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Effects of harvesting methods on sustainability of a bay scallop fishery: dredging uproots seagrass and displaces recruits [PDF]

, 2005
Fishing is widely recognized to have profound effects on estuarine and marine ecosystems (Hammer and Jansson, 1993; Dayton et al., 1995). Intense commercial and recreational harvest of valuable species can result in population collapses of target and ...
Bishop, Melanie J., Gaskill, David, Peterson, Charles H., Summerson, Henry C.   +3 more
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Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha, Nicolai Konow   +6 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
doaj   +1 more source

Substrate Heterogeneity as a Trigger for Species Diversity in Marine Benthic Assemblages

Biology, 2023
Many studies show that habitat complexity or habitat diversity plays a major role in biodiversity throughout different spatial scales: as structural heterogeneity increases, so does the number of available (micro-) habitats for the potential species ...
Katharina Romoth, Alexander Darr, Svenja Papenmeier, Michael L. Zettler, Mayya Gogina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Assessing the use of harmonized multisource backscatter data for thematic benthic habitat mapping

Science of Remote Sensing, 2021
Legacy seabed mapping datasets are increasingly common as the need for detailed seabed information is recognized. Acoustic backscatter data from multibeam echosounders can be a useful surrogate for seabed properties and are commonly used for benthic ...
Benjamin Misiuk, Myriam Lacharité, Craig J. Brown   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the historical distribution, abundance and ecological contribution of Modiolus modiolus in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland [PDF]

, 2016
Strangford Lough is a large sheltered marine inlet in Northern Ireland. It is also a designated Special Area of Conservation based partially on the presence of an extensive area of Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) biogenic reef.
Moore, Heather, Service, Matthew, Strong, James Asa   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is marine biodiversity? Towards common concepts and their implications for assessing biodiversity status [PDF]

, 2016
Biodiversity' is one of the most common keywords used in environmental sciences, spanning from research to management, nature conservation, and consultancy.
Angel Borja, Herman Hummel, Hugues Blanchet, Jacob Carstensen, Jesper H. Andersen, Michael Elliott, Nathalie Niquil, Paul E Renaud, Sabine Cochrane, Sabine Cochrane, Torsten Berg   +10 more
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Trends in marine species distribution models: a review of methodological advances and future challenges

Ecography, EarlyView.
Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are quantitative tools in biogeography and macroecology. Building upon the ecological niche concept, they correlate environmental covariates to species presence to model habitat suitability and predict species distributions.
Moritz Klaassen, Tiago A. Marques, Filipe Alves, Marc Fernandez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source