Prof. Martin Solan

Co‐Extinctions and Co‐Compensatory Species Responses to Climate Change Moderate Ecosystem Futures Predictions of what happens to an ecosystem following the loss of species often assume species disappear one by one, but some drivers of extinction target multiple species at a time that share certai....

Biodiversity-function curves change from expectation when co-extinctions and co-compensatory responses are taken into account. See our *NEW PAPER* exploring these changes across an Arctic climatic gradient here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally somebody recognised what we do! 😂

Although assessing the extent and role of biogenic sediment mixing in the fossil record has been informed by knowledge of bioturbation in modern oceans, extrapolating concepts and quantifying proxies is problematic. We offer our perspectives in our new paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/palaios...

Excited….new bit of kit leaving USA right now to help in our quest to quantify bioturbation. What could it be? Answer to follow, add your guess in reply.

Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).

Carbon costing and control through activity-based emissions accounting Report on carbon costing via activity-based emissions accounting and its effect on enabling ESG integration, pricing, and control, using operational data from a UK container port.

One way business can adjust is to carbon costing and control through activity-based emissions accounting. Read our report here: www.aicpa-cima.com/cpd-and-lear...

One way business can adjust is to carbon costing and control through activity-based emissions accounting. Read our report here: www.aicpa-cima.com/cpd-and-lear...

Must read out this week…

Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.

Eat. Sleep. Sieve. Repeat.

Growth of marine ectotherms is regionally constrained and asymmetric with latitude Aim Growth rates of organisms are routinely used to summarize physiological performance, but the consequences of local evolutionary history and ecology are largely missed by analyses on wide biogeog...

Great initiative. Might be interested in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Launched our new NERC C-Floor project on the effects of bottom fishing, and other human activities on benthic carbon stocks with collaborators from @pml.ac.uk, @exetermarine.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, and @noc.ac.uk, with policy and impact facilitated by @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Invitation to join our bioturbation starter pack

Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.

Nice summary of terrestrial bioturbation by some major groups below. Add to this marine bioturbation (see here for global map: www.cell.com/current-biol... and we soon realise that virtually all of the planet is reworked continuously by a diversity of fauna.

This is what we are measure! A worm & our sand used to measure burrowing. We link this to functioning on the seafloor. We're almost done!

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Listen to @benthicbecky.bsky.social speaking about our work, the role of benthic invertebrates on carbon cycling in Saguenay Fjord on CBC Quebec AM: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Making mud sexy: Scientists search for climate change answers in Quebec sea floor The research is part of the Convex Seascape Survey, a partnership exploring how the sea floor regulates climate.

Love this title featuring our work in the Toronto Sun. I’ll take that as a compliment! torontosun.com/news/nationa...

Des solutions aux changements climatiques pourraient reposer sur les fonds marins Il n'y a pas que les phoques et les bélugas qui nagent majestueusement dans le fjord du Saguenay. Il y a aussi de petites créatures enfouies dans les fonds marins qui, selon des chercheurs, pourraient...

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Delighted that our research in Saguenay fjord made it onto Canadian national news…
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Grabbing muddy bottoms in Saguenay Fjord 🌊 We haul mud from 250 m down, in each a world of hidden life. In the lab we learn how they keep the seabed healthy 💙 @exetermarine.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social @ulaval.ca

YouTube video by CTV News Air Canada flight attendants 'mobilizing' Monday | CTV National News for Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025

Check out our research as featured on Canadian national news channel CTV at 15:56 mins…
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Introducing Yorkshire pudding with cauliflower cheese and mashed potatoes to our colleagues from @ulaval.ca to keep us going through our fieldwork on Saguenay fjord!

The #ConvexSeascapeSurvey is in Canada! A collaboration between @ulaval.ca @exetermarine.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social is investigating the role of animals that live in mud on the #seafloor in helping bury #BlueCarbon and keep our #climate healthy.

Thanks to the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (uqac.ca) for allowing us to set up our field ready mesocosm facility as part of our international collaboration between @ulaval.ca, @uniSouthampton.bsky.social and @exetermarine.bsky.social to work on the benthic communities of Saguenay fjord.

Great team at Fjord Marine made sampling Saguenay Fjord in Quebec possible - two experiments running in the lab. Working with colleagues from the University of Laval and @exetermarine.bsky.social to investigate how benthic communities modify carbon.

Heading north to start a field campaign in Saguenay fjord in Quebec with @philarchambault.bsky.social, @benthicbecky@bsky.social, @omparrish.bsky.social, @cezzalew.bsky.social, @ap3489.bsky.social looking at benthic faunal contributions to carbon.

I’m obsessed with brittle stars: fish often nip off bits of their arms but they regenerate These starfish relatives have lots of remarkable features and are a keystone species. My hope is that we will recognise how vital these charismatic creatures are

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As someone who studies bioturbation, I like the sound of this town…

**WE ARE HIRING** Research fellow in seafloor imaging and data management - CLOSING DATE 17 February. Full details at: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Intraspecific variability across seasons and geographically distinct populations can modify species contributions to ecosystems Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

***New Paper*** We find that failure to embrace sources of inherent temporal and spatial dynamics in key trait-process-function relationships leads to less robust estimates of the ecological consequences of change. Read our findings here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...