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Conrad A. Pilditch

Conrad A. Pilditch

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Ecology and Evolution

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Overview

Conrad A. Pilditch is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a broad range of subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Molecular Biology.

The primary focus of their work lies in Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Coastal and Marine Management, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine and fisheries research.

Conrad A. Pilditch has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecosystems
  • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Pilditch include:

  • "Cumulative stressors reduce the self-regulating capacity of coastal ecosystems", 2020, published in Ecological Applications
  • "Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals estuarine benthic community response to nutrient enrichment - Evidence from an in-situ experiment", 2020, published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Effect of Nutrient Enrichment and Turbidity on Interactions Between Microphytobenthos and a Key Bivalve: Implications for Higher Trophic Levels", 2020, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Water Column Turbidity Not Sediment Nutrient Enrichment Moderates Microphytobenthic Primary Production", 2020, published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • "Stressors Increase the Impacts of Coastal Macrofauna Biodiversity Loss on Ecosystem Multifunctionality", 2022, published in Ecosystems

Conrad A. Pilditch has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Simon F. Thrush
  • Judi E. Hewitt
  • Alf Norkko
  • Joanne I. Ellis
  • Rebecca V. Gladstone-Gallagher

Best Publications

  • Diurnal fluctuations in seawater pH influence the response of a calcifying macroalga to ocean acidification

    Christopher E. Cornwall;Christopher D. Hepburn;Christina M. McGraw;Kim I. Currie

  • Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function

    Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko;Anna Villnäs;Joanna Norkko;Sebastian Valanko;Sebastian Valanko

  • Predicting the effects of climate change on trophic status of three morphologically varying lakes

    Dennis Trolle;David P. Hamilton;Conrad A. Pilditch;Ian C. Duggan

  • Diffusion Boundary Layers Ameliorate the Negative Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Temperate Coralline Macroalga Arthrocardia corymbosa

    Christopher E. Cornwall;Philip W. Boyd;Christina M. McGraw;Christopher D. Hepburn

  • Density dependent effects of an infaunal suspension-feeding bivalve (Austrovenus stutchburyi) on sandflat nutrient fluxes and microphytobenthic productivity

    Dean R. Sandwell;Conrad A. Pilditch;Andrew M. Lohrer

  • Changes in Ecosystem Function Across Sedimentary Gradients in Estuaries

    Daniel Robert Pratt;Daniel Robert Pratt;Andrew M. Lohrer;Conrad A. Pilditch;Simon F. Thrush

  • Intermittent bioirrigation and oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments: An experimental and modeling study of three tellinid bivalves

    Nils Volkenborn;Christof Meile;Lubos Polerecky;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Concentration boundary layers around complex assemblages of macroalgae: Implications for the effects of ocean acidification on understory coralline algae

    Christopher E. Cornwall;Christopher D. Hepburn;Conrad A. Pilditch;Catriona L. Hurd

  • Linking Traits across Ecological Scales Determines Functional Resilience.

    Rebecca V. Gladstone-Gallagher;Rebecca V. Gladstone-Gallagher;Conrad A. Pilditch;Fabrice Stephenson;Simon F. Thrush

  • Phylogeography of New Zealand's coastal benthos

    Philip M. Ross;Ian D. Hogg;Conrad A. Pilditch;Carolyn J. Lundquist

  • Context-Specific Bioturbation Mediates Changes to Ecosystem Functioning

    Hazel Rosemary Needham;Hazel Rosemary Needham;Conrad A. Pilditch;Andrew M. Lohrer;Simon F. Thrush

  • Effect of temperature fluctuations and food supply on the growth and metabolism of juvenile sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus)

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  • Seston supply to sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) in suspended culture

    C A Pilditch;J Grant;K R Bryan

  • Sedimentary environment influences the effect of an infaunal suspension feeding bivalve on estuarine ecosystem function.

    Hannah F. E. Jones;Conrad A. Pilditch;Denise A. Bruesewitz;Andrew M. Lohrer

  • Effects of food availability and hypoxia on bivalves: the value of using multiple parameters to measure bivalve condition in environmental studies

    J. Norkko;C. A. Pilditch;S. F. Thrush;R. M. G. Wells

  • Behaviour controls post-settlement dispersal by the juvenile bivalves Austrovenus stutchburyi and Macomona liliana

    Carolyn J Lundquist;Conrad A Pilditch;Vonda J Cummings

  • Further evidence for the effect of particle-size diversity on deep-sea benthic biodiversity

    Daniel Leduc;Ashley A. Rowden;P. Keith Probert;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Coastal Hypoxia and the Importance of Benthic Macrofauna Communities for Ecosystem Functioning

    Johanna Gammal;Joanna Norkko;Conrad A. Pilditch;Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko

  • The effects of short-term increases in turbidity on sandflat microphytobenthic productivity and nutrient fluxes

    Daniel Robert Pratt;Daniel Robert Pratt;Conrad A. Pilditch;Andrew M. Lohrer;Simon F. Thrush

  • Experimenting with ecosystem interaction networks in search of threshold potentials in real-world marine ecosystems

    Simon F. Thrush;Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Samantha Maree Parkes;Andrew M. Lohrer

  • Focusing of phytodetritus deposition beneath a deep-ocean front, Chatham Rise, New Zealand

    Scott D. Nodder;Gerard C. A. Duineveld;Conrad A. Pilditch;Philip J. Sutton

  • FLOW-INDUCED MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONS AFFECT DIFFUSION BOUNDARY-LAYER THICKNESS OF MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA, LAMINARIALES)(1).

    Catriona L. Hurd;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Changes in the location of biodiversity-ecosystem function hot spots across the seafloor landscape with increasing sediment nutrient loading.

    Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Casper Kraan;A. M. Lohrer

  • Nematode beta diversity on the continental slope of New Zealand: spatial patterns and environmental drivers

    D. Leduc;A.A. Rowden;D.A. Bowden;S.D. Nodder

  • Macrofaunal Functional Diversity Provides Resilience to Nutrient Enrichment in Coastal Sediments

    Emily J. Douglas;Conrad A. Pilditch;Casper Kraan;Casper Kraan;Louis A. Schipper

  • Cumulative stressors reduce the self-regulating capacity of coastal ecosystems

    Simon F Thrush;Judi E Hewitt;Judi E Hewitt;Rebecca V Gladstone-Gallagher;Rebecca V Gladstone-Gallagher;Candida Savage;Candida Savage

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon F. Thrush
Simon F. Thrush University of Auckland
Andrew M. Lohrer
Andrew M. Lohrer National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Judi E. Hewitt
Judi E. Hewitt University of Auckland
Karin R. Bryan
Karin R. Bryan University of Auckland
Carolyn J. Lundquist
Carolyn J. Lundquist National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Scott D. Nodder
Scott D. Nodder National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University
Kai Bischof
Kai Bischof University of Bremen
Catriona L. Hurd
Catriona L. Hurd University of Tasmania

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