A5080292054- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Research Data Management Practices
- Marine and environmental studies
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
2016-2024
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
2021-2024
National Oceanography Centre
2020-2021
University of Southampton
2019-2021
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
Ecological Society of America
2019
Ecosystem Sciences
2019
University of Plymouth
2016
Abstract Macroalgae drive the largest CO 2 flux fixed globally by marine macrophytes. Most of resulting biomass is exported through coastal ocean as detritus and yet almost no field measurements have verified its potential net sequestration in sediments. This gap limits scope for inclusion macroalgae within blue carbon schemes that support globally, understanding role their plays distal food webs. Here, we pursued three lines evidence (eDNA sequencing, Bayesian Stable Isotope Mixing...
Marine plankton are an important and diverse group of organisms that make up the lower trophic levels marine food web. They play several critical roles in ocean have direct or indirect societal benefits, including supporting security, oxygen production, carbon sequestration via biological pump. Plymouth Laboratory (PML) has been making weekly measurements zooplankton phytoplankton at Western Channel Observatory (WCO) Station L4 (50°15'N, 4°13'W) since 1988 1992, respectively, using...
Co-occurring global change drivers, such as ocean warming and acidification, can have large impacts on the behaviour, physiology, health of marine organisms. However, whilst early-life stages are thought to be most sensitive these impacts, little is known about individual level processes by which take place. Here, using mesocosm experiments simulating (OW) acidification (OA) conditions expected for NE Atlantic region 2100 a variety treatments elevated pCO2 temperature. We investigated their...
Anthropogenic stressors can alter the structure and functioning of infaunal communities, which are key drivers carbon cycle in marine soft sediments. Nonetheless, compounded effects anthropogenic on fluxes benthic systems remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated cumulative ocean acidification (OA) hypoxia organic fate sediments, through a mesocosm experiment. Isotopically labelled macroalgal detritus (13 C) was used as tracer to assess incorporation faunal tissue sediments under...
Abstract Exchanges of solutes and solids between the sea floor water column are a vital component ecosystem functioning in marine habitats around globe. This review explores particle solute exchange processes, different mechanisms through which they interact at level, as well their interdependencies. Solute processes highly dependent on characteristics environment within takes place. Exchange is driven directly by number factors, such currents, granulometry, nutrient, matter inputs, living...
Abstract. The Western Channel Observatory (WCO) comprises a series of pelagic, benthic and atmospheric sampling sites within 40 km Plymouth, UK, that have been sampled by the Plymouth institutes on regular basis since 1903. This longevity recording high frequency observations provide unique combination data; for example temperature data were first collected in 1903, reference station L4, where nearly 400 planktonic taxa enumerated, has weekly 1988. While component datasets archived, here we...
Unprecedented and dramatic transformations are occurring in the Arctic response to climate change, but academic, public, political discourse has disproportionately focussed on most visible direct aspects of including sea ice melt, permafrost thaw, fate charismatic megafauna, expansion fisheries. Such narratives disregard importance less indirect processes and, particular, miss substantive contribution shelf seafloor regulating nutrients sequestering carbon. Here, we summarise biogeochemical...
Marine snow is an important part of the biological pump and marine food web, although previous research has provided a thorough understanding underlying mechanisms dynamics in general, there still knowledge gap concerning extreme conditions, such as storm events. Storms are predicted to increase magnitude frequency future, could potentially have large impact on dynamics. For these reasons, we assessed effects events Baltic Sea, area chosen due its well-studied stable stratified conditions...
Abstract. The Western Channel Observatory (WCO) comprises a series of pelagic, benthic and atmospheric sampling sites within 40 km Plymouth UK, which have been sampled by the Institutes on regular basis since 1903. This longevity recording high frequency observations provide unique combination data; for example temperature data were first collected in 1903 reference station L4 has weekly 1988 where nearly 400 planktonic taxa enumerated. While component datasets archived, here we summary...
In coastal temperate environments, many processes known to affect the exchange of particulate and dissolved matter between seafloor water column follow cyclical patterns intra-annual variation. This study assesses extent which these individual short term temporal variations specific direct drivers seafloor-water exchanges, how they interact with one another throughout year, what resulting seasonal variation in direction magnitude benthic-pelagic is. Existing data from a multidisciplinary...
Abstract Advances in situ marine life imaging have significantly increased the size and quality of available datasets, but automatic image analysis has not kept pace. Machine learning shown promise for processing, its effectiveness is limited by several open challenges: requirement large expert-labeled training disagreement among experts, under-representation various species unreliable or overconfident predictions. To overcome these obstacles automated underwater imaging, we combine test...
Over the last decade, plankton research has experienced extensive developments in automatic image acquisition for identifying and quantifying species. This information is useful reporting of occurrences ecological data. Imagery instruments can vary way they sample (benchtop or situ imagers) particle’s size range target (see Lombard et al. (2019) an comparison specifications). However, due to wide variety their (automatic) output data formats, it challenging integrate datasets that originate...