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.
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Small populations of Palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction. [PDF]
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The eastern Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) is a heterogeneous abyssal environment harbouring relatively low abundances of highly diverse megafauna communities.
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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
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Nutrient availability drives local seasonal movements of an endangered marine megafauna species [PDF]
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