Changes to published programme

Tue 27 Aug 16.10 – the presen ng author will be Feis rather than Parrondo as indicated.
Tue 27 Aug 15.00 - Guinda, Ramos, de la Hoz, Puente, Juanes ‘Recent changes in subdal
macroalgae distribuon in N Spain (Gulf of Biscay)’ will replace Lee et al, which will be
presented at 12.40 on Weds 28 Aug.
Wed 28 Aug 11.50. Talk by David Clare cancelled. All subsequent talks listed for that session
will take place 10 minutes earlier than adver sed
Wed 28 Aug 14.20. Meysick et al. – no tle given in the programme. The tle is ‘Interac ons
between eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) and the Balc clam ( Macoma balthica )’
Wed at 12.40. Hannah Lee will present Blue mussel (M. edulis): Carbon stores to be
priori sed in Marine Protected Areas? This talk was previously scheduled for Thur at 12.20.
Instead, the closing remarks will commence at that me.
Wed 15.30. Addi onal talk: Campanyà-Llovet, Snelgrove, de Leo. Food quan ty and quality
in Barkley Canyon (NE Pacific) and its influence on macroinfaunal community structure. The
a ernoon break and subsequent presenta ons will take place 10 minutes later than
currently scheduled.
Thurs 29 Aug at 12.00. Rubal, Torres, Veiga. ‘Urbanisa on reduces the diversity of inter dal
canopies of Sargassaceae along north Portuguese coast’ will replace Kleitou et al, which will
be presented at 13.50 on Wed 28 Aug.
Thurs 29 Aug at 12.10. There will be no presenta on by D’Agos no et al. This talk will be
presented at 14.00 on Wed 28 Aug.
Thurs 29 Aug. Veiga et al will be presented at 12.10 instead of 12.20.
Thurs 29 Aug. Lee et al will be presented at 12.20 instead of 12.30.

Additional poster: Number B14. Marra, Thomas, McCormack. EBB - The European Blue
Biobank.
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EMBS54 would like to acknowledge and thank our symposium sponsors for their generous support.

CONTENTS
1 WELCOME 16 DELEGATE LIST
2 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 18 USEFUL INFORMATION
5 PROGRAMME 21 MAPS
14 POSTERS
SCHEDULE
All sessions are held in the Moore Auditorium, UCD Science Centre East, University College Dublin, uunless
otherwise stated.

All talks presented by first author unless indicated in bold.

Session key code

Rapid change

Movement and redistribution of species

Fundamental biological traits

Blue growth

General session

Yellow Submarine

Change to published programme

SUNDAY 25 AUGUST
17.00 REGISTRATION Ground floor, UCD Science Centre East, University College Dublin
+ REFRESHMENTS

19.30 CLOSE

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 MONDAY 26 AUGUST
08.30 REGISTRATION Ground floor, UCD Science Centre East, University College Dublin

09.30 WELCOME Prof. Orla Feeley, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation &
Impact
Prof. Tasman Crowe, EMBS president

The great speeding up of our coasts and oceans

09.50 PLENARY
Prof. Emma Johnston, University of New South Wales, Australia

10.40 MORNING BREAK

Two opposing climate change threats: sea level rise and extreme
11.10 Rilov
desiccation events threaten Mediterranean vermetid reef communities
Influence of melting glaciers on size spectra and functioning of
11.20 Górska, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk
zoobenthic communities in Arctic fjords
Deciphering long-term variability of the phytoplankton community in a
11.30 Vascotto, France, Mozetič
highly variable coastal sea (Gulf of Trieste)
Capdevila, Beger, Stott, Barks, Rowlands,
11.40 Are marine species more resilient to global change than terrestrial ones?
Salguero-Gómez

Chair: Nessa O'Connor

From desert to sea: mechanisms Arabian pupfish use to acclimate to high
11.50 Bonzi, Monroe, Berumen, Schunter, Ravasi
salinities in the Red Sea
Long-term changes in demersal fish density and distribution in relation to
12.00 Buyse, De Backer, Hostens
cumulative stressors in the Southern Bight of the North Sea

12.10 White, O'Connor, Emmerson, Donohue Multiple stressors and the stability of marine ecosystems

Farina, Chindris, Leggieri, Scolamacchia, Ocean acidification effects on top-down control of the functional species
12.20
Guala, Brundu, Loi, Asnaghi Paracentrotus lividus in marine benthic ecosystems
Ferrario, Ulman, Facchinetti, Occhipinti- A fuzzy model to detect Mediterranean marinas at high-risk of marine
12.30
Ambrogi, Marchini bioinvasion
Combining 10-years in-situ data with a satellite remote sensing dataset
Ferreira, Sá, Brito, Brotas, Costa, Guerreiro,
12.40 to help evaluate climate change effects on Antarctic phytoplankton
Mendes
communities

12.50 L U N C H

Assessing effects of cumulative impacts of human pressures on nature

13.40 Kotta, Fettisov, Liversage, Orav-Kotta
assets
Counter-directional body size clines within a Japanese amphidromous
13.50 Murase, Irie, Iguchi
fish inferred from otolith analysis
Chair: Emma Johnston

Local environmental conditions experienced by marine bivalves

Navarro, Thomsen, Rocha, Villanueva,
14.00 determine their physiological response to warming and high levels of
Torres
pCO2
Long-term physiological tolerance of a non-indigenous species to near-
14.10 Pack, Rius, Mieszkowska
future warming and ocean acidification
Pyko, Löder, Schulbert, Wisshak, Laforsch, Microplastic pollution as a possible threat for an arctic reef system and
14.20
Munnecke, Teichert its association of ecosystem engineers
From short-term experiments to ancient hyperthermal events: marine
14.30 Reddin, Nätscher, Kocsis, Pörtner, Kiessling
clade sensitivities to climate change conform across time scales

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 Human-mediated marine environments induce rapid phenotypic changes
14.40 Talijančić, Šegvić Bubić, Žužul, Grubišić
in wild fishes
Turicchia, Cerrano, Garrabou, Linares, How is the increasing frequency of thermal anomalies change the extent
14.50
Abbiati, Ponti and functioning of gorgonian forests in the Mediterranean Sea?
Van Colen, Ong, Briffa, Wethey, Abatith, Clam feeding plasticity alleviates herbivore sensitivity to ocean warming
15.00
Moens, Woodin and acidification
The multifaceted contributions of individual species to the stability of
15.10 White, O'Connor, Emmerson, Donohue
ecosystems
Effect of temperature and food limitation on the energy metabolism of
15.20 Détrée, Gonzalez, Navarro
two species of sea urchins from high latitude.

15.30 AFTERNOO N BRE AK

Shining light on the importance of intertidal benthic primary productivity

16.00 Mangan, Pilditch, Bryan, Thrush, Lohrer
to estuarine ecosystem function
Can biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships predict tipping points
Pilditch, Lohrer, Hewitt, Savage, Gladstone-
16.10 in soft sediments? Insights from a multi-stressor national field
Gallagher, O'Meara, Hillmen, Thrush
experiment

Chair: Paul Brooks

Hadjioannou, Jimenez, Hartingerova, Cladocora caespitosa in a rapidly changing environment: effects from
16.20
Andreou, Petrou, Hayes eutrophication, windstorm and warming event
Zalota, Spiridonov, Galkin, Vedenin, Udalov, Observing an ongoing aggressive invasion of a large predatory crab in the
16.30
Pronin pristine Arctic Kara Sea.

16.40 Wiltshire, Scharfe Phytoplankston and warming of the North Sea: a summary

How can plumes generated by deep-sea mining be minimised to reduce

16.50 Weaver, Boschen-Rose
environmental impact?

17.00 Exhibitors Two-minute flash talks by exhibitors

17.30 POSTERS + WINE RECEPTION Associated workshop: How could we reduce the environmental
O'Reilly Hall footprint of manganese nodule mining through improved
University College Dublin equipment design?
Hosted by Seascape Consultants as part of the Blue Harvesting
project.
Room E0.01, Ground floor of Science Centre East

19.30 CLOSE

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 TUESDAY 27 AUGUST
Biodiversity redistribution in a changing climate
09.00 PLENARY
Prof. Elvira Poloczanska, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Age of recipient assemblages determines bio-invasion under realistic
09.50 Leclerc, Viard, Diaz, Brante

Chair: Nick Payne

assembly rules
Basset, Marrocco, Ciotti, Cozzoli, Gjoni, Space use behaviour, spatial distribution of populations and
10.00
Rosati, Shokri organisation models in marine guilds
Limpets in the rough: Manipulating habitat topography to understand
10.10 Coleman, Williams, Hawkins, Fraser
animal orientation decisions
Population connectivity of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
10.20 Dawson, Irving, Baker, Constantine recorded in the breeding grounds of the Pitcairn Islands central South
Pacific.

10.30 MORNING BREAK

Doogan, Cotter, Bond, Ó Maoiléidigh, Early migration behaviour and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo
11.00
Brophy salar) from the Burrishoole River, western Ireland

11.10 Goossens, Reubens, Torreele, Moens Tracking European seabass in the southern North Sea

Juanes, Ramos, Fernández, de la Hoz,

11.20 Database of macroalgae presence data: OCLE
Puente, Guinda
Connectivity of Pacific halibut in North American waters: scales of
11.30 Loher
movement and relevance to fishery management

Chair: Elvira Poloczanska

Predicting the potential distribution of the Lessepsian blue swimmer
11.40 Mancinelli, Bardelli
crab Portunus segnis in the Mediterranean Sea
McGinty, Barton, Record, Finkel, Johns, Projected copepod community changes and trait re-structuring in the
11.50
Stock, Irwin North Atlantic due to changing climate
Use of a hydrodynamic model to examine behavioral response of
McInturf, Steel, Buckhorn, Sandstrom,
12.00 broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) to an estuarine
Slager, Fangue, Klimley, Caillaud
energy landscape
Norrie, Dunphy, Roughan,Weppe, Larval subsidies from bivalve aquaculture may assist with restoration
12.10
Lundquist programmes.
Ponti, Tarullo, Mikac, Desiderato, Zanni, Can environmental gradients promote non-indigenous species
12.20
Airoldi, Abbiati recruitment? The case study of the Ravenna channel-port
Rodriguez-Perez, Sanderson, Friis Møller, Open or closed populations? The larval behaviour of the European
12.30
James oyster and why it matters

12.40 Roman-Torres, Klages, Eizaguirre Effects of climate change on the sea turtles feeding ecology

12.50 L U N C H

13.30 P O S T E R S E S S I O N

Sinopoli, Allegra, Andaloro, Maggio, The role of FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices) in the dispersal of fish in
13.50
Milisenda, Cillari Sicilian coast
Strickler, Lopes, Garcia, Rusch, Luz, Dabiri, Ciliate epibionts - a symbiotic solution to nutrient diffusion limitation in
14.00
Kanso, Costello large diatoms

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 Investigating scale trace element microchemistry as a tool to track
14.10 Tray, Crowley, Brophy, Ó Maoiléidigh
adult North Atlantic salmon populations.
Distribution & growth of stocked European glass eels released in the
14.20 Wichmann, Kullmann, Frankowski, Thiel
eastern German Baltic Sea
Can changing distributions of benthic species be tracked using long-

C: Leen Vandepitte
14.30 Jackson, Bolton
term datasets from volunteer divers?
McIlroy, Thompson, Landry Yuan, Subtropical thermal variation supports persistence of corals but limits
14.40
Bonebrake, Baker productivity of coral reefs
Vandepitte, De Pooter, Lanssens, Oset- 15 years of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System
14.50
Garcia, Waumans, Vanhoorne, Hernandez (EurOBIS)
Recent changes in subtidal macroalgae distribution in N Spain (Gulf of
15.00 Guinda, Ramos, de la Hoz, Puente, Juanes
Biscay)
Seahorse Hotels: use of artificial habitats to support recovery of the
15. 10 Simpson, Morris, Harasti, Coleman
endangered White’s seahorse
Uttieri, Nihongi, Hinow, Motschman, Jiang,
15.20 Copepod manipulation of oil droplet size distribution
Alcaraz, Rudi Strickler

15.30 AFTERNOO N BRE AK

16.00 Paul Brooks Introduction to the Yellow Submarine

Parrondo, Feis, Ballenghien, Chiss,

Chair: Carl Reddin

Nascimento Fernandes, Morán, Lejeusne,
16.10 Population connectivity of stalked barnacles Pollicipes pollicipes
Yahya Cheikhna Lemrabott, Thiebaut,
Jollivet, Borrell
Nunes, Beesley, Dashfield, McNeill, Strong inter-annual and seasonal patterns revealed by a 10 year time-
16.20 Mesher, Pascoe, Queirós, Somerfield, series of benthic community data at Station L4, a Western Channel
Talbot, Widdicombe Observatory site
Museum collections as a chronicle for long-term monitoring: a case of
16.30 Nekhaev, Merkuliev
benthic gastropods from the Kola Meridian transect (Barents Sea)
Noble-James, Judd, Diesing, Clare, Eggett, Developing monitoring approaches for Marine Protected Areas: insights
16.40
Silburn, Duncan from the Croker Carbonate Slabs Special Area of Conservation.

17.20 YELLOW SUBMARINE

Old Merville Pitch or Sports Centre, depending on weather (see UCD map, back cover)
University College Dublin

19.30 CLOSE

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 WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST
Traits in space: enriching species occurrence data with species
09.00 PLENARY attributes for traits
Dr Tom Webb, University of Sheffield, UK
Dekeyzer, Decock, Verfaille, Vanhoome,
09.50 Marine species traits in the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone

Chair: Matt Frost

Lanssens, Vandepitte

10.00 Hammock, Schulz Aggregated trait data for global questions: coverage and fitness for use

Maternal effects buffer biased sex ratios in species with temperature

10.10 Lockley, Reischig, Eizaguirre
dependent sex determination – the case of the loggerhead turtle
Securing the future of the Critically Endangered Angelshark (Squatina
Barker, Jiménez Alvarado, Meyers, Wray,
10.20 squatina) through multidisciplinary approaches to study this rare,
Davies, Belén Caro, Sealey, Jacoby
cryptic elasmobranch

10.30 MORNING BREAK

Sealey, Barker, Jiménez Alvarado, Meyers, Investigation of juvenile Angelshark (Squatina squatina) habitat in the
11.00
Belén Caro Canary Islands to inform protection of this Critically Endangered species
Effects of sewage discharge on macrofaunal communities nearby the
11.10 Vesal, Nasi, Auriemma, Del Negro underwater sewage duct of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea) on temporal
scale
Lobov, Maltseva, Varfolomeeva, Gametic isolation proteins in the model of intertidal snails sibling
11.20
Mikhailova, Granovitch species.
Have we underestimated the effects of ocean acidification on different
11.30 Vargas, Cuevas, Aguayo, Lagos, Broitman
biological traits?

Chair: Tom Webb

Functional patterns of macrofauna at the Arctic deep-sea observatory
11.40 Käß, Chikina, Vedenin, Soltwedel
HAUSGARTEN
Maltseva, Varfolomeeva, Babkina, Littorina snails and environmental stress: the first to measure the
11.50
Kursheva, Morgunova, Renaud, Granovitch second.
Prevalence of pelagic dependence among coral reef predators across
12.00 Skinner, Newman, Mill, Newton, Polunin
an atoll seascape.
Žužul, Šegvić-Bubić, Talijančić, Katavić, Combination of molecular and morphological characteristics to assess
12.10
Grubišić different origins
Feeding preferences of seven dominant fouling species: trophic
12.20 Mavraki, Degraer, Vanaverbeke
specialists or generalists?
Gladstone-Gallagher, Pilditch, Stephenson, Linking traits across ecological scales determines functional resilience
12.30
Thrush to disturbance
Blue mussel (M. edulis): Carbon stores to be prioritised in Marine
12.40 Lee, Sanderson, Diele
Protected Areas?

12.50 L U N C H

13.30 P O S T E R S E S S I O N

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 Kleitou, Hall-Spencer, Kletou, Antoniou,
Chartosia, Hadjioannou, Savva, Jimenez, Management of Invasive Species in Marine Protected Areas: The case
13.50
Dimitrou, Petrou, Sfenthourakis, Christou, of lionfish in eastern Mediterranean
Andreou, Rees
Behavioural traits, feeding ecology and native prey naiveté, will
D'Agostino, Jimenez, Reader, Hadjioannou,
14.00 Mediterranean lionfish invaders be as successful as their western
Josephides, Feary
Atlantic counterpart?
Henseler, Nordström, Törnroos, Snickars, How predation risk and competition influence habitat use of perch
14.10
Bonsdorff (Perca fluviatilis)
Meysick, Norkko, Gräfnings, Gagnon, Interactions between eelgrass (Zostera marina) and the Baltic clam

Chair: Herman Hummel

14.20
Boström (Macoma balthica)
Ahn, Kume, Terashima, Ye, Kameyama, Evaluation of biodiversity at 5 estuaries in Japan using environmental
14.30
Yamashita, Miya, Kasai DNA metabarcoding method
Larval performance of a potent invader in a steep salinity gradient
14.40 Nour, Pansch, Stumpp
within the Western Baltic Sea

14.50 Wilson Ecosystem function and diversity: the Dublin Bay intertidal model

Prestes, Moreu, Cacabelos, Martins, Faria, Long-term changes in the structure of macroalgal communities in the
15.00
Neto Azores
Effect of time in the lab and diet on the physiology and behaviour of a
15.10 Matveev, McGaw
ubiquitous Atlantic crab (Cancer irroratus)
Tracking waste from aquaculture into infauna communities in the
15.20 McMullin, Wing, Hageman Marlborough Sounds; combining community and biochemical data in a
quantitative analysis
Food quantity and quality in Barkley Canyon (NE Pacific) and its
15.30 Campanya-Llovet, Snelgrove, de Leo
influence on macroinfaunal community structures

15.40 AFTERNOO N BRE AK

16.10 ANNOUNCEMENT: EMBS 5 5

Atlantic Salmon lost at sea

16.20 PLENARY
Prof. Ken Whelan, University College Dublin/Atlantic Salmon Trust

Chair: Jens Carlsson

17.10 END

19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER Dining Hall & Atrium, Trinity College Dublin (see map, p.21)
+ CÉILÍ

23.00 CLOSE

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 THURSDAY 29 AUGUST
It’s the ecology, stupid – willingness to pay to protect cold-water coral
09.00 PLENARY Prof. Claire Armstrong, The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø,
Norway

Chair: Torres Sweeney

Breen, Tully, Hynes, Loughlin, Reecht, A Bayesian network model for assessing ecological risk and economic
09.50
Morley impacts for spatial marine management options
Quantification of ecosystem services provided by infaunal shellfish in
10.00 Rullens, Lohrer, Townsend, Pilditch
temperate estuaries.
Implementing remote sensing as a tool towards supporting marine
10.10 Ferreira, Palma, Brotas, Borges, Brito
aquaculture off the Portuguese coast
Hummel H, Kalle, Bienfait, Boyer, de Wit, A stakeholder-driven set of Essential Variables describing status and
10.20
Hummel C quality of functions, services, benefits and risks in Protected Areas

10.30 MORNING BREAK

Ecosystem valuation of coastal ecosystems for improving water quality

11.00 Watson, Preston, Watson
underpins blue growth
Fariñas-Franco, Fort, Edwards, White,
Ecological footprint and ecosystem services from seaweed cultivation: a
11.10 Nash, Tey Garcia, Coca Tagarro, Avila,
methodological approach to ensure best practice
Johnson, Sulpice
Marra, Sepčič, Thornton, Thomas, Investigation of mucus in the sponge Haliclona (Rhizoniera) indistincta
11.20
McCormack (Bowerbank, 1866) and assessment of its biotechnological potential
Drennan, Wiklund, Neal, Rabone, Biodiversity in the deep-sea mining frontier based on a new integrative
11.30
Dahlgren, Glover taxonomy

Chair: Claire
Sweeney, Venardou, Rattigan, Garcia-
Vaquero, Rajauria, Keily, Vigors, Mc
11.40 Chemodiversity and health benefits of our native Macroalgae
Cartney, Ryan, Thornton, Ravindran,
O’Doherty
Estimation of phytoplankton group composition using HPLC pigment

Armstrong
11.50 Dursun
analysis in a highly urbanized estuary (Golden Horn Estuary, Turkey)
Urbanisation reduces the diversity of intertidal canopies of
12.00 Rubal, Torres, Veiga
Sargassaceae along north Portuguese coast
Veiga, Sampaio, Ramos Oliveira, Moreira, Effects of harvesting on the mollusc assemblage associated with
12.10
Troncoso, Rubal mussels

12.20 C L O S I N G R E M A R K S Prof. Tasman Crowe, EMBS President

12.30 L U N C H

14.00 E X C U R S I O N S

18.00 C L O S E O F E M B S 5 4

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POSTERS
Cunningham, Sigwart Microplastics in aquatic systems – genuine threat or over exaggeration? R1
Ferrario, Ulman, Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Bandi, Bogi, High occurrence of non-indigenous species travelling in the Mediterranean Sea by
R2
Martinez-Laiz, Merlo, Princisgh, Scribano, Marchini recreational boats
Zalota, Kolyuchkina, Chikina, Syomin, Basin, Long-term changes of the northeastern Black Sea coastal macrozoobenthos in the XXI
R3
Lyubimov century
López, Lastra, Troncoso, Sampedro, Garcia-Gallego Warming effects on biogeochemical cycling of algal wrack subsidies in Antarctic shores R4

White, Herbert, Watson Heat waves as a driver of change in mudflat macroinvertebrate communities R5

Allegra, Bosch-Belmar, Castriota, Cillari, Falautano, A method for assessing the distribution of the alien jellyfish Cassiopea andromeda
M1
Maggio, Milisenda, Perzia, Sinopoli (Forsskal, 1775) in areas of difficult access.
Mechanisms underlying predator-driven biotic resistance against introduced barnacles
Ellrich, Yorisue, Momota M2
on the Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Comparison of behavioural and physiological traits in a native (Cancer irroratus) vs.
Matveev, McGaw M3
invasive (Carcinus maenas) crab
Ponti, Turicchia, Kaleb, Puce, Calcinai, Rindi, Cerrano, A baseline of epibenthic species distribution on the northern Adriatic mesophotic
M4
Falace, Abbiati biogenic reefs
Reddin, Kocsis, Kiessling Marine invertebrate distributions trace climate change over 450 million years M5

Srinivasan, Kennedy, Haverland A Tool to Rapidly Assess Spatiotemporal Changes in Species Distributions M6
Dispersal footprint on water: availability of Sr concentration of larval shells in widely
Irie M7
distributed gastropods
Andrews, Christiansen, Bhat, Lynghammar,
Boreal marine fauna from the Barents Sea disperse to Arctic Northeast Greenland M8
Westgaard, Pampoulie, Praebel
Mancinelli, Belmonte, Carlino, Panzera, Potenza, The tufted ghost crab Ocypode cursor in the Mediterranean Sea: an updated overview of
T1
Belmonte its distribution
Campos, Costa-Dias, Santos, Jorge The ecology of yellow gurnard Trigla lucerna in a temperate estuary T2
Impacts of the invasive Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus on the benthos of a
Cilenti, Cannarozzi, Specchiulli, Scirocco, Mancinelli T3
Mediterranean lagoon: an experimental manipulation
Gafarova, Maltseva, Panova, Varfolomeeva, Gut microbiomes and host species divergence: metabarcoding study in intertidal snails’
T4
Mikhailova, Granovich cryptic species.
The use of time-lapse cameras for studies of three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus
Genelt-Yanovskiy, Saveliev, Ivanova, Ivanov T5
aculeatus population dynamics and nesting behaviour
Golikova, Varfolomeeva, Korsun Subarctic salt marsh foraminifera under seasonal ice T6
Bathymetric variations in benthic size spectra, production and carbon demand in Arctic
Górska, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, Soltwedel T7
deep-sea (Fram Strait)
Seasonal dynamics of the predatory fish feeding in the inshore zone of the White Sea
Ivanova, Bakhvalova, Ivanov, Lajus T8
with emphasize on the role of threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
Ivanov, Ivanova, Movchan, Polyakova, Rybkina,
The first step towards a lake: specific patterns of biota of the marine lagoon T9
Stogov, Lajus
Paulus, Brix-Elsig, Pálmar Halldórsson, Diaz-Recio Origin of deep-sea hydrothermal vent copepods: comparative analysis of copepod
T10
Lorenzo, Gollner populations along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Surviving guide for charophytes in the eutrophic lagoon: distribution of oospores and
Stragauskaite, Bučas T11
their relationship to environmental factors
Txurruka, Cotano, Villate Differences on the total energy content in females anchovies in two consecutive years T12

White, Davoult In situ methods to quantify kelp productivity T13

Leclerc, de Bettignies, de Bettignies, Christie, Franco, Opportunistic omnivory leads to local adaptation in feeding behaviour and contrasting
T14
Leroux, Davoult, Pedersen, Filbee-Dexter, Wernberg function across latitudes
Parker, Jentoft, Roth Convergent evolution of immunological tolerance in male pregnancy T15
Schoenrock, Chan, Kreuger-Hadfield, Golden,
The diversity and resilience of kelp ecosystems in Ireland T16
O'Callaghan, O'Callaghan, Power
Quell, Webb Biological traits that discriminate between native and invasive benthic invertebrates T17
Validation of meiofaunal communities as a biological quality element (BQE) in the tidal
Giltrap, King, Scherer, Wilson T18
freshwater transitional waters (TFTW)
Cost benefit analysis of survey methods for assessing intertidal sediment disturbance: a
White, Schaefer, Watson B1
bait collection case study
MARLIN – a large-scale/high resolution information system for marine biological data as
von Halem, Eisner, Schulz, Böhm B2
a backbone for marine management
Heckwolf, Peterson, Horne, Jänes, Karttunen, Kotta,
The systematic meta-evaluation of ecosystem services and related valuation methods
Künne, Liversage, Mäkilä, Orav-Kotta, Reusch, B3
generated by selected Baltic Sea ecosystem species
Ruuskanen, Savilkurki, Sajeva
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 Fuzzy Cognitive Modelling (FCM): a bottom-up stakeholder driven approach to help
Hummel C, van der Meer, Hummel H B4
managing Protected Areas.
[The biodiversity of 9 polychaete families from regions at risk from seabed mining in the
Drennan, Wiklund, Neal, Rabone, Dahlgren, Glover B5
abyssal central Pacific Ocean]
Enhancing the environmental and economical sustainability of aquaculture through
Dailianis, Mandalakis B6
integration of sponges – an assessment of current knowledge
Project RecBio – Contribution to the management and conservation of the biological
Costa-Dias, Mendes, Teixeira, Afonso, Bordalo B7
resources of the Portuguese Northwest coast
Venardou, McDonnell, Garcia-Vaquero, Rajauria, The prebiotic potential of Ascophylum nodosum extracts is influenced by the extraction
B8
O’Doherty, Sweeney methodology used
Venardou, McDonnell, Garcia-Vaquero, Rajauria, The in vitro effects of Laminaria digitata and Ascophyllum nodosum extracts on selected
B9
O’Doherty, Sweeney intestinal commensals and pathogens of weaned piglets
Rattigan, Sweeney, Maher, Thornton, Rajauria, A seaweed derived laminarin extract enhances growth and intestinal health in post-
B10
O’Doherty weaned pigs
Rattigan, Sweeney, Vigors, Maher, Thornton, Effect of increasing dietary inclusion level of a seaweed derived fucoidan extract on the
B11
Rajauria, O’Doherty growth and intestinal health of pigs post-weaning
Mc Cartney, Garcia-Vaquero, Rajauria, O’Doherty,
Investigation of the cytotoxicity of Irish brown seaweed extracts B12
Sweeney
The effect of feeding the seaweed extract laminarin on pig performance and the
Vigors, O’Doherty, McDonnell, Rattigan, Sweeney B13
intestinal microbiome in the post-weaning period
Marra, Thomas, McCormack EBB - The European Blue Biobank. B14

Torres, Rubal, Queirós, Sousa-Pinto, Veiga Relationship between sediment accumulation and the fauna associated with mussel beds G1
Is this a keystone species? The moonsnails at the White Sea can shape the community by
Aristov G2
eliminating large prey.
Impact of non-indigenous copepod species in the copepod community of two contrasting
Barroeta, Uriarte, Villate, Iriarte G3
estuaries of the Bay of Biscay.
The role of artificial material for benthic communities – establishment of different
Becker, Bischof, Kröncke, Ehrenberg, Feldrappe G4
concrete materials to a natural hard ground environment
Ehlers, Maxein, Manz, Koop Tools for Microplastic Analyses in Ecological Research G5
Invasions create competitors: How novel interactions among native and invasive
Feis, Gottschalck, Wegner G6
parasites modify host-parasite coevolution
Loughlin, Mendes, Morrison, Morley Microplastic pollution in marine sediments surrounding Iceland G7

Pino, Webb Spatial distribution patterns of Chilean benthic marine macroinvertebrates G8

Profeta, Giordano, Perdichizzi, Armeli-Minicante, Marine litter in the Central and Southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Monitoring benthic debris on
G9
Salvati, Soraci, Porcino, Trifiletti, D'Iglio, Rinelli trawlable bottoms.
Multiple conservation designations: What impact on the effectiveness of marine
Schere, Dawson, Schreckenberg G10
protected areas in the Irish Sea?
Schulze, Perry A new record of marine tardigrade from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean G11
Responses of the ragworm Hediste diversicolor (Polychaeta) to seawater acidification
Sokołowski, Brulińska G12
due to potential CO 2 leakage from the CCS sub-seabed storage site in the Baltic Sea
Sulić Šprem, Dobroslavić, Kožul Maximum length and age of stargazer, Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus, 1758. G13
Gómez, de la Huz, Aneiros, Rubal, Veiga, Torres, Spatio-temporal monitoring of the impact of the wastewater from a canning industry on
G14
López, Lastra, Troncoso benthic ecosystem and organic matter fluxes
Predictive model of hydrocarbons and faunal diversity around offshore oil platforms
Varfolomeeva, Khaitov, Renaud, Granovitch G15
based on long-term onitoring data
Brimming with bugs - The highly diverse invertebrate communities of southern
Vogt, Dittmann, Beaumont, Mackay G16
temperate saltmarshes
Belmonte, Vannini Horizontal and Vertical distribution of micro-plankton in central Mediterranean Sea G17
García-García, Rubal, Delgado-García, Veiga, Study of meiofauna assemblages living on Bugula neritina (Linnaeus, 1758) in
G18
Martínez-Pita, Guerra-García anthropogenic marine areas
Gjoni, Cozzoli, Stanca, Roselli, Basset Size-density patterns in phytoplankton communities: a global perspective G19
“EUROBUS – Towards a EURopean Observatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod
Uttieri (on behalf of WGEUROBUS) G20
Pseudodiaptomus marinus”
Using science fuel to drive a change: a case study involving microplastics, whale sharks
Wieczorek, Shameel, Hindle, Zareer, Donati G21
and stakeholders in the Maldives
Wieczorek, Abdelouahab, Buselic Garber, Courtene-
Jones, de Bettignies, Fais, Custódio, Gammage, Gillis,
Greene, Laukert, Lopez Acosta, Lubośny, McKenna,
Motivations and concerns of early career marine scientists G22
Moréno-Andrés, Palma Esposito, Piarulli, Porter,
Pradhan, Protopapa, Romagnoni, Scopetani, Silva
Rocha, Suaria, Turk Dermastia, Våge, Vieira
Pavičić, Šegvić-Bubić, Žužul, Vrdoljak, Matić-Skoko Population structure and genetic diversity of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) G23

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