Research Interests
My research is focused on the ecology and conservation of marine invertebrates and fishes. Our projects investigate issues at the interface between conservation science, management, and policy. We use quantitative statistical approaches combined with geospatial tools to explore the ecology of physical and biological components of habitat for commercially important fishes with an emphasis on structure-forming invertebrates.
Representative Publications
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Tissot, B. N., M. M. Yoklavich, M. S. Love, K. York and M. Amend. 2006.
Benthic invertebrates that form habitat structures on deep banks off
southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral. Fisheries
Bulletin 104: 167-181.
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Williams, I. D., W.J. Walsh, B.N. Tissot, L.E. Hallacher. 2006. Impact
of observers’ experience level on counts of fishes in underwater visual
surveys. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310: 185-191.
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Hixon, M. A. and B. N. Tissot. 2007. Comparison of trawled vs. untrawled
mud seafloor assemblages of fishes and macroinvertebrates at Coquille
Bank, Oregon. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 344: 23-34.
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Tissot, B. N., M. A. Hixon and D. L. Stein, D. L. 2007. Habitat-based
submersible assessment of groundfish assemblages at Heceta Bank, Oregon
from 1988 to 1990. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 352: 50-64.
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Tissot, B. N. 2008. Video analysis, experimental design, and database
management of submersible-based habitat studies. pp. 157-167 In J.R.
Reynolds and H.G. Greene (eds). Marine Habitat Mapping Technology for
Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK. CD-ROM.
doi:10.4027/mhmta.2008.11
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Whitmire, C.E., Embley, R.W., Wakefield, W.W., Merle, S.G., and Tissot,
B.N. 2007. A quantitative approach for using multibeam sonar data to map
benthic habitats, In Todd, B.J., and Greene, H.G., eds., Mapping the
Seafloor for Habitat Characterization: Geological Association of Canada,
Special Paper 47, p. 111-126.
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Ortiz, D. M and B. N. Tissot. 2008. Ontogenetic patterns of habitat use
by a coral reef fish in an MPA network: A multi-scaled remote sensing
and in-situ approach. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 365: 217-232.
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Tissot, B. N., W. W. Wakefield, M. A. Hixon and J. E. R. Clemons. 2008.
Twenty years of fish-habitat studies on Heceta Bank, Oregon. pp. 203-217
In J.R. Reynolds and H.G. Greene (eds). Marine Habitat Mapping
Technology for Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK.
CD-ROM.doi:10.4027/mhmta.2008.15
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Starr, R., M. Yoklavich and B. Tissot. 2008. Monitoring MPAs in deep
water off central California: 2007 IMPACT submersible baseline survey.
California Sea Grant College Program Publication No. T-067. 21pp.
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Williams, I. D., W.J. Walsh,
J. T. Claisse, B.N. Tissot, K. A. Stamoulis. 2009. Impacts of a Hawaiian
marine protected area network on the abundance and fishery
sustainability of the yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens.
Biological Conservation 142: 1066-1073.
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Tissot, B. N. W. J. Walsh, and
M. A. Hixon. 2009. Hawaiian Islands Marine Ecosystem Case Study:
Ecosystem and Community-Based Management in West Hawaii . Coastal
Management 37: 255-273.
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Christie, P., Pollnac, R.
B., Fluharty, D. L., Hixon,. M. A., Lowry, G. K., Mahon, R., Pietri,
D., Tissot, B. N., White, A. T., Armada, N., Liza Eisma-Osorio, R. L..
2009. Tropical Marine EBM Feasibility: A Synthesis of Case Studies and
Comparative Analyses. Coastal Management 37: 374-385 .
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Tissot, B, N. 2009. The
Importance of Deep-Sea Coral Communities. Wings, Spring 2009. pp. 24-28.
The Xerces Society, Portland, OR.
Courses
Biometry (Stat 412)
Environmental Assessment (ES/RP 444/544)
Environmental Ethics (ES/RP 594)
Graduate
Seminar (ES/RP 491)
Statistical Ecology (Stat 555)
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