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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensory Biology of the Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei, Pontoporiidae, Cetartiodactyla): Ontogenetic Modifications of Vibrissae and Vibrissal Crypts

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The transition of cetaceans from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment involved a crucial sensory adaptation to environments with limited visibility. Vibrissae, important mechanoreceptors, undergo an ontogenetic transformation in odontocetes. This research describes the histomorphology of vibrissae and crypts at different developmental stages ...
Cecilia Mariana Krmpotic, Cleopatra Mara Loza, Alejo Carlos Scarano, Pedro Fernando Andrés‐Laube, Francisco Acuña, Juan Pablo Loureiro, Carolina Natalia Zanuzzi, Nicolás Nahuel Castro, María Teresa Pombo, Lorenzo von Fersen, Claudio Gustavo Barbeito   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bayesian classification model to reconstruct lifetime movement patterns of riverine fish using environmental tracers

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental tracers, including both elemental concentrations and isotope ratios, are widely used to reconstruct the movement patterns of animals throughout landscapes. The methodology involves creating a map that describes the distribution of the environmental tracer across the landscape, an isoscape and then matching the values of the same ...
Michael P. Venarsky, Edward L. Boone, Ben Stewart‐Koster, David A. Crook, Kaitlyn O'Mara, Jon Woodhead, Roland Maas, Stuart Bunn   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occurrence of the alien seagrass Halophila stipulacea in Martinique (French West Indies) [PDF]

, 2013
Hellio, Claire, Marechal, Jean-Philippe, Meesters, Erik H., Vedie, Fabien   +3 more
core   +1 more source

First Insights on Photoreceptor Organ Ultrastructure in Marine Chaetonotida (Gastrotricha): Species of Xenotrichula and Draculiciteria (Xenotrichulidae)

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine gastrotrichs inhabit sediments with limited available light, yet evidence suggests that photoreceptor organs are present throughout the phylum Gastrotricha. Here, we confirm this proposition with ultrastructural descriptions of photoreceptive organs in two species of Xenotrichulidae (Order Chaetonotida) that lack pigmented ocelli ...
Thiago Quintão Araújo, Rick Hochberg
wiley   +1 more source

Chironomid‐based summer temperature reconstruction of the Eemian–Weichselian transition at Lichtenberg, northern Germany

Boreas, EarlyView.
Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink, Bartosz Kotrys, Michael Hein, Xuan Li, Neda Rahimzadeh, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Marcel Weiss, Brigitte Urban, David Colin Tanner, Tobias Lauer, Antje Schwalb   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing conservation breeding programs for marine invertebrates

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the face of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss caused by climate change and other stressors, conservation breeding, or captive breeding, with the aim of reintroduction for wild population recovery, is an emerging tool for preventing species’ extinction and rehabilitating ecosystems.
Elora H. López‐Nandam, Bart Shepherd, Kylie Lev, Rebecca Albright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An integrated approach for the benthic habitat mapping based on innovative surveying technologies and ecosystem functioning measurements. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Piazzolla D, Scanu S, Mancuso FP, Bosch-Belmar M, Bonamano S, Madonia A, Scagnoli E, Tantillo MF, Russi M, Savini A, Fersini G, Sarà G, Coppini G, Marcelli M, Piermattei V.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Structured machine learning modeling to support conservation of deep‐sea benthic biodiversity

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity monitoring programs need to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable predictions. To establish a predictive monitoring program for deep‐sea benthos of the Santos Basin, Brazil, we developed a two‐stage structured model that allowed comparison of biodiversity predictions obtained from environmental simulations (2M‐Sim).
Gustavo Fonseca, Danilo C. Vieira, Juliane C. Carneiro, Renato S. Carreira, Milena Ceccopieri, Thais N. Corbisier, Adriana Galindo Dalto, Alberto G. Figueiredo Jr., Fabiane Gallucci, Paula Gheller, Simone Brito de Jesus, Helena Passeri Lavrado, Letícia Lazzari, Eduardo Hilzendeger Marcon, Daniel Leite Moreira, Rafael Bendayan de Moura, Ellen Pape, Ana Cláudia Aoki Santarosa, João Regis dos Santos Filho, Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa, Thaisa Marques Vicente, Luciana Erika Yaginuma, Cinthia Yamashita, Wandrey Watanabe   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconsidering the role of introduced species in the climate‐affected and highly invaded eastern Mediterranean

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bioinvasions are considered mostly as a biodiversity and conservation hazard, but in specific situations, introduced species can bring ecological or socioeconomic benefits. We assessed the social–ecological role of marine introduced species in the eastern Mediterranean Sea—a global hotspot of bioinvasions and extirpations—and their potential ...
Stelios Katsanevakis, Jonathan Belmaker, Gil Rilov, Erez Yeruham, Andreas Konstantinidis, Maria Papazekou, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Antonios D. Mazaris   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source