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Prof. Watling, Les
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Publications (48)
Datasets (3)

University of Maine; Darling Marine Center, more

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University of Hawaii; School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), more

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WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

Function: Taxonomic editor

Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria, more
Octocorals of North Atlantic, more
World Cumacea Database, more

A1 Publications (25) [show]
Watling, L.; Lapointe, A. (2022). Global biogeography of the lower bathyal (700–3000 m) as determined from the distributions of cnidarian anthozoans. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 181: 103703. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103703, more Calder, D.R.; Watling, L. (2021). Report on hydrozoans (Cnidaria), excluding Stylasteridae, from the Emperor Seamounts, western North Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4950(2): 201-247. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.1, more Niner, H.J.; Ardron, J.; Escobar, E.; Gianni, M.; Jaeckel, A.; Jones, D.O.B.; Levin, L.A.; Smith, C.R.; Thiele, T.; Turner, P.J.; van Dover, C.L.; Watling, L.; Gjerde, K.M. (2018). Deep-sea mining with no net loss of biodiversity—an impossible aim. Front. Mar. Sci. 5(53): 1-12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00053, more Thomson, S.A.; Pyle, R.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Ammirati, J.; Araya, J.F.; Ascher, J.S.; Audisio, T.L.; Azevedo-Santos, V.M.; Bailly, N.; Baker, W.J.; Balke, M.; Barclay, M.V.L.; Barrett, R.L.; Benine, R.C.; Bickerstaff, J.R.M.; Bouchard, P.; Bour, R.; Bourgoin, T.; Boyko, C.B.; Breure, A.S.H.; Brothers, D.J.; Byng, J.W.; Campbell, D.; Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Cernák, I.; Cerretti, P.; Chang, C.-H.; Cho, S.; Copus, J.M.; Costello, M.J.; Cseh, A.; Csuzdi, C.; Culham, A.; D'Elía, G.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Daneliya, M.E.; Dekker, R.; Dickinson, E.C.; Dickinson, T.A.; van Dijk, P.P.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Dima, B.; Dmitriev, D.A.; Duistermaat, L.; Dumbacher, J.P.; Eiserhardt, W.L.; Ekrem, T.; Evenhuis, N.L.; Faille, A.; Fiesler, E.; Fishbein, M.; Fordham, B.G.; Freitas, A.V.L.; Friol, N.R.; Fritz, U.; Frøslev, T.; Funk, V.A.; Gaimari, S.D.; Garraffoni, A.R.S.; Geml, J.; Gill, A.C.; Gray, A.; Grazziotin, F.G.; Greenslade, P.; Gutiérrez, E.E.; Harvey, M.S.; Hazevoet, C.J.; He, K.; He, X.; Helfer, S.; Helgen, K.M.; van Heteren, A.H.; Hita Garcia, F.; Holstein, N.; Horváth, M.K.; Hovenkamp, P.H.; Hwang, W.S.; Hyvönen, J.; Islam, M.B.; Iverson, J.B.; Ivie, M.A.; Jaafar, Z.; Jackson, M.D.; Jayat, J.P.; Johnson, N.F.; Kaiser, H.; Klitgård, B.B.; Knapp, D.G.; Kojima, J.; Kõljalg, U.; Kontschán, J.; Krell, F.-T.; Krisai-Greilhuber, I.; Kullander, S.; Latella, L.; Lattke, J.E.; Lencioni, V.; Lewis, G.P.; Lujan, N.K.; Luksenburg, J.A.; Mariaux, J.; Marinho-Filho, J.; Marshall, C.J.; McDonough, M.M.; Michel, E.; Miranda, V.F.O.; Mitroiu, M.-D.; Molinari, J.; Monks, S.; Moore, A.J.; Moratelli, R.; Murányi, D.; Nakano, T.; Nikolaeva, S.; Noyes, J.; Ohl, M.; Oleas, N.H.; Orrell, T.; Páll-Gergely, B.; Pape, T.; Papp, V.; Parenti, L.R.; Patterson, D.; Pavlinov, I.Y.; Pine, R.H.; Poczai, P.; Prado, J.; Prathapan, D.; Rabeler, R.K.; Randall, J.E.; Rheindt, F.E.; Rhodin, A.G.J.; Rodriguez, S.M.; Rogers, D.C.; de O. Roque, F.; Rowe, K.C.; Ruedas, L.A.; Salazar-Bravo, J.; Salvador, R.B.; Sangster, G.; Sarmiento, C.E.; Schigel, D.S.; Schmidt, S.; Schueler, F.W.; Segers, H.; Snow, N.; Souza-Dias, P.G.B.; Stals, R.; Stenroos, S.; Stone, R.D.; Sturm, C.F.; Štys, P.; Teta, P.; Thomas, D.C.; Timm, R.M.; Tindall, B.J.; Todd, J.A.; Triebel, D.; Valdecasas, A.G.; Vizzini, A.; Vorontsova, M.S.; de Vos, J.M.; Wagner, P.; Watling, L.; Weakley, A.; Welter-Schultes, F.; Whitmore, D.; Wilding, N.; Will, K.; Williams, J.; Wilson, K.; Winston, J.E.; Wüster, W.; Yanega, D.; Yeates, D.K.; Zaher, H. (2018). Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology 16(3): e2005075. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075, more Van Dover, C.L.; Ardron, J.A.; Escobar, E.; Gianni, M.; Gjerde, K.M.; Jaeckel, A.; Jones, D.O.B.; Levin, L.A.; Niner, H.J.; Pendleton, L.; Smith, C.R.; Thiele, T.; Turner, P.J.; Watling, L.; Weaver, P.P.E. (2017). Biodiversity loss from deep-sea mining. Nature Geoscience 10(7): 464-465. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2983, more Dahlgren, T.G.; Wiklund, H.; Rabone, M.; Amon, D.J.; Ikebe, C.; Watling, L.; Smith, C.R.; Glover, A.G. (2016). Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e9277. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e9277, more Levin, L.A.; Baco, A.R.; Bowden, D.A.; Colaço, A.; Cordes, E.E.; Cunha, M.R.; Demopoulos, A.W.J.; Gobin, J.; Grupe, B.M.; Le, J.; Metaxas, A.; Netburn, A.N.; Rouse, G.W.; Thurber, A.R.; Tunnicliffe, V.; Van Dover, C.L.; Vanreusel, A.; Watling, L. (2016). Hydrothermal vents and methane seeps: rethinking the sphere of influence. Front. Mar. Sci. 3: 72. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00072, more Mora, C.; Wei, C.L.; Rollo, A.; Amaro, T.; Baco, A.R.; Billett, D.; Bopp, L.; Chen, Q.; Collier, M.; Danovaro, R.; Gooday, A.J.; Grupe, B.M.; Halloran, P.R.; Ingels, J.; Jones, D.O.B.; Levin, L.A.; Nakano, H.; Norling, K.; Ramirez-Llodra, E.; Rex, M.A.; Ruhl, H.A.; Smith, C.R.; Sweetman, A.K.; Thurber, A.R.; Tjiputra, J.F.; Usseglio, P.; Watling, L.; Wu, T.; Yasuhara, M. (2013). Biotic and human vulnerability to projected changes in ocean biogeochemistry over the 21st century. PLoS Biology 11(10): e1001682. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001682, more Watling, L. (2013). Deep-sea trawling must be banned. Nature (Lond.) 501(7465): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/501007a, more Watling, L.; Guinotte, J.; Clark, M.R.; Smith, C.R. (2013). A proposed biogeography of the deep ocean floor. Prog. Oceanogr. 111: 91-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.003, more Clark, M.R.; Watling, L.; Rowden, A.; Guinotte, J.M.; Smith, C.R. (2011). A global seamount classification to aid the scientific design of marine protected area networks. Ocean Coast. Manag. 54(1): 19-36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.10.006, more Watling, L.; France, S.C.; Pante, E.; Simpson, A. (2011). Biology of deep-water octocorals, in: Lesser, M. (Ed.) Adv. Mar. Biol. 60. Advances in Marine Biology, 60: pp. 41-122. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385529-9.00002-0, more Watling, L. (2009). Hawaiian waters yield corals with thirst for originality. Nature (Lond.) 458(7235): 137, more Waller, R.G.; Watling, L.; Auster, P.; Shank, T. (2007). Anthropogenic impacts on the Corner Rise seamounts, north-west Atlantic Ocean. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87(5): 1075-1076. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407057785, more Watling, L. (2007). Predation on copepods by an Alaskan cladorhizid sponge. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87(6): 1721-1726. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407058560, more Watling, L. (2007). A review of the genus Iridogorgia (Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae) and its relatives, chiefly from the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87(2): 393-402. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002531540705535X, more Eckelbarger, K.J.; Watling, L.; Fournier, H. (2005). Reproductive biology of the deep-sea polychaete Gorgoniapolynoe caeciliae (Polynoidae), a commensal species associated with octocorals. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85(6): 1425-1433. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315405012609, more Lehnert, H.; Watling, L.; Stone, R. (2005). Cladorhiza corona sp. nov. (Porifera: Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) from the Aleutian Islands (Alaska). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85(6): 1359-1366. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315405012531, more Gonzalez, E.R.; Watling, L. (2002). Redescription of Hyalella azteca from its type locality, Vera Cruz, Mexico (Amphipoda: Hyalellidae). J. Crust. Biol. 22(1): 173-183. https://dx.doi.org/10.1651/0278-0372(2002)022[0173:ROHAFI]2.0.CO;2, more Johnson, W.S.; Stevens, M.; Watling, L. (2001). Reproduction and development of marine peracaridans, in: Southward, A.J. et al. Adv. Mar. Biol. 39. Advances in Marine Biology, 39: pp. 105-260, more Sparks-McConkey, P.J.; Watling, L. (2001). Effects on the ecological integrity of a soft-bottom habitat from a trawling disturbance. Hydrobiologia 456(1-3): 73-85, more Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2001). Humesiana, a remarkable new cumacean genus from the Caribbean Sea. J. Crust. Biol. 21(1): 243-248. https://dx.doi.org/10.1651/0278-0372(2001)021[0243:HARNCG]2.0.CO;2, more Watling, L.; Hof, C.H.J.; Schram, F.R. (2000). The place of the Hoplocarida in the Malacostracan pantheon. J. Crust. Biol. 20(Special No.2): 1-11, more Thiel, M.; Watling, L. (1998). Effects of green algal mats on infaunal colonization of a New England mud flat - long-lasting but highly localized effects. Hydrobiologia 375: 177-189. https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1017040401990, more Maurer, D.; Watling, L.; Aprill, G. (1974). The distribution and ecology of common marine and estuarine pelecypods in the Delaware Bay area. The Nautilus 88(2): 39-46, more
Peer reviewed publications (6) [show]
Garm, A.; Watling, L. (2013). The crustacean integument: setae, setules and other ornamentation, in: Watling, L. et al. (Ed.) Functional morphology and diversity. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 1: pp. 167-198, more Watling, L. (2013). Feeding and digestive system, in: Watling, L. et al. (Ed.) Functional morphology and diversity. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 1: pp. 237-260, more Watling, L.; Thiel, M. (Ed.) (2013). Functional morphology and diversity. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 1. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-539803-8. xii, 500 pp., more Forest, J.; Bacescu, M.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Boxshall, G.A.; Cals, Ph.; Casanova, J.-P.; Dalens, H.; Gutu, M.; Hessler, R.R.; Lagardère, J.P.; Monod, Th.; Nouvel, H.; Petrescu, I.; Roman, M.-L.; Sieg, J.; Trilles, J.-P.; Watling, L. (1999). Traité de zoologie: anatomie, systématique, biologie: VII. Crustacés: III A. Péracarides. Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco, 19. Musée océanographique de Monaco: Monaco. ISBN 2-7260-0202-1. 450 pp., more Hessler, R.R.; Watling, L. (1999). Sous-classe des Eumalacostracés (Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892), super-ordre des Péracarides (Peracarida Calman, 1904): 1. Les Péracarides: un groupe controversé, in: Forest, J. et al. Traité de zoologie: anatomie, systématique, biologie: VII. Crustacés: III A. Péracarides. Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco, 19: pp. 1-11, more Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (1999). A new species of leuconid (Crustacea, Cumacea), Leucon (Crymoleucon) noerrevangi, from the Faroe Islands. Sarsia 84: 437-444, more
Books (2) [show]
McLaughlin, P.A.; Camp, D.K.; Angel, M.V.; Bousfield, E.L.; Brunel, P.; Brusca, R.C.; Cadien, D.; Cohen, A.C.; Conlan, K.E.; Eldredge, L.G.; Felder, D.L.; Goy, J.W.; Haney, T.; Hann, B.; Heard, R.W.; Hendrycks, E.A.; Hobbs III, H.H.; Holsinger, J.R.; Kensley, B.; Laubitz, D.R.; LeCroy, S.E.; Lemaitre, R.; Maddocks, R.F.; Martin, J.W.; Mikkelsen, P.; Nelson, E.; Newman, W.A.; Overstreet, R.M.; Poly, W.J.; Price, W.W.; Reid, J.W.; Robertson, A.; Rogers, D.C.; Ross, A.; Schotte, M.; Schram, F.R.; Shih, C.-T.; Watling, L.; Wilson, G.D.F.; Turgeon, D.D. (2005). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. Special Publication. American Fisheries Society, 31. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda. ISBN 1-888569-64-6. 543 + CD-Rom pp., more Felgenhauer, B.E.; Watling, L.; Thistle, A.B. (Ed.) (1989). Functional morphology of feeding and grooming in Crustacea. Crustacean Issues, 6. A.A. Balkema: Rotterdam. ISBN 90 6191 777 8. 225 pp., more
Book chapters (13) [show]
Chapman, J.W.; Bousfield, E.L.; Bowers, D.E.; Watling, L.; Carlton, J.T.; Martin, J.W.; Haney, T.A.; Lavaniegos, B.E. (2007). Amphipoda, in: Carlton, J.T. (Ed.) The Light and Smith Manual. Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon, Completely Revised and Expanded. pp. 545-618, more Auster, P.J.; Moore, J.; Heinonen, K.B.; Watling, L. (2005). A habitat classification scheme for seamount landscapes: assessing the functional role of deep-water corals as fish habitat, in: Freiwald, A. et al. (Ed.) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, : pp. 761-769, more Watling, L. (2005). The global destruction of bottom habitats by mobile fishing gear, in: Norse, E.A. et al. Marine conservation biology: The science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity. pp. 198-210, more Watling, L.; Auster, P.J. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States, in: Freiwald, A. et al. (Ed.) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Erlangen Earth Conference Series, : pp. 279-296, more Watling, L. (2001). Cumacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 308-310, more Norse, E.A.; Watling, L. (1999). Impacts of mobile fishing gear: the biodiversity perspective, in: Benaka, L.R. (Ed.) Fish habitat. Essential fish habitat and rehabilitation: Proceedings of the Sea Grant Symposium, August 26-27, 1998, Hartford, CT (USA). American Fisheries Society Symposium, 22: pp. 31-40, more Thiel, M.; Watling, L. (1998). Effects of green algal mats on infaunal colonization of a New England mud flat - long-lasting but highly localized effects, in: Baden, S. et al. Recruitment, colonization, and physical-chemical forcing in marine biological systems: Proceedings of the 32nd European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Lysekil, Sweden, 16-22 August 1997. Developments in Hydrobiology, 132: pp. 177-189. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2864-5_15, more Watling, L. (1998). Benthic fauna of soft substrates in the Gulf of Maine, in: Dorsey, E.M. et al. Effects of fishing gear on the sea floor of New England. pp. 20-29, more Blake, J.A.; Watling, L. (1994). Life history studies of deep-sea benthic infauna: Polychaeta, Aplacophora, and Cumacea from the continental slope off Massachusetts, in: Young, C.M. et al. (Ed.) Reproduction, larval biology and recruitment of the deep-sea benthos. pp. 243-260, more Langton, R.; Watling, L. (1990). The fish-benthos connection: a definition of prey groups in the Gulf of Maine, in: Barnes, M. et al. (Ed.) Trophic Relationships in the Marine Environment: Proceedings of the 24th European Marine Biology Symposium. pp. 424-438, more Watling, L. (1988). Amphipoda, in: Higgins, R.P. et al. Introduction to the study of meiofauna. pp. 409-412, more Watling, L. (1988). Cumacea, in: Higgins, R.P. et al. Introduction to the study of meiofauna. pp. 413-416, more Watling, L. (1983). Peracaridan disunity and its bearing on eumalacostracan phylogeny with a redefinition of eumalacostracan superorders, in: Schram, F.R. (Ed.) Crustacean phylogeny. Crustacean Issues, 1: pp. 213-228, more
Report [show]
Watling, L.; Norse, E.A. (1998). Disturbance of the seabed by mobile fishing gear: a comparison with forest clear-cutting. Marine Conservation Biology Institute: Redmond. 37 pp., more
Other publication [show]
Maureaud, A.A.; Reygondeau, G.; Ingenloff, K.; Vigneron, J.G.; Watling, L.; Winner, K.; Jetz, W. (2023). A global biogeographic regionalization of the benthic ocean. OSF Preprints March 15. https://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/nkjvf , more