A5051703984- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
Lancaster University
2017-2024
Bangor University
2023
University of Oxford
2017
Earthwatch Europe
2017
While the role of citizen science in engaging public and providing large-scale datasets has been demonstrated, nature potential for this to supplement environmental monitoring efforts by government agencies not yet fully explored. To end, present study investigates complementarity a programme agency water quality. The Environment Agency (EA) is governmental body responsible for, among other duties, managing quality resources England. FreshWater Watch (FWW) global project that supports...
Abstract Herbivory is a key process on coral reefs, which, through grazing of algae, can help sustain coral‐dominated states frequently disturbed reefs and reverse macroalgal regime shifts degraded ones. Our understanding herbivory largely founded feeding observations at small spatial scales, yet the biomass structure herbivore populations more closely linked to processes which be highly variable across large areas, such as benthic habitat turnover fishing pressure. Though our spatiotemporal...
An annotated checklist of the 271 strict-endemic taxa (235 species) and 387 near-endemic (337 vascular plants in Mozambique is provided. Together, these constitute c. 9.3% total currently known flora include five genera (Baptorhachis, Emicocarpus, Gyrodoma, Icuria Micklethwaitia) two (Triceratella Oligophyton). The mean year first publication 1959, with a marked increase description noted following onset major regional floristic programmes, "Flora Tropical East Africa" Zambesiaca", an...
Abstract Fish fecundity scales hyperallometrically with body mass, meaning larger females produce disproportionately more eggs than smaller ones. We explore this relationship beyond the species-level to estimate “reproductive potential” of 1633 coral reef sites distributed globally. find that, at site-level, reproductive potential assemblage biomass, but a median exponent species-level. Across all families, modelled is greater in fully protected versus fished sites. This difference most...
The response-and-effect framework is a trait-based approach that seeks to break down the mechanistic links between ecosystem disturbances, species' traits, and processes. We apply this review of literature on coral reef fish in order illustrate research landscape structure path forward for field. Traits were categorized into five broad groupings: behavioral, life history, morphological, diet, physiological. Overall, there are fewer studies linking effect traits processes (number papers...
The Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) framework was developed to offer a structured, empirical approach for analysing governance and has been applied marine prottabected areas (MPAs) around the world. This study sees novel application of MPAG small-scale mangrove crab fishery in northwest Madagascar. country typifies developing environmental challenges, due its poverty, political instability lack state capacity, with bottom-up approaches often identified as potential solution. In this...
Abstract Coastal communities and their landscapes are subject to constant change, today face new challenges as a result of climate change the sustainable energy transition. To ensure resilience coastal ongoing changes in natural constructed environment, it is imperative that planners other decision‐makers understand importance local places residents. We used an interdisciplinary, mixed‐methods approach study relationships between residents south Co. Wicklow, Ireland, introducing concept...
Marine reserves are known to impact the biomass, biodiversity, and functions of coral reef fish communities, but effect protective management on traits is less explored. We used a time-series modelling approach simultaneously evaluate abundance, eight families over chronosequence spanning 44 years protection. constructed multivariate functional space based six respond or disturbance affect ecosystem processes: size, diet, position in water column, gregariousness, association, length at...