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Profiles
Dr Andy Foggo
Associate Professor in Ecology
School of Biological and Marine Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Andy can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Biostatistics
- Applied statistics
- Multivariate statistics
- Plant-grazer interactions
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
My activities are split between my teaching/admin roles and my research. I remain engaged with the MRes in Marine Biology which is delivered in partnership with the Marine Biological Association and help the leader, Dr Michael Cunliffe with administration as well as delivering and assessing some components of the course. I'm also involved in teaching on the degrees forming the Marine Biology undergraduate scheme, delivering materials related to natural history and taxonomy, biostatistics, and the ecology of biodiversity.
My main research interests are divided into two areas within aquatic ecology. One deals with spatial distributions and macroecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats; we're currently entering the final phase of Deep Links, a large NERC funded project led by my colleague Dr Kerry Howell looking at biodiversity and connectivity in the deep sea. Soon we hope to have analyzable data and to begin production of outputs from the fieldwork. My other interest deals with grazer - alga interactions and in particular the role of induced defences in seaweeds as mediators of trophic interactions in a changing biosphere. I collaborate with Dr Dan Smale of the MBA, Dr Tony Knights and Professor Jason Hall-Spencer here at Plymouth, Dr Pippa Moore at Aberystwyth and Dr Sam Rastrick from Norway in this field. I also have subsidiary interests that stem from application of numerical and statistical techniques to ecological questions, these include studies of diversity patterns in the deep sea (in collaboration with Dr Kerry Howell) and studies of non-native seaweeds in coastal habitats
Qualifications
Associate Professor in Ecology, University of Plymouth (2015 - )
Lecturer in Ecology, University of Plymouth (1996-2015)
Drapers Company Junior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford (1995-1996)
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford (1993-1994)
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge (1993)
DPhil, University of Oxford (1992)
Wiener Anspach Research Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (1989-1990)
BA, University of Oxford (1987)
Teaching
Teaching
Staff serving as external examiners
External Validator: School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey at Roehampton.
External Examining: University of Oxford (D.Phil), University of Surrey (PhD), Bangor University (PhD)
Research
Research
Research interests
Plant and algal interactions with herbivores - applying theories of plant-herbivore interaction developed in the terrestrial realm to marine cases. Especially interested in consequences of environmental change for dynamics of trophic interactions.
Marine macroecology - particularly the role of physiology, dispersal and development in determining patterns of distribution and abundance of estuarine and marine organisms.
Spatial pattern in marine and freshwater organisms - determining the distribution of organisms in space and time, how these patterns arise, and what their implications are for population persistance and assemblage dynamics.
Factors affecting the proliferation and spread of non-native species and their ecosystem-level consequences.
Research groups
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
G.M. Prowse. PhD, 2003 (DoS)
M.T. Frost. PhD, 2003 (supervisor)
R. Power. M.Phil. (2004) DoS
L. MacAbendroth PhD 2005 (supervisor)
C.S. Mesher PhD 2009 (DoS)
S.L. deAmicis PhD 2012 (DoS)
N. Biber 2017 PhD (supervisor)
Grants & contracts
2013: Scaling empirically derived ocean acidification responses to naturally assembled systems. NERC £90,846. Co-I
PI - Rastrick, Co-I's: Solan, Hauton, Mark, Hall-Spencer, Foggo, Whitelely, Steel, Parker & Scott
2013: Influence of population connectivity on depth-dependent diversity of deep-sea marine benthic biota
NERC £1,121,585. Co-I
PI - Howell
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2022) 'The influence of light and temperature on detritus degradation rates for kelp species with contrasting thermal affinities' Marine Environmental Research 173, 105529-105529 , DOI
(2021) 'On the diversity and distribution of a data deficient habitat in a poorly mapped region: The case of Sabellaria alveolata L. in Ireland' Marine Environmental Research 169, 105344-105344 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Sustained productivity and respiration of degrading kelp detritus in the shallow benthos: Detached or broken, but not dead' Marine Environmental Research 166, 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Specific niche requirements underpin multidecadal range edge stability, but may introduce barriers for climate change adaptation' Diversity and Distributions 27, (4) 668-683 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Handling the heat: Responses of two congeneric limpet species to environmental temperature differences' Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 536, (0) 151500-151500 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Monitoring water quality changes and ornamental fish behaviour during commercial transport' Aquaculture 531, 735860-735860 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Simvastatin as a neuroprotective treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD STAT): protocol for a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled futility study' BMJ Open , DOI Open access
(2019) 'High
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promotes coral primary production' Biology Letters 15, (7) 20180777-20180777 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Inconspicuous impacts: Widespread marine invader causes subtle but significant changes in native macroalgal assemblages' Ecosphere 10, (7) , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Removal of intertidal grazers by human harvesting leads to alteration of species interactions, community structure and resilience to climate change' Marine Environmental Research , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Characterising the deterioration of different plastics in air and seawater' Marine Pollution Bulletin , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Can ecosystem functioning be maintained despite climate-driven shifts in species composition? Insights from novel marine forests' Journal of Ecology 107, (1) 91-104 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Seasonal variability in the population structure of a habitat-forming kelp and a conspicuous gastropod grazer: Do blue-rayed limpets (Patella pellucida) exert top-down pressure on Laminaria digitata populations?' Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 506, 171-171 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Tropical CO2 seeps reveal the impact of ocean acidification on coral reef invertebrate recruitment' Marine Pollution Bulletin , DOI Open access
(2016) 'The effects of warming on the ecophysiology of two co-existing kelp species with contrasting distributions' Oecologia , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Ocean acidification affects fish spawning but not paternity at CO2 seeps' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, (1835) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Individual and population-level responses to ocean acidification' Scientific Reports 6, (0) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Long-Term Field Study Reveals Subtle Effects of the Invasive Alga Sargassum muticum upon the Epibiota of Zostera marina' PLoS ONE , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean' Glob Chang Biol 21, (6) 2238-2248 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high-CO2 oceans' Nature Climate Change , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Living in warmer, more acidic oceans retards physiological recovery from tidal emersion in the velvet swimming crab, Necora puber' J Exp Biol 217, (Pt 14) 2499-2508 , DOI
(2013) 'Distribution patterns and sexual segregation in chimaeras: implications for conservation and management' ICES Journal of Marine Science 70, (6) 1198-1205 , DOI
(2013) 'Using species-area relationships to inform baseline conservation targets for the deep North East Atlantic' PLoS One 8, (3) , DOI Open access
(2011) 'Coral and mollusc resistance to ocean acidification adversely affected by warming' NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 1, (6) 308-312 , DOI Open access
(2010) 'Mounting evidence: near-slope seamounts are faunally indistinct from an adjacent bank' MARINE ECOLOGY-AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE 31, 52-62 , DOI
(2009) 'Ecology and conservation status of temporary and fluctuating ponds in two areas of southern England' AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS 19, (2) 134-146 , DOI
(2009) 'Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity' OIKOS 118, (1) 37-44 , DOI
(2007) 'Herbivore-induced infochemicals influence foraging behaviour in two intertidal predators (vol 151, pg 454, 2007)' OECOLOGIA 152, (4) 805-805 , DOI
(2007) 'Herbivore-induced infochemicals influence foraging behaviour in two intertidal predators' Oecologia 151, (3) 454-463 , DOI
(2007) 'An enzyme in snail saliva induces herbivore-resistance in a marine alga' FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 21, (1) 101-106 , DOI
(2007) 'Deep-sea coral distribution on seamounts, oceanic islands, and continental slopes in the Northeast Atlantic' Conservation and Adaptive Management of Seamount and Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems 81, 135-146 Open access
(2007) 'Do developmental mode and dispersal shape abundance-occupancy relationships in marine macroinvertebrates?' Journal of Animal Ecology 76, (4) 695-702
(2007) 'Range size in North American Enallagma damselflies correlates with wing size' Freshwater Biology 52, (3) 471-477
(2007) 'Tri-trophic consequences of UV-B exposure: plants, herbivores and parasitoids' Oecologia 154, (3) 505-512
(2006) 'Soil microbial and faunal community responses to bt maize and insecticide in two soils' J Environ Qual 35, (3) 734-741 , DOI
(2006) 'Impact of fish farms on maerl beds in strongly tidal areas' Marine Ecology-Progress Series 326, 1-9 Open access
(2005) 'Does macrophyte fractal complexity drive invertebrate diversity, biomass and body size distributions?' Oikos 111, (2) 279-290
(2005) 'Unravelling nestedness and spatial pattern in pond assemblages' Journal of Animal Ecology 74, (1) 41-49
(2005) 'Insecticidal activity of garlic juice in two dipterian pests' Agricultural and Forest Entomology 7, 1-6
(2004) 'Abundance-occupancy relationships in macrofauna on exposed sandy beaches: patterns and mechanisms' Ecography 27, (5) 643-649
(2004) 'Induced resistance in intertidal macroalgae modifies feeding behaviour of herbivorous snails' Oecologia 140, (2) 328-334
(2003) 'Abundance-occupancy patterns in British estuarine macroinvertebrates' Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser 265, 297-302 , DOI
(2003) 'The net result: evaluating species richness extrapolation techniques for littoral pond invertebrates' Freshwater Biology 48, (10) 1756-1764
(2003) 'Estimating marine species richness: an evaluation of six extrapolative techniques' Marine Ecology-Progress Series 248, 15-26
(2002) 'Are distribution patterns linked to dispersal mechanism? An investigation using pond invertebrate assemblages' Freshwater Biology 47, (9) 1571-1581
(2001) 'Edge effects and tropical forest canopy invertebrates' Plant Ecology 153, (1-2) 347-359
(2001) 'Size, permanence and the proportion of predators in ponds' Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 151, (3) 451-458
(1998) 'Horse chestnut scale (Pulvinaria regalis) (Homoptera : Coccidae) and urban host tree environment' ECOLOGY 79, (5) 1503-1513
(1996) 'Patterns of herbivory by the ash bud moth Prays fraxinella: Implications for the silviculture of ash in Europe' FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 84, (1-3) 231-240 , DOI
(1996) 'Long- and short-term changes in plant growth following simulated herbivory: Adaptive responses to damage?' ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY 21, (2) 198-202 , DOI
(1995) 'FACTORS AFFECTING CHOICE OF BUDS BY LARVAE OF THE ASH BUD MOTH PRAYS FRAXINELLA BJERK (LEP, YPONOMEUTIDAE), AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ASH DIEBACK' JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGEWANDTE ENTOMOLOGIE 119, (1) 29-34 , DOI
(1994) 'ROOT DISTURBANCE OF COMMON ASH, FRAXINUS-EXCELSIOR (OLEACEAE), LEADS TO REDUCED FOLIAR TOUGHNESS AND INCREASED FEEDING BY A FOLIVOROUS WEEVIL, STEREONYCHUS-FRAXINI (COLEOPTERA, CURCULIONIDAE)' ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY 19, (4) 344-348 , DOI
(1993) 'ROOT DAMAGE AND WATER-STRESS - TREATMENTS AFFECTING THE EXPLOITATION OF THE BUDS OF COMMON ASH FRAXINUS-EXCELSIOR L, BY LARVAE OF THE ASH BUD MOTH PRAYS FRAXINELLA BJERK (LEP, YPONOMEUTIDAE)' OECOLOGIA 96, (1) 134-138 , DOI
Reviews
(2014) 'The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world' Ecology and Evolution 4, (13) 2787-2798 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
Chapters
(2007) 'Body size, range size and dispersal in aquatic invertebrates' in Hildrew AG; Raffaelli DG; Edmunds-Brown R Body size: the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 186-209
(2001) 'Edge effects and tropical canopy invertebrates' in Linsenmair KE; Davis AJ; Fiala B; Speight MR Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management 347-359
Conference Papers
(2019) 'Exploring the experience and challenges for PD STAT clinical trial participants: a qualitative study' S68-S68
(2009) 'Understanding physiological tolerance through thermal limits of three amphipod species' S170-S170 , DOI
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
Organising Committee Member: Aquatic Habitats as Ecological Islands. BES/FBA/MBA sponsored meeting 2000
Organising Committee Member: Climate Change and Aquatic Systems: Past, Present & Future. BES/FBA/MBA sponsored meeting 2004