Marine Biology Research Index
Deep-sea ecology and environmental management
- Ecology of seabed communities
- Influence of habitat heterogeneity, productivity, and disturbance on community structure and function
- Impacts of marine resource use (e.g., aquaculture, fishing, seabed mining)
- Data, approaches, and tools for the spatial management of the marine environment
Fisheries and ecosystem modelling
Director, Wellington University Coastal Ecology Laboratory
School of Biological Sciences
- Fish reef ecology
- Food webs
- Climate change
Macroalgal Physiology and Ecology
- Ocean acidification
- Impacts of multiple stressors and environmental variability
- Macroalgal physiology and ecology
- Calcification
- Temperate reef ecology
Jonathan Gardner
- Aquaculture and genetics of marine invertebrates
- Marine reserves and marine conservation
- Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of New Zealand’s marine biota
- Shellfish ecophysiology and community ecology
Professor of Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
- Population dynamics and community ecology marine reef organisms
- Larval ecology and recruitment
- Dispersal and connectivity in marine metapopulations
- Disturbance and recovery of coral reef communities
- Quantitative assessments of ecological impacts and restorations.
- Cell biology, physiology and ecology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
- Coral bleaching
- Coral disease.
Professor of Biology
School of Biological Sciences
- Evolution of marine macroalgae
- Algal aquaculture
- Genome evolution in algae
- Algal taxonomy
- Population genetics of algae.
Sponge Ecology and Marine Conservation
- Temporal and spatial variability in subtidal rocky ecosystems
- Marine Protected Area (MPA) ecology
- Self-recruitment
- Sponge ecology