A5002017922- Marine and fisheries research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
Louisiana State University
2023
Florida International University
2022
Texas A&M University at Galveston
2013-2021
Time-series data collected over a four-year period were used to characterize patterns of abundance for pelagic fishes in the northern Gulf Mexico (GoM) before (2007–2009) and after (2010) Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four numerically dominant species (blackfin tuna, blue marlin, dolphinfish, sailfish) included our assessment, larval density each was lower 2010 than any three years prior spill, although often statistically similar other surveyed. To assess potential overlap between suitable...
Biodiversity enhances the productivity and stability of marine ecosystems provides important ecosystem services. The aim this study was to characterize larval fish assemblages in pelagic waters northern Gulf Mexico (NGoM) identify oceanographic conditions associated with areas increased taxonomic richness (TF) Shannon diversity (H’). Summer ichthyoplankton surveys were conducted NGoM 2015 2016 using neuston net (surface layer; upper 1 m) oblique bongo (mixed 0-100 tows. Over 17,000 larvae...
The scale of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was and is unprecedented: geographic extent, pollutant amount, countermeasure scope, most relevance to this Research Topic issue, range ecotypes affected. These include coastal/nearshore, continental shelf, deep benthic, open-ocean domains, last which subject synthesis. ecotype comprises ~90% volume Gulf Mexico. exact percentage contaminated with toxins unknown due its three-dimensional nature dynamics, but estimates suggest that footprint...
A rapid non‐destructive alternative to isolate DNA from an individual fish larva is presented, based on the suspension of epithelial cells through vortex forces, and release in a heated alkaline solution. >6056 larvae isolated using this protocol has yielded high PCR amplification success rate (>93%), suggesting its applicability other taxonomic groups or sources when tissue amount limiting factor.
The genus Thunnus (family Scombridae) comprises eight species of tunas which all but one are targeted by industrialized fisheries. Although intact individuals these can be distinguished morphological characteristics, researchers and managers often rely on dressed, frozen, juvenile or larval fish samples, necessitates the identification molecular species. Here authors investigate short amplicon (SA) unlabelled probe high-resolution melting analysis (UP-HRMA) as a low-cost, high-throughput...