Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2015
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
Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour., Mark Briffa, Lynne U. Sneddon, and Alastair J. Wilson
Fundamental formulae for wave-energy conversion, J Falnes and A Kurniawan
Visions for the North Sea: The Societal Dilemma Behind Specifying Good Environmental Status, Alison J. Gilbert, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Olivia Langmead, Laurence Mee, and Jan Vermaat
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
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
Understanding the gender and ethnicity attainment gap in UK higher education, DRE Cotton, M Joyner, R George, and PA Cotton
Developmental telomere attrition predicts impulsive decision-making in adult starlings, M Bateson, BO Brilot, R Gillespie, P Monaghan, and D Nettle
A new species of Yola Gozis, 1886 from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), David T. Bilton
An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss, D Nettle, P Monaghan, R Gillespie, and et al
ASSESSMENT OF CORALLINE ALGAL SPECIES DIVERSITYAND COMPOSITION AT EUROPEAN CO2 SEEPS USING DNA BARCODING, V Pena, P Range, M Milazzo, Clerck O De, Gall L Le, and JM Hall-Spencer
Challenges of achieving Good Environmental Status in the Northeast Atlantic, Karen A. Alexander, Peter Kershaw, Philip Cooper, Alison J. Gilbert, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Johanna J. Heymans, Andreas Kannen, Hans J. Los, Tim O'Higgins, Cathal O'Mahony, Paul Tett, Tineke A. Troost, and Beusekom J van
EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION VARY DEPENDING ON LIGHT AND NUTRIENT LEVELS, PSM Celis-Pla, JM Hall-Spencer, P Horta, M Milazzo, N Korbee, CE Cornwall, and FL Figueroa
Effects of reduced pH on shell mineral composition and integrity of three common gastropods from a natural undersea CO2 vent community off Vulcano Island, Italy, AM Duquette, JB Mcclintock, CD Amsler, A Perez-Huerta, JM Hall-Spencer, and M Milazzo
Evaluating shoreline identification using optical satellite images, G Garcia-Rubio, David Huntley, and Paul Russell
Evaluating Unsupervised Methods to Size and Classify Suspended Particles Using Digital In-Line Holography, Emlyn J. Davies, Daniel Buscombe, George W. Graham, and W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith
Evidence for distinct coastal and offshore communities of bottlenose dolphins in the north east Atlantic., Machiel G. Oudejans, Fleur Visser, Anneli Englund, Emer Rogan, and Simon N. Ingram
HOW WILL MARINE LIFE COPE WITH OCEAN ACIDIFICATION?, J Hall-Spencer
Integrating network analysis, sensor tags, and observation to understand shark ecology and behavior, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jacob W. Brownscombe, J Krause, S Krause, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Edward J. Brooks, and Steven J. Cooke
Investigating anhedonia in a non-conventional species: Do some riding horses Equus caballus display symptoms of depression?, C Fureix, C Beaulieu, S Argaud, C Rochais, and et al
IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN SEAWEED TO DEALWITH OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, JM Hall-Spencer, LR Pettit, LA Newcomb, E Carrington, CW Smart, MB Hart, and M Milazzo
Marine spatial planning and Good Environmental Status: a perspective on spatial and temporal dimensions, Alison J. Gilbert, Karen Alexander, Rafael Sardá, Raminta Brazinskaite, Christian Fischer, Kira Gee, Mark Jessopp, Peter Kershaw, Hans J. Los, Morla D March, Cathal O'Mahony, Mia Pihlajamäki, Siân Rees, and Riku Varjopuro
Observations of gravel beach dynamics during high energy wave conditions using a laser scanner, L. P. Almeida, G. Masselink, P. E. Russell, and M. A. Davidson
Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory, Brian Gaylord, Kristy J. Kroeker, Jennifer M. Sunday, Kathryn M. Anderson, James P. Barry, Norah E. Brown, Sean D. Connell, Sam Dupont, Katharina E. Fabricius, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Terrie Klinger, Marco Milazzo, Philip L. Munday, Bayden D. Russell, Eric Sanford, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Vengatesen Thiyagarajan, Megan L.H. Vaughan, Steven Widdicombe, and Christopher D.G. Harley
On the verge? Preferential use of road-facing hedgerow margins by bumblebees in agro-ecosystems, Mick E. Hanley and Joshua P. Wilkins
PHOTOPHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF CO2 AND TEMPERATURE LEVELS ON CYSTOSEIRA TAMARISCIFOLIA, COLLECTED ON SOUTHERN SPAIN, PSM Celis-Pla, B Martinez, JM Hall-Spencer, N Korbee, and FL Figueroa
Phylogenetic analysis of rhodolith formation in the Corallinales (Rhodophyta), JJ Hernandez-Kantun, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, V Pena, Christine A. Maggs, and Fabio Rindi
Puffed and bothered: Personality, performance, and the effects of stress on checkered pufferfish, Naomi Pleizier, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Aaron D. Shultz, and Steven J. Cooke
The exotic weevil Stenopelmus rufinasus Gyllenhal, 1835 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) across a "host-free" pond network, M Florencio, R Fernandez-Zamudio, DT Bilton, and C Diaz-Paniagua
The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: hydrodynamic forcing and coastal response along the southwest coast of England, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Tim Poate, Paul Russell, Mark Davidson, and Daniel Conley
Utility of biological sensor tags in animal conservation, ADM Wilson, M. Wikelski, RP Wilson, and S. J. Cooke
Submissions from 2014
Salt and water balance in the land crabs of Christmas Island: a review, LM Turner
Functional imaging in living plants—cell biology meets physiology, George R. Littlejohn, Tobias Meckel, M Schwarzländer, and Alex Costa
The influence of water temperature and accelerometer-determined fight intensity on physiological stress and reflex impairment of angled largemouth bass, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Kelsey Marchand, Kathryn Tisshaw, Victoria Fewster, Olivia Groff, Melissa Pichette, Marian Seed, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke
A spatially resolved pressure-based approach to evaluate combined effects of human activities and management in marine ecosystems, F Goodsir, HJ Bloomfield, AD Judd, and et al
Modelling storm response on gravel beaches using XBeach-G, G Masselink, R McCall, T Poate, and Geer P van
Social networks in elasmobranchs and teleost fishes, A. D.M. Wilson, D. P. Croft, and J. Krause
The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris, Lucy C. Woodall, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Miquel Canals, Gordon L.J. Paterson, Rachel Coppock, Victoria Sleight, Antonio Calafat, Alex D. Rogers, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, and Richard C. Thompson
Ultraviolet radiation and cyanobacteria, RP Rastogi, RP Sinha, SH Moh, TK Lee, and et al
Comparison of intermittent and continuous exposures to inorganic mercury in the mussel, Mytilus edulis: accumulation and sub-lethal physiological effects., D Amachree, AJ Moody, and RD Handy
Germination and persistence of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis in soil microcosms, AH Bishop
Horizontal dispersion in shelf seas: High resolution modelling as an aid to sparse sampling, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Mark E. Inall, and Dmitry Aleynik
Fermentation and antimicrobial characteristics of Lactobacillus plantarum and Candida tropicalis from Nigerian fermented maize (akamu), Patience C. Obinna-Echem, Victor Kuri, and Jane Beal
From medicine to butterflies and back again, C Parmesan
Thermal niche evolution and geographical range expansion in a species complex of western Mediterranean diving beetles., Amparo Hidalgo-Galiana, David Sánchez-Fernández, David T. Bilton, Alexandra Cieslak, and Ignacio Ribera
Modelling storm hydrodynamics on gravel beaches with XBeach-G, R. T. McCall, G. Masselink, T. G. Poate, J. A. Roelvink, L. P. Almeida, M. Davidson, and P. E. Russell
Parasitism in early life: environmental conditions shape within‐brood variation in responses to infection, HMV Granroth‐Wilding, Sarah J. Burthe, Sue Lewis, Thomas E. Reed, Katherine A. Herborn, Mark A. Newell, Emi A. Takahashi, Francis Daunt, and Emma J.A. Cunningham
The Personality Behind Cheating: Behavioural Types and the Feeding Ecology of Cleaner Fish, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jens Krause, JE Herbert‐Read, and Ashley J.W. Ward
What's in a name? What have taxonomy and systematics ever done for us?, David T. Bilton
Integrating metabolic performance, thermal tolerance, and plasticity enables for more accurate predictions on species vulnerability to acute and chronic effects of global warming, S Magozzi and P Calosi
Scaling up experimental ocean acidification and warming research: from individuals to the ecosystem, AM Queirós, JA Fernandes, S Faulwetter, and P Calosi
Fine-scale hydrodynamics influence the spatio-temporal distribution of harbour porpoises at a coastal hotspot, A. R. Jones, P. Hosegood, R. B. Wynn, Boer MN De, S. Butler-Cowdry, and C. B. Embling
Postgraduate Funding - supplying the future generation of researchers and technicians, MP Fuller
Role of wave forcing, storms and nao in outer bar dynamics on a high-energy, macro-tidal beach, Gerd Masselink, Martin Austin, Tim Scott, Tim Poate, and Paul Russell
Variable response of three Trifolium repens ecotypes to soil flooding by seawater., Anissia C. White, Timothy D. Colmer, Greg R. Cawthray, and Mick E. Hanley
Laccobius leopardus sp. nov. from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)., David T. Bilton and Elio Gentili
The effect of molybdenum on the molecularcontrol of cold tolerance in cauliflower(Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) artificialseeds, Hail Z. Rihan, Mohammed Al-Issawi, Wondwossen Abate Woldie, Michele Kiernan, and Michael P. Fuller
Influence of Different Concentrations of Salt Stress on In Vitro Multiplication of Some Fig (Ficus carcia L.) Cultivars, EMR Metwali, IAS Hemaid, HS Al-Zahrani, SM Howlader, and MP Fuller
The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world, Juliet Brodie, Christopher J. Williamson, Dan A. Smale, Nicholas A. Kamenos, Nova Mieszkowska, Rui Santos, Michael Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Christopher Yesson, Kathryn M. Anderson, Valentina Asnaghi, Colin Brownlee, Heidi L. Burdett, Michael T. Burrows, Sinead Collins, Penelope J.C. Donohue, Ben Harvey, Andrew Foggo, Fanny Noisette, Joana Nunes, Federica Ragazzola, John A. Raven, Daniela N. Schmidt, David Suggett, Mirta Teichberg, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
How sailfish use their bills to capture schooling prey, P. Domenici, A. D.M. Wilson, R. H.J.M. Kurvers, S. Marras, J. E. Herbert-Read, J. F. Steffensen, S Krause, P. E. Viblanc, P. Couillaud, and J Krause
Controls on macrotidal rip current circulation and hazard, Tim Scott, Gerd Masselink, Martin J. Austin, and Paul Russell
Dynamic social networks in guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Alexander D.M. Wilson, S Krause, Richard James, Darren P. Croft, Indar W. Ramnarine, Karoline K. Borner, Romain J.G. Clement, and J Krause
Identification of Genes Required for Soil Survival in Burkholderia thailandensis by Transposon-Directed Insertion Site Sequencing, AH Bishop and PA Rachwal
Response of wave-dominated and mixed-energy barriers to storms, Gerd Masselink and Heteren S van
Social network analysis resolves temporal dynamics of male dominance relationships, David Bierbach, Sophie Oster, Jonas Jourdan, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez, Jens Krause, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Martin Plath
A Simple and Effective Method for High Quality Co-Extraction of Genomic DNA and Total RNA from Low Biomass Ectocarpus siliculosus, the Model Brown Alga, M Greco, CA Sáez, MT Brown, and MB Bitonti
The Bactericidal Effect of Dendritic Copper Microparticles, Contained in an Alginate Matrix, on Escherichia coli, SF Thomas, P Rooks, F Rudin, S Atkinson, and et al
Tidal energy conversion in a global hot spot: On the 3-D dynamics of baroclinic tides at the Celtic Sea shelf break, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Nataliya Stashchuk, Mark E. Inall, and Joanne E. Hopkins
Stress exposure in early post-natal life reduces telomere length: an experimental demonstration in a long-lived seabird, Katherine A. Herborn, Britt J. Heidinger, Winnie Boner, Jose C. Noguera, Aileen Adam, Francis Daunt, and Pat Monaghan
Uptake of different crystal structures of TiO₂ nanoparticles by Caco-2 intestinal cells., C Gitrowski, AR Al-Jubory, and RD Handy
Shallow water marine sediment bacterial community shifts along a natural CO2 gradient in the Mediterranean Sea off Vulcano, Italy., Dorsaf Kerfahi, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Binu M. Tripathi, Marco Milazzo, Junghoon Lee, and Jonathan M. Adams
Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins, Christopher K. Pham, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Claudia H.S. Alt, Teresa Amaro, Melanie Bergmann, Miquel Canals, Joan B. Company, Jaime Davies, Gerard Duineveld, François Galgani, Kerry L. Howell, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Eduardo Isidro, Daniel O.B. Jones, Galderic Lastras, Telmo Morato, José Nuno Gomes-Pereira, Autun Purser, Heather Stewart, Inês Tojeira, Xavier Tubau, Rooij D Van, and Paul A. Tyler
An update: improvements in imaging perfluorocarbon-mounted plant leaves with implications for studies of plant pathology, physiology, development and cell biology, George R. Littlejohn, Jessica C. Mansfield, Jacqueline T. Christmas, Eleanor Witterick, Mark D. Fricker, Murray R. Grant, Nicholas Smirnoff, Richard M. Everson, Julian Moger, and John Love
Impaired behavioural response to alarm substance in rainbow trout exposed to copper nanoparticles., T Sovová, D Boyle, KA Sloman, Pérez C Vanegas, and RD Handy
Detailed investigation of overwash on a gravel barrier, Ana Matias, Chris E. Blenkinsopp, and Gerd Masselink
Effects of dietary β-(1,3)(1,6)-D-glucan supplementation on growth performance, intestinal morphology and haemato-immunological profile of mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)., H. Kühlwein, D. L. Merrifield, M. D. Rawling, A. D. Foey, and S. J. Davies
Going native? Flower use by bumblebees in English urban gardens., Mick E. Hanley, Amanda J. Awbi, and Miguel Franco
Identification of Genes Required by Bacillus thuringiensis for Survival in Soil by Transposon-Directed Insertion Site Sequencing, AH Bishop, PA Rachwal, and A Vaid
Morphodynamic variability of high-energy macrotidal beaches, Cornwall, UK, Tim Poate, Gerhard Masselink, Paul Russell, and Martin Austin
Familial strife on the seashore: aggression increases with relatedness in the sea anemone Actinia equina., Nicola L. Foster and Mark Briffa
Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment., Marco Milazzo, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Vera Bin San Chan, Maoz Fine, Cinzia Alessi, Vengatesen Thiyagarajan, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Renato Chemello
Optically significant particle sizes in seawater, Emlyn J. Davies, David McKee, David Bowers, George W. Graham, and W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith
Intercolony movement of pre-breeding seabirds over oceanic scales: implications of cryptic age-classes for conservation and metapopulation dynamics, Anthony W.J. Bicknell, Mairi E. Knight, David T. Bilton, Maria Campbell, James B. Reid, Jason Newton, and Stephen C. Votier
A Novel Evolutionary Strategy Revealed in the Phaeoviruses, K Stevens, K Weynberg, C Bellas, S Brown, and et al
A generalized equilibriummodel for predicting daily to interannual shoreline response, Kristen D. Splinter, Ian L. Turner, Mark A. Davidson, Patrick Barnard, Bruno Castelle, and Joan Oltman-Shay
A note on the Krone deposition equation and significance of floc aggregation, AJ Mehta, AJ Manning, and YP Khare
A step-wise process of decision-making under uncertainty when implementing environmental policy, AM Knights, F Culhane, SS Hussain, KN Papadopoulou, and et al
Boldness and asymmetric contests: role- and outcome-dependent effects of fighting in hermit crabs, Winnie Courtene-Jones and Mark Briffa
Combined Effect of Rotation and Topography on Shoaling Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves, Roger Grimshaw, Chuncheng Guo, Karl Helfrich, and Vasiliy Vlasenko
Combining motion analysis and microfluidics--a novel approach for detecting whole-animal responses to test substances., Tabitha S. Rudin-Bitterli, Oliver Tills, John I. Spicer, Phil F. Culverhouse, Eric M. Wielhouwer, Michael K. Richardson, and Simon D. Rundle
Comparative studies to assess bacterial communities on the clover phylloplane using MLST, DGGE and T-RFLP, A Prabhakar and AH Bishop
Cross-shelf exchange in the northwestern Black Sea, Feng Zhou, Georgy Shapiro, and Fred Wobus
Differential responses of emergent intertidal coral reef fauna to a large-scale El-Niño southern oscillation event: sponge and coral resilience., Francisco Kelmo, James J. Bell, Simone Souza Moraes, Rilza Da Costa Tourinho Gomes, Eduardo Mariano-Neto, and Martin J. Attrill
Effects of silver nanoparticles (NM-300K) on Lumbricus rubellus earthworms and particle characterization in relevant test matrices including soil, der Ploeg MJC van, RD Handy, PL Waalewijn-Kool, den Berg JHJ van, ZEH Rivera, J Bovenschen, B Molleman, JM Baveco, P Tromp, RJB Peters, GF Koopmans, IMCM Rietjens, and den Brink NW van
Evaluation of the microbial community, acidity and proximate composition of akamu, a fermented maize food, Patience C. Obinna-Echem, Victor Kuri, and Jane Beal
