Spotting the “small eyes”: using photo-ID methodology to study a wild population of smalleye stingrays (Megatrygon microps) in southern Mozambique [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background The smalleye stingray (Megatrygon microps) is a large and rare dasyatid ray, patchily distributed across the Indo-West Pacific. Free-swimming individuals have regularly been recorded in Southern Mozambican coastal waters utilizing different ...
Atlantine Boggio-Pasqua +2 more
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Editorial: Tracking marine megafauna for conservation and marine spatial planning
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity faces multiple threats, from invasive species to climatechange. Yet no large-scale assessments of threat management strategies exist. Applying astructured participatory approach, we demonstrate that existing conservation efforts areinsufficient in a changing world, estimating that 65% (at best 37%, at worst 97%) of ...
Jorge M. Pereira +6 more
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Using Drones to Assess Volitional Swimming Kinematics of Manta Ray Behaviors in the Wild
Drones, 2022 Drones have become increasingly popular tools to study marine megafauna but are underutilized in batoid research. We used drones to collect video data of manta ray (Mobula cf.
Vicky Fong +2 more
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Interactions between marine megafauna and plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.
Science of The Total Environment, 2023 L'Asie du Sud-Est (SE) est une région très riche en biodiversité, mais on estime également qu'elle contribue cumulativement à un tiers de la pollution plastique marine mondiale totale. Cette menace est connue pour avoir des impacts négatifs sur la mégafaune marine, cependant, la compréhension de ses impacts a récemment été soulignée comme une priorité ...
L. C. Omeyer +38 more
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Quantitative overview of marine debris ingested by marine megafauna
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 This review quantifies plastic interaction in marine biota. Firstly, entanglement and ingestion records for all marine birds, mammals, turtles, fish, and invertebrate species, are summarized from 747 studies. Marine debris affected 914 species through entanglement and/or ingestion. Ingestion was recorded for 701 species, entanglement was documented for
Kühn, Susanne +1 more
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Five Decades of Marine Megafauna Surveys from Micronesia [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016 Long-term data are critical for assessing the status, trends, abundance, and distributions of wildlife populations. However, such data streams are often lacking for protected species, especially highly mobile marine vertebrates. Using five decades of aerial surveys, we assessed changes in marine megafauna on the insular coral reef ecosystem of Guam ...
Summer L. Martin +9 more
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Animal community dynamics at senescent and active vents at the 9° N East Pacific Rise after a volcanic eruption [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Gollner, S., Govenar, B., Arbizu, P. M., Mullineaux, L.
Arbizu, P. Martinez +8 more
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Shaken, not stirred: blue whales show no acoustic response to earthquake events
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Quantifying how animals respond to disturbance events bears relevance for understanding consequences to population health. We investigate whether blue whales respond acoustically to naturally occurring episodic noise by examining calling before and after
Dawn R. Barlow +3 more
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The Azores: A Mid-Atlantic Hotspot for Marine Megafauna Research and Conservation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 The increasing public perception that marine megafauna is under threat is an outstanding incentive to investigate their essential habitats (EMH), their responses to human and climate change pressures, and to better understand their largely unexplained ...
Pedro Afonso +12 more
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Residency, movement patterns, behavior and demographics of reef manta rays in Komodo National Park [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background The reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) is a globally threatened species and an iconic tourist attraction for visitors to Indonesia’s Komodo National Park (NP). In 2013, manta ray fishing was banned in Komodo NP and its surroundings, preceding the
Elitza S. Germanov +6 more
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