Dr Jan Geert HiddinkJan Geert Hiddink

Research Interest

I am a senior lecturer in the field of marine benthic ecology. My research is focussed on gaining a quantitative understanding of the effect of disturbance (such as exploitation and climate change) on the biodiversity and functioning of marine benthic communities, and how such effects can be mitigated. I try to increase understanding of ecosystem functioning and distribution patterns by comparing empirical data with predictions of ecological models. I am a member of the editorial board of Scientia Marina and Endangered Species Research and a member of the NERC peer review college.

I am currently supervising five PhD students (Gareth Johnson, Ana Queiros, Gwladys Lambert, Thomas Davies, Andrew Johnson) and leading or involved in several research projects. My research is funded by NERC, DEFRA, the Royal Society and CCW.

From 2002 - 2006 I worked as a postdoc at the University of Wales Bangor, studying the impact of fishing on the functioning of benthic marine ecosystems. I am quantified the impact of bottom trawling in the North Sea on the biomass, secondary production and biodiversity of benthic invertebrates, on the scale of the whole North Sea and examined if spatial management, including MPAs, can reduce the ecological impact of bottom trawling.

From 1998 to 2002 I worked as a Ph.D. student at the Department of Marine Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on the adaptive value of migrations and nursery use for the intertidal bivalve Macoma balthica . The aim of the study was to evaluate the adaptive value of nursery use and the associated migrations of M. balthica. The study quantified migrations of M. balthica and size selective predation on M. balthica at different tidal levels. I also visited the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, to study the ecology of shrimps, fish, bivalves and seagrass on the tidal flats.

Publications

Phd Thesis PhD thesis
Hiddink JG (2002)
The adaptive value of migrations for the bivalve Macoma balthica.
Department of Marine Biology, Groningen, The Netherlands
ISBN 90-9016102-3

Paper copies can be ordered free of charge, see my address on the left
 
 
 

 

Papers in preparation

  • Johnson, G.E.L., Kaiser, M.J., Ramsay, K., and Hiddink, J.G. In prep. Facilitators Maintain Species Richness As Abiotic Stress Increases, pdf
  • Johnson, G.E.L., Queiros, A.M., Kaiser, M.J., Ramsay, K., and Hiddink, J.G. In prep. Lugworm Bioturbation Facilitates Richer Communities In Anoxic Intertidal Sediments, pdf

    • Peer-reviewed papers

    1. Hiddink, J.G., Davies, T.W., Perkins, M., Machairopoulou, M., and Neill, S.P. In press. Context dependency of relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is different for multiple ecosystem functions. . Oikos: doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17556.x
    2. Hiddink, J.G., Rijnsdorp, A.D., and Piet, G.J. (2008) Can bottom trawling disturbance increase food production for a commercial fish species? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 65: 1393-1401
    3. Jennings, S., Van Hal, R., Hiddink, J.G., and Maxwell, T.A.D. 2008. Fishing effects on energy use by North Sea fishes. J.Sea Res. 60:74-88.
    4. Hinz, H, Hiddink, JG, Forde, J and Kaiser, MJ (2008) Large scale responses of nematode communities to chronic otter-trawl disturbance, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 65, 723-732..
    5. Hiddink, JG, MacKenzie, BR, Rijnsdorp, A, Dulvy, N, Nielsen, EE, Bekkevold, D, Heino, M, Lorance, P and Ojaveer, H (2008) Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems, Fisheries Research 90:6-8.
    6. Hiddink, J.G. & ter Hofstede, R. (2008) Climate induced increases in species richness of marine fishes. Global Change Biology 14: 453-460.
    7. Dimech, M., Camilleri, M., Hiddink, J.G., Kaiser, M.J., Ragonese, S., and Schembri, P.J. 2008. Differences in demersal community structure and body-size spectra within and outside the Maltese Fishery Management Zone (FMZ). Scientia Marina. 72:669-682.
    8. Anders N, Churchyard T, Hiddink JG (In press) Predation of the shelduck Tadorna tadorna on the mud snail Hydrobia ulvae. Aquatic Ecology
    9. Kaiser MJ, Hiddink JG (2007) Food subsidies from fisheries to continental shelf benthic scavengers: are they important? Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 267-276.
    10. Hiddink, J.G., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M.J. (2007) Assessing and predicting the relative ecological costs of disturbance to habitats with different sensitivities. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:405–413
    11. Hiddink, J.G., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M.J. (2006) Recovery status as an indicator of the large scale ecological impact of bottom trawling. Ecosystems 9:1190–1199.
    12. Hiddink, J.G., Hutton, T., Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M.J. (2006) Predicting the effects of area closures and fishing effort restrictions on the production, biomass and species richness of North Sea benthic invertebrate communities. ICES Journal of Marine Science 63: 822-830.
    13. Blyth-Skyrme, R.E., Kaiser, M.J., Hiddink, J.G., Edwards-Jones, G. and Hart, P.J.B., 2006. Conservation Benefits of Temperate Marine Protected Areas: Variation among Fish Species. Conservation Biology 20: 811–820.
    14. Queirós, A.M., Hiddink, J.G., Hinz, H. and Kaiser, M.J., (2006). The effects of chronic bottom trawling disturbance on biomass, production and size spectra of invertebrate infauna communities from different habitats. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 335: 91-103.
    15. Tillin, H.M., Hiddink, J.G., Kaiser, M.J. & Jennings, S. (2006) Chronic bottom trawling alters the functional composition of benthic invertebrate communities on a sea basin scale. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 31-45. Data on biological traits of benthos can be downloaded from www.marlin.ac.uk/biotic
    16. Hiddink, J.G., Jennings, S., Kaiser, M.J., Queirós, A.M., Duplisea, D.E. and Piet, G.J., 2006. Cumulative impacts of seabed trawl disturbance on benthic biomass, production and species richness in different habitats. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 721–736
      Appendix S1, Appendix S2, Figs. S1-S3
    17. B.E. Schaffmeister, J.G. Hiddink and W.J. Wolff (2006) Habitat use of shrimps in the intertidal and shallow subtidal seagrass beds of the tropical Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Journal of Sea Research 55:230-243
    18. Hiddink, J.G., Jennings, S., and Kaiser, M.J. 2005. Do haddock select habitats to maximize condition? Journal of Fish Biology, 67B: 111-124.
    19. Hiddink, J.G. and Kaiser, M.J., 2005. Implications of Liebig's law of the minimum for the use of ecological indicators based on abundance. Ecography 28: 264-271.
    20. Hiddink JG (2003) Effects of suction-dredging for cockles on non-target fauna in the Wadden Sea. Journal of Sea Research 50:315-323
      Colour version of the photo’s (Figure 3)
    21. Hiddink JG (2003) Modelling the adaptive value of intertidal migration and nursery use in the bivalve Macoma balthica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 252: 173-185
    22. Hiddink JG, Kock RP, Wolff WJ (2002) Active pelagic migrations of the bivalve Macoma balthica are dangerous. Marine Biology 140: 1149-1156
    23. Hiddink JG, Wolff WJ (2002) Changes in distribution and decrease in numbers during migration of the bivalve Macoma balthica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 233: 117-130
    24. Hiddink JG, Ter Hofstede R, Wolff WJ (2002) Predation of intertidal infauna on juveniles of the bivalve Macoma balthica. Journal of Sea Research 47: 141-159
    25. Hiddink JG, Marijnissen SAE, Troost K, Wolff WJ (2002) Predation on the 0-group and older year classes of the bivalve Macoma balthica: interaction of size selection and intertidal distribution of epibenthic predators. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 269: 223-248
    26. Hiddink JG, Jager Z (2002) Abundance and reproduction of Nilsson's pipefish on tidal flats. Journal of Fish Biology 61A: 125-137
    27. Pet-Soede C, Van Densen WTL, Hiddink JG, Kuyl S, Machiels MAM (2001) Can fishers allocate their fishing effort in space and time on the basis of their catch rates? An example from Spermonde Archipelago, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. Fisheries Management and Ecology 8: 15-36

    Book chapters

    Wolff, W.J., Van Etten, J.P.C., Hiddink, J.G., Montserrat, F., Schaffmeister, B.E., Vonk, J.A. & de Vries, A.B. (2006). Predation on the benthic fauna of the tidal flats of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. In Coastal ecosystems of West Africa. Biological Diversity - Resources - Conservation (ed J.J. Symoens), pp. 43-59. Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Africa, Brussels.

    Reports

    1. Hiddink, JG (1997) Experimental investigation on the effect of temperature on egg production, larval quality and recruitment in flatfish. NIOZ-report 1997-4, p 1-40. ISSN 0923-3210
    2. Hiddink, J. G. 2006 Modelling the state of soft-sediment benthic communities in Welsh coastal waters. CCW Contract Science Report No 733, pp. 13. Bangor: CCW.
    3. Darby, C., Hutton, T., Andrews, J., Gurney, W. S. C., Beveridge, D. & Hiddink, J. G. 2006 Investigations into closed area management of the North Sea cod. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra Reference: SFCD15. Lowestoft: CEFAS Contract report C2465.
    4. Richardson EA, Kaiser MJ, Hiddink JG, Galanidi M, Donald EJ (2006) Developing Scenarios for a Network of Marine Protected Areas. Research and Development Contract CRO 0348, University of Wales, Bangor, Bangor

    Grants

    1. CEFAS/DEFRA (Hiddink, Kaiser). £57,668. PhD student Ecosystem approach to fisheries March 2008 - March 2011.
    2. NERC Directed grant. Creer, Hiddink, Neill, £68,563. Sequencing the meiofaunal metagenome of the marine/freshwater interface in key estuarine ecosystems.
    3. Royal Society Conference Grant (Hiddink) £800 (September 2007)
    4. NERC Urgency application (Hiddink, Gascoigne, Kaiser, Neill, Carvahlo) £281000. Recovery of benthic invertebrate communities and fishery overspill effects in newly created marine reserves (January 2007 - December 2007)
    5. NERC Facility for Scientific Diving. (Hiddink PI, Gascoigne, Kaiser, Neill, Carvahlo) Recovery of benthic invertebrate communities and fishery overspill effects in newly created marine reserves. Diving support with a value of 24 days with a value of £19375
    6. CCW (Hiddink, Kaiser, Jones, Ramsay). £3000. CASE support for Phd studentship. Facilitation and biodiversity in marine benthos (October 2006 - September 2009)
    7. Royal Society Research Grant (Hiddink) £15000. Measuring benthic ecosystem functioning over a disturbance gradient using Sediment Profiling Imagery (SPI) (September 2006 - August 2007)
    8. Royal Society Conference Grant (Hiddink) £840 (September 2006)
    9. DEFRA, co-investigator, with MJ Kaiser and EA Richardson, £50k, Developing Scenarios for a Network of Marine Protected Areas. 2006

    Awards & Prizes

    I received the Annual VLIZ North Sea Award 2002 from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) for my Phd thesis "The adaptive value of migrations for the bivalve Macoma balthica" (€1000) .

    Links

    Coastal Resource Ecology And Management Group

    School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor

    Address
    Dr J.G. Hiddink
    J.Hiddink@bangor.ac.uk
    School of Ocean Sciences
    University of Wales, Bangor
    Menai Bridge
    Anglesey
    LL59 5AB
    UK

    tel + 44 1248 382864