Asian Horseshoe Crabs

Dr. Menghong Hu is an Associate Professor in the College of Fisheries and Life Science at Shanghai Ocean University. She received her MSc in Aquaculture from Huazhong University and later her PhD in Marine Biology from the City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the utilization of aquatic animal resources, physiological and ecological responses and adaptability of aquatic organisms to environmental stressors, and conservation of endangered marine animals. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Physiology and Frontiers in Marine Science. Dr. Paul K.S. Shin is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry (formerly the Department of Biology and Chemistry) at the City University of Hong Kong. He is a benthic community ecologist. His research focuses on the composition and structure of marine benthic communities in response to environmental perturbations, ranging from events of pollution, dredging, bottom trawling, to hypoxia. He is also interested in the functioning and trophodynamics of benthic ecosystems, the ecology of artificial reefs, and marine conservation, especially of “living fossils” in the sub-tropics, including lancelets and horseshoe crabs. Dr. Shin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, UK, and has extensive experience in environmental consulting for the government and international funding agencies such as the World and Asian Development Banks. Currently, he serves as the Co-Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Horseshoe Crab Specialist Group. He is an Associate Editor of the Marine Pollution Bulletin published by Elsevier.

1. Biology and physiology
2. Ecology and evolution
3. Population and genetics
4. Exploitation and utilization
5. Conservation and management of Asian horseshoe crab resources
6. What we know and do not know about Asian horseshoe crabs