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No escape from microplastics: Contamination of reef manta ray feeding areas in a remote, protected archipelago

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We found microplastic contamination of the upper water column around the Chagos Archipelago, a remote, protected archipelago in the central Indian Ocean. Key aggregation areas for reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) were contaminated, putting them at risk of microplastic ingestion.
J. Savage, J. L. Harris, H. J. Koldewey, T. B. Letessier, M. Rowcliffe, D. Morritt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity of Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915) on coral rubble at two contrasting cold-water coral reef settings [PDF]

, 2015
The authors would like to thank Bill Richardson (Master), the crew of the RRS James Cook, Will Handley and the Holland-I ROV team. We also thank all the specialists in taxonomy that provided important help with identification of species: Professor Paul ...
Henry, Lea-Anne, Kazanidis, Georgios, Roberts, J. Murray, Witte, Ursula F. M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the diet and body size of a small herbivorous mammal (hispid cotton rat, \u3ci\u3eSigmodon hispidus\u3c/i\u3e) following the late Pleistocene megafauna extinction [PDF]

, 2019
The catastrophic loss of large-bodied mammals during the terminal Pleistocene likely led to cascading effects within communities. While the extinction of the top consumers probably expanded the resources available to survivors of all body sizes, little ...
Elliott Smith, Emma A., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Newsome, Seth D., Smith, Felisa A., Tomé, Catalina P.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Sea Turtle Bycatch by Andalusia Pelagic Longline Fleet in the Northeast Atlantic

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Northeast Atlantic is one of the most crucial foraging grounds for juvenile loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), while also serving as an important fishing area for the Andalusia surface longline fishery. The main aim of present study is to assess the sea turtle interaction with the Andalusia pelagic
Marina Tortosa, Jose Francisco Moreno, Ángel David Macías, Francisco Javier Abascal, Salvador García‐Barcelona, Juan Jesús Bellido, José Carlos Báez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution modelling for Neotropical freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon brachyura and Potamotrygon motoro (Myliobatiformes, Potamotrygonidae) in the Uruguay River basin

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira, Roberto E. Reis, Nelson F. Fontoura   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The large scale impact of offshore wind farm structures on pelagic primary productivity in the southern North Sea

, 2018
The increasing demand for renewable energy is projected to result in a 40-fold increase in offshore wind electricity in the European Union by 2030. Despite a great number of local impact studies for selected marine populations, the regional ecosystem ...
Kerimoglu, Onur, Klingbeil, Knut, Lemmen, Carsten, Slavik, Kaela, Wirtz, Kai W., Zhang, Wenyan   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding marine biodiversity patterns and drivers: The fall of Icarus

Marine Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity patterns are fundamental in our understanding of the distribution of life, ecosystem function, and conservation. In this concept analysis, A survey of the existing knowledge on marine biodiversity patterns and drivers across latitudes, longitudes, and depths indicates that none of the postulated patterns represent a rule.
Roberto Danovaro
wiley   +1 more source

Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades

Environmental Research Letters
Wild animals can modulate ecosystem-climate feedbacks, e.g. through impacts on vegetation and associated carbon dynamics. However, vegetation cover and composition also affect land surface albedo, which is an important component of the global energy ...
Olli Hyvarinen, Mariska te Beest, Elizabeth le Roux, Graham I H Kerley, Robert Buitenwerf, Dave J Druce, Jiquan Chen, Linda Rapp, Joana Fernandes, Joris P G M Cromsigt   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]

, 2019
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Payne, Jonathan L., Smith, Felisa A., Villaseñor, Amelia   +4 more
core   +1 more source