Joana is a benthic ecologist within the Marine Ecology and Biodiversity group at PML and co-leader of the WCO Benthic Survey., an ongoing time-series programme initiated in 2008.
Jo is a sea-going scientist and participates in both field- and laboratory-based studies assessing the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic stressors on benthic organisms and their environment. Jo also contributes to systematic reviews assessing modern world effects on marine communities worldwide.
Before coming to PML in 2011, Jo’s research focus used to be terrestrial ecology, having graduated from an M.Sc. in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology (Distinction) from the University of Exeter.
Recent publications
- Watson, SCL; Somerfield, PJ; Lemasson, AJ; Knights, AM; Edwards-Jones, A; Nunes, J; Pascoe, CK; McNeill, CL; Schratzberger, M; Thompson, MSA; Couce, E; Szostek, CL; Baxter, H; Beaumont, NJ; 2024. The global impact of offshore wind farms on ecosystem services. Ocean & Coastal Management.
- McEvoy, AJ; Atkinson, A; Airs, RL; Brittain, R; Brown, IJ; Fileman, ES; Findlay, HS; McNeill, CL; Ostle, C; Smyth, TJ; Somerfield, PJ; Tait, K; Tarran, GA; Thomas, S; Widdicombe, CE; Woodward, EMS; Beesley, A; Conway, DVP; Fishwick, J; Haines, H; Harris, C; Harris, RP; Helaouët, P; Johns, DG; Lindeque, PK; Mesher, T; McQuatters-Gollop, A; Nunes, J; Perry, F.; Queiros, AM; Rees, AP; Ruhl, S; Sims, DW; Torres, R; Widdicombe, S; 2023. The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel. Earth System Science Data.
- Lemasson, AJ; Somerfield, PJ; Schratzberger, M; McNeill, CL; Nunes, J; Pascoe, CK; Watson, SCL; Thompson, MSA; Couce, E; Knights, AM; 2022. Evidence for the effects of decommissioning man-made structures on marine ecosystems globally: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence.
- Queiros, AM; Stephens, N; Widdicombe, S; Tait, K; McCoy, SJ; Ingels, J; Ruhl, S; Airs, RL; Beesley, A; Carnovale, G; Cazenave, P; Dashfield, SL; Hua, E; Jones, M; Lindeque, PK; McNeill, CL; Nunes, J; Parry, HE; Pascoe, CK; Widdicombe, CE; Smyth, TJ; Atkinson, A; Krause‐Jensen, D; Somerfield, PJ; 2019. Connected macroalgal‐sediment systems: blue carbon and food webs in the deep coastal ocean. Ecological Monographs.
- Kitidis, V; Tait, K; Nunes, J; Brown, IJ; Woodward, EMS; Harris, C; Sabadel, AJM; Sivyer, DB; Silburn, B; Kröger, S; 2017. Seasonal benthic nitrogen cycling in a temperate shelf sea: the Celtic Sea. Biogeochemistry.