A5017726554- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Geological formations and processes
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
2016-2025
Victoria University of Wellington
2018-2025
University of Plymouth
1998-2023
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
1993-2023
Universidad de Londres
2023
Royal Society
2023
University of Otago
1995-2023
Google (United States)
1993
Submarine canyons are dramatic and widespread topographic features crossing continental island margins in all oceans. Canyons can be sites of enhanced organic-matter flux deposition through entrainment coastal detrital export, dense shelf-water cascade, channelling resuspended particulate material focusing sediment deposition. Despite their unusual ecological characteristics global distribution along oceanic margins, only scattered information is available about the influence submarine on...
Abstract Aim Globally, species distribution patterns in the deep sea are poorly resolved, with spatial coverage being sparse for most taxa and true absence data missing. Increasing human impacts on deep‐sea ecosystems mean that reaching a better understanding of such is becoming more urgent. Cold‐water stony corals (Order Scleractinia) form structurally complex habitats (dense thickets or reefs) can support diversity other associated fauna. Despite their widely accepted ecological...
No fish have been found in the deepest 25% of ocean (8,400-11,000 m). This apparent absence has attributed to hydrostatic pressure, although direct evidence is wanting because lack deepest-living species study. The common osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) stabilizes proteins against pressure and increases with depth, going from 40 261 mmol/kg teleost fishes 0 4,850 m. TMAO accumulation depth results increasing internal osmolality (typically 350 mOsmol/kg shallow compared seawater's...
A study was undertaken within a sub‐tidal Zostera marina seagrass bed (Devon, U.K.), with the aim of elucidating relationship between structural complexity and size composition associated macroinvertebrate community. Samples macroinvertebrates were recovered from three designated areas shoot density. Various physical characteristics measured for individual plants, an priori index determined relevant to target organisms. Resulting data analysed using linear regression multivariate techniques....
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 239:1-10 (2002) - doi:10.3354/meps239001 Ocean climate anomalies and ecology of North Sea Martin Edwards1,*, Gregory Beaugrand1,2, Philip C. Reid1, Ashley A. Rowden3, Malcolm B. Jones4 1Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, United Kingdom 2Observatoire des...
Abstract Because the nature, tempo and trajectories of biological changes that follow cessation trawling are unknown for seamounts, it is unclear whether closing them to will lead a recovery fauna and, if so, over what time scales. This paper reports on ‘test recovery’ from repeated towed camera surveys three seamounts off New Zealand in 2001 2006 (5 years apart) Australia 1997 (10 apart). In each region, where had ceased were compared adjacent was still active, never been trawled. If...
Abstract Despite a relatively short history, the field of seamount ecology is rife with ecological paradigms, many which have already become cemented in scientific literature and minds advocates for protection. Together, these paradigms created widely held view seamounts as unique environments, hotspots biodiversity endemicity, fragile ecosystems exceptional worth. However, closer examination reveals significant gaps our knowledge, thereby calling accuracy some into question. Here, we review...
Abstract Seamounts have often been viewed as specialized habitats that support unique communities; this notion has given rise to several hypotheses about how seamount ecosystems are structured. One, the ‘seamount oasis hypothesis’, predicts invertebrates more abundant, speciose and attain higher standing stocks on seamounts compared other deep‐sea habitats. Because hypothesis remained untested for biomass, we ask two questions: (i) Do a benthic biomass than nearby slopes at corresponding...
Coseismic canyon flushing reveals how earthquakes drive development and deep-sea sediment dispersal on active margins.
Most of our knowledge about deep-sea habitats is limited to bathyal (200–3000 m) and abyssal depths (3000–6000 m), while relatively little known the hadal zone (6000–11,000 m). The basic paradigm for distribution deep seafloor biomass suggests that reduction in average body size benthic animals along depth gradients mainly related surface productivity remineralisation sinking particulate organic carbon with depth. However, there evidence this pattern somewhat reversed trenches by funnelling...
Seamounts shape the topography of all ocean basins and can be hotspots biological activity in deep sea. The Census Marine Life on (CenSeam) was a field program that examined seamounts as part global (CoML) initiative from 2005 to 2010. CenSeam progressed seamount science by collating historical data, collecting new undertaking regional analyses biodiversity, mapping species habitat distributions, challenging established paradigms ecology, developing hypotheses, documenting impacts human...
Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are at risk from the effects of fishing or other kinds disturbance, as determined by vulnerability their components (e.g., habitats, communities species). Habitat suitability modelling is being used increasingly to predict distribution patterns VME indicator taxa in deep sea, where data particularly sparse, and models considered useful for ecosystem management. The Louisville Seamount Chain located within South Pacific Regional Fishery Management...
Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) require states and competent authorities to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs), ecologically important habitats in deep sea that are considered be especially at risk from anthropogenic disturbances such as fishing. The lack data concerning location extent VMEs poses a significant obstacle their protection. Habitat suitability modeling is increasingly used spatial management planning due its ability predict distribution niche...
The resilience and recovery dynamics of deep-sea habitats impacted by bottom trawling are poorly known. This paper reports on a fishing impact comparison based four towed camera surveys over 15-year period (2001-2015) group small seamounts the Chatham Rise, east New Zealand, which pre-disturbance benthic communities dominated thicket-forming scleractinian corals. six studied encompass range trawl histories, including one with high persistent levels throughout survey period, two intermittent...
Abstract The deepest part of the global ocean, hadal trenches, are considered to act as depocenters for organic material. Relatively high microbial activity has been demonstrated in sections some but deposition dynamics thought be spatially and temporally variable. Here, we explore sediment characteristics in-situ benthic oxygen uptake along two trenches with contrasting surface primary productivity: Kermadec Atacama trenches. We find that consumption varies by a factor about 10 between...