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Marine debris ingestion by albatrosses in the southwest Atlantic Ocean [PDF]

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2015
Plastics and other marine debris affect wildlife through entanglement and by ingestion. We assessed the ingestion of marine debris by seven albatross species in the southwest Atlantic by analyzing stomach contents of birds killed in fisheries. Of the 128 specimens examined, including four Diomedea species (n=78) and three Thalassarche species (n=50 ...
Jiménez, Sebastián, Domingo, Andrés, Brazeiro, Alejandro, Defeo, Omar, Phillips, Richard A.   +4 more
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DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF GYMNOSOMATA (GASTROPODA: OPISTHOBRANCHIA) IN THE SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC [PDF]

Journal of Molluscan Studies, 1998
The distribution and abundance of gymnosome gas­ tropods in the Argentine Sea and Brazil-Malvinas Confluence during 1978-1979 and 1988 were studied. The collections analyzed included 768 quantitative samples obtained between 48°W and the coast, and from 35°S to 55°S. Two species were found.
Dadon, J.R., Chauvin, S.F.
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Remotely induced storm effects on the coastal flooding along the southwest coast of India

Oceanologia, 2023
The southwest coast of India is exposed to long-period swells propagated from the South Indian Ocean during pre- and post-monsoon seasons. Although swells from the Southern Ocean and Atlantic Ocean were identified in the North Indian Ocean, their ...
P.S. Swathy Krishna, Valliyil Mohammed Aboobacker, Madipally Ramesh, L. Sheela Nair   +3 more
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Patagonian Dust as a Source of Macronutrients in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean [PDF]

Oceanography, 2018
The role of Patagonian wind-borne dust as a source of macronutrients to the surface waters of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean was evaluated for the first time. During spring 2016, a series of experiments with dust was conducted to evaluate the dynamics of macronutrient dissolution in seawater.
Paparazzo, Flavio Emiliano, Crespi Abril, Augusto Cesar, Gonçalves, Rodrigo Javier, Barbieri, Elena Susana, Gracia Villalobos, Leilen Luciana, Solis, Miriam Edith, Soria, Rodrigo Gaspar   +6 more
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Movements, Habitat Use, and Diving Behavior of Shortfin Mako in the Atlantic Ocean

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The shortfin mako is one of the most important shark species caught in Atlantic Ocean pelagic fisheries. Given increasing concerns for the stock status of the species, the present study was designed to fill gaps in the knowledge of habitat use and ...
Catarina C. Santos, Catarina C. Santos, Andrés Domingo, John Carlson, Lisa J. Natanson, Paulo Travassos, David Macías, Enric Cortés, Philip Miller, Fábio Hazin, Federico Mas, Josetxu Ortiz de Urbina, Pedro G. Lino, Rui Coelho, Rui Coelho   +14 more
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Distribution, maturity and population structure of Meganyctiphanes norvegica and Thysanoessa inermis around Iceland in spring.

PLoS ONE, 2017
This study aims to explain the distribution, maturity and population structure of Meganyctiphanes norvegica and Thysanoessa inermis in springtime in relation to main hydrographic regions around Iceland: Atlantic in the southwest, Atlantic-Arctic mixture ...
Teresa Silva, Astthor Gislason, Olafur S Astthorsson, Gudrún Marteinsdóttir   +3 more
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Horizontal and vertical distribution of mesozooplankton species richness and composition down to 2,300 m in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2014
We describe the species richness, distribution and composition of mesozooplankton over the continental shelf and slope, and in the water masses in the Campos Basin, southwest Atlantic Ocean. We analyzed the mesozooplankton from two oceanographic cruises (
Sérgio L.C. Bonecker, Adriana V. de Araujo, Pedro F. de Carvalho, Cristina de O. Dias, Luiz F.L. Fernandes, Alvaro E. Migotto, Otto M.P. de Oliveira   +6 more
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Non-native reef fishes in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: a recent record of Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae) and biological aspects of Chromis limbata (Valenciennes, 1833) (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) [PDF]

Check List, 2018
In the present paper, we document a recent record of the Bannerfish, Heniochus acuminatus, an Indo-Pacific species, in the southwest Atlantic Ocean and comment on biological aspects of the Azores Chromis, Chromis limbata, an invasive reef fish in the ...
Johnatas Adelir-Alves, Marcelo Soeth, Raul Rennó Braga, Henry Louis Spach   +3 more
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New insights into the morphology, reproduction and distribution of the large-tuberculate octopus Graneledone macrotyla from the Patagonian slope

Scientia Marina, 2012
The new information reported in this paper is based on 11 specimens of the large-tuberculate octopus Graneledone macrotyla. These specimens were caught in bottom trawl surveys ATLANTIS 2009 and 2010 carried out on the Patagonian slope off the Argentinean
Ángel Guerra, Álvaro Roura, Maria Pilar Sieiro, Julio M. Portela, José Luis del Río   +4 more
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Ocean-forcing of cool season precipitation drives ongoing and future decadal drought in southwestern North America

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023
The US Southwest is in a drought crisis that has been developing over the past two decades, contributing to marked increases in burned forest areas and unprecedented efforts to reduce water consumption.
Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, Patrick Alexander, Haibo Liu, Jennifer Nakamura, Cuihua Li, Matthew Newman   +6 more
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