Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2019
Phototactic tails: Evolution and molecular basis of a novel sensory trait in sea snakes, JM Crowe‐Riddell, Bruno F. Simões, Julian C. Partridge, David M. Hunt, Steven Delean, Julian G. Schwerdt, James Breen, Alastair Ludington, David J. Gower, and Kate L. Sanders
Plastics, the Environment and Society: Current Consensus and Future Directions, Richard C. Thompson and Sabine Pahl
Postglacial Colonization of Northern Coastal Habitat by Bottlenose Dolphins: A Marine Leading-Edge Expansion?, Milaja Nykänen, Kristin Kaschner, Willy Dabin, Andrew Brownlow, Nicholas J. Davison, Rob Deaville, Cristina Garilao, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Rod Penrose, Valentina Islas-Villanueva, Nathan Wales, Simon N. Ingram, Emer Rogan, Marie Louis, and Andrew D. Foote
Removal of intertidal grazers by human harvesting leads to alteration of species interactions, community structure and resilience to climate change, Antony M. Knights, Ana Chaverra, Evie Wieters, and Andy Foggo
Role of waves and tides on depth of closure and potential for headland bypassing, Nieves G. Valiente, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Daniel Conley, and Robert Jak McCarroll
Spatiotemporal variability in the structure of seagrass meadows and associated macrofaunal assemblages in southwest England (UK): Using citizen science to benchmark ecological pattern, Dan A. Smale, Graham Epstein, Mark Parry, and Martin J. Attrill
The Effect of Exogenous Applications of Salicylic Acid on Drought Tolerance and Up-Regulation of the Drought Response Regulon of Iraqi Wheat, Fakhriya Kareem, Hail Rihan, and Michael P. Fuller
The importance of inter‐individual variation in predicting species' responses to global change drivers, Ella Guscelli, John I. Spicer, and Piero Calosi
Variation in growth and defence traits among plant populations at different elevations: Implications for adaptation to climate change, James Buckley, Alex Widmer, Mark C. Mescher, and Moraes CM De
What controls submarine channel development and the morphology of deltas entering deep-water fjords?, Jenny A. Gales, Peter J. Talling, Matthieu J.B. Cartigny, Clarke J Hughes, Gwyn Lintern, Cooper Stacey, and Michael A. Clare
Will giant polar amphipods be first to fare badly in an oxygen-poor ocean? Testing hypotheses linking oxygen to body size, John I. Spicer and Simon A. Morley
Submissions from 2018
Revisiting the role of aggregation in the settling of cohesive flocs in the marine environment, AJ Mehta, WH McAnally, F Samsami, and AJ Manning
Turbulence-resolving numerical simulation of fine sediment transport over bedforms, L Yue, Z Cheng, TJ Hsu, AR Horner-Devine, and AJ Manning
Reappraisal of the toxicity test method using the green alga Ulva pertusa Kjellman (Chlorophyta),, MT Brown
A high-throughput and open-source platform for embryo phenomics, Oliver Tills, John I. Spicer, Andrew Grimmer, Simone Marini, Vun Wen Jie, Ellen Tully, and Simon D. Rundle
Climatic niche of the Saker Falcon Falco cherrug: predicted new areas to direct population surveys in Central Asia, Luke J. Sutton and Robert Puschendorf
Opportunistic seaweeds replace Cystoseira forests on an industrialised coast in Cyprus, Demetris Kletou, Ioannis Savva, Konstantinos Tsiamis, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Model vs. experiment to predict crop losses, Camille Parmesan, Michael E. Hanley, and Michael C. Singer
Application of nuclear techniques to environmental plastics research, CM Lanctot, M Al-Sid-Cheikh, AI Catarino, T Cresswell, and et al
Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation, S. Louise Callard, Cofaigh C O, Sara Benetti, Richard C. Chiverrell, Landeghem K Van, Margot H. Saher, Jenny A. Gales, David Small, Chris D. Clark, Stephen Livingstone, Derek Fabel, and Steven G. Moreton
The effect of supplementary ultraviolet wavelengths on broiler chicken welfare indicators, Charlotte James, Lucy Asher, Katherine Herborn, and Julian Wiseman
Methanotrophy, Methylotrophy, the Human Body and Disease, R Boden
Riding on the wind: volatile compounds dictate selection of grassland seedlings by snails., Mick E. Hanley, Roger W.R. Shannon, Damien G. Lemoine, Bethan Sandey, Philip L. Newland, and Guy M. Poppy
Effects of oil and global environmental drivers on two keystone marine invertebrates, Maj Arnberg, Piero Calosi, John I. Spicer, Ingrid C. Taban, Shaw D. Bamber, Stig Westerlund, Sjur Vingen, Thierry Baussant, Renée K. Bechmann, and Sam Dupont
Nondestructive 3D Imaging and Quantification of Hydrated Biofilm-Sediment Aggregates Using X-ray Microcomputed Tomography., N Zhang, CEL Thompson, IH Townend, KE Rankin, DM Paterson, and AJ Manning
The bZIP transcription factor SPA Heterodimerizing Protein represses glutenin synthesis in Triticum aestivum, Julie Boudet, Anne Plessis, Jean Charles Gaudin, Marielle Merlino, Mireille Dardevet, Sibille Perrochon, David Alvarez, Thierry Risacher, Pierre Martre, and Catherine Ravel
UV-B radiation and the green tide-forming macroalga Ulva, MT Brown
Bacterial Community Composition in the Sea Surface Microlayer Off the Peruvian Coast, Birthe Zäncker, Michael Cunliffe, and Anja Engel
Oceanographic drivers of marine mammal and seabird habitat-use across shelf-seas: A guide to key features and recommendations for future research and conservation management, S. L. Cox, C. B. Embling, P. J. Hosegood, S. C. Votier, and S. N. Ingram
Spatial and temporal patterns of Pseudo-nitzschia genetic diversity in the North Pacific Ocean from the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey, R Stern, SK Moore, VL Trainer, and et al
Dairy calves' personality traits predict social proximity and response to an emotional challenge, B Lecorps, S Kappel, DM Weary, and MAG von Keyserlingk
The imprint of microfibres in southern European deep seas, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Richard C. Thompson, Miquel Canals, and Haan WP de
Modelling tidally induced larval dispersal over Anton Dohrn Seamount, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko, and Kerry L. Howell
Novel Application of Laboratory Instrumentation Characterizes Mass Settling Dynamics of Oil-Mineral Aggregates (OMAs) and Oil-Mineral-Microbial Interactions, L Ye, AJ Manning, T-J Hsu, S Morey, EP Chassignet, and TA Ippolito
A generalisable integrated natural capital methodology for targeting investment in coastal defence, Katrina J. Davis, Amy Binner, Andrew Bell, Brett Day, Timothy Poate, Siân Rees, Greg Smith, Kerrie Wilson, and Ian Bateman
Bacterial Metabolism of C1 Sulfur Compounds, R Boden and L Hutt
Sensitivity to near-future CO₂ conditions in marine crabs depends on their compensatory capacities for salinity change, Nia M. Whiteley, Coleen C. Suckling, Benjamin J. Ciotti, James Brown, Ian D. McCarthy, D. Ian, Luis Gimenez, Luis, Chris Hauton, and Chris
Limited congruence exhibited across microbial, meiofaunal and macrofaunal benthic assemblages in a heterogeneous coastal environment, Sorcha Cronin-O’Reilly, Joe D. Taylor, Ian Jermyn, A. Louise Allcock, Michael Cunliffe, and Mark P. Johnson
Development of epibenthic assemblages on artificial habitat associated with marine renewable infrastructure, E. V. Sheehan, A. Y. Cartwright, M. J. Witt, M. J. Attrill, M. Vural, and L. A. Holmes
Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks and Blood Samples Collected from Camels in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, Raafat Mohamed Shaapan, Abdullah Daria Alanazi, Swaid Abdullah, Chris Helps, Richard Wall, Robert Puschendorf, Samir Abdelkreem Alharbi, and Sobhy Abdel-Shafy
Time-dependent effects of orientation, heterogeneity and composition determines benthic biological community recruitment patterns on subtidal artificial structures, N Hanlon, L Firth, and AM Knights
Dissolution: The achilles' heel of the triton shell in an acidifying ocean, Ben P. Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, Kazuo Inaba, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Westernmost record of the diamondback puffer, Lagocephalus guentheri (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) in the Mediterranean Sea: First record from Greek waters, P Kleitou, I Giovos, F Tiralongo, N Doumpas, and G Bernardi
Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers, Charles K. Paull, Peter J. Talling, Katherine L. Maier, Daniel Parsons, Jingping Xu, David W. Caress, Roberto Gwiazda, Eve M. Lundsten, Krystle Anderson, James P. Barry, Mark Chaffey, T O'Reilly, Kurt J. Rosenberger, Jenny A. Gales, Brian Kieft, Mary McGann, Steve M. Simmons, Mike McCann, Esther J. Sumner, Michael A. Clare, and Matthieu J. Cartigny
Lesson study: an inter-professional collaboration approach for Educational Psychologists to improve teaching and learning, B Norwich, T Fujita, A Adlam, F Milton, and A Edwards-Jones
Active bacterioplankton community response to dissolved ‘free’ deoxyribonucleic acid (dDNA) in surface coastal marine waters, Michael Cunliffe, Joe D. Taylor, Kimberley E. Bird, and Claire E. Widdicome
Anodised TiO2 nanotubes as a scaffold for antibacterial silver nanoparticles on titanium implants, UF Gunputh, H Le, RD Handy, and C Tredwin
Can transplanting enhance mobile marine invertebrates in ecologically engineered rock pools?, RL Morris, AS Martinez, LB Firth, and RA Coleman
Determination of Kinetic Parameters and Metabolic Modes Using the Chemostat, R Boden and L Hutt
Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas, DKA Barnes, SA Morley, J Bell, P Brewin, and et al
Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models, Katherine L. Yates, Phil J. Bouchet, M. Julian Caley, Kerrie Mengersen, Christophe F. Randin, Stephen Parnell, Alan H. Fielding, Andrew J. Bamford, Stephen Ban, A. Márcia Barbosa, Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Clare B. Embling, Gary N. Ervin, Rebecca Fisher, Susan Gould, Roland F. Graf, Edward J. Gregr, Patrick N. Halpin, Risto K. Heikkinen, Stefan Heinänen, Alice R. Jones, Periyadan K. Krishnakumar, Valentina Lauria, Hector Lozano-Montes, Laura Mannocci, Camille Mellin, Mohsen B. Mesgaran, Elena Moreno-Amat, Sophie Mormede, Emilie Novaczek, Steffen Oppel, Crespo G Ortuño, A. Townsend Peterson, Giovanni Rapacciuolo, Jason J. Roberts, Rebecca E. Ross, Kylie L. Scales, David Schoeman, Paul Snelgrove, Göran Sundblad, Wilfried Thuiller, Leigh G. Torres, Heroen Verbruggen, Lifei Wang, Seth Wenger, Mark J. Whittingham, Yuri Zharikov, Damaris Zurell, and Ana M.M. Sequeira
Ecological priming of artificial aquaculture structures: Kelp farms as an example, AM Walls, MD Edwards, LB Firth, and MP Johnson
North Devon Marine Pioneer, links between the ecosystem and ecosystem services in the North Devon Marine Pioneer, S Rees, M Ashley, and A Cameron
Physiological and Behavioral Plasticity of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria forskali (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) to Acidified Seawater, Xiutang Yuan, Sophie J. McCoy, Yongfen Du, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Aerobic Bacterial Catabolism of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate, R Boden and LP Hutt
Modelling Offshore Wave farms for Coastal Process Impact Assessment: Waves, Beach Morphology, and Water Users, Christopher Stokes and Daniel C. Conley
Tidally Induced Overflow of the Faroese Channels Bottom Water Over the Wyville Thomson Ridge, Vasiliy Vlasenko and Nataliya Stashchuk
Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Infesting Domestic and Wild Mammalians on the Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, A Alanazi, H Al-Mohamed, M Alysousif, R Puschendorf, and S Abdel-Shafy
A coastal vulnerability assessment for planning climate resilient infrastructure, Jennifer M. Brown, Karyn Morrissey, Philip Knight, Thomas D. Prime, Luis Pedro Almeida, Gerd Masselink, Cai O. Bird, Douglas Dodds, and Andrew J. Plater
Proposal for a tiered dietary bioaccumulation testing strategy for engineered nanomaterials using fish, RD Handy, J Ahtiainen, Navas J Maria, G Goss, EAJ Bleeker, and der Kammer F von
Relationship between mineralogy and minor element partitioning in limpets from an Ischia CO 2 vent site provides new insights into their biomineralization pathway, Gerald Langer, Aleksey Sadekov, Gernot Nehrke, Cecilia Baggini, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Emilio Cuoco, Jelle Bijma, and Henry Elderfield
The first record of Torquigener flavimaculosus (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Libya, SAA Al-Mabruk, V-O Stoilas, P Kleitou, and I Giovos
Quantifying dispersal between marine protected areas by a highly mobile species, the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Milaja Nykänen, Eileen Dillane, Anneli Englund, Andrew D. Foote, Simon N. Ingram, Marie Louis, Luca Mirimin, Machiel Oudejans, and Emer Rogan
How does the environment affect fighting? The interaction between extrinsic fighting ability and resource value during contests., Sarah M. Lane and Mark Briffa
Bedform migration in a mixed sand and cohesive clay intertidal environment and implications for bed material transport predictions, Ian D. Lichtman, Jaco H. Baas, Laurent O. Amoudry, Peter D. Thorne, Jonathan Malarkey, Julie A. Hope, Jeffrey Peakall, David M. Paterson, Sarah J. Bass, Richard D. Cooke, Andrew J. Manning, Alan G. Davies, Daniel R. Parsons, and Leiping Ye
Sex differences in individual foraging site fidelity of Campbell albatross, Lisa A. Sztukowski, Peter A. Cotton, Henri Weimerskirch, David R. Thompson, Leigh G. Torres, Paul M. Sagar, Antony M. Knights, Annette L. Fayet, and Stephen C. Votier
Wave and Tidal Controls on Embayment Circulation and Headland Bypassing for an Exposed, Macrotidal Site, RJ McCarroll, Gerd Masselink, Nieves G. Valiente, Tim Scott, Erin V. King, and Daniel Conley
Phaeoviral Infections Are Present in Macrocystis, Ecklonia and Undaria (Laminariales) and Are Influenced by Wave Exposure in Ectocarpales, DA McKeown, L. Joanna, JL Schroeder, K Stevens, and et al
Differences in flowering sex ratios between native and invasive populations of the seagrass Halophila stipulacea, HM Nguyen, P Kleitou, D Kletou, Y Sapir, and G Winters
Identifying Recreational fisheries in the Mediterranean through Social Media, I Giovos, I Keramidas, C Antoniou, A Deidun, and et al
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI TYPE A AND TYPE B IN CAMELS (CAMELUS DROMEDARIES) FROM FIVE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF SAUDI ARABIA USING THE ITS1 RDNA AND ROTAT 1.2 VSG GENE, A ALANAZI, R PUSCHENDORF, M ALYOUSIF, M AL-KHALIFA, S ALHARBI, SHEHRI Z AL, A SAID, I ALANAZI, and H AL-MOHAMMED
New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2018), N Chartosia, D Anastasiadis, H Bazairi, and et al
Blue pigmentation of neustonic copepods benefits exploitation of a prey-rich niche at the air-sea boundary, Janina Rahlff, Mariana Ribas-Ribas, Scott M. Brown, Nur Ili Hamizah Mustaffa, Jasmin Renz, Myron A. Peck, Kimberley Bird, Michael Cunliffe, Katharina Melkonian, and Christopher J. Zappa
Ocean acidification drives community shifts towards simplified non-calcified habitats in a subtropical-temperate transition zone, Sylvain Agostini, Ben P. Harvey, Shigeki Wada, Koetsu Kon, Marco Milazzo, Kazuo Inaba, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
What is a weapon?, Sarah M. Lane
Low salinity as a biosecurity tool for minimizing biofouling on ship sea chests, Castro MCT de, Thomas Vance, Anna L.E. Yunnie, Timothy W. Fileman, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Bathymetric Controls on Rotational Surfzone Currents, R. Jak McCarroll, Robert W. Brander, Tim Scott, and Bruno Castelle
An Immune-Responsive Cytoskeletal-Plasma Membrane Feedback Loop in Plants., Patrick J. Hussey, Stefan Sassmann, Cecilia Rodrigues, Stephen W. Milne, Anja Nenninger, Ellen Allwood, George R. Littlejohn, Nicholas J. Talbot, Christian Soeller, Brendan Davies, and Michael J. Deeks
Application of a new targeted low density microarray and conventional biomarkers to evaluate the health status of marine mussels: A field study in Sardinian coast, Italy, Mohamed Banni, Susanna Sforzini, Caterina Oliveri, A Orru, Giannina Chessa, Beniamina Pacchioni, Caterina Millino, Awadhesh N. Jha, and Aldo Viarengo
Citizen scientists monitoring the establishment and expansion of Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) in the Aegean Sea, Greece, I Giovos, P Kleitou, V Paravas, and et al
Climate forcing of regionally-coherent extreme storm impact and recovery on embayed beaches, Olivier Burvingt, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Mark Davidson, and Paul Russell
No evidence for sex-specific effects of the maternal social environment on offspring development in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), E Langen, NB von Engelhardt, and V Goerlich-Jansson
Restriction associated DNA-genotyping at multiple spatial scales in Arabidopsis lyrata reveals signatures of pathogen-mediated selection, James Buckley, Eric B. Holub, Marcus A. Koch, Philippine Vergeer, and Barbara K. Mable
Climate structuring of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the threatened amphibians of the northern Western Ghats, India, Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Matthew C. Fisher, Claudia J. Wierzbicki, Siddharth Kulkarni, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, Aparna Watve, and Mairi E. Knight
Correction: Social environment during egg laying: Changes in plasma hormones with no consequences for yolk hormones or fecundity in female Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, Esther M.A. Langen, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, and Vivian C. Goerlich-Jansson
Is it alien to you? Share it!!! Citizen scientists monitoring non-indigenous species in Greece, I Keramida, N Doumpas, P Kleitou, F Tiralongo, and et al
Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix., Rich Boden and Kathleen M. Scott
Warming and Inhibition of Salinization at the Ocean's Surface by Cyanobacteria, O. Wurl, K. Bird, M. Cunliffe, W. M. Landing, U. Miller, N. I.H. Mustaffa, M. Ribas-Ribas, C. Witte, and C. J. Zappa
Lethal trap created by adaptive evolutionary response to an exotic resource, MC Singer and C Parmesan
A new wave of marine evidence-based management: emerging challenges and solutions to transform monitoring, evaluating, and reporting, P. F.E. Addison, D. J. Collins, R. Trebilco, S. Howe, N. Bax, P. Hedge, G. Jones, P. Miloslavich, C. Roelfsema, M. Sams, R. D. Stuart-Smith, P. Scanes, Baumgarten P von, and A. McQuatters-Gollop
Coryphaena hippurus: A potential predator of Lagocephalus sceleratus in the Mediterranean Sea, P Kleitou, S Kalogirou, D Marmara, and I Giovos
Increased winter-mean wave height, variability and periodicity in the North-East Atlantic over 1949-2017, Gerhard Masselink and Tim Scott
Density-dependent responses of the brittlestar Amphiura filiformis to moderate hypoxia and consequences for nutrient fluxes, R. N. Calder-Potts, J. I. Spicer, P. Calosi, H. S. Findlay, A. M. Queirós, and S. Widdicombe
Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: insights from desiccating and non-desiccating species, Reuben W. Nowell, Pedro Almeida, Christopher G. Wilson, Thomas P. Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alastair Crisp, Gos Micklem, Alan Tunnacliffe, Chiara Boschetti, and Timothy G. Barraclough
Chemolithoheterotrophy: Means to Higher Growth Yields from this Widespread Metabolic Trait, F Rojo, R Boden, and LP Hutt
A comparison of ground-based methods for estimating canopy closure for use in phenology research, AM Smith and PM Ramsay
Nanomaterials in the Environment: Behavior, Fate, Bioavailability, and Effects-An Updated Review., JR Lead, GE Batley, PJJ Alvarez, M-N Croteau, RD Handy, MJ McLaughlin, JD Judy, and K Schirmer
Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India., Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Siddharth Kulkarni, Aparna Watve, Nikhil Gaitonde, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, David T. Bilton, and Mairi E. Knight
A single fungal MAP kinase controls plant cell-to-cell invasion by the rice blast fungus, Nicholas J. Talbot, Wasin Sakulkoo, Miriam Osés-Ruiz, Garcia E Oliveira, Darren M. Soanes, George R. Littlejohn, Christian Hacker, Ana Correia, and Barbara Valent
