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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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 ...
Leo C. Gaskins +2 more
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Drone-Based Assessment of Marine Megafauna off Wave-Exposed Sandy Beaches
Remote Sensing, 2023 The wave-impacted waters off exposed sandy beaches support marine megafauna, including dolphins, whales, sharks, rays and turtles. To characterise variation in megafaunal assemblages in this challenging habitat, we used drone-based remote sensing to ...
Paul Butcher +2 more
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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 ...
Atlantine Boggio-Pasqua +2 more
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The need for long-term population monitoring of the world’s largest fish
Endangered Species Research, 2022 Many large marine species are vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures, and substantial declines have been documented across a range of taxa. Many of these species are also long-lived, have low individual resighting rates and high levels of individual ...
CA Rohner +6 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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Thresholds for the presence of glacial megafauna in central Europe during the last 60,000 years
Scientific Reports, 2022 Lake sediment records from Holzmaar and the infilled maar of Auel (Eifel, Germany) are used to reconstruct landscape changes and megafauna abundances. Our data document a forested landscape from 60,000 to 48,000 yr b2k and a stepwise vegetation change ...
Frank Sirocko +8 more
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The Status of Marine Megafauna Research in Macaronesia: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Marine megafauna serve valuable ecological and economical roles globally, yet, many species have experienced precipitous population declines. The significance of marine megafauna is particularly evident in Macaronesia, a complex of oceanic archipelagos ...
Ashlie J. McIvor +10 more
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