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Biogeochemistry, macronutrient and carbon cycling in the benthic layer - Solan - NERC

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Martin Solan

Professor of Marine Ecology
Research interests
  • Biodiversity ecosystem function bioturbation benthic ecology
Connect with Martin

Email: M.Solan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Jasmin Godbold

Professor
Research interests
  • Changes in seafloor biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Effect of human activities and environmental change on species-environment interactions 
  • Trait-expression in benthic invertebrates and how this is affected by climate change and pressures associated with fisheries and offshore wind development
Connect with Jasmin

Email: J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk

Dr Charlie Thompson

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Coastal Monitoring
  • Coastal Processes
  • Sediment Stability, Resuspension and Exchange processes
Connect with Charlie

Email: celt2@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Mediation of nitrogen by post-disturbance shelf communities experiencing organic matter enrichment
Marija Sciberras, Karen Tait, Guillaume Brochain, Jan G. Hiddink, Rachel Hale, Jasmin A. Godbold & Martin Solan, 2017, Biogeochemistry, 135(1-2), 135-153
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-017-0370-5
Type: article
Consequences of biodiversity loss diverge from expectation due to post-extinction compensatory responses
Matthias S. Thomsen, Clement Garcia, Stefan G. Bolam, Ruth Parker, Jasmin A. Godbold & Martin Solan, 2017, Scientific Reports, 7
DOI: 10.1038/srep43695
Type: article
Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties
Martin Solan, Chris Hauton, Jasmin A. Godbold, Christina L. Wood, Timothy G. Leighton & Paul White, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6
DOI: 10.1038/srep20540
Type: article
High-resolution computed tomography reconstructions of invertebrate burrow systems
R. Hale, R.P. Boardman, M.N. Mavrogordato, I. Sinclair, T.J. Tolhurst & M. Solan, 2015, Scientific Data, 2, 150052
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.52
Type: article
Characterizations of how species mediate ecosystem properties require more comprehensive functional effect descriptors
R. Hale, M.N. Mavrogordato, T.J. Tolhurst & M. Solan, 2014, Scientific Reports, 4, 6463
DOI: 10.1038/srep06463
Type: article
A bioturbation classification of European marine infaunal invertebrates
Ana M. Queirós, Silvana N.R. Birchenough, Julie Bremner, Jasmin A. Godbold, Ruth E. Parker, Alicia Romero-Ramirez, Henning Reiss, Martin Solan, Paul J. Somerfield, Carl Van Colen, Gert Van Hoey & Stephen Widdicombe, 2013, Ecology and Evolution, 3(11), 3958-3985
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.769
Type: article