Marine Environmental Unit Publications

2024

Outinen, O., Bailey, S.A., Casas-Monroy, O., Delacroix, S., Gorgula, S., Griniene, E., Kakkonen, J.E. and Srebaliene, G. (2024) Biological testing of ships’ ballast water indicates challenges for the implementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, p.1334286.

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2024

Want, A., Matejusova, I., & Kakkonen, J.E. (2023). The establishment of the invasive non-native macroalga Sargassum muticum in the north of Scotland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 103, E69.

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2021

Want, A. and Kakkonen, J.E. (2021) A new range-extending record of the invasive sea squirt Styela clava in the north of Scotland. Marine Biodiversity Records, 14(1), pp.1-5.

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Matejusova, I., Graham, J., Bland, F., Lacaze, J.P., Herman, G., Brown, L., Dalgarno, E., Bishop, J.D., Kakkonen, J.E., Smith, K.F. and Douglas, A. (2021) Environmental DNA based surveillance for the highly invasive carpet sea squirt Didemnum vexillum: A targeted single-species approach. Frontiers in Marine Science. Volume 8, article 728456.

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Van Franeker, J.A., Kühn, S., Anker-Nilssen, T., Edwards, E.W., Gallien, F., Guse, N., Kakkonen, J.E., Mallory, M.L., Miles, W., Olsen, K.O. and Pedersen, J., (2021) New tools to evaluate plastic ingestion by northern fulmars applied to North Sea monitoring data 2002–2018. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166, p.112246.

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Outinen O, Bailey SA, Broeg K, Chasse J, Clarke S, Daigle RM, Gollasch S, Kakkonen JE, Lehtiniemi M, Normant-Saremba M, Ogilvie D. (2021) Exceptions and exemptions under the ballast water management convention–Sustainable alternatives for ballast water management? Journal of Environmental Management 293, p. 112823

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2019

Kakkonen, J.E. (2019) Sandy beach monitoring to detect impacts against a background of long-term trends and variability in intertidal macroinvertebrate communities: an Orkney case-study (Doctoral dissertation, Heriot-Watt University).

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Kakkonen, J.E., Worsfold, T.M., Ashelby, C.W., Taylor, A. and Beaton, K. (2019) The value of regular monitoring and diverse sampling techniques to assess aquatic non-native species: a case study from Orkney.  Management of Biological Invasions 10(1): 46-79, 

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2017

Blumenröder, J., Sechet, P., Kakkonen, J.E. and Hartl, M.G., 2017, Microplastic contamination of intertidal sediments of Scapa Flow, Orkney: a first assessment. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 124(1), 112-120,

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Want, A., Crawford, R., Kakkonen, J., Kiddie, G., Miller, S., Harris, R.E. and Porter, J.S., 2017, Biodiversity characterisation and hydrodynamic consequences of marine fouling communities on marine renewable energy infrastructure in the Orkney Islands Archipelago, Scotland, UK. Biofouling 33(7): 567-579,

1990 - 1980

Atkins, S.M. & Jones, A.M., 1990, Studies on natural and anthropogenic influences on macrofauna of sandy shores at four sites in Orkney over a 15-year period.  In Estuaries and Coasts: Spatial and Temporal Comparisons, Elliott M, Ducroroy JP (eds).  ECSA Symposium, pp. 139-143, Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg, Denmark.

Atkins, S.M., Simpson, J.A. & Jones, A.M., 1989, The importance of the seasonal component in sandy shore monitoring: Examples from low diversity habitats in Orkney.  In J. McManus & M. Elliott (eds): Developments in Estuarine and Coastal Study Techniques, pp. 21-27, Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg, Denmark.

Atkins, S.M., Jones, A.M. & Simpson, J.A., 1985, The fauna of sandy beaches in Orkney: a review.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 87B, 27-45.

Jones, A.M., 1980, Monitoring studies associated with an oil reception terminal. Rapports et Proces Verbaux des Reunions, 179, 194-200.

Publications with Marine Environmental Unit collaboration:

2023

Roy and Carvalho (2023) Provision of horizon scanning and analysis of pathways of spread of invasive species into Scotland, Scottish Government, pp. 66.

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2020

Bedford, J., Ostle, C., Johns, D.G., Atkinson, A., Best, M., Bresnan, E., Machairopoulou, M., Graves, C.A., Devlin, M., Milligan, A. and Pitois, S. (2020) Lifeform indicators reveal large‐scale shifts in plankton across the North‐West European shelf. Global Change Biology, 26(6), pp.3482-3497,

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2017

Bresnan, E., Fryer, R.J., Fraser, S., Smith, N., Stobo, L., Brown, N. and Turrell, E. (2017) The relationship between Pseudo-nitzschia (Peragallo) and domoic acid in Scottish shellfish. Harmful Algae63:193-202, 

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2016

Angus, S. (2016) Monitoring and surveillance of a highly variable habitat: The challenge posed by Scottish saline lagoons. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 8: 20-26,

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