A5079659740- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Data Analysis with R
- Cellular Automata and Applications
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
2017-2024
University College London
2015-2017
Natural History Museum
2012-2017
Imperial College London
2014-2015
Queen Mary University of London
2012
University of Calgary
2007
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
2005
Understanding the global impact of offshore wind farms (OWF) on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) is crucial in developing sustainable energy transition pathways. This study takes a holistic approach, coupling semi-systematic review with novel analytical methodology, to consider consequences construction & operation OWF deployment ES. 314 pieces evidence taken from 132 peer-reviewed studies provide basis determine ecological ES impacts. The process showed that impacts were...
Summary There has been a lack of software available to ecologists for the management, visualisation and analysis ecological community food web data. Researchers have forced implement their own data formats software, often from scratch, resulting in duplicated effort bespoke solutions that are difficult apply future analyses comparative studies. We introduce Cheddar – an R package provides standard, transparent implementations wide range community‐level plots, focussing on network augmented...
Monitoring anthropogenic impacts is essential for managing and conserving ecosystems, yet current biomonitoring approaches lack the tools required to deal with effects of stressors on species their interactions in complex natural systems.Ecological networks (trophic or mutualistic) can offer new insights into ecosystem degradation, adding value taxonomically constrained schemes. We highlight some examples show how network be used interpret ecological responses.Synthesis applications....
Abstract Extensive habitat destruction and pollution have caused dramatic declines in aquatic biodiversity at local to global scales. In rivers, the reintroduction of large woody debris is a common method aimed restoring degraded ecosystems through “rewilding.” However, causal evidence for its effectiveness lacking due dearth replicated before–after control‐impact field experiments. We conducted first experiment rewilding across multiple rivers organisational levels, from individual target...
Abstract Marine artificial structures (MAS), including oil and gas installations (O&G) offshore wind farms (OWFs), have a finite operational period. Selecting the most suitable decommissioning options when reaching end-of-life remains challenge, in part because their effects are still largely undetermined. Whether decommissioned could act (sensu ‘function’) as reefs (ARs) provide desired ecological benefits is of particular interest. Here we use meta-analysis approach 531 effect sizes...
Summary Pesticides can have strong deleterious impacts in fresh waters, but understanding how these effects cascade through natural ecosystems, from microbes to apex predators, is limited because research that spans multiple levels of biological organisation rare. We report an accidental insecticide spill altered the structure and functioning a river across ranging genes ecosystems. quantified on assemblages microbes, diatoms, macroinvertebrates fish measured leaf‐litter decomposition rates...
The proliferation of citizen science water quality monitoring networks suggests there is potential for developing an equivalent river Restoration Assessment Initiative ( RAI ). This currently lacking, especially at larger (e.g., national and international) scales. As such, the would provide a much‐needed new tool stakeholders to evaluate compare efficacy their restoration efforts. We propose standardized protocol quantify biotic responses changes macroinvertebrate community) efforts, which...
Oil and gas exploitation introduces toxic contaminants such as hydrocarbons heavy metals to the surrounding sediment, resulting in deleterious impacts on marine benthic communities. This study combines monitoring data over a 30-year period North Sea with dietary information >1400 taxa quantify effects of active oil platforms food webs using multiple before-after control-impact experiment. Contamination from caused declines web complexity, community abundance, biodiversity. Fewer trophic...
Abstract Integrating food web indicators into ecological status assessments is central to developing effective management measures that can improve degraded ecosystems. This because they reveal how ecosystems respond environmental change cannot be inferred from studying habitat, species or assemblages alone. However, the substantial investment required monitor webs (e.g. via stomach contents analysis) and lack of internationally agreed approaches assessing them has hampered their...
Abstract Background Numerous man-made structures (MMS) have been installed in various parts of the ocean (e.g. oil and gas structures, offshore wind installations). Many are now at, or nearing, end their intended life. Currently, we only a limited understanding decommissioning effects. In many locations, such as North Sea, regulations restrict options to complete removal, with little consideration alternative management might offer. To generate reliable evidence-base inform decision-making...
The marine benthos has been largely studied through the use of response traits that characterise species vulnerability to disturbance. More limited specific effect represent other descriptors and express ecosystem functions. On sea floor, is a key ecosystem-engineering component for which functions can be relevantly derived from traits. This study provides typology floor based on an extensive data compilation We classified 812 benthic invertebrate northeast Atlantic by 15 expressing...
Food availability is among the strongest determinants of fitness. For many systems, ecosystem-wide collapse in food can result from overgrazing with cascading ecological impacts. Yet, mechanisms through which responsible consumers persist food-poor environments and their role suppressing productivity recovery remain uncertain. This study examines how abundance, quality, deprivation, reintroduction shape plastic energetic traits nutritional assimilation an invertebrate herbivore. To evaluate...
Plankton, the primary energy resource in marine food webs, respond rapidly to environmental change, making them useful indicators of shifts ecosystem structure or function. Categorising plankton into groups, “lifeforms”, can be for understanding ecological patterns associated with change. While environment is changing due anthropogenic pressures, relative influence these pressures across community remains uncertain, impacting our ability account changes sustainable management. Using...
Plankton monitoring surveys inform indicators of Good Environmental Status (GES) for pelagic habitats in OSPAR and UK Marine Strategy biodiversity assessments. These reveal that the Northeast Atlantic are not GES, likely driven by climate change direct human pressures. By understanding societal consequences meeting policymakers better guided when implementing management measures – a key aim ecosystem-based management. To do this, it is first necessary to make links between plankton...
Quantifying the impact of lower trophic level species abundance on higher predators (and vice versa) is critical for understanding marine ecosystem dynamics and implementing ecosystem-based management. Trophic models generally predict a tight coupling between prey fish predators, such that results in predators. This assumes predator feeding rates to some degree are limited by availability. Despite being key component predator-prey interactions multi-species fisheries management, relatively...
Ocean warming is projected to threaten fisheries, but the extent varies greatly between models due a poor understanding of how complex food webs respond change. Likewise, inequalities in socioeconomic dependence on fisheries and uneven distributions global fishing effort make it unclear distribution declines could translate into impacts. Here we developed quantitative IPCC tripartite risk mapping approach, combining hazard (projected pelagic fish decline), exposure (present day intensity),...
Many marine man-made structures (MMS), such as oil and gas platforms or offshore wind turbines, are nearing their 'end-of-life' require decommissioning. Limited understanding of MMS decommissioning effects currently restricts the consideration alternative management possibilities, often leaving complete removal only option in certain parts world. This evidence-base describes ecosystem whilst place following cessation operations, with a view to informing decision-making related potential
Abstract Many studies predict shifts in species distributions and community size composition response to climate change, yet few have demonstrated how these changes will be distributed across marine food webs. We use Bayesian Additive Regression Trees model change affect the habitat suitability of fish a range body sizes belonging different feeding guilds, each with requirements northeast Atlantic shelf seas. Contrasting effects are predicted for spatially extensive decreases richness...