Advances in Marine Biology

Professor Charles Sheppard holds a half-time position of Professor in the School of Life Sciences at The University of Warwick, UK. The remainder of his time he works for a range of UN , Governmental and aid agencies in tropical marine and coastal development issues. He advises several governments on marine and coastal management and science, including the UK Government on its tropical Overseas Territories. He has organised and led the scientific input to the 2010 creation of the world's largest fully protected marine researce, in the Chagos archipelago, Indian Ocean, where a lot of his research has been focussed. The other main geographical area of research is the Arabian region. PhD University of Durham 1976.

• 1. The Falkland Islands marine ecosystem: a review of the seasonal dynamics and trophic interactions across the food webJ.M.A. van der Grient, Simon Morley, Alexander Arkhipkin, James Bates, Alastair Baylis, Paul Brewin, Michael Harte, Will White and Paul Brickle2. An impact of non-native species invasions on the Caspian Sea biotaTamara A. Shiganova, Larisa Pautova, Alexander Kazmin, Aboulghasem Roohi, Henri Dumont and Andrei Kamakin3. A global synthesis of microplastic contamination in wild fish species: challenges for conservation, implications for sustainability of wild fish stocks and future directionsLuís Gabriel Antão Barboza Sr.4. Addressing Underwater Noise: Joint Efforts and Progress on Its Global GovernanceNikolina Rako-Gospić and Marta Picciulin