A full list of my publications can be accessed via Google scholar
or see https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/profile/kirsten_benkendorff/output/all?institution=61SCU_INST
A few recent examples are featured here
Summer, Gou, Lei, Barkla, Giles, and Benkendorff, 2025. Antimicrobial proteins from oyster hemolymph improve the efficacy of conventional antibiotics. PLOS ONE. Ihttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312305
Ewere, White, Mauleon, & Benkendorff 2024. Soil microbial communities and degradation of pesticides in greenhouse effluent through a woodchip bioreactor', Environmental Pollution, vol. 359, pp. 124561, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124561
Benthotage, Cole, Schulz and Benkendorff, 2023. Bioaccumulation of estuarine pollutants in leaf oysters (Isognomon ephippium) on the mid-north coast, New South Wales, Australia. Marine Environmental Research, 189, 106065
Butcherine, Kelaher, Taylor, Lawson and Benkendorff. 2021. Acute toxicity, accumulation and sublethal effects of four neonicotinoids on juvenile Black Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon). Chemosphere 275, 129918.
Fredricks, Smith, Benkendorff, Scott, and Hall. 2025. Co-design and traditional owner participation in an assessment of abundance and size of Donax deltoides (Garlaany, pip) in Ngambaa Country. Marine and Freshwater Research,76 MF23235 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF23235
Jamal, Reichelt-Brushett, Gillmore, Pearson, Benkendorff. 2024 Pesticide occurrence in a subtropical estuary, Australia: Complementary sampling methods Environmental Pollution 342, 123084 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123084
Laicher, Benkendorff, White, Conrad, Woodrow, Butcherine, Sanders. 2022. Pesticide occurrence in an agriculturally intensive and ecologically important coastal aquatic system in Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin 180, 113675
Shalders, Champion, Coleman, Benkendorff. 2022. The nutritional and sensory quality of seafood in a changing climate. Marine Environmental Research, 176, 105590
Gray, Champion, Broadhurst, Coleman, , Benkendorff. 2024. Effects of contaminants and flooding on the physiology of harvested estuarine decapod crustaceans: A global review and meta-analysis. Environmental Pollution 125347 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125347
Larkin, Davis, Harasti, Smith, Ainsworth, Benkendorff. 2023 A glimmer of hope for an Endangered temperate soft coral: the first observations of reproductive strategies and early life cycle of Dendronephthya australis (Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea). Marine biology 170 (11), 146
Shalders, Champion, Coleman, Butcherine, Broadhurst, Mead and Benkendorff. 2023 Impacts of seasonal temperatures, ocean warming and marine heatwaves on the nutritional quality of eastern school prawns (Metapenaeus macleayi). Science of the Total Environment. 876, 162778
Summer, Browne, Lui and Benkendorff. 2020. Molluscan compounds provide drug leads for the treatment and prevention of respiratory diseases. Marine Drugs, 18: 570.