Research Publications
2024:
Finucci, B., Pacoureau, N., Rigby, C.L., Matsushiba, J.H., Faure-Beaulieu, N., Sherman, C.S., … Fernando, D. … & Navia, A.F. (2024). Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays. Science, 383(6687), pp.1135-1141.
Text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade9121
2023:
Postaire, B. D., Devloo-Delva, F., Brunnschweiler, J. M., Charvet, P., Chen, X., Cliff, G., ... Fernando, D. … Pathirana, B.M. … & Mona, S. (2023). Global genetic diversity and historical demography of the Bull Shark. Journal of Biogeography, NA.
Text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14774
Humble, E., Hosegood, J., Carvalho, G., de Bruyn, M., Creer, S., Stevens, G. M., ... Fernando, D. … & Ogden, R. (2023). Comparative population genomics of manta rays has global implications for management. bioRxiv, 2023-06.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17220
Simpfendorfer C.A, Heithaus M., Heupel M., MacNeil A.M., Meekan M., Harvey, M., ... Bown, R.M.K. ... Fernando, D. ... Perera, N. ... Tanna, A. ... and Chapman D.D., 2023. Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays. Science 380, 1155–1160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2519-y
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade4884
Kyne, P.M., di Sciara, G.N., Morera, A.B., Charles, R., Rodríguez, E.G., Fernando, D., Pestana, A.G., Priest, M. and Jabado, R.W., 2023. Important Shark and Ray Areas: a new tool to optimize spatial planning for sharks. Oryx, 57(2), pp.146-147.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605322001624
Nikolic, N., Devloo‐Delva, F., Bailleul, D., Noskova, E., Rougeux, C., Delord, C., Borsa, P., Liautard‐Haag, C., Hassan, M., Marie, A.D. Feutry, P., …, Fernando, D., … Arnaud-Haond, S., 2023. Stepping up to genome scan allows stock differentiation in the worldwide distributed blue shark Prionace glauca. Molecular Ecology, 32(5), pp.1000-1019.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16822
Devloo‐Delva, F., Burridge, C.P., Kyne, P.M., Brunnschweiler, J.M., Chapman, D.D., Charvet, P., Chen, X., Cliff, G., Daly, R., Drymon, J.M. Espinoza, M., Fernando, D., … Feutry, P., 2023. From rivers to ocean basins: The role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2), p.e9837.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837
Sherman, C.S., Simpfendorfer, C.A., Pacoureau, N., Matsushiba, J.H., Yan, H.F., Walls, R.H., Rigby, C.L., VanderWright, W.J., Jabado, R.W., Pollom, R.A., … Fernando D., … Dulvy, N.K., 2023. Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays. Nature Communications, 14(1), p.15.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35091-x
2022:
Perera, N., Lokupitiya, E., Halwatura, D. and Udagedara, S., 2022. Quantification of blue carbon in tropical salt marshes and their role in climate change mitigation. Science of The Total Environment, p.153313.
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969722004053
Jones, B.L.H., Unsworth, R.K.F., Nordlund, L.M., Ambo-Rappe, R., Nafie, Y.A.L., Lopez, M.R., Udagedara, S., Cullen-Unsworth, L.C., 2022. Local ecological knowledge reveals change in seagrass social–ecological systems. Oceans 202, 3(3), 419-430.
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362622976
Jones, B.L.H., Unsworth, R.K.F., Nordlund, L.M., Eklof, J.S., Ambo-Rappe, R., Carly, F., Jiddawi, N.S., Nafie, Y.A.L., Udagedara, S., Cullen-Unsworth, L.C., 2022. Dependence on seagrass fisheries governed by household income and adaptive capacity. Ocean and Coastal Management, 225, 106247.
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361082281
Gorman, D., Jayakody., Kodikara, S., Udagedara, S., Dahanayaka, D.D.G.L., Kithsiri, B., Ranawana, M. P., Kumara, Pahalawattaarachchi. V., Thavanayagam, M., Steven, A., Jagath, A.A.L., Gunawardana, Vanderklift, M.A., 2022. Past, present and future of blue carbon ecosystems in Sri Lanka: conservation, restoration and policy. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review Volume 60.
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365891600
2021:
Fernando, D., and Stewart, J.D., 2021. High bycatch rates of manta and devil rays in the “small-scale” artisanal fisheries of Sri Lanka. PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11994
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11994
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Dulvy, N.K., Pacoureau, N., Rigby, C.L., Pollom, R.A., Jabado, R.W., Ebert, D.A., Finucci, B., Pollock, C.M., Cheok, J., Derrick, D.H., Herman, K.B., Sherman, S., VanderWright, W.J., Lawson, J.M., Walls, R.H.L., Carlson, J.K., Charvet, P., Bineesh, K.K., Fernando, D., Ralph, G.M., Matsushiba, J.H., Hilton-Taylor, C., Fordham, S.V., Simpfendorfer, C.A., 2021. Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.062
Full text is available at: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0960-9822(21)01198-2
Tanna, A., Fernando, D., Gobiraj, R., Pathirana, B.M., Thilakaratna, S., and Jabado, R.W., 2021. Where have all the sawfishes gone? Perspectives on declines of these Critically Endangered species in Sri Lanka. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3617
Full text is available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/XGUS5NYHK5BUZ4WVVEN9?target=10.1002/aqc.3617
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Caira, J.N., Otto, K., Fernando, D., and Jensen, K., 2021. Three new species of “tetraphyllidean” cestodes from an undescribed bamboo shark (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscylliidae) in Sri Lanka. Folia Parasitologica 68. https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2021.004
Full text is available at: https://folia.paru.cas.cz/pdfs/fol/2021/01/04.pdf
Pacoureau, N., Rigby, C.L., Kyne, P.M., Sherley, R.B., Winker, H., Carlson, J.K., Fordham, S. v., Barreto, R., Fernando, D., Francis, M.P., Jabado, R.W., Herman, K.B., Liu, K.-M., Marshall, A.D., Pollom, R.A., Romanov, E. v., Simpfendorfer, C.A., Yin, J.S., Kindsvater, H.K., and Dulvy, N.K., 2021. Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays. Nature 589, 567–571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03173-9
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03173-9
2020:
Hosegood, J., Humble, E., Ogden, R., de Bruyn, M., Creer, S., Stevens, G., Abudaya, M., Bassos-Hull, K., Bonfil, R., Fernando, D. Foote, A.D., Hipperson, H., Jabado, R.W., Kaden, J., Moazzam, M., Peel, L.R., Pollett, S., Ponzo, A., Poortvliet, M., Salah, J., Senn, H., Stewart, J.D., Wintner, S., and Carvalho, G., 2019. Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays. Molecular Ecology, 29: 4783– 4796. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15683
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15683
MacNeil A.M., Chapman D., Heupel M., Simpfendorfer C.A, Heithaus M., Meekan M., ... Bown, R.M.K. ... Fernando, D. ... Perera, N. ... Tanna, A. ... and Cinner J.E., 2020. Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks. Nature 583, 801–806. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2519-y
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2519-y
Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Stevens, G. and Fernando, D., 2020. The giant devil ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) is not giant, but it is the only spinetail devil ray. Marine Biodiversity Records 13, 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-020-00187-0
Full text is available at: https://rdcu.be/b3T0b
2019:
Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Adnet, S., Bennett, M., Broadhurst, M.K., Fernando, D., Jabado, R.W., Laglbauer, B.J. and Stevens, G., 2019. Taxonomic status, biological notes, and conservation of the longhorned pygmy devil ray Mobula eregoodoo (Cantor, 1849). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337215361
Hosegood, J., Humble, E., Ogden, R., de Bruyn, M., Creer, S., Stevens, G., Abudaya, M., Bassos-Hull, K., Bonfil, R., Fernando, D. Foote, A.D., Hipperson, H., Jabado, R.W., Kaden, J., Moazzam, M., Peel, L.R., Pollett, S., Ponzo, A., Poortvliet, M., Salah, J., Senn, H., Stewart, J.D., Wintner, S., and Carvalho, G., 2019. Genome-wide data for effective conservation of manta and devil ray species. bioRxiv, p.458141.
Preprint is available at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/458141v2
Fernando, D., Bown, R.M., Tanna, A., Gobiraj, R., Ralicki, H., Jockusch, E.L., Ebert, D.A., Jensen, K. and Caira, J.N., 2019. New insights into the identities of the elasmobranch fauna of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa, 4585(2), pp.201-238.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332382361
2018:
Stevens, G., Fernando, D. and Di Sciara, G.N., 2018. Guide to the Manta and Devil Rays of the World. Princeton University Press.
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Stewart, J.D., Jaine, F.R., Armstrong, A.J., Armstrong, A.O., Bennett, M.B., Burgess, K.B., Couturier, L.I., Croll, D.A., Cronin, M.R., Deakos, M.H., Dudgeon, C.L., Fernando, D., Froman, N., Germanov, E.S., Hall, M.A., Hinojosa-Alvarez, S., Hosegood, J.E., Kashiwagi, T., Laglbauer, B.J.L., Lezama-Ochoa, N., Marshall, A.D., McGregor, F., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Palacios, M.D., Peel, L.R., Richardson, A.J., Rubin, R.D., Townsend, K.A., Venables, S.K., Stevens, G.M.W., 2018. Research priorities to support effective manta and devil ray conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 2018;314.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00314
Jabado, R.W., Kyne, P.M., Pollom, R.A., Ebert, D.A., Simpfendorfer, C.A., Ralph, G.M., Al Dhaheri, S.S., Akhilesh, K.V., Ali, K., Ali, M.H., Al Mamari, T.M., Bineesh, K.K., El Hassan, I.S., Fernando, D., Grandcourt, E.M., Khan, M.M., Moore, A.B.M., Owfi, F., Robinson, D.P., Romanov, E., Soares, A., Spaet, J.L.Y., Tesfamichael, D., Valinassab, T., Dulvy, N.K. 2018. Troubled waters: Threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters. Fish and Fisheries, 19(6), pp.1043-1062.
Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12311
Jones, B.L., Unsworth, R.K., Udagedara, S. and Cullen-Unsworth, L.C., 2018. Conservation concerns of small-scale fisheries: by-catch impacts of a shrimp and finfish fishery in a Sri Lankan Lagoon. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, p.52.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322952956
2017:
Perera, N., Dahanayaka, D.D.G.L. and Udagedara, S., 2017. Habitat Preference and Population Structure of Two Data Deficient Seahorse (Syngnathidae) Species. OUSL Journal, 12(2), pp.75-97.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322097753
Udagedara, S., Fernando, D., Perera, N., Tanna, A. and Bown, R., 2017. A first record of Halodule pinifolia Miki den Hartog, and new locality of nationally endangered Halophila beccarii Asch, from the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. International Journal of Aquatic Biology, 5(5), pp.328-335.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321719310
Stewart, J.D., Rohner, C.A., Araujo, G., Avila, J., Fernando, D., Forsberg, K., Ponzo, A., Rambahiniarison, J.M., Kurle, C.M. and Semmens, B.X., 2017. Trophic overlap in mobulid rays: insights from stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 580, pp.131-151.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319137471
Abudaya, M., Ulman, A., Salah, J., Fernando, D., Wor, C. and di Sciara, G.N., 2018. Speak of the devil ray (Mobula mobular) fishery in Gaza. Reviews in fish biology and fisheries, 28(1), pp.229-239.
Full text is available at: http://rdcu.be/uryj
Lawson, J.M., Fordham, S.V., O’Malley, M.P., Davidson, L.N., Walls, R.H., Heupel, M.R., Stevens, G., Fernando, D., Budziak, A., Simpfendorfer, C.A., Ender, I., Francis, M.P., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., and Dulvy, N.K., 2017. Sympathy for the devil: a conservation strategy for devil and manta rays. PeerJ, 5, p.e3027.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315059287
Kularatne, H. and Udagedara, S., 2017. First record of the Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus Boddaert, 1783 (Aves: Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae) breeding in the lowland wet zone of Sri Lanka. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 9(1), pp.9738-9742.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312966465
2016:
Stewart, J.D., Beale, C.S., Fernando, D., Sianipar, A.B., Burton, R.S., Semmens, B.X. and Aburto-Oropeza, O., 2016. Spatial ecology and conservation of Manta birostris in the Indo-Pacific. Biological Conservation, 200, pp.178-183.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304158349
Camargo, S.M., Coelho, R., Chapman, D., Howey-Jordan, L., Brooks, E.J., Fernando, D., Mendes, N.J., Hazin, F.H., Oliveira, C., Santos, M.N. and Foresti, F., 2016. Structure and genetic variability of the oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, determined using mitochondrial DNA. PloS one, 11(5), p.e0155623.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303320009
Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Fernando, D., Adnet, S., Cappetta, H. and Jabado, R.W., 2017. Devil rays (Chondrichthyes: Mobula) of the Arabian Seas, with a redescription of Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes in Müller and Henle, 1841). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 27(1), pp.197-218.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301797224
2015:
Croll, D.A., Dewar, H., Dulvy, N.K., Fernando, D., Francis, M.P., Galván‐Magaña, F., Hall, M., Heinrichs, S., Marshall, A., Mccauley, D. and Newton, K.M., 2016. Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26(3), pp.562-575.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283491127
Fernando, D., Perera, N. and Ebert, D.A., 2015. First record of the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios,(Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) from Sri Lanka, northern Indian Ocean. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8. p.e75.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277309262
Ooi, M.S., Townsend, K.A., Bennett, M.B., Richardson, A.J., Fernando, D., Villa, C.A. and Gaus, C., 2015. Levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in the branchial plate and muscle tissue of mobulid rays. Marine pollution bulletin, 94(1-2), pp.251-259.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273779156
Fernando, D., 2014. Range Extension of the Bull Shark Carcharhinus leucas (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) to include Sri Lanka. Journal of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka (Loris), 27(1), pp.26-27.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278049073
2014:
Morris, J.P., Thatje, S., Ravaux, J., Shillito, B., Fernando, D. and Hauton, C., 2015. Acute combined pressure and temperature exposures on a shallow-water crustacean: novel insights into the stress response and high pressure neurological syndrome. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 181, pp.9-17.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269390196
Poortvliet, M., Olsen, J.L., Croll, D.A., Bernardi, G., Newton, K., Kollias, S., O’Sullivan, J., Fernando, D., Stevens, G., Magaña, F.G. and Seret, B., 2015. A dated molecular phylogeny of manta and devil rays (Mobulidae) based on mitogenome and nuclear sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 83, pp.72-85.
Full text is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269169232