Using online reports of seahorse seizures to track their illegal trade. [PDF]
Abstract Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a persistent and extensive threat to global biodiversity. Hundreds of marine fish species are subject to regulation under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), but it is unclear how much protection species gain from CITES because information on marine fish ...
Foster SJ +3 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Bioactivos marinos en la cosmética [PDF]
Desde hace unos años, la preferencia por los productos que se asocian al concepto «natural» ha impulsado la investigación en aras de descubrir, desarrollar y fomentar la comercialización de nuevos bioactivos para la industria cosmecéutica.
Liz Barbara Pereira Cuni +2 more
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Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation. [PDF]
Metabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
Clever F +9 more
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Effects of protection on large-bodied reef fishes in the western Indian Ocean. [PDF]
Abstract Predatory and large‐bodied coral reef fishes have fundamental roles in the functioning and biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, but their populations are declining, largely due to overexploitation in fisheries. These fishes include sharks, groupers, Humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and Green Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum).
Samoilys M +4 more
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Three-dimensional conservation planning of fish biodiversity metrics to achieve the deep-sea 30×30 conservation target. [PDF]
Abstract Accelerating rate of human impact and environmental change severely affects marine biodiversity and increases the urgency to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 30×30 plan for conserving 30% of sea areas by 2030. However, area‐based conservation targets are complex to identify in a 3‐dimensional (3D) ocean where deep‐sea ...
Mathon L +19 more
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Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats. [PDF]
Abstract Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened ...
VanCompernolle M +312 more
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Evaluación de alteraciones histopatológicas en branquias de peces marinos expuestos a contaminación antrópica [PDF]
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos.
Novacovsky, Gabriela Nayla +2 more
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La Colección Ictiológica del Museo de La Salle (MSL), Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, D.C.
Se presenta el estado actual de la colección de peces del Museo de La Salle (MLS), perteneciente a la Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá. El estudio incluye una perspectiva histórica del proceso de formación de las colecciones MLS y los aportes realizados ...
José Edilson Espitia-Barrera +2 more
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Producto del estudio de material depositado en la colección del Museo de Invertebrados Marinos de la Universidad de Miami se registran nuevas ubicaciones y se amplía la distribución de cuatro especies de peracáridos.
Carlos Varela
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Un trabajo explica cómo los antepasados de los peces marinos actuales consiguieron conquistar los océanos [PDF]
Un equipo internacional, con participación del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar del CSIC y liderado por investigadores del IRTA en el Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, identifica los genes que permiten a los ...
Cerdà, Joan, Finn, Roderick N.
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