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Overview

Johanna J. Heymans is affiliated with the Scottish Association For Marine Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, oceanography, and health-related toxicology.

The scientist's work extensively covers marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coastal and marine management, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, isotope analysis in ecology, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Heymans has published several papers, including:

  • The Ocean Decade: A True Ecosystem Modeling Challenge (2020) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Refining Fisheries Advice With Stock-Specific Ecosystem Information (2021) 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) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Combining ecosystem modeling with serious gaming in support of transboundary maritime spatial planning (2020) in Ecology and Society
  • Retrospective analysis of the influence of environmental drivers on commercial stocks and fishing opportunities in the Irish Sea (2020) in Fisheries Oceanography

Heymans has frequently published in notable venues including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecology and Society

Collaborations have been an integral part of Heymans' research output. Frequent co-authors include Jeroen Steenbeek, Jacob W. Bentley, Natalia Serpetti, Marta Coll, and Gert Everaert.

Best Publications

  • Hundred‐year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes

    Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Johanna J Heymans;Carl J Walters

  • Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management

    Johanna Jacomina Heymans;Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Jason S. Link;Steven Mackinson

  • A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action

    Joachim Claudet;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung;Rodolphe Devillers;Rodolphe Devillers

  • Global Patterns in Ecological Indicators of Marine Food Webs: A Modelling Approach

    Johanna Jacomina Heymans;Marta Coll;Simone Libralato;Lyne Morissette

  • Using indicators for evaluating, comparing, and communicating the ecological status of exploited marine ecosystems. 2. Setting the scene.

    Yunne-Jai Shin;Lynne J. Shannon;Alida Bundy;Marta Coll

  • Changes in the northern Benguela ecosystem over three decades: 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

    Johanna J Heymans;Lynne J Shannon;Astrid Jarre

  • A risk-based approach to cumulative effect assessments for marine management

    Vanessa Stelzenmüller;Marta Coll;Antonios D. Mazaris;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi

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

    Lynne Shannon;Marta Coll;Alida Bundy;Didier Gascuel

  • 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

  • Can simple be useful and reliable? Using ecological indicators to represent and compare the states of marine ecosystems

    Yunne-Jai Shin;Alida Bundy;Lynne J. Shannon;Monique Simier

  • Impact of ocean warming on sustainable fisheries management informs the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries.

    Natalia Serpetti;Alan Ronan Baudron;Michael Burrows;Benjamin Luke Payne

  • Overlooked impacts and challenges of the new European discard ban

    Francesc Sardà;Marta Coll;Johanna J Heymans;Konstantinos I Stergiou

  • Understanding the structure and functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems to predict the impacts of change.

    Eugene J. Murphy;Rachel D. Cavanagh;Ken F. Drinkwater;Susie M. Grant

  • Which forcing factors fit? Using ecosystem models to investigate the relative influence of fishing and changes in primary productivity on the dynamics of marine ecosystems

    Steven Mackinson;G. Daskalov;Johanna J. Heymans;Sergio Neira

  • Network analysis of the South Florida Everglades graminoid marshes and comparison with nearby cypress ecosystems

    J.J Heymans;R.E Ulanowicz;C Bondavalli

  • Seals, cod and forage fish: A comparative exploration of variations in the theme of stock collapse and ecosystem change in four Northwest Atlantic ecosystems

    Alida Bundy;Johanna J. Heymans;Lyne Morissette;Claude Savenkoff

  • Future scenarios of marine resources and ecosystem conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean under the impacts of fishing, alien species and sea warming.

    X. Corrales;Marta Coll;E. Ofir;Johanna J. Heymans

  • A carbon flow model and network analysis of the northern Benguela upwelling system, Namibia

    J.J Heymans;D Baird

  • Food-web structure of and fishing impacts on the Gulf of Cadiz ecosystem (South-western Spain)

    María Ángeles Torres;Marta Coll;Johanna Jacomina Heymans;Villy Christensen

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 5

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Network analysis of the northern Benguela ecosystem by means of netwrk and ecopath

    J.J Heymans;D Baird

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Lynne J. Shannon
Lynne J. Shannon University of Cape Town
Villy Christensen
Villy Christensen University of British Columbia
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alida Bundy
Alida Bundy Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Yunne-Jai Shin
Yunne-Jai Shin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jeroen Steenbeek
Jeroen Steenbeek Spanish National Research Council
Steven Mackinson
Steven Mackinson Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Christopher P. Lynam
Christopher P. Lynam Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu

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