Victoria Cole

PhD University of Sydney

Rhodes University Post-doctoral Research Fellow

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8525
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail v.cole@ru.ac.za

Research interests

Experimental marine ecology
Intertidal rocky shore ecology
Assemblages associated with biogenic habitats

Some recent publications

Cole, V.J., McQuaid, C.D. and Nakin, M.D.V. (2011) Marine protected areas export larvae of infauna, but not of bioengineering mussels to adjacent areas. Biological Conservation 144: 2088-2096.

Cole, V.J. and McQuaid C.D. (2010) Bioengineers and their associated fauna respond differently to the effects of biogeography and upwelling. Ecology 91: 3549-3562.

Cole, V.J. (2010) Alteration of the configuration of bioengineers affects associated taxa. Marine Ecology Progress Series 416: 127-136.

Cole, V.J. (2009) Densities of polychaetes in habitat fragments depend on the surrounding matrix but not the complexity of the remaining fragment. Austral Ecology 34: 469-477.

Underwood, A.J., Chapman, M.G., Cole, V.J., and Palomo, M.G. (2008) Numbers and density of species as measures of biodiversity on rocky shores along the coast of New South Wales. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 366: 175-183.

Cole, V.J. and Chapman, M.G. (2007) Patterns of distribution of annelids: taxonomic and spatial inconsistencies between two biogeographic provinces and across multiple spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 346: 235-241.

Cole, V.J., Chapman, M.G. and Underwood, A.J. (2007) Landscape and life-histories of organisms influence patterns of colonisation. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 348: 191-199.

Blockley, D.J., Cole, V.J., People, J. and Palomo, M.G. (2007) Effects of short-term rain events on mobile macrofauna living on seawalls. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1069-1074.

Cole, V.J., Glasby, T.M. and Holloway, M.G. (2005) Extending the generality of ecological processes to artificial floating habitats. Marine Environmental Research 60: 195-210.

Kelaher, B.P., and Cole, V.J. (2005) Variation in abundance and size-structure of populations of the small chiton, Acanthochitona retrojecta. Journal of Molluscan Studies 71: 145-151.