Simon Thrush

Simon Thrush
Born	(1958-11-10) 10 November 1958
Alma mater	University of Otago University of East Anglia
Scientific career
Fields	Marine Science
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	Community ecology of the sublittoral macrobenthos of Lough Hyne (INE) (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Colin R. Townsend
Website	Professor Simon Francis Thrush

Simon Francis Thrush FRSNZ (born 10 November 1958) is a New Zealand marine scientist and current Director of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland.

He graduated from the University of Otago with a first class BSc in Zoology in 1980, and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1985. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2010 was awarded the New Zealand Marine Sciences Life Time Achievement Award.

Selected publications

• Ewa Siwicka; Simon Thrush; Judi E. Hewitt (30 October 2019). "Linking changes in species-trait relationships and ecosystem function using a network analysis of traits". Ecological Applications. 30 (1): e02010. doi:10.1002/EAP.2010. ISSN 1051-0761. PMID 31556174. Wikidata Q90297865.
• Casper Kraan; Simon Thrush; Carsten F. Dormann (8 July 2020). "Co-occurrence patterns and the large-scale spatial structure of benthic communities in seagrass meadows and bare sand". BMC Ecology. 20 (1): 37. doi:10.1186/S12898-020-00308-4. ISSN 1472-6785. PMC 7346362. PMID 32641016. Wikidata Q97526489.
• Johanna Gammal; Judi Hewitt; Joanna Norkko; Alf Norkko; Simon Thrush (20 August 2020). "Does the use of biological traits predict a smooth landscape of ecosystem functioning?". Ecology and Evolution. 10 (19): 10395–10407. doi:10.1002/ECE3.6696. ISSN 2045-7758. PMID 33072268. Wikidata Q100727527.