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Leveraging citizen science to classify and track benthic habitat states: An unsupervised UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline applied to the global reef life survey dataset

Ecological Informatics
Benthic biogenic habitats are crucial for coastal marine ecosystems, supporting food and shelter for a large range of marine species, but they are increasingly threatened by increasing anthropogenic impacts.
Clément Violet, Aurélien Boyé, Stanislas Dubois, Graham J. Edgar, Elizabeth S. Oh, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Martin P. Marzloff   +6 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
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Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Starfish play essential ecological roles as predators and ecosystem regulators; however, detailed developmental descriptions exist for only a handful of species, none of which are from the Mediterranean Sea. Results In this study, we provide the first full account of the development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata ...
Silvia Caballero‐Mancebo, Laurent Gilletta, Janet Chenevert, Stefania Castagnetti   +3 more
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Human pressure, habitat heterogeneity and species traits jointly determine the level of dark diversity in coastal fish communities

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how anthropogenic pressures and environmental gradients shape coastal fish communities is a central question in biogeography and marine conservation. Yet, the set of species expected to occur at a site given ecological conditions but being absent – the so‐called dark diversity – has received far less attention than observed species, even ...
Loïc Sanchez, Jeanne Rolland, Adèle Barroil, Célia Bertrand, Agathe Blandin, Pierre Boissery, Thomas Bockel, Eric Charbonnel, Julie Deter, Régis Hocdé, Florian Holon, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Nicolas Loiseau, Bastien Macé, Anthony Maire, Stéphanie Manel, Marie Orblin, Franck Pichot, Jean‐Jacques Riutort, Lola Romant, Rémy Simide, Alice Valentini, Laure Velez, David Mouillot   +23 more
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An Analysis of Multiple Stressors on Resident Benthic Communities in a California Agricultural Stream

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2018
This 3-year study (2015-2017) was designed to characterize benthic communities (macroinvertebrates) and physical habitat in an agriculturally dominated waterbody in the Central Coast area of California (Santa Maria River).
Lenwood W Hall, Ronald D Anderson, William D Killen, Raymond W Alden   +3 more
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Wave exposure as a predictor of benthic habitat distribution on high energy temperate reefs

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015
The new found ability to measure physical attributes of the marine environment at high resolution across broad spatial scales has driven the rapid evolution of benthic habitat mapping as a field in its own right.
Alex eRattray, Daniel eIerodiaconou, Timothy eWomersley, Timothy eWomersley   +3 more
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Marine Macroalgae as a Safe Healthy Food While Meeting Food Security Challenges Arising From Climate Changes

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Planned harvesting and processing of marine macroalgae could meet future global food needs and mitigate fuel‐originated carbon dioxide responsible for climate change. Microalgal foods are nutritious and safe. The utilization of macroalgae would avoid environmental problems arising from the release of overgrowing macroalgae caused by heatwaves, which ...
Upali Samarajeewa
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Warming modifies trophic impacts of invading shrimp with impact varying among primary producers

Oikos, EarlyView.
Environmental change drivers, such as climate change and species invasions, can disrupt biological networks and weaken ecosystem stability. Acting together, these drivers may interact and alter the effects on the ecosystem. However, few studies have examined the interactive effects of climate change and species invasions, particularly in aquatic ...
Stefanie Coxe, Linnea Kivelä, Tawfiqur Rahman, Ulrika Candolin   +3 more
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Ecosystem engineers and functional dominance: when species loss matters for ecosystem function

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding when and why species loss affects community function in natural communities remains an open question in ecology. Recent cross‐system analyses have shown that functional dominance is associated with whether species loss matters: in communities dominated by few high‐performing species, lost species contribute little to function.
Gianluca Sarà, Yun‐wei Dong, Maria Cristina Mangano   +2 more
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Do diatoms dominate benthic production in shallow systems? A case study from a mixed seagrass bed

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2020
We report an assessment for determining the contribution by diatoms to community productivity and respiration within a coastal benthic ecosystem with multiple autotrophs.
T. Erin Cox, Just Cebrian, Marnie Tabor, Laura West, Jeffrey W. Krause   +4 more
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