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Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random? (2000)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., & Land, R. (2000). Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random?. Innovations in education and training international, 37(1), (17-22). doi:10.1080/135580000362043. ISSN 1355-8005

Group work projects are increasingly used in higher education, but there is little guidance on how best to allocate students to groups. If groups can be engineered to contain compatible people, then the process of group work may be easier and more pr... Read More about Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random?.

Predation: a causal mechanism for variability in intertidal bivalve populations (1999)
Journal Article
Richards, M. G., Huxham, M., & Bryant, A. (1999). Predation: a causal mechanism for variability in intertidal bivalve populations. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 241(2), (159-177). doi:10.1016/s0022-0981(99)00075-1. ISSN 0022-0981

Two caging experiments were conducted on an intertidal mudflat to assess the impact of predation on two species of bivalves; Macoma balthica and Cerastoderma edule. The first caging experiment enclosed the shore crab, Carcinus maenas, carapace width... Read More about Predation: a causal mechanism for variability in intertidal bivalve populations.

Predator caging experiments: a test of the importance of scale (1999)
Journal Article
Fernandes, T. F., Huxham, M., & Piper, S. R. (1999). Predator caging experiments: a test of the importance of scale. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 241(1), (137-154). doi:10.1016/s0022-0981(99)00076-3. ISSN 0022-0981

The impact of predators is often relative to the spatial scale at which the study is conducted. In this paper we investigated how spatial scale might influence the importance of predation. In doing this we addressed the hypothesis of scale-dependency... Read More about Predator caging experiments: a test of the importance of scale.

Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar (1999)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., & Sumner, D. (1999). Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar. Environmental Values, 8(3), (349-368). doi:10.3197/096327199129341860. ISSN 0963-2719

In June 1995, a campaign by Greenpeace forced the multinational oil company Shell to cancel its planned disposal of a redundant oil installation in the Atlantic. The Brent Spar incident attracted massive publicity and was influential in changing gove... Read More about Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar.

The European Water Framework Directive: a new era in the management of aquatic ecosystem health? (1998)
Journal Article
Pollard, P., & Huxham, M. (1998). The European Water Framework Directive: a new era in the management of aquatic ecosystem health?. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 8(6), 773-792. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-0755%281998110%298%3A63.0.CO%3B2-R

1. The forthcoming European Commission Water Framework Directive will introduce catchment management throughout Europe, and could have major impacts on the conservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems. The Directive is outlined, and the propose... Read More about The European Water Framework Directive: a new era in the management of aquatic ecosystem health?.

Do Parasites Reduce the Chances of Triangulation in a Real Food Web? (1996)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Beaney, S., & Raffaelli, D. (1996). Do Parasites Reduce the Chances of Triangulation in a Real Food Web?. Oikos, 76(2), 284. doi:10.2307/3546201

At least ten different static patterns have been suggested by the analysis of food webs. However, the existence of many of these patterns has been questioned in recent years. One pattern that has remained immune from such criticism is intervality. In... Read More about Do Parasites Reduce the Chances of Triangulation in a Real Food Web?.

Parasites and Food Web Patterns (1995)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Raffaelli, D., & Pike, A. (1995). Parasites and Food Web Patterns. Journal of Animal Ecology, 64(2), 168-176. doi:10.2307/5752

1. We expanded two previously studied food webs, those of the Ythan estuary and Loch Leven, by the documentation of metazoan endoparasites present in each system. The resulting webs are the first in the literature to contain substantial numbers of pa... Read More about Parasites and Food Web Patterns.

The effect of larval trematodes on the growth and burrowing behaviour of Hydrobia ulvae (gastropoda:prosobranchiata) in the Ythan estuary, north-east Scotland (1995)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Raffaelli, D., & Pike, A. W. (1995). The effect of larval trematodes on the growth and burrowing behaviour of Hydrobia ulvae (gastropoda:prosobranchiata) in the Ythan estuary, north-east Scotland. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 185(1), (1-17). doi:10.1016/0022-0981(94)00119-x. ISSN 0022-0981

Hydrobia ulvae were collected from five areas on the Ythan estuary, and the prevalences of digenean parasites in the samples compared. Differences in mean shell height were best explained by differences in parasite prevalence. All snails larger than... Read More about The effect of larval trematodes on the growth and burrowing behaviour of Hydrobia ulvae (gastropoda:prosobranchiata) in the Ythan estuary, north-east Scotland.

The influence of Cryptocotyle lingua (Digenea:Platyhelminthes) infections on the survival and fecundity of Littorina littorea (Gastropoda:Prosobranchia); an ecological approach (1993)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Raffaelli, D., & Pike, A. (1993). The influence of Cryptocotyle lingua (Digenea:Platyhelminthes) infections on the survival and fecundity of Littorina littorea (Gastropoda:Prosobranchia); an ecological approach. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 168(2), (223-238). doi:10.1016/0022-0981(93)90262-m. ISSN 0022-0981

This study considers the impact of digenean parasites, especially Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin) on the survival, reproduction, growth rate and foot colour of Littorina littorea (Forbes and Hanley). An 18 month field experiment demonstrated decreased... Read More about The influence of Cryptocotyle lingua (Digenea:Platyhelminthes) infections on the survival and fecundity of Littorina littorea (Gastropoda:Prosobranchia); an ecological approach.

Preliminary assessment of forest birds in Kiono, Pande, Kisiju and Kiwengoma coastal forests, Tanzania (1991)
Journal Article
Burgess, N. D., Huxham, M. R., Mlingwa, C. O. F., Davies, S. G. F., & Cutts, C. J. (1991). Preliminary assessment of forest birds in Kiono, Pande, Kisiju and Kiwengoma coastal forests, Tanzania. Scopus, 14(2), ISSN 0250-4162

A preliminary assessment of the forest birds in four Tanzanian coastal forests (Kiono, Pande, Kisiju and Kiwengoma) is presented. Up to 51 species of forest bird were recorded from a single forest, with diversity declining in a sequence: Kiono; Kiwen... Read More about Preliminary assessment of forest birds in Kiono, Pande, Kisiju and Kiwengoma coastal forests, Tanzania.

Rondo Forest Reserve, Tanzania: an ornithological note including new records of the East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi, the Spotted Ground Thrush Turdus fischeri, and the Rondo Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea woodwardi (1991)
Journal Article
Holsten, B., Bräunlich, A., & Huxham, M. (1991). Rondo Forest Reserve, Tanzania: an ornithological note including new records of the East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi, the Spotted Ground Thrush Turdus fischeri, and the Rondo Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea woodwardi. Scopus, 14(2), (125-128). ISSN 0250-4162

The Rondo Forest Reserve is a semi-deciduous coastal forest situated at 10°10S, 39°15E in southern Tanzania, 77 km by road from the coastal town of Lindi. The forest isheterogeneous, with substantial numbers of large canopy trees, such as Chlorophora... Read More about Rondo Forest Reserve, Tanzania: an ornithological note including new records of the East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi, the Spotted Ground Thrush Turdus fischeri, and the Rondo Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea woodwardi.