenson, P., Pebody, M., Perrett, J., Squires, M., Bone, D.G. and Griffiths, G. (2002). Antarctic krill under sea ice: elevated abundance in a narrow band just south of ice edge. Science, 295: 1890-1892.

Brierley, A.S., Goss, C., Grant, S.A., Watkins, J.L., Reid, K., Belchier, M., Everson, I., Jessop, M.J., Afanasyev, V. and Robst, J. (2002). Significant intra-annual variability in krill distribution and abundance at South Georgia as revealed by multiple acoustic surveys during 2000/01. CCAMLR Science: 9, 71-82.

Brierley, A.S. and Thomas, D.N. (2002). Ecology of Southern Ocean pack ice. Advances in Marine Biology, 43: 171-276.

Griffiths, G., et al. (including Brierley A.S.) (2002). Chapter 9. Multidisciplinary ocean science applications of an AUV: the Autosub Science Missions programme. In Griffiths, G. (Ed.) Technology and applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Taylor and Francis. 368 pp.

Hewitt, R.P., Watkins, J.L., Naganobu, M., Tshernyshkov, P., Brierley, A.S., Demer, D.A., Kasatkina, S., Takao, Y., Goss, C., Malyshko, A., Brandon, M.A., Kawaguchi, S., Siegel, V., Trathan, P.N., Emery, J.H., Everson, I. and Miller, D.G.M. (2002). Setting a precautionary catch limit for Antarctic krill. Oceanography, 15: 26-33.

Ward, P., Whitehouse, M.J., Meredith, M., Murphy, E.J., Shreeve, R.S., Korb, R., Watkins, J.L., Thorpe, S.E., Woodd-Walker, R.S., Brierley, A.S., Cunningham, N.J., Grant, S.A. and Bone, D.G. (2002). Deep-Sea Research Part I - Oceanographic Research Papers, 49: 2183-2202.

Watkins, J.L. and Brierley, A.S. (2002). Verification of acoustic techniques used to identify and size Antarctic krill. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 59: 1326-1336.

2001

Brierley, A.S. and Fernandes, P.G. (2001). Diving depths of northern gannets: acoustic observations of Sula bassana from an autonomous underwater vehicle. The Auk, 118(2): 529-534.

Reid, K. and Brierley, A.S. (2001). The use of predator-derived krill length-frequency distributions to calculate target strength. CCAMLR Science, 8: 155-163.

Brierley, A.S., Axelsen, B.E., Buecher, E., Sparks, C.A.J., Boyer, H. and Gibbons, M.J. (2001). Acoustic observations of jellyfish in the Namibian Benguela. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 210: 55-66.

Buecher, E., Sparks, C., Brierley, A., Boyer, H. and Gibbons, M. (2001). Biometry and size distribution of Chrysaora hysoscella (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) and Aequorea aequorea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) off Namibia with some notes on their parasite Hyperia medusarum. Journal of Plankton Research, 23 (10): 1073-1080.

Sparks, C.A.J., Buecher, E., Brierley, A.S., Axelsen, B.E., Boyer, H. and Gibbons, M.J. (2001). Observations on the distribution and relative abundance of the scyphomedusan Chrysaora hysoscella (Linne, 1766) and the hydrozoan Aequorea aequorea (Forskal, 1775) in the northern Benguela ecosystem. Hydrobiologia, 451(1-3): 275-286.

Trathan, P.N., Watkins, J.L., Murray, A.W.A., Brierley, A.S., Everson, I., Goss, C., Priddle, J., Reid, K., Ward, P., Hewitt, R., Demer, D., Naganobu, M., Kawaguchi, S., Sushin, V., Kasatkina, S.M., Hedley, S., Kim, S. and Pauly, T. (2001). The CCAMLR-2000 krill synoptic survey: a description of the rationale and design. CCAMLR Science, 8: 1-23.

2000

Brierley, A.S. and Watkins, J.L. (2000). Effects of sea ice cover on the swarming behaviour of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 57 Supplement 3: 24-30.

Fernandes, P.G., Brierley, A.S., Simmonds, E.J., Millard, N.W., McPhail, S.D., Armstrong, F., Stevenson, P. and Squires, M. (2000). Fish do not avoid survey vessels. Nature, 404:35-36.

Fernandes, P.G., Brierley, A.S., Simmonds, E.J., Millard, N.W., McPhail, S.D., Armstrong, F., Stevenson, P. and Squires, M. (2000). Addendum - Fish do not avoid survey vessels. Nature, 407:152.

Reid, K., Brierley, A.S., and Nevitt, G.A. (2000). An initial assessment of relationships between the distribution of whales and Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at South Georgia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 2(2): 143-149.

1999

Atkinson, A., Ward, P., Hill, A., Brierley, A.S. and Cripps, G.C. (1999) Krill-copepod interactions at South Georgia, Antarctica, II. Possible control by Euphausia superba of copepod abundance. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 176: 63-79.

Brierley, A.S. (1999). A comparison of Antarctic euphausiids sampled by net and from geothermally-heated waters: insights into sampling bias. Polar Biology, 22: 109-114.

Brierley, A.S. and Brandon, M.A. (1999). Potential for long-distance dispersal of Euphausia crystallorophias in fast current jets. Marine Biology, 135 (1): 77-82.

Brierley, A.S., Demer, D.A., Watkins, J.L. and Hewitt, R. (1999). Concordance of interannual fluctuations in acoustically estimated densities of Antarctic krill around South Georgia and Elephant Islands: biological evidence of same-year teleconnections across the Scotia Sea. Marine Biology, 134 (4): 675-681.

Brierley, A.S., Watkins, J.L., Goss, C., Wilkinson, M.T. and Everson, I. (1999). Acoustic estimates of krill density at South Georgia, 1981 to 1998. CCAMLR Science, 6: 47-57.

1998

Brierley, A.S., Brandon, M.A. and Watkins, J.L. (1998). An assessment of the utility of an acoustic Doppler current profiler for biomass estimation. Deep-Sea Research I, 45: 1555-1573.

Brierley, A.S., Goss, C., Watkins, J.L. and Woodroffe, P. (1998). Variations in echosounder calibration with temperature, and some possible implications for acoustic surveys of krill biomass. CCAMLR Science, 5: 273-281.

Brierley, A.S., Ward, P., Watkins, J.L. and Goss, C. (1998). Acoustic discrimination of Southern Ocean zooplankton. Deep-Sea Research II, 45: 1155-1173.

Goss, C., Rodhouse, P. G., Watkins, J.L. and Brierley, A.S. (1998). Attribution of acoustic echoes to squid in the South Atlantic. CCAMLR Science, 5: 259-271.

Murphy, E.J., Watkins, J.L., Reid, K., Trathan, P.N., Everson, I., Croxall, J.P., Priddle, J., Brandon, M.A., Brierley, A.S. and Hofmann, E. (1998). Interannual variability of the South Georgia marine ecosystem: biological and physical sources of variation in the abundance of krill. Fisheries Oceanography, 7: 381-390.

1997

Allcock, A. L., Brierley, A.S., Thorpe, J.P. and Rodhouse, P.G. (1997). Restricted geneflow and evolutionary divergence between geographically separated populations of the Antarctic octopus Pareledone turqueti. Marine Biology, 129 (1): 97-102.

Brierley, A.S., Watkins, J.L. and Murray, A.W.A. (1997). Interannual variability in krill abundance at South Georgia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 150 (1-3): 87-98. Abstract - online

Priddle, J., Whitehouse, M. J., Atkinson, A., Brierley, A.S. and Murphy, E. J. (1997). Diurnal changes in near-surface ammonium concentration - interplay between zooplankton and phytoplankton. Journal of Plankton Research, 19 (9): 1305-1330.

1996

Brierley, A.S., Allcock, A. L., Thorpe, J.P. and Clarke, M.R (1996). Biochemical genetic evidence supporting the taxonomic separation of Loligo edulis and Loligo chinensis (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea) from the genus Loligo. Marine Biology, 127(1), 97-104.

Brierley, A.S., Clarke, M.R. and Thorpe, J.P. (1996). Ctenopteryx sicula, a bathypelagic loliginid squid? American Malacological Bulletin, 12 (1/2): 137-143.

Brierley, A.S. and Watkins, J.L. (1996). Acoustic targets at South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands during a season of krill scarcity. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 138 (1-3): 51-61.

Socha D.G., Watkins, J.L., and Brierley, A.S. (1996). A visualisation-based post-processing system for analysis of acoustic data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 53: 335-338.

Watkins, J.L. and Brierley, A.S. (1996). A post-processing technique to remove background noise from echo-integration data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 53: 339-344.

1995

Brierley, A.S., Thorpe, J.P., Pierce, G.J., Clarke, M.R. and Boyle, P.R. (1995). Genetic variation in Loligo forbesi in the north-east Atlantic. Marine Biology, 122 (1): 79-86.

1994

Brierley, A.S. and Thorpe, J.P. (1994). Biochemical genetic evidence supporting the taxonomic separation of Loligo gahi from the Genus Loligo. Antarctic Science, 6 (2): 143-148.

Jennings, S., Brierley, A.S. and Walker, J.W. (1994). The inshore fish assemblages of the Galápagos archipelago. Biological Conservation, 70: 49-57.

Pierce, G.J., Thorpe, R.S., Hastie, L.C., Brierley, A.S., Guerra, A., Boyle, P.R., Jamieson, R. and Avila, P. (1994). Geographic variation in Loligo forbesi in the north-east Atlantic: analysis of morphometric data and tests of causal hypotheses. Marine Biology, 119 (4): 541-547.

1993

Brierley, A.S., Rodhouse, P.G., Thorpe, J.P. and Clarke, M.R. (1993). Genetic evidence of population heterogeneity and cryptic speciation in the ommastrephid squid Martialia hyadesi from the Patagonian Shelf and Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone. Marine Biology, 116 (4): 593-602.

Brierley, A.S., Thorpe, J.P., Clarke, M.R. and Martins, H.R. (1993). A preliminary biochemical genetic investigation of the population structure of Loligo forbesi Steenstrup, 1856 from the British Isles and the Azores. In: Okutani, T., O'Dor, R.K. and Kubodera, T. (eds.). Recent advances in cephalopod fisheries biology. Tokai University Press, Tokyo: pp 61-69.

 

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