Policy and outreach publications

  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., 2022. Synthesis of marine biodiversity evidence in Karnataka and Goa, p. 56.
  • Government Office for Science (McQuatters-Gollop, A., contributing author), (2022). Systems thinking: An introductory toolkit for civil servants, p. 85.
  • Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (McQuatters-Gollop, A., contributing author), (2021). POSTNOTE: Effective biodiversity indicators, No. 644, London, 4 pp.
  • Zwerschke, N., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Hinchen, H., Pettit, L., Dinwoodie, K., Baigent, H., Vina-Herbon, C., (2021). Ocean acidification and the seabed: how do we detect early warning signals? Defra, London, p. 56.
  • Defra Systems Research Programme (McQuatters-Gollop, A., contributing author), (2021). A Primer for Integrating Systems Approaches into Defra. Defra, London.
  • Edwards, M., Atkinson, A., Bresnan, E., Helaouët, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Ostle, C., Pitois, S. and Widdicombe, C., (2020). Plankton, jellyfish and climate in the North-East Atlantic. MCCIP Science Review 2020: 322–353.
  • Bedford, J. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2019). Developing and applying indicators for marine conservation and management. Commonwealth Blue Charter, London, UK, 17 pp.
  • Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (McQuatters-Gollop, contributing author), (2019). POSTNOTE: UK Climate Change and Fisheries, No. 604, London, 4 pp.
  • Parish, N. and Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee (McQuatters-Gollop provided evidence), (2019). Beyond the Common Fisheries Policy: Scrutiny of the Fisheries Bill. Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament, London, 38 pp.
  • Creagh, M., and the Environmental Audit Committee (McQuatters-Gollop provided evidence), (2019). Sustainable Seas. Fourteenth Report of Session 2017-19. Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament, London, 66 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Bedford, J., Best, M., Bresnan, E., Devlin, M., Graves, C., Johns, D., Machairopolou, M., McKinney, A., Mellor, A., Ostle, C., Pitois, S. and Tett, P., (2019). A protocol for the assessment of the biodiversity indicator ‘Change in Plankton Communities’ for UK waters, 19 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2018). 海洋生態系の持続可能な管理に向けた科学と政策の協働  (Collaboration of science and policy toward sustainable management of marine ecosystems). Sasakawa Peace Foundation Ocean Policy Research Institute Ocean Newsletter, 434: 4-5.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A. and UK Pelagic Habitats Expert Group, (2018). UK pelagic habitats and monitoring options: white paper for UK and DA ministers, London, pp 15.
  • Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (McQuatters-Gollop, contributing author), (2018). POSTNOTE: UK Fisheries Management, No. 572, London, 4 pp.
  • British Ecological Society Brexit Policy Working Group (McQuatters-Gollop, contributing author), (2018). The marine environment after Brexit: the future for science and policy, London, 18 pp.
  • British Ecological Society Brexit Policy Working Group (McQuatters-Gollop, contributing author), (2018). Sustainable Seas Inquiry: Written evidence submitted by the British Ecological Society. British Ecological Society, London, 11.
  • Higgs, N., Thompson, R., Hutchinson, T., Hall-Spencer, J., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Embling, C., Rees, S., Sheehan, E. and Selby, I., (2018). Sustainable Seas Inquiry: Written Evidence from the University of Plymouth Marine Institute. University of Plymouth Marine Institute, Plymouth, UK, pp. 12.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Artigas, F., Aubert, A., Budria, A., Johansen, M., Ostle, C. and Rombouts, I., (2017). PH1: Changes in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities. In: OSPAR (Editor), OSPAR Intermediate Assessment 2017. OSPAR, London, UK, pp. 2.
  • OSPAR, (2017). PH2: Changes in phytoplankton biomass and zooplankton abundance. In: OSPAR (Editor), OSPAR Intermediate Assessment 2017. OSPAR, London, UK, pp. 2.
  • OSPAR, (2017). PH3: Pilot assessment of changes in plankton diversity. In: OSPAR (Editor), OSPAR Intermediate Assessment 2017. OSPAR, London, UK, pp. 2.
  • Elliott, S.A.M., Arroyo, N.L., Safi, G., Ostle, C., Guérin, L., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Aubert, A., Artigas, F., Budria, A., I. Rombouts1, Artigas, F., Pesch, R., Schmitt, P., Vina-Herbon, C., Meakins, B., González-Irusta, J.M., Preciado, I., López-López, L., Punzón, A., Torriente, A., Serrano, A., Haraldsson, M., Capuzzo, E., Claquin, P., Kromkamp, J., Niquil, N., Judd, A., Padegimas, B. and Corcoran, E., (2017). Proposed approaches for indicator integration EcApRHA Deliverable 4.1. OSPAR, London, UK, 46.
  • Budria, A., Aubert, A., Rombouts, I., Ostle, C., Atkinson, A., Widdicombe, C., Goberville, E., Artigas, F., Johns, D., Padegimas, B., Corcoran, E. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2017). Cross-linking plankton indicators to better define GES of pelagic habitats EcApRHA Deliverable WP1.4. OSPAR, London, UK, 54.

    EcApRHA D1.1 Programming outputs for constructing the plankton lifeform indicator from disparate data types

  • Ostle, C., Artigas, F., Atkinson, A., Aubert, A., Budria, A., Graham, G., Helaouët, P., Johns, D., Padegimas, B., Rombouts, I., Widdicombe, C. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2017). Spatial Representivity of Plankton Indicators EcApRHA Deliverable WP1.3. OSPAR, London, UK, 28.
  • Aubert, A., Rombouts, I., Artigas, F., Budria, A., Ostle, C., Padegimas, B. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2017). Combining methods and data for a more holistic assessment of the plankton community EcApRHA Deliverable WP1.2. OSPAR, London, UK, 42.
  • Ostle, C., Artigas, F., Aubert, A., Budria, A., Graham, G., Johansen, M., Johns, D., Padegimas, B., Rombouts, I., and McQuatters-Gollop, A. (2017). Programming outputs for constructing the plankton lifeform indicator from disparate data types EcApRHA Deliverable WP1.1. OSPAR, London, UK, 30.
  • ICES, (2015). Report of the Working Group on Biodiversity Science (WGBIODIV), 9–13 February 2015. ICES, ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 308.
  • Skinner, J., Bailly, D., Le Coz, M., Dodds, W., Fletcher, S., Glegg, G., Glenn, H., Herry, L., Molfese, C., Sewell, J. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., 2014. Pathways for effective governance of the English Channel. Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK, p. 50.
  • ICES, 2014. Second Interim Report of the Working Group on Biodiversity Science (WGBIODIV). ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 44.
  • Scherer, C., Gowen, R.J., Tett, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Forster, R., Bresnan, E., Cook, K., Atkinson, A., Best, M., Baptie, M., Keeble, S., McCullough, G., McKinney, A., 2014. Finalising and implementing the development of plankton indicators and targets: Operationalising the Lifeform and State Space Method. Workshop report to Defra. Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, p. 32.
  • Pathways for effective governance of the English Channel

    Pathways for effective governance of the English Channel

     

    Scherer, C., Gowen, R.J., Tett, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Forster, R., Bresnan, E., Cook, K., Atkinson, A., Best, M., Baptie, M., Keeble, S., McCullough, G. and McKinney, A., (2014). Development of a UK Integrated Plankton Monitoring Programme: A final report of the Lifeform and State Space project, prepared for Defra. Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, 450 pp.

  • Gowen, R.J., Tett, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Forster, R., Scherer, C., Bresnan, E., Cook, K., Atkinson, A., Best, M., Baptie, M., Keeble, S. and McCullough, G., (2013). Part One of the UK Marine Strategy for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Plankton indicators: Development of the Life-form and State-Space Method. Defra, Belfast, 27 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2013). Are marine phytoplankton in decline? The Marine Biologist, 1: 18-20
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Johns, D., 2012. Scotland’s Biodiversity Indicator – Plankton. Scottish Natural Heritage, 8 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D.G., Dowland, P., Edwards, M.  (2011). Digitization, analysis and interpretation of plankton data for pre-1914 ICES sampling in the North Sea and adjacent waters: final report March 2011. SAHFOS, Plymouth, 20 pp.
  • Gowen, R.J., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Tett, P., Best, M., Bresnan, E., Castellani, C., Cook, K., Forster, R., Scherer, C. and Mckinney, A., 2011. The Development of UK Pelagic (Plankton) Indicators and Targets for the MSFD. Advice to Defra. Belfast, UK, 41 pp.
  • Moffat, C, Aish, A., Hawkridge, J.M., Miles, H., Mitchell, P. I., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Frost, M., Greenstreet, S., Pinn, E., Proudfoot, R., Sanderson, W. G., & Tasker, M. L. (2011).  Advice on United Kingdom biodiversity indicators and targets for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group Report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 207pp.
  • Celine Byrne (with Abigail McQuatters-Gollop), (2011). A new addition to the online offering: ICES Historical Plankton Dataset, ICES Inside Out vol 5. ICES, Copenhagen, pp. 1.
  • Johns, D.G. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2011). Natural Heritage Trends – Plankton in the seas around Scotland – 2010 update. Scottish Natural Heritage, 5 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Burkill, P., Beaugrand, G., Edwards, M., Gattuso, J.-P. and Johns, D.G., (2010). Atlas of Calcifying Plankton: Results from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey. SAHFOS, Plymouth, UK, 20 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Edwards, M., Reid, P.C. and Johns, D., (2010). A marine assessment and monitoring framework for application in UKMMAS and OSPAR, for phytoplankton and zooplankton. Report to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science. SAHFOS, Plymouth, 44 p.
  • Edwards, M., Beaugrand, G., Johns, D.G., Licandro, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Wootton, M., (2010). Ecological Status Report: results from the CPR survey 2009. SAHFOS Technical Report, 7: 1-8.
  • Reid, P.C., Edwards, M., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Beaugrand, G., Bresnan, E., Brierley, A., Davidson, K., Delany, J., Eloire, D., Forster, R., Fox, C., Frederiksen, M., Gowen, R., Halliday, N., Hardman-Mountford, N., Hátún, H., Hay, S., Hartman, S., Helaouët, P., Johns, D., Kirby, R., Lampitt, R., Larkin, K., Licandro, P., Lindley, A., Lucas, C., McCollin, T., Miller, P., Milligan, S., Mills, D., Pitois, S., Prior, A., Rees, A., Smyth, T., Smythe-Wright, D., Stevens, D. and Widdicombe, C., (2010). Biological indicators of state: the plankton, Charting Progress 2: An Integrated Assessment of the State of UK Seas. Defra, London, UK, 69 pp.
  • Edwards, M., Heath, M. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2010). Plankton, MCCIP Annual Report Card 2010-11. MCCIP Science Review, pp. 10.
  • Langmead, O., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Mee, L.D., (2010). The socioeconomics behind ecosystem collapse: the case of the Black Sea. Science for Environment Policy: DG Environment News Alert Service, Special Issue 22: 1.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2009). Regional policies needed to tackle eutrophication in Europe’s seas. Science for Environment Policy: DG Environment News Alert Service, 154: 1.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D. and Edwards, M., (2009). The Continuous Plankton Recorder. Exploring the Marine Environment. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2009, 40: 10-11.
  • Edwards, M., Beaugrand, G., John, A.W.G., Johns, D.G., Licandro, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Reid, P.C., (2009). Ecological Status Report: results from the CPR survey 2007/2008. SAHFOS Technical Report, 6: 1-12.
  • Reid, P.C., Bathmann, U., Batten, S.D., Brainard, R.E., Burkill, P.H., Carlotti, F., Chiba, S., Conversi, A., Dickson, R.R., Dooley, H., Edwards, M., Flinkman, J., Fukuchi, M., Goes, J., Goni, G., Greene, C.H., Hare, J.A., Hays, G.C., Head, E., Hood, R.R., Hosie, G., Hunt, B.P.V., John, A.W.G., Jonas, T.D., Jossi, J.W., Karlson, B., Kuh Kim, Kirby, R.R., Kitchener, J., Kobayashi, D., Lakkis, S., Llope, M., Lopes, R.M., MacDiarmid, A., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Malone, T., Matondkar, P., Muxagata, E., Pershing, A., Richardson, A.J., Robertson, D., Robinson, K., Sartimbul, A., Stenseth, N.C., Sugisaki, H., Stevens, D., Berghe, E.V., Verheye, H., Vezzulli, L. and Ward, P., 2009. A Global Continuous Plankton Recorder Programme, OceanObs09, Venice, Italy, pp. 12.
  • Reid, PC, Cook, EJ, Edwards, M, McQuatters-Gollop, A, Minchin, D and McCollin, T (2009) Marine non-native species in Marine Climate Change Ecosystem Linkages Report Card 2009. (Eds. Baxter JM, Buckley PJ and Frost MT), Online science reviews, www.mccip.org.uk/elr/non-natives, 28pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A. (2008). Harmful Algal Blooms and fishery product safety. FAO. 10 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D.G., Halliday, N. and Edwards, M., (2008). Fish Larvae Project: Progress Report Contract MF1101. SAHFOS/Defra/Cefas, Plymouth, 28 pp.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2008). Climate exacerbates eutrophication in the North Sea. Marbef Newsletter, 8: 17-18.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2007). The synergistic effects of climate and eutrophication in the North Sea. GLOBEC International Newsletter, 13: 10-11.
  • McQuatters-Gollop, A., Raitsos, D.E., Edwards, M., Pradhan, Y., Mee, L.D., Lavender, S.J. and Attrill, M.J., (2007). Climate exacerbates eutrophication in the North Sea. IMBER Update, 7: 3:4.
  • McQuatters-Gollop A., and L.D. Mee. (2007). Eutrophication in the Black Sea, p 20. World Resources Institute.
  • Reid, P.C., A. McQuatters-Gollop, D. Johns and M. Edwards (2007). Macroscale patterns in phytoplankton and Harmful Algal Blooms in UK waters based on Continuous Plankton Recorder data. UK Environment Agency contract report.
  • Edwards, M., Reid, P.C., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Helaouet, P., Kirby, R. and Frederiksen, M., (2008). Indicator review for pelagic ecosystems (phytoplankton and zooplankton): Report to the Healthy and Biologically Diverse Sea Evidence Group (HBDSEG). Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK, 22 pp.
  • Langmead, O., A. McQuatters-Gollop and L.D. Mee (Eds.). (2007). European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems: Exploring challenges for managing Europe’s seas. 43pp. University of Plymouth Marine Institute, Plymouth, UK.