Marine Biology at Plymouth

Oceans at Risk: Research Priorities in Marine Conservation Biology

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand."  Baba Dioum, Senegalese naturalist and poet Introduction The marine environment encompasses a broad array of ecosystems, ranging from spectacular coral reefs and kelp forests, to coastal mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, to expansive deepsea plains interspersed with trenches, seamounts, ridges, an...

Advances in Marine Biology

The ongoing and future effects of global climate change on natural and human-managed ecosystems have led to a renewed interest in the concept of ecological thresholds or tipping points. While generalizations such as poleward range shifts serve as a useful heuristic framework to understand the overall ecological impacts of climate change, sophisticated approaches to management require spatially ...

Marine systems biology

The marine environment accounts for an important part of the earth biodiversity, featuring several types of (even extreme) ecosystems, and is at the origin of life. Marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms are very diverse, and are sometimes, in particular for the latter, the result of intricate evolutionary history. This biodiversity, encounters in many different habitats, shapes various ty...

Advances in MARINE BIOLOGY

Antarctic marine biology

David K.A. Barnes and Andrew Clarke Primer interfering with the ability of a second species to locate mates. This could be the result of the one species’ calls simply masking those of the other, or it could be that the calls confuse individuals of the second species and cause them to approach heterospecific callers rather than those of their own species. Such signal jamming can also occur withi...