Research Associate
Brisbane, Queensland
Australia
Email: n.duke at uq.edu.au
Research Interests
Mangroves and tidal wetlands, including salt marsh and salt pans.
Current Research Projects
1) Mangrove plants of the world: description, ecology and distribution.
2) Types of change in tidal wetlands: indicators of human direct impacts to climate change and natural effects.
3) Sinking Centres within mangroves of Moreton Bay: assessment of a spreading new kind of degradation in tidal wetlands.
4) Pollution of tidal wetlands: large oil spills and runoff of herbicides.
5) The relationship between fish and mangrove habitat health.
6) Development of mangrove habitat health maps using remote sensing imagery.
Recent Publications
Duke, N. C., J.-O. Meynecke, S. Dittmann, A. M. Ellison, K. Anger, U. Berger, S. Cannicci, K. Diele, K. C. Ewel, C. D. Field, N. Koedam, S. Y. Lee, C. Marchand, I. Nordhaus, and F. Dahdouh-Guebas. 2007. A World Without Mangroves? Science 317: 41-42.
Duke, N.C. 2006. Australia’s Mangroves. The authoritative guide to Australia’s mangrove plants. University of Queensland and Norman C Duke, Brisbane, 200 pages. http://www.cms.uq.edu.au/marbot/publications/books.htm
Duke, N. C., A. M. Bell, D.K. Pedersen, C.M. Roelfsema and S. Bengston-Nash. 2005. Herbicides implicated as the cause of severe mangrove dieback in the Mackay region, NE Australia — serious implications for marine plant habitats of the GBR World Heritage Area. Marine Pollution Bulletin 51:308-324.
Duke, N.C., E.Y.Y. Lo, and M. Sun. 2002. Global distribution and genetic discontinuities of mangroves - emerging patterns in the evolution of Rhizophora. Trees. Structure and Function. 16: 65-79.
Duke, N.C., and E. Wolanski. 2001. Muddy coastal waters and depleted mangrove coastlines - depleted seagrass and coral reefs, pp. 77-91. In E. Wolanski (ed.), Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. Physical and Biology Links in the Great Barrier Reef. CRC Press, Washington DC USA, 356 pp.
Duke, N.C. 2001. Gap creation and regenerative processes driving diversity and structure of mangrove ecosystems. Wetlands Ecology and Management 9: 257-269.
Duke, N.C., J.A.H. Benzie, J.A. Goodall, and E.R. Ballment 1998. Genetic structure and evolution of species of the mangrove genus Avicennia (Avicenniaceae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Evolution 52 (6): 1612-1626.
Duke, N.C., M.C. Ball and J.C. Ellison 1998. Factors influencing biodiversity and distributional gradients in mangroves. Global Ecology & Biogeography Letters, 7: 27-47.
Duke, N.C., Z.S. Pinzón, and M.C. Prada 1997. Large-scale damage to mangrove forests following two large oil spills in Panama. Biotropica 29 (1): 2-14.
Duke, N.C. 1992. Mangrove floristics and biogeography, Chapter 4 (p63-100) in: Tropical Mangrove Ecosystems (Volume 41), A.I. Robertson and D.M. Alongi, (Eds.), Coastal and Estuarine Studies Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 329 pp.
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