Katherine Heldt

Research Interests

Animal Behaviour Behavioural Ecology Community Ecology Ecology Marine and Estuarine Ecology

Katherine Heldt

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Date Position Institution name
2017 - ongoing Research Officer South Australian Research and Development Institute

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Biological Sciences
Clemson University United States Masters in Biological Sciences
Millersville University United States Bachelors in Biological Sciences - concentration marine biology

Date Title Institution name Country
— Certificate III in Public Safety (Biosecurity Response Operations) TOCAL College -
— Elements of Shipboard Saftey (MARSS00008) Australian Maritime and Fisheries Academy -
— Nitrox PADI -
— Rescue Diving NAUI -
— Advanced Open Water Diver PADI -
— Oxygen and CPR Administration DAN -
— Remote First Aid St John Ambulance Australia -
— Online Advanced Defensive Driver Training Australian Driving Institute -
— PIRSA FIsh Kill Response Training Primary Industries and Resources South Australia Australia
— Principles of Y AQ Leadership YMCA -
— PTO Training Others YMCA -

Year Citation
2021 Heldt, K., Stobart, B., & Mayfield, S. (2021). Diving into fisher experience: Do new entrants and fleet turnover depress catch rates in abalone (Haliotis laevigata and H. rubra) fisheries. Fisheries Research, 238, 13 pages.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2018 Heldt, K., Connell, S., & Munguia, P. (2018). Increasing use of human-dominated habitats as CO₂ emissions warm and acidify oceans. Estuaries and Coasts, 41(6), 1660-1666.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2016 Munguia, P., & Heldt, K. (2016). Dichotomous male asymmetry in metapopulations of a marine amphipod. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 36(4), 451-455.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2016 Heldt, K., Connell, S., Anderson, K., Russell, B., & Munguia, P. (2016). Future climate stimulates population out-breaks by relaxing constraints on reproduction. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 33383-1-33383-8.
DOI Scopus12 WoS11 Europe PMC7
2015 Heldt, K., Bridges, W., & Childress, M. (2015). Behavioral response to habitat loss in juvenile spiny lobsters. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 521, 117-128.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4

Year Citation
2015 Childress, M. J., Heldt, K. A., & Miller, S. D. (2015). Are juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) becoming less social?. In ICES Journal of Marine Science Vol. 72 (pp. i170-i176). Oxford University Press (OUP).
DOI Scopus14

Year Citation
2017 Anderson, K., Heldt, K., Mungia, P., Russell, B., Harley, C., & Connell, S. (2017). Factorial manipulation of CO2 and temperature on algal-herbivore pair demonstrates that changes in herbivore population size will drive species interaction not per capita effects.. Poster session presented at the meeting of INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. New Orleans, LA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.

Year Citation
2018 Stobart, B., Mayfield, S., & Heldt, K. A. (2018). Western Zone Abalone Greenlip Abalone (Haliotis laevigata) and Blacklip Abalone (H. rubra) Fishery in 2017 (SARDI Research Report Series No. 994).
2017 Stobart, B., Mayfield, S., & Heldt, K. A. (2017). Western Zone Abalone Blacklip (Haliotis rubra) and Greenlip (H. laevigata) Fishery in 2016 (SARDI Research Report Series No. 964).

Date Topic Presented at Institution Country
2018 - ongoing Value for money: optimizing survey design in a budget constrained fishery research program - Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference -
2016 - ongoing Sinking without a source? Different sink responses to source loss in marine metacommunities - International Temperate Reef Symposium -

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