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European marine biodiversity monitoring networks: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (2016)
Journal Article
Patrício, J., Little, S., Mazik, K., Papadopoulou, K.-N., Smith, C. J., Teixeira, H., Hoffmann, H., Uyarra, M. C., Solaun, O., Zenetos, A., Kaboglu, G., Kryvenko, O., Churilova, T., Moncheva, S., Bučas, M., Borja, A., Hoepffner, N., & Elliott, M. (2016). European marine biodiversity monitoring networks: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3(SEP), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00161

© 2016 Patrício, Little, Mazik, Papadopoulou, Smith, Teixeira, Hoffmann, Uyarra, Solaun, Zenetos, Kaboglu, Kryvenko, Churilova, Moncheva, Bucas, Borja, Hoepffner and Elliott. By 2020, European Union Member States should achieve Good Environmental Sta... Read More about European marine biodiversity monitoring networks: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Managing the marine environment, conceptual models and assessment considerations for the European marine strategy framework directive (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, C. J., Papadopoulou, K.-N., Barnard, S., Mazik, K., Elliott, M., Patrício, J., Solaun, O., Little, S., Bhatia, N., & Borja, A. (2016). Managing the marine environment, conceptual models and assessment considerations for the European marine strategy framework directive. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3(AUG), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00144

Conceptual models summarize, visualize and explain actual or predicted situations and how they might be tackled. In recent years, Pressure-State-Response (P-S-R) frameworks have been central to conceptualizing marine ecosystem issues and then transla... Read More about Managing the marine environment, conceptual models and assessment considerations for the European marine strategy framework directive.

Brexit: The marine governance horrendogram just got more horrendous! (2016)
Journal Article
Boyes, S. J., & Elliott, M. (2016). Brexit: The marine governance horrendogram just got more horrendous!. Marine pollution bulletin, 111(1-2), 41-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.08.020

On Thursday 23rd June 2016, the British people voted in a referendum on the following question: ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?’ Of the 33,551,983 who voted, 51.9% (17,410,742) voted to le... Read More about Brexit: The marine governance horrendogram just got more horrendous!.

Quantifying salinity-induced changes on estuarine benthic fauna: The potential implications of climate change (2016)
Journal Article
Little, S., Wood, P. J., & Elliott, M. (2017). Quantifying salinity-induced changes on estuarine benthic fauna: The potential implications of climate change. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 198(part B), 610-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.07.020

© 2016 Coastal and estuarine systems worldwide are under threat from global climate change, with potential consequences including an increase in salinities and incursion of saltwater into areas currently subject to tidal and non-tidal freshwater regi... Read More about Quantifying salinity-induced changes on estuarine benthic fauna: The potential implications of climate change.

A review of Australian approaches for monitoring, assessing and reporting estuarine condition: III. Evaluation against international best practice and recommendations for the future (2016)
Journal Article
Hallett, C. S., Valesini, F., & Elliott, M. (2016). A review of Australian approaches for monitoring, assessing and reporting estuarine condition: III. Evaluation against international best practice and recommendations for the future. Environmental science & policy, 66, 282-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.07.015

In this final component of a three-part review, we present a national synthesis and evaluation of approaches for monitoring, assessing and reporting estuarine condition across Australia. Progress is evaluated against objective criteria that together... Read More about A review of Australian approaches for monitoring, assessing and reporting estuarine condition: III. Evaluation against international best practice and recommendations for the future.

Is existing legislation fit-for-purpose to achieve Good Environmental Status in European seas? (2016)
Journal Article
Boyes, S. J., Elliott, M., Murillas-Maza, A., Papadopoulou, N., & Uyarra, M. C. (2016). Is existing legislation fit-for-purpose to achieve Good Environmental Status in European seas?. Marine pollution bulletin, 111(1-2), 18-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.079

Recent additions to marine environmental legislation are usually designed to fill gaps in protection and management, build on existing practices or correct deficiencies in previous instruments. Article 13 of the European Marine Strategy Framework Dir... Read More about Is existing legislation fit-for-purpose to achieve Good Environmental Status in European seas?.

Effects of changing salinity on the ecology of the marine environment (2016)
Book Chapter
Smyth, K., & Elliott, M. (2016). Effects of changing salinity on the ecology of the marine environment. In M. Solan, & N. Whiteley (Eds.), Stressors in the Marine Environment: Physiological and ecological responses; societal implications (161-174). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198718826.003.0009

Changing salinity is a master factor in the distribution of both marine and estuarine species and is limiting to freshwater organisms; hence salinity is fundamental in modifying aquatic ecosystem assemblage structure and functioning. The effects of c... Read More about Effects of changing salinity on the ecology of the marine environment.

Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments (2016)
Journal Article
Scharin, H., Ericsdotter, S., Elliott, M., Turner, R. K., Niiranen, S., Blenckner, T., Hyytiäinen, K., Ahlvik, L., Ahtiainen, H., Artell, J., Hasselström, L., Söderqvist, T., & Rockström, J. (2016). Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments. Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 128, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.04.010

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Sustainable stewardship of the marine environment necessitates a holistic approach encompassing all the relevant drivers, activities and pressures causing problems for the natural state of the system and their impact on human soc... Read More about Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments.

Ecoengineering with Ecohydrology: Successes and failures in estuarine restoration (2016)
Journal Article
Elliott, M., Mander, L., Mazik, K., Simenstad, C., Valesini, F., Whitfield, A., & Wolanski, E. (2016). Ecoengineering with Ecohydrology: Successes and failures in estuarine restoration. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 176(5), 12-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.04.003

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. Ecological Engineering (or Ecoengineering) is increasingly used in estuaries to re-create and restore ecosystems degraded by human activities, including reduced water flow or land poldered for agricultural use. Here we focus on e... Read More about Ecoengineering with Ecohydrology: Successes and failures in estuarine restoration.

The ability of regional coordination and policy integration to produce coherent marine management: Implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in the North-East Atlantic (2016)
Journal Article
Cavallo, M., Elliott, M., Touza, J., & Quintino, V. (2016). The ability of regional coordination and policy integration to produce coherent marine management: Implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in the North-East Atlantic. Marine Policy, 68(June), 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.02.013

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. The transboundary nature of the marine environment requires concerted actions among neighbouring countries to improve its quality in an effective way. Coordination at international level is particularly important during the imple... Read More about The ability of regional coordination and policy integration to produce coherent marine management: Implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in the North-East Atlantic.

Overview of integrative assessment of marine systems: The ecosystem approach in practice (2016)
Journal Article
Borja, A., Elliott, M., Andersen, J. H., Berg, T., Carstensen, J., Halpern, B. S., Heiskanen, A. S., Korpinen, S., Stewart Lowndes, J. S., Martin, G., & Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, N. (2016). Overview of integrative assessment of marine systems: The ecosystem approach in practice. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00020

© 2016 Borja, Elliott, Andersen, Berg, Carstensen, Halpern, Heiskanen, Korpinen, Lowndes, Martin and Rodriguez-Ezpeleta. Traditional and emerging human activities are increasingly putting pressures on marine ecosystems and impacting their ability to... Read More about Overview of integrative assessment of marine systems: The ecosystem approach in practice.

Sensitivity of Pagurus bernhardus (L.) to substrate-borne vibration and anthropogenic noise (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, L., Cheesman, S., Elliott, M., & Breithaupt, T. (2016). Sensitivity of Pagurus bernhardus (L.) to substrate-borne vibration and anthropogenic noise. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 474, 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2015.09.014

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Despite the prevalence of vibration produced by anthropogenic activities impacting the seabed there are few data and little information as to whether these are detected by crustaceans and whether they interfere with their behavio... Read More about Sensitivity of Pagurus bernhardus (L.) to substrate-borne vibration and anthropogenic noise.

The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment (2015)
Journal Article
Bullock, R. W., Guttridge, T. L., Cowx, I. G., Elliott, M., & Gruber, S. H. (2015). The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment. Journal of fish biology, 87(6), 1342-1354. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12808

© 2015 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Behavioural responses of lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris to a fin-mounted tag package (CEFAS G6A tri-axial accelerometer with epoxied Sonotronics PT4 acoustic transmitter) were measured in a cont... Read More about The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment.

Sensitivity of the mussel Mytilus edulis to substrate‑borne vibration in relation to anthropogenically generated noise (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, L., Cheesman, S., Breithaupt, T., & Elliott, M. (2015). Sensitivity of the mussel Mytilus edulis to substrate‑borne vibration in relation to anthropogenically generated noise. Marine ecology progress series, 538, 185-195. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11468

© 2015 Inter-Research. Many anthropogenic activities in the oceans involve direct contact with the seabed (for example pile driving), creating radiating particle motion waves. However, the consequences of these waveforms to marine organisms are large... Read More about Sensitivity of the mussel Mytilus edulis to substrate‑borne vibration in relation to anthropogenically generated noise.

Defining scenarios of future vectors of change in marine life and associated economic sectors (2015)
Journal Article
Groeneveld, R. A., Bosello, F., Butenschön, M., Elliott, M., Peck, M. A., & Pinnegar, J. K. (2018). Defining scenarios of future vectors of change in marine life and associated economic sectors. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 201, 164-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.10.020

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Addressing the multitude of challenges in marine policy requires an integrated approach that considers the multitude of drivers, pressures, and interests, from several disciplinary angles. Scenarios are needed to harmonise the an... Read More about Defining scenarios of future vectors of change in marine life and associated economic sectors.

Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction (2015)
Book
Wolanski, E., & Elliott, M. (2016). Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction. (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-13014-0

© 2016, 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutri... Read More about Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction.

Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study (2015)
Journal Article
Burdon, D., Boyes, S. J., Elliott, M., Smyth, K., Atkins, J. P., Barnes, R. A., & Wurzel, R. K. (2018). Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 201, 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.09.012

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The management of marine resources is a complex process driven by the dynamics of the natural system and the influence of stakeholders including policy-makers. An integration of natural and social sciences research is required by... Read More about Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study.