Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2016
The need for speed in a crisis discipline: perspectives on peer-review duration and implications for conservation science, Steven J. Cooke, Vivian M. Nguyen, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Michael R. Donaldson, Austin J. Gallagher, Neil Hammerschlag, and Neal R. Haddaway
Beach response to consecutive extreme storms using LiDAR along the SW coast of England, Olivier Burvingt, Gerd Masselink, Paul Russell, and Tim Scott
Expected Effects of Offshore Wind Farms on Mediterranean Marine Life, Laura Bray, Sofia Reizopoulou, Evangelos Voukouvalas, Takvor Soukissian, Carme Alomar, M Vazquez-Luis, Salud Deudero, Martin J. Attrill, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
MARINE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ASSESSMENT OF ST. HELENA, SE Rees
Use and perception of collars for companion cats in New Zealand, M Harrod, AJ Keown, and MJ Farnworth
Molecular phylogeny of the highly disjunct cliff water beetles from South Africa and China (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae), Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint, Rolf G. Beutel, J Moriniere, Fenglong Jia, Shengquan Xu, Mariano C. Michat, Xin Zhou, David T. Bilton, Ignacio Ribera, J Hajek, and Michael Balke
Temporal fluctuations in seawater pCO2 may be as important as mean differences when determining physiological sensitivity in natural systems, Daniel P. Small, Marco Milazzo, Camilla Bertolini, Helen Graham, Chris Hauton, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Samuel P.S. Rastrick
Ten practical realities for institutional animal care and use committees when evaluating protocols dealing with fish in the field, Steven J. Cooke, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Chris K. Elvidge, Robert J. Lennox, Niels Jepsen, Alison H. Colotelo, and Richard S. Brown
The impact of ocean acidification and warming on the skeletal mechanical properties of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus from laboratory and field observations, Marie Collard, Samuel P.S. Rastrick, Piero Calosi, Yoann Demolder, Jean Dille, Helen S. Findlay, Jason Michael Hall-Spencer, Marco Milazzo, Laure Moulin, Steve Widdicombe, Frank Dehairs, and Philippe Dubois
Direct measurement of hairpin‐like vortices in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean, Edward C.C. Steele, W. Alex M. Nimmo‐Smith, and Andrey Vlasenko
High proportion of smaller ranged hummingbird species coincides with ecological specialization across the Americas, J Sonne, González AM Martín, PK Maruyama, B Sandel, J Vizentin-Bugoni, M Schleuning, S Abrahamczyk, R Alarcón, AC Araujo, FP Araújo, de Azevedo S Mendes, AC Baquero, PA Cotton, TT Ingversen, G Kohler, C Lara, Las-Casas FM Guedes, AO Machado, CG Machado, MA Maglianesi, AC Moura, D Nogués-Bravo, GM Oliveira, PE Oliveira, JF Ornelas, LDC Rodrigues, L Rosero-Lasprilla, AM Rui, M Sazima, A Timmermann, IG Varassin, Z Wang, S Watts, J Fjeldså, J-C Svenning, C Rahbek, and B Dalsgaard
Detecting horses’ sickness: In search of visible signs, M Hausberger, C Fureix, and C Lesimple
Dietary administration of a commercial mixed-species probiotic improves growth performance and modulates the intestinal immunity of tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, B. T. Standen, D. L. Peggs, M. D. Rawling, A. Foey, S. J. Davies, G. A. Santos, and D. L. Merrifield
Responses to threat in a freshwater invader: Longitudinal data reveal personality, habituation and robustness to changing water temperatures in the ‘killer shrimp’ Dikerogammarus villosus (Crustacea: Amphipoda)., M Briffa, N Jones, and C MacNeil
Offspring Hormones Reflect the Maternal Prenatal Social Environment: Potential for Foetal Programming?, Kristine Meise, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, Jaume Forcada, and Joseph Ivan Hoffman
The influence of pre-wash chopping and storage conditions of parsley on the efficacy of disinfection against S. Typhimurium, Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Victor Kuri, and Ewen C.D. Todd
Weak rappers rock more: Hermit crabs assess their own agonistic behaviour., Elizabeth Edmonds and Mark Briffa
Probiotic treatment reduces appetite and glucose level in the zebrafish model, Silvia Falcinelli, Ana Rodiles, Suraj Unniappan, Simona Picchietti, Giorgia Gioacchini, Daniel Lee Merrifield, and Oliana Carnevali
An evaluation framework to determine the impact of the Lyme Bay Fisheries and Conservation Reserve and the activities of the Lyme Bay Consultative Committee on ecosystem services and human wellbeing., SE Rees, M Ashley, L Evans, S Mangi, L Rodwell, M Attrill, O Langmead, E Sheehan, and A Rees
Assessing walking posture with geometric morphometrics: Effects of rearing environment in pigs, C Tallet, E Sénèque, C Mégnin, S Morisset, and et al
Dynamics of rip currents associated with groynes — field measurements, modelling and implications for beach safety, Tim Scott, Martin Austin, Gerd Masselink, and Paul Russell
European Red List of Habitats Part 1. Marine habitats, S Gubbay and JM Hall-Spencer
Making microscopy count: quantitative light microscopy of dynamic processes in living plants, Michael J. Deeks, Mark D. Fricker, Julian Moger, and George R. Littlejohn
Modelling the alongshore variability of optimum rip current escape strategies on a multiple rip-channelled beach, Bruno Castelle, R. Jak McCarroll, Robert W. Brander, Timothy Scott, and Benjamin Dubarbier
Preliminary Results From A Computational Multi Agent Modelling Approach To Study Humpback Whale Song Cultural Transmission, M Mcloughlin, L Lamoni, E Garland, S Ingram, A Kirke, M Noad, L Rendell, and ER Miranda
Sources, Distribution, and Fate of Microscopic Plastics in Marine Environments, Richard C. Thompson
Visual Pigments, Ocular Filters and the Evolution of Snake Vision, Bruno F. Simões, Filipa L. Sampaio, Ronald H. Douglas, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Nicholas R. Casewell, Robert A. Harrison, Nathan S. Hart, Julian C. Partridge, David M. Hunt, and David J. Gower
Submissions from 2015
Does lure colour influence catch per unit effort, fish capture size and hooking injury in angled largemouth bass?, Andrew D. Moraga, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke
Expression of multiple horizontally acquired genes is a hallmark of both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes, Alastair Crisp, Chiara Boschetti, Malcolm Perry, Alan Tunnacliffe, and Gos Micklem
Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats, Isobel Eyres, Chiara Boschetti, Alastair Crisp, Thomas P. Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alan Tunnacliffe, and Timothy G. Barraclough
Marine Microphytobenthic Assemblage Shift along a Natural Shallow-Water CO2 Gradient Subjected to Multiple Environmental Stressors, Vivienne R. Johnson, Colin Brownlee, Marco Milazzo, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Permanent draft genome of ‘Rhodopirellula islandica’ strain K833, J Kizina, M Žure, E Rhiel, and et al
The socio-economic effects of a Marine Protected Area on the ecosystem service of leisure and recreation, Siân E. Rees, Stephen C. Mangi, Caroline Hattam, Sarah C. Gall, Lynda D. Rodwell, Frankie J. Peckett, and Martin J. Attrill
Antioxidative capacity and electrolyte leakage in healthy versus phytoplasma infected tissues of Euphorbia coerulescens and Orbea gigantean, YH Dewir, Mahrouk ME El, HZ Rihan, CA Sáez, and MP FULLER
Thermal Imaging to Study Stress Non-invasively in Unrestrained Birds, Paul Jerem, Katherine Herborn, Dominic McCafferty, Dorothy McKeegan, and Ruedi Nager
The impact of CO2 emissions on 'nuisance' marine species, JM Hall-Spencer and R Allen
Exaggerated displays do not improve mounting success in male seaweed flies Fucellia tergina (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), Ruth Memmott and Mark Briffa
Long Term Aggresome Accumulation Leads to DNA Damage, p53-dependent Cell Cycle Arrest, and Steric Interference in Mitosis, Meng Lu, Chiara Boschetti, and Alan Tunnacliffe
Plants and climate change: complexities and surprises, Camille Parmesan and Mick E. Hanley
Septin-Dependent Assembly of the Exocyst Is Essential for Plant Infection by Magnaporthe oryzae, Yogesh K. Gupta, Yasin F. Dagdas, Ana Lilia Martinez-Rocha, Michael J. Kershaw, George R. Littlejohn, Lauren S. Ryder, Jan Sklenar, Frank Menke, and Nicholas J. Talbot
Stereotypic mice are aggressed by their cage-mates, and tend to be poor demonstrators in social learning tasks, L Harper, E Choleris, K Ervin, C Fureix, and et al
The global importance of regional studies in marine science: Trans-boundary pollutants matter, Gunnar G. Lauenstein, Kenneth M.Y. Leung, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Transcriptional Dynamics Driving MAMP-Triggered Immunity and Pathogen Effector-Mediated Immunosuppression in Arabidopsis Leaves Following Infection with Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000, Laura A. Lewis, Krzysztof Polanski, Torres-Zabala M de, Siddharth Jayaraman, Laura Bowden, Jonathan Moore, Christopher A. Penfold, Dafyd J. Jenkins, Claire Hill, Laura Baxter, Satish Kulasekaran, William Truman, George Littlejohn, Justyna Prusinska, Andrew Mead, Jens Steinbrenner, Richard Hickman, David Rand, David L. Wild, Sascha Ott, Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Nick Smirnoff, Jim Beynon, Katherine Denby, and Murray Grant
The Influence of Data Resolution on Predicted Distribution and Estimates of Extent of Current Protection of Three 'Listed' Deep-Sea Habitats, LK Ross, RE Ross, Heather A. Stewart, and Kerry L. Howell
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms—Unifying Principles and New Paradigms, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Mike Thorndyke, and Sam Dupont
Action Cameras: Bringing Aquatic and Fisheries Research into View, Daniel P. Struthers, Andy J. Danylchuk, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke
Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator–Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry, Stefano Marras, Takuji Noda, John F. Steffensen, Morten B.S. Svendsen, Jens Krause, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, James Herbert-Read, Kevin M. Boswell, and Paolo Domenici
Predictive habitat suitability models to aid conservation of elasmobranch diversity in the central Mediterranean Sea, V. Lauria, M. Gristina, M. J. Attrill, F. Fiorentino, and G. Garofalo
Social networks in changing environments, A. D.M. Wilson, S Krause, I. W. Ramnarine, K. K. Borner, R. J.G. Clément, R. H.J.M. Kurvers, and J Krause
What can inactivity (in its various forms) reveal about affective states in non-human animals? A review, C Fureix and RK Meagher
Erratum: How long is too long in contemporary peer review? Perspectives from authors publishing in conservation biology journals (PLoS ONE (2015) 10:9 e0139783)), V. M. Nguyen, N. R. Haddaway, L. F.G. Gutowsky, A. D.M. Wilson, A. J. Gallagher, and M. R. Donaldson
Testing the resilience of dead maerl infaunal assemblages to the experimental removal and re-lay of habitat, Emma V. Sheehan, Danielle Bridger, Sophie L. Cousens, and Martin J. Attrill
Home advantage? Decomposition across the freshwater-estuarine transition zone varies with litter origin and local salinity, Giulio Franzitta, Mick E. Hanley, Laura Airoldi, Cecilia Baggini, David T. Bilton, Simon D. Rundle, and Richard C. Thompson
Internal tides near the Celtic Sea shelf break: A new look at a well known problem, Vasiliy Vlasenko and Nataliya Stashchuk
Mapping the stray domestic cat (Felis catus) population in New Zealand: Species distribution modelling with a climate change scenario and implications for protected areas, GD Aguilar, MJ Farnworth, and L Winder
The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status?, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Martin Edwards, Pierre Helaouët, David G. Johns, Nicholas J.P. Owens, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Declan Schroeder, Jennifer Skinner, and Rowena F. Stern
THE EFFECT OF SUGAR TYPE, SOURCE AND CONCENTRATION ON CAULIFLOWER (BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS) MICROSHOOT PRODUCTION, H. Z. Rihan, M. Al-Shamari, F. Al-Swedi, S. Burchett, and M. P. Fuller
The maternal social environment shapes offspring growth, physiology, and behavioural phenotype in guinea pigs., Engelhardt N. von, GJ Kowalski, and A Guenther
Does Angling Technique Selectively Target Fishes Based on Their Behavioural Type?, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Brittany Sullivan, Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer, and Steven J. Cooke
Ocean acidification bends the Mermaid’s Wineglass, Laura A. Newcomb, Marco Milazzo, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Emily Carrington
Observation and prediction of three-dimensional morphology at a high-energy macrotidal beach, Christopher Stokes, Mark Davidson, and Paul Russell
How Long Is Too Long in Contemporary Peer Review? Perspectives from Authors Publishing in Conservation Biology Journals, Vivian M. Nguyen, Neal R. Haddaway, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Austin J. Gallagher, Michael R. Donaldson, Neil Hammerschlag, and Steven J. Cooke
Herbivore diversity improves benthic community resilience to ocean acidification, Cecilia Baggini, Yannis Issaris, Maria Salomidi, and Jason Hall-Spencer
Modelling the morphodynamics of gravel beaches during storms with XBeach-G, R. T. McCall, G. Masselink, T. G. Poate, J. A. Roelvink, and L. P. Almeida
Capelatus prykei gen. et sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) - a phylogenetically isolated diving beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa, David T. Bilton, Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint, Clive R. Turner, and Michael Balke
How well do protected area networks support taxonomic and functional diversity in non-target taxa? The case of Iberian freshwaters, S. Guareschi, D. T. Bilton, J. Velasco, A Millan, and P Abellan
Oxygen-limited thermal tolerance is seen in a plastron-breathing insect and can be induced in a bimodal gas exchanger., Wilco C.E.P. Verberk and David T. Bilton
Marine governance in the English Channel (La Manche): Linking science and management., G. Glegg, R. Jefferson, and S. Fletcher
Two new species of madicolous water beetle from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), David T. Bilton
New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), David T. Bilton
A physics-enabled flow restoration algorithm for sparse PIV and PTV measurements, Andrey Vlasenko, Edward C.C. Steele, and W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith
Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean., Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Paolo Montagna, Stefano Aliani, Mireno Borghini, Simonepietro Canese, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Andy Foggo, Marco Milazzo, Marco Taviani, and Fanny Houlbrèque
Chloroplasts play a central role in plant defence and are targeted by pathogen effectors, Torres Zabala M de, George Littlejohn, Siddharth Jayaraman, David Studholme, Trevor Bailey, Tracy Lawson, Michael Tillich, Dirk Licht, Bettina Bölter, Laura Delfino, William Truman, John Mansfield, Nicholas Smirnoff, and Murray Grant
Frost Hardiness of Iraqi Wheat genotypes, M Al-Issawi, HZ Rihan, UH Mahdi, and MP Fuller
How clumpy is my image?, Hugo Hutt, Richard Everson, Murray Grant, John Love, and George Littlejohn
Parasites and personality in periwinkles (Littorina littorea): Infection status is associated with mean-level boldness but not repeatability., Ben Seaman and Mark Briffa
Time-related expression profiles for heat shock protein gene transcripts (HSP40, HSP70) in the central nervous system of Lymnaea stagnalis exposed to thermal stress, NL Foster, K Lukowiak, and TB Henry
Use of a seagrass residency index to apportion commercial fishery landing values and recreation fisheries expenditure to seagrass habitat service., Emma L. Jackson, Siân E. Rees, Catherine Wilding, and Martin J. Attrill
Vertical structure of near-bed cross-shore flow velocities in the swash zone of a dissipative beach, Kris Inch, Gerd Masselink, Jack A. Puleo, Paul Russell, and Daniel C. Conley
Biological impact assessment of nanomaterial used in nanomedicine. Introduction to the NanoTEST project, L Juillerat-Jeanneret, M Dusinska, LM Fjellsbø, AR Collins, RD Handy, and M Riediker
Health effects of selected nanoparticlesin vivo: liver function and hepatotoxicity following intravenous injection of titanium dioxide and Na-oleate-coated iron oxide nanoparticles in rodents, K Volkovova, RD Handy, M Staruchova, J Tulinska, A Kebis, J Pribojova, O Ulicna, J Kucharská, and M Dusinska
Towards an alternative testing strategy for nanomaterials used in nanomedicine: Lessons from NanoTEST, M Dusinska, S Boland, M Saunders, L Juillerat-Jeanneret, L Tran, G Pojana, A Marcomini, K Volkovova, J Tulinska, LE Knudsen, L Gombau, M Whelan, AR Collins, F Marano, C Housiadas, D Bilanicova, Kenzaoui B Halamoda, Carreira S Correia, Z Magdolenova, LM Fjellsbø, A Huk, R Handy, L Walker, M Barancokova, A Bartonova, E Burello, J Castell, H Cowie, M Drlickova, R Guadagnini, G Harris, M Harju, ES Heimstad, M Hurbankova, A Kazimirova, Z Kovacikova, M Kuricova, A Liskova, A Milcamps, E Neubauerova, T Palosaari, P Papazafiri, M Pilou, MS Poulsen, B Ross, E Runden-Pran, K Sebekova, M Staruchova, D Vallotto, and A Worth
Macroalgal responses to ocean acidification depend on nutrient and light levels, PSM Celis-Plá, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Paulo Antunes Horta, Marco Milazzo, Nathalie Korbee, Christopher E. Cornwall, and Félix L. Figueroa
A review of the Canthyporus exilis group, with the description of two new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), David T. Bilton
The role of advection in the distribution of plankton populations at a moored 1-D coastal observatory, Jaimie Cross, W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith, Philip J. Hosegood, and Ricardo Torres
Lateritic Plateaus in the Northern Western Ghats, India; a Review of Bauxite Mining Restoration Practices, C Thorpe and A Watve
In Vivo Chemical and Structural Analysis of Plant Cuticular Waxes Using Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy, George R. Littlejohn, Jessica C. Mansfield, David Parker, Rob Lind, Sarah Perfect, Mark Seymour, Nicholas Smirnoff, John Love, and Julian Moger
PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE ANALYSIS IN CAULIFLOWER USING A CURD MICROPROPAGATION SYSTEM, H. Z. Rihan, M. Al-Issawi, M. Al-Shamari, M. Elmahrouk, and M. P. Fuller
Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high-CO2 oceans, Vittorio Garilli, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Danilo Scuderi, Lorenzo Brusca, Daniela Parrinello, Samuel P.S. Rastrick, Andy Foggo, Richard J. Twitchett, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Marco Milazzo
The comparative osmoregulatory ability of two water beetle genera whose species span the fresh-hypersaline gradient in inland waters (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae)., Susana Pallarés, Paula Arribas, David T. Bilton, Andrés Millán, and Josefa Velasco
Individual differences in activity and habitat selection of juvenile queen conch evaluated using acceleration biologgers, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Emma Samson, Liane Nowell, Steven J. Cooke, and Andy J. Danylchuk
Education for Sustainable Development: Towards the Sustainable University, S DeAmicis, G Crust, C Mikhail, J Davidson, C Gristy, R Cutting, A Consorte-McCrea, K Kosta, S Bessant, C Willmore, P Ofei-Manu, K Herweg, A Zimmermann, P Bray, L Wyness, and P Rands
Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls., S Danise and ND Higgs
Ocean acidification: how will marine life cope?, JM Hall-Spencer
Evaluation of ecosystem-based marine management strategies based on risk assessment, GJ Piet, RH Jongbloed, AM Knights, JE Tamis, and et al
Lactobacillus rhamnosus lowers zebrafish lipid content by changing gut microbiota and host transcription of genes involved in lipid metabolism., Silvia Falcinelli, Simona Picchietti, Ana Rodiles, Lina Cossignani, Daniel L. Merrifield, Anna Rita Taddei, Francesca Maradonna, Ike Olivotto, Giorgia Gioacchini, and Oliana Carnevali
Individual quality and personality: bolder males are less fecund in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus., Danielle Bridger, Simon J. Bonner, and Mark Briffa
Photosynthetic and biochemical characterization of in vitro-derived African violet (Saintpaulia ionantha H. Wendl) plants to ex vitro conditions, Yaser Hassan Dewir, Mohammed El Sayed El-Mahrouk, Hanady Salim Al-Shmgani, Hail Z. Rihan, Silva JAT da, and Michael P. Fuller
Coastal cliff ground motions and response to extreme storm waves, Claire S. Earlie, Adam P. Young, Gerd Masselink, and Paul E. Russell
Public Understanding and Knowledge of Rip Currents and Beach Safety, Eleanor Woodward, Emily Beaumont, Paul Russell, and Ross MacLeod
