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Understanding marine biodiversity patterns and drivers: The fall of Icarus

Marine Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity patterns are fundamental in our understanding of the distribution of life, ecosystem function, and conservation. In this concept analysis, A survey of the existing knowledge on marine biodiversity patterns and drivers across latitudes, longitudes, and depths indicates that none of the postulated patterns represent a rule.
Roberto Danovaro
wiley   +1 more source

Respiration rates and inferred mass-specific field metabolic rates decline with body size among five sympatric cetaceans. [PDF]

J Comp Physiol B
Glarou M, Christiansen F, Iwata T, Basran CJ, Ruppert SNS, Sotiropoulou D, Iversen MR, Akamatsu T, Schnitzler JG, Siebert U, Rasmussen MH.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Greenland–Scotland Ridge in a Changing Ocean: Time to Act?

Marine Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Greenland–Scotland Ridge is a submarine mountain that rises up to 500 m below the sea surface and extends from the east coast of Greenland to the continental shelf of Iceland and across the Faroe Islands to Scotland. The ridge not only separates deeper ocean basins on either side, that is, the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, but also ...
Christophe Pampoulie, Saskia Brix, Haseeb S. Randhawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social associations and habitat selection delineate two subpopulations of west coast transient killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) in the California Current System. [PDF]

PLoS One
McInnes JD, Trites AW, Lester KM, Mathieson CR, Dill LM, Moore JE, Dahlheim ME, Scordino JJ, Kanes KSJ, Olson PA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Humpback whale genomes reflect the increased efficiency of commercial whaling. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Furni F, Bérubé M, Suárez-Menéndez M, Secchi ER, Reeves RR, Robbins J, Speller CF, Palsbøll PJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non‐overlapping categories. By contrast, eliminativism denies that any principled, theoretically useful distinction exists between perception and cognition.
Jacob Beck, Casey O'Callaghan
wiley   +1 more source

Year-round acoustic presence of fin whales southwest of Svalbard suggests mixed-use habitat for feeding and breeding. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Szesciorka AR, Giordano P, Bensi M, Nicolai A, Russo A, Giorli G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen, Thomas Gehring, Simon Linder, Thomas Rixen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre- and Postnatal Ontogeny of Brain Size in Beluga and Bowhead Whales.

Brain Behav Evol
Thewissen JGM, Mars KR, Waugh DA, Peacock J, Stimmelmayr R, Citta JJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source