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Gut throughput rate and satiation of the invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans) and its potential impact on an endemic, endangered Labrid fish Halichoeres socialis [PDF]

, 2017
The invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish Pterois volitans has been recognized as a severe threat to indigenous fish species on Caribbean reefs. Previous studies have identified an extensive variety of Caribbean fishes in the stomachs of lionfish, but few have ...
Garner, James Graham
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Eustatic and tectonic controls on mixed carbonate‐siliciclastic ramp deposits in the South Pyrenean foreland basin: The Eocene Alveolina Limestone

The Depositional Record, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 1132-1165, September 2025.
The lower Eocene Alveolina Limestone records the global early Eocene transgression, but is equally affected by tectonic movements of the Montsec active thrust located in its hangingwall. Tectonic movements and the early Eocene transgression facilitated a detrital provenance shift in the southern Pyrenean foreland from a southern provenance in the ...
Stefan Schröder, Oliver Neame, Amber Finch, Miquel Poyatos‐Moré   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesophotic rocks dominated by Diazona violacea: a Mediterranean codified habitat

The European Zoological Journal, 2020
The football ascidian Diazona violacea was observed in three different sites in the Aeolian Archipelago (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea), from 53 to 116 m depth.
F. Mastrototaro, R. Aguilar, H. Alvarez, J. Blanco, S. García, F. Montesanto, A. L. Perry, G. Chimienti   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of e-Biodiversity: Concepts, Practices, and Challenges

, 2018
The unprecedented size of the human population, along with its associated economic activities, have an ever increasing impact on global environments. Across the world, countries are concerned about the growing resource consumption and the capacity of ...
Artur Ziviani, Douglas A. Augusto, Eduardo Couto Dalcin, Eduardo Krempser, Fabiano Thompson, Helen Michelle Affe, Luiz M. R. Gadelha, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Marcia Chame, Maria Luiza Mondelli, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Pedro C. de Siracusa, Pedro Milet Meirelles, Raquel Lopes Costa   +13 more
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Mesophotic ecosystems

, 2019
Aim: this study reviews recent research on the South Atlantic Mesophotic ecosystems (MEs) and the pressures threatening them, and offers suggestions for their management and conservation. - Location: the South Atlantic Ocean. - Methods: a comprehensive compilation of the scientific literature was performed to examine the distribution, human impacts and
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira, Tavares, Tallita Cruz Lopes, Carneiro, Pedro Bastos de Macêdo   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

First Report of Endolithic Members of Rhodosorus marinus (Stylonematales, Rhodophyta) Growing Inside Rhodoliths Offshore Louisiana, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Endolithic, red unicells residing in the interior of Lithothamnion rhodoliths, collected offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico in mesophotic rhodolith beds at ∼54–55 m depth and maintained in closed microcosms, were used to establish cultures following their ...
Sherry Krayesky-Self, Delena Phung, William Schmidt, Thomas Sauvage, Luke Butler, Suzanne Fredericq   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Persistence of pristine deep-sea coral gardens in the Mediterranean Sea (SW Sardinia) [PDF]

, 2015
Leiopathes glaberrima is a tall arborescent black coral species structuring important facies of the deep-sea rocky bottoms of the Mediterranean Sea that are severely stifled by fishing activities. At present, however, no morphological in vivo description,
Angiolillo, M, Bavestrello, G, Bo, M, Calcagnile, L, Canese, S, CANNAS, RITA, CAU, ALESSANDRO, CAU, ANGELO, D'Elia, M, D'Oriano, F, FOLLESA, MARIA CRISTINA, Quarta, G   +11 more
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Coping with the Lionfish Invasion: can targeted removals yield beneficial effects? [PDF]

, 2012
Invasive species generate significant environmental and economic costs, with maintenance management constituting a major expenditure. Such costs are generated by invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois spp.) that further threaten already stressed coral ...
Abele L. G., Albins M. A., Bohlke J. E., Burke L., Carrie M. Manfrino, Charles A. Jacoby, Chevalier P. O., Ferguson T., Green S. J., Green S. J., Humann P., Lorenzen K., Martinez S. FW, Morgan A. Edwards, Morris J. A., Morris J. A., Savanna C. Barry, Schofield P. J., Thomas K. Frazer, Weis J. S., Williams A. B.   +20 more
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Remote submerged banks and mesophotic ecosystems can provide key habitat for endangered marine megafauna. [PDF]

Sci Adv
The importance of some ecosystems remains poorly understood. We showed that mesophotic ecosystems (30 to 150 m) are a key habitat for a critically endangered species, with strong evidence that a globally important population of adult hawksbill turtles ...
Hays GC, Laloë JO, Mortimer JA, Rattray A, Tromp JJ, Esteban N.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

New records of marine invertebrates from São Tomé and Príncipe (Eastern tropical Atlantic) [PDF]

, 2018
The following species are recorded from the coasts of São Tomé and Príncipe for the first time: the ciliate Zoothamnium niveum, the black coral Antipathella wollastoni, the zoanthid Isaurus tubercularis, and the shrimp Latreutes fucorum.
Wirtz, Peter
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