Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity

Project Information

SEACHANGE

Grant agreement ID: 856488

DOI

10.3030/856488

EC signature date 18 May 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 11 750 827,00

EU contribution

€ 11 750 827,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (33)

Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing Metabarcoding and Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment Environmental <scp>DNA</scp>

Author(s): Luke E. Holman, Giulia Zampirolo, Richard Gyllencreutz, James Scourse, Tobias Frøslev, Christian Carøe, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Kristine Bohmann
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue Feb 20 2025, 2025, Page(s) e14086, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.14086

Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies.

Author(s): Kristine Bohmann; Vasco Elbrecht; Christian Carøe; Iliana Bista; Iliana Bista; Florian Leese; Michael Bunce; Douglas W. Yu; Douglas W. Yu; Douglas W. Yu; Mathew Seymour; Alex J. Dumbrell; Simon Creer
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 22-4, 2021, Page(s) 1231– 1246, ISSN 1755-0998
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.17863/cam.76787

Ancient environmental DNA indicates limited human impact on marine biodiversity in pre-industrial Iceland.

Author(s): Holman, LE; Arfaoui, EMR; Pedersen, LB; Farnsworth, WR; Ascough, P; Butler, PG; Guðmundsdóttir, ER; Reynolds, DJ; Trofimova, T; Wilkin, JTR; Carøe, C; Frøslev, TG; Harrison, R; Gopalakrishnan, S; Pedersen, MW; Scourse, JD; Bohmann, K
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0031

Influence of sampling strategy, alignment method and growth morphology on the temporal contextualization of high-resolution geochemical data

Author(s): Lukas Fröhlich, Qian Huang, Bernd R. Schöne
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Issue 674, 2025, Page(s) 113003, ISSN 0031-0182
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113003

Deep antiquity of seagrasses supporting European eel fisheries in the western Baltic

Author(s): Eric Guiry, Harry K. Robson
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 291, 2024, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0674

Mesolithic Scandinavian foraging patterns and hunting grounds targeted through laser ablation derived 87Sr/86Sr ratios at the Early-Mid Holocene site of Huseby Klev on the west coast of Sweden

Author(s): Adam Boethius; Melanie Kielman-Schmitt; Harry K. Robson
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 02773791, 2022, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107697

Ontogenetic δ15N trends and multidecadal variability in shells of the bivalve mollusk, Arctica islandica

Author(s): Bernd R. Schöne, Qian Huang
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.748593

Stable isotopic composition of Antarctic and Patagonian marine mammals collected before and during industrial-scale whaling: assessing the baseline for long-term changes in the marine ecosystem

Author(s): Genelt-Yanovskiy, E; Genelt-Yanovskaya, A; Fontanals-Coll, M; Yamoah, A. K. K; Craig, O; Sabin, R; Scourse, J.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0227

Bones, shells and baselines - how the past can inform modern marine management, protection and restoration.

Author(s): Roberts, C; Thurstan, R; Scourse, J.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0043

A sclerochronology defined 600-year baseline of marine dynamics in the North Sea

Author(s): Reynolds, D; Genelt-Yanovskiy, E; Genelt-Yanovskaya, A; Northey, E; Butler, P; Trofimova, T; Conti, M; Penkman, K; Huang, Q; Schöne, B; Scourse, J
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0036

The potential of historical ecology to aid understanding of human–ocean interactions throughout the Anthropocene

Author(s): Ruth Thurstan
Published in: Journal of Fish Biology, Issue 101(2), 2022, Page(s) 351-364, ISSN 1095-8649
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15000

A novel trophic archive: Practical considerations of compound-specific amino acid δ15N analysis of carbonate-bound organic matter in bivalve shells (Arctica islandica)

Author(s): Qian Huang, Hao Wu, Bernd R. Schone
Published in: Chemical Geology, Issue 615 (2023) 121220, 2023, ISSN 0009-2541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121220

The effects of Mid-Holocene foragers on the European oyster in Denmark

Author(s): Harry K. Robson, Niklas Hausmann, Eva M. Laurie, Peter Moe Astrup, Karen Povlsen, Søren A. Sørensen, Søren H. Andersen, Nicky Milner
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410335121

Investigating the potential of African land snail shells (Gastropoda: Achatininae) for amino acid geochronology

Author(s): Chloe Baldreki, Andrew Burnham, Martina Conti, Lucy Wheeler, Michael J. Simms, Lawrence Barham, Tom S. White, Kirsty Penkman
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 79, 2023, Page(s) 101473, ISSN 1878-0350
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2023.101473

Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring

Author(s): Christina Lynggaard; Mads F. Bertelsen; Casper V. Jensen; Matthew S. Johnson; Tobias Guldberg Frøslev; Morten Tange Olsen; Kristine Bohmann
Published in: Current Biology, Issue Volume 32, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 701-707, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.014

Historical dataset details the distribution, extent and form of lost Ostrea edulis reef ecosystems

Author(s): Ruth H. Thurstan, Hannah McCormick, Joanne Preston, Elizabeth C. Ashton, Floris P. Bennema, Ana Bratoš Cetinić, Janet H. Brown, Tom C. Cameron, Fiz da Costa, David W. Donnan, Christine Ewers, Tomaso Fortibuoni, Eve Galimany, Otello Giovanardi, Romain Grancher, Daniele Grech, Maria Hayden-Hughes, Luke Helmer, K. Thomas Jensen, José A. Juanes, Janie Latchford, Alec B. M. Moore, Dimitrios K. Mouto
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04048-8

Isotopic and mineralogic bias introduced by pulverization of aragonite

Author(s): Katharina E. Schmitt, Laura J. Fink, Anne Jantschke, Daniel Vigelius, Bernd R. Schöne
Published in: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) e9842, ISSN 1097-0231
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9842

Identification of the Storegga event offshore Shetland

Author(s): Jane L. Earland, James D. Scourse, Tobias Ehmen, Sev Kender, Philippa Ascough
Published in: Marine Geology, Issue 474, 2024, Page(s) 107334, ISSN 0025-3227
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107334

A new method for amino acid geochronology of the shell of the bivalve mollusc <i>Arctica islandica</i>

Author(s): Martina L. G. Conti, Paul G. Butler, David J. Reynolds, Tamara Trofimova, James D. Scourse, Kirsty E. H. Penkman
Published in: Geochronology, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 175-198, ISSN 2628-3719
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/gchron-6-175-2024

Sex Determination and Stable Isotope Analysis of the Nivåfjord Mesolithic Burials, Zealand, Denmark

Author(s): Kurt J. Gron, Harry K. Robson, Nicolas A. Stewart, T. Rowan McLaughlin, Chris Meiklejohn, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Ole Lass Jensen, Janet Montgomery
Published in: DANISH JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 12(2023), 2023, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 2166-2290
Publisher: Danish Journal of Archaeology
DOI: 10.7146/dja.v12i1.136939

Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity

Author(s): Konstantina Agiadi, Bryony A Caswell, Rita Almeida, Ali Becheker, Andreu Blanco, Cristina Brito, Manuel Jesús León-Cobo, Ellie-Mae E Cook, Federica Costantini, Merve Karakuş, Fabien Leprieur, Cataixa López, Lucía López-López, Aaron O’Dea, Sven Pallacks, Irene Rabanal, Lotta Schultz, Susanne E Tanner, Tatiana Theodoropoulou, Ruth H Thurstan, Nina Vieira, Audrey M Darnaude
Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science, Issue 81, 2024, Page(s) 1884-1911, ISSN 1054-3139
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsae117

Continuous mitochondrial diversity of Danube sturgeon species over millennia: insights from ancient DNA.

Author(s): Zampirolo, G; McCarthy, ML; Živaljević, I; Penezić, K; Vuković, S; Mladenović, T; Marković, D; Marković, N; Radmanović, D; Orton, D; Tange Olsen, M; Pedersen, MW
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0034

Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk

Author(s): Rich Crane, Chris Laing, Kate Littler, Kathryn Moore, Callum Roberts, Kirsten Thompson, Declan Vogt, James Scourse
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 836-838, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01326-6

Investigating long-term trophic stability in North Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) through nitrogen stable isotope analysis of amino acids.

Author(s): Yamoah, AKK; Harland, J; McLaughlin, R; Talbot, H, Fontanals-Coll, M, Craig, O; Orton, D
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0028

Neolithisation through bone: Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from Syltholm II, Lolland, Denmark

Author(s): Kurt J. Gron, Darren R. Gröcke, Daniel Groß, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Harry K. Robson, Janet Montgomery
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 104384, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104384

The UK’s expanding global reach for seafood over 120-years

Author(s): Zoe F. J. Heard, Callum M. Roberts, Ruth H. Thurstan
Published in: Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 943-961, ISSN 0960-3166
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-025-09942-x

Organic Phases in Bivalve (Arctica Islandica) Shells: Their Bulk and Amino Acid Nitrogen Stable Isotope Compositions

Author(s): Qian Huang, Oluwatoosin B. A. Agbaje, Martina Conti, and Bernd R. Schöne
Published in: Geochemistry, Gerophysics, Geosystems, Issue 24, e2023GC011147, 2023, ISSN 1525-2027
Publisher: Geochemical Society
DOI: 10.1029/2023gc011147

The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe

Author(s): A. Lucquina, H. K. Robson, E. Oras, J. Lundy, G. Moretti, L. González Carretero, J. Dekker, Ö. Demirci, E. Dolbunova, T. Rowan McLaughlin, H. Piezonka, H. M. Talbot, K. Adamczak, A. Czekaj-Zastawny, D. Groß, W. Gumiński, S. Hartz, J. Kabaciński, S. Koivisto, T. E. Linge, A. Meyer, T. Mökkönen, B. Philippsen, G. Piličiauskas, V. Visocka, A. Kriiska, D. Raemaekers, J. Meadows, C. Heron, O. E
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Issue 2023 Vol. 120 No. 43 e2310138120, 2023, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310138120

Shells of Littorina littorea (Gastropoda) – An archive for paleoclimate and seasonal shellfish collection in medieval and early modern Orkney?

Author(s): Schöne, B; Young, H; Vonhof, H; Harland, J.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Accepted, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0039

Marine exploitation and the arrival of farming: resolving the paradox of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark

Author(s): T. Rowan McLaughlin, Harry K. Robson, Rikke Maring, Adam Boethius, Eric Guiry, Daniel Groß, Satu Koivisto, Bente Philippsen, Nicky Milner, Geoff Bailey, Oliver E. Craig
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 363, 2025, Page(s) 109447, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109447

European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed

Author(s): Philine S. E. zu Ermgassen, Hannah McCormick, Alison Debney, José M. Fariñas‐Franco, Celine Gamble, Chris Gillies, Boze Hancock, Ane T. Laugen, Stéphane Pouvreau, Joanne Preston, William G. Sanderson, Åsa Strand, Ruth H. Thurstan
Published in: Conservation Letters, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1755-263X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/conl.13068

Destabilisation of the Subpolar North Atlantic prior to the Little Ice Age

Author(s): Beatriz Arellano-Nava, Paul R. Halloran, Chris A. Boulton, James Scourse, Paul G. Butler, David J. Reynolds, Timothy M. Lenton
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13:5008, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32653-x

Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems

Author(s): Ruth H. Thurstan, Hannah McCormick, Joanne Preston, Elizabeth C. Ashton, Floris P. Bennema, Ana Bratoš Cetinić, Janet H. Brown, Tom C. Cameron, Fiz da Costa, David W. Donnan, Christine Ewers, Tomaso Fortibuoni, Eve Galimany, Otello Giovanardi, Romain Grancher, Daniele Grech, Maria Hayden-Hughes, Luke Helmer, K. Thomas Jensen, José A. Juanes, Janie Latchford, Alec B. M. Moore, Dimitrios K. Mouto
Published in: Nature Sustainability, 2024, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01441-4

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

DNAqua‐Net conference unites participants from around the world with the quest to standardize and implement DNA‐based aquatic biomonitoring

Author(s): Kristine Bohmann; Physilia Ying Shi Chua; Luke Holman; Christina Lynggaard
Published in: Environmental DNA, Issue Vol 3, Iss 5,, 2021, Page(s) 884-888, ISSN 2637-4943
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/edn3.207

Book chapters (1)

Perspectives and Future Developments Within Sedimentary DNA Research

Author(s): Luke E. Holman, Yi Wang, Rikai Sawafuji, Laura S. Epp, Kristine Bohmann, Mikkel Winther Pedersen
Published in: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, 2024, Page(s) 393-416, ISBN 978-3-031-43798-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1_13