Richard Barnes

Dr Richard Barnes was for 40 years a staff member of the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, UK, and in 'retirement' he remains attached to that Department and an Emeritus Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge. In addition, however, for 3 months of each year he functions as an honorary member of staff of the University of Queensland and of Queensland Museum's Biodiversity Program (October - December inclusive), and likewise (January - March inclusive) of the Department of Zoology of Rhodes University, South Africa. Ecology of seagrass beds and other coastal regions: Spatial variation (from <1m to latitudinal scales) in the biodiversity of the animals living within seagrass beds

[2026] A remarkable hot-spot of fiddler crab coexistence created by random assortment of species. Michie, Laura A., Cragg, Simon M. and Barnes, R. S. K. (2026). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 342 110213. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2026.110213 [2026] Functional surrogacy of the seagrass Ruppia cirrhosa for endangered Zostera capensis in supporting estuarine macrofaunal diversity. Lawrence, Cloverley, Barnes, Richard S. K., Smith, Martin Kyle, Arendse, Clement, Majola, Ntando, Njapha, Noxolo, Dreyer, Kezia Uriel Phillipa, Human, Lucienne and Ndhlovu, Aldwin (2026). Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi: 10.3354/meps15293 [2026] Variation in Meiofaunal Abundance and Composition Across an Estuarine Bay: Do They Comprise a Coherent and Distinct Entity Displaying Contrasting Patterns to the Macrof