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Overview

Geraint A. Tarling is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research spans several subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

Main topics of focus in their work include Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geraint A. Tarling include Sophie Fielding, Gabriele Stowasser, Daniel J. Mayor, Anna Belcher, and Ryan A. Saunders.

Notable recent publications demonstrate a focus on Antarctic marine ecosystems and biogeochemical processes:

  • Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation (2020, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • Status, Change, and Futures of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Global Connectivity of Southern Ocean Ecosystems (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

Their research appears regularly in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Communications, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, Polar Biology, and Environmental Pollution.

Geraint A. Tarling has also contributed to the academic literature through book publication, most notably with Frontiers Media on The Physiology, Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Marine Zooplankton in a Changing Arctic Ocean published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill

    A. Atkinson;V. Siegel;E. A. Pakhomov;P. Rothery

  • Spatial and temporal operation of the Scotia Sea ecosystem: a review of large-scale links in a krill centred food web.

    E.J Murphy;J.L Watkins;P.N Trathan;K Reid

  • Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean

    N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;G. A. Tarling;D. C. E. Bakker;S. Fielding

  • Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill

    H. Flores;H. Flores;A. Atkinson;S. Kawaguchi;B. A. Krafft

  • Krill ( Euphausia superba ) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L. Hill;Evgeny A. Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

  • Habitat-specific normal and reverse diel vertical migration in the plankton-feeding basking shark

    David W. Sims;Emily J. Southall;Geraint A. Tarling;Geraint A. Tarling;Julian D. Metcalfe

  • Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho‐pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron

    Katrin Schmidt;Angus Atkinson;Sebastian Steigenberger;Sophie Fielding

  • Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): II. Predictive models based on food, temperature, body length, sex, and maturity stage

    Angus Atkinson;Rachael S. Shreeve;Andrew G. Hirst;Peter Rothery

  • The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles.

    E. L. Cavan;A. Belcher;A. Atkinson;S. L. Hill

  • On the comparison of population-level estimates of haplotype and nucleotide diversity: a case study using the gene cox1 in animals

    W P Goodall-Copestake;G A Tarling;E J Murphy

  • The adaptive value of energy storage and capital breeding in seasonal environments

    Øystein Varpe;Christian Jørgensen;Geraint A. Tarling;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Interannual variability in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) density at South Georgia, Southern Ocean: 1997–2013

    Sophie Fielding;Jonathan L. Watkins;Philip N. Trathan;Peter Enderlein

  • Early is better: seasonal egg fitness and timing of reproduction in a zooplankton life‐history model

    Øystein Varpe;Christian Jørgensen;Geraint A. Tarling;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Attenuation of particulate organic carbon flux in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, is controlled by zooplankton fecal pellets

    E. L. Cavan;F. A. C. Le Moigne;F. A. C. Le Moigne;A. J. Poulton;G. A. Tarling

  • Unsynchronised and synchronised vertical migration of zooplankton in a high Arctic fjord

    Finlo R. Cottier;Geraint A. Tarling;Anette Wold;Stig Falk-Petersen

  • Patterns in the distribution of myctophid fish in the northern Scotia Sea ecosystem

    Martin A. Collins;Jose C. Xavier;Jose C. Xavier;Nadine M. Johnston;Anthony W. North

  • Variability and predictability of Antarctic krill swarm structure

    Geraint A. Tarling;Thor Klevjer;Sophie Fielding;Jon Watkins

  • Dissolution dominating calcification process in polar pteropods close to the point of aragonite undersaturation.

    Nina Bednaršek;Geraint A. Tarling;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Sophie Fielding

  • Feeding ecology of myctophid fishes in the northern Scotia Sea

    R.S. Shreeve;Martin Anthony Collins;Geraint A. Tarling;Charlotte Main

  • The global distribution of pteropods and their contribution to carbonate and carbon biomass in the modern ocean

    Nina Bednaršek;Jasna Možina;Meike Vogt;Colleen O'Brien

  • Comparison of zooplankton vertical migration in an ice-free and a seasonally ice-covered Arctic fjord: An insight into the influence of sea ice cover on zooplankton behavior

    Margaret I. Wallace;Finlo R. Cottier;Jørgen Berge;Geraint A. Tarling

  • KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L Hill;Evgeny A Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie Fielding
Sophie Fielding British Antarctic Survey
Peter Ward
Peter Ward University of Washington
Angus Atkinson
Angus Atkinson Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Eugene J. Murphy
Eugene J. Murphy British Antarctic Survey
Sally E. Thorpe
Sally E. Thorpe Natural Environment Research Council
Martin A. Collins
Martin A. Collins British Antarctic Survey
José C. Xavier
José C. Xavier University of Coimbra
David W. Pond
David W. Pond University of Stirling
Dorothee C. E. Bakker
Dorothee C. E. Bakker University of East Anglia
Philip N. Trathan
Philip N. Trathan British Antarctic Survey

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