MEPS Editorial Staff

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Otto Kinne

International Ecology Institute

Nordbünte 23 (+3, 5, 28, 30)

21385 Oldendorf/Luhe

Germany

Tel: +49 4132 7127

Fax: +49 4132 8883

Email: kinne(at)int-res.com

 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Hans Heinrich Janssen (IR)

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Matthias Seaman (IR)

matthias(at)int-res.com

 

PRODUCTION EDITOR

John Austin (IR)

john(at)int-res.com

 

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Christine Paetzold (IR)

christine(at)int-res.com

 

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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

 

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.

 

Laura Airoldi

Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale

and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali

University of Bologna

Via S. Alberto 163

48100 Ravenna

Italy

Tel: +39 544 937314

Email: laura.airoldi(at)unibo.it

Ecology of rocky coasts; macroalgae; disturbance, invasive species, biodiversity and conservation

 

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

Dipartimento di Biologia

University of Pisa

Via A. Volta 6

56126 Pisa

Italy

Tel: +39 050 500943

Email: lbenedetti(at)biologia.unipi.it

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

Tel: +1 808 956 8678

Email: charlesb(at)hawaii.edu

Coral-reef ecology; benthic ecology

 

Antonio M. Bode

Centro Oceanografico de A Coruña

Apdo 130

15080 A Coruña

Spain

Tel: +34 981 205362

Email: antonio.bode(at)co.ieo.es

Planktonic food webs and nitrogen cycles

 

Philippe Borsa

UR 227 - Biocomplexité des écosystèmes récifaux

IRD Centre de Montpellier - PS2

911 avenue Agropolis

34032 Montpellier cx

France

Tel: +33 4 6763 6962

Email: philippe.borsa(at)ird.fr

Population genetics, phylogeography, molecular systematics, fishes, mussels, DNA polymorphisms, PCR markers

 

Just Cebrian

Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium

Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory

101 Bienville Boulevard

Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528

USA

Tel: +1 334 861 7568

Email: jcebrian(at)disl.org

Coastal ecosystem ecology; trophic interactions; eutrophication; seagrass ecology

 

Yves Cherel

Directeur de Recherche

CEBC - CNRS

BP 14

79360 Villiers-en-Bois

France

Tel: +33 5 49097835

Email: cherel(at)cebc.cnrs.fr

Food and feeding ecology of top marine predators; pelagic ecosystem of the Austral Ocean; stable isotopes

 

John H. Choat

School of Marine Biology & Aquaculture

James Cook University

Townsville 4811, Qld.

Australia

Email: john.choat(at)jcu.edu.au

Reef ecology, fish ecology and evolution, coral reefs

 

Peter J. Corkeron

NOAA Fisheries

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

166 Water Street

Woods Hole, MA 02543

USA

Tel: +1 508 495 2259

Email: peter.corkeron(at)noaa.gov

Marine mammals; behaviour; bioacoustics; anthropogenic impacts

 

Jana Davis

Associate Director for Programs

Chesapeake Bay Trust

60 West St, Suite 405

Annapolis, Maryland 21401

USA

Email: jdavis(at)cbtrust.org

Coastal and estuarine ecology, population ecology, fisheries, and aquaculture

 

Steve Dawson

Department of Marine Science

Otago University

P.O. Box 56

Dunedin 9016

New Zealand

Tel: +64 3 479 7468

Email: steve.dawson(at)stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Conservation Biology, behaviour, abundance assessment and acoustics of marine mammals, especially cetaceans

 

Omar Defeo

Universidad de la República - Facultad de Ciencias

Marine Science Unit

Rambla O'Higgins 5319

Montevideo 11400

Uruguay

Tel: +59 82 5258618

Email: odefeo(at)dinara.gub.uy

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

Tel: +1 401 874 6850

Email: edurbin(at)gso.uri.edu

Zooplankton and fish ecology; food chain interactions

 

Peter J. Edmunds

Department of Biology

California State University

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, California 91330-8303

USA

Email: peter.edmunds(at)csun.edu

Coral reefs: cnidarian ecophysiology; subtidal benthic ecology

 

Alejandro Gallego

Marine Laboratory Aberdeen

PO Box 101, Victoria Road

Aberdeen AB11 9DB

UK

Tel: +44 1224 876 544

Email: a.gallego(at)marlab.ac.uk

Biological oceanography, bio-physical coupling, plankton ecology, modelling, ecology of fish early lifes stages

 

Jacob González-Solís

Dept. Biologia Animal (Vertebrates)

Universitat de Barcelona

Av Diagonal 645

Barcelona-08028

Spain

Tel: +34 934 021 041

Email: jgsolis(at)ub.edu

Pelagic ecology, seabird conservation

 

Kenneth L. Heck Jr

Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium

Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory

101 Bienville Blvd

Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528

USA

Tel: +1 205 861 2141

Email: kheck(at)disl.org

Benthic ecology, emphasis on seagrass ecosystems

 

Brian Helmuth

University of South Carolina

Department of Biological Sciences

Columbia, South Carolina 29208

USA

Tel: +1 803 777-2100

Email: helmuth(at)biol.sc.edu

Biomechanics; physiology; benthic and intertidal ecology; corals

 

Gretchen E. Hofmann

Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology

University of California

Santa Barbara, California 93106

USA

Email: hofmann(at)lifesci.ucsb.edu

Ecological genomics, physiology ecology of invertebrates and fishes, climate change impacts

 

Roger N. Hughes

School of Biological Sciences

University of Wales

Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW

UK

Tel: +44 1248 382 307

Email: r.n.hughes(at)bangor.ac.uk

Foraging behaviour; ecology of clonal and modular organisms

 

Catriona L. Hurd

Department of Botany

University of Otago

PO Box 56

Dunedin

New Zealand

Tel: +64 3 479-7571

Email: Catriona.Hurd(at)botany.otago.ac.nz

Seeweed nutrient physiology and ecology; hydrodynamics and biomechanics

 

William M. Kemp

University of Maryland System

C E E S

Horn Point Environmental Laboratory

Cambridge, MD 21613

USA

Tel: +1 410 221 8436

Email: kemp(at)umces.edu

Coastal ecosystem production and respiration, seagrass ecology, nitrogen cycling, eutrophication, hypoxia, mesocosm studies, and ecosystem modeling

 

Ronald P. Kiene

Dept of Marine Science

University of South Alabama

L S C B 25

Mobile, Alabama 36688

USA

Email: rkiene(at)disl.org

Microbial ecology and the cycling of organic matter, sulfur, and nitrogen; DMSP and DMS cycling

 

Janet A. Ley

Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

St. Petersburg, Florida 33701

USA

Tel: 1 727 896 8626

Email: Janet.Ley(at)MyFWC.com

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

Tel: +1 804 684 7330

Email: rom(at)vims.edu

Conservation biology; marine reserves; predation, metapopulation and source-sink dynamics; ecosystem-based management; restoration ecology; benthic invertebrate population dynamics; fisheries ecology; crustaceans; mollusks

 

Tim McClanahan

Wildlife Conservation Society

PO Box 99470

Mombasa 80107

Kenya

Tel: +254 41 548 6549

Email: tmcclanahan(at)wcs.org

Coral reef ecology, fisheries management, system ecology and modeling

 

James B. McClintock

Department of Biology

University of Alabama

109 Campbell Hall

1530 3rd Ave South

Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1170

USA

Tel: +1 205 975 2525

Email: mcclinto(at)uab.edu

Invertebrates: chemical ecology, reproduction and nutrition, larval ecology, polar ecology

 

Karen Miller

Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies

University of Tasmania

Private Bag 77

Hobart, TAS 7001

Australia

Tel: +3 6226 2634

Email: karen.miller(at)utas.edu.au

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

Tel: +1 707 875 1920

Email: sgmorgan(at)ucdavis.edu

Invertebrates: reproductive and larval ecology, life history and behavior; ecology of rocky shores

 

Ivan Nagelkerken

Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology

Radboud University

P.O. Box 9010

6500 GL Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Tel: +31 24 3652471

Email: I.Nagelkerken(at)science.ru.nl

Ecology of fishes in coral reef, mangrove and seagrass ecosystems; connectivity; habitat function; trophic interactions; stable isotopes; sensory ecology

 

Richard W. Osman

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

POBox 28

647 Contees Wharf road

Edgewater, Maryland 21037

USA

Tel: +1 443 482 2213

Email: osmanr(at)si.edu

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

Tel: +46 (0) 8 16 1998

Email: Per.Palsboll(at)gmt.su.se

Evolutionary, ecological, population and conservation genetics; marine mammals

 

Anna F. Pasternak

P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Russian Academy of Sciences

Nakhimovskii prospekt 36

117 997 Moscow

Tel: +7 (499) 129 2009

Email: avamik(at)online.ru, pasternakanna(at)hotmail.com

Ecological physiology of zooplankton, life cycle strategies and diapause

 

Joseph R. Pawlik

UNCW Center for Marine Science

5001 Masonboro Loop Road

Wilmington, North Carolina 28409

USA

Tel: +1 910 962 2377

Email: pawlikj(at)uncw.edu

Marine chemical ecology of invertebrates; chemical induction of larval settlement; natural products

 

Morten F. Pedersen

Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry 18.1

Roskilde University

PO Box 260

4000 Roskilde

Denmark

Tel: +45 4674 2088

Email: mfp(at)ruc.dk

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

Tel: +1 252 726 6841

Email: cpeters(at)email.unc.edu

Marine benthic ecology; population biology

 

John F. Piatt

USGS Alaska Science Center

Office of Biology

4210 University Drive

Anchorage, Alaska 99508

USA

Tel: +1 360 774-0516

Email: jpiatt(at)usgs.gov

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

Email: boqianpy(at)ust.hk

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

Email: ricej(at)dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Science policy; management of marine resources; ecosystem effects of human activities

 

Katherine Richardson

Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet/ The Natural Science Faculty

Øster Voldgade 3

1350 Copenhagen

Denmark

Tel: +45 3532 4285

Email: kari(at)science.ku.dk

Phytoplankton: distributions, blooms, hydrographic features, chlorophyll, stratification, adaptations, primary production

 

Graham Savidge

The Queen's University of Belfast

Marine Biology Station

The Strand

Portaferry, Co. Down

Northern Ireland, UK

Email: g.savidge(at)qub.ac.uk

Phytoplankton ecology; primary production; photosynthesis

 

Kenneth Sherman

NOAA Fisheries

Northeast Fisheries Center

28 Tarzwell Dr.

Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882

USA

Email: kenneth.sherman(at)noaa.gov

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

Email: psnelgro(at)mun.ca

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

Email: isokolov(at)uncc.edu

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

Tel: +30 810 337851

Email: somarak(at)her.hcmr.gr

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

Tel: +61 2 9385 3273

Email: P.Steinberg(at)unsw.edu.au

Marine chemical ecology; fouling, antifouling and colonisation biology; bacterial biofilms; herbviory; seaweed ecology; prokaryote/eukaryote interaction

 

Konstantinos I. Stergiou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

School of Biology, Departrment of Zoology

PO Box 34

54124 Thessaloniki

Greece

Tel: +30 2310 998268

Email: kstergio(at)bio.auth.gr

Fish population dynamics, distribution and the impacts of fishing on populations. Mediterranean fisheries; fish biogeography and climate change

 

Nick Tolimieri

NOAA Fisheries

Northwest Fisheries Science Center

2725 Montlake Blvd E

Seattle, Washington 98112

USA

Tel: +1 206 302 2444

Email: Nick.Tolimieri(at)noaa.gov

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

Tel: +61 2 9351 2699

Email: aju(at)bio.usyd.edu.au

Experimental intertidal and subtidal ecology; behavior; life cycles of sessile invertebrates

 

Rory P. Wilson

School of Biological Sciences

University of Wales Swansea

Singleton, Swansea

UK

Tel: +44 1792 295376

Email: R.P.Wilson(at)swansea.ac.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

Email: youngbluth(at)hboi.edu

Biological oceanography with special emphasis on zooplankton ecology and behavior

 

 

 

REVIEW EDITORS

 

Review Editors critically assess the scientific value of manuscripts, and may advise authors in matters of manuscript presentation.

 

David G. Ainley

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

 

Philippe Archambault

Rimouski, QC, Canada

Benthic and rocky shore ecology; biodiversity; aquaculture–environment interactions

 

William S. Arnold

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Molluscan fisheries and ecology; larval dispersal and recruitment; marine population restoration

 

Karl Banse

Seattle, Washington, USA

Biological oceanography; plankton research

 

Gary T. Banta

Roskilde, Denmark

Benthic ecology and ecotoxicology, animal-sediment relations, bioturbation, biogeochemical cycling, experimental design

 

Mario Barletta

Recife, Brazil

Tropical and subtropical estuarine and coastal habitats, connectivity, fish ecology, environmental impacts

 

Peter G. Beninger

Nantes, France

Bivalve feeding; reproduction

 

Tom Berman

Migdal, Israel

Phytoplankton ecology

 

Patricia Bonin

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

 

Barbara E. Brown

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on coral reefs

 

Ronald S. Burton

La Jolla, California, USA

Population genetics; evolutionary mechanisms in populations; biochemical and molecular genetic analyses of invertebrates

 

Michael Castellini

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

 

Yves Collos

Montpellier, France

Nitrogen metabolism of phytoplankton

 

Sean D. Connell

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

 

Victor N. de Jonge

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

 

Rutger de Wit

Montpelllier, France

Benthic microbial ecology; eutrophication and biogeochemical cycling; ecophysiological modelling of microorganisms

 

Ana I. Dittel

Lewes, Delaware, USA

Larval ecology of invertebrates

 

Sergey Dobretsov

Muscat, Oman

Chemical ecology of invertebrates, microbiology, and biofouling; larval settlement, epibiotic and biofouling communities

 

Quay Dortch

Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Phytoplankton: physiological ecology; nutrient dynamics, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms

 

Daniel E. Duplisea

Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada

System level analyses

 

Anastasios Eleftheriou

Heraklion, Greece

Benthos ecology, environmental impacts

 

Mike Elliott

Hull, UK

Structure and function of fish and benthic communities

 

Charles E. Epifanio

epi(at)udel.edu

Lewes, Delaware, USA

Early life history of fish and invertebrate larvae

 

Robert J. Feller

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Trophic dynamics and energetics of crustacea and fishes, meiofauna ecology, ecological immunoassays, salt marsh ecology

 

Tom Fenchel

Helsingør, Denmark

Population biology; microbial ecology

 

Jonathan A. D. Fisher

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.

 

Brendan J. Godley

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

 

Benni Winding Hansen

Roskilde, Denmark

Laboratory and in situ studies on zooplankton; secondary production (grazing, growth, energetics, feeding behaviour)

 

Per Juel Hansen

Helsingør, Denmark

Protist and phytoplankton ecology

 

Nicola Hillgruber

Juneau, Alaska, USA

Fish ecology; trophic interactions

 

Eric R. Holm

West Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Larval settlement and metamorphosis, fouling communities, biofouling adhesion

 

Masahiro Horinouchi

Shimane, Japan

Seagrass fish assemblages

 

Kevin Hovel

San Diego, California, USA

Coastal landscape ecology, predator-prey interactions, marine invertebrates

 

Cindy Hull

Cindy.Hull(at)roaring40s.com.au

Hobart, TAS, Australia

Foraging and breeding in seabirds, satellite telemetry

 

George L. Hunt

Seattle, Washington, USA

Seabirds; marine mammals; their roles in carbon fluxes

 

David Hyrenbach

Waimanalo, Hawaii, USA

Marine bird and mammal biogeography, habitats and conservation

 

Adrianna Ianora

Napels, Italy

Zooplankton ecophysiology, reproduction and development; chemical ecology of phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions

 

Sigrun H. Jónasdóttir

Charlottenlund, Denmark

Zooplankton feeding and population dynamics

 

Erik Kristensen

Odense, Denmark

Sediment biogeochemistry; bioturbation; microbial ecology; mangrove ecology; ecology of marine benthos

 

Michael R. Landry

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

 

Steven E. Lohrenz

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA

Phytoplankton ecology and physiology, nutrient and carbon biogeochemical cycling, aquatic optics

 

Samuel N. Luoma

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

 

Thomas J. Minello

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

 

Richard D. M. Nash

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

 

Emil Ólafsson

Palma, Spain

Benthic ecology: energy flow and food webs, impact assessments, meiofauna

 

Claire Paris

Miami, Florida, USA

Biological oceanography: biophysical modeling; ichthyoplankton and recruitment

 

Myron A. Peck

Hamburg, Germany

Ecology of fish early life stages, copepod vital rates, ecophysiology, individual based modelling of invertebrates and fishes

 

Paulette Peckol

Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Algal physiology, nutrients and photosynthesis, population interactions; effects of disturbance on coral reefs and reef fishes

 

Peter Petraitis

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Field experimental design, community ecology of rocky shores

 

Stéphane Plourde

Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada

Zooplankton dynamics and secondary production, biological-physical models

 

Roberto Pronzato

Genova, Italy

Benthos population dynamics

 

Peter Ralph

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Chlorophyll a fluorescence; coral bleaching; sea ice photosynhtesis; toxicology - algal; macroalgal physiology; seagrass physiology

 

Hans Ulrik Riisgård

Kerteminde, Denmark

Environmental effects, bioenergetics and filter-feeding in macroinvertebrates

 

Michael J. Risk

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Coral reef ecology; soft bottom ecology; coastal processes

 

Lawrence P. Rozas

Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

Estuarine ecology, habitat restoration; decapod crustaceans and fishes

 

Benjamin Ruttenberg

Miami, Florida, USA

Reef fishes: life history, recruitment, biogeography; marine reserves

 

David R. Schiel

Christchurch, New Zealand

Experimental marine ecology; marine plant/herbivore interactions; demography and ecology of algae; invertebrate fisheries; aquaculture

 

Scott A. Shaffer

San Jose, California, USA

Seabird foraging ecology and energetics, electronic tagging, and habitat use

 

J. Malcolm Shick

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

 

Kerrie Swadling

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Zooplankton; sea ice ecology; food web dynamics

 

Kam W. Tang

Gloucester Point, VA, USA

Planktonic and microbial processes

 

Guglielmo Tita

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

 

John F. Valentine

Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA

Biotic processes and flow of energy among trophic levels; seagrass food webs

 

Wen-Xiong Wang

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