IMIS - Marine Research Groups

Dr Bett, Brian

Institute
Publications (34)
Projects (2)

University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems (OBE), more

Function: Researcher DEEPSEAS Benthic Biology Group
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Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, more
OceAnic Seamounts: an Integrated Study, more

A1 Publications (24) [show]
Durden, J.M.; Schoening, T.; Curtis, E.J.; Downie, A.; Gates, A.R.; Jones, D.O.B.; Kokkinaki, A.; Simon-Lledó, E.; Wright, D.; Bett, B.J. (2024). Defining the target population to make marine image-based biological data FAIR. Ecological Informatics 80: 102526. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102526, more Ruhl, H.A.; Bett, B.J.; Ingels, J.; Martin, A.; Gates, A.R.; Yool, A.; Benoist, N.M.A.; Appeltans, W.; Howell, K.L.; Danovaro, R. (2023). Integrating ocean observations across body‐size classes to deliver benthic invertebrate abundance and distribution information. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 8(5): 692-706. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10332, more Bernardi, M.; Hosking, B.; Petrioli, C.; Bett, B.J.; Jones, D.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Marlow, R.; Furlong, M.; McPhail, S.; Munafo, A. (2022). AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration. International Journal of Robotics Research 41(5): 461-469. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02783649221078612, more Horton, T.; Marsh, L.; Bett, B.J.; Gates, A.R.; Jones, D.O.B.; Benoist, N.M.A.; Pfeifer, S.; Simon-Lledó, E.; Durden, J.M.; Vandepitte, L.; Appeltans, W. (2021). Recommendations for the standardisation of open taxonomic nomenclature for image-based identifications. Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 620702. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3389/fmars.2021.620702, more Levin, L.A.; Bett, B.J.; Gates, A.R.; Heimbach, P.; Howe, B.M.; Janssen, F.; McCurdy, A.; Ruhl, H.A.; Snelgrove, P.; Stocks, K.I.; Bailey, D.; Baumann-Pickering, S.; Beaverson, C.; Benfield, M.C.; Booth, D.J.; Carreiro-Silva, M.; Colaço, A.; Eblé, M.C.; Fowler, A.M.; Gjerde, K.M.; Jones, D.O.B.; Katsumata, K.; Kelley, D.; Le Bris, N.; Leonardi, A.P.; Lejzerowicz, F.; Macreadie, P.I.; McLean, D.; Meitz, F.; Morato, T.; Netburn, A.; Pawlowski, J.; Smith, C.R.; Sun, S.; Uchida, H.; Vardaro, M.F.; Venkatesan, R.; Weller, R.A. (2019). Global observing needs in the deep ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 6: 241. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00241, more Simon-Lledó, E.; Bett, B.J.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Schoening, T.; Benoist, N.M.A.; Jeffreys, R.M.; Durden, J.M.; Jones, D.O.B. (2019). Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Prog. Oceanogr. 170: 119-133. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.11.003, more Simon-Lledó, E.; Bett, B.J.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Köser, K.; Schoening, T.; Greinert, J.; Jones, D.O.B. (2019). Biological effects 26 years after simulated deep-sea mining. NPG Scientific Reports 9(1): 13 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44492-w, more Dornelas, M.; Antão, L.H.; Moyes, F.; Akhmetzhanova, A.; Appeltans, W.; Arcos, J.M.; Arnold, H.; Ayyappan, N.; Badihi, G.; Baird, A.H.; Barbosa, M.; Barreto, T.E.; Bässler, C.; Bellgrove, A.; Belmaker, J.; Benedetti-Cecchi, L.; Bett, B.J.; Bjorkman, A.D.; Blazewicz, M.; Blowes, S.A.; Bloch, C.P.; Bonebrake, T.C.; Boyd, S.; Bradford, M.; Brooks, A.J.; Brown, J.H.; Bruelheide, H.; Budy, P.; Carvalho, F.; Castañeda-Moya, E.; Chen, C.A.; Chamblee, J.F.; Chase, T.J.; Siegwart Collier, L.; Collinge, S.K.; Condit, R.; Cooper, E.J.; Cornelissen, J.H.C.; Cotano, U.; Kyle Crow, S.; Damasceno, G.; Davies, C.H.; Davis, R.A.; Day, F.P.; Degraer, S.; Doherty, T.S.; Dunn, T.E.; Durigan, G.; Duffy, J.E.; Edelist, D.; Edgar, G.J.; Elahi, R.; Elmendorf, S.C.; Enemar, A.; Ernest, S.K.M.; Escribano, R.; Estiarte, C.; Evans, B.S.; Fan, T.-Y.; Turini Farah, F.; Loureiro Fernandes, L.; Farneda, F.Z.; Fidelis, A.; Fitt, R.; Fosaa, A.M.; Daher Correa Franco, G.A.; Frank, G.E.; Fraser, W.R.; García, H.; Cazzolla Gatti, R.; Givan, O.; Gorgone-Barbosa, E.; Gould, W.A.; Gries, C.; Grossman, G.D.; Gutierréz, J.R.; Hale, S.; Harmon, M.E.; Harte, J.; Haskins, G.; Henshaw, D.L.; Hermanutz, L.; Hidalgo, P.; Higuchi, P.; Hoey, A.S.; Van Hoey, G.; Hofgaard, A.; Holeck, K.T.; Hollister, R.D.; Holmes, R.; Hoogenboom, M.O.; Hsieh, C.-h.; Hubbell, S.P.; Huettmann, F.; Huffard, C.L.; Hurlbert, A.H.; Macedo Ivanauskas, N.; Janík, D.; Jandt, U.; Jazdzewska, A.; Johannessen, T.; Johnstone, J.; Jones, J.; Jones, F.A.M.; Kang, J.; Kartawijaya, T.; Keeley, E.C.; Kelt, D.A.; Kinnear, R.; Klanderud, K.; Knutsen, H.; Koenig, C.C.; Kortz, A.R.; Král, K.; Kuhnz, L.A.; Kuo, C.-Y.; Kushner, D.J.; Laguionie-Marchais, C.; Lancaster, L.T.; Min Lee, C.; Lefcheck, J.S.; Lévesque, E.; Lightfoot, D.; Lloret, F.; Lloyd, J.D.; López-Baucells, A.; Louzao, M.; Madin, J.S.; Magnússon, B.; Malamud, S.; Matthews, I.; McFarland, K.P.; McGill, B.; McKnight, D.; McLarney, W.O.; Meador, J.; Meserve, P.L.; Metcalfe, D.J.; Meyer, C.F.J.; Michelsen, A.; Milchakova, N.A.; Moens, T.; Moland, E.; Moore, J.; Mathias Moreira, C.; Müller, J.; Murphy, G.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Myster, R.W.; Naumov, A.; Neat, F.; Nelson, J.A.; Paul Nelson, M.; Newton, S.F.; Norden, N.; Oliver, J.C.; Olsen, E.M.; Onipchenko, V.G.; Pabis, K.; Pabst, R.J.; Paquette, A.; Pardede, S.; Paterson, D.M.; Pélissier, R.; Peñuelas, J.; Pérez-Matus, A.; Pizarro, O.; Pomati, F.; Post, E.; Prins, H.H.T.; Priscu, J.C.; Provoost, P.; Prudic, K.L.; Pulliainen, E.; Ramesh, B. (2018). BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 27(7): 760-786. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12729, more Gunton, L.M.; Bett, B.J.; Gooday, A.J.; Glover, A.G.; Vanreusel, A. (2017). Macrofaunal nematodes of the deep Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic): assemblage characteristics and comparison with polychaetes. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 38(2): e12408. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12408, more Morris, K.J.; Bett, B.J.; Durden, J.M.; Benoist, N.M.A.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Jones, D.O.B.; Robert, K.; Ichino, M.C.; Wolff, G.A.; Ruhl, H.A. (2016). Landscape-scale spatial heterogeneity in phytodetrital cover and megafauna biomass in the abyss links to modest topographic variation. NPG Scientific Reports 6(34080 ): 10 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34080, more Wynn, R.B.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Le Bas, T.P.; Murton, B.J.; Connelly, D.P.; Bett, B.J.; Ruhl, H.A.; Morris, K.J.; Peakall, J.; Parsons, D.R.; Summer, E.J.; Darby, S.E.; Dorrell, R.M.; Hunt, J.E. (2014). Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience. Mar. Geol. 352: 451-468. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.012, more Gooday, A.J.; Bett, B.J.; Jones, D.O.B.; Kitazato, H. (2012). The influence of productivity on abyssal foraminiferal biodiversity. Mar. Biodiv. 42(4): 415-431. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-012-0121-8, more Wolff, G.A.; Billett, D.S.M.; Bett, B.J.; Holtvoeth, J.; FitzGeorge-Balfour, T.; Fisher, E.; Cross, I.; Shannon, R.; Salter, I.; Boorman, B.; King, N.J.; Jamieson, A.; Chaillan, F. (2011). The effects of natural iron fertilisation on deep-sea ecology: the Crozet Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean. PLoS One 6(6): e20697. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020697, more Gooday, A.J.; Bett, B.J.; Escobar-Briones, E.; Ingole, B.; Levin, L.A.; Neira, C.; Raman, A.V.; Sellanes, J. (2010). Habitat heterogeneity and its influence on benthic biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 31(1): 125-147. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00348.x, more Kalogeropoulou, V.; Bett, B.J.; Gooday, A.J.; Lampadariou, N.; Martinez Arbizu, P.; Vanreusel, A. (2010). Temporal changes (1989-1999) in deep-sea metazoan meiofaunal assemblages on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Res., Part 2, Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 57(15): 1383-1395. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.02.002, more Jones, D.O.B.; Bett, B.J.; Tyler, P.A. (2007). Depth-related changes in the Arctic epibenthic megafaunal assemblages of Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland. Mar. Biol. Res. 3(4): 191-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000701455287, more Kaariainen, J.I.; Bett, B.J. (2006). Evidence for benthic body size miniaturization in the deep sea. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 86(6): 1339-1345. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315406014366, more Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Bett, B.J.; Gage, J.D. (2005). Ecology of bathyal polychaete fauna at an Arctic-Atlantic boundary (Faroe-Shetland Channel, North-east Atlantic). Mar. Biol. Res. 1(1): 20-32, more Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.A.; Bett, B.J.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (2004). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84(3): 547-556. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315404009555h, more Masson, D.G.; Bett, B.J.; Billet, D.S.M.; Jacobs, C.L.; Wheeler, A.J.; Wynn, R.B. (2003). A fluid escape origin for deepwater coral-topped mounds in the northern Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic. Mar. Geol. 194: 159-180, more Bett, B.J. (2001). UK Atlantic margin environmental survey: introduction and overview of bathyal benthic ecology. Cont. Shelf Res. 21: 917-956, more Billet, D.S.M.; Bett, B.J.; Rice, A.L.; Thurston, M.H.; Galéron, J.; Sibuet, M.; Wolff, G.A. (2001). Long-term change in the megabenthos of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic). Prog. Oceanogr. 50: 325-348, more Bett, B.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Soltwedel, T.; Pfannkuche, O.; Lambshead, P.J.D.; Gooday, A.J.; Ferrero, T.; Dinet, A. (1994). Sampler bias in the quantitative study of deep-sea meiobenthos. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 104: 197-203, more Vincx, M.; Bett, B.J.; Dinet, A.; Ferrero, T.; Gooday, A.J.; Lambshead, P.J.D.; Pfannkuche, O.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A. (1994). Meiobenthos of the deep northeast Atlantic, in: Blaxter, J.H.S. et al. Adv. Mar. Biol. 30. Advances in Marine Biology, 30: pp. 1-88, more
Peer reviewed publications (3) [show]
Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Bett, B.; Rice, A. (1995). Nematode biomass spectra at two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic with a contrasting food supply. Int. Rev. gesamten Hydrobiol. 80(2): 287-296, more Paterson, G.L.J.; Gage, J.D.; Lamont, P.; Bett, B.J.; Thurston, M.H. (1994). Patterns of abundance and diversity from the abyss-polychaetes from northeastern Atlantic abyssal plains. Mém. Mus. natl. hist. nat., Sér. A Zool. 162: 503-509, more Bett, B.J.; Rice, A.L. (1992). The influence of hexactinellid sponge (Pheronema carpenteri) spicules on the patchy distribution of macrobenthos in the Porcupine Seabight (bathyal NE Atlantic). Ophelia 36(3): 217-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00785326.1992.10430372, more
Book chapters (5) [show]
Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Bett, B.J.; Lamont, P.A.; Rowden, A.A.; Bell, E.; Menot, L. (2016). Corers and grabs, in: Clark, M.R. et al. (Ed.) Biological sampling in the deep sea. pp. 207-227, more Costello, M.J.; McCrea, M.; Freiwald, A.; Lundälv, T.; Johnson, L.; Bett, B.J.; van Weering, T.C.E.; de Haas, H.; Roberts, J.M.; Allen, D. (2005). Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic, in: Freiwald, A. et al. (Ed.) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, : pp. 771-805, more Gage, J.D.; Bett, B.J. (2005). Deep-sea benthic sampling, in: Eleftheriou, A. et al. (Ed.) Methods for the study of marine benthos. pp. 273-325, more Baker, M.C.; Bett, B.J.; Billett, D.S.M.; Rogers, A.D. (2001). The status of natural resources on the high-seas: 1. An environmental perspective, in: The status of natural resources on the high-seas. pp. 1-68, more Dullo, W.-Chr.; van Weering, T.C.E.; Henriet, J.-P.; Bett, B.; Billett, D.; Gooday, A.; Wolff, G.; Patching, J. W.; White, M.; Grehan, A.; Wheeler, A.; Collony, N.; Mienert, J.; Blamart, D.; Labeyrie, L.; Paterne, M.; Ayliffe, L. K.; Hebbeln, D.; Wefer, G. (2000). Carbonate mounds along the European continental margin: Implications for environmental control on their formation, in: EurOcean 2000, the European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology, Hamburg, 29 August - 2 September 2000. Project synopses: I. Marine processes, ecosystems and interactions. pp. 281-285, more
Abstracts (2) [show]
Simon-Lledó, E.; Bett, B.J.; Durden, J.M.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Jones, D.O.B. (2016). Megafauna community patterns related to terrain variations in the abyssal North Pacific, in: MIDAS final meeting, 3-7 October 2016, Het Pand, Gent, Belgium: conference programme and abstract volume. pp. 63, more Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Bett, B.; Rice, A. (1996). The meiobenthos of two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic with a presumed contrasting food supply, in: Dialogue between scientists and users of the sea: Proceedings of a Symposium held on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the civil service oceanographic research vessel Belgica, Ostend, 17-19 October 1994. pp. 277, more

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