Faculty Info: David A. Ebert
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DAVID A. EBERT Adjunct Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories B.A., Humboldt State University M.A., Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Ph.D., Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Email: debert@mlml.calstate.edu Lab Website: http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu |
Specific Research Interests: The focus of my research efforts and interests are in chondrichthyan (sharks, rays, chimaeras) biology, ecology, fisheries, and systematics. I am especially interested in the community ecology, ecomorphology, and habitat utilization by chondrichthyans within various ecosystems. To this end I have several broad-based projects ongoing in the Bering Sea, eastern North Pacific, and southern Africa. Most of these North American projects are being conducted in collaboration with several National Marine Fisheries Service Labs including the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, Northwest Fisheries, Newport, OR, and the Southwest Fisheries Lab, Santa Cruz, CA and in southern Africa I am collaborating with colleagues on several projects stemming from my earlier research on the chondrichthyan fauna of this region. Another project that I am involved with is a catalogue to the batoids of the world. This project, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization, is a collaborative effort with several international experts to catalogue all of the known batoids. This is the first such effort on this group of fish in nearly a century. Current Projects: (1) Life history of eastern North Pacific, Bering Sea, and southern African squaloids, scyliorhinids, and skates; (2) FAO Catalogue of Batoids of the World; (3) Systematics of chondrichthyans including descriptions of new species; (4) Chondrichthyan ecology, habitat utilization, and biogeography. Selected Publications: Ebert, D.A. In Press. Reproductive biology of skates, Bathyraja (Ishiyama), along the eastern Bering Sea Continental Slope. Journal of Fish Biology Ebert, D.A., H.F. Mollet, A. Baldridge, T. Thomas, K. Forney, and W.E. Ripley. 2004. Occurrence of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith 1828, in California waters. Northwestern Naturalist 85:26-28 Ebert, D.A. 2003. The sharks, rays and chimaeras of California. University of California Press, 284 pp Ebert, D.A. & Cowley, P.D. 2003. Diet, feeding behaviour, and habitat utilisation of the blue stingray, Dasyatis chrysonta (Smith, 1828) from southern Africa waters. Marine and Freshwater Research 54:957-965 De Carvalho, M., L.J.V. Compagno, & D.A. Ebert. 2003. Benthobatis yangi, a new species of blind electric ray from Taiwan (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 72:923-939 Benz, G.W., H.F. Mollet, D.A. Ebert, & C.R. Davis. 2003. Five species of parasitic copepods (Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) from the body surface of a white shark captured in Morro Bay, California. Pacific Science 57:39-43 Ebert, D.A. 2002. Ontogenetic changes in the diet of the sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus). Marine and Freshwater Research 53:517-523 Ebert, D.A. 2002. Some observations on the reproductive biology of the sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) from southern African waters. South African Journal of Marine Science 24:359-363 Ebert, D.A., P.D. Cowley, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2002. First records of the longnose spiny dogfish, Squalus blainvillei (Squalidae) and deep-water stingray, Plesiobatis daviesi (Urolophidae) from South African waters. South African Journal of Marine Science 24:355-357 Ebert, D.A. 2001. First eastern Pacific records of the longfin mako shark, Isurus paucus, Guitar-Manday, 1966. California Fish Game 87:117-121 Richardson, A.J., G. Maharaj, L.J.V. Compagno, R.W. Leslie, D.A. Ebert, & M.J. Gibbons. 2000. The abundance, distribution, morphometrics, reproduction, and diet of the Izak catshark, Holohalaelurus regani. Journal of Fish Biology 56:552-576 |
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