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Overview

Michael Elliott is affiliated with the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on environmental science with an emphasis on coastal and marine systems. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, and pollution.

Their core research topics include coastal and marine management, marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, international maritime law issues, microplastics and plastic pollution, and radio frequency integrated circuit design.

Michael Elliott has contributed frequently to several scientific venues. The most notable journals where their work appears are:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

They have coauthored numerous papers with recurring collaborators such as Ángel Borja, Roland Cormier, Sandra Ramos, Omar Defeo, and Sílvia Tamie Matsumoto.

Among recent publications associated with Michael Elliott are the following papers, which reflect their involvement in coastal and marine ecosystem studies and environmental management:

  • Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Organics: A Review, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030-What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Sandy beach social-ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • The 'triple whammy' of coasts under threat - Why we should be worried!, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Advances in sandy beach research - Local and global perspectives, 2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

In addition to journal articles, Michael Elliott has contributed to book publications including a recent title published by Frontiers Media in 2024: Contemporary marine science, its utility and influence on regulation and government policy.

Best Publications

  • The Estuarine Ecosystem: Ecology, Threats, and Management

    Donald Samuel McLusky;Michael Elliott

  • The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;Jacob Carstensen;Laurence Carvalho

  • The Estuarine Quality Paradox, Environmental Homeostasis and the difficulty of detecting anthropogenic stress in naturally stressed areas

    Michael Elliott;Victor Quintino

  • The guild approach to categorizing estuarine fish assemblages: a global review

    Michael Elliott;Alan K Whitfield;Ian C Potter;Stephen J M Blaber

  • Ecology of marine sediments : from science to management

    John Stuart Gray;Michael Elliott

  • Fishes as indicators of environmental and ecological changes within estuaries: a review of progress and some suggestions for the future

    A. K. Whitfield;M. Elliott

  • Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management

    M. Elliott;A.K. Whitfield

  • The Need for Definitions in Understanding Estuaries

    M. Elliott;D.S. McLusky

  • Management of the marine environment: integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach.

    Jonathan P. Atkins;Daryl Burdon;Mike Elliott;Amanda J. Gregory

  • Marine management - towards an integrated implementation of the European Marine Strategy Framework and the Water Framework Directives.

    Ángel Borja;Mike Elliott;Jacob Carstensen;Anna-Stiina Heiskanen

  • Baltic Sea environment proceedings

    Michael Elliott

  • The structure and components of European estuarine fish assemblages

    M. Elliott;F. Dewailly

  • Causes, historical development, effects and future challenges of a common environmental problem: eutrophication

    VN de Jonge;M Elliott;E Orive

  • Estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystem restoration: Confusing management and science – A revision of concepts

    Michael Elliott;Daryl Burdon;Krystal L. Hemingway;Sabine E. Apitz

  • Fishes in estuaries.

    Michael Elliott;Krystal Hemingway

  • The ways in which fish use estuaries: a refinement and expansion of the guild approach

    Ian C Potter;James R Tweedley;Michael Elliott;Alan K Whitfield

  • Medium- and Long-term Recovery of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Patterns, Rates and Restoration Effectiveness

    Ángel Borja;Daniel M. Dauer;Michael Elliott;Charles A. Simenstad

  • Environmental Influences on the Fish Assemblage of the Humber Estuary, U.K.

    S. Marshall;M. Elliott

  • Effects of fishing on the structure and functioning of estuarine and nearshore ecosystems

    S. J. M. Blaber;D. P. Cyrus;J.-J. Albaret;Chong Ving Ching

  • Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries

    Alan K. Whitfield;Michael Elliott;Alberto Basset;Stephen J. M. Blaber

  • Good Environmental Status of marine ecosystems: What is it and how do we know when we have attained it?

    Angel Borja;Mike Elliott;Jesper H. Andersen;Ana C. Cardoso

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University
John S. Gray
John S. Gray University of Oslo
Jacob Carstensen
Jacob Carstensen Aarhus University
Victor Quintino
Victor Quintino University of Aveiro
Joana Patrício
Joana Patrício European Commission
Alan K. Whitfield
Alan K. Whitfield South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Alberto Basset
Alberto Basset University of Salento
João Carlos Marques
João Carlos Marques University of Coimbra
Daniel A. Wunderlin
Daniel A. Wunderlin National University of Córdoba

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