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Biogeochemical cycling in the critical coastal zone: Developing novel methods to make reliable measurements of geochemical fluxes in permeable sediments *
Bloom and bust: seasonal cycles of phytoplankton and carbon flux
Climate Change effects on the developmental physiology of the small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings *
Ecological role of offshore artificial structures *
Evolution of symbiosis in a warmer world
Examining the evolutionary loss of calcification in coccolithophores
Explaining process, pattern and dynamics of marine predator hotspots in the Southern Ocean
Fish with friends: The calming effect of group living in social fishes
Hot, acidified and breathless – biomineralisation of deep sea corals in the oceans of the future *
Impact of pharmaceuticals in the marine environment in a changing world *
Interconnections of past greenhouse climates
Long-term change in the benthos – creating robust data from varying camera systems *
Marine ecosystem responses to past climate change and its oceanographic impacts
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Miniaturisation in fishes: evolutionary and ecological perspectives
Modelling the evolution of adaptive responses to climate change across spatial landscapes
New perspectives on ocean photosynthesis
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Quantifying variability in the electron requirement for carbon fixation: towards autonomous platform based measurements of carbon fixation
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Up, up and away – the fate of upwelled nutrients in an African upwelling system and the biogeochemical and phytoplankton response
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