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Overview

Melanie C. Austen is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of work in environmental science, particularly focused on marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their research encompasses a variety of interconnected topics including:

  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Austen's main fields of study are rooted in Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Oceanography
  • Pollution

This researcher has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Ecosystem Services
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Marine Policy

Recent publications include:

  • "Bright spots as climate-smart marine spatial planning tools for conservation and blue growth" (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • "The marine economy of the United Kingdom" (2020, Marine Policy)
  • "A matrix approach to tropical marine ecosystem service assessments in South east Asia" (2021, Ecosystem Services)
  • "Building bridges between natural and social science disciplines: a standardized methodology to combine data on ecosystem quality trends" (2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Impacts of land use on water quality and the viability of bivalve shellfish mariculture in the UK: A case study and review for SW England" (2021, Environmental Science & Policy)

Frequent collaborators with whom Austen has co-authored multiple publications include:

  • Radisti A. Praptiwi
  • Tara Hooper
  • Carya Maharja
  • Hong Ching Goh
  • Jito Sugardjito

Best Publications

  • Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic.

    Nicola J. Beaumont;Margrethe Aanesen;Melanie C. Austen;Tobias Börger

  • Global analysis of response and recovery of benthic biota to fishing

    M. J. Kaiser;K. R. Clarke;Hilmar Hinz;Melanie C. V. Austen

  • The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems

    Alan P. Covich;Melanie C. Austen;Felix Bärlocher;Eric Chauvet

  • An improved molecular phylogeny of the Nematoda with special emphasis on marine taxa.

    Birgit H M Meldal;Nicola J Debenham;Paul De Ley;Irma Tandingan De Ley

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:understanding nature's value to society. Synthesis of key findings

    R. Watson;S. Albon;R. Aspinall;M. Austen

  • Economic Valuation for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity

    N.J. Beaumont;M.C. Austen;S.C. Mangi;M. Townsend

  • Are Some Natural Environments More Psychologically Beneficial Than Others? The Importance of Type and Quality on Connectedness to Nature and Psychological Restoration:

    Kayleigh J. Wyles;Kayleigh J. Wyles;Mathew P. White;Caroline Hattam;Sabine Pahl

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:Technical report

    R Watson;S Albon;R Aspinall;M Austen

  • Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep

    PR Dando;MC Austen;RA Burke;MA Kendall

  • Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification

    Caroline Hattam;Jonathan P. Atkins;Nicola Beaumont;Tobias Bӧrger

  • Development and evaluation of a DNA-barcoding approach for the rapid identification of nematodes

    Punyasloke Bhadury;Melanie C. Austen;David T. Bilton;P. John D. Lambshead

  • The specificity of meiobenthic community responses to different pollutants: Results from microcosm experiments

    M.C Austen;A.J McEvoy;R.M Warwick

  • The value of marine biodiversity to the leisure and recreation industry and its application to marine spatial planning

    Siân E. Rees;Lynda D. Rodwell;Martin J. Attrill;Melanie C. Austen

  • Effects of bottom trawling on ecosystem functioning

    Frode Olsgard;Frode Olsgard;Morten T. Schaanning;Stephen Widdicombe;Mike A. Kendall

  • Incorporating ecosystem services in marine planning: The role of valuation

    Tobias Börger;Nicola J. Beaumont;Linwood Pendleton;Kevin J. Boyle

  • Integrating health and environmental impact analysis

    S. Reis;G. Morris;L.E. Fleming;S. Beck

  • Meiobenthic and macrobenthic community structure along a putative pollution gradient in southern Portugal

    Melanie C. Austen;Richard M. Warwick;M. Carmen Rosado

  • A community level sediment bioassay applied to an estuarine heavy metal gradient

    M.C. Austen;P.J. Somerfield

  • The use of offshore meiobenthic communities in laboratory microcosm experiments: response to heavy metal contamination

    Melanie C. Austen;Andrea J. McEvoy

  • Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Part 2 of a Global Assessment

    N. Bednaršek;T. Klinger;C.J. Harvey;S. Weisberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Beaumont
Nicola Beaumont Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Stephen Widdicombe
Stephen Widdicombe Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Paul J. Somerfield
Paul J. Somerfield Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Richard M. Warwick
Richard M. Warwick Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Alex Rogers
Alex Rogers University of Oxford
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Paul V. R. Snelgrove Memorial University of Newfoundland
Gail Taylor
Gail Taylor University College London
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Stefan Reis
Stefan Reis University of Exeter
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University

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