Student
Jonathan Alburo Anticamara
Name: Jonathan Alburo Anticamara
Email: j.anticamara@fisheries.ubc.ca
Program: PhD
Thesis: Recovery of fish assemblages and benthic habitat inside marine protected areas
Supervisor: Amanda Vincent
Degree Held: BSc (University of the Philippines); MSc (Started 1 year at McGill University, then switched to PhD at UBC); PhD (University of British Columbia)
Biography
I study the effects of disturbance and management on ecological communities and biodiversity. My main goal is to contribute in the development of strategies for recovering degraded ecosystems and their associated biodiversity.
I completed my Ph.D. on Resource Management and Environmental Studies. For my Ph.D. research, I investigated the ecological responses of reef communities to no-take marine reserves. Specifically, I focused on (1) the magnitudes and rates of community recovery, (2) the patterns of biodiversity changes, and (3) the shifts in species dominance and population co-variations within marine reserves on Danajon Double Barrier Reefs in the central Philippines. This research was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the International Development Research Centre of Canada.
My Posdoctoral research deals with (1) global fishing effort and impacts, and (2) the causes and consequences of superabundant species.
Work Experience:
2010 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC Sea Around Us Project
2007 - Teaching Assistant, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
2006 - Teaching Assistant, UBC Centre for Intercultural Communications
2005 - Research Assistant, UBC Centre for Applied Ethics
1997-2001 - Field Biologist, Project Seahorse, Philippines
1994-1997 - Aquaculture Technician, San Miguel Corporation Agribusiness Division, Philippines
Selected Publications
Fisheries Research 2011
Diversity and Distributions 2010
Biological Conservation 2010
Biological Conservation 2007
Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2006-10 2006
See All
Anticamara, J.A., Watson, R., Gelchu, A., Beblow, J., and Pauly, D. (2010) Global fishing effort (1950-2010): Trends, gaps, and implications. Fisheries Research (
doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2010.10.016).
Molloy, P.P., Anticamara, J.A., Rist, J.L., and Vincent, A.C.J. (2010) Frugal conservation: what does it take to detect changes in fish populations? Biological Conservation 143(11): 2532-2542 (
doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.06.020).
Anticamara, J.A., Zeller, D., and Vincent A.C.J. (2010) Spatial and temporal variation of abundance, biomass and diversity within marine reserves in the Philippines. Diversity and Distributions 16(4): 529-536. (doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00661.x).
Anticamara, J.A. (2009) Ecology of recovering degraded reef communities within no-take marine reserves. PhD Dissertation. (https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/7916)
Samoilys, M.A., Martin-Smith, K.M., Giles, B.G., Cabrera, B., Anticamara, J.A., Brunio, E.O., and Vincent, A.C.J. (2007) Effectiveness of five small Philippines' coral reef reserves for fish populations depend on site-specific factors, particularly enforcement history. Biological Conservation 136(4): 584-601. (doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.01.003).
