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
- 2020
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Selection of indicators for assessing and managing the impacts of bottom trawling on seabed habitats
Hiddink, J. G., Kaiser, M. J., Sciberras, M., McConnaughey, R. A., Mazor, T., Hilborn, R., Collie, J. S., Pitcher, C. R., Parma, A. M., Suuronen, P., Rijnsdorp, A. D. & Jennings, S., 1 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 57, 7, p. 1199-1209 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Species richness in North Atlantic fish: Process concealed by pattern
Gislason, H., Collie, J., MacKenzie, B. R., Nielsen, A., de Fatima Borges, M., Bottari, T., Chaves, C., Dolgov, A. V., Dulcic, J., Duplisea, D., Fock, H. O., Gascuel, D., de Sola, L. G., Hiddink, J. G., ter Hofstede, R., Isajlovic, I., Pall Jonasson, J., Jorgensen, O., Kristinsson, K., Marteinsdottir, G., Masski, H., Matić-Skoko, S., Payne, M. R., Peharda, M., Reinert, J., Sólmundsson, J., Silva, C., Stefansdottir, L., Velasco, F. & Vrgoc, N., May 2020, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29, 5, p. 842-856Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Vertical migrations of fish schools determine overlap with a mobile tidal stream marine renewable energy device
Whitton, T., Jackson, S., Hiddink, J. G., Scoulding, B., Bowers, D., Powell, B., D'Urban Jackson, T., Gimenez Noya, L. & Davies, A., 1 Apr 2020, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 57, 4, p. 729-741 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Choosing best practices for managing impacts of trawl fishing on seabed habitats and biota
McConnaughey, R. A., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Pitcher, R., Kaiser, M., Suuronen, P., Sciberras, M., Rijnsdorp, A. D., Collie, J., Mazor, T., Amoroso, R. O., Parma, A. & Hilborn, R., Mar 2020, In: Fish and Fisheries. 21, 2, p. 319-337 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Distribution maps of cetacean and seabird populations in the North-East Atlantic
Waggitt, J., Evans, P., Hiddink, J. G., Andrade, J., Banks, A., Boisseau, O., Bolton, M., Bradbury, G., Brereton, T., Camphuysen, K., Durinck, J., Felce, T., Fijn, R., Garcia-Baron, I., Garthe, S., Geelhoed, S., Gilles, A., Goodall, M., Haelters, J., Hamilton, S., Hartny-Mills, L., Hodgins, N., James, K., Jessopp, M., Kavanagh, A., Leopold, M., Lohrengel, K., Louzao, M., Markones, N., Martinez-Cediera, J., O’Cadhla, O., Perry, S., Pierce, G., Ridoux, V., Robinson, K., Santos, B., Saavedra, C., Skov, H., Steinen, E., Sveegaard, S., Thompson, P., Vanermen, N., Wall, D., Webb, A., Wilson, J. & Wanless, S., Feb 2020, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 57, 2, p. 253-269 17 p.Research 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
- 2019
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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. 959-963Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing bottom-trawling impacts based on the longevity of benthic invertebrates
Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Sciberras, M., Bolam, S. G., Cambie, G., McConnaughey, R. A., Mazor, T., Hilborn, R., Collie, J. S., Pitcher, C. R., Parma, A. M., Suuronen, P., Kaiser, M. J. & Rijnsdorp, A. D., May 2019, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 56, 5, p. 1075-1084Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2018
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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