Perennial growth of hermatypic corals at Rottnest Island, Western Australia (32°S) by Claire L. Ross, James L. Falter, Verena Schoepf, Malcolm T. McCulloch

“…A coral bleaching event observed in December 2013 provided further evidence of how coral at Rottnest Island are still vulnerable to the deleterious effects of episodic warming despite its high latitude location. …”
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Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia) by Mattia Saccò, Nicole E. White, Matthew Campbell, Sebastian Allard, William F. Humphreys, Paul Pringle, Farid Sepanta, Alex Laini, Morten E. Allentoft

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<i>Salmonella</i> in Free-Ranging Quokkas (<i>Setonix brachyurus</i>) from Rottnest Island and the Mainland of Western Australia by Pedro Martínez-Pérez, Timothy H. Hyndman, Patricia A. Fleming

“…Current data on the association between <i>Salmonella</i> and quokkas on Rottnest Island are outdated by approximately 30 years. …”
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Holocene palaeoclimate and sea level fluctuation recorded from the coastal Barker Swamp, Rottnest Island, south-western Western Australia by Gouramanis, Chris., Dodson, J., Wilkins, D., De Deckker, Patrick., Chase, B. M.

“…We present here a well-dated, high-resolution record from two overlapping sediment cores obtained from the centre of Barker Swamp, Rottnest Island, offshore Perth. The records span the last 8.7 ka, with the main lacustrine phase occurring after 7.4 ka. …”
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Responses of intertidal invertebrates to rising sea surface temperatures in the southeastern Indian Ocean by Fred E. Wells, Fred E. Wells, John K. Keesing, John K. Keesing, Marthe Monique Gagnon, Cindy Bessey, Francis Spilsbury, Francis Spilsbury, Tennille R. Irvine

“…Data presented here provide a sound basis for exploring the possible causes of the catastrophic mortality at the west end of Rottnest Island and monitoring for recovery.…”
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Coral Communities on Marginal High-Latitude Reefs in West Australian Marine Parks by Claire L. Ross, Ben French, Emily K. Lester, Shaun K. Wilson, Paul B. Day, Michael D. Taylor, Neville Barrett

“…Our estimates of coral cover were generally low (<5%), except for a few sites in Jurien Bay Marine Park and Rottnest Island Marine Reserve where coral cover was 10% to 30%. …”
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Two new species and new host and distribution records of Gnathia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from Western Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia by Yuzo Ota, Anja Erasmus, Alexandra S. Grutter, Nico J. Smit

“…Gnathia antennacrassa sp. nov. from seagrass beds off Rottnest Island, Western Australia is the first record of any gnathiid from the entirety of Western Australia; the male can be distinguished from congeners by the stout peduncular articles of the antenna. …”
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The cycle of seagrass life: From flowers to new meadows by Gary A. Kendrick, Marion L. Cambridge, Robert J. Orth, Matthew W. Fraser, Renae K. Hovey, John Statton, Charitha B. Pattiaratchi, Elizabeth A. Sinclair

“…Flowering, seed production, seed recruitment, and seedling establishment data for the seagrass Posidonia australis was collected annually between 2013 and 2018 in meadows at six locations around Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Variable annual rates of flowering and seed production were observed among meadows between northern and southern sides of the island and among years. …”
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Findings from a Combined Subsea LiDAR and Multibeam Survey at Kingston Reef, Western Australia by Simon Collings, Tara J. Martin, Emili Hernandez, Stuart Edwards, Andrew Filisetti, Gavin Catt, Andreas Marouchos, Matt Boyd, Carl Embry

“…To explore the potential of subsea LiDAR on a moving platform in an environmental context, we deployed an underwater LiDAR system simultaneously with a multibeam echosounder (MBES), surveying Kingston Reef off the coast of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. This paper compares and summarises the relative accuracy and characteristics of underwater LiDAR and multibeam sonar and investigates synergies between sonar and LiDAR technology for the purpose of benthic habitat mapping and underwater simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). …”
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