climate change | Andrew Davies

Preserving deep-sea natural heritage: Emerging issues in offshore conservation and management

by Andy | Apr 6, 2008 | Marine ecology, Publications

Andrew J. Davies, J. Murray Roberts, Jason Hall-Spencer Published in Biological Conservation (2007) Human activity in the deep sea is extending ever deeper, with recent research showing that this environment is more sensitive to human and natural impacts than...

Limpet grazing and loss of Ascophyllum nodosum canopies on decadal time scales

by Andy | Apr 6, 2008 | Marine ecology, Publications

Andrew J. Davies, Mark P. Johnson, Christine A. Maggs Published in Marine Ecology-Progress Series (2007) The role of limpet grazing in preventing the development of algal canopies is a recurrent theme in intertidal ecology. Less is known about interactions of limpets...

Coastline configuration disrupts large-scale climatic forcing, leading to divergent temporal trends in wave exposure

by Andy | Mar 21, 2008 | Marine ecology, Publications

Andrew J. Davies and Mark P. Johnson Published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2006) Both climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may influence coastal systems by altering wave exposure. The effects of such climatic forcing are often coherent...