Professor Jan Geert Hiddink
Professor in Marine Biology
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Room: 406 Westbury Mount Phone: 01248 382864
E-mail: j.hiddink@bangor.ac.uk
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Jan is a professor in the School of Ocean Sciences and specialise in the field of marine benthic ecology. For his PhD he studied the adaptive value of migrations and nursery use for the intertidal bivalve Macoma balthica at the Department of Marine Biology at Groningen University, and he received the Annual VLIZ North Sea Award 2002 from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) for his PhD thesis. After completing his PhD in 2002, he started a postdoc at Bangor University, where he studied the impact of bottom trawling on the functioning of benthic invertebrate communities. He joined the lecturing staff in SOS in 2006 and was promoted to Reader in 2013. He was awarded a Personal Chair in 2017. JGH has published >95 peer reviewed papers since 2001. His grant capture since 2006 totals over £7M.
His research broadly examines the effect of human disturbance on benthic ecosystems, including fishing and climate change. He has a broad interest in other topics and has been working on research ranging from cattle trampling wader nests on saltmarshes to acoustic monitoring of cetaceans. His research is focussed on gaining a quantitative understanding of the effect of disturbance (such as exploitation and climate change) on the biodiversity and functioning of marine benthic communities, and on how such effects can be mitigated. JGH aims to increase understanding of ecosystem functioning and distribution patterns by comparing empirical data with predictions of ecological models. Much of this research has focused ont the effect of bottom trawling on benthic ecosystems.
Research Areas
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The effects of trawling and primary production on size‐structured food webs in seabed ecosystems
Howarth, L., Somerfield, P. J., Blanchard, J., Waggitt, J., Allender, S. & Hiddink, J. G., Oct 2020, In: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 77, 10, p. 1659-1665Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic biota: a systematic review protocol
Hughes, K. M., Kaiser, M. J., Jennings, S., McConnaughey, R. A., Pitcher, R., Hilborn, R., Amoroso, R. O., Collie, J. S., Hiddink, J. G., Parma, A. M. & Rijnsdorp, A. D., 25 Nov 2014, In: Environmental Evidence. 3, 23Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fishing effects on energy use by North Sea fishes.
Jennings, S., Van Hal, R., Hiddink, J. G. & Maxwell, T. A., 1 Mar 2008, In: Journal of Sea Research. 60, 1-2, p. 74-88Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing fishery footprints and the trade-offs between landings value, habitat sensitivity, and fishing impacts to inform marine spatial planning and an ecosystem approach
Jennings, S., Lee, J. & Hiddink, J. G., Jul 2012, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 69, 6, p. 1053-1063Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of bottom trawling on fish foraging and feeding
Johnson, A. F., Gorelli, G., Jenkins, S. R., Hiddink, J. G. & Hinz, H., 10 Dec 2014, In: Proceedings of the royal Society B. 282, 1799Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effect of prey abundance and size on the distribution of demersal fishes
Johnson, A. F., Valls, M., Moranta, J., Jenkins, S. R., Hiddink, J. G. & Hinz, H., 5 Jan 2012, In: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 69, 1, p. 191-200Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Linking temperate demersal fish species to habitat: scales, patterns and future directions
Johnson, A. F., Jenkins, S. R., Hiddink, J. G. & Hinz, H., Sept 2013, In: Fish and Fisheries. 14, 3, p. 256-280Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Recovery linked to life history of sessile epifauna following exclusion of towed-mobile fishing gear
Kaiser, M., Hormbrey, S., Booth, J. R., Hinz, H. & Hiddink, J., May 2018, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 55, 3, p. 1060-1070Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Food subsidies from fisheries to continental shelf benthic scavengers.
Kaiser, M. J. & Hiddink, J. G., 22 Nov 2007, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 350, p. 267-276Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Marine Ecology: Processes Systems and Impacts
Kaiser, M., Attrill, M. J., Jennings, S., Thomas, D. N., Barnes, D. K. A., Brierley, A. S., Hiddink, J. G., Kaartokallio, H., Polunin, N. V. C. & Raffaelli, D. G., 21 Jul 2011, 2 ed. Oxford: Oxford: OUP. 528 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book