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Microplastics in sea surface waters in the Southern Bight of the North Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science
Microplastic pollution in the marine environment is of concern, with evidence of harmful effects on marine biota and ecosystems. There is still a knowledge gap of the mass of plastics supplied to the ocean and plastics observed in the ocean, indicating a
Danja P. Hoehn, Alexandra R. McGoran, Jon Barry, Josie Russell, E. E. Manuel Nicolaus, Adil Bakir   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Anticoagulant Rodenticides Contribute to a Decline in an Urban Carnivore

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have been shown to negatively affect carnivores globally and are closely tied to human activity and development. We examined drivers of annual survival in bobcats persisting on a residentially developed barrier island over 16 years.
Meghan P. Keating, Catherine M. Bodinof Jachowski, Duane R. Diefenbach, James D. Jordan, Nicole M. Nemeth, Thomas R. Rainwater, Gregory K. Yarrow, David S. Jachowski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in land‐snail communities and steppe environments in the lower Rhône valley during the Lateglacial–Holocene transition

Boreas, EarlyView.
Land snail successions in the lower Rhône valley allow us to reconstruct the postglacial recolonization. From the Lateglacial period onwards, Mediterranean steppe communities appeared. The arrival of forest taxa was significantly delayed by aridity. The question of glacial refugia, both local and distant, primarily concerned Mediterranean species of ...
Frédéric Magnin
wiley   +1 more source

How to detect the impact of marine litter on Mediterranean biodiversity?

, 2017
The Mediterranean Sea has been recently described as one of the most affected areas by marine litter, including microplastics, in the world. Recent studies in the different regions of the basin suggested that some areas are affected by important ...
Fossi Maria Cristina, Baini Matteo, Panti Cristina   +2 more
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A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The marronoid clade is a globally distributed, ecologically diverse group of spiders. It is an important faunal component in both natural and synanthropic environments, and even found in aquatic and extreme habitats such as desert salt flats. The systematics of the marronoid clade has been notoriously unstable due to the widespread character ...
Jonas O. Wolff, Michael B. J. Kelly, Franklyn Cala‐Riquelme, Jacob A. Gorneau, Katherine O. Montana, Helen M. Smith, Phil J. Sirvid, Cor J. Vink, Lauren A. Esposito, Martín J. Ramírez, Charles E. Griswold   +10 more
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Environmental and seasonal filtering of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns of mountain butterflies in a prime butterfly area, Greece

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Forest clearings support butterfly communities comparable to mountainous grasslands in alpha‐diversity and conservation value, yet remain compositionally distinct. Generalized linear models (GLMs) showed three key habitat predictors shaping multifaceted diversity and community composition: herb/grass height, flowerhead abundance and elevation.
Konstantina Nasiou, Konstantina Zografou, Andreja Radović, Apostolis Stefanidis, Vassiliki Kati   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cetaceans and floating marine macro-litter in the Calabrian Ionian Sea (Central Eastern Mediterranean): applying conservation research

Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability
The Gulf of Squillace, in the Calabrian Ionian Sea, where we have been conducting scientific research and marine monitoring since 2019, has proven to be an important area for pelagic animals, including seabirds and sea turtles.
Maria Assunta Menniti, Rosanna Agresta, Pasquale Gariano, Pasquale Gariano, Maria Grandinetti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incorporating light pollution into projections of the future distribution of Aspisoma sticticum Gemminger, 1870 under climate change in South America

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Climate‐only models predict severe habitat contractions by 2100, especially in the Amazon, Cerrado and Caatinga, while southern and coastal Atlantic Forest areas remain refugial. Including artificial light at night increased projected stability and apparent suitability gains, especially in central and eastern South America.
Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar, Leandro Zeballos, Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multi-year tracking of floating marine litter from satellite images in the Pearl River Estuary

Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Marine litter, predominantly plastic, is a global environmental threat, which management is hindered by the absence of large-scale monitoring tools. This study extends a framework to detect Floating Marine Macro-Litter (FMML) in the complex waters of the
Fengyuan Liang, Annalisa De Leo, Mang Sing Wong, Alessandro Stocchino   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source