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Are Non-reef Habitats as Important to Benthic Diversity and Composition as Coral Reef and Rubble Habitats in Submarine Canyons? Analysis of Controls on Benthic Megafauna Distribution in the Porcupine Bank Canyon, NE Atlantic

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Submarine canyons support high biomass communities as they act as conduits where sediments, nutrients, and organic matter from continental shelves, or those that are carried along by slope currents, are transported into the abyssal zone.
J. K. M. Appah, A. Lim, K. Harris, R. O’Riordan, L. O’Reilly, A. J. Wheeler, A. J. Wheeler   +6 more
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Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska With an Evaluation of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard III [PDF]

, 2010
Seafloor geology and potential benthic habitats were mapped in Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, using multibeam sonar, ground-truth information, and geological interpretations. Muir Inlet is a recently deglaciated fjord that is
Cochrane, Guy R, Etherington, Lisa, Mayer, Larry A., Mitchell, Luke D, Powell, Ross D   +4 more
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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping benthic habitats in Bohai Bay, China

Scientific Reports
Marine benthic habitat mapping is increasingly recognized as an essential tool in integrating available data to inform marine ecosystem-based management.
Lu Yang, Wenhai Lu, Long He, Haiyan Huang, Zhaoyang Liu, Yujia Zhang, Yong Ma, Jia Yu, Guocheng Zuo, Yangyi Ai, Chang Liu, Yan Xu   +11 more
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Augmenting Seafloor Characterization via Grain Size Analysis with Low-Cost Imagery: Minimizing Sediment Sampler Biases and Increasing Habitat Classification Accuracy

Geosciences
Bottom-grab samplers have long been the standard to describe nearshore marine habitats both qualitatively and quantitively. However, sediment samplers are designed to collect specific grain sizes and therefore have biases toward those sediments. Here, we
Sean Terrill, Agnes Mittermayr, Bryan Legare, Mark Borrelli   +3 more
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Rapid Assessment of Intertidal Wetland Sediments [PDF]

, 2012
Urbanization of coastal areas poses a severe threat to ecologically valuable intertidal wetlands. This paper presents a pragmatic approach called Rapid Assessment for Intertidal Wetland Sediments (RAITWS) for evaluating the sediment quality of intertidal
Borthwick, Alistair G. L., Fang, Yuan, Ni, Jinren, Sun, Jinshui   +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
wiley   +1 more source

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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The habitat type and trophic state determine benthic macroinvertebrate communities in lowland shallow lakes of China

Journal of Limnology, 2016
Benthic macroinvertebrates play important roles in shallow lake ecosystems. Several studies based on qualitative comparisons of the amount of macrophytes were carried out to relate benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages to habitat conditions in shallow ...
Zhixin Hu, Xu Sun, Yongjiu Cai, Liyun Guo, Qiankun Chen, Tao Liu, Fei Shi, Liuyan Yang   +7 more
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Puyehue Cordón -Caulle: post-eruption analysis of changes in stream benthic fauna of Patagonia [PDF]

, 2014
Las erupciones volcánicas son los fenómenos naturales con las consecuencias más variadas y complejas, y tienen efectos importantes en ambientes tanto terrestres como acuáticos.
Juárez, Santiago Martín, Lallement, Mailén Elizabeth, Macchi, Patricio Jorge, Vigliano, Pablo Horacio   +3 more
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