Mark Huxham
Mark Huxham

Prof Mark Huxham PhD PFHEA NTF FRSE

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  M.Huxham@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am professor of Teaching and Research in Environmental Biology at Edinburgh Napier University. I am fortunate to combine research into coastal ecology with teaching and the scholarship of teaching. My PhD research was on food webs in estuaries, and I still work in these fascinating places, here in Scotland and overseas (particularly in Kenya). I have spent nearly two decades working with local communities dependent on mangrove resources to understand their ecosystems better and to use this science to help restore their environments and bring community development benefits. As a committed educator I enjoy teaching ecology, environmental science, environmental ethics and scientific methods to a wide range of students and volunteers. I also research pedagogical questions arising from my own practice and from the needs of students, including new ways to assess and give feedback and how to include students in the co-creation of learning.

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  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE)
  • National Teaching Fellowship
  • Bioscience Teacher of the Year
  • Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

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Learning in lectures: Do ‘interactive windows’ help?

Journal Article
Huxham, M. (2005)
Learning in lectures: Do ‘interactive windows’ help?. Active learning in higher education, 6(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787405049943
Many educational development resources recommend making conventional lectures more interactive. However, there is little firm evidence supporting either the acceptability (to ...

Mangrove fish: a comparison of community structure between forested and cleared habitats

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Huxham, M., Kimani, E., & Augley, J. (2004)
Mangrove fish: a comparison of community structure between forested and cleared habitats. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 60(4), 637-647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2004.03.003
The fish communities of mangrove and cleared sites were investigated in Gazi Bay, Kenya. Five forested sites were compared with paired sites that had been cleared of mangroves...

Can postlarval bivalves select sediment type during settlement? A field test with Macoma balthica (L.) and Cerastoderma edule (L.)

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Huxham, M., & Richards, M. (2003)
Can postlarval bivalves select sediment type during settlement? A field test with Macoma balthica (L.) and Cerastoderma edule (L.). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 288(2), (279-293). doi:10.1016/s0022-0981(03)00023-6. ISSN 0022-0981
Many soft-bottom benthic invertebrates display sediment-associated patterns of dispersion. Habitat selection experiments have shown that the larvae of some species can choose ...

Size constraints in a real food web: predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships.

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Leaper, R., & Huxham, M. (2002)
Size constraints in a real food web: predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships. Oikos, 99, (443-456). doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.10888.x. ISSN 0030-1299
In the absence of well-resolved food webs that include both information on predators and parasites, body-size has been proposed as the biological mechanism underlying the assu...

Diversity, biomass and ecosystem processes in the marine benthos.

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Bolam, S. G., Fernandes, T., & Huxham, M. (2002)
Diversity, biomass and ecosystem processes in the marine benthos. Ecological monographs, 72, (599-615). doi:10.1890/0012-9615(2002)072[0599:DBAEPI]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0012-9615
Recent studies in terrestrial, plant-dominated systems have shown that reductions in diversity can affect essential ecosystem processes, especially productivity. However, the ...

How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate?

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Emmerson, M., & Huxham, M. (2001)
How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate?. In Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : synthesis and perspectives, 139-146. Oxford University Press (OUP

The effects of the adult density of Macoma balthica on the recruitment of juvenile bivalves: a field experiment

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Richards, M., Edwards, F., & Huxham, M. (2002)
The effects of the adult density of Macoma balthica on the recruitment of juvenile bivalves: a field experiment. Journal of Sea Research, 47(1), (41-54). doi:10.1016/s1385-1101(01)00101-0. ISSN 1385-1101
Populations of intertidal bivalves are patchily distributed at a variety of scales, and the distributions of adults and juveniles are often different. Adult-juvenile interacti...

Respiration rates in Littorina littorea infected with three species of digenean parasite

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Huxham, M., Maitland, D., & Mocogni, M. (2001)
Respiration rates in Littorina littorea infected with three species of digenean parasite. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 81(02), (351-352). doi:10.1017/s0025315401003885. ISSN 0025-3154
The gastropod Littorina littorea shows increased mortality in the summer months when infected with digenean parasites. One possible cause of this mortality is impaired respira...

Science and environmental decision making

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Sumner, D., & Huxham, M. (Eds.)
(2000). Science and environmental decision making. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education
Science is vital in informing the increasingly urgent and complex environmental decisions that affect all our lives, from international agreements on action to limit climate c...

A Field Test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in the Soft-Bottom Intertidal

Journal Article
Huxham, M., Roberts, I., & Bremner, J. (2000)
A Field Test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in the Soft-Bottom Intertidal. International Review of Hydrobiology, 85(4), (379-394). doi:10.1002/1522-2632(200008)85:43.0.co;2-x. ISSN 1434-2944
The intermediate disturbance hypothesis has had success in explaining changes in local diversity in many habitats. Recent laboratory work has shown that disturbance may act to...

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