Dr Martin Edwards
Deputy Director

Role:

Deputy Director

Background, qualifications and professional membership:

P.h.D Spatial and temporal macroecology

Research Interests:

Recent research has focused on large-scale biogeographical shifts, phenology, Harmful Algal blooms, climate change impacts on marine ecosystems, biodiversity and regime shifts. He has published over 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and book chapters and has recently acted as the contributing author for the IPCC 4 th assessment report on climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and marine fisheries.

Publications:

Edwards, M ., Johns, D.G., Leterme, S.C., Svendesen, E. & Richardson, A.J. 2006. Regional climate change and harmful algal blooms in the north-east Atlantic. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 820-829.

Frederiksen, M., Edwards, M., Richardson, A.J., Halliday, N.C., Wanless, S. 2006. From plankton to top predators: bottom-up control of a marine food web across four trophic levels. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75: 1259-1268

Edwards, M. & Richardson, A. 2004. Impact of climate change on marine pelagic phenology and trophic mismatch. Nature, 430: 881-884.

Edwards, M ., Beaugrand, G., Reid, P.C., Rowden, A.A. & Jones, M.B. 2002. Ocean climate anomalies and the ecology of the North Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series.239, 1-10.

Beaugrand, G., Reid, P.C., Ibanez, F., Lindley, J.A. & Edwards, M. 2002. Reorganisation of North Atlantic Marine Copepod Biodiversity and Climate. Science, 296: 1692-1694.

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