Key factors influencing the population dynamics of economically important short-lived invertebrate species in Western Australia

My PhD research focusses on understanding impacts of environmental factors on the productivity of short-lived, economically important invertebrate species, and associated implications for their sustainability. As case studies, I investigated i) the blue swimmer crab, Portunus armatus, once commercially important in Cockburn Sound, a nearshore temperate marine embayment in south-western Western Australia (WA), and ii) two commercially important populations of white banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis, in tropical nearshore marine areas of northern WA (Nickol Bay and the Kimberley).