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Marine Conservation [PDF]

Pacific Conservation Biology, 1999
This issue of Pacific Conservation Biology is devoted to marine conservation. There are several reasons for this.
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A review on marine heritage study: Focusing on the relationship between community and marine heritage, the value, conservation and management of marine heritage

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2019
The United Nation's World Heritage System is one of the most extensive conservation systems in the world. The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has noticed that there are less ...
Jingbo Wang
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Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends.
Stelios Katsanevakis, Marta Coll, Simonetta Fraschetti, Simonetta Fraschetti, Sylvaine Giakoumi, David Goldsborough, Vesna Mačić, Peter Mackelworth, Peter Mackelworth, Gil Rilov, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Paolo G. Albano, Amanda E. Bates, Stanislao Bevilacqua, Stanislao Bevilacqua, Elena Gissi, Virgilio Hermoso, Antonios D. Mazaris, Cristina Pita, Valentina Rossi, Yael Teff-Seker, Katherine Yates, Katherine Yates   +22 more
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Selectivity of penaeid trap nets used in south eastern Australia

Scientia Marina, 2004
Two experiments were done to estimate the selectivity of commercial and modified trap-net configurations in New South Wales (NSW), southeastern Australia.
Matt K. Broadhurst, Michael E.L. Wooden, Damian J. Young, William G. Macbeth   +3 more
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Review of Evaluation and Valuation Methods for Cetacean Regulation and Maintenance Ecosystem Services With the Joint Cetacean Protocol Data

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Cetaceans provide a range of ecosystem services of value to anthropogenic interests. Following the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) these are categorised as regulation and maintenance, provisioning, and cultural values ...
Jack Michael Sheehy, Nicola L Taylor, Nadescha Zwerschke, Mark Collar, Vicky Morgan, Eugenia Merayo   +5 more
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First Assessment of Micro-Litter Ingested by Dolphins, Sea Turtles and Monk Seals Found Stranded along the Coasts of Samos Island, Greece

Animals, 2022
This study is the first to assess the occurrence of micro-litter ingested by marine megafauna in the north-eastern Aegean Sea. A total of 25 specimens from four species of marine mammals, including dolphins and monk seals, and two species of sea turtles,
Guido Pietroluongo, Belén Quintana Martín-Montalvo, Simone Antichi, Anastasia Miliou, Valentina Costa   +4 more
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Microbial functional assemblages predicted by the FAPROTAX analysis are impacted by physicochemical properties, but C, N and S cycling genes are not in mangrove soil in the Beibu Gulf, China

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Mangroves and their global significance in climate change based on the storage of blue carbon and release of CO2, CH4, and N2O have attracted great attention. Microbial communities and their functions are essential for the biogeochemical cycle of carbon (
Zicong Yang, Chunyan Peng, Hongming Cao, Jingjing Song, Bin Gong, Lu Li, Lin Wang, Yu He, Meng Liang, Juncheng Lin, Liulin Lu   +10 more
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Acoustic estimates of sperm whale abundance in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative

Frontiers in Marine Science
Acoustic surveys for sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) were conducted in the Mediterranean Sea in summer 2018 as part of the vessel-based component of the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative (ASI).
Oliver Boisseau, Jonathan Reid, Conor Ryan, Anna Moscrop, Richard McLanaghan, Simone Panigada   +5 more
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Skin microbiome of coral reef fish is highly variable and driven by host phylogeny and diet

Microbiome, 2018
Background The surface of marine animals is covered by abundant and diversified microbial communities, which have major roles for the health of their host.
Marlène Chiarello, Jean-Christophe Auguet, Yvan Bettarel, Corinne Bouvier, Thomas Claverie, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Fabien Rieuvilleneuve, Elliot Sucré, Thierry Bouvier, Sébastien Villéger   +9 more
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The mitochondrial genome of Erronea caurica (Cypraeidae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021
The mitochondrial genome of Erronea caurica from the South China Sea has been determined (GenBank Accession No. MT522622), which was the second report of mitochondrial genome in the superfamily Cypraeoidea.
Lirong Bai, Dahui Yu, Xueyu Yan, Jiawen Liu, Haoxin Jiang, Zhiying Zhao, Xia Liang   +6 more
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