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Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1491-1503, May 2026.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Despite the importance of flowers to plant fitness, it remains unclear whether flowers display ecophysiological strategies and how floral traits are associated with leaf economic traits.
Dario C. Paiva, Adam B. Roddy
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A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic ...
Leonard Dewaele +2 more
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Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals: An analysis of current views and practices. [PDF]
, 1996 Stranded marine mammals have long attracted public attention. Those that wash up dead are, for all their value to science, seldom seen by the public as more than curiosities.
Geraci, Joseph R. +2 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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Determining potential conflicts between small-scale fisheries and sea-cage fish farms in the Aegean Sea [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2019 Background. Fish farms attract both juvenile and adult wild fishes in great numbers and diversity. These wild fishes also become an easy target stock for local fishers, both professional and recreational. There are three groups of interest in this study,
O. Akyol +4 more
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Aquatic conservationThe rarest seal and the world's most endangered pinniped species, the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus), has a small and isolated population in the Madeira Archipelago (Portugal).
Sebastián Muñoz-Duque +8 more
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Microhaplotype Methods Enable Relationship Inference in a Bottlenecked Mammalian Species
Animal Conservation, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 136-145, April 2026.Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) are among the most genetically depauperate mammals in the world. A near‐total population bottleneck in the 19th century, coupled with the breeding system of extreme polygyny, has challenged efforts to estimate individual reproductive success with genetic methods.
Keith M. Hernandez +6 more
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Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses [PDF]
A classroom resource for grades 4-8 lessons on these pinnipeds. Guide is complete with background materials (for students and teacher), goals and objectives, a glossary, 9 classroom activities, and a bibliography for obtaining additional resources.
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Environmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 2, March/April 2026.Passive capture of eDNA can be used as a tool for citizen scientist SCUBA divers to supplement visual surveys for marine species detection and is particularly useful for species that are rare or visually inaccessible to divers. ABSTRACT Environmental DNA (eDNA) marker gene sequencing, or metabarcoding, can be a powerful tool for monitoring marine ...
Theodora T. Mautz +5 more
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Pollution in the open oceans: 2009-2013 [PDF]
, 2016 This review of pollution in the open oceans updates a report on this topic prepared by GESAMP five years previously (Reports and Studies No. 79, GESAMP, 2009).
Angelidis, M. +7 more
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