Future large hydropower dams impact global freshwater megafauna [PDF]
, 2019 Dam construction comes with severe social, economic and ecological impacts. From an ecological point of view, habitat types are altered and biodiversity is lost.
Berlekamp, Juergen +5 more
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Laser photogrammetry improves size and demographic estimates for whale sharks [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Whale sharks Rhincodon typus are globally threatened, but a lack of biological and demographic information hampers an accurate assessment of their vulnerability to further decline or capacity to recover.
Christoph A. Rohner +8 more
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Sporormiella as a tool for detecting the presence of large herbivores in the Neotropics [PDF]
, 2016 The reliability of using the abundance of Sporormiella spores as a proxy for the presence and abundance of megaherbivores was tested in southern Brazil. Mud-water interface samples from nine lakes, in which cattle-use was categorized as high, medium, or ...
ABSY ML +52 more
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Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna [PDF]
BioScience, 2016 Ripple, W.J., Chapron, G., López-Bao, J.V., Durant, S.M., Macdonald, D.W., Lindsey, P.A., Bennett, E.L., Beschta, R.L., Bruskotter, J.T., Campos-Arceiz, A., Corlett, R.T., Darimont, C.T., Dickman, A.J., Dirzo, R., Dublin, H.T., Estes, J.A., Everatt, K.T., Galetti, M., Goswami, V.R., Hayward, M.W., Hedges, S., Hoffmann, M., Hunter, L.T.B., Kerley, G.I.H.
Ripple, William J +42 more
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The Azores: A Mid-Atlantic Hotspot for Marine Megafauna Research and Conservation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 The increasing public perception that marine megafauna is under threat is an outstanding incentive to investigate their essential habitats (EMH), their responses to human and climate change pressures, and to better understand their largely unexplained ...
Pedro Afonso +12 more
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Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change [PDF]
, 2014 The late Quaternary megafauna extinction was a severe global-scale event. Two factors, climate change and modern humans, have received broad support as the primary drivers, but their absolute and relative importance remains controversial.
Boslough M +11 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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Long-term change in benthopelagic fish abundance in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean [PDF]
, 2006 Food web structure, particularly the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control of animal abundances, is poorly known for the Earth's largest habitats: the abyssal plains.
Bailey, D.M., Ruhl, H.A., Smith, K.
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Discovery and mapping of the Triton seep site, Redondo Knoll: fluid flow and microbial colonization within an oxygen minimum zone [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 Wagner, J. K. S., Smart, C., & German, C. R.
German, Christopher R. +2 more
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Embracing Complexity and Complexity-Awareness in Marine Megafauna Conservation and Research
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Conservation of marine megafauna is nested within an intricate tapestry of multiple ocean resource uses which are, in turn, embedded in a dynamic and complex ecological ocean system that varies and shifts across a wide range of spatial and temporal ...
Rebecca L. Lewison +2 more
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