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Overview

John I. Spicer is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The core topics in John I. Spicer's research address physiological and biochemical adaptations, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, neurobiology and insect physiology research, crustacean biology and ecology, marine biology and ecology research, and fish ecology and management studies.

Frequently publishing in scientific journals, the venues with the highest number of their contributions include:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Notable recent papers published by John I. Spicer are:

  • Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Decapods, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Echinoderms, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Do aquatic ectotherms perform better under hypoxia after warm acclimation?, 2021, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Transcriptional frontloading contributes to cross-tolerance between stressors, 2020, Evolutionary Applications

John I. Spicer has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Oliver Tills
  • Manuela Truebano
  • Jamie C. S. McCoy
  • Ziad Ibbini
  • Piero Calosi

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity: An Introduction

    Kevin J. Gaston;John I. Spicer

  • Ocean acidification may increase calcification rates, but at a cost

    Hannah L Wood;John I Spicer;Stephen Widdicombe

  • Physiological Correlates of Geographic Range in Animals

    Francisco Bozinovic;Piero Calosi;John I. Spicer

  • Predicting the impact of ocean acidification on benthic biodiversity: What can animal physiology tell us?

    Stephen Widdicombe;John I. Spicer

  • Rapoport's rule: time for an epitaph?

    Kevin J. Gaston;Tim M. Blackburn;John I. Spicer

  • Thermal tolerance, acclimatory capacity and vulnerability to global climate change

    Piero Calosi;David T Bilton;John I Spicer

  • Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

  • Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

    Wilco C. E. P. Verberk;David T. Bilton;Piero Calosi;John I. Spicer

  • What determines a species’ geographical range? Thermal biology and latitudinal range size relationships in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Piero Calosi;David T. Bilton;John I. Spicer;Stephen C. Votier

  • Effects of ocean acidification on the immune response of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis

    Ruth Bibby;Steve Widdicombe;Helen Parry;John Spicer

  • Ocean acidification disrupts induced defences in the intertidal gastropod Littorina littorea.

    Ruth Bibby;Polly Cleall-Harding;Simon Rundle;Steve Widdicombe

  • Effects of anthropogenic seawater acidification on acid-base balance in the sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris.

    Hayley Miles;Stephen Widdicombe;John I. Spicer;Jason Hall-Spencer

  • Immunological function in marine invertebrates: responses to environmental perturbation.

    RP Ellis;HE Parry;JI Spicer;TH Hutchinson

  • Influence of CO2-related seawater acidification on extracellular acid-base balance in the velvet swimming crab Necora puber

    John I. Spicer;Angela Raffo;Stephen Widdicombe

  • Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO2 vent system

    Piero Calosi;Samuel P. S. Rastrick;Chiara Lombardi;Heidi J. de Guzman

  • The Invertebrates: A Synthesis

    R. S. K. Barnes;P. Calow;P. J. W. Olive;D. W. Golding

  • Distribution of sea urchins living near shallow water CO2 vents is dependent upon species acid-base and ion-regulatory abilities

    Piero Calosi;S P S Rastrick;M Graziano;M Graziano;S C Thomas

  • The relationship between range size and niche breadth : a test using five species of Gammarus (Amphipoda)

    Kevin J. Gaston;John I. Spicer

  • Effect of CO 2 -related acidification on aspects of the larval development of the European lobster, Homarus gammarus (L.)

    K. E. Arnold;H. S. Findlay;J. I. Spicer;C. L. Daniels

  • Development of physiological regulatory systems: altering the timing of crucial events.

    John I. Spicer;Warren W. Burggren

  • Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Calosi
Piero Calosi Université du Québec à Rimouski
Simon D. Rundle
Simon D. Rundle Plymouth University
Stephen Widdicombe
Stephen Widdicombe Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Alan C. Taylor
Alan C. Taylor University of Glasgow
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
David Morritt
David Morritt Royal Holloway University of London
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk Radboud University
Michael A. Kendall
Michael A. Kendall Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Ana M. Queirós
Ana M. Queirós Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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