Megafauna in Salt Marshes [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Megafauna shape ecosystems globally through trophic interactions, ecology of fear, and ecosystem engineering. Highly productive salt marshes at the interface of terrestrial and marine systems have the potential to support megafauna species, but a recent ...
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ROV’s Video Recordings as a Tool to Estimate Variation in Megabenthic Epifauna Diversity and Community Composition in the Guaymas Basin [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Patterns in benthic megafauna diversity in littoral and intertidal zones in the Gulf of California have been associated with both habitat heterogeneity and substrate type.
Pedro H. López-Garrido +4 more
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The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionThe modern marine megafauna is known to play important ecological roles and includes many charismatic species that have drawn the attention of both the scientific community and the public.
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Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The worldwide extinction of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene is evident from the fossil record, with dominant theories suggesting a climate, human or combined impact cause.
Juraj Bergman +7 more
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The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionAcross the last ~50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in the Late Pleistocene and Early to Middle Holocene.
Jens-Christian Svenning +7 more
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists. Many studies have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological roles and provide important ecosystem services to humanity. But, what precisely are ‘megafauna’?
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Kill site database: A unified dataset on human-megafauna interactions across time and space
Data in Brief, 2023 The database presented in this data article is related to the paper “Megafauna kill sites in South America: a critical review” [1]. It includes a list of 134 publications on human-megafauna interaction, with 69 archaeological sites showing human ...
Hugo Bampi +2 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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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 ...
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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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