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Overview

Christopher P. Lynam is affiliated with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in the United Kingdom. Their primary research work focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in marine and fisheries research.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Lynam's main topics of study emphasize:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • International Maritime Law Issues
  • Marine and environmental studies

Their recent papers include:

  • Refining Fisheries Advice With Stock-Specific Ecosystem Information (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Effects of Nutrient Management Scenarios on Marine Food Webs: A Pan-European Assessment in Support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Assessing the state of marine biodiversity in the Northeast Atlantic (2022), published in Ecological Indicators
  • A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning (2020), published in Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Addressing the cumulative impacts of multiple human pressures in marine systems, for the sustainable use of the seas (2024), published in Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability

Frequent co-authors of Christopher P. Lynam include:

  • Marta Coll
  • Ángel Borja
  • Stelios Katsanevakis
  • Murray S. A. Thompson
  • Robert Thorpe

The scientist has published multiple papers in several venues, specifically:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Global Change Biology

Christopher P. Lynam has also contributed to book publications, including the title Species thresholds: review of methods to support the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2021), published by King's College London.

Best Publications

  • Jellyfish overtake fish in a heavily fished ecosystem.

    Christopher P. Lynam;Mark J. Gibbons;Bjørn E. Axelsen;Conrad A.J. Sparks

  • Interaction between top-down and bottom-up control in marine food webs

    Christopher Philip Lynam;Marcos Llope;Christian Möllmann;Pierre Helaouët

  • A decline in primary production in the North Sea over 25 years, associated with reductions in zooplankton abundance and fish stock recruitment

    Elisa Capuzzo;Christopher P. Lynam;Jon Barry;David Stephens

  • Interannual variability in abundance of North Sea jellyfish and links to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Christopher P. Lynam;Stephen J. Hay;Andrew S. Brierley

  • Evidence for impacts by jellyfish on North Sea herring recruitment

    Christopher P. Lynam;Michael R. Heath;Stephen J. Hay;Andrew S. Brierley

  • Trophic level-based indicators to track fishing impacts across marine ecosystems

    Lynne Shannon;Marta Coll;Alida Bundy;Didier Gascuel

  • Have jellyfish in the Irish Sea benefited from climate change and overfishing

    C. P. Lynam;M. K. S. Lilley;T. Bastian;T. K. Doyle

  • Ecological indicators to capture the effects of fishing on biodiversity and conservation status of marine ecosystems

    M. Coll;M. Coll;L. J. Shannon;K. M. Kleisner;M. J. Juan-Jorda

  • Jellyfish abundance and climatic variation: contrasting responses in oceanographically distinct regions of the North Sea, and possible implications for fisheries

    Christopher P. Lynam;Stephen J. Hay;Andrew S. Brierley

  • Using ecological models to assess ecosystem status in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

    Chiara Piroddi;Heliana Teixeira;Christopher P. Lynam;Chris Smith

  • Distribution of skates and sharks in the North Sea: 112 years of change.

    Camilla Sguotti;Camilla Sguotti;Camilla Sguotti;Christopher P. Lynam;Bernardo García‐Carreras;Bernardo García‐Carreras;Jim R. Ellis

  • Single-target echo detections of jellyfish

    Andrew S Brierley;Bjørn Eric Axelsen;David C Boyer;Christopher P Lynam

  • A Review of the Tools Used for Marine Monitoring in the UK: Combining Historic and Contemporary Methods with Modeling and Socioeconomics to Fulfill Legislative Needs and Scientific Ambitions

    Tim P. Bean;Naomi Greenwood;Naomi Greenwood;Rachel Beckett;Lauren Biermann

  • Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems

    Angel Borja;Michael Elliott;Paul V. R. Snelgrove;Melanie C. Austen

  • A Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators

    Heliana Teixeira;Torsten Berg;Laura Uusitalo;Karin Fürhaupter

  • Towards the acoustic estimation of jellyfish abundance

    Andrew S. Brierley;David C. Boyer;Bjørn E. Axelsen;Christopher P. Lynam

  • Enhanced survival of 0-group gadoid fish under jellyfish umbrellas

    Christopher P. Lynam;Andrew S. Brierley

  • Global in scope and regionally rich: an IndiSeas workshop helps shape the future of marine ecosystem indicators

    Yunne-Jai Shin;Alida Bundy;Lynne J. Shannon;Julia L. Blanchard

  • Quantitative criteria for choosing targets and indicators for sustainable use of ecosystems.

    Axel G. Rossberg;Laura Uusitalo;Torsten Berg;Anastasija Zaiko

  • From Science to Evidence – How Biodiversity Indicators Can Be Used for Effective Marine Conservation Policy and Management

    Abigail McQuatters-Gollop;Ian Mitchell;Cristina Vina-Herbon;Jacob Bedford

  • ErrataJellyfish overtake fish in a heavily fished ecosystem

    Christopher P. Lynam;Mark J. Gibbons;Bjørn E. Axelsen;Conrad A.J. Sparks

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Lynne J. Shannon
Lynne J. Shannon University of Cape Town
Andrew S. Brierley
Andrew S. Brierley University of St Andrews
Alida Bundy
Alida Bundy Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Yunne-Jai Shin
Yunne-Jai Shin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Johanna J. Heymans
Johanna J. Heymans Scottish Association For Marine Science
Georg H. Engelhard
Georg H. Engelhard Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Heliana Teixeira
Heliana Teixeira University of Aveiro
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen Finnish Environment Institute

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