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
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Changes in distribution and decrease in numbers during migration of the bivalve Macoma balthica.
Hiddink, J. G. & Wolff, W. J., 21 May 2002, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 233, p. 117-130Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in small scale spatial structure of cockle Cerastoderma edule (L.) post-larvae
Whitton, T. A., Jenkins, S. R., Richardson, C. A. & Hiddink, J. G., 28 Mar 2015, In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 468, p. 1-10Research 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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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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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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Combined measurements of prey availability explain habitat-selection in foraging seabirds
Waggitt, J., Cazenave, P. W., Evans, P., Howarth, L., Van der Kooij, J. & Hiddink, J., 1 Aug 2018, In: Biology Letters. 14, 8, 20180348.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Confidentiality over fishing effort data threatens science and management progress
Hinz, H., Murray, L. G., Lambert, G. I., Hiddink, J. G. & Kaiser, M. J., Mar 2013, In: Fish and Fisheries. 14, 1, p. 110-117Research 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
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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
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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