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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 Biogeographic Information System, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, Species 2000.

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

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

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

Professor

University of Auckland

April 2004 - March 2021

School of Environment

Teaches biogeography, ecology, Marine Protected Areas, biodiversity informatics. Research group website http://www.oceansofbiodiversity.auckland.ac.nz/

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PeerJ Contributions

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

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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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