David Eggleston

Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science

Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2021 · 120 citations

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. While important progress in this field has been made in the past decade, there has been no coherent prioritisation of key research questions to help set the future research agenda for seascape ecology. We used a 2-stage modified Delphi method to solicit applied…

Impacts of the invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus on small-scale fisheries in a Mediterranean lagoon using fishery landing data

The Science of The Total Environment · 2025-03-29 · 32 citations

Human activities have introduced numerous non-native species beyond their natural habitats, leading to their establishment in new regions. Among them, the Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) has significantly impacted biodiversity and fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea. This study investigates the recent population increase of C. sapidus associated changes of small-scale fisheries in one Mediterranean lagoon, the Sacca di Goro lagoon within the Po River Delta. We analysed the influence of e…

Metapopulation dynamics of oysters: sources, sinks, and implications for conservation and restoration

Ecosphere · 2021 · 31 citations

Abstract Metapopulation and source–sink dynamics are increasingly considered within spatially explicit management of wildlife populations, yet the application of these concepts has generally been limited to comparisons of the performance (e.g., demographic rates or dispersal) inside vs. outside protected areas, and at spatial scales that do not encompass an entire metapopulation. In the present study, a spatially explicit, size‐structured matrix model was applied to simulate the dynamics of an E…

From ecological to anthropogenic factors: unraveling the drivers of blue crab Callinectes sapidus occurrence along the Mediterranean coasts

Frontiers in Marine Science · 2025-01-16 · 14 citations

Introduction Non-native species are widely recognized as threats to biodiversity, ecosystems, and the services they provide to humans. The Mediterranean Sea has a high biodiversity of endemic species and is a hot spot of biological invasions. One of the most recent threats to Mediterranean ecosystems is the invasion of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus . Methods The occurrences of the crab throughout the Mediterranean coastline were indexed from citizen science through the Global Biodiv…

Hard-bottom habitats support commercially important fish species: a systematic review for the North Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea

PeerJ · 2023-01-17 · 11 citations

Hard-bottom habitats span a range of natural substrates ( e.g. , boulders, cobble) and artificial habitats ( e.g. , the base of wind turbines, oil platforms). These hard-bottom habitats can provide a variety of ecosystem services, ranging from the enhancement of fish biomass and production to providing erosion control. Management decisions regarding the construction or fate of hard-bottom habitats require information on the ecological functions of these habitats, particularly for species targete…