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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Estimating the sustainability of towed fishing-gear impacts on seabed habitats: a simple quantitative risk assessment method applicable to data-limited fisheries.
Pitcher, R., Ellis, N., Jennings, S., Hiddink, J., Kaiser, M., Kangas, M., McConnaughey, R., Parma, A., Rijnsdorp, A., Suuronen, P., Collie, J., Amoroso, R., Hughes, K. & Hilborn, R., Apr 2017, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8, 4, p. 472-780Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Trawl impacts on the relative status of biotic communities of seabed sedimentary habitats in 24 regions worldwide
Pitcher, C. R., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Collie, J., Parma, A., Amoroso, R., Mazor, T., Sciberras, M., McConnaughey, R. A., Rijnsdorp, A. J., Kaiser, M., Suuronen, P. & Hilborn, R., 11 Jan 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 119, 2, e2109449119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of chronic bottom trawling disturbance on benthic biomass, production and size spectra in different habitats.
Queiros, A. M., Hiddink, J. G., Kaiser, M. J. & Hinz, H., 25 Jul 2006, In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 335, 1, p. 91-103Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Context dependence of marine ecosystem engineer invasion impacts on benthic ecosystem functioning.
Queiros, A. D., Hiddink, J. G., Johnson, G., Cabral, H. N. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 May 2011, In: Biological Invasions. 13, 5, p. 1059-1075Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indicators for Sea-floor Integrity under the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Rice, J., Arvanitidis, C., Borja, A., Frid, C., Hiddink, J. G., Krause, J., Lorance, P., Ragnarsson, S. A., Skold, M., Trabucco, B., Enserink, L. & Norkko, A., Jan 2012, In: Ecological Indicators. 12, 1, p. 174-184Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Different bottom trawl fisheries have a differential impact on the status of the North Sea seafloor habitats
Rijnsdorp, A. D., Hiddink, J. G., van Dendren, P. D., Hintzen, N. T., Eigaard, O. R., Valanko, S., Bastardie, F., Bolam, S. G., Boulcott, P., Egekvist, J., Garcia, C., van Hoey, G., Jonsson, P., Laffargue, P., Nielsen, J. R., Piet, G. J., Skold, M. & van Kooten, T., Sept 2020, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77, 5, p. 1772-1786Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Habitat use of shrimps in the intertidal and shallow subtidal seagrass beds of the tropical Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania.
Schaffmeister, B. E., Hiddink, J. G. & Wolf, W. J., 1 Apr 2006, In: Journal of Sea Research. 55, 3, p. 230-243Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impacts of Bottom Fishing on Sediment Biogeochemical and Biological Parameters in Cohesive and Non-cohesive Sediments
Sciberras, M., Parker, R., Powell, C., Robertson, C., Kroger, S., Bolam, S. & Hiddink, J., Nov 2016, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 61, 6, p. 2076-2089Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Response of benthic fauna to experimental bottom fishing: a global meta-analysis
Sciberras, M., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Szostek, C. L., Hughes, K. M., Kneafsey, B., Clarke, L., Ellis, N., Rijnsdorp, A. D., McConnaughey, R. A., Hilborn, R., Collie, J. S., Pitcher, R., Amoroso, R. O., Parma, A. M., Suuronen, P. & Kaiser, M. J., Jul 2018, In: Fish and Fisheries. 19, 4, p. 698-715Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mediation of nitrogen by post-disturbance shelf communities experiencing organic matter enrichment
Sciberras, M., Tait, K., Brochain, G., Hiddink, J., Hale, R., Godbold, J. & Solan, M., Sept 2017, In: Biogeochemistry. 135, 1-2, p. 135-153Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review