Publications

2025

Ogier EM, Pecl GT, Hughes T, Lawless S, Layton C, Nash KL, Morrison TH. 2025. Novel marine-climate interventions hampered by low consensus and governance preparedness. Nature Climate Change. 15: 375-384.
Ogier EM, Pecl GT, Hughes T, Lawless S, Layton C, Nash KL, Morrison TH. 2025. Enhance responsible governance to match the scale and pace of marine–climate interventions. Nature Climate Change. 15: 356-357.

2024

DeCesaro J, Allison E, Clawson G, Frazier M, Gephart JA, Hicks C, Nash KL, Williams DR, Halpern BS. 2024. The distribution of environmental pressures from global dietary shift. Environmental Research Letters. 19: 124006.
Gephart JA, Bejarano RA, Gorospe K, Godwin A, Golden CD, Naylor RL, Nash KL, Pace ML, Troell M. 2024. Globalization of wild capture and farmed aquatic foods. Nature Communications. 15: 8026.
Abaker KYI, Elamin SM, Nash KL, Eltaib EBA, Nillos-Kleiven PJ, Klaus R, Moland E. 2024. Assessment of coral communities along Sudan's Red Sea coast. In: NMA. Rasul & ICR. Stewart (Eds.), Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula. pp. 19-31.

2023

Kuempel CD, Frazier M, Verstaen J, Rayner PE, Blanchard JL, Cottrell RS, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Jacobsen NS, McIntyre PB, Metian M, Moran D, Nash KL, Tobben J, Williams DR & Halpern BS. Environmental footprints of farmed chicken and salmon bridge the land and sea. Current Biology. 33(5): 990-997.
Murray L, Breheny M, Cumming R, Erueti B, Mooney M, Nash KL, Severinsen C & Shanly J. 2023. How does learning about the future of the ocean impact children’s emotional wellbeing? Insights from ocean literacy educators in Aotearoa New Zealand. People and Nature. 5(5): 1622-1635.
Halpern BS, Frazier M, Rayner PE, Clawson G, Blanchard JL, Cottrell RS, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Jacobsen NS, Kuempel CD, Moran D, Nash KL & Williams DR. 2023. Reply to: The environmental footprint of fisheries. Nature Sustainability. 6:1314-1315.

2022

Halpern BS, , Frazier M, Verstaen J, Rayner P-E, Clawson G, Blanchard JL, Cottrell RS, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Jacobsen NS, Kuempel CD, McIntyre PB, Metian M, Moran D, Nash KL, Többen J, & Williams DR. 2022. The environmental footprint of global food production. Nature Sustainability. 5: 1027-1039.
Pecl GT, Alexander KA, Melbourne-Thomas J , Novaglio C, Villanueva C, & Nash KL. 2022. Future Seas 2030: pathways to sustainability for the UN Ocean Decade and beyond. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 32: 1-7.
Mellin C, Hicks CC, Fordham DA, Golden CD, Kjellevold M, MacNeil MA, Maire E, Mangubhai S, Mouillot D, Nash KL, Omukoto JO, Robinson JPW, Stuart-Smith RD, Zamborain-Mason J, Edgar GJ, & Graham NAJ. 2022. Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6: 1808-1817.
Nash KL, MacNeil MA, Blanchard JL, Cohen PJ, Farmery AK, Graham NAJ, Thorne-Lyman A, Watson RA, Hicks CC. 2022. Trade and foreign fishing mediate global marine nutrient supply. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 199(22): e2120817119.
Chrysafi et al. 2022. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00940-6.
Robinson JPW, Nash KL, Blanchard JL, Jacobsen NS, Maire E, Graham NAJ, MacNeil MA, Zamborain-Mason J, Allison EH, Hicks CC. 2022. Managing fisheries for maximum nutrient yield. Fish & Fisheries. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12649
Karkarey R, Arthur R, Nash KL, Pratchett M, Sankaran M, Graham NAJ. 2022. Spatial decoupling of α and β diversity suggest different management needs for coral reef fish along an extensive mid-oceanic ridge. Global Ecology and Conservation. 36:e02110
Kelly R, Foley P, Stephenson RL, Hobday RL, Hobday AJ, Pecl GT, Boschetti F, Cvitanovic C, Fleming A, Fulton EA, Nash KL, Neis B, Singh GG, van Putten EI. 2022. Foresighting future oceans: Considerations and opportunities. Marine Policy. 140: 105021
Clawson G, Kuempel CD, Frazier M, Blasco G, Cottrell RS, Froehlich HE, Metian M, Nash KL, Tobben J, Verstaen J, Williams DR, Halpern BS. 2022. Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production. Aquaculture 553:738066

2021

Nash KL, et al. 2021 Oceans and society: feedbacks between ocean and human health. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-021-09669-5. *Graphical Abstract
Blythe J, Baird J, Bennett N, Dale G, Nash KL, Pickering G, Wabnitz CCC. 2021. Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios. People and Nature. 3: 1284-1296. *Conversation Article
Cvitanovic C, et al. 2021. Thirty critical research needs for managing an ecologically and culturally unique remote marine environment: the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Ocean and Coastal Management. 212:105771.
Farmery AK, Alexander K, Anderson K, Blanchard, JL, Carter CG, Evans K, Fischer M, Fleming A, Frusher S, Fulton EA, Haas B, MacLeod CK, Murray L, Nash KL, Pecl GT, Rousseau Y, Trebilco R, Van Putten IE, Mauli S, Dutra L, Greeno D, Kaltavara J, Watson R, Nowak B. 2021. Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-021-09663-x. *Graphical Abstract
Cottrell RS, Metian M, Froehlich HE, Blanchard JL, Jacobsen NS, McIntyre PB, Nash KL, Williams DR, Bouwman L, Gephart JA, Keumpel CD, Moran DD, Troell M, Halpern BS. 2021. Time to rethink trophic levels in aquaculture policy. Reviews in Aquaculture. DOI: 10.1111/raq.12535.
Hogan KFE, Nash KL, Bennett EM. 2021. Adaptive management of ecosystem services for multisystemic resilience: iterative
feedback between application and theory. In: M. Ungar (ed.) Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Changing Contexts. 725-743.
Kelly R et al. 2021. Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-020-09625-9.
Nash KL, Alexander K, Melbourne-Thomas J, Novaglio C, Sbrocchi C, Villaneuva C, Pecl GT. 2021. Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-020-09629-5.

2020

Robinson JPW, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Dajka JC, Hadj-Hammou J, Howlett S, Graba-Landry A, Hoey AS, Nash KL, Wilson SK, Graham NAJ. 2020. Habitat and fishing control grazing potential on coral reefs. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13457.
Garmestani A, Twidwell D, Angeler DG, Sundstrom S, Barichievy C, Chaffin BC, Eason T, Graham NAJ, Granholm D, Gunderson L, Knutson M, Nash KL, Nelson RJ, Nystrom M, Spanbauer TL, Stow CA, Allen CR 2020. Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 18(10): 576-583.
Forrestier R, Blanchard JL, Nash KL, Fulton EA, Johnson C, Audzijonyte A. 2020. Interacting forces of predation and fishing affect species’ maturation size. Ecology & Evolution. 10(24): 14033-14051.
Kuempel CD, Frazier M, Nash KL, Jacobsen NS, Williams DR, Blanchard JL, Cottrell RS, McIntyre PB, Moran D, Bouwman L, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Metian M, Többen J and Halpern BS. 2020. Integrating life cycle and impact assessments to map food's cumulative environmental footprint. One Earth. 3(1): 65-78.
Nash KL, Blythe JL, Cvitanovic C, Fulton EA, Halpern BS, Milner-Gulland EJ, Addison PFE, Pecl GT, Watson RA, Blanchard JL. (2020). To achieve a sustainable blue future, progress assessments must include interdependencies between the sustainable development goals. One Earth. 2(2): 161-173. *Graphical Abstract

2019

Hicks CC, Cohen PJ, Graham NAJ, Nash KL, Allison EH, D'Lima C, Mills DJ, Roscher M, Thilstead SH, Thorne-Lynam AL, MacNeil MA. 2019. Harnessing global fisheries to tackle micronutrient deficiencies. Nature. 574: 95-98. *News & Views & Editorial & Nature 10 Remarkable Papers of 2019
Halpern BS, Cottrell RS, Blanchard JL, Bouwman L, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Jacobsen NS, Kuempel CD, McIntyre PB, Metian M, Moran DD, Nash KL, Többen J, Williams DR. 2019. Putting all foods on the same table: achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting. PNAS. 116 (37): 18152-18156.
Darling ES, et al. 2019. Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3: 1341–1350. *News & Views Summary & Video
Kelly R, Mackay M, Nash KL, Cvitanovic, et al. 2019. Ten tips for developing interdisciplinary socio-ecological researchers Socio-Ecological Practice Research. 1(2): 149–161. *Infographic & Blog
Stephenson R, et al. 2019. A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities. Ocean & Coastal Management. 177: 127-138. *Infographic
Cottrell R, Nash KL, Halpern BS, Remenyi TA, Corney SP, Fleming A, Fulton EA, Hornborg S, Johne A, Watson RA, Blanchard JL. 2019. Food production shocks across land and sea. Nature Sustainability 2: 130-137.

2018

Sundstrom S, Angeler DG, Barichievy C, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Gunderson L, Knutson M, Nash KL, Spanbauer T, Stow CA, Allen, CR. 2018. The distribution and role of functional abundance in cross-scale resilience. Ecology 99: 2421-2432.
Alexander et al. 2018. Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research. Marine & Freshwater Research DOI: 0.1071/MF17248.
Barichievy C, Angeler DG, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Nash KL, Stow CA, Sundstrom S, Allen CR. 2018. A method to detect discontinuities in census data. Ecology & Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4297.
Harvey BJ, Nash KL, Blanchard JL, Edwards DP. 2018. Ecosystem based management of coral reefs under climate change. Ecology & Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4146.
Clements CF, Blanchard JL, Nash KL, Hindell MA, Ozgul A. 2018. Reply to ‘Whaling catch data are not reliable for analyses of body size shifts’. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 757-758.

2017

Nash KL, Cvitanovic C, Fulton EA, Halpern BS, Milner-Gulland EJ, Watson RA, Blanchard JL. 2017. Planetary Boundaries for a blue planet. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1625-1-1634. *F1000 Review, Conservation Bytes Review & Video Abstract
Nash KL, Watson RA, Halpern BS, Fulton EA, Blanchard JL. 2017. Improving understanding of the functional diversity of fisheries by exploring the influence of global catch reconstruction. Scientific Reports 7: 10746. *Infographic
Cvitanovic C, Hobday AJ, Mcdonald J, van Putten I, Nash KL. 2017. Governing fisheries through the critical decade: the role and utility of polycentric systems. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries DOI: 10.1007/s11160-017-9495-9.
Cottrell R, Flemming A, Fulton EA, Nash KL, Watson R, Blanchard JL. 2017. Considering land-sea interactions and trade-offs for food and biodiversity. Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13873.
Blanchard et al. 2017. Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1240-1249.
Blythe J, Nash KL, Yates J, Cumming G. 2017. Feedbacks as a bridging concept for advancing transdisciplinary sustainability research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26-27: 114-119. *Infographic
Clements CF, Blanchard JL, Nash KL, Hindell MA, Ozgul A. 2017. Body size shifts and early warning signals precede the historic collapse of whale stocks. Nature Ecology & Evolution 0188. *Media
Darling ES. Graham NAJ. Januchowski-Hartley FA. Nash KL. Pratchett MS. Wilson SK. 2017. Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits and reef fish assemblages . Coral Reefs DOI: 10.1007/s00338-017-1539-z. *ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Paper
Sundstrom SM. Eason T. Nelson RJ. Angeler DG, Barichievy C. Garmestani AS. Graham NAJ. Granholm D. Gunderson L. Knutson M. Nash KL. Spanbauer T. Stow CA. Allen CR. 2017. Detecting spatial regimes in ecosystems. Ecology Letters 20: 19-32. *Blog

2016

Nash KL. Abesamis R, Graham NAJ. McClure E. Moland E. 2016. Drivers of herbivory on coral reefs: species, habitat and management effects. Marine Ecology Progress Series 554: 129-140. *Infographic
Nash KL. Bijoux J. Robinson J. Wilson S.K. Graham NAJ 2016. Harnessing fishery-independent indicators to aid management of data poor fisheries: weighing habitat and fishing effects. Ecosphere DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1362. *Blog & Infographic
Nash KL. Graham NAJ 2016. Ecological indicators for coral reef fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries 17(4): 1029-1054. *Video Abstract
Spanbauer T. Allen C. Angeler D. Eason T. Fritz S. Garmestani A. Nash KL. Stone J. Stow C. Sundstrom S. 2016. Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160249.
Lefèvre CD, Nash KL, González-Cabello A, Bellwood DR 2016. Consequences of extreme life history traits on population persistence: do short-lived gobies face demographic bottlenecks? Coral Reefs 35: 399-409.

2015

Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Jennings S, Wilson SK, Bellwood DR. 2015. Herbivore cross-scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 646-655. *Blog
Nash KL, Welsh JQ, Graham NAJ, Bellwood DR. 2015. Home range allometry in coral reef fishes: comparison to other vertebrates, methodological issues and management implications. Oecologia 177: 73-83.
Angeler DG, Allen CR, Barichievy C, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Graham NAJ, Granholm D, Gunderson L, Knutson M, Nash KL, Nelson RJ, Nystrom M, Spanbauer TL, Stow CA, Sundstrom SM. 2015. Management applications of discontinuity theory. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 688-698.

2014

Nash KL, Allen CR, Angeler DG, Barichievy C, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Graham NAJ, Granholm D, Knutson M, Nelson RJ, Nystrom M, Stow CA, Sundstrom SM. 2014. Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns and the organisation of ecosystems. Ecology 95(3): 654-667.
Nash KL, Allen CR, Barichievy C, Nystrom M, Sundstrom SM, Graham NAJ. 2014. Habitat structure and body size distributions: cross-ecosystem comparison for taxa with determinate and indeterminate growth. Oikos 123:971-983. *Blog
Spanbauer TL, Allen CR, Angeler DG, Eason T, Nash KL, Fritz SC, Stone JR, Garmestani AS. 2014. Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift. PLoS ONE 9(10): e108936.
Graham NAJ, Chong-Seng KM, Huchery C, Januchowski-Hartley FA, Nash KL. 2014. Coral reef community composition in the context of disturbance history on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. PLoS ONE 9:e101204.
Chong-Seng KM, Nash KL, Bellwood DR, Graham NAJ. 2014. Macroalgal herbivory on recovering vs. degrading coral reefs. Coral Reefs 33(2): 409-419
Zhang SY, Speare KE, Long ZT, McKeever KA, Cyoerkoe M, Ramus AP, Mohorn Z, Akins KL, Hambridge SM, Graham NAJ, Nash KL, Selig ER, Bruno JF. 2014. Is coral richness related to community resistance to and recovery from disturbance? PeerJ 2: e308

2013

Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Bellwood DR. 2013. Fish foraging patterns, vulnerability to fishing and implications for the management of ecosystem function across scales. Ecological Applications 23: 1632-1644.
Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Wilson SK, Bellwood DR. 2013. Cross-scale habitat structure drives fish body size distributions on coral reefs. Ecosystems 16: 478-490. *Video Abstract
Graham NAJ, Nash KL. 2013. The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems. Coral Reefs 32: 315-326.*ISI Highly Cited Paper

2012

Januchowski-Hartley FA, Nash KL, Lawton, RJ. 2012. The influence of spear guns, dive gear and observers on estimating fish flight initiation distance on coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 469:113-119.
Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Januchowski-Hartley FA, Bellwood DR. 2012. Influence of habitat condition and competition on foraging behaviour of parrotfishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 457: 113-124.
Wilson SK, Graham NAJ, Fisher R, Jennings S, Robinson J, Nash KL, Chong-Seng K, Polunin NVC, Aumeeruddy R, Quatre R. 2012. Effects of macroalgal expansion and marine protected areas on coral recovery following a climatic disturbance. Conservation Biology 26:995-1004.

2011

Graham NAJ, Nash KL, Kool JT. 2011. Coral reef recovery dynamics in a changing world. Coral Reefs 30:283-294. *Reviewed by Faculty of 1000 Biology