Marine larval and benthic ecology
Luis Gimenez, School of Ocean Sciences Bangor University. Email: l.gimenez@bangor. ac.uk
We use intertidal rocky shores as model systems to test hypotheses about process driving population and community dynamics as well as to monitor effects of climate change on communities.
The areas covered are:
(1) Scale-dependent patterns of community structure
(2) Role of disturbance in community dynamics
(3) Importance of pollutants for rocky shore invertebrates
(4) Role of larval supply and intraspecific phenotypic variation in determining recruitment dynamics.
Selected publications:
Scale-dependent natural variation in larval nutritional reserves in a marine invertebrate: implications for recruitment and cross-ecosystem coupling.
Giménez L, Torres G, Pettersen AK, , Burrows MT, Estevez A, Jenkins SR (2017) Marine Ecology Progress Series 570:141-165.
Persistent and context-dependent effects of the larval feeding environment on post-metamorphic performance through the adult stage.
Torres G, Giménez L, Pettersen AK, Bue M, Burrows MT, Jenkins SR (2016) Marine Ecology Progress Series 545: 147-160.
Experimental Evaluation of Seaweeds as a Vector for Microplastics into Marine Food Webs.
Gutow L, Eckerlebe A, Giménez L, Saborowski R (2016) Environmental Science and Technology 50:915-923.
Combining traits and density to model recruitment of sessile organisms.
Giménez L, Jenkins SR (2013) PLoS ONE 8(3):e57849. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057849
Rocky intertidal macrobenthic communities across a large-scale estuarine gradient.
Giménez L, Borthagaray A, Rodríguez M, Brazeiro A, Carranza A, 2010. Sci Mar74, 88-100.
Scale-dependent patterns of variability in species assemblages of the rocky intertidal at Helgoland (German Bight, North Sea).
Reichert K, Buchholz F, Bartsch I, Kersten T, Giménez L, 2008. J. Mar Biol Ass UK. 88, 1319-1329.
Community composition of the rocky intertidal at Helgoland (German Bight, North Sea).
Reichert K, Buchholz F, Giménez L, 2008.Helgol Mar Res 62, 357-366.