Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2016
Use and perception of collars for companion cats in New Zealand, M Harrod, AJ Keown, and MJ Farnworth
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
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, Jesper Sonne, Ana M. Martín González, Pietro K. Maruyama, Brody Sandel, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni, Matthias Schleuning, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Ruben Alarcón, Andréa C. Araujo, Francielle P. Araújo, Severino Mendes de Azevedo, Andrea C. Baquero, Peter A. Cotton, Tanja Toftemark Ingversen, Glauco Kohler, Carlos Lara, Flor Maria Guedes Las-Casas, Adriana O. Machado, Caio Graco Machado, María Alejandra Maglianesi, Alan Cerqueira Moura, David Nogués-Bravo, Genilda M. Oliveira, Paulo E. Oliveira, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Licléia Da Cruz Rodrigues, Liliana Rosero-Lasprilla, Ana Maria Rui, Marlies Sazima, Allan 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
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
A new parameterisation for runup on gravel beaches, Timothy G. Poate, Robert T. McCall, and Gerd Masselink
Assessing walking posture with geometric morphometrics: Effects of rearing environment in pigs, C Tallet, E Sénèque, C Mégnin, S Morisset, and et al
Boa constrictor (Common Boa). Reproduction / Courtship, R Puschendorf and G Chaves
Boundary layer dynamics in the swash zone under large-scale laboratory conditions, Andrea Ruju, Daniel Conley, Gerd Masselink, Martin Austin, Jack Puleo, Thijs Lanckriet, and Diane Foster
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
Differences in the timing of cardio-respiratory development determine whether marine gastropod embryos survive or die in hypoxia., Tabitha S. Rudin-Bitterli, John I. Spicer, and Simon D. Rundle
Dynamics of rip currents associated with groynes — field measurements, modelling and implications for beach safety, Tim Scott, Martin Austin, Gerd Masselink, and Paul Russell
Effect of photosynthetic photon flux density on growth, photosynthetic competence and antioxidant enzymes activity during ex vitro acclimatization of Dieffenbachia cultivars, M. E. El-Mahrouk, Y. H. Dewir, H. N. Murthy, H. Z. Rihan, H. S. Al-Shmgani, and M. P. Fuller
EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in Rice That Function in the Response to Water Deficit, High Temperature, and Agricultural Environments, Olivia Wilkins, Christoph Hafemeister, Anne Plessis, Meisha Marika Holloway-Phillips, Gina M. Pham, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Glenn B. Gregorio, SVK Jagadish, Endang M. Septiningsih, Richard Bonneau, and Michael Purugganan
Erratum to: Permanent draft genome of Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T, a moderately thermophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Acidithiobacillia [Stand Genomic Sci., 11, (2016) (74)], DOI:10.1186/s40793-016-0188-0, Rich Boden, Lee P. Hutt, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, Tatiparthi Reddy, Chew Yee Ngan, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, and Nikos Kyrpides
European Red List of Habitats Part 1. Marine habitats, S Gubbay and JM Hall-Spencer
Individual and population-level responses to ocean acidification, Ben P. Harvey, Niall J. McKeown, Samuel P.S. Rastrick, Camilla Bertolini, Andy Foggo, Helen Graham, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Marco Milazzo, Paul W. Shaw, Daniel P. Small, and Pippa J. Moore
Innovation and model organisms for the environmental hazard assessment of engineered nanomaterials, RD Handy
Long-term modifications of coastal defences enhance marine biodiversity, Gustavo M. Martins, Stuart R. Jenkins, Ana I. Neto, Stephen J. Hawkins, and Richard C. Thompson
Making microscopy count: quantitative light microscopy of dynamic processes in living plants, Mark D. Fricker, Julian Moger, George R. Littlejohn, and Michael J. Deeks
Material type and roughness influence structure of inter-tidal communities on coastal defenses, Eva Cacabelos, Gustavo M. Martins, Richard Thompson, Afonso C.L. Prestes, José Manuel N. Azevedo, and Ana I. Neto
Metabolic responses to high pCO2 conditions at a CO2 vent site in juveniles of a marine isopod species assemblage, Lucy M. Turner, Elena Ricevuto, Gallucci A Massa, Maurizio Lorenti, Maria Cristina Gambi, and Piero Calosi
Microbiological quality of ready-to-eat fresh vegetables and their link to food safety environment and handling practices in restaurants, Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Ewen C.D. Todd, and Victor Kuri
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
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
Nanomaterials in the aquatic environment: A European Union-United States perspective on the status of ecotoxicity testing, research priorities, and challenges ahead, H Selck, RD Handy, TF Fernandes, SJ Klaine, and EJ Petersen
On the use of the Radon transform to estimate longshore currents from video imagery, Rafael Almar, Stanislas Larnier, Bruno Castelle, Timothy Scott, and France Floc'h
Physiological niche and geographical range in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)., Rebekah Cioffi, A. John Moody, Andrés Millán, Richard A. Billington, and David T. Bilton
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
Research highlights from Regional Studies in Marine Science, J. M. Hall-Spencer, G. G. Lauenstein, and K. M.Y. Leung
R-gene variation across Arabidopsis lyrata subspecies: effects of population structure, selection and mating system, James Buckley, Elizabeth Kilbride, Volkan Cevik, Joana G. Vicente, Eric B. Holub, and Barbara K. Mable
Same-sex sexual behaviour as a dominance display, Sarah M. Lane, Alice E. Haughan, Daniel Evans, Tom Tregenza, and Clarissa M. House
Seabird diversity hotspot linked to ocean productivity in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem, W. James Grecian, Matthew J. Witt, Martin J. Attrill, Stuart Bearhop, Peter H. Becker, Carsten Egevang, Robert W. Furness, Brendan J. Godley, Jacob González-Solís, David Grémillet, Matthias Kopp, Amélie Lescroël, Jason Matthiopoulos, Samantha C. Patrick, Hans Ulrich Peter, Richard A. Phillips, Iain J. Stenhouse, and Stephen C. Votier
Sediment transport partitioning in the swash zone of a large-scale laboratory beach, Jack A. Puleo, Thijs Lanckriet, Daniel Conley, and Diane Foster
Sexual dimorphism and sexual conflict in the diving beetle Agabus uliginosus (L.) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), David T. Bilton, Jamie W.G. Hayward, Jonathan Rocha, and Garth N. Foster
Sources, Distribution, and Fate of Microscopic Plastics in Marine Environments, Richard C. Thompson
Sublethal effects of copper sulphate compared to copper nanoparticles in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at low pH: physiology and metal accumulation, GA Al-Bairuty, D Boyle, TB Henry, and RD Handy
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 transfer rate of Salmonella Typhimurium from contaminated parsley to other consecutively chopped batches via cutting boards under different food handling scenarios, Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Victor Kuri, and Ewen Todd
The Whittard Canyon - A case study of submarine canyon processes, T. Amaro, V. A.I. Huvenne, A. L. Allcock, T. Aslam, J. S. Davies, R. Danovaro, Stigter HC De, G. C.A. Duineveld, C. Gambi, A. J. Gooday, L. M. Gunton, R. Hall, K. L. Howell, J. Ingels, K. Kiriakoulakis, C. E. Kershaw, M. S.S. Lavaleye, K. Robert, H. Stewart, Rooij D Van, M. White, and A. M. Wilson
Understanding the routes of contamination of ready-to-eat vegetables in the Middle East, Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Muhammad Murtada, Victor Kuri, and Ewen C.D. Todd
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
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
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
Plants and climate change: complexities and surprises, Camille Parmesan and Mick E. Hanley
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 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
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
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 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
The maternal social environment shapes offspring growth, physiology, and behavioural phenotype in guinea pigs., N von Engelhardt, 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
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
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
Frost Hardiness of Iraqi Wheat genotypes, M Al-Issawi, HZ Rihan, UH Mahdi, and MP Fuller
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
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
Lateritic Plateaus in the Northern Western Ghats, India; a Review of Bauxite Mining Restoration Practices, C Thorpe and A Watve
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
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
Effects of Emergence Time and Early Social Rearing Environment on Behaviour of Atlantic Salmon: Consequences for Juvenile Fitness and Smolt Migration, Martin H. Larsen, Jörgen I. Johnsson, Svante Winberg, Alexander D.M. Wilson, David Hammenstig, Per Ove Thörnqvist, Jonathan D. Midwood, Kim Aarestrup, and Erik Höglund
Investigating a link of two different types of food business management to the food safety knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers in Beirut, Lebanon, Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Victor Kuri, and Ewen Todd
Fundamental formulae for wave-energy conversion, J Falnes and A Kurniawan
Metagenomics Reveals Planktonic Bacterial Community Shifts across a Natural CO2 Gradient in the Mediterranean Sea., Ashvini Chauhan, Ashish Pathak, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Marco Milazzo, Stefan J. Green, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
An exposure-effect approach for evaluating ecosystem-wide risks from human activities, AM Knights, GJ Piet, RH Jongbloed, and et al
Copper-induced intra-specific oxidative damage and antioxidant responses in strains of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus with different pollution histories, CA Sáez, F Roncarati, A Moenne, AJ Moody, and MT Brown
