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Living shorelines can enhance the nursery role of threatened estuarine habitats Open
Coastal ecosystems provide numerous services, such as nutrient cycling, climate change amelioration, and habitat provision for commercially valuable organisms. Ecosystem functions and processes are modified by human activities locally and …
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Marine Heat Waves Hazard 3D Maps and the Risk for Low Motility Organisms in a Warming Mediterranean Sea Open
Frequency and severity of heat waves is expected to increase as a consequence of climate change with important impacts on human and ecosystems health. However, while many studies explored the projected occurrence of hot extremes on terrest…
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Multispecies mass mortality of marine fauna linked to a toxic dinoflagellate bloom Open
Following heavy precipitation, we observed an intense algal bloom in the St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) that coincided with an unusually high mortality of several species of marine fish, birds and mammals, including species designated at risk.…
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Forage species in predator diets: Synthesis of data from the California Current Open
Characterization of the diets of upper-trophic pelagic predators that consume forage species is a key ingredient in the development of ecosystem-based fishery management plans, conservation of marine predators, and ecological and economic …
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Oyster reef restoration supports increased nekton biomass and potential commercial fishery value Open
Across the globe, discussions centered on the value of nature drive many conservation and restoration decisions. As a result, justification for management activities increasingly asks for two lines of evidence: (1) biological proof of augm…
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Ecosystem effects of invertebrate fisheries Open
Since the 1950s, invertebrate fisheries catches have rapidly expanded globally to more than 10 million tonnes annually, with twice as many target species, and are now significant contributors to global seafood provision, export, trade and …
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The relative value of different estuarine nursery areas in North Carolina for transient juvenile marine fishes Open
Offshore winter-spawned fishes dominate the nekton of south-eastern United States estuaries. Their juveniles reside for several months in shallow, soft bottom estuarine creeks and bays called primary nursery areas. Despite similarity in ma…
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Adaptations to squid-style high-speed swimming in Jurassic belemnitids Open
Although the calcitic hard parts of belemnites (extinct Coleoidea) are very abundant fossils, their soft parts are hardly known and their mode of life is debated. New fossils of the Jurassic belemnitid Acanthoteuthis provided supplementary…
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Climate Change Implications for Tidal Marshes and Food Web Linkages to Estuarine and Coastal Nekton Open
Climate change is altering naturally fluctuating environmental conditions in coastal and estuarine ecosystems across the globe. Departures from long-term averages and ranges of environmental variables are increasingly being observed as dir…
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The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion Open
The lower Cambrian Lagerstätte of Sirius Passet, Peary Land, North Greenland, is one of the oldest of the Phanerozoic exceptionally preserved biotas. The Lagerstätte evidences the escalation of numbers of new body plans and life modes that…
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The Importance of Mesozooplankton Diel Vertical Migration for Sustaining a Mesopelagic Food Web Open
We used extensive ecological and biogeochemical measurements obtained from quasi-Lagrangian experiments during two California Current Ecosystem Long-Term Ecosystem Research cruises to analyze carbon fluxes between the epipelagic and mesope…
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Puffins reveal contrasting relationships between forage fish and ocean climate in the North Pacific Open
Long‐term studies of predator food habits (i.e., ‘predator‐based sampling’) are useful for identifying patterns of spatial and temporal variability of forage nekton in marine ecosystems. We investigated temporal changes in forage fish avai…
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Resource partitioning between sympatric seabird species increases during chick‐rearing Open
Partitioning of resources by competing species of seabirds may increase during periods of food shortages and elevated energy demands. Here, we examined whether food resource partitioning (differential use of foraging habitat or the consump…
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On the Estimation of Zooplankton-Mediated Active Fluxes in Oxygen Minimum Zone Regions Open
In the Peruvian upwelling system, the mesopelagic oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) is the main vertically structuring feature of the pelagic habitat. Several zooplankton and nekton species undertake diel vertical migrations (DVMs) into anoxic dep…
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The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton Open
The colonization of the water column is among the most important transformations in the evolution of animal life and global ecosystems. The Devonian nekton revolution has been identified as a major macroevolutionary event signifying the ra…
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The Pelagic In situ Observation System (PELAGIOS) to reveal biodiversity, behavior, and ecology of elusive oceanic fauna Open
There is a need for cost-efficient tools to explore deep-ocean ecosystems to collect baseline biological observations on pelagic fauna (zooplankton and nekton) and establish the vertical ecological zonation in the deep sea. The Pelagic In …
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Ecological equivalency of living shorelines and natural marshes for fish and crustacean communities Open
Salt marshes provide valued services to coastal communities including nutrient cycling, erosion control, habitat provision for crustaceans and fish (including juvenile and forage fish), and energy transfer from the detrital based food web …
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What are we missing? Advantages of more than one viewpoint to estimate fish assemblages using baited video Open
Counting errors can bias assessments of species abundance and richness, which can affect assessments of stock structure, population structure and monitoring programmes. Many methods for studying ecology use fixed viewpoints (e.g. camera tr…
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Oyster Reefs in Northern Gulf of Mexico Estuaries Harbor Diverse Fish and Decapod Crustacean Assemblages: A Meta-Synthesis Open
Oyster reefs provide habitat for numerous fish and decapod crustacean species that mediate ecosystem functioning and support vibrant fisheries. Recent focus on the restoration of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs stems from this…
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Assessing Deep-Pelagic Shrimp Biomass to 3000 m in The Atlantic Ocean and Ramifications of Upscaled Global Biomass Open
We assess the biomass of deep-pelagic shrimps in the Atlantic Ocean using data collected between 40°N and 40°S. Forty-eight stations were sampled in discrete-depth fashion, including epi- (0–200 m), meso- (200–800/1000 m), upper bathy- (80…
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Revision of the genus <i>Anasibirites</i> Mojsisovics (Ammonoidea): an iconic and cosmopolitan taxon of the late Smithian (Early Triassic) extinction Open
The family Prionitidae Hyatt represents a major component of ammonoid faunas during the Smithian (Early Triassic), and the genus Anasibirites Mojsisovics is the most emblematic taxon of this family. Its stratigraphical range is restricted …
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Vertical Distribution Patterns of Cephalopods in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Open
Cephalopods are important in midwater ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) as both predator and prey. Vertical distribution and migration patterns (both diel and ontogenic) are not known for the majority of deep-water cephalopods. These …
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Elementary trophic ecology of pacific salmons in the Bering Sea. Species and regional differences. Provision with food in different environments Open
The final issue in the series of studies on trophic ecology of pacific salmons in the Bering Sea conducted by planktonologists of Pacific Fish. Res. Center (TINRO) for NPAFC. Salmons dwell in the upper epipelagic layer and feed mainly in t…
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Environmental and scale-dependent evolutionary trends in the body size of crustaceans Open
The ecological and physiological significance of body size is well recognized. However, key macroevolutionary questions regarding the dependency of body size trends on the taxonomic scale of analysis and the role of environment in controll…
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Patos Lagoon estuary and adjacent marine coastal biodiversity long-term data Open
Estuaries are among the most productive aquatic ecosystems and provide important ecological and economic services in coastal areas. However, estuarine systems have been threatened worldwide by natural and anthropogenic impacts acting on lo…
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Economic Valuation As a Basis for Sustainable Mangrove Resource Management: A Case in East Sinjai, South Sulawesi Open
Diversity of mangrove function generates both tangible and intangible benefits and services causing its overall value is not easily recognized hence often overlooked in coastal areas development. The study used the total economic value as …
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Bathyal feasting: post-spawning squid as a source of carbon for deep-sea benthic communities Open
In many oceanic carbon budgets there is a discrepancy between the energetic requirements of deep-sea benthic communities and the supply of organic matter. This suggests that there are unidentified and unmeasured food sources reaching the s…
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Was the Devonian placoderm <i>Titanichthys</i> a suspension feeder? Open
Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators for some evolving into feeding on small zooplankton is of interest for understanding the associated shifts in anatomy and behaviour, whi…
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Ecosystem Metabolism Modulates the Dynamics of Hypoxia and Acidification Across Temperate Coastal Habitat Types Open
Changes in photosynthetic and respiration rates in coastal marine habitats cause considerable variability in ecosystem metabolism on timescales ranging from diel to tidal to seasonal. Here, temporal and spatial dynamics of dissolved oxygen…
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A new early Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätte expands the occurrence of Burgess Shale-type deposits on the Yangtze Platform Open
We report the Fandian biota, a new Konservat-Lagerstätte from the Cambrian Stage 3 Yuxiansi and Jiulaodong Formations in Sichuan, South China, with close faunal links to the Chengjiang biota in Yunnan. The biodiversity of the Fandian biota…