Publications

Robertson, D.R. 1990b. Differences in the seasonalities of spawning and recruitment of some small neotropical reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 144:49-62.

Robertson, D.R., C.W. Petersen and J.D. Brawn. 1990a. Lunar reproductive cycles of benthic-brooding reef fishes: reflections of larval-biology or adult-biology? Ecological Monographs 60:311-329.

Robertson, D.R. 1989b. Settlement and population dynamics of Abudefduf saxatilis on patch reefs in Caribbean Panama. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Coral Reefs 2:839-844.

1989a. Guzman, H.M. and D.R. Robertson. Population and feeding responses of the corallivorous pufferfish Arothron meleagris to coral mortalities in the Eastern Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series 55: 121-131.

D. R. Robertson. 1988d. Extreme variation in settlement of the Caribbean triggerfish Balistes vetula, in Panama. Copeia 1988: 698-703.

D. R. Robertson. 1988c. Abundances of surgeonfishes on patch reefs in Caribbean Panamá: due to settlement, or post-settlement events? Marine Biology 97: 495-501.

D. R. Robertson, D. G. Green and B. Victor. 1988a. Temporal coupling of the production and recruitment of larvae of a Caribbean reef fish. Ecology 69: 370-381.

1988b. K. S. Cole and D. R. Robertson. Protogyny in the Caribbean goby Coryphopterus personatus: gonad ontogeny and social influences on sex-change. Bulletin of Marine Science 42: 317-333.

D.R. Robertson. 1987. Responses of two coral reef toadfishes to the demise of their primary prey, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum. Copeia 1987:637-642.

Robertson, D. R. and S. D. Gaines. 1986. Interference competition structures habitat use in a local assemblage of coral reef surgeonfishes. Ecology 67:1372-1383.

Robertson, D. R. 1985. Sexual-size dimorphism in surgeon fishes. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Coral Reefs 5:403-408.

Lessios, H.A., D.R. Robertson and J.D. Cubit. 1984b. Spread of Diadema mortality through the Caribbean. Science 226:335-337.

Robertson, D.R. 1984a. Cohabitation of competing territorial damselfishes on a Caribbean coral reef. Ecology 65:1121-1135.

Robertson, D.R. 1983b. On the spawning behavior and spawning cycles of eight surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae) from the Indo-Pacific. Environmental Biology of Fishes 9:192-223.

Lessios, H.A., P.W. Glynn and D.R. Robertson. 1983a. Mass mortalities of coral reef organisms. Science 222:715.

1983c. Hoffman, S.G. and D.R. Robertson. On the foraging and reproduction of two Caribbean reef toadfishes (Batrachoididae). Bulletin of Marine Science 33:919-927.

Robertson, D.R., R.R. Reinboth and R.W. Bruce. 1982e. Gonochorism, protogynous sex-change and spawning of three sparisomatinine parrotfishes from the Western Indian Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 34:868-879.

Robertson, D.R. and G. Justines. 1982d. Protogynous hermaphroditism and gonochorism in four Caribbean reef gobies. Environmental Biology of Fishes 7:137-142.

Robertson, D.R. and S.A. Foster. 1982c. Off-reef emigration of young adults of the labrid fish Epibulus insidiator. Copeia 1982:227-229.

Bailey, T.G. and D.R. Robertson. 1982b. Organic and caloric levels of fish feces in relation to its consumption by coprophagous reef fishes. Marine Biology 69:45-50.

Robertson, D.R. 1982a. Fish feces as fish food on a Pacific coral reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 7:253-265.

Robertson, D.R. 1981e. The social and mating systems of two labrid fishes, Halichoeres maculipinna and H. garnoti, off the Caribbean coast of Panama. Marine Biology 64:327-340.

Robertson, D.R., S.G. Hoffman and J.M. Sheldon. 1981d. Availability of space for the territorial Caribbean damselfish Eupomacentrus planifrons. Ecology 62:1162-1169.

Robertson, D.R. and N.V.C. Polunin. 1981b. Coexistence: symbiotic sharing of feeding territories and algal food by some coral reef fishes from the Western Indian Ocean. Marine Biology 62:185-195.

Waldner, R.E. and D.R. Robertson. 1980b. Patterns of habitat partitioning by eight species of territorial Caribbean damselfishes (Pisces: Pomacentridae). Bulletin of Marine Science 30:171-186.

Robertson, D.R. and B. Lassig. 1980a. Spatial distribution patterns and coexistence of a group of territorial damselfishes from the Great Barrier Reef. Bulletin of Marine Science 30:187-203.

Patton, Wendell K.; Robertson, D. Ross. 1980. Pair formation in a coral inhabiting hermit crab. Oecologia, 47(2): 267-269.

Robertson, D.R. and J.M. Sheldon. 1979b. Competitive interactions and the availability of sleeping sites for a diurnal coral reef fish. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 40:285-298.

Robertson, D.R., N.V.C. Polunin and K. Leighton. 1979a. The behavioral ecology of three Indian Ocean Surgeonfishes (Acanthurus lineatus, A. leucosternon and Zebrasoma scopas): their feeding strategies and social and mating systems. Environmental Biology of Fishes 4:125-170.

Robertson, D.R. and R.R. Warner. 1978b. Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the western Caribbean. II. The parrotfishes (Scaridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 255:1-26.

Warner, R.R. and D.R. Robertson. 1978a. Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the western Caribbean. I. The wrasses (Labridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 254:1-27.

Robertson, D.R. and S.G. Hoffman. 1977. The roles of female mate choice and predation in the mating systems of some tropical labroid fishes. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 45:298-320.

Robertson, D.R., H.P.A. Sweatman, E.A. Fletcher, and M.G. Cleland. 1976. Schooling as a mechanism for circumventing the territoriality of competitors. Ecology 57:1208-1220.

Warner, R.R., D.R. Robertson and E.G. Leigh, Jr. 1975b. Sex change and sexual selection. Science 190:633-638.

Choat, J.H. and D. R. Robertson. 1975a. Protogynous hermaphroditism in fishes of the family Scaridae. In: Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom. R.Reinboth (ed.), pp. 264-283.

Robertson, D.R. and G.R. Allen. 1981c. Stegastes mellis (Emery et Burgess, 1974), le juvenile de la Demoiselle caraibe Stegastes diencaeus (Jordan et Rutter, 1898). Revue Francaise Aquariologie 7:109-112.

Robertson, D.R. and J.H. Choat. 1974a. Protogynous hermaphroditism and social systems in Labrid fish. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Coral Reefs 1:217-224.

Robertson, D.R. and G.R. Allen. 1974. Descriptions of four new damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 29(4): 153–167, plates 1–5. [8 May 1974]. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.29.1974.229

D Ross Robertson 1974. A study of the ethology and reproductive biology of the labrid fish, Labroides dimidiatus at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. PhD thesis, University of Queensland 535 pp.

Robertson, D.R. 1973b. Field observations on the reproductive behavior of a Pomacentrid fish, Acanthochromis polyacanthus. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 32:319-324.

Robertson, D.R. 1973. Sex changes under the waves. New Scientist 58:538-540.

Robertson, D.R. 1972. Social control of sex reversal in a coral reef fish. Science 177:1007-1009.