Dr Richard Barnes
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Researcher biography
Dr Richard Barnes was for 40 years a staff member of the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, UK, and in 'retirement' he remains attached to that Department and an Emeritus Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge. In addition, however, for 3 months of each year he functions as an honorary member of staff of the University of Queensland and of Queensland Museum's Biodiversity Program (October - December inclusive), and likewise (January - March inclusive) of the Department of Zoology of Rhodes University, South Africa.
Book Chapters
Maxwell, Paul, Connolly, Rod, Roelfsema, Chris, Burfeind, Dana, Udy, James, O'Brien, Kate, Saunders, Megan, Barnes, Richard, Olds, Andrew, Hendersen, Chris and Gilby, Ben (2019). The seagrasses of Moreton Bay Quandamooka: Diversity, ecology and resilience. Moreton Bay Quandamooka and catchment: past, present and future. (pp. 279-298) edited by Ian R. Tibbetts, Peter C. Rothlisberg, David T. Neil, Tamara A. Homburg, David T. Brewer and Angela H. Arthington. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Moreton Bay Foundation.
York, Paul H., Hyndes, Glenn A., Bishop, Melanie J. and Barnes, Richard S.K. (2018). Faunal assemblages of seagrass ecosystems. Seagrasses of Australia: structure, ecology and conservation. (pp. 541-588) edited by Anthony W. D. Larkum, Gary A. Kendrick and Peter J. Ralph. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0_17
Journal Articles
Barnes, R. S. K. (2020). Morisita's index of patchiness and edge effects: A response to Butturi-Gomes and Petrere (2020). Ecological Indicators, 117 106648, 1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106648
Barnes, R. S. K. (2020). Do different sympatric seagrasses support macrobenthic faunas of differing composition, abundance, biodiversity or patchiness? Macrobenthos in sympatric seagrasses. Marine Environmental Research, 160 104983, 104983. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104983
Barnes, R. S. K. and Hamylton, Sarah M. (2019). Isometric scaling of faunal patchiness: Seagrass macrobenthic abundance across small spatial scales. Marine Environmental Research, 146, 89-100. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.03.011
Myers, A.A., Lowry, J.K. and Barnes, R.S.K. (2018). First record of the genus Eriopisella Chevreux, 1920 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Eriopisidae) from Australia, with the description of a new species, Eriopisella moretoni sp. nov. Zootaxa, 4514 (2), 256-262. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.8
Barnes, R. S. K. (2018). Spatial structure of a multi-species guild: the dominant biofilm-grazing microgastropods of seagrass. Hydrobiologia, 827 (1), 293-307. doi: 10.1007/s10750-018-3781-y
Barnes, R. S. K. and Laurie, H (2018). Seagrass macrofaunal abundance shows both multifractality and scale-invariant patchiness. Marine Environmental Research, 138, 84-95. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.04.009
Barnes, R. S. K. (2017). Patterns of benthic invertebrate biodiversity in intertidal seagrass in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 15, 17-25. doi: 10.1016/j.rsma.2017.07.003
Barnes, R. S. K. (2017). Are seaward pneumatophore fringes transitional between mangrove and lower-shore system compartments?. Marine Environmental Research, 125, 99-109. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.01.008
Barnes, R. S. K. and Hamylton, S. (2016). On the very edge: faunal and functional responses to the interface between benthic seagrass and unvegetated sand assemblages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 553, 33-48. doi: 10.3354/meps11800
Barnes, R.S.K. and Hendy, Ian W (2015). Functional uniformity underlies the common spatial structure of macrofaunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115 (1), 114-126. doi: 10.1111/bij.12483
Barnes, R. S. K. and Hamylton, Sarah (2015). Uniform functional structure across spatial scales in an intertidal benthic assemblage. Marine Environmental Research, 106 (1), 82-91. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.03.006
Barnes, R. S. K. (2014). Is spatial uniformity of soft-sediment biodiversity widespread and, if so, over what scales?. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 504, 147-158. doi: 10.3354/meps10770
Barnes, R. S. K. and Hamylton, S. (2013). Abrupt transitions between macrobenthic faunal assemblages across seagrass bed margins. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 131, 213-223. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.007
Barnes, R. S. K. and Barnes, M. K. S. (2012). Shore height and differentials between macrobenthic assemblages in vegetated and unvegetated areas of an intertidal sandflat. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 106, 112-120. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.05.011
Barnes, R. S. K. and Ellwood, M. D. F. (2012). The critical scale of small-scale spatial variation in ecological patterns and processes in intertidal macrobenthic seagrass assemblages. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 98, 119-125. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.12.014
Barnes, R. S. K. and Barnes, M. K. S. (2011). Hierarchical scales of spatial variation in the smaller surface and near-surface macrobenthos of a subtropical intertidal seagrass system in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Hydrobiologia, 673 (1), 169-178. doi: 10.1007/s10750-011-0770-9
Barnes R.S.K. (1968). Gradual acclimation effects in Macrophthalmus setosus M.Edw. (brachyura: ocypodidae). Life Sciences, 7 (4), 171-173. doi: 10.1016/0024-3205(68)90301-9
Barnes R.S.K. (1968). Individual variation in osmotic pressure of an ocypodid crab. Comparative Biochemistry And Physiology, 27 (2), 447-450. doi: 10.1016/0010-406X(68)90243-0
Barnes R.S.K. (1968). Relative carapace and chela Proportions in some Ocypodid crabs (Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Crustaceana, 14 (2), 131-136. doi: 10.1163/156854068X00494
BARNES, R. S.K. (1968). Aspects of the Australasian zoogeography of the Macrophthalminae (Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 179 (1), 67-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1968.tb01101.x