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Assessing sedimentary Blue Carbon to inform marine management *
Building a new window into coral and foraminiferal biomineralisation
Calming effect of group living in social fishes
Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings *
Evolution of symbiosis in a warming world
Examining the Effects of Relaxed Selection through Experimental Evolution of Coccolithophores
Functional ecophysiology of Atlantic mesopelagic fishes
How do foraminifera grow? Determining the role of cellular ion transport processes in biogenic marine calcite formation
Impacts of environmental change on coastal UK habitats and implications for nature-based solutions *
Impacts of underwater noise associated with offshore windfarms on marine fish *
Impacts on the marine ecosystem of dietary biomolecules
It’s getting hot, sour and breathless – impacts of climate change on carbon(ate) fixation by foraminifera
Long-term change in the benthos – seabed photography as a critical tool for monitoring *
Macroecological patterns and climate change in abyssal seafloor communities *
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Nutrient limitation in a changing Arctic Ocean
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Role of Multiple Anthropogenic Pressures in Determining Marine Benthic Ecosystem Functioning
Size does matter: linking particle size to ocean carbon storage *
Spatiotemporal patterns of the southern Indian Ocean higher predator community
Towards a mechanistic understanding of how chemical contaminants affect marine invertebrates, using a common jellyfish as a model organism.
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Up, up and away – the fate of upwelled nutrients in an African upwelling system and the biogeochemical and phytoplankton responses