Processes controlling biodiversity from local to biogeographic scales

Our work explores the processes controlling habitat-biodiversity relationships in marine ecosystems, from local to biogeographic scales, to broaden our understanding of how these communities will respond to environmental change. Habitat-forming species are critical to the healthy functioning of many ecosystems because of the range of key ecological functions and services they provide. Perhaps most obviously, in buffering biotic and abiotic stress, they support diverse communities and food webs. Yet, habitat-forming species are not immune to environmental stressors which can greatly alter the habitat-structure with indirect consequences for the biodiversity they support.

Recent publications

Lloyd HB; Cruz-Motta JJ; Glasby TM; Hutchings PA; Gribben PE, 2020, 'Unusual but consistent latitudinal patterns in macroalgal habitats and their invertebrate communities across two countries', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 26, pp. 912 - 927, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13070

Stelling-Wood, T., PE Gribben and AGB Poore. 2020. Habitat variability in an underwater forest: Using a trait-based approach to predict associated communities. Functional Ecology. 34: 888-898.