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
- 2011
- 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/Report › Book
- Published
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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Quantification and prediction of the impact of fishing on epifaunal communities.
Lambert, G. I., Jennings, S., Kaiser, M. J., Hinz, H. & Hiddink, J. G., 26 May 2011, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 430, p. 71-86Research 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
- 2010
- Published
Strengthening recruitment of exploited scallops Pecten maximus with ocean warming.
Shephard, S., Beukers-Stewart, B., Hiddink, J. G., Brand, A. R. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 Jan 2010, In: Marine Biology. 157, 1, p. 91-97Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Regional warming changes fish species richness in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean
ter Hofstede, R., Hiddink, J. G. & Rijnsdorp, A. D., 2010, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 414, p. 1-9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2009
- Published
Context dependency of relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is different for multiple ecosystem functions.
Hiddink, J. G., Davies, T. W., Perkins, M., Machairopoulou, M. & Neill, S. P., 1 Dec 2009, In: Oikos. 118, 12, p. 1892-1900Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Predation of the shelduck Tadorna tadorna on the mud snail Hydrobia ulvae.
Anders, N. R., Churchyard, T. & Hiddink, J. G., 1 Dec 2009, In: Aquatic Ecology. 43, 4, p. 1193-1199Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2008
- Published
Differences in demersal community structure and biomass size spectra within and outside the Maltese Fishery Management Zone (FMZ).
Dimech, M., Camilleri, M., Hiddink, J. G., Kaiser, M. J., Ragonese, S. & Schembri, P. J., 1 Dec 2008, In: Scientia Marina. 72, 4, p. 669-682Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Can bottom trawling disturbance increase food production for a commercial fish species?
Hiddink, J. G., Rijnsdorp, A. D. & Piet, G., 1 Jul 2008, In: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65, 7, p. 1393-1401Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review