Significant changes in Scotland’s marine food web. Scotland’s latest Marine Assessment reveals significant changes are taking place at the heart of the marine food web, with potential for impacts on the wider pelagic environment. For ...
New MBA research quantifies UK kelp productivity. Fundamental understanding of the ecology of kelp forests is lacking in many regions. New Marine Biological Association research in the journal Scientific Reports addresses this knowledge gap by quantifying the rate ...
Report underlines importance of MPAs. Earlier this month, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of the UK released their report ‘Developing the evidence-base to support climate-smart decision-making on MPAs’ on the finding of the Defra-funded Climate-smart ...
Commercial fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide. A ground-breaking study led by Marine Biological Association (MBA) scientists and published in the journal Nature reports that large sharks – some of which are already endangered globally ...