Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2023
Persistent reshaping of cohesive sediment towards stable flocs by turbulence, M Yu, X Yu, AJ Mehta, AJ Manning, F Khan, and S Balachandar
Shoreline modelling on timescales of days to decades, E Hunt, M Davidson, E Steele, J Amies, T Scott, and P Russell
A two way process – Social capacity as a driver and outcome of equitable marine spatial planning, Céline Jacob, Diederichsen S DuPrey, Liam Fullbrook, Amanda T. Lombard, Siân E. Rees, Nina Rivers, Bernadette Snow, Mia Strand, Rachel Zuercher, and Holly J. Niner
Deep seabed mining lacks social legitimacy, A Jaeckel, H Harden-Davies, DJ Amon, der Grient J van, Q Hanich, Leeuwen J van, HJ Niner, and K Seto
The Effect of LED Light Spectra on the Growth, Yield and Nutritional Value of Red and Green Lettuce (Lactuca sativa), Abdullah A. Alrajhi, Abdulaziz S. Alsahli, Ibrahim M. Alhelal, Hail Z. Rihan, Michael P. Fuller, Abdullah A. Alsadon, and Abdullah A. Ibrahim
Impact of polyester and cotton microfibers on growth and sublethal biomarkers in juvenile mussels, C Walkinshaw, TJ Tolhurst, PK Lindeque, RC Thompson, and M Cole
A 17-year time-series of fungal environmental DNA from a coastal marine ecosystem reveals long-term seasonal-scale and inter-annual diversity patterns, Nathan Chrismas, R Allen, MJ Allen, Kimberley Bird, and Michael Cunliffe
Prey resources are equally important as climatic conditions for predicting the distribution of a broad-ranged apex predator, Luke J. Sutton, David L. Anderson, Miguel Franco, Christopher J.W. McClure, Everton B.P. Miranda, F. Hernán Vargas, F. Hernán Vargas, and Robert Puschendorf
The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species, Jana V. Huml, Jonathan S. Ellis, Sarah Rustage, Mark J.F. Brown, Richard Billington, and Mairi E. Knight
Submissions from 2022
Effects of Artificial Light Spectra and Sucrose on the Leaf Pigments, Growth, and Rooting of Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) Microshoots, Yaser Hassan Dewir, Ali Mohsen Al-Ali, Hail Z. Rihan, Thobayet Alshahrani, Mona S. Alwahibi, Khalid F. Almutairi, Yougasphree Naidoo, and Michael P. Fuller
Ocean acidification increases the impact of typhoons on algal communities, Callum J. Hudson, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Sean D. Connell, and Ben P. Harvey
Corrigendum: The presence of silver nanoparticles reduces demand for dissolved phosphorus to the benefit of biological nitrogen fixation in the coastal eastern Mediterranean Sea, AP Rees, E Faraggiana, K Tait, M Celussi, E Dafnomilli, V Manna, A Manning, P Pitta, A Tsiola, and S Živanović
Abiotic stress experiments need a reality check to improve translation to the field, Anne Plessis
A novel 3D volumetric method for directly quantifying porosity and pore space morphology in flocculated suspended sediments, TJ Lawrence, SJ Carr, AJ Manning, JAT Wheatland, AJ Bushby, and KL Spencer
Development of a computable general equilibrium model based on integrated macroeconomic framework for ocean multi-use between offshore wind farms and fishing activities in Scotland, Yang Qu, Tara Hooper, Melanie C. Austen, Eleni Papathanasopoulou, Junling Huang, and Xiaoyu Yan
Pelagic connectivity of European sea bass between spawning and nursery grounds, Jennifer A. Graham, Joseph W. Watson, García LM García, K Bradley, R Bradley, Mary Brown, Benjamin J. Ciotti, Derek Goodwin, Richard D.M. Nash, William K. Roche, Ciara Wogerbauer, and Kieran Hyder
Thermodynamic effects drive countergradient responses in the thermal performance of Littorina saxatilis across latitude, Christopher Dwane, Enrico L. Rezende, Oliver Tills, Juan Galindo, Emilio Rolán-Alvarez, Simon Rundle, and Manuela Truebano
Synoptic observations of sediment transport and exchange mechanisms in the turbid Ems Estuary: the EDoM campaign, Maren DS van, C Maushake, J-W Mol, Keulen D van, J Jürges, J Vroom, H Schuttelaars, T Gerkema, K Schulz, TH Badewien, M Gerriets, A Engels, A Wurpts, D Oberrecht, AJ Manning, T Bailey, L Ross, V Mohrholz, DML Horemans, M Becker, D Post, C Schmidt, and PJT Dankers
Mangrove diversity is more than fringe deep, Steven W.J. Canty, John Paul Kennedy, Graeme Fox, Kenan Matterson, Vanessa L. González, Mayra L. Núñez-Vallecillo, Richard F. Preziosi, and Jennifer K. Rowntree
Contrasting ecological information content in whaling archives with modern cetacean surveys for conservation planning and identification of historical distribution changes, Tom B. Letessier, Laura Mannocci, Brittney Goodwin, Clare Embling, Vos A de, R. Charles Anderson, Simon N. Ingram, Andy Rogan, and Samuel T. Turvey
Density and climate effects on age‐specific survival and population growth: consequences for hibernating mammals, F. J. Combe, R. Juškaitis, R. C. Trout, S. Bird, J. S. Ellis, J. Norrey, N Al‐Fulaij, I. White, and W. E. Harris
Plastic pollution: the science we need for the planet we want, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Nathaniel J. Clark, and Richard C. Thompson
Sixty Years of Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review (OMBAR) – A Brief Retrospective and Prospective, SJ Hawkins, A Oven, IP Smith, and AJ Lemasson
Remote reef cryptobenthic diversity: Integrating autonomous reef monitoring structures and in situ environmental parameters, M Steyaert, M Lindhart, A Khrizman, RB Dunbar, MB Bonsall, DA Mucciarone, E Ransome, N Santodomingo, P Winslade, and CEI Head
Artificial reefs built by 3D printing: Systematisation in the design, material selection and fabrication, Adrian I. Yoris-Nobile, Carlos J. Slebi-Acevedo, Esther Lizasoain-Arteaga, Irune Indacoechea-Vega, Elena Blanco-Fernandez, Daniel Castro-Fresno, Alejandro Alonso-Estebanez, Sara Alonso-Cañon, Carlos Real-Gutierrez, Fouad Boukhelf, Mohamed Boutouil, Nassim Sebaibi, Alice Hall, Sam Greenhill, Roger Herbert, Richard Stafford, Bianca Reis, der Linden P van, Oscar Babé Gómez, Hugo Sainz Meyer, João N. Franco, Emanuel Almada, Maria Teresa Borges, Isabel Sousa-Pinto, Miriam Tuaty-Guerra, and Jorge Lobo-Arteaga
Strengthened multi-stakeholder linkages in valuation studies is critical for improved decision making outcomes for valuable mangroves – The Malaysian case study, Soon Loong Lee, Amy Yee Hui Then, Hong Ching Goh, Caroline Hattam, Andrew Edwards-Jones, and Melanie C. Austen
Synthetic microplastic abundance and composition along a longitudinal gradient traversing the subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Gennip S van, Juliette Penicaud, Emily Penn, and Richard C. Thompson
Individual and collective behaviour of fish subject to differing risk-level treatments with a sympatric predator, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Timothy M. Schaerf, and Ashley J.W. Ward
Loss of reef roughness increases residence time on an idealized coral reef, M Lindhart
Plastic pollution requires an integrative systems approach to understand and mitigate risk, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Nathaniel J. Clark, and Richard C. Thompson
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants, Robert J.P. Heathcote, Mark A. Whiteside, Christine E. Beardsworth, Horik JO Van, Philippa R. Laker, Sivan Toledo, Yotam Orchan, Ran Nathan, and Joah R. Madden
The socio-economic impact of Marine Protected Areas in Jersey: A fishers’ perspective, Samantha R. Blampied, Emma V. Sheehan, Martin J. Attrill, Francis C.T. Binney, and Sian E. Rees
Transposable elements maintain genome-wide heterozygosity in inbred populations, Kort H. De, Sylvain Legrand, Olivier Honnay, and James Buckley
Disruption of marine habitats by artificial light at night from global coastal megacities, T. W. Davies, T. J. Smyth, A. E. Wright, A. Edwards-Jones, A Queiros, O. Rendon, S. Tidau, and D. McKee
Oceanographic variability drives the distribution but not the density of the aggregation forming deep-sea sponge Pheronema carpenteri, Kyran P. Graves, Amelia E.H. Bridges, Tomasz Dabrowski, Thomas Furey, Kieran Lyons, and Kerry L. Howell
Biodeterioration and bioprotection of concrete assets in the coastal environment, Jessica R. Bone, Rick Stafford, Alice E. Hall, and Roger J.H. Herbert
Under the influence of light: How light pollution disrupts personality and metabolism in hermit crabs, M. Velasque, J. A. Denton, and M. Briffa
Effect of Animal Stocking Density and Habitat Enrichment on Survival and Vitality of Wild Green Shore Crabs, Carcinus maenas, Maintained in the Laboratory, Charlotte H. Wilson, Russell C. Wyeth, John I. Spicer, and Iain J. McGaw
Tritiated Steel Micro-Particles: Computational Dosimetry and Prediction of Radiation-Induced DNA Damage for In Vitro Cell Culture Exposures, Alice Mentana, Yordenca Lamartinière, Thierry Orsière, Véronique Malard, Mickaël Payet, Danielle Slomberg, Isabella Guardamagna, Leonardo Lonati, Cristian Grisolia, Awadhesh Jha, Laurence Lebaron-Jacobs, Jerome Rose, Andrea Ottolenghi, and Giorgio Baiocco
Crisis Ocean Modelling with a Relocatable Operational Forecasting System and Its Application to the Lakshadweep Sea (Indian Ocean), Georgy I. Shapiro, Jose M. Gonzalez-Ondina, Mohammed Salim, Jiada Tu, and Muhammad Asif
Phenomics enables measurement of complex responses of developing animals to global environmental drivers, Oliver Tills, Luke A. Holmes, Elliot Quinn, Tony Everett, Manuela Truebano, and John I. Spicer
Suitability of compensatory saltmarsh habitat for feeding and diet of multiple estuarine fish species, Thomas Stamp, Elizabeth West, Steve Colclough, Shaun Plenty, Benjamin Ciotti, Tim Robbins, and Emma Sheehan
Ecological niche modeling of the Macedonian mouse, Mus macedonicus (Mammalia, Rodentia), under climate change conditions, S Dermitas, NE Gunduz, and David T. Bilton
Who are the marine fungi?, Michael Cunliffe
Examining the release of synthetic microfibres to the environment via two major pathways: Atmospheric deposition and treated wastewater effluent, I. E. Napper, F. N.F. Parker-Jurd, S. L. Wright, and R. C. Thompson
Complex urban environments provide Apis mellifera with a richer plant forage than suburban and more rural landscapes, Graeme Fox, Latha R. Vellaniparambil, Loreto Ros, Joshua Sammy, Richard F. Preziosi, and Jennifer K. Rowntree
HeartCV: a tool for transferrable, automated measurement of heart rate and heart rate variability in transparent animals, Ziad Ibbini, John I. Spicer, Manuela Truebano, John Bishop, and Oliver Tills
Evaluating the performance of the ‘Seabin’ – A fixed point mechanical litter removal device for sheltered waters, Florence N.F. Parker-Jurd, Natalie S. Smith, Liam Gibson, Sohvi Nuojua, and Richard C. Thompson
Phytochemical Screening, and Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Mangifera indica L. Leaves, Arvish Maharaj, Yougasphree Naidoo, Yaser Hassan Dewir, and Hail Rihan
Are plankton nets a thing of the past? An assessment of in situ imaging of zooplankton for large-scale ecosystem assessment and policy decision-making, Sarah L.C. Giering, Phil F. Culverhouse, David G. Johns, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, and Sophie G. Pitois
Detection and characterisation of microplastics and microfibres in fishmeal and soybean meal, Christopher Walkinshaw, Trevor J. Tolhurst, Penelope K. Lindeque, Richard Thompson, and Matthew Cole
Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Diospyros villosa Extracts and Evaluation of Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Anti-Quorum Sensing Potential, OT Adu, Farzana Mohamed, Yougasphree Naidoo, TS Adu, Hafizah Chenia, Yaser Hassan Dewir, and Hail Rihan
Linking Species Functional Traits to Specific Biogeochemical Processes under Trawling Pressure, Irini Tsikopoulou, Christopher J. Smith, Konstantia Nadia Papadopoulou, and Melanie C. Austen
Micromorphology and Histology of the Secretory Apparatus of Diospyros villosa (L.) de Winter Leaves and Stem Bark, OT Adu, Yougasphree Naidoo, TS Adu, Venkataramegowda Sivaram, Yaser Hassan Dewir, and Hail Rihan
Tyre particle exposure affects the health of two key estuarine invertebrates, S. L. Garrard, J. I. Spicer, and R. C. Thompson
Population structure of the shallow coral Madracis auretenra in the Caribbean Sea, Diana Carolina Ballesteros-Contreras, Lina M. Barrios, and Richard Preziosi
A novel method for identifying coded tags recorded on aquatic acoustic monitoring systems, Christopher D. Lowe, Nicolas J.C. Tregenza, Claudia J. Allen, Georgina E. Blow, Hanna Nuuttila, Chiara M. Bertelli, Anouska F. Mendzil, Thomas Stamp, Emma V. Sheehan, Peter Davies, Jonathan C.D. Gordon, Jonathan D. Bolland, J. Robert Britton, Robert Main, Randolph Velterop, Charles Crundwell, Andrew Schofield, and David R.K. Clarke
The restoration potential of offshore mussel farming on degraded seabed habitat, D Bridger, MJ Attrill, BFR Davies, LA Holmes, A Cartwright, SE Rees, LM Cabre, and EV Sheehan
Exposure of Escherichia coli to cadmium telluride quantum dots, silver nanoparticles or cupric oxide nanoparticles during aerobic respiratory versus anaerobic fermentative growth on d-(+)-glucose, Joanne Vassallo, Rich Boden, and Richard D. Handy
A new species of Coelometopon Janssens from the Wild Coast of South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), D Bilton and MC Mlambo
Cold water and harmful algal blooms linked to coral reef collapse in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Caroline Palmer, J Carlos, Giovanni Bassey, Eleazar Ruiz, T Villalobos, MM Chavarria, Xavier A. Harrison, and Robert Puschendorf
From microbes to ecosystems: a review of the ecological effects of biodegradable plastics, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Rodríguez A Martínez, and Richard D. Handy
The colonization of saline waters is associated with lowered immune responses in aquatic beetles, María Botella-Cruz, S Pallares, Josefa Velasco, A. John Moody, Richard Billington, A Millan, and David T. Bilton
Performance of deep-sea habitat suitability models assessed using independent data, and implications for use in area-based management, Kerry L. Howell
The presence of silver nanoparticles reduces demand for dissolved phosphorus to the benefit of biological nitrogen fixation in the coastal eastern Mediterranean Sea, AP Rees, E Faraggiana, K Tait, M Celussi, E Dafnomilli, V Manna, A Manning, P Pitta, A Tsiola, and S Živanović
Trade-off between microbial carbon use efficiency and specific nutrient-acquiring extracellular enzyme activities under reduced oxygen, Ji Chen, Irene Cordero, Daryl L. Moorhead, Jennifer K. Rowntree, Loraé T. Simpson, Richard D. Bardgett, and Hayley Craig
Fast and accurate mapping of fine scale abundance of a VME in the deep sea with computer vision, Nils Piechaud and Kerry L. Howell
Editorial: Biological invasions in the Mediterranean Sea, Francesco Tiralongo, Jason Michael Hall-Spencer, Ioannis Giovos, and Periklis Kleitou
Removal of bottom-towed fishing from whole-site Marine Protected Areas promotes mobile species biodiversity, Samantha R. Blampied, Sian E. Rees, Martin J. Attrill, Francis C.T. Binney, and Emma V. Sheehan
Morphodynamics of wave-dominated beaches, B Castelle and G Masselink
Patterns of Diurnal and Nocturnal Cub-Directed Social Interaction and Guarding Behaviour in Sumatran Tigers, GQ Pastorino, C Dougal, K Sanders, T Stubbington, JE Brereton, and R Preziosi
The complete mitochondrial genome of Talpa martinorum (Mammalia: Talpidae), a mole species endemic to Thrace: genome content and phylogenetic considerations, S Demirtas, Mahir Budak, Ertan M. Korkmaz, Jeremy B. Searle, David T. Bilton, and I Gunduz
Synoptic observations of sediment transport and exchange mechanisms in the turbid Ems estuary: the EDoM campaign, Maren DS van, C Maushake, J-W Mol, Keulen D van, J Jürges, J Vroom, H Schuttelaars, T Gerkema, K Schulz, TH Badewien, M Gerriets, A Engels, A Wurpts, D Oberrecht, AJ Manning, T Bailey, L Ross, V Mohrholz, DML Horemans, M Becker, D Post, C Schmidt, and PJT Dankers
Quantification of 3-dimensional structure and properties of flocculated natural suspended sediment, KL Spencer, JA Wheatland, SJ Carr, AJ Manning, AJ Bushby, C Gu, L Botto, and T Lawrence
Quantifying the 3D structure and function of porosity and pore space in natural sediment flocs, TJ Lawrence, SJ Carr, JAT Wheatland, AJ Manning, and KL Spencer
Quantifying the ecological impacts of alien aquatic macrophytes: a global meta-analysis of effects on fish, macroinvertebrate and macrophyte assemblages, Samuel J.L. Tasker, Andrew Foggo, and David T. Bilton
Announcing the Minderoo – Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, Philip J. Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Christos Symeonides, Thomas Chiles, Maureen Cropper, Judith Enck, Mark E. Hahn, Richard Hixson, Pushpam Kumar, Adetoun Mustapha, Yongjoon Park, Margaret Spring, John Stegeman, Richard Thompson, Zhanyun Wang, Megan Wolff, Aroub Yousuf, and Sarah Dunlop
Herbivory and functional traits suggest that enemy release is not an important mechanism driving invasion success of brown seaweeds, AL Mabey, JA Catford, M Rius, A Foggo, and DA Smale
Genetic diversity of honeybee colonies predicts gut bacterial diversity of individual colony members, Calum Bridson, Latha Vellaniparambil, Rachel E. Antwis, Werner Müller, R. Tucker Gilman, and Jennifer K. Rowntree
Minute moss beetles in the Southern Hemisphere: Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography and habitat shifts (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), David T. Bilton, MA Jaech, Ignacio Ribera, and Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint
Short-finned pilot whales exhibit behavioral plasticity in foraging strategies mediated by their environment, Jeanne M. Shearer, Frants H. Jensen, Nicola J. Quick, Ari Friedlaender, Brandon Southall, Douglas P. Nowacek, Matthew Bowers, Heather J. Foley, Zachary T. Swaim, Danielle M. Waples, and Andrew J. Read
Artificial light at night reverses monthly foraging pattern under simulated moonlight, Svenja Tidau, Jack Whittle, Stuart R. Jenkins, and Thomas W. Davies
The gut microbiome variability of a butterflyfish increases on severely degraded Caribbean reefs, Friederike Clever, Jade M. Sourisse, Richard F. Preziosi, Jonathan A. Eisen, E. Catalina Rodriguez Guerra, Jarrod J. Scott, Laetitia G.E. Wilkins, Andrew H. Altieri, W. Owen McMillan, and Matthieu Leray
How do Zoo Evening Events at ZSL London Zoo Affect Sumatran Tiger Behaviour and Enclosure, GQ Pastorino, T Stubbington, SR Brereton, JE Brereton, A Gabb, R Stoycheva, A Ferguson, and R Preziosi
Long‐term effects of artificial nighttime lighting and trophic complexity on plant biomass and foliar carbon and nitrogen in a grassland community, Vinka Anic, Kevin J. Gaston, Thomas W. Davies, and Jonathan Bennie
Measuring DNA modifications with the comet assay: a compendium of protocols, Awadhesh N. Jha
Sentience in decapods: an open question, Mark Briffa
Assessing the state of marine biodiversity in the Northeast Atlantic, A. McQuatters-Gollop, L. Guérin, N. L. Arroyo, A. Aubert, L. F. Artigas, J. Bedford, E. Corcoran, V. Dierschke, S. A.M. Elliott, S. C.V. Geelhoed, A. Gilles, J. M. González-Irusta, J. Haelters, M. Johansen, Loc'h F Le, C. P. Lynam, N. Niquil, B. Meakins, I. Mitchell, B. Padegimas, R. Pesch, I. Preciado, I. Rombouts, G. Safi, P. Schmitt, U. Schückel, A. Serrano, P. Stebbing, la Torriente A De, and C. Vina-Herbon
Large-scale historic habitat loss in estuaries and its implications for commercial and recreational fin fisheries, Thomas Stamp, Elizabeth West, Tim Robbins, Shaun Plenty, and Emma Sheehan
Characterization and classification of estuarine suspended particles based on their inorganic/organic matter composition, Z Safar, C Chassagne, S Rijnsburger, MI Sanz, AJ Manning, AJ Souza, Kessel T van, A Horner-Devine, R Flores, M McKeon, and JD Pietrzak
A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans, Cormac G. Booth, Naomi Brannan, Rebecca Dunlop, Ari Friedlander, Saana Isojunno, Patrick Miller, Nicola Quick, Brandon Southall, and Enrico Pirotta
Impact of the Salt Concentration and Biophysical Cohesion on the Settling Behavior of Bentonites, E Krahl, B Vowinckel, L Ye, T-J Hsu, and AJ Manning
Floc Size Distributions of Cohesive Sediment in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence, M Yu, X Yu, S Balachandar, and AJ Manning
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: A cross-sectional study in hermit crabs, Mark Briffa and Rose Archer
Biomarkers of nanomaterials hazard from multi-layer data, V Fortino, PAS Kinaret, M Fratello, A Serra, LA Saarimäki, A Gallud, G Gupta, G Vales, M Correia, O Rasool, J Ytterberg, M Monopoli, T Skoog, P Ritchie, S Moya, S Vázquez-Campos, R Handy, R Grafström, L Tran, R Zubarev, R Lahesmaa, K Dawson, K Loeschner, EH Larsen, F Krombach, H Norppa, J Kere, K Savolainen, H Alenius, B Fadeel, and D Greco
Ecosystem benefits of adopting a whole‐site approach to MPA management, Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies, Luke Holmes, Martin J. Attrill, and Emma V. Sheehan
Ecological correlates of extinction risk and persistence of direct-developing stream-dwelling frogs in Mesoamerica, Hector Zumbado-Ulate, Kelsey Neam, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Leticia Ochoa-Ochoa, Gerardo Chaves, Jonathan E. Kolby, Sofía Granados-Martínez, Andreas Hertz, Federico Bolaños, Daniel Ariano-Sánchez, Robert Puschendorf, and Catherine L. Searle
Coastal dune dynamics in embayed settings with sea-level rise – Examples from the exposed and macrotidal north coast of SW England, Gerd Masselink, Sue Brooks, Tim Poate, Christopher Stokes, and Tim Scott
A roadmap to understanding diversity and function of coral reef-associated fungi, Anna Roik, Miriam Reverter, and Claudia Pogoreutz
