Camille Mellin

Research Interests

Biogeography and Phylogeography Community Ecology Conservation and Biodiversity Ecological Applications Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Invasive Species Ecology Landscape Ecology Marine and Estuarine Ecology Population Ecology

Dr Camille Mellin

ARC Externally-Funded Research Fellow

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Camille is an ARC Future Fellow within the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide, and a quantitative ecologist and ecological modeller with a strong interest in marine ecosystems. Her research aims to improve our understanding of ecosystem potential to resist and recover from cumulative disturbance impacts, and to identify the social-ecological factors that are associated with the sustainable provision of ecosystem services in support of human health and well-being.

My research blends theoretical and empirical models at organizational levels ranging from individual organisms to ecosystems, using a wide range of quantitative tools from process-based demographic models to hierarchical models of social-ecological systems. I am particularly interested in uncovering how biodiversity contributes ecosystem services in support of human health and wellbeing, and how conservation and management can alleviate the detrimental impact of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In addressing this I have developed methods for incorporating climate forecasts to derive future projections of ecological communities and geospatial analysis to inform and map global biodiversity patterns, and how they will be impacted by accelerated rates of climate change.

**PhD projects available for early 2026 start - please contact me by email for further details**

  • Advancing stock assessment models for the Southern Rock Lobster fishery in South Australia
  • Climate change impacts on Australian fisheries

Find out more details at https://adelaideuni.edu.au/research/research-degrees/research-projects/ (search for Mellin)

 

Date Position Institution name
2020 - ongoing ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide
2019 - 2020 Research Fellow University of Tasmania
2014 - 2018 ARC DECRA Fellow Australian Institute of Marine Science

Date Institution name Country Title
2007 Pierre and Marie Curie University France PhD in Quantitative Marine Ecology
2004 Pierre and Marie Curie University France MSc Marine Ecology and Oceanography
2004 Agro ParisTech France MSc Food & Life Sciences

Year Citation
2025 Mellin, C., Brown, S., Heron, S. F., & Fordham, D. A. (2025). CoralBleachRisk—Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(2), e13955-1-e13955-15.
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2025 Johnson, O. J., Heather, F. J., Stuart-Smith, J., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Mellin, C., & Edgar, G. J. (2025). Macroalgae and mobile reef invertebrates face high extinction risk. Biological Conservation, 305, 111052-1-111052-14.
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2025 Mahaut, L., Loiseau, N., Villéger, S., Auber, A., Hautecoeur, C., Maire, A., . . . Mouillot, D. (2025). Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2046), 20250252-1-20250252-11.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2025 Clausius, E., Edgar, G. J., Phillips, G. A. C., Mellin, C., Oh, E., & Stuart-Smith, R. (2025). Habitat and local factors influence fish biomass recovery in marine protected areas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences, 292(2050), 20242708-1-20242708-12.
DOI Europe PMC1
2025 Jones, T. R., Edgar, G. J., Trebilco, R., Mellin, C., Stuart-Smith, R. D., & Ling, S. D. (2025). Total biomass estimation of large fishes is affected by underwater visual census method. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 764, 121-134.
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2025 Dawson, B. R., Mantzioris, E., Connell, S. D., Nagelkerken, I., Hall, T., & Mellin, C. (2025). Fish by-products as reliable proxies to evaluate nutritional fatty acid contents in commercial fish fillets. Food Chemistry, 466(142223), 142223-1-142223-10.
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2024 Sun, C., Steinberg, C., Klein Salas, E., Mellin, C., Babcock, R. C., Schiller, A., . . . Steven, A. D. L. (2024). Climate refugia in the Great Barrier Reef may endure into the future. Science Advances, 10(48), eado6884-1-eado6884-12.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC4
2024 Jones, T. R., Edgar, G. J., Trebilco, R., Mellin, C., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Denis-Roy, L., . . . Ling, S. D. (2024). Fish and invertebrate communities show greater day-night partitioning on tropical than temperate reefs. ECOLOGY, 106(1), 16 pages.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC2
2024 Mellin, C., Brown, S., Cantin, N., Klein-Salas, E., Mouillot, D., Heron, S. F., & Fordham, D. A. (2024). Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world’s coral reefs. Science Advances, 10(26), eadn9660-1-eadn9660-9.
DOI Scopus33 WoS30 Europe PMC22
2024 Emslie, M. J., Logan, M., Bray, P., Ceccarelli, D. M., Cheal, A. J., Hughes, T. P., . . . Sweatman, H. (2024). Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery. Ecological Monographs, 94(3), e1619.
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2024 Thilan, A. W. L. P., Peterson, E., Menendez, P., Caley, J., Drovandi, C., Mellin, C., & McGree, J. (2024). Bayesian design methods for improving the effectiveness of ecosystem monitoring. ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS, 31(4), 27 pages.
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2024 Mellin, C., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Heather, F., Oh, E., Turak, E., & Edgar, G. J. (2024). Coral responses to a catastrophic marine heatwave are decoupled from changes in total coral cover at a continental scale. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2032), 20241538-1-20241538-12.
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2024 Waldock, C., Maire, E., Albouy, C., Andreoli, V., Beger, M., Claverie, T., . . . Pellissier, L. (2024). Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture. People and Nature, 7(1), 32-51.
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2024 Hayes, C., Mitchell, A., Mellin, C., Booth, D. J., Ravasi, T., & Nagelkerken, I. (2024). Ecological generalism and physiology mediate fish biogeographic ranges under ocean warming. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2015), 20232206-1-20232206-10.
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2024 Bates, A. E., Davies, M. A., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Lazzari, N., Lefcheck, J. S., Ling, S. D., . . . Baker, S. C. (2024). Overcome imposter syndrome: Contribute to working groups and build strong networks. Biological Conservation, 293, 110566-1-110566-7.
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2023 Nagelkerken, I., Allan, B. J. M., Booth, D. J., Donelson, J. M., Edgar, G. J., Ravasi, T., . . . Mellin, C. (2023). The effects of climate change on the ecology of fishes. PLOS Climate, 2(8), e0000258-1-e0000258-28.
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2023 Edgar, G. J., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Heather, F. J., Barrett, N. S., Turak, E., Sweatman, H., . . . Bates, A. E. (2023). Continent-wide declines in shallow reef life over a decade of ocean warming.. Nature, 615(7954), 858-865.
DOI Scopus68 WoS67 Europe PMC31
2022 Brown, S. C., Mellin, C., García Molinos, J., Lorenzen, E. D., & Fordham, D. A. (2022). Faster ocean warming threatens richest areas of marine biodiversity. Global Change Biology, 28(19), 5849-5858.
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2022 Mcafee, D., Reis-Santos, P., Jones, A. R., Gillanders, B. M., Mellin, C., Nagelkerken, I., . . . Connell, S. D. (2022). Multi-habitat seascape restoration: optimising marine restoration for coastal repair and social benefit. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1-10.
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2022 Stuart-Smith, R. D., Edgar, G. J., Clausius, E., Oh, E. S., Barrett, N. S., Emslie, M. J., . . . Mellin, C. (2022). Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs.. Curr Biol, 32(19), 4128-4138.e3.
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2022 Mellin, C., Hicks, C. C., Fordham, D. A., Golden, C. D., Kjellevold, M., MacNeil, M. A., . . . Graham, N. A. J. (2022). Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change. Nature ecology & evolution, 6(12), 1808-1817.
DOI Scopus43 WoS37 Europe PMC14
2021 Brown, C. J., Mellin, C., Edgar, G. J., Campbell, M. D., & Stuart-Smith, R. D. (2021). Direct and indirect effects of heatwaves on a coral reef fishery. Global change biology, 27(6), 1214-1225.
DOI Scopus30 WoS30 Europe PMC12
2021 Stuart-Smith, R. D., Mellin, C., Bates, A. E., & Edgar, G. J. (2021). Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(5), 656-662.
DOI Scopus82 WoS78 Europe PMC34
2021 Pratchett, M. S., Caballes, C. F., Cvitanovic, C., Raymundo, M. L., Babcock, R. C., Bonin, M. C., . . . Wilson, S. K. (2021). Knowledge gaps in the biology, ecology, and management of the Pacific crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster sp., on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Biological Bulletin, 241(3), 330-346.
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2020 Fraser, K. M., Lefcheck, J. S., Ling, S. D., Mellin, C., Stuart-Smith, R. D., & Edgar, G. J. (2020). Production of mobile invertebrate communities on shallow reefs from temperate to tropical seas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1941), 20201798-1-20201798-10.
DOI WoS22 Europe PMC8
2020 Fraser, K. M., Lefcheck, J. S., Ling, S. D., Mellin, C., Stuart-Smith, R. D., & Edgar, G. J. (2020). Production of mobile invertebrate communities on shallow reefs from temperate to tropical seas: Temperate-tropical secondary production. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1941), 10 pages.
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2020 Frade, P. R., Glasl, B., Matthews, S. A., Mellin, C., Serrão, E. A., Wolfe, K., . . . Bourne, D. G. (2020). Spatial patterns of microbial communities across surface waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Communications Biology, 3(1), 442.
DOI Scopus50 WoS49 Europe PMC31
2020 Mellin, C., Peterson, E. E., Puotinen, M., & Schaffelke, B. (2020). Representation and complementarity of the long-term coral monitoring on the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Applications, 30(6), e02122-1-e02122-13.
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2020 Peterson, E. E., Santos-Fernández, E., Chen, C., Clifford, S., Vercelloni, J., Pearse, A., . . . Mengersen, K. (2020). Monitoring through many eyes: integrating disparate datasets to improve monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Environmental Modelling and Software, 124, 104557-1-104557-20.
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2020 Yancovitch Shalom, H., Granot, I., Blowes, S. A., Friedlander, A., Mellin, C., Ferreira, C. E. L., . . . Belmaker, J. (2020). A closer examination of the ‘abundant centre’ hypothesis for reef fishes. Journal of Biogeography, 47(10), 2194-2209.
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2019 Roy-Dufresne, E., Lurgi, M., Brown, S. C., Wells, K., Cooke, B., Mutze, G., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2019). The Australian National Rabbit Database: 50 yr of population monitoring of an invasive species. Ecology, 100(7), 1 page.
DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC7
2019 Bouchet, P. J., Peterson, A. T., Zurell, D., Dormann, C. F., Schoeman, D., Ross, R. E., . . . Yates, K. L. (2019). Better Model Transfers Require Knowledge of Mechanisms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34(6), 489-490.
DOI Scopus24 WoS21 Europe PMC6
2019 Roy-Dufresne, E., Saltre, F., Cooke, B. D., Mellin, C., Mutze, G., Cox, T., & Fordham, D. A. (2019). Modeling the distribution of a wide-ranging invasive species using the sampling efforts of expert and citizen scientists. Ecology and Evolution, 9(19), 11053-11063.
DOI Scopus42 WoS39 Europe PMC19
2019 Mellin, C., Matthews, S., Anthony, K. R. N., Brown, S. C., Caley, M. J., Johns, K. A., . . . MacNeil, M. A. (2019). Spatial resilience of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative disturbance impacts. Global Change Biology, 25(7), 2431-2445.
DOI Scopus116 WoS116 Europe PMC47
2019 Mellin, C., Thompson, A., Jonker, M. J., & Emslie, M. J. (2019). Cross-shelf variation in coral community response to disturbance on the Great Barrier Reef. Diversity, 11(3), 38-1-38-16.
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2019 MacNeil, M. A., Mellin, C., Matthews, S., Wolff, N. H., McClanahan, T. R., Devlin, M., . . . Graham, N. A. J. (2019). Water quality mediates resilience on the Great Barrier Reef. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(4), 620-627.
DOI Scopus172 WoS158 Europe PMC71
2019 Matthews, S. A., Mellin, C., MacNeil, A., Heron, S. F., Skirving, W., Puotinen, M., . . . Pratchett, M. (2019). High-resolution characterization of the abiotic environment and disturbance regimes on the Great Barrier Reef, 1985–2017. Ecology, 100(2), e02574.
DOI Scopus18 Europe PMC10
2018 Sequeira, A. M. M., Mellin, C., Lozano-Montes, H. M., Meeuwig, J. J., Vanderklift, M. A., Haywood, M. D. E., . . . Caley, M. J. (2018). Challenges of transferring models of fish abundance between coral reefs. PeerJ, 2018(4), e4566-1-e4566-23.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC1
2018 Fordham, D., Saltré, F., Brown, S., Mellin, C., & Wigley, T. (2018). Why decadal to century timescale paleoclimate data is needed to explain present-day patterns of biological diversity and change. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1371-1381.
DOI Scopus31 WoS25 Europe PMC14
2018 Yates, K. L., Bouchet, P. J., Caley, M. J., Mengersen, K., Randin, C. F., Parnell, S., . . . Sequeira, A. M. M. (2018). Outstanding challenges in the transferability of ecological models. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33(10), 790-802.
DOI Scopus538 WoS509 Europe PMC149
2017 Pratchett, M. S., Caballes, C. F., Wilmes, J. C., Matthews, S., Mellin, C., Sweatman, H. P. A., . . . Uthicke, S. (2017). Thirty years of research on crown-of-thorns starfish (1986-2016): Scientific advances and emerging opportunities. Diversity, 9(4), 49 pages.
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2017 Mellin, C., Lugrin, C., Okaji, K., Francis, D. S., & Uthicke, S. (2017). Selective feeding and microalgal consumption rates by crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) larvae. Diversity, 9(1), 8-1-8-16.
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2017 Pratchett, M., Caballes, C., Wilmes, J., Matthews, S., Mellin, C., Sweatman, H. P. A., . . . Uthicke, S. (2017). 30 Years of Research on Crown-of-thorns Starfish (1986-2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities. Diversity, 9(4), 49 pages.
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2016 Mellin, C., Lugrin, C., Okaji, K., Francis, D., & Uthicke, S. (2016). Selective Feeding and Microalgal Consumption Rates by Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (<em>Acanthaster </em>cf.<em> solaris</em>) Larvae. Diversity, 9(8), 16 pages.
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2016 Mellin, C., Aaron Macneil, M., Cheal, A. J., Emslie, M. J., & Julian Caley, M. (2016). Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities. Ecology Letters, 19(6), 629-637.
DOI Scopus264 WoS242 Europe PMC92
2016 Sequeira, A. M. M., Mellin, C., Lozano-Montes, H. M., Vanderklift, M. A., Babcock, R. C., Haywood, M. D. E., . . . Caley, M. J. (2016). Transferability of predictive models of coral reef fish species richness. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53(1), 64-72.
DOI Scopus25 WoS23 Europe PMC4
2016 Hunter, M., Westgate, M., Barton, P., Calhoun, A., Pierson, J., Tulloch, A., . . . Lindenmayer, D. (2016). Two roles for ecological surrogacy: indicator surrogates and management surrogates. Ecological Indicators, 63, 121-125.
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2016 Mellin, C., Mouillot, D., Kulbicki, M., McClanahan, T., Vigliola, L., Bradshaw, C., . . . Caley, M. (2016). Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges. Nature Communications, 7(1), 10491-1-10491-9.
DOI Scopus45 WoS44 Europe PMC23
2016 Yates, K. L., Mellin, C., Caley, M. J., Radford, B. T., & Meeuwig, J. J. (2016). Models of marine fish biodiversity: assessing predictors from three habitat classification schemes. PLoS ONE, 11(6), e0155634-1-e0155634-16.
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2016 Mellin, C., Lurgi, M., Matthews, S., MacNeil, M. A., Caley, M. J., Bax, N., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2016). Forecasting marine invasions under climate change: biotic interactions and demographic processes matter. Biological Conservation, 204(B), 459-467.
DOI Scopus38 WoS35 Europe PMC8
2016 MacNeil, M. A., Mellin, C., Pratchett, M. S., Hoey, J., Anthony, K. R. N., Cheal, A. J., . . . Fonnesbeck, C. J. (2016). Joint estimation of crown of thorns (Acanthaster planci) densities on the Great Barrier Reef. PeerJ, 2016(8), 17 pages.
DOI Scopus27 WoS26 Europe PMC10
2015 Tanner, J., Mellin, C., Parrott, L., & Bradshaw, C. (2015). Fine-scale benthic biodiversity patterns inferred from image processing. Ecological Complexity, 22, 76-85.
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2015 Gomez, C., Williams, A., Nicol, S., Mellin, C., Loeun, K., & Bradshaw, C. (2015). Species distribution models of tropical deep-sea snappers. PLoS One, 10(6), e0127395-1-e0127395-17.
DOI Scopus22 WoS19 Europe PMC10
2015 Prowse, T., Gillanders, B., Brook, B., Fowler, A., Hall, K., Steer, M., . . . Fordham, D. (2015). Evidence for a broad-scale decline in giant Australian cuttlefish (Sepia apama) abundance from non-targeted survey data. Marine and Freshwater Research, 66(8), 692-700.
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2015 Lindenmayer, D., Pierson, J., Barton, P., Beger, M., Branquinho, C., Calhoun, A., . . . Westgate, M. (2015). A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates. Science of the Total Environment, 538, 1029-1038.
DOI Scopus94 WoS87 Europe PMC20
2015 Przeslawski, R., Byrne, M., & Mellin, C. (2015). A review and meta-analysis of the effects of multiple abiotic stressors on marine embryos and larvae. Global Change Biology, 21(6), 2122-2140.
DOI Scopus437 WoS413 Europe PMC226
2014 Mellin, C., Bradshaw, C., Fordham, D., & Caley, M. (2014). Strong but opposing β-diversity-stability relationships in coral reef fish communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1777), 1-10.
DOI Scopus49 WoS47 Europe PMC23
2014 Mellin, C., Mengersen, K., Bradshaw, C., & Caley, M. (2014). Generalizing the use of geographical weights in biodiversity modelling. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(11), 1314-1323.
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2014 Sutcliffe, P. R., Mellin, C., Pitcher, C. R., Possingham, H. P., & Caley, M. J. (2014). Regional-scale patterns and predictors of species richness and abundance across twelve major tropical inter-reef taxa. Ecography, 37(2), 162-171.
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2014 Martins Sequeira, A., Mellin, C., Floch, L., Williams, P., & Bradshaw, C. (2014). Inter-ocean asynchrony in whale shark occurrence patterns. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 450, 21-29.
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2014 Martins Sequeira, A., Mellin, C., Fordham, D., Meekan, M., & Bradshaw, C. (2014). Predicting current and future global distributions of whale sharks. Global Change Biology, 20(3), 778-789.
DOI Scopus74 WoS66 Europe PMC14
2013 Fordham, D., Mellin, C., Russell, B., Akcakaya, H., Bradshaw, C., Aiello-Lammens, M., . . . Brook, B. (2013). Population dynamics can be more important than physiological limits for determining range shifts under climate change. Global Change Biology, 19(10), 3224-3237.
DOI Scopus77 WoS75 Europe PMC29
2013 Fordham, D., Brook, B., Caley, M., Bradshaw, C., & Mellin, C. (2013). Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods. Diversity and Distributions, 19(10), 1299-1312.
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2013 Martins Sequeira, A., Mellin, C., Delean, J., Meekan, M., & Bradshaw, C. (2013). Spatial and temporal predictions of inter-decadal trends in Indian Ocean whale sharks. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 478, 185-195.
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2013 Williams, A., Loeun, K., Nicol, S., Chavance, P., Ducrocq, M., Harley, S., . . . Bradshaw, C. (2013). Population biology and vulnerability to fishing of deep-water Eteline snappers. Journal of Applied Ichthyology-Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Ichthyologie, 29(2), 395-403.
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2013 Martins Sequeira, A., Mellin, C., Meekan, M., Sims, D., & Bradshaw, C. (2013). Inferred global connectivity of whale shark Rhincodon typus populations. Journal of Fish Biology, 82(2), 367-389.
DOI Scopus84 WoS76 Europe PMC27
2012 Russell, B., Connell, S., Mellin, C., Brook, B., Burnell, O., & Fordham, D. (2012). Predicting the distribution of commercially important invertebrate stocks under future climate. PLoS One, 7(12), 1-9.
DOI Scopus19 WoS11 Europe PMC7
2012 Mellin, C., Parrott, L., Andrefouet, S., Bradshaw, C., MacNeil, M., & Caley, M. (2012). Multi-scale marine biodiversity patterns inferred efficiently from habitat image processing. Ecological Applications, 22(3), 792-803.
DOI Scopus28 WoS23 Europe PMC4
2012 Fordham, D., Akcakaya, H., Araujo, M., Elith, J., Keith, D., Pearson, R., . . . Brook, B. (2012). Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?. Global Change Biology, 18(0004), 1357-1371.
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2012 Mellin, C., Russell, B., Connell, S., Brook, B., & Fordham, D. (2012). Geographic range determinants of two commercially important marine molluscs. Diversity and Distributions, 18(2), 133-146.
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2012 Martins Sequeira, A., Mellin, C., Rowat, D., Meekan, M., & Bradshaw, C. (2012). Ocean-scale prediction of whale shark distribution. Diversity and Distributions, 18(5), 504-518.
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2012 Planes, S., Lecchini, D., Mellin, C., Charton, J. G., Harmelin-Vivien, M., Kulbicki, M., . . . Galzin, R. (2012). Environmental determinants of coral reef fish diversity across several French Polynesian atolls. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335(6), 417-423.
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2011 Watts, M., Li, Y., Russell, B., Mellin, C., Connell, S., & Fordham, D. (2011). A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling, 222(15), 2606-2614.
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2011 Mellin, C., Delean, J., Caley, M., Edgar, G., Meekan, M., Pitcher, R., . . . Bradshaw, C. (2011). Effectiveness of biological surrogates for predicting patterns of marine biodiversity: A global meta-analysis. PLoS One, 6(6), e20141-1-e20141-11.
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2010 Mellin, C., Huchery, C., Caley, M., Meekan, M., & Bradshaw, C. (2010). Reef size and isolation determine the temporal stability of coral reef fish populations. Ecology, 91(11), 3138-3145.
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2010 Mellin, C., Bradshaw, C., Meekan, M., & Caley, M. (2010). Environmental and spatial predictors of species richness and abundance in coral reef fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19(2), 212-222.
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2010 McArthur, M. A., Brooke, B. P., Przeslawski, R., Ryan, D. A., Lucieer, V. L., Nichol, S., . . . Radke, L. C. (2010). On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 88(1), 21-32.
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2009 Carassou, L., Mellin, C., & Ponton, D. (2009). Assessing the diversity and abundances of larvae and juveniles of coral reef fish: A synthesis of six sampling techniques. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18(2), 355-371.
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2009 Mellin, C., Andréfouët, S., Kulbicki, M., Dalleau, M., & Vigliola, L. (2009). Remote sensing and fish-habitat relationships in coral reef ecosystems: Review and pathways for multi-scale hierarchical research. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58(1), 11-19.
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2009 Mellin, C., & Ponton, D. (2009). Assemblages of reef fish settling on artificial substrates: Effect of ambient habitat over two temporal scales. Marine and Freshwater Research, 60(12), 1285-1297.
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2009 Mellin, C. (2009). Habitat selection at settlement and post-settlement dynamics in juvenile fish communities in the New Caledonia lagoon.. CYBIUM, 33(2), 96.
2009 Mellin, C., Galzin, R., Ponton, D., & Vigliola, L. (2009). Detecting age-structured effects in growth performance of coral reef fish juveniles. Aquatic Biology, 6(1-3), 31-39.
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2008 Carassou, L., Ponton, D., Mellin, C., & Galzin, R. (2008). Predicting the structure of larval fish assemblages by a hierarchical classification of meteorological and water column forcing factors. Coral Reefs, 27(4), 867-880.
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2008 Mellin, C., Ferraris, J., Galzin, R., Harmelin-Vivien, M., Kulbicki, M., & de Loma, T. L. (2008). Natural and anthropogenic influences on the diversity structure of reef fish communities in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia). Ecological Modelling, 218(1-2), 182-187.
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2007 Mellin, C., Andréfouët, S., & Ponton, D. (2007). Spatial predictability of juvenile fish species richness and abundance in a coral reef environment. Coral Reefs, 26(4), 895-907.
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2007 Mellin, C., Kulbicki, M., & Ponton, D. (2007). Seasonal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use in coral reef fish juveniles. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 75(4), 481-491.
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2006 Mellin, C., Ferraris, J., Galzin, R., Kulbicki, M., & Ponton, D. (2006). Diversity of coral reef fish assemblages: Modelling of the species richness spectra from multi-scale environmental variables in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia). Ecological Modelling, 198(3-4), 409-425.
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- Mellin, C. (n.d.). Datasets - Coral responses to 2016 marine heatwave.
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- Hayes, C., Mitchell, A., Nagelkerken, I., Ravasi, T., Booth, D. J., & Mellin, C. (n.d.). Ecological generalism and physiology mediate species biogeographic ranges under ocean warming.
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- Mellin, C., Brown, S., Heron, S., & Fordham, D. (n.d.). Global projections of sea surface temperature and coral bleaching risk in the 21st century.
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- Mellin, C. (n.d.). Datasets - Coral responses to 2016 marine heatwave - Final.
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2024 Mellin, C., Brown, S., Heron, S., & Fordham, D. (2024). CoralBleachRisk-Global projections of coral bleaching risk in the 21<sup>st</sup>century.
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2023 Zamborain-Mason, J., Eurich, J., Viana, D., Mellin, C., Pinsky, M., Hooidonk, R. V., & Golden, C. (2023). Coral reef fish biomass and nutrient availability losses from thermal stress.
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  • Safeguarding coral reef fisheries for future food security.  ARC Future Fellowship (FT200100870 | $739,557), University of Adelaide (2020-present).
  • Managing the effects of disturbance on coral reef biodiversity: modelling starfish outbreaks in a changing world. ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DE140100701 | $386,006), Australian Institute of Marine Science (2014-2018).

Camille is the Coordinator for the third year Research Methods in Ecology / Wildlife Conservation /  and Marine Biology III BSc courses, which focus on statistical modelling, data management, and statistical computing using R.

Currently teaching:

ENV BIOL 3510/3520/3540 - Research Methods in Ecology / Wildlife Conservation / Marine Biology III

Research Methods in Ecology / Wildlife Conservation / Marine Biology III introduces systematic methods of design, collection, analysis and reporting of field and laboratory ecological data, for practical applications in the disciplines of ecology, wildlife conservation biology, and marine biology. Lectures outline the quantitative nature of ecological research and the value of robust sampling strategies and experimental methods.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Ecophysiological plasticity of reef fish communities in response to climate change-induced stressors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Md. Ayenuddin Haque
2024 Co-Supervisor Developing exploratory scenarios to assess the future of mangrove ecosystem services and role of aquatic fauna in climate change adaptation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Jayshree Shukla
2022 Co-Supervisor Development of innovative tools to detect the illegal wildlife trade through high-risk international trade routes. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Georgia Kate Moloney
2022 Principal Supervisor To Investigate the Influence of Climate Change on Reef Fish Nutritional Content. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Beth Rose Dawson
2022 Principal Supervisor Trait-based Responses of Coral Reef Fish Communities to Global Warming and Habitat Loss Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Anthony Charles Markey

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Bottom’s Up – Focusing on Habitat Shifts as Mediators of Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Ecosystems Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Jamie Leigh Priest
2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Global Distribution Models for Whale Sharks (Assessing Occurrence Trends of Highly Migratory Marine Species) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Ana Micaela Martins Sequeira

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Direct and indirect effects of marine protected areas and habitat condition on global reef recovery University of Tasmania - Higher Doctorate - Ella Clausius
2020 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Traits of detectability: Towards unbiased density estimates of reef fishes and invertebrates University of Tasmania - Higher Doctorate Full Time Tyson Jones
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Modelling tools for the management of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) outbreaks on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef James Cook University - Doctorate - Samuel Matthews

Date Topic Location Name
2020 - 2020 Principles & Practice of Research (Advanced) III (SCIENCE 3100) University of Adelaide Sophia Taplin

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2018 - ongoing Editor Ecology Letters Centre National de Recherche Scientifique France

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