Alastair Harborne

Post-graduate student
Marine Spatial Ecology Lab
School of Biological Sciences, Hatherly Laboratory
University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road
Exeter, EX4 4PS, United Kingdom

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Education
Ph.D., Marine Ecology, University of Exeter, UK, 2007
B.Sc., Oceanography with Biology, Southampton University, UK, 1993

Research Interests
Alastair Harborne is a marine biologist interested in the spatial ecology and conservation of coral reefs. Following eight years of experience working with non-professional researchers in tropical marine survey techniques and the establishment of marine protected areas, he has joined the Bahamas Biocomplexity Project to work with Peter Mumby as part of the Habitat Working Group. Alastair's main research interests within the project are: (a) investigating patterns of benthic and fish biodiversity at a range of spatial scales and the appropriateness of habitats as surrogates of species biodiversity; (b) linking habitat maps to the underlying benthic and fish community structures in order to generate maps of beta-diversity and attempting to understand the resulting patterns; (c) deriving maps of reef functions from habitat maps and modeling the effects of perturbations on these functions and (d) investigating how patterns of species and beta-diversity can be incorporated in reserve selection algorithms.

Selected Publications
Harborne A.R., P.J. Mumby, C.V. Kappel, C.P. Dahlgren, F. Micheli, K.E. Holmes, and D.R. Brumbaugh. In Press. Tropical coastal habitats as surrogates of fish community structure, grazing, and fisheries value. Ecological Applications.

Harborne, A.R., P.J. Mumby, C.V. Kappel, C.P. Dahlgren, F. Micheli, K.E. Holmes, J.N. Sanchirico, K. Broad, I.A. Elliott, and D.R. Brumbaugh. 2008. Reserve effects and natural variation in coral reef communities. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1010-1018.

Mumby, P.J., A.R. Harborne, J. Williams, C.V. Kappel, D.R. Brumbaugh, F. Micheli, K.E. Holmes, C.P. Dahlgren, C.B. Paris, and P.G. Blackwell. 2007. Trophic cascade facilitates coral recruitment in a marine reserve. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(20): 8362-8367. [PDF]

Harborne, A.R., P.J. Mumby, F. Micheli, C.T. Perry, C.P. Dahlgren, K.E. Holmes, and D.R. Brumbaugh. 2006. The functional value of Caribbean coral reef, seagrass and mangrove habitats to ecosystem processes. Advances in Marine Biology 50: 57-190.

Harborne, A.R., P.J. Mumby, K. Żychaluk, J.D. Hedly, and P.G. Blackwell. 2006. Modeling the beta diversity of coral reefs. Ecology 87(1): 2871-2881. [PDF]

Mumby, P.J., C.P. Dahlgren, A.R. Harborne, C.V. Kappel, F. Micheli, D.R. Brumbaugh, K.E. Holmes, J.M. Mendes, K. Broad, J.N. Sanchirico, K. Buch, S. Box, R.W. Stoffle, and A.B. Gill. 2006. Fishing, trophic cascades, and the process of grazing on coral reefs. Science 311: 98-101.

Mumby P.J., J.D. Hedley, K. Żychaluk, A.R. Harborne, and P.G. Blackwell. 2006. Revisiting the catastrophic die-off of the urchin Diadema antillarum on Caribbean coral reefs: Fresh insights on resilience from a simulation model. Ecological Modelling 196(1-2): 131-148.

Mumby, P.J., F. Micheli, C.P. Dahlgren, S.Y. Litvin, A.B. Gill, D.R. Brumbaugh, K. Broad, J.N. Sanchirico, C.V. Kappel, A.R. Harborne, and K.E. Holmes. 2006. Marine parks need sharks? Response to letter. Science 312: 527-528.

Beger M., A.R. Harborne, T.P. Dacles, J-L. Solandt, and G.L. Ledesma. 2005. A framework of lessons learnt from community-based marine reserves and its effectiveness in guiding a new coastal management initiative in the Philippines. Environmental Management 34(6): 786-801.

Hedley J.D., A.R. Harborne, and P.J. Mumby. 2005. Simple and robust removal of sun glint for mapping shallow-water benthos. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26: 2107-2112.

Mumby P.J., A.J. Edwards, J.E. Arias-Gonzalez, K.C. Lindeman, P.G. Blackwell, A. Gall, M.I. Gorczynska, A.R. Harborne, C.L. Pescod, H. Renken, C.C.C. Wabnitz, and G. Llewellyn. 2004. Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean. Nature 427: 533-536.

White, W.H., A.R. Harborne, I.S. Sotheran, R. Walton, and R.L. Foster-Smith. 2003. Using an Acoustic Ground Discrimination System to map coral reef benthic classes. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24: 2641-2660.

Harborne, A.R., D.C. Afzal, M.J. Andrews, and J.M. Ridley. 2002. Beyond data: The expanded role of a volunteer programme assisting resource assessment and management in the Bay Islands, Honduras. Proceedings of the 9^th International Coral Reef Symposium: 667-672.

Raines, P.S., A.R. Harborne and J.M. Ridley. 2002. Coastal zone management and conservation education in Belize: The role of Coral Caye Conservation. Journal of Belizean Affairs 4: 118-128.

Harborne, A.R., D.C. Afzal, and M.J. Andrews. 2001. Honduras: Caribbean coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin 42: 1221-1235.

Harborne, A.R., M.D. McField, and E.K. Delaney. 2000. Belize. In: C.R.C. Sheppard (ed.), Seas at the Millennium (Volume 1, Regional Chapters: Europe, The Americas and West Africa). Elsevier, Amsterdam: 501-516.

Mumby, P.J. and A.R. Harborne. 1999. Development of a systematic classification scheme of marine habitats to facilitate regional management and mapping of Caribbean coral reefs. Biological Conservation 88: 155-163.

Mumby, P.J., K.R. Clarke, and A.R. Harborne. 1996. Weighting species abundance estimates for marine resources assessment. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 6: 115-120.

Mumby, P.J., A.R. Harborne, P.S. Raines, and J.M. Ridley. 1995. A critical assessment of data derived from Coral Cay Conservation volunteers. Bulletin of Marine Science 56: 742-756.