Unsworth, Richard - Swansea University - Department of Biosciences

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Richard's expertise lie in the ecological structuring processes of marine systems and the implications of these systems for society. This focuses primarily on the interrelationships between foundation species, habitat, and associated productive fauna (mainly fish). He is particularly interested in the consequences of cross-scale environmental changes on seagrass meadows functioning and the implications of this for global food security and other ecosystem services. Richard has more than twelve years’ experience of research in marine systems and conducts collaborative interdisciplinary research in Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Columbia and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Based within the SEACAMS team at Swansea, he leads the level 3 module in 'Tropical marine ecology and conservation' and teaches on the MSc module 'Conservation of aquatic resources'. After completing his PhD in 2007, Richard conducted research and consulting work for Sinclair Knight Merz, Brisbane and the Northern Fisheries Centre, Queensland, Australia. He has also worked as an senior ecology lecturer at University of Glamorgan. He is an academic editor at PLoS One and vice-president of the World Seagrass Association. Richard is also a founding director of Project-Seagrass and continues to work as a senior scientist at SeagrassWatchHQ. Other roles include membership of the editorial boards of Marine Pollution Bulletin and Marine Environmental Research. His current research projects include the impact of climate variability on seagrass ecosystems, social-ecological systems analysis, ocean acidification and seagrass, and the resilience and ecosystem service provision of seagrass. Funding is currently through SEACAMS, Darwin, the Waterloo Foundation and the Ocean Foundation. Areas of Expertise Marine ecology Seagrass biology Fisheries ecology Fish biology Social-ecological systems marine biology Food security ecological economics

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Maxwell, P., Eklöf, J., van Katwijk, M., O'Brien, K., de la Torre-Castro, M., Boström, C., Bouma, T., Krause-Jensen, D., Unsworth, R., van Tussenbroek, B. & van der Heide, T. (2016). The fundamental role of ecological feedback mechanisms for the adaptive management of seagrass ecosystems - a review. Biological Reviews https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30235 doi:10.1111/brv.12294 Unsworth, R., Jones, B. & Cullen-Unsworth, L. (2016). Seagrass meadows are threatened by expected loss of peatlands in Indonesia. Global Change Biology 22(9), 2957-2958. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30236 doi:10.1111/gcb.13392 Magar, V., Griffin, R., Robinson, G., West, A., Gloyne-Phillips, I. & Unsworth, R. (2016). Assessing Fish and Motile Fauna around Offshore Windfarms Using Stereo Baited Video. PLOS ONE 11(3), e0149701 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26531 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149701 Cullen-Unsworth, L., Unsworth, R. & Frid, C. (2016). Strategies to enhance the resilience of the world's seagrass meadows. Journal of Applied Ecology 53(4), 967-972. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26532 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12637 Jones, B. & Unsworth, R. (2016). The perilous state of seagrass in the British Isles. Royal Society Open Science 3, 150596 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26530 doi:10.1098/rsos.150596 McCloskey, R. & Unsworth, R. (2015). Decreasing seagrass density negatively influences associated fauna. PeerJ 3, e1053 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23458 doi:10.7717/peerj.1053 Unsworth, R., Collier, C., Waycott, M., Mckenzie, L. & Cullen-Unsworth, L. (2015). A framework for the resilience of seagrass ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin 100(1), 34-46. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23457 doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.08.016 Unsworth, R., Hinder, S., Bodger, O. & Cullen-Unsworth, L. (2014). Food supply depends on seagrass meadows in the coral triangle. Environmental Research Letters 9(9), 094005 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18584 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094005 Baker, S., Paddock, J., Smith, A., Unsworth, R., Cullen-Unsworth, L. & Hertler, H. (2014). An ecosystems perspective for food security in the Caribbean: Seagrass meadows in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Ecosystem Services https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18583 doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.011 McKenzie, L., Yoshida, R. & Unsworth, R. (2014). Disturbance influences the invasion of a seagrass into an existing meadow. Marine Pollution Bulletin https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18170 doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.07.019 Cullen-Unsworth, L., Nordlund, L., Paddock, J., Baker, S., McKenzie, L. & Unsworth, R. (2014). Seagrass meadows globally as a coupled social–ecological system: Implications for human wellbeing. Marine Pollution Bulletin https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15150 doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.001 Unsworth, R., Peters, J., McCloskey, R. & Hinder, S. (2014). Optimising stereo baited underwater video for sampling fish and invertebrates in temperate coastal habitats. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17543 doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2014.03.020 Peters, J., McCloskey, R., Hinder, S. & Unsworth, R. (2014). Motile fauna of sub-tidal Zostera marina meadows in England and Wales. Marine Biodiversity https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18585 doi:10.1007/s12526-014-0264-x