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Mark Costello
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Mark John Costello

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

B.Sc. (NUI Galway); Ph.D. 1987 (NUI Cork). Involved in World Register of Marine Species, International Association for Biological Oceanography, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Ocean Biodiversity Information System, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, Species 2000, IUCN. Worked in Ireland, Plymouth England, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Scotland, St Andrews Canada, and Auckland New Zealand.

Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Biodiversity Biogeography Biological Oceanography Biosphere Interactions Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Ecology Ecotoxicology Ethical Issues Freshwater Biology Marine Biology Natural Resource Management Parasitology Taxonomy

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Auckland

Work details

Professor

Nord University
February 2020
Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture
Research and teaching in biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, and climate change

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 12
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 52
  • Reviewed 2
  • Questions 1
September 26, 2023
Numbers of fish species, higher taxa, and phylogenetic similarity decrease with latitude and depth, and deep-sea assemblages are unique
Han-Yang Lin, Shane Wright, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16116 PubMed 37780369
September 21, 2023
Fishery catch is affected by geographic expansion, fishing down food webs and climate change in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Charles Patrick Lavin, Daniel Pauly, Donna Dimarchopoulou, Cui Liang, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16070 PubMed 37750081
September 7, 2023
Body size and trophic level increase with latitude, and decrease in the deep-sea and Antarctica, for marine fish species
Han-Yang Lin, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15880 PubMed 37701825
September 4, 2023
Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida)—is the description rate slowing down?
Lena Hartebrodt, Simon Wilson, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15984 PubMed 37692117
August 31, 2023
Over 20% of marine fishes shifting in the North and Barents Seas, but not in the Norwegian Sea
Cesc Gordó-Vilaseca, Laurene Pecuchet, Marta Coll, Henning Reiss, Alexander Jüterbock, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15801 PubMed 37667749
August 30, 2021
The distribution of benthic amphipod crustaceans in Indonesian seas
Tri Arfianti, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12054 PubMed 34540368
October 29, 2019
Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps
Hanieh Saeedi, James Davis Reimer, Miriam I. Brandt, Philippe-Olivier Dumais, Anna Maria Jażdżewska, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Peter M. Thielen, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7221 PubMed 31681508
July 11, 2018
Progress in the discovery of amphipod crustaceans
Tri Arfianti, Simon Wilson, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5187 PubMed 30018857
May 30, 2018
Assessment of the ecotoxicity of urban estuarine sediment using benthic and pelagic copepod bioassays
Maria P. Charry, Vaughan Keesing, Mark Costello, Louis A. Tremblay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4936 PubMed 29868297
February 23, 2016
The past, present and future distribution of a deep-sea shrimp in the Southern Ocean
Zeenatul Basher, Mark J. Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1713 PubMed 26925334
December 10, 2015
Baseline seabed habitat and biotope mapping for a proposed marine reserve
Sonny T.M. Lee, Michelle Kelly, Tim J. Langlois, Mark J. Costello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1446 PubMed 26713230
August 18, 2015
Biological and ecological traits of marine species
Mark John Costello, Simon Claus, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Leen Vandepitte, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Dan Lear, Harvey Tyler-Walters
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1201 PubMed 26312188
March 7, 2018 - Version: 1
Mapping marine biomes of the world
Dinusha Rasanjalee Jayathilake, Mark John Costello
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26635v1
February 10, 2018 - Version: 1
Mapping marine species richness and endemicity at global scales
Mark J Costello, Tri Arifanti, Chhaya Chaudhary, Dinusha Jayathilake, Han-Yang Lin, Marta Pagès, Joko Pamungkas, Hanieh Saeedi, Phuping Sucharitakul, Qianshuo Zhao
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26501v1

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January 4, 2024
Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university
A. Townsend Peterson, Marlon E. Cobos, Ben Sikes, Jorge Soberon, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Josh Bolick, Ada Emmett
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16514 PubMed 38188154
December 19, 2023
Impacts of tilapia aquaculture on native fish diversity at an ecologically important reservoir
Muzzalifah Abd Hamid, Amir Shah Ruddin Md Sah, Izwandy Idris, Siti Azizah Mohd Nor, Mashhor Mansor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15986 PubMed 38144186
July 14, 2023
Seasonal changes characterise the shark and ray assemblages in a subtropical shallow sandy habitat in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa
Jessica A. Ferreira, Julie A. Alberts, Grant Smith, Anthony T.F. Bernard, Mário J. Pereira, Lauren De Vos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15636 PubMed 37465155
June 13, 2023
Findings of new phytoplankton species in the Barents Sea as a consequence of global climate changes
Pavel Makarevich, Viktor Larionov, Anatoliy Oleinik, Pavel Vashchenko
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15472 PubMed 37334111
May 16, 2022
Residency, movement patterns, behavior and demographics of reef manta rays in Komodo National Park
Elitza S. Germanov, Simon J. Pierce, Andrea D. Marshall, I. Gede Hendrawan, Ande Kefi, Lars Bejder, Neil Loneragan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13302 PubMed 35602898
January 26, 2022
Potential impacts from simulated vessel noise and sonar on commercially important invertebrates
David M. Hudson, Jason S. Krumholz, Darby L. Pochtar, Natasha C. Dickenson, Georges Dossot, Gillian Phillips, Edward P. Baker, Tara E. Moll
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12841 PubMed 35127295
January 25, 2022
Seasonal and diel variations in the vertical distribution, composition, abundance and biomass of zooplankton in a deep Chilean Patagonian Fjord
Nur Garcia-Herrera, Astrid Cornils, Jürgen Laudien, Barbara Niehoff, Juan Höfer, Günter Försterra, Humberto E. González, Claudio Richter
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12823 PubMed 35127292
December 24, 2021
Molecular genetic diversity of seaweeds morphologically related to Ulva rigida at three sites along the French Atlantic coast
Manon Dartois, Eric Pante, Amélia Viricel, Vanessa Becquet, Pierre-Guy Sauriau
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11966 PubMed 35036110
September 27, 2021
Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast
Rodrigo A. Moreno, Fabio A. Labra, Darko D. Cotoras, Patricio A. Camus, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Luis Aguirre, Nicolás Rozbaczylo, Elie Poulin, Nelson A. Lagos, Daniel Zamorano, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12010 PubMed 34692242
August 11, 2021
Biogeography, diversity and environmental relationships of shelf and deep-sea benthic Amphipoda around Iceland
Anne-Nina Lörz, Stefanie Kaiser, Jens Oldeland, Caroline Stolter, Karlotta Kürzel, Saskia Brix
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11898 PubMed 34447625
July 29, 2021
Taxonomic and functional diversity of benthic macrofauna associated with rhodolith beds in SE Brazil
Patricia Sarcinelli Stelzer, Ana Carolina A. Mazzuco, Luiz Eduardo Gomes, João Martins, Sergio Netto, Angelo F. Bernardino
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11903 PubMed 34395104
June 22, 2021
Spatial-temporal variability of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck 1819 populations and their accumulated sediment in northern Portugal
Catarina Ramos-Oliveira, Leandro Sampaio, Marcos Rubal, Puri Veiga
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11499 PubMed 34221711
March 4, 2021
The influence of fish farm activity on the social structure of the common bottlenose dolphin in Sardinia (Italy)
Serena Frau, Fabio Ronchetti, Francesco Perretti, Alberto Addis, Giulia Ceccherelli, Gabriella La Manna
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10960 PubMed 33717695
January 26, 2021
Rocks of different mineralogy show different temperature characteristics: implications for biodiversity on rocky seashores
Nathan Janetzki, Kirsten Benkendorff, Peter G. Fairweather
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10712 PubMed 33569252
January 12, 2021
Records of ctenophores from South Africa
Mark J. Gibbons, Steve H.D. Haddock, George I. Matsumoto, Craig Foster
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10697 PubMed 33520464
October 5, 2020
Cetaceans along the southeastern Brazilian coast: occurrence, distribution and niche inference at local scale
Giovanna Corrêa e Figueiredo, Karina Bohrer do Amaral, Marcos César de Oliveira Santos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10000 PubMed 33083120
September 29, 2020
Bigfin reef squid demonstrate capacity for conditional discrimination and projected future carbon dioxide levels have no effect on learning capabilities
Blake L. Spady, Sue-Ann Watson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9865 PubMed 33062415
September 28, 2020
No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF
Alexander Zizka, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Alice Calvente, Mabel Rocio Baez-Lizarazo, Andressa Cabral, Jéssica Fernanda Ramos Coelho, Matheus Colli-Silva, Mariana Ramos Fantinati, Moabe F. Fernandes, Thais Ferreira-Araújo, Fernanda Gondim Lambert Moreira, Nathália Michellyda Cunha Santos, Tiago Andrade Borges Santos, Renata Clicia dos Santos-Costa, Filipe C. Serrano, Ana Paula Alves da Silva, Arthur de Souza Soares, Paolla Gabryelle Cavalcante de Souza, Eduardo Calisto Tomaz, Valéria Fonseca Vale, Tiago Luiz Vieira, Alexandre Antonelli
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9916 PubMed 33062422
September 22, 2020
Species distribution modelling of Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, southern right whales, and sperm whales in the southern African region to inform their conservation in expanding economies
Jean Purdon, Fannie W. Shabangu, Dawit Yemane, Marc Pienaar, Michael J. Somers, Ken Findlay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9997 PubMed 33024637
September 18, 2020
Life-history traits and intra-cohort divergence of clearhead icefish (Protosalanx chinensis), indicating cannibalism increased fitness
Fujiang Tang, Wei Liu, Jilong Wang, James Henne
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9900 PubMed 32999764
August 25, 2020
On the spillover effect and optimal size of marine reserves for sustainable fishing yields
Nao Takashina
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9798 PubMed 32904263
July 17, 2020
Mesozooplankton grazing minimally impacts phytoplankton abundance during spring in the western North Atlantic
Francoise Morison, James Joseph Pierson, Andreas Oikonomou, Susanne Menden-Deuer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9430 PubMed 32742776
May 28, 2020
Here are the polyps: in situ observations of jellyfish polyps and podocysts on bivalve shells
Lodewijk van Walraven, Judith van Bleijswijk, Henk W. van der Veer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9260 PubMed 32523816
May 26, 2020
A new nematode species, Chromadorina tangaroa sp. nov. (Chromadorida: Chromadoridae) from the hull of a research vessel, New Zealand
Daniel Leduc
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9233 PubMed 32518732
May 4, 2020
Fauna associated with shallow-water methane seeps in the Laptev Sea
Andrey A. Vedenin, Valentin N. Kokarev, Margarita V. Chikina, Alexander B. Basin, Sergey V. Galkin, Andrey V. Gebruk
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9018 PubMed 32411521
February 13, 2020
Get a grip—evolution of claw shape in relation to microhabitat use in intertidal arthropods (Acari, Oribatida)
Tobias Pfingstl, Michaela Kerschbaumer, Satoshi Shimano
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8488 PubMed 32095342
February 10, 2020
The role of rarity as a surrogate of marine fish species representation
Fabio Albuquerque, Yaiyr Astudillo-Scalia
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8373 PubMed 32095318
October 14, 2019
The planktonic stages of the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) are tolerant of end-of-century pCO2 concentrations
Cameron R.S. Thompson, David M. Fields, Reidun M. Bjelland, Vera B.S. Chan, Caroline M.F. Durif, Andrew Mount, Jeffrey A. Runge, Steven D. Shema, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Howard I. Browman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7810 PubMed 31632848
October 9, 2019
Environmental fate of the anti-parasitic ivermectin in an aquatic micro-ecological system after a single oral administration
Di Wang, Bing Han, Shaowu Li, Yongsheng Cao, Xue Du, Tongyan Lu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7805 PubMed 31616593
September 26, 2019
Larval assemblages over the abyssal plain in the Pacific are highly diverse and spatially patchy
Oliver Kersten, Eric W. Vetter, Michelle J. Jungbluth, Craig R. Smith, Erica Goetze
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7691 PubMed 31579593
September 19, 2019
Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia)
Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo, Jesús Angel de León-González, Luis F. Carrera-Parra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7723 PubMed 31579604
July 29, 2019
Altitudinal gradients in Magellanic sub-Antarctic lagoons: the effect of elevation on freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and distribution
Javier Rendoll Cárcamo, Tamara Contador, Melisa Gañán, Carolina Pérez Troncoso, Alan Maldonado Márquez, Peter Convey, James Kennedy, Ricardo Rozzi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7128 PubMed 31392086
May 31, 2019
Integrating species and interactions into similarity metrics: a graph theory-based approach to understanding community similarity
Daniela N. López, Patricio A. Camus, Nelson Valdivia, Sergio A. Estay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7013 PubMed 31183257
September 28, 2018
Meta-analysis of northeast Atlantic marine taxa shows contrasting phylogeographic patterns following post-LGM expansions
Tom L. Jenkins, Rita Castilho, Jamie R. Stevens
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5684 PubMed 30280047
July 4, 2018
Evidence of avian-mediated long distance dispersal in American tardigrades
Matthew J. Mogle, Scott A. Kimball, William R. Miller, Richard D. McKown
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5035 PubMed 30018851
June 22, 2018
Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842 (Ampeliscidae) of the Sakhalin Shelf in the Okhotsk Sea starve in summer and feast in winter
Valentina B. Durkina, John W. Chapman, Natalia L. Demchenko
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4841 PubMed 29942674
June 14, 2018
A new minute ectosymbiotic harpacticoid copepod living on the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix in the East/Japan Sea
Jisu Yeom, Mikhail A. Nikitin, Viatcheslav N. Ivanenko, Wonchoel Lee
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4979 PubMed 29915699
June 13, 2018
First use of molecular evidence to match sexes in the Monstrilloida (Crustacea: Copepoda), and taxonomic implications of the newly recognized and described, partly Maemonstrilla-like females of Monstrillopsis longilobata Lee, Kim & Chang, 2016
Donggu Jeon, Donghyun Lim, Wonchoel Lee, Ho Young Soh
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4938 PubMed 29915690
June 7, 2018
A new predator connecting the abyssal with the hadal in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, NW Pacific
Anne-Nina Lörz, Anna Maria Jażdżewska, Angelika Brandt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4887 PubMed 29892501
May 1, 2018
Is the future already here? The impact of climate change on the distribution of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
Jennifer N. Archis, Christopher Akcali, Bryan L. Stuart, David Kikuchi, Amanda J. Chunco
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4647 PubMed 29736330
November 14, 2017
North Atlantic Oscillation drives the annual occurrence of an isolated, peripheral population of the brown seaweed Fucus guiryi in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez, A. Enrique Salvo, José C. Báez, Elena Bañares-España, Andreas Reul, Antonio Flores-Moya
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4048 PubMed 29158980
October 24, 2017
A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas
Aylin Ulman, Jasmine Ferrario, Anna Occhpinti-Ambrogi, Christos Arvanitidis, Ada Bandi, Marco Bertolino, Cesare Bogi, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Burak Ali Çiçek, Alan Deidun, Alfonso Ramos-Esplá, Cengiz Koçak, Maurizio Lorenti, Gemma Martinez-Laiz, Guenda Merlo, Elisa Princisgh, Giovanni Scribano, Agnese Marchini
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3954 PubMed 29085752
August 14, 2017
Presence of the tunicate Asterocarpa humilis on ship hulls and aquaculture facilities in the coast of the Biobío Region, south central Chile
Javier Pinochet, Jean-Charles Leclerc, Antonio Brante, Claire Daguin-Thiébaut, Christian Díaz, Florence Tellier, Frédérique Viard
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3672 PubMed 28828267
June 15, 2017
Taxonomic richness and abundance of cryptic peracarid crustaceans in the Puerto Morelos Reef National Park, Mexico
Luz Veronica Monroy-Velázquez, Rosa Elisa Rodríguez-Martínez, Fernando Alvarez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3411 PubMed 28630800
May 31, 2017
Largest baleen whale mass mortality during strong El Niño event is likely related to harmful toxic algal bloom
Verena Häussermann, Carolina S. Gutstein, Michael Bedington, David Cassis, Carlos Olavarria, Andrew C. Dale, Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Maria Jose Perez-Alvarez, Hector H. Sepúlveda, Kaitlin M. McConnell, Fanny E. Horwitz, Günter Försterra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3123 PubMed 30038848
September 29, 2016
Discovery pattern and species number of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)
Jun Deng, Kunming Li, Cui Chen, Sanan Wu, Xiaolei Huang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2526 PubMed 27703864
September 7, 2016
Digital Accessible Knowledge and well-inventoried sites for birds in Mexico: baseline sites for measuring faunistic change
A. Townsend Peterson, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Enrique Martínez-Meyer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2362 PubMed 27651986
September 29, 2015
Testing animal-assisted cleaning prior to transplantation in coral reef restoration
Sarah Frias-Torres, Casper van de Geer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1287 PubMed 26468440
March 31, 2015
The right whale mandatory ship reporting system: a retrospective
Gregory K. Silber, Jeffrey D. Adams, Michael J. Asaro, Timothy V.N. Cole, Katie S. Moore, Leslie I. Ward-Geiger, Barbara J. Zoodsma
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.866 PubMed 25861555
February 12, 2015
Testing the influence of environmental heterogeneity on fish species richness in two biogeographic provinces
Philippe Massicotte, Raphaël Proulx, Gilbert Cabana, Marco A. Rodríguez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.760 PubMed 25699209
November 4, 2014
Automatic identification of species with neural networks
Andrés Hernández-Serna, Luz Fernanda Jiménez-Segura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.563 PubMed 25392749
October 9, 2014
Representing connectivity: quantifying effective habitat availability based on area and connectivity for conservation status assessment and recovery
Maile Neel, Hayley R. Tumas, Brittany W. Marsden
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.622 PubMed 25320685

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September 8, 2015
The influence of finfish aquaculture on benthic fish and crustacean assemblages in Fitzgerald Bay, South Australia
Jason E. Tanner, Kane Williams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1238 PubMed 26401452
March 6, 2014
Artificial light and nocturnal activity in gammarids
Elizabeth K. Perkin, Franz Hölker, Stefan Heller, Rüdiger Berghahn
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.279 PubMed 24688857

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