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Incorporating environmental DNA metabarcoding for improved benthic biodiversity and habitat mapping

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Seafloor imagery is commonly used to collect information about the distribution of benthic organisms in order to generate habitat and biodiversity maps. Recent advances in genomics (e.g., environmental DNA; eDNA) show potential to complement video surveys for habitat mapping, but there have been few examples testing this.
Rylan J. Command, Shreya Nemani, Benjamin Misiuk, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Nicole Fahner, Emily Porter, Greg Singer, Beverly McClenaghan, Katleen Robert   +8 more
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Oyster Bed Mapping in the Great Bay Estuary, 2012-2013 [PDF]

, 2013
Six major oyster beds (reefs) in New Hampshire are mapped periodically to assess wild oyster populations in the Great Bay Estuary. Data on the spatial extent of the beds are combined with density and other measures to estimate the abundances of live ...
Grizzle, Raymond E., Ward, Krystin M.
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The role of Internal Solitary Waves on deep-water sedimentary processes. The case of up-slope migrating sediment waves off the Messina Strait [PDF]

, 2016
Subaqueous, asymmetric sand waves are typically observed in marine channel/canyon systems, tidal environments, and continental slopes exposed to strong currents, where they are formed by current shear resulting from a dominant unidirectional flow ...
Casalbore, Daniele, Chiocci, Francesco, Droghei, Riccardo, Falcini, Federico, Martorelli, Eleonora, Mosetti, Renzo, Salusti, Ettore, Sannino, Gianmaria, Santoleri, Rosalia   +8 more
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Environmental Drivers of Jumbo Squid During Fishery Collapse in the Gulf of California (2019–2024)

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) is a cephalopod endemic to the eastern Pacific with significant ecological and economic importance. Its exploitation in the Gulf of California (GC) peaked in the 1990s, with catches exceeding 100,000 tons, but collapsed in 2009 and virtually disappeared by 2015, largely due to environmental changes and ...
Mario Vásquez‐Ortiz, Juan Roberto F. Vallarta‐Zárate, Jesús E. Osuna‐Soto, Emma Verónica Pérez‐Flores, Leslie Altamirano‐López, Ramón Isaac Rojas‐González   +5 more
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The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques to refine population estimates of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) [PDF]

, 2006
Multibeam sonar mapping techniques provide detailed benthic habitat information that can be combined with the data on species-specific habitat preferences to provide highly accurate calculations of populations in a particular area. The amount of suitable
Butler, John, Cochrane, Guy, Kvitek, Rikk, Neuman, Melissa, Pinkard, Deanna   +4 more
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Remote sensing of sediment characteristics by optimized echo-envelope matching [PDF]

, 2003
A sediment geoacoustic parameter estimation technique is described which compares bottom returns, measured by a calibrated monostatic sonar oriented within 15° of vertical and having a 10°–21° beamwidth, with an echo envelope model based on high ...
de Moustier, Christian, Sternlicht, Daniel D   +1 more
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Surgical tagging of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus): electroanaesthesia and survival in captivity and the field

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Electroanaesthesia using electric fish handling gloves induced rapid and reversible sedation of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) during surgical tagging without observable adverse effects on behaviour or tag retention. In the laboratory, survival analyses revealed that longer handling times and smaller body sizes significantly reduced ...
Caliyena R. Brown, Morgan L. Piczak, Elisabeth Van Beveren, John Batt, Robert J. Lennox   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seafloor morphology and substrate mapping in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada, using machine learning approaches

Frontiers in Marine Science
Detailed maps of seafloor substrata and morphology can act as valuable proxies for predicting and understanding the distributions of benthic communities and are important for guiding conservation initiatives.
Emily Sklar, Esther Bushuev, Benjamin Misiuk, Benjamin Misiuk, Benjamin Misiuk, Guillaume Labbé-Morissette, Craig J. Brown   +6 more
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Assessment of habitat representation across a network of marine protected areas with implications for the spatial design of monitoring.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) are being adopted globally to protect ecosystems and supplement fisheries management. The state of California recently implemented a coast-wide network of MPAs, a statewide seafloor mapping program, and ...
Mary Young, Mark Carr
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Observations of deep coral and sponge assemblages in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Washington. Cruise Report: NOAA Ship McArthur II Cruise AR06-07/07 [PDF]

, 2007
From May 22 to June 4, 2006, NOAA scientists led a research cruise using the ROPOS Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to conduct a series of dives at targeted sites in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) with the goal of documenting deep ...
Bowlby, C. E., Brancato, M. S., Brenkman, K., Hyland, J., Intelmann, S. S.   +4 more
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