Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2014
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
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
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
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
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, Pat Monaghan, Katherine A. Herborn, Britt J. Heidinger, Winnie Boner, Jose C. Noguera, Aileen Adam, and Francis Daunt
Uptake of different crystal structures of TiO₂ nanoparticles by Caco-2 intestinal cells., C Gitrowski, AR Al-Jubory, and RD Handy
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
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
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
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
An Updated Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity, Tracy Aze, J Barry, R G J Bellerby, L Brander, M Byrne, S Dupont, J-P Gattuso, S Gibbs, L Hansson, C Hattam, and others
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, Mark Briffa and Winnie Courtene-Jones
Combined Effect of Rotation and Topography on Shoaling Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves, Karl Helfrich, Roger Grimshaw, Chuncheng Guo, 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
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
Cross-shelf exchange in the northwestern Black Sea, Georgy Shapiro, Feng Zhou, 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
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
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
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
Factors affecting the levels of protection transferred from mother to offspring following immune challenge, Christina M. Coakley, Vincent Staszewski, Katherine A. Herborn, and Emma J.A. Cunningham
Familial strife on the seashore: aggression increases with relatedness in the sea anemone Actinia equina., Nicola L. Foster and Mark Briffa
Final Report to OSPAR of the Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA), E McGovern and JM Hall-Spencer
Going native? Flower use by bumblebees in English urban gardens., Mick E. Hanley, Amanda J. Awbi, and Miguel Franco
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
Minimal effects of waterborne exposure to single-walled carbon nanotubes on behaviour and physiology of juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)., D Boyle, JE Fox, JM Akerman, KA Sloman, TB Henry, and RD Handy
Moving Beyond Too Little, Too Late: Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in Wild Populations Requires International Policy and Partnerships, Jamie Voyles, A. Marm Kilpatrick, James P. Collins, Matthew C. Fisher, Winifred F. Frick, Hamish McCallum, Craig K.R. Willis, David S. Blehert, Kris A. Murray, Robert Puschendorf, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Benjamin M. Bolker, Tina L. Cheng, Kate E. Langwig, Daniel L. Lindner, Mary Toothman, Mark Q. Wilber, and Cheryl J. Briggs
Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel., Carlotta Molfese, Doug Beare, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
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
Pharmacological modulation of NAD alters TNF-α responses in macrophage subsets, A Al-Shabany, AJ Moody, AD Foey, and RA Billington
Public perceptions of sharks: Gathering support for shark conservation, Laura A. Friedrich, Rebecca Jefferson, and Gillian Glegg
Seasonality affects macroalgal community response to increases in pCO2., Cecilia Baggini, Maria Salomidi, Emanuela Voutsinas, Laura Bray, Eva Krasakopoulou, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Shallow water marine sediment bacterial community shifts along a natural CO2 gradient in the Mediterranean Sea off Vulcano, Italy., Junghoon Lee, Dorsaf Kerfahi, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Binu M. Tripathi, Marco Milazzo, and Jonathan M. Adams
Social experience during adolescence influences how male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) group with conspecifics, Tim Ruploh, Hans Joachim Bischof, and N von Engelhardt
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
Social networks in elasmobranchs and teleost fishes, A. D.M. Wilson, D. P. Croft, and J. Krause
Steps toward a shared governance response for achieving Good Environmental Status in the Mediterranean Sea, Sergio Cinnirella, R Sarda, Suarez de Vivero J Luis, Ruth Brennan, Alberto Barausse, John Icely, Tiziana Luisetti, David March, Carla Murciano, Alice Newton, T O'Higgins, Luca Palmeri, Maria Giovanna Palmieri, Pascal Raux, Sian Rees, J Albaiges, Nicola Pirrone, and Kerry Turner
The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris, Richard C. Thompson, Lucy C. Woodall, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Miquel Canals, Gordon L.J. Paterson, Rachel Coppock, Victoria Sleight, Antonio Calafat, Alex D. Rogers, and Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy
The dispersal of phytoplankton populations by enhanced turbulent mixing in a shallow coastal sea, Jaimie Cross, W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith, Philip J. Hosegood, and Ricardo Torres
The effects of a competitor on the foraging behaviour of the shore crab Carcinus maenas., LJ Chakravarti and PA Cotton
The evolutionary and ecological consequences of animal social networks: emerging issues, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, Jens Krause, Darren P. Croft, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Max Wolf
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
Toxicity of cerium oxide nanoparticles to the earthworm Eisenia fetida: subtle effects, E Lahive, K Jurkschat, BJ Shaw, RD Handy, DJ Spurgeon, and C Svendsen
Uptake epithelia behave in a cell-centric and not systems homeostatic manner in response to zinc depletion and supplementation, D Zheng, GP Feeney, RD Handy, C Hogstrand, and P Kille
Variable response of three Trifolium repens ecotypes to soil flooding by seawater., Mick E. Hanley, Anissia C. White, Timothy D. Colmer, and Greg R. Cawthray
What's in a name? What have taxonomy and systematics ever done for us?, David T. Bilton
Submissions from 2013
Recovery of a Temperate Reef Assemblage in a Marine Protected Area following the Exclusion of Towed Demersal Fishing, Emma V. Sheehan, Timothy F. Stevens, Sarah C. Gall, Sophie L. Cousens, and Martin J. Attrill
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature, J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte, and et al
AMAP Assessment 2013: Arctic Ocean Acidification. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), AMAP and Jason Hall-Spencer
Coastal urbanization leads to remarkable seaweed species loss and community shifts along the SW Atlantic., Fernando Scherner, Paulo Antunes Horta, Oliveira EC de, José Carlos Simonassi, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Fungyi Chow, José Marcos C. Nunes, and Sonia Maria Barreto Pereira
Drawing lines at the sand: evidence for functional vs. visual reef boundaries in temperate Marine Protected Areas., E. V. Sheehan, S. L. Cousens, S. J. Nancollas, C. Stauss, J. Royle, and M. J. Attrill
Evaluation and selection of barley genotypes for salt stress resistance using tissue culture techniques and SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis, EMR Metwali, SMH Gowayed, OA Almagrabi, YY Mosleh, and MP Fuller
Understanding Long-Term Changes in Species Abundance Using a Niche-Based Approach, P Helaouët, G Beaugrand, and M Edwards
Collective Cognition in Humans: Groups Outperform Their Best Members in a Sentence Reconstruction Task, Romain J.G. Clément, S Krause, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, Jolyon J. Faria, J Krause, and Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers
SOWFIA Project - Work Package 3 Final Report, D Conley, D Magagna, D Greaves, E Aires, Leitao J Chambel, M Witt, C Embling, BJ Godley, A Bicknell, J-B Saulnier, T Simas, AM O’Hagan, J O’Callaghan, B Holmes, J Sundberg, Y Torre-Enciso, and D Marina
Generation of baroclinic tides over an isolated underwater bank, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Nataliya Stashchuk, Matthew R. Palmer, and Mark E. Inall
Predicting Free-Space Occupancy on Novel Artificial Structures by an Invasive Intertidal Barnacle Using a Removal Experiment, SA Bracewell, LA Robinson, LB Firth, and AM Knights
A novel bioassay using root re-growth in Lemna, A Park, Y-J Kim, E-M Choi, MT Brown, and T Han
Effect of osmotic potential of activator solution and temperature on viability and vigour of wheat seed, MP Fuller and J Hamza
Lack of Variation at Phosphoglucose Isomerase (Pgi) in Bumblebees: Implications for Conservation Genetics Studies, Jonathan S. Ellis, Lucy M. Turner, and Mairi E. Knight
Identifying common pressure pathways from a complex network of human activities to support ecosystem-based management, AM Knights, RS Koss, and LA Robinson
Severe Impact and Subsequent Recovery of a Coral Assemblage following the 1997–8 El Niño Event: A 17-Year Study from Bahia, Brazil, Francisco Kelmo and Martin J. Attrill
Label-free Chemically Specific Imaging in Planta with Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy, Julian Moger, Jessica C. Mansfield, George R. Littlejohn, Mark P. Seymour, Rob J. Lind, and Sarah Perfect
Report of the ICES\NAFO Joint Working Group on Deep-water Ecology (WGDEC), 11–15 March 2013, Floedevigen, Norway., PJ Auster, OA Bergstad, R Brock, A Colaco, Munoz P Duran, H Ellwood, N Golding, A Grehan, J Hall-Spencer, K Howell, J Ingels, E Kenchington, F McIntyre, L Monot, PB Mortensen, F Neat, F Nieto-Conde, C Pinto, S Ross, V Vinnichenko, and L Watling
Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea, D Beare, A McQuatters-Gollop, der Hammen T van, M Machiels, Teoh S Jiau, and JM Hall-Spencer
Resistance to Drought and Salt Stress after Regeneration and Micropropagation., F Hadi and MP Fuller
Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Global Warming in the Tibetan Plateau during the Last 50 Years Based on a Generalised Temperature Zone - Elevation Model, Y Wei and Y Fang
Use of predictive habitat modelling to assess the distribution and extent of the current protection of ‘listed’ deep-sea habitats, Rebecca E. Ross and Kerry L. Howell
MSC Assessment Report for USA Sea Scallop Fishery, D Aldous, AR Brand, and JM Hall-Spencer
