A5003426985- Marine animal studies overview
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2010
Background The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as severity and frequency mass bleaching mortality events increase. In 2005, high ocean temperatures in tropical Atlantic Caribbean resulted most severe event ever recorded basin. Methodology/Principal Findings Satellite-based tools provided warnings for reef managers scientists, guiding both timing location researchers' field observations anomalously warm conditions developed spread...
Quantifying the number of recreational fishers is important for many aspects managing coastal resources. Unfortunately, quantifying boaters in offshore settings has proven difficult due to their distance from shore and a lack cost-effective methods monitor small boats (<10 m length). We investigated visitor-use at an marine protected area (MPA) southeastern USA. used multiple counting (satellites, buoy camera, passive acoustics, boat-based observations) generalized linear modeling approach...
Methods to evaluate receiver performance within acoustic telemetry arrays are needed quantitatively determine which receivers the most important maintain. A recently developed approach, Receiver Efficiency Index (REI), expresses proportion of transmitter activity from throughout an array that occurs at each location it. The components this composite index equally weight detections, individual tags, and species entire were detected a given then adjusts for time was deployed. In study, we...