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The Use of Image‐Based Data and Abundance Modelling Approaches for Predicting the Location of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean

Fisheries Management and Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are typically fragile and slow to recover, thereby making them susceptible to disturbance, including fishing. In the high seas, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) requested regional fishery management organisations (RFMOs) to implement measures to prevent significant adverse impacts on VMEs. Here, we
Matthew Bennion, Ashley A. Rowden, Owen F. Anderson, David A. Bowden, Malcolm R. Clark, Franziska Althaus, Alan Williams, Shane W. Geange, Jordi Tablada, Fabrice Stephenson   +9 more
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The occurrence of black corals in Jamaican reef environments, with special reference to Stichopathes lutkeni (Antipatharia:Antipathidae)

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2005
The purpose of this study was to record the species of Antipatharia on Jamaican reefs and to carry out limited studies on densities and sizes of the common species.In addition,a cliff face created by dredging in 2002 provided the opportunity to study ...
G.F Warner
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High Coral Bycatch in Bottom-Set Gillnet Coastal Fisheries Reveals Rich Coral Habitats in Southern Portugal

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Bottom-contact fisheries are unquestionably one of the main threats to the ecological integrity and functioning of deep-sea and circalittoral ecosystems, notably cold-water corals (CWC) and coral gardens.
Vítor Dias, Frederico Oliveira, Joana Boavida, Ester A. Serrão, Jorge M. S. Gonçalves, Márcio A. G. Coelho   +5 more
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On Some Octocorallia (Alcyonacea) from Hong Kong, with Description of a New Species, Paraminabea rubeusa. [PDF]

, 2010
v. ill. 23 cm.QuarterlyOctocorals from Hong Kong were studied at 18 sites down to a depth of 25 m in 1999. The collection of @90 specimens yielded nine species distributed in seven genera of the families Alcyoniidae, Nephtheidae, and Xeniidae (all are ...
Benayahu, Y., Fabricius, K.
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim We assess the role of spatial distance and depth difference in shaping beta diversity patterns across abyssal seascape regions. We measured the decrease of faunistic similarity across the northeast Pacific seafloor, to test whether species turnover rates differ between deep and shallow‐abyssal biogeographical provinces and whether these ...
Erik Simon‐Lledó, Andrés Baselga, Carola Gómez‐Rodríguez, Anna Metaxas, Diva J. Amon, Guadalupe Bribiesca‐Contreras, Jennifer M. Durden, Bethany Fleming, Alejandra Mejía‐Saenz, Sergi Taboada, Loïc Van Audenhaege, Daniel O. B. Jones   +11 more
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Evaluation of the full set of habitat suitability models for vulnerable marine ecosystem indicator taxa in the South Pacific high seas

Fisheries Management and Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 4, August 2024.
Abstract In the high seas, regional fishery management organisations are required to implement measures to prevent significant adverse impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). Our objectives were to develop habitat suitability models for use in the spatial management of bottom fisheries in the South Pacific and to evaluate these and existing ...
Matthew Bennion, Owen F. Anderson, Ashley A. Rowden, David A. Bowden, Shane W. Geange, Fabrice Stephenson   +5 more
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Modelling spatial distributions of biogenic habitat‐forming taxa to inform marine spatial planning

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Biogenic habitats are foundational habitats for species assemblages and drive a range of ecosystem functions. The Hauraki Gulf/Tiikapa Moana is the most intensively used coastal area in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and decades of commercial fishing, sedimentation and industrialization have degraded biogenic habitats in the Gulf.
Matthew Bennion, Tom Brough, Eva Leunissen, Mark Morrison, Jenny R. Hillman, Ashley A. Rowden, Dennis P. Gordon, Michelle Kelly, Wendy Nelson, Dianne M. Tracey, Diana Macpherson, Kate Neill, Andrew M. Lohrer, Carolyn J. Lundquist   +13 more
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A new species of shrimp of the genus Anachlorocurtis Hayashi, 1975 from the Red Sea, with range extension of A. commensalis Hayashi, 1975 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) [PDF]

, 2014
A new species of pandalid shrimp Anachlorocurtis occidentalis sp. n., associated with antipatharian corals, is described and illustrated from the north-eastern Red Sea.
De Grave, S., Duris, Z., Horká, I.
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Lecanogaster gorgoniphila, a new species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from São Tomé and Principe, eastern Atlantic Ocean [PDF]

, 2018
The clingfish Lecanogaster gorgoniphila new species, an unusual species associated with gorgonians, is described on the basis of 7 specimens and colour photographs from São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Principe, eastern Atlantic Ocean. The species is small,
Fricke, Ronald, Wirtz, Peter
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New occurrences of Corallium spp. (Octocorallia, Coralliidae) in the Central Northeast Atlantic [PDF]

, 2009
Corallium niobe Bayer, 1964 and Corallium tricolor (Johnson, 1899) are reported as new records from the central Northeast Atlantic. C. niobe was caught in the Azores and C. tricolor on the slope of the Irving Seamount (South Azores Seamounts).
Henriques, Andreia Braga, Matos, Valentina, Ocaña, Óscar, Porteiro, Filipe M., Sampaio, Íris, Tempera, Fernando   +5 more
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