Edward Abraham - publications and reports

A list of publications published over the last decade.

Seabirds, marine mammals, and fisheries

Abraham, E. R., Middleton D. A. J., Waugh S. M., Pierre, J. P., Walker, N. and Schröder, C.
A fleet scale experimental comparison of devices used for reducing the incidental capture of seabirds on trawl warps.
In preparation (2007)

Middleton, D. A. J. and Abraham, E. R.
The efficacy of warp strike mitigation devices: Trials in the 2006 squid fishery.
Final research report for New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries project IPA2006-02 (2007)
[Abstract]

Abraham, E. R.
Mincing and mealing: a test of offal management strategies to reduce interactions between seabirds and trawl vessels.
Report prepared for the New Zealand Department of Conservation (2007)
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Abraham, E. R.
Summary of data collected during the southern squid-fishery mincing trial.
Report prepared for the New Zealand Department of Conservation (2007)
[Abstract]

Abraham, E. R.
Evaluating methods for estimating the incidental capture of New Zealand sea lions.
New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 15. 25 p. (2008)
[Summary]

Abraham, E.
Warp strike summary: Preliminary analysis of observer warp-strike data collected during the 2005 calender year
Report for the Ministry of Fisheries Wellington: Ministry of Fisheries, 10p (2006)

Abraham, E. R. and Kennedy, A.
Seabird warp strike in the southern squid trawl fishery, 2004 - 05.
New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 16. 39 p. (2008)
[Summary]

Stirring and dispersal in the ocean

Waugh, D. W.; Bowen, M. M.; and E. R. Abraham
Spatial variations of stirring in the surface ocean: A case study of the Tasman Sea
Journal of Physical Oceanography 36 526 - 542 (2006)
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Abraham, E. R. and M. M. Bowen
Chaotic stirring by a mesoscale surface-ocean flow
Chaos
12 373 - 381 (2002) doi: 10.1063/1.1481615
[Abstract | Download PDF preprint from arxiv (340k)]

Abraham, E. R., Law, C. S.; Boyd, P. W.; Lavender S. J.; Maldonado, M. T. and Bowie, A. R.
Importance of stirring in the development of an iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom
Nature 407, 727-730 (2000)
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Abraham, E. R.
The generation of plankton patchiness by turbulent stirring
Nature 391, 577-580 (1998)
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Theoretical biology

Abraham, E. R.
Sea urchin feeding fronts
Ecological Complexity 4, 161-168 (2007)
[Abstract | Download PDF from arxiv (363k)]

MacDiarmid, A; Abraham, E.; McKenzie, A.; Dolan, T.; Goodrich, M. and Butler, M.
Individual based, spatially explicit models to explore the mating systems of the red rock lobster Jasus edwardsii and the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus
The Lobster Newsletter 19(1) 8 - 9 (2006)
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Frean, M. R. and E. R. Abraham
Adaptation and enslavement in endosymbiont-host associations
Physical Review E 69 051913 (2004) 5 pages, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.051913
[Abstract | Download PDF from arxiv (169k)]

Frean, M and Abraham, E. R.
Rock-scissors-paper and the survival of the weakest
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B
268 1323 - 1327 (2001)
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Frean, M. and Abraham, E. R.
A voter model of the spatial prisoners' dilemma
IEEE transactions on Evolutionary Computation
5(2), 117-121 (2001)
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Ocean fertilisation experiments

Law, C. S.; Crawford, W. R.; Smith, M. J.; Boyd, P. W.; Wong, C. S.; Nojiri, Y.; Robert, M.; Abraham, E. R.; Johnson, W. K.; Forsland, V. and M. Arychuk
Patch evolution and the biogeochemical impact of entrainment during an iron fertilisation experiment in the sub-Arctic Pacific
Deep-Sea Research II 53 2012 - 2033 (2006)
[Abstract | Deep Sea Research | Electronic copy freely available on request]

Bakker, D. C. E.; Boyd, P. W.; Abraham, E. R.; Charette, M. A.; Gall, M. P.; Hall, J. A.; Law, C. S.; Nodder, S. D.; Safi, K.; Singleton, D. J.; Tanneberger, K.; Trull, T. W.; Waite, A. M.; Watson, A. J. and J. Zeldis
Matching carbon pools and fluxes for the Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment (SOIREE)
Deep-Sea Research I 53 1941 - 1960 (2006)
[Abstract | Deep Sea Research | Electronic copy freely available on request]

Law, C. S.; Abraham, E. R.; Woodward, E. M. S; Liddicoat, M. I.; Fileman, T. W.; Thingstad, T. F.; Kitidis, V. and T. Zoharye
The fate of phosphate in an in situ Lagrangian addition experiment in the Eastern Mediterranean
Deep-Sea Research II 52 2911 - 2927 (2005)
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Boyd, P. W.; Law, C. S.; Wong, C. S.; Nojiri, Y.; Tsuda, A.; Levasseur, M.; Takeda, A.; Rivkin, R; Harrison, P. J.; Strzepek, R.; Gower, J.; McKay, R. M.; Abraham, E. and 25 others
The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom
Nature 428 549 - 553 (2004) doi: 10.1038/nature02437
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Boyd, P.W. and Abraham, E.
Iron-mediated changes in phytoplankton photosynthetic competence during SOIREE
Deep Sea Research II
48 2529 - 2550 (2001)
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Trull, T., Rintoul, S. R., Hadfield, M. and Abraham, E. R.
Circulation and seasonal evolution of polar waters south of Australia: Implications for iron fertilization of the Southern Ocean.
Deep-Sea Res II
48 2439 - 2466 (2001)
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Boyd P. W.; Watson A. J.; Law C. S.; Abraham, E. R.; Trull, T.; Murdoch, R. and 27 others
A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization
Nature 407, 695-702 (2000)
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Other ocean physics and biology

Stevens, C. L.; Abraham, E. R.; Moore, C. M.; Boyd, P. W. and J. Sharples
Observations of small-scale processes associated with the internal tide encountering an island
Journal of Physical Oceanography
35 1553 - 1567 (2005)
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Moore, C. M.; Suggett, D.; Holligan, P. M.; Sharples, J.; Abraham, E. R.; Lucas, M. I.; Rippeth, T. P.; Fisher, N. R.; Simpson, J. H. and D. J. Hydes
Physical controls on phytoplankton physiology and production at a shelf sea front: a fast repetition-rate fluorometer based field study
Marine Ecology Progress Series 259 29 - 45 (2003)
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Law, C. S.; Abraham, E. R.; Watson, A. J. and M. Liddicoat
Vertical eddy diffusion and nutrient supply to the surface layer of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Journal of Geophysical Research C 108 3272 - 3285 (2003) doi:10.1029/2002JC001604
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Kirby, D. S.; Abraham, E. R.; Uddstrom, M. J. and H. Dean
Tuna schools/aggregations in surface longline data 1993-98
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37 633 - 644 (2003)
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Sharples, J; Moore, C. M. and Abraham, E. R.
Internal tide dissipation, mixing, and vertical nitrate flux at the shelf edge of NE New Zealand.
Journal of Geophysical Research C
106 14069 - 14081 (2001)
[Abstract]

Abraham, E. R.
Seiche modes of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
31, 191-200 (1997)
[Abstract | Download PDF from RSNZ (1625k)]

Marine sponges

Abraham, E. R.
The branching sponge Raspailia inaequalis
in Kaandorp, J. and Kübler, J. (eds.) "The algorithmic beauty of seaweeds, sponges and corals"
Springer, Berlin, pp. 34 - 38 (2001)
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Abraham, E. R.
Morphological analysis of a branching sponge
in Kaandorp, J. and Kübler, J. (eds.) "The algorithmic beauty of seaweeds, sponges and corals"
Springer, Berlin, pp. 72 - 75 (2001)
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Abraham, E. R.
A Laplacian model of branching growth
in Kaandorp, J. and Kübler, J. (eds.) "The algorithmic beauty of seaweeds, sponges and corals"
Springer, Berlin, pp. 109 - 113 (2001)
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Abraham, E. R.
The fractal branching of an arborescent sponge
Marine Biology 138 (3), 503-510 (2001)
[Abstract | Download PDF (177k)]