Academic qualifications

2001

PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand

1994

Employment

• 2003- : Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bologna
• 2001-2002: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Auckland

Awards and other qualifications

2002

SSI Diver Stress & Rescue (SSI #6082180)

Affiliations

• New Zealand Ecological Society
• New Zealand Marine Sciences Society
• Fisheries Society of the Bristish Isles

• Professor Marco Abbiati
• Dr Laura Airoldi
• Dr Marti Anderson
• Dr Russ Babcock
• Associate Professor Russell Millar

Willis TJ & MJ Anderson (2003) Structure of cryptic reef fish assemblages: relationships with habitat characteristics and predator density. Marine Ecology Progress Series : in press 

Sharp NJ, CW Poortenaar, BK Diggles & TJ Willis (2003) Metazoan parasites of yellowtail kingfish, Seriola lalandi, in New Zealand. Prevalence, intensity and site preference. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37(2): in press

Willis TJ, RB Millar, RC Babcock & N Tolimieri (2003) Burdens of evidence and the benefits of marine reserves: putting Descartes before des horse? Environmental Conservation 30: in press (pdf preprint )

Willis TJ, RB Millar & RC Babcock (2003) Protection of exploited fishes in temperate regions: high density and biomass of snapper Pagrus auratus (Sparidae) in northern New Zealand marine reserves. Journal of Applied Ecology 40: in press

Anderson MJ & TJ Willis (2003) Canonical analysis of principle coordinates: a useful method of constrained ordination for ecology. Ecology 84: 511-525.

Willis TJ (2001) Visual census methods underestimate density and diversity of cryptic reef fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 59: 1408-1411.

Willis TJ, DM Parsons & RC Babcock (2001) Evidence for long-term site fidelity of snapper (Pagrus auratus) within a marine reserve. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35: 581-590.

Willis TJ & RB Millar (2001) Modified hooks reduce incidental mortality of snapper (Pagrus auratus: Sparidae) in the New Zealand commercial longline fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science 58: 830-841

Willis TJ & RC Babcock (2000) A baited underwater video system for the determination of relative density of carnivorous reef fish. Marine and Freshwater Research 51: 755-763.

Willis TJ, RB Millar & RC Babcock (2000) Detection of spatial variability in relative density of fishes: comparison of visual census, angling, and baited underwater video. Marine Ecology Progress Series 198: 249-260.

Babcock RC, S Kelly, NT Shears, JW Walker & TJ Willis (1999) Changes in community structure in temperate marine reserves. Marine Ecology Progress Series 189: 125-134.

Millar RB & TJ Willis (1999) Estimating the relative density of snapper in and around a marine reserve using a log-linear mixed effects model. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 41: 383-394.

Willis TJ, JEH Saunders, DL Blackwood & JE Archer (1999) First New Zealand record of the Australian bridled goby, Arenigobius bifrenatus (Pisces: Gobiidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 189-192.

Taylor RB & TJ Willis (1998) Relationships amongst length, weight and growth of northeastern New Zealand reef fish. Marine and Freshwater Research 49: 255-260.

Willis TJ & RC Babcock (1998) Retention and in situ detectability of visible implant fluorescent elastomer (VIFE) tags in Pagrus auratus (Sparidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 247-254.

Willis TJ & CD Roberts (1996) Recolonisation and recruitment of fishes to intertidal rockpools at Wellington, New Zealand. Environmental Biology of Fishes 47: 329-343.

Haddon M, TJ Willis, RG Wear & VC Anderlini (1996) Biomass and distribution of five species of surf clam off an exposed west coast North Island beach, New Zealand. Journal of Shellfish Research 15: 331-339.

Willis TJ (1995) A preliminary description of the fish fauna of Taranga (Hen) Island, north-eastern New Zealand. Tane 35: 57-68.

Haddon M & TJ Willis (1995) A morphometric and meristic comparison of orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) from the Lord Howe Rise and Puysegur Bank, New Zealand, and its implications for stock structure. Marine Biology 123: 19-27.