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Overview

Dan Minchin is affiliated with Klaipėda University in Lithuania, focusing on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans several subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work concentrates on various topics related to marine and environmental biology. These include aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, marine biology and ecology research, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, marine ecology and invasive species, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, marine and coastal plant biology, and fish ecology and management studies.

Minchin has contributed to multiple recent peer-reviewed publications. Selected examples include:

  • Invasive non-native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The re-appearance of the Mytilus spp. complex in Svalbard, Arctic, during the Holocene: The case for an arrival by anthropogenic flotsam, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • Horizon scanning for potential invasive non-native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories, 2022, Conservation Letters
  • Marine ecosystem health and biological pollution: Reconsidering the paradigm, 2024, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • The Waiting Stage, Prolonged Residency in Nursery Habitats by Juveniles of the Predatory Sea Star Marthasterias glacialis, 2021, Biological Bulletin

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Minchin include:

  • Sergej Olenin
  • Jan-Robert Baars
  • Elizabeth Cook
  • Lech Kotwicki
  • Jan Marcin Węsławski

Minchin publishes regularly in established venues, with multiple works appearing in journals such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • BioInvasions Records
  • Management of Biological Invasions
  • British & Irish Botany
  • Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

    P. E. Hulme;S. Bacher;M. Kenis;S. Klotz

  • Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity in Great Britain

    Helen E. Roy;Jodey M. Peyton;David C. Aldridge;Tristan Bantock

  • Changes in Global Economies and Trade: the Potential Spread of Exotic Freshwater Bivalves

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Dianna K. Padilla;Dan Minchin;Demetrio Boltovskoy

  • Fouling and ships' hulls: how changing circumstances and spawning events may result in the spread of exotic species.

    Dan Minchin;Stephan Gollasch

  • Assessment of biopollution in aquatic ecosystems

    Sergej Olenin;Dan Minchin;Darius Daunys

  • ‘Double trouble’: the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea

    Bella S. Galil;Ferdinando Boero;Marnie L. Campbell;James T. Carlton

  • International arrivals: widespread bioinvasions in European Seas.

    B.S. Galil;A. Marchini;A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi;D. Minchin

  • Classification of non-indigenous species based on their impacts: considerations for application in marine management.

    Henn Ojaveer;Bella S. Galil;Marnie L. Campbell;James T. Carlton

  • Ecological impacts of an invasive predator explained and predicted by comparative functional responses.

    Jaimie T. A. Dick;Kevin Gallagher;Suncica Avlijas;Hazel C. Clarke

  • Changing coasts: marine aliens and artificial structures

    Frederic Mineur;Elizabeth J. Cook;Dan Minchin;Katrin Bohn

  • Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the European Union

    Helen E. Roy;Sven Bacher;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Tim Adriaens

  • The Vessel as a Vector – Biofouling, Ballast Water and Sediments

    Chad L. Hewitt;Stephan Gollasch;Dan Minchin

  • Invasive non-native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

    Kevin A. Hughes;Oliver L. Pescott;Jodey Peyton;Tim Adriaens

  • Ten recommendations for advancing the assessment and management of non-indigenous species in marine ecosystems

    Henn Ojaveer;Bella S. Galil;Dan Minchin;Sergej Olenin

  • Climate change opens new frontiers for marine species in the Arctic: current trends and future invasion risks

    Farrah T. Chan;Keara Stanislawczyk;Anna C. Sneekes;Alexander Dvoretsky

  • Dose of truth - Monitoring marine non-indigenous species to serve legislative requirements

    Maiju Lehtiniemi;Henn Ojaveer;Matej David;Bella Galil

  • Aquaculture and transport in a changing environment: Overlap and links in the spread of alien biota

    Dan Minchin

  • Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters

    Sergej Olenin;Michael Elliott;Ingrid Bysveen;Phil F. Culverhouse

  • A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions

    Lorenzo Vilizzi;Gordon H. Copp;Jeffrey E. Hill;Boris Adamovich

  • Small Craft and the Spread of Exotic Species

    Dan Minchin;Oliver Floerl;Dario Savini;Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergej Olenin
Sergej Olenin Klaipėda University
Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi
Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi University of Pavia
Agnese Marchini
Agnese Marchini University of Pavia
Chad L. Hewitt
Chad L. Hewitt Murdoch University
Frances E. Lucy
Frances E. Lucy Institute of Technology Sligo
Bella S. Galil
Bella S. Galil Tel Aviv University
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu
Helen E. Roy
Helen E. Roy Anglia Ruskin University

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