Professor Jan Geert Hiddink

Professor in Marine Biology

Contact info

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

  1. Published

    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. 256-280

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    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/ReportBook

  3. Published

    Mediation of macronutrients and carbon by post-disturbance shelf sea sediment communities

    Hale, R., Godbold, J., Sciberras, M., Dwight, J., Wood, C., Hiddink, J. & Solan, M., Sept 2017, In: Biogeochemistry. 135, 1-2, p. 121-133

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    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. 135-153

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Microplastics alter multiple biological processes of marine benthic fauna

    Mason, V., Skov, M., Hiddink, J. G. & Walton, M., 1 Nov 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 845, 157362.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Modelling the adaptive value of intertidal migration and nursery use in the bivalve Macoma balthica.

    Hiddink, J. G., 30 Apr 2003, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 252, p. 173-185

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Near disappearance of the Angelshark Squatina squatina over half a century of observations

    Hiddink, J. G., Shepperson, J., Bater, R., Goonesekera, D. & Dulvy, N. K., Sept 2019, In: Conservation Science and Practice. 1, 9, e97.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Nest trampling and ground nesting birds: quantifying temporal and spatial overlap between cattle activity and breeding redshank

    Sharps, E., Smart, J., Mason, L. R., Jones, K., Skov, M., Garbutt, A. & Hiddink, J., Aug 2017, In: Ecology and Evolution. 7, 16, p. 6622-6633

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients

    Burrows, M. T., Bates, A. E., Costello, M. J., Edwards, M., Edgar, G. J., Fox, C. J., Halpern, B. S., Hiddink, J. G., Pinsky, M. L., Batt, R. D., Molinos, J. G., Payne, B., Schoeman, D., Stuart-Smith, R. D. & Poloczanska, E. S., 25 Nov 2019, In: Nature Climate Change. 9, 12, p. 959-963

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterpeer-review

  10. Published

    Predation of intertidal infauna on juveniles of the bivalve Macoma balthica.

    Hiddink, J. G., Ter Hofstede, R. & Wolff, W. J., 1 Mar 2002, In: Journal of Sea Research. 47, 2, p. 141-159

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review