Our research broadly falls under the umbrella of multiple stressors in benthic marine environments.
Several projects are investigating multiple stressors looking to identify tipping points before they occur and how ecosystems may behave once they are passed. Joanne is key scientist in the ‘Risk and Uncertainty’ project from the Sustainable Seas program, working to understand how such occurrences may impact marine environments in New Zealand.
However, our research is quite diverse, ranging from mangroves to fjords to deep sea ecosystems.
One of our field sites is a coastal salt marsh in the Tauranga Harbour.
Joanne and Carolyn Lundquist conducting mangrove surveys.
Photos from our fieldwork
Some key publications from our group are listed below:
Ellis, JI, Jamil, T, Anlauf, H, et al. Multiple stressor effects on coral reef ecosystems. Glob Change Biol. 2019; 25: 4131–4146. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14819
Ellis, J.I., Clark, D., Atalah, J. et al. Multiple stressor effects on marine infauna: responses of estuarine taxa and functional traits to sedimentation, nutrient and metal loading. Sci Rep 7, 12013 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12323-5
Rullens V, Stephenson F, Hewitt J, Clark D, Pilditch C, Thrush S, Ellis J 2022. The impact of cumulative stressor effects on uncertainty and ecological risk. Science of the Total Environment. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156877
Thomson T, Fusi M, Bennett-Smith M, Prinz N, Aylagas E, Carvalho S, Jones B, Ellis J 2022. Contrasting effects of local environmental and biogeographic factors on the composition and structure of bacterial communities in arid monospecific mangrove soils. Microbiology Spectrum. DOI 10.1128/spectrum.00903-21
For a complete list of publications, please visit Joanne’s google scholar or research gate profile.
