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Can the benefits of physical seabed restoration justify the costs? An assessment of a disused aggregate extraction site off the Thames Estuary, UK (2013)
Journal Article
Cooper, K., Burdon, D., Atkins, J. P., Weiss, L., Somerfield, P., Elliott, M., Turner, K., Ware, S., & Vivian, C. (2013). Can the benefits of physical seabed restoration justify the costs? An assessment of a disused aggregate extraction site off the Thames Estuary, UK. Marine pollution bulletin, 75(1-2), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.08.009

Physical and biological seabed impacts can persist long after the cessation of marine aggregate dredging. Whilst small-scale experimental studies have shown that it may be possible to mitigate such impacts, it is unclear whether the costs of restorat... Read More about Can the benefits of physical seabed restoration justify the costs? An assessment of a disused aggregate extraction site off the Thames Estuary, UK.

The value of wader foraging behaviour study to assess the success of restored intertidal areas (2013)
Journal Article
Mander, L., Marie-Orleach, L., & Elliott, M. (2013). The value of wader foraging behaviour study to assess the success of restored intertidal areas. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 131, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.07.010

The loss of intertidal habitat in estuaries has resulted in the need to create new habitats in order to protect waterbird populations. In order to examine the waterbird colonisation of restored intertidal areas created in 2003 through the realignment... Read More about The value of wader foraging behaviour study to assess the success of restored intertidal areas.

The riddle of the sands: How population dynamics explains causes of high bivalve mortality (2013)
Journal Article
Callaway, R., Burdon, D., Deasey, A., Mazik, K., & Elliott, M. (2013). The riddle of the sands: How population dynamics explains causes of high bivalve mortality. The journal of applied ecology, 50(4), 1050-1059. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12114

Large-scale bivalve mortalities in estuarine and coastal habitats are a major environmental and economic concern. They may have obvious causes such as extremely cold winter temperatures, but in the absence of an apparent chain of cause and effect, a... Read More about The riddle of the sands: How population dynamics explains causes of high bivalve mortality.

Estuarine and lagoon biodiversity and their natural goods and services (2013)
Journal Article
Basset, A., Elliott, M., West, R. J., & Wilson, J. G. (2013). Estuarine and lagoon biodiversity and their natural goods and services. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 132, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.05.018

Assessing and monitoring ecosystem quality status and service provision of aquatic ecosystems is an increasingly important area of scientific, socio-economical and political interest. Contributions from two related meetings organized by the Estuarine... Read More about Estuarine and lagoon biodiversity and their natural goods and services.

A problem structuring method for ecosystem-based management : the DPSIR modelling process (2012)
Journal Article
Gregory, A. J., Atkins, J. P., Burdon, D., & Elliott, M. (2018). A problem structuring method for ecosystem-based management : the DPSIR modelling process. European journal of operational research, 227(3), 558-569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.11.020

The purpose of this paper is to learn from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory to inform the development of Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs) both in general and in the specific context of marine management. The focus on marine management is impor... Read More about A problem structuring method for ecosystem-based management : the DPSIR modelling process.

Preface (2012)
Book Chapter
Elliott, M. (2012). Preface. In S. Rajagopal, H. A. Jenner, & V. P. Venugopalan (Eds.), Operational and Environmental Consequences of Large Industrial Cooling Water Systems (v-xi). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1698-2

Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: Advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive (2012)
Journal Article
Borja, A., Elliott, M., Henriksen, P., & Marbà, N. (2013). Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: Advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive. Hydrobiologia, 704(1), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1276-9

The derivation, performance, sensitivity and inherent uncertainty of ecological quality indicators have become major topics in developing tools for the management of marine, transitional and coastal waters. In reviewing the advances in these waters,... Read More about Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: Advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive.

A comparative review of recovery processes in rivers, lakes, estuarine and coastal waters (2012)
Journal Article
Verdonschot, P. F., Spears, B. M., Feld, C. K., Brucet, S., Keizer-Vlek, H., Borja, A., …Johnson, R. K. (2013). A comparative review of recovery processes in rivers, lakes, estuarine and coastal waters. Hydrobiologia, 704(1), 453-474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1294-7

The European Water Framework Directive aims to improve ecological status within river basins. This requires knowledge of responses of aquatic assemblages to recovery processes that occur after measures have been taken to reduce major stressors. A sys... Read More about A comparative review of recovery processes in rivers, lakes, estuarine and coastal waters.

Natural variability and reference conditions: Setting type-specific classification boundaries for lagoon macroinvertebrates in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (2012)
Journal Article
Basset, A., Barbone, E., Borja, A., Elliott, M., Jona-Lasinio, G., Marques, J. C., …Teixeira, H. (2013). Natural variability and reference conditions: Setting type-specific classification boundaries for lagoon macroinvertebrates in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Hydrobiologia, 704(1), 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1273-z

The ecological status classification of aquatic ecosystems using biological indices requires a number of steps, including the description and standardisation of the indices' natural variability. Here, we address this point with reference to selected... Read More about Natural variability and reference conditions: Setting type-specific classification boundaries for lagoon macroinvertebrates in the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Setting new thermal standards for transitional and coastal (TraC) waters (2012)
Journal Article
Wither, A., Bamber, R., Colclough, S., Dyer, K., Elliott, M., Holmes, P., …Turnpenny, A. (2012). Setting new thermal standards for transitional and coastal (TraC) waters. Marine pollution bulletin, 64(8), 1564-1579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.05.019

The construction of a new generation of coastal power stations in the UK and other western European countries has highlighted the absence of robust standards for thermal discharges to transitional and coastal waters. The proposed discharge volumes ar... Read More about Setting new thermal standards for transitional and coastal (TraC) waters.

Indices, multispecies and synthesis descriptors in benthic assessments: Intertidal organic enrichment from oyster farming (2012)
Journal Article
Quintino, V., Azevedo, A., Magalhães, L., Sampaio, L., Freitas, R., Rodrigues, A. M., & Elliott, M. (2012). Indices, multispecies and synthesis descriptors in benthic assessments: Intertidal organic enrichment from oyster farming. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 110, 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2012.05.028

Intertidal off-bottom oyster culture is shown to cause organic enrichment of the shore and although there are two stressors of interest (the presence of a structure, the trestles, and also the sediment and organic waste from the oysters), these can b... Read More about Indices, multispecies and synthesis descriptors in benthic assessments: Intertidal organic enrichment from oyster farming.

Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review (2012)
Book
Ducrotoy, J., Mazik, K., & Elliott, M. (2012). Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review. Paris: Union Océanographes de France

The rational management of the marine environment relies on the measurement of selected attributes and the detection of changes in carefully chosen parameters as the result of human activities. Following that detection, integrated management relies o... Read More about Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review.

Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries (2011)
Journal Article
Whitfield, A., Elliott, M., Basset, A., Blaber, S., & West, R. (2012). Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 97, 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.026

Most estuarine ecology textbooks have included the so-called Remane diagram which is derived from German studies in the Baltic Sea region during the early part of the 20th Century. The model shows how aquatic species diversity changes from freshwater... Read More about Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries.

What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary? (2011)
Journal Article
Pascual, M., Borja, A., Franco, J., Burdon, D., Atkins, J. P., & Elliott, M. (2012). What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary?. Water Research, 46(1), 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.053

Biodiversity recovery measures have often been ignored when dealing with the restoration of degraded aquatic systems. Furthermore, biological valuation methods have been applied only spatially in previous studies, and not jointly on a temporal and sp... Read More about What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary?.

Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough? (2011)
Journal Article
Atkins, J. P., Gregory, A. J., Burdon, D., & Elliott, M. (2011). Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough?. Systems research and behavioral science, 28(5), 497-508. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.1111

Ever increasing and diverse use of the marine environment and consequent impacts on marine life, habitats and landscapes make prominent the need for policy and policy-making procedures that promote resilience and sustainability. In this paper, we foc... Read More about Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough?.

Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health (2011)
Journal Article
Ramos, S., Amorim, E., Elliott, M., Cabral, H., & Bordalo, A. A. (2012). Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health. Ecological Indicators, 19, 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.08.024

A major goal of current environmental policies is to preserve or return areas to a good ecological status, which should be assessed at the ecosystem level, using several biological elements, together with physical, chemical and pollution elements. Th... Read More about Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health.

Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters (2011)
Journal Article
Olenin, S., Elliott, M., Bysveen, I., Culverhouse, P. F., Daunys, D., Dubelaar, G. B., …Vandekerkhove, J. (2011). Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters. Marine pollution bulletin, 62(12), 2598-2604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.08.011

Adverse effects of invasive alien species (IAS), or biological pollution, is an increasing problem in marine coastal waters, which remains high on the environmental management agenda. All maritime countries need to assess the size of this problem and... Read More about Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters.