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Dumpsite Seabed Characterization of the San Pedro Basin, CA, From Autonomous Vehicle Observations

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A wide‐area seabed survey was conducted using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in a known dumpsite off the coast of Southern California that has been found to have widespread sediment contamination from the chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT).
Ryan A. McCarthy, Dylan Kriegman, Sophia T. Merrifield, Heidi Batchelor, Eric J. Terrill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Macroinvertebrate‐Based Flow Index Elucidates Responses to Environmental Water in a Highly Regulated River

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Macroinvertebrate‐based flow indices have potential application to guiding environmental flow allocations and monitoring their effectiveness, but their sensitivity to such flows has seldom been tested. We examined the response of the Australian Macroinvertebrate Flow Index (AMFI), calculated from family‐level data, to three stages of ...
Bruce C. Chessman, Andrew J. Brooks, Daniel W. Coleman, Matthew D. Russell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial heterogeneity of coral reef benthic communities in Kenya.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Spatial patterns of coral reef benthic communities vary across a range of broad-scale biogeographical levels to fine-scale local habitat conditions. This study described spatial patterns of coral reef benthic communities spanning across the 536-km coast ...
Juliet Furaha Karisa, David Obare Obura, Chaolun Allen Chen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fish Migration Through Ship Locks at the Danube River, Austria

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Longitudinal connectivity in the Austrian section of the Danube has improved over the last three decades thanks to the progressive installation of fish passage facilities at hydropower plants. However, navigation locks which are present at all barrages remain poorly quantified with respect to their role in fish migration.
Walter Reckendorfer, Barbara Grüner, Renate Degen, Regina Petz‐Glechner, Ursula Scheiblechner, Michael Schabuss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhyming in the cold: first evidence of soniferous fishes in the Southern Ocean

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The acoustic ecology of Southern Ocean fishes remains unknown due to a lack of dedicated acoustic research on the fishes of this ocean. Passive acoustic monitoring data were collected at the South African sub‐Antarctic Prince Edward Islands using an underwater acoustic recorder, and towed underwater Ski‐Monkey cameras were deployed to identify fish ...
Fannie W. Shabangu, Grant van der Heever, Charles von der Meden, Hannah Truter, Stephen J. Lamberth, Ofer Gon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deep learning‐based super‐resolution reconstruction and improved YOLOv9 for efficient benthos detection: a case study at Lake Hamana, Japan

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study presents a UAV‐based framework that integrates deep learning‐based super‐resolution reconstruction and an enhanced YOLO detector to improve centimetre‐scale benthic organism monitoring. Using hermit crabs in Lake Hamana, a coastal lagoon in Japan, as a case study, the method substantially enhanced small‐object detection performance ...
Fan Zhao, Bangzhang Ma, Dianhan Xi, Jiaqi Wang, Yijia Chen, Yongying Liu, Xinlei Shao, Mowen Zhang, Guocheng Zhang, Jundong Chen, Katsunori Mizuno   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring of Crustose Coralline Algae Using Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Intertidal Reefs

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
High‐resolution visible‐light imagery from low‐altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, combined with superpixel segmentation and a Random Forest classifier, provides an efficient and scalable framework for mapping and monitoring crustose coralline algae and reef habitats.
Po‐Chien Lin, Han‐Yang Yeh, Zhi‐Cheng Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the distribution of sea urchin (Echinoidea) and benthic habitat using drone in the waters of Lancang Island [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Sea urchins are valuable marine creatures that live in the waters of Indonesia, and typically found in seagrass and coral reefs. This study aimed to determine the distribution of sea urchins and the benthic characteristics that serve as their habitat ...
Sastraantara Muhammad Sony, Agus Syamsul Bahri, Susilo Setyo Budi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discovery and Fine‐Scale Mapping of Hadal Xenophyophore Habitat in the Nova Canton Trough, Central Pacific Ocean

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Discovery and fine‐scale mapping of a hadal xenophyophore field: submersible video transects and photogrammetry enable semi‐automated delineation of xenophyophores, revealing their abundance, spatial organisation, structural complexity and contribution to habitat heterogeneity at ~8000 m depth.
Denise J. B. Swanborn, Joana Gafeira, Megan Cundy, Daniel C. Bates, Heather A. Stewart, Alan J. Jamieson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

High‐Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveals Landscape‐Scale Benthic Habitat Changes in a Turbid Coral Reef

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
High‐resolution satellite imagery and landscape metrics revealed a 77% decline in coral‐dominated habitats at Abrolhos Bank between 2010 and 2024, accompanied by macroalgal and zoanthid expansion. Spatial reorganisation indicates increasing fragmentation, homogenisation and loss of reef structural complexity.
Thais Andrade Galvão de Medeiros, Maria Laura Zoffoli, Gabriel Moiano, Vittorio Brando, Milton Kampel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source