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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Effects of chronic bottom trawling on soft seafloor macrofauna in the Kattegat
Skold, M., Göransson, P., Jonsson, P., Bastardie, F., Blomqvist, M., Agrenius, S., Hiddink, J., Nilsson, H. C. & Bartolino, V., Jan 2018, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 586, p. 41-55Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of scallop dredging on temperate reef fauna
Hinz, H., Tarrant, D., Ridgeway, A., Kaiser, M. J. & Hiddink, J. G., 27 Jun 2011, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 432, p. 91-102Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of suction-dredging for cockles on non-target fauna in the Wadden Sea.
Hiddink, J. G., 1 Dec 2003, In: Journal of Sea Research. 50, 4, p. 315-323Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Elucidating the surface macroplastic load, types and distribution in mangrove areas around Cebu Island, Philippines and its policy implications
Paler, M. K. O., Tabanag, I. D. F., Siacor, F. D. C., Geraldino, P. J. L., Walton, M., Dunn, C., Skov, M., Hiddink, J. G. & Taboada, E. B., 10 Sept 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 838, 3, 156408.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental metabarcoding reveals heterogeneous drivers of microbial eukaryote diversity in contrasting estuarine ecosystems
Lallias, D. S., Lallias, D., Hiddink, J. G., Fonseca, V. G., Gaspar, J. M., Sung, W., Neill, S. P., Barnes, N., Ferrero, T., Hall, N., Lambshead, P. J., Packer, M., Thomas, W. K. & Creer, S., 25 Nov 2014, In: The ISME Journal. 9, p. 1208-1221Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimating effective detection area of passive, static acoustic data loggers from playback experiments with cetacean vocalisations
Nuuttila, H. K., Brundiers, K., Dahne, M., Koblitz, J. C., Thomas, L., Courtene-Jones, W., Evans, P. G. H., Turner, J. R., Bennell, J. D. & Hiddink, J. G., Dec 2018, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 12, p. 2362-2371Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimating the abundance of benthic invertebrates from trap-catch data
Hiddink, J. G., Coleman, M., Brouwer, S., Bloor, I. & Jenkins, S., Jan 2024, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81, 1, p. 86-96 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Evaluating impacts of bottom trawling and hypoxia on benthic communities at the local, habitat, and regional scale using a modelling approach
van Denderen, P. D., Bolam, S. G., Friedland, R., Hiddink, J. G., Noren, K., Rijnsdrop, A. D., Skold, M., Tornroos, A., Virtanen, E. A. & Valanko, S., Feb 2020, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77, 1, p. 278-289Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Extirpation-resistant species do not always compensate for the decline in ecosystem processes associated with biodiversity loss
Davies, T. W., Jenkins, S. R., Kingham, R., Hawkins, S. J. & Hiddink, J. G., 31 Aug 2012, In: Journal of Ecology. 100, 6, p. 1475-1481Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review