Dr Ian McCarthy
Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil
Contact info
Room: Room 108A, Nuffield Fish Lab
Phone: 01248 382862
E-mail: i.mccarthy@bangor.ac.uk
I graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and Zoology from the University College of North Wales, bangor (as was Bangor University) in 1987 and undertook a PhD on individual variation in behavioural and physiological performance in salmonids and sea bass at Aberdeen University under the supervison of Prof. Dominic Houlihan between 1989 and 1992. I remained in Aberdeen for 4 years postdoctoral research studying the physiological ecology of salmonids and flounder. In 1996, I was awarded a NERC Fellowship and I moved to the University Field Station (Glasgow University) on Loch Lomondside to examine the effect of intraspecific variation in physiological performance on growth and life history strategies in salmonid fish. In 1999, I 'popped over the pond' to Mustang Island on the Gulf coast of south Texas to work for Prof. Lee Fuiman at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. My research in south Texas examined the sublethal effects of pollutants on the behavioural and physiological performance of marine fish larvae. I returned to Menai Bridge in February 2002 as a Lecturer in Fish Biology being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and appointed a Reader in 2016.
Although I trained as a fish biologist, my research interests have broadened and I now work on the behavioural and physiological ecology of aquatic animals (molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans and fishes). In general, my research interest are:
- growth and energetics of aquatic animals (in particular protein synthesis/turnover, trade offs in energy allocation and physiological capacity to survive environmental change)
- Consistency of individual physiological and behavioural performance and impacts on life history strategies and fitness
- use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns
- population biology and management of temperate marine fisheries
- 2020
- Cyhoeddwyd
Elevated pCO2 does not impair performance in autotomised individuals of the intertidal predatory starfish Asterias rubens (Linnaeus, 1758)
McCarthy, I., Whiteley, N., Fernandez, W., Ragagnin, M., Cornwell, T., Suckling, C. & Turra, A., Ion 2020, Yn: Marine Environmental Research. 153, 104841.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
The effect of ocean acidification on the intertidal hermit crab Pagurus criniticornis is not modulated by cheliped amputation and sex
turra, A., Ragagnin, M., McCarthy, I. & Fernandez, W., Ion 2020, Yn: Marine Environmental Research. 153, 104794.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Sub-lethal predatory shell damage does not affect physiologyunder high CO2 in the intertidal gastropod Tritia reticulata
Yokoyama, L., Turra, A., Suckling, C., Torres, G., Davies, A. & McCarthy, I., 2020, Yn: Ocean and Coastal Management. 68, 11 t., e20274.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2019
- Cyhoeddwyd
Occurrence of legacy and emerging organic pollutants in whitemouth croakers from Southeastern Brazil
Pizzochero, A. C., de la Torre, A., Sanz, P., Navarro, I., Michel, L., Lepoint, G., Das, K., Schnitzler, J., Chenery, S., McCarthy, I., Malm, O., Dorneles, P. & Martinez, M. A., 10 Medi 2019, Yn: Science of the Total Environment. 682, t. 719-728 10 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Differences in mitochondrial efficiency explain individual variation in growth performance
Salin, K., Villasevil, E., Anderson, G., Lamarre, S., Melanson, C., McCarthy, I., Selman, C. & Metcalfe, N., 21 Awst 2019, Yn: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1909, t. 20191466Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
The influence of environmental gradients on individual behaviour: individual plasticity is consistent across risk and temperature gradients. Consistent plasticity across gradients
Cornwell, T. O., McCarthy, I. D., Snyder, C. R. A. & Biro, P. A., 30 Ebr 2019, Yn: Journal of Animal Ecology. 88, 4, t. 511-520Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2018
- Cyhoeddwyd
Vulnerability of juvenile hermit crabs to reduced seawater pH and shading
Ragagnin, M., McCarthy, I., Fernandez, W., Tschiptschin, A. & Turra, A., Tach 2018, Yn: Marine Environmental Research. 142, t. 130-140Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Sensitivity to near-future CO2 conditions in marine crabs depends on their compensatory capacities for salinity change
Whiteley, N., Suckling, C., Ciotti, B., Brown, J., McCarthy, I., Gimenez Noya, J. & Hauton, C., 23 Hyd 2018, Yn: Scientific Reports. 8, 15639, t. 1-13 13 t., 8:15639.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Age and growth validation of the small spotted grunt Pomadasys commersonnii (Lacepède, 1801) from the northwestern coast of the Arabian Sea of Oman.
Al-Nahdi, A., Al-Sayabi, B. & McCarthy, I., Awst 2018, Yn: Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 34, 4, t. 834-841Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Population biology of grey gurnard (Eutrigla gurnardus L.; Triglidae) in the coastal waters of Northwest Wales
McCarthy, I., Cant, J. & Marriott, A., Awst 2018, Yn: Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 34, 4, t. 896-905Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid