• Ecology of marine soft-bottom communities, particularly in estuarine and coastal habitats.

• Ecosystem function and scale dependent processes in heterogeneous environments.

• Influence of disturbance events on populations and communities and the consequent recovery processes. 

• Spatial and temporal variation in populations and communities.

• Ecological impact assessment, particularly of diffuse source and cumulative effects.

• Design and implementation of ecological monitoring programmes.

• Environmental effects of commercial fishing.

• Organism-sediment interactions.

• Organism-hydrodynamic interactions.

• Resilience and feedback processes in benthic ecosystems.

• Marine ecosystem services

• High Antarctic coastal ecosystems

• Ecological knowledge and its role in framing decision making processes

• Socio-ecological systems

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Click here for an article and radio interview about the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge Tipping Points project that Simon leads.

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