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
- 2008
- Published
Large scale responses of nematode communities to chronic otter-trawl disturbance.
Hinz, H., Hiddink, J. G., Forde, J. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 Apr 2008, In: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65, 4, p. 723-732Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate induced increases in species richness of marine fishes.
Hiddink, J. G. & Hofstede, R. T., 1 Mar 2008, In: Global Change Biology. 14, 3, p. 453-460Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fishing effects on energy use by North Sea fishes.
Jennings, S., Van Hal, R., Hiddink, J. G. & Maxwell, T. A., 1 Mar 2008, In: Journal of Sea Research. 60, 1-2, p. 74-88Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2007
- Published
Spatial management of scallop dredging: Consequences for the recovery of benthic communities
Kaiser, M. J., Hiddink, J. G. & Shephard, S., Dec 2007, In: Journal of Shellfish Research. 26, 4, p. 1318-1319Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Food subsidies from fisheries to continental shelf benthic scavengers.
Kaiser, M. J. & Hiddink, J. G., 22 Nov 2007, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 350, p. 267-276Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing and predicting the relative ecological costs of disturbance to habitats with different sensitivities.
Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 Apr 2007, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 44, 2, p. 405-413Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2006
- Published
Indicators of the Ecological Impact of Bottom-Trawl Disturbance on Seabed Communities
Hiddink, J., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 Nov 2006, In: Ecosystems. 9, 7, p. 1190-1199Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chronic bottom trawling alters the functional composition of benthic invertebrate communities on a sea basin scale.
Tillin, H. M., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. J., 3 Aug 2006, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 318, p. 31-45Research 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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Conservation benefits of temperate marine protected areas: variation among fish species.
Blyth-Skyrme, R. E., Kaiser, M. J., Hiddink, J. G., Edwards-Jones, G. & Hart, P. J., 1 Jun 2006, In: Conservation Biology. 20, 3, p. 811-820Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review