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Matthias Seaman (IR)
PRODUCTION EDITOR
John Austin (IR)
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Christine Paetzold (IR)
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All manuscripts (except Comments and Reply Comments) must pass through a rigorous review process involving at least 3 referees. For details consult Mar Ecol Prog Ser 279:1
Contributing Editors are fully responsible for the review process of manuscripts allotted to them; they decide on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts handled by them.
Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali, University of Bologna,
Via S. Alberto 163, 48100 Ravenna, Italy
Ecology of rocky coasts; macroalgae; disturbance, invasive species, biodiversity and conservation
lbenedetti(at)biologia.unipi.it
Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Ecology of rocky shores, impact assessment and environmental conservation, biodiversity, experimental design
Charles Birkeland
Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, USGS, 2538 The Mall, Edmondson Hall 165A, University of Hawaii at Monoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Coral-reef ecology; benthic ecology
Centro Oceanografico de A Coruña, Apdo 130, 15080 A Coruña, Spain
Planktonic food webs and nitrogen cycles
UR 227 - Biocomplexité des écosystèmes récifaux, IRD Centre de Montpellier - PS2, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34032 Montpellier cx, France
Population genetics, phylogeography, molecular systematics, fishes, mussels, DNA polymorphisms, PCR markers
Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory, 101 Bienville Boulevard, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528, USA
Coastal ecosystem ecology; trophic interactions; eutrophication; seagrass ecology
Yves Cherel
Directeur de Recherche, CEBC - CNRS, BP 14, 79360 Villiers-en-Bois, France
Food and feeding ecology of top marine predators; pelagic ecosystem of the Austral Ocean; stable isotopes
NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Marine mammals; behaviour; bioacoustics; anthropogenic impacts
Associate Director for Programs, Chesapeake Bay Trust, 60 West St, Suite 405, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, USA
Coastal and estuarine ecology, population ecology, fisheries, and aquaculture
steve.dawson(at)stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Department of Marine Science, Otago University, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Conservation Biology, behaviour, abundance assessment and acoustics of marine mammals, especially cetaceans
Universidad de la República - Facultad de Ciencias, Marine Science Unit, Rambla O'Higgins 5319, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay
Coastal ecology, conservation, anthropogenic impacts; sandy beaches; fisheries
Edward G. Durbin
University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882, USA
Zooplankton and fish ecology; food chain interactions
Department of Biology, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91330-8303, USA
Coral reefs: cnidarian ecophysiology; subtidal benthic ecology
Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, PO Box 101, Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, UK
Biological oceanography, bio-physical coupling, plankton ecology, modelling, ecology of fish early lifes stages
Dept. Biologia Animal (Vertebrates), Universitat de Barcelona, Av Diagonal 645, Barcelona-08028, Spain
Pelagic ecology, seabird conservation
Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory, 101 Bienville Blvd, Dauphin Island,
Alabama 36528, USA
Benthic ecology, emphasis on seagrass ecosystems
Brian Helmuth
University of South Carolina, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
Biomechanics; physiology; benthic and intertidal ecology; corals
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecological genomics, physiology ecology of invertebrates and fishes, climate change impacts
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Foraging behaviour; ecology of clonal and modular organisms
University of Maryland System, C E E S, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA
Coastal ecosystem production and respiration, seagrass ecology, nitrogen cycling, eutrophication, hypoxia, mesocosm studies, and ecosystem modeling
Dept of Marine Science, University of South Alabama, L S C B 25, Mobile, Alabama 36688, USA
Microbial ecology and the cycling of organic matter, sulfur, and nitrogen; DMSP and DMS cycling
Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA
Fish community structure, mangrove ecosystems, marine protected areas, fisheries effects, trophic ecology
Romuald N. Lipcius
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062, USA
Conservation biology; marine reserves; predation, metapopulation and source-sink dynamics; ecosystem-based management; restoration ecology; benthic invertebrate population dynamics; fisheries ecology; crustaceans; mollusks
Wildlife Conservation Society, PO Box 99470, Mombasa 80107, Kenya
Coral reef ecology, fisheries management, system ecology and modeling
Department of Biology, University of Alabama, 109 Campbell Hall, 1530 3rd Ave South, Birmingham,
Alabama 35294-1170, USA
Invertebrates: chemical ecology, reproduction and nutrition, larval ecology, polar ecology
Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 77, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Ecological genetics of invertebrates; coral ecology; larval ecology
Steven G. Morgan
Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, PO Box 247, 2099 Westside Road, Bodega Bay, California 94923, USA
Invertebrates: reproductive and larval ecology, life history and behavior; ecology of rocky shores
ivan.nagelkerken(at)adelaide.edu.au
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
Ecology of fishes in coral reef, mangrove and seagrass ecosystems; connectivity; habitat function; trophic interactions; stable isotopes; sensory ecology
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, POBox 28, 647 Contees Wharf road, Edgewater, Maryland 21037, USA
Population and community ecology, larval recruitment, benthic invertebrates, and invasive species
Per J. Palsbøll
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Evolutionary, ecological, population and conservation genetics; marine mammals
avamik(at)online.ru, pasternakanna(at)hotmail.com
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovskii prospekt 36, 117 997 Moscow
Ecological physiology of zooplankton, life cycle strategies and diapause
UNCW Center for Marine Science, 5001 Masonboro Loop Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409, USA
Marine chemical ecology of invertebrates; chemical induction of larval settlement; natural products
Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry 18.1, Roskilde University, PO Box 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Seagrass; macroalgae; eco-physiology; population dynamics including plant-herbivore interactions and competition; experimental design
Charles H. Peterson
Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3407 Arendell Street, Morehead City,
North Carolina 28557, USA
Marine benthic ecology; population biology
USGS Alaska Science Center, Office of Biology, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
Marine birds and mammals; feeding ecology; seabird population dynamics; marine food webs; oil pollution; fishery interactions
Pei-Yuan Qian
Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR
Larval biology, biofilm, biofouling and antifouling, chemical ecology, molecular microbial ecology
Jake Rice
Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent Street, Stn 12S015, Ottawa, ON K1A OE6, Canada
Science policy; management of marine resources; ecosystem effects of human activities
Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet/ The Natural Science Faculty, Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phytoplankton: distributions, blooms, hydrographic features, chlorophyll, stratification, adaptations, primary production
The Queen's University of Belfast, Marine Biology Station, The Strand, Portaferry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Phytoplankton ecology; primary production; photosynthesis
Kenneth Sherman
NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Center, 28 Tarzwell Dr. , Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882, USA
Fisheries ecology; fishery resources; zooplankton
Paul Snelgrove
Canada Research Chair in Boreal & Cold Ocean Systems, Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NFLD A1C 5S7, Canada
Marine community ecology; larval ecology of fish and benthic invertebrates; biodiversity; hydrodynamic effects on benthic communities and populations, deep-sea ecology, disturbance and anthropogenic impacts
Inna M. Sokolova
Biology Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte,
North Carolina 28223-001, USA
Ecological physiology of invertebrates and effects of pollutants
Stylianos Somarakis
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources, P.O. Box 2214, 71003 Heraklion,
Crete, Greece
Marine fisheries ecology: reproduction and early life history of fishes, small pelagic fishes; Mediterranean ecosystems
Peter D. Steinberg
School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Science, Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales,
Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Marine chemical ecology; fouling, antifouling and colonisation biology; bacterial biofilms; herbviory; seaweed ecology; prokaryote/eukaryote interaction
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Biology, Departrment of Zoology, PO Box 34, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Fish population dynamics, distribution and the impacts of fishing on populations. Mediterranean fisheries; fish biogeography and climate change
NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Blvd E, Seattle, Washington 98112, USA
Fish ecology: population dynamics, larvae and recruitment, competition, predation; regime shifts; statistics and experimental design
Antony J. Underwood
Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities, Marine Ecological Laboratory A11, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Experimental intertidal and subtidal ecology; behavior; life cycles of sessile invertebrates
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton, Swansea, UK
Role of seabirds in the marine environment: ecology, behaviour, distribution, foraging; recording systems attached to birds
Marsh Youngbluth
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, Florida 34946, USA
Biological oceanography with special emphasis on zooplankton ecology and behavior
Review Editors critically assess the scientific value of manuscripts, and may advise authors in matters of manuscript presentation.
Los Gatos, California, USA
Top levels of marine food webs, marine ornithology, marine mammalogy
A. C. Anil
Dona Paula, Goa, India
Biofouling, invertebrate larvae, phytoplankton ecology, coastal ecosystems
Rimouski, QC, Canada
Benthic and rocky shore ecology; biodiversity; aquaculture–environment interactions
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Molluscan fisheries and ecology; larval dispersal and recruitment; marine population restoration
Seattle, Washington, USA
Biological oceanography; plankton research
Roskilde, Denmark
Benthic ecology and ecotoxicology, animal-sediment relations, bioturbation, biogeochemical cycling, experimental design
Recife, Brazil
Tropical and subtropical estuarine and coastal habitats, connectivity, fish ecology, environmental impacts
Nantes, France
Bivalve feeding; reproduction
Migdal, Israel
Phytoplankton ecology
Marseille, France
Structure and diversity of marine microbial communities; nitrogen cycle
Erik Bonsdorff
Turku/Åbo, Finland
Coastal, estuarine and brackish benthic ecosystems: experimentation; biodiversity; environmental impacts
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on coral reefs
La Jolla, California, USA
Population genetics; evolutionary mechanisms in populations; biochemical and molecular genetic analyses of invertebrates
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Marine mammals and birds: physiology of diving and feeding
Juan Carlos Castilla
Santiago, Chile
Rocky shore ecology and anthropogenic impacts; coastal management and conservation; shellfish and invertebrate predators
Nanette Chadwick
Auburn, Alabama, USA
Fouling communities, reef-building corals, sea anemones, tunicates, symbioses, competition, population dynamics, behavior
Margaret G. Chapman
Sydney, Australia
Intertidal ecology, experimental design, impact assessment, restoration, mangroves, benthic ecology, urbanization, biodiversity
Townsville, Australia
Reef ecology, fish ecology and evolution, coral reefs
Montpellier, France
Nitrogen metabolism of phytoplankton
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Macroecology; landscape ecology of urban habitats; disturbance; kelp forests
Richard F. Dame
Conway, South Carolina, USA
Bivalve physiological ecology; estuarine and shallow marine ecosystems; reefs (bivalve, coral, worm, etc); ecosystem analysis and complexity
Don Deibel
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Zooplankton ecology and nutrition, gelatinous organisms: ecology and physiology
Hull, UK
Estuarine and coastal processes; algae and vascular plants; eutrophication; nutrient chemistry; effects of global change; conservation, restoration and management of coasts and estuaries
Montpelllier, France
Benthic microbial ecology; eutrophication and biogeochemical cycling; ecophysiological modelling of microorganisms
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Larval ecology of invertebrates
Muscat, Oman
Chemical ecology of invertebrates, microbiology, and biofouling; larval settlement, epibiotic and biofouling communities
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Phytoplankton: physiological ecology; nutrient dynamics, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms
Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada
System level analyses
Anastasios Eleftheriou
Heraklion, Greece
Benthos ecology, environmental impacts
Hull, UK
Structure and function of fish and benthic communities
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Early life history of fish and invertebrate larvae
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Trophic dynamics and energetics of crustacea and fishes, meiofauna ecology, ecological immunoassays, salt marsh ecology
Helsingør, Denmark
Population biology; microbial ecology
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Fisheries ecology and conservation, intertidal and community ecology
Nicholas S. Fisher
Stony Brook, New York, USA
Physiological ecology of phytoplankton
Peter Fong
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Invertebrates; rocky intertidal; mud flat ecology; reproduction; neurophysiology
Rodney M. Forster
Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Aquatic primary production; microphytobenthos; remote sensing of the coastal zone; effects of UV radiation
Ken Furuya
Tokyo, Japan
Phytoplankton ecology; community structure; dynamics
José A. Garcia Charton
Murcia, Spain
Reef fish ecology and conservation; marine protected areas; environmental impact assessment; experimental design.
Penryn, United Kingdom
Marine Turtle Biology: ecology, behaviour, distribution, status and conservation; particularly interested in satellite tracking
David Grémillet
Montpellier, France
Biotelemetry and ecophysiology; seabird behavior, energetics and evolution; effects of climate, pollution and fisheries
Roskilde, Denmark
Laboratory and in situ studies on zooplankton; secondary production (grazing, growth, energetics, feeding behaviour)
Helsingør, Denmark
Protist and phytoplankton ecology
Juneau, Alaska, USA
Fish ecology; trophic interactions
Eric R. Holm
West Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Larval settlement and metamorphosis, fouling communities, biofouling adhesion
Shimane, Japan
Seagrass fish assemblages
San Diego, California, USA
Coastal landscape ecology, predator-prey interactions, marine invertebrates
Cindy Hull
Hobart, TAS, Australia
Foraging and breeding in seabirds, satellite telemetry
George L. Hunt
Seattle, Washington, USA
Seabirds; marine mammals; their roles in carbon fluxes
Waimanalo, Hawaii, USA
Marine bird and mammal biogeography, habitats and conservation
Napels, Italy
Zooplankton ecophysiology, reproduction and development; chemical ecology of phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions
Sigrun H. Jónasdóttir
Charlottenlund, Denmark
Zooplankton feeding and population dynamics
Odense, Denmark
Sediment biogeochemistry; bioturbation; microbial ecology; mangrove ecology; ecology of marine benthos
La Jolla, California, USA
Food web interactions; zooplankton ecology
Jean-Sébastien Lauzon-Guay
Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada
Population dynamics of benthic species; mathematical modeling; fisheries and aquaculture
Hunter S. Lenihan
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Marine benthic ecology (temperate and coral reefs, estuaries, soft bottoms, polar environments); fisheries ecology; ecotoxicology
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA
Phytoplankton ecology and physiology, nutrient and carbon biogeochemical cycling, aquatic optics
Menlo Park, California, USA
Feeding ecology of deposit feeders; geochemistry of trace elements in sediments
Mark Meekan
Casuarina, Darwin, Australia
Ecology of fish larvae, sharks, and coral reefs
Galveston, Texas, USA
Estuarine ecology; habitat functions for nekton and benthic organisms; behavior and biology of penaeid shrimps and blue crabs
Gilles Miron
Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
Benthic ecology, recruitment and settlement processes, ecoethology
Peter J. Mumby
Exeter, United Kingdom
Multivariate statistical analysis; coral bleaching; marine protected areas, coastal reef ecology; reef fish behaviour; fish population dynamics
Takeshi Naganuma
Higashi-hiroshima, Japan
Microbial biogeography
Bergen, Norway
Fish biology, population dynamics, fisheries management
Helen Neil
Wellington, New Zealand
Marine geology; paleoceanography; paleoclimate; isotope geochemistry (esp. otoliths)
Thomas Noji
Highlands, New Jersey, USA
Ecosystem processes, zooplankton ecology
Palma, Spain
Benthic ecology: energy flow and food webs, impact assessments, meiofauna
Miami, Florida, USA
Biological oceanography: biophysical modeling; ichthyoplankton and recruitment
Hamburg, Germany
Ecology of fish early life stages, copepod vital rates, ecophysiology, individual based modelling of invertebrates and fishes
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Algal physiology, nutrients and photosynthesis, population interactions; effects of disturbance on coral reefs and reef fishes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Field experimental design, community ecology of rocky shores
Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada
Zooplankton dynamics and secondary production, biological-physical models
Genova, Italy
Benthos population dynamics
Peter Ralph
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Chlorophyll a fluorescence; coral bleaching; sea ice photosynhtesis; toxicology - algal; macroalgal physiology; seagrass physiology
Kerteminde, Denmark
Environmental effects, bioenergetics and filter-feeding in macroinvertebrates
Michael J. Risk
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Coral reef ecology; soft bottom ecology; coastal processes
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Estuarine ecology, habitat restoration; decapod crustaceans and fishes
Miami, Florida, USA
Reef fishes: life history, recruitment, biogeography; marine reserves
Christchurch, New Zealand
Experimental marine ecology; marine plant/herbivore interactions; demography and ecology of algae; invertebrate fisheries; aquaculture
San Jose, California, USA
Seabird foraging ecology and energetics, electronic tagging, and habitat use
Orono, Maine, USA
Marine physiological ecology: oxygen toxicity and UV radiation stress in symbiotic invertebrates
Antonio Sole-Cava
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Invertebrate population genetics, cryptic speciation, sea anemone taxonomy; reproduction; benthic intertidal ecology; invertebrate fisheries
Robert Stead
Puerto Mont, Chile
Soft bottom meio- and macrofauna; population and community ecology
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Zooplankton; sea ice ecology; food web dynamics
Gloucester Point, VA, USA
Planktonic and microbial processes
Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada G4T 5L9
Benthic ecology, meiofauna, environmental impact of aquaculture
Dianne Tracey
Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand
Deep-sea corals and deep-sea fisheries; biodiversity; seamount research
Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA
Biotic processes and flow of energy among trophic levels; seagrass food webs
Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR
Marine pollution and ecotoxicology; biogeochemistry of trace elements; physiological ecology of marine invertebrates; trophic interaction
Mark E. Warner
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Physiological ecology of reef building corals; photosynthesis and photoinhibition
Paula E. Whitfield
Beaufort, North Carolina, USA
Invasion ecology and biology; climate change effects in marine communities