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Advancing environmental DNA (eDNA) observation of marine and coastal biodiversity
Advancing process-based sargassum forecasts with Earth Observation and Machine Learning
Beyond species on the move: characterising Southern Ocean bioregions and communities under present and future climates
Calming effect of group living in social fishes
Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings *
Echinoderm resilience to past climate change and mass extinction
Ecosystem engineering in past and future reefs
Effect of microplastics on methane-cycling in marine sediments
Effects of electromagnetism associated with offshore windfarms on North Sea fish *
Evolution of calcification in coccolithophores
Evolution of symbiosis in a warming world
Examining the Effects of Relaxed Selection through Experimental Evolution of Coccolithophores
Functional ecophysiology of Atlantic mesopelagic fishes
Impacts of environmental change on coastal UK habitats and implications for nature-based solutions *
Impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal ecosystem structure and function
Impacts of underwater noise associated with offshore windfarms on marine fish *
Impacts on the marine ecosystem of dietary biomolecules
It’s getting hot, sour and breathless – impacts of climate change on carbon(ate) fixation by foraminifera
Long-term change in the benthos – seabed photography as a critical tool for monitoring *
Mapping Fishing Industry Response to Shocks: Learning Lessons to Enhance Marine Resource Resilience *
Nutrient limitation in a changing Arctic Ocean
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Physical and biogeochemical responses to Antarctic sea ice loss: what are the implications for ocean carbon uptake? *
Predicting future shark habitats and distributions under climate change
Role of Multiple Anthropogenic Pressures in Determining Marine Benthic Ecosystem Functioning
Seismo-acoustic properties of sea-ice and applications to climate monitoring.
Spatiotemporal patterns of the southern Indian Ocean higher predator community
Towards a mechanistic understanding of how chemical contaminants affect marine invertebrates, using a common jellyfish as a model organism.
Tracking the fate of natural and geoengineered ocean carbon sequestration
Understanding phytoplankton metabolism by single cell sequencing
Up, up and away – the fate of upwelled nutrients in an African upwelling system and the biogeochemical and phytoplankton responses