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Relationships between faunal assemblages and habitat types in Broke Inlet, Western Australia [PDF]

, 2010
The work for this thesis was undertaken in Broke Inlet, a seasonally-open estuary on the south coast of Western Australia and the only estuary in that region which is regarded as “near-pristine” (Commonwealth of Australia, 2002).
Tweedley, James
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Acoustic mapping and classification of benthic habitat using unsupervised learning in artificial reef water [PDF]

, 2017
Artificial reefs (ARs) are effective means to maintain fishery resources and to restore ecological environment in coastal waters. ARs have been, widely constructed along the Chinese coast. However, understanding of benthic habitats in the vicinity of ARs
Tang, Cheng, Li, Dong, Xia, Chunlei, Tang, C, Zhang, Hua   +4 more
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Dynamic response of communities and ecosystem functions to ecosystem engineering and multiple stressors in a marine mussel bed

Oikos, EarlyView.
Ecosystem engineers are crucial to the development of coastal ecosystem communities and functions. However, a better understanding of how environmental stressors affect ecosystem engineering and thereby influence communities and ecosystem dynamics is needed. We conducted an in situ experiment in a blue mussel Mytilus spp.
Félix Lauzon, Charlotte Carrier‐Belleau, Jérémie Boucher‐Fontaine, Philippe Archambault, Mathieu Cusson, Frédéric Guichard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Confirmation of hard-substrate predictions in the abyssal Vema Fracture Zone

Frontiers in Marine Science
Hydroacoustic mapping has recently challenged the long-held view of a uniform abyssal seafloor by predicting substantial habitat heterogeneity in this environment.
Torben Riehl, Torben Riehl, Linus Budke, Angelika Brandt, Angelika Brandt, Mats Henseler, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Farzaneh Momtazi, Nico Augustin, Nico Augustin   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impacts of hydraulic clamming in shallow water and the importance of incorporating anthropogenic disturbances into habitat assessments

Aquatic Living Resources, 2020
Hydraulic dredging for shellfish is known to create some of the highest levels of disturbance, affecting the benthic microfaunal community and the physical characteristics of the substrate.
Legare Bryan, Mittermayr Agnes, Borrelli Mark   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the effectiveness of surrogates for conserving biodiversity in the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park [PDF]

, 2015
University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Science.The effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) in conserving biodiversity depends, in part, on which areas are chosen for protection and how these areas represent the true biodiversity of the ...
Owen, V
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Benthic habitat mapping

, 2016
Making deep-sea benthic habitat maps requires expensive and complex technologies to acquire, process and interpret remotely-sensed data. Recent technologies that have advanced the field significantly include side-scan sonar, multibeam echosounders, and ...
Pallentin, A, Orpin, AR, Lamarche, Geoffroy, Mitchell, JS   +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
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the Marine Environment Through a Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
There is a growing emphasis on formally recognizing the connection to the marine environment of Indigenous peoples and the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) these strong connections cultivate.
Harriet N. Davies, Harriet N. Davies, Harriet N. Davies, Jackie Gould, Jackie Gould, Renae K. Hovey, Renae K. Hovey, Ben Radford, Ben Radford, Gary A. Kendrick, Gary A. Kendrick, The Anindilyakwa Land and Sea Rangers, Anindilyakwa Traditional Owners   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source