NIWA

Dr Ashley Rowden

Primary tabs

Staff search

Contact

Dr Ashley Rowden

Principal Scientist - Marine Ecology

+64-4-386-0334

Qualifications:

Biography:

Ashley Rowden works at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Ashley's research interests are largely focused on the question - What drivers or processes control and maintain biodiversity in the marine environment? Specifically, he is interested in examining the relationship between habitat heterogeneity, productivity and disturbance, and the biodiversity of seafloor fauna. To address this subject, Ashley has been involved in research in a number of marine habitats from the estuaries to the deepest ocean trenches. Some of his research has concerned applied aspects of marine science, including looking at the effects of bottom trawling and deep-sea mining on seafloor communities, and spatial management planning.

Articles:

Rowden, A.A., Anderson, O.F., Georgian, S.E., Bowden, D.A., Clark M.R., Pallentin, A., Miller, A., 2017. High-resolution habitat suitability models for the conservation and management of vulnerable marine ecosystems on the Louisville Seamount Chain, South Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:335. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00335.

Rowden, A.A., Leduc, D., Clark, M.R., Bowden, D.A., 2016. Habitat differences in deep-sea megafaunal communities off New Zealand: implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance and management. Frontiers in Marine Science 3:241. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00241

Rowden, A.A., Kröger, K, Clark, M.R., 2015. Compositional patterns of benthic assemblages on the northwestern Ross Sea shelf, Antarctica: interacting environmental drivers operating at multiple spatial scales. Hydrobiologia, 761: 211-233.

Leduc, D., Rowden, A.A., Nodder, S.D., Berkenbusch, K., Probert, P.K., Hadfield, M.G., 2014. Unusually high food availability in Kaikoura Canyon linked to distinct deep-sea nematode community. Deep-Sea Research II 104: 310-318.

External profiles:

Research Gate

School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

Research Subjects:

NIWA

Dr Ashley Rowden

Primary tabs

Dr Ashley Rowden

External profiles:

National science centres

Useful Links

Contact