Awards and Recognition

• Bursary winner at the International Temperate Reefs Symposium 2011 MBA (Marine Biological Association of the UK) bursary competition, www.mba.ac.uk, Plymouth (July 2011), UK.
  
• Best student presentation at the Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany Conference, ASPAB  (November 2010), Rottnest Island.
• AMSA-WA Student Travel Award to AMSA 2009 national conference in Adelaide. 

Research

Research Interests

Stress and disturbance ecology, Trophic connectivity

Current Research Areas

The aim of this research is to determine the processes that supply seaweed wrack from reefs. This research is looking at the role of storms on this export and the relative importance of two major pathways of transfer of organic matter, dislodgment of whole thalli and erosion of kelp tissue. 

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Thomsen MS, de Bettignies T, Wernberg T, Holmer M and Debeuf B (2012) Harmful algae are not harmful to everyone. Harmful Algae (in Press).
  
• Hégaret H, da Silva PM, Wikfors GH, Lambert C, de Bettignies T, Shumway SE and Soudant P (2007)Hemocyte responses of Manila clams, R. philippinarum, with varying parasite, Perkinsus olseni, severity to toxic-algal exposures. Aquatic. Toxicology, 84 (4) 469-479. 

Conference Papers

• Wernberg T, de Bettignies T, Morhing M, Benett S (2011) Continental-scale pattern of ecological processes in kelp beds. Third Annual ANNIMS Conference 2011, December 2011, Perth www.marine-science-network.edu.au/announcements/announcements/third-annual-annims-conference-2011
• de Bettignies T, Wernberg T,. Lavery PS, Vanderklift M (2011) Spatial subsidies provided by organic matter export from kelp forests: importance of storm-driven pulses verses chronic export. Third Annual ANNIMS Conference 2011, December 2011, Perth-International Temperate Reef Symposium 2011, June 2011, Plymouth, UK. www.itrs2011.org
  
• de Bettignies T, Wernberg T, Lavery PS, Vanderklift M (2010).The importance of storms in driving export of organic matter (kelp wrack) from rocky reefs. Talk presentation at:
  - ASPAB 2010, 15-18^th November 2010, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
  - WAMSI Young Career Researchers Symposium, 3^rd November 2010, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup www.wamsi.org.au/2010/wamsi-young-career-researcher-symposium
• de Bettignies T, Godefroy J, Wernberg T, Vanderklift M (2010). Changes in growth, erosion, productivity and morphology of Ecklonia radiata along a hydrodynamic gradient. Poster presentation at ASPAB 2010, 15-18^th November 2010, Rottnest Island. www.aspab.org/conference2010.htm
• Vanderklift M, Babcock R, Bearham D, de Bettignies T, Kendrick G, Wernberg T (2010) A single species, the kelp Ecklonia radiata, is disproportionately important in coastal marine ecosystems. Talk presentation at ASPAB 2010, 15-18^th November 2010, Rottnest Island.
• De Bettignies T, Wernberg T, Lavery PS, Vanderklift M (2009) Sources and supply of wrack: quantifying vectors of habitat connectivity”, Poster presentation at (1) the 46^th Australian Marine Sciences Association annual conference in Adelaide (2009); (2) the 11^th Annual Royal Society of WA Postgraduate Symposium, Curtin Univeristy (2009); (3) the 7^th AMSA-WA student workshop in Rottnest Island (2009).