A5029908238- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
2013-2025
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2014-2021
NOAA National Ocean Service
2013-2020
Consolidated Safety Services-Dynamac (United States)
2013-2020
Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board
2018
Coral reefs and associated fish populations have experienced rapid decline in the Caribbean region marine protected areas (MPAs) been widely implemented to address this decline. The performance of no-take MPAs (i.e., reserves) for protecting rebuilding is influenced by movement animals within across their boundaries. Very little known about reef movements creating a critical knowledge gap that can impede effective MPA design, evaluation. Using miniature implanted acoustic transmitters fixed...
Declining natural resources have led to a cultural renaissance across the Pacific that seeks revive customary ridge-to-reef management approaches protect freshwater and restore abundant coral reef fisheries. Effective requires improved understanding of land-sea linkages decision-support tools simultaneously evaluate effects terrestrial marine drivers on reefs, mediated by anthropogenic activities. Although few applications linked land cover these are too coarse in resolution inform...
Abstract To design effective marine reserves and support fisheries, more information on fishing patterns impacts for targeted species is needed, as well better understanding of their key habitats. However, vary geographically are difficult to disentangle from other factors that influence fish distributions. We developed a set effort habitat layers at high resolution employed machine learning techniques create regional‐scale seascape models predictive maps biomass body length reef fishes the...
Resource managers in the United States and worldwide are tasked with identifying mitigating trade-offs between human activities deep sea (e.g., fishing, energy development, mining) their impacts on habitat-forming invertebrates, including deep-sea corals sponges (DSCS). Related management decisions require information about where DSCS occur what densities. Species distribution modeling (SDM) provides a cost-effective means of potential habitat over large areas to inform these data...
ABSTRACT Aim Abundant species distribution models (SDMs) of deep‐sea corals and sponges (DSCS) allow one to make community‐level predictions about DSCS. Pairing that with the conservation information Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) due their sensitivity seafloor trawling, can assess efficacy established protections, known as Essential Fish Habitat Conservation Areas (trawl closure areas), in United States West Coast on a multi‐taxon basis. From this, we seek answer following questions:...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 489:43-59 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10432 Consequences of life history traits pelagic larvae on interisland connectivity during a changing climate Matthew S. Kendall1,*, Poti1,2, Timothy T. Wynne3, Brian P. Kinlan1,2, Laurie B. Bauer1,2 1NOAA National Ocean Service, Centers for Coastal Science...
Deep-sea corals are important components of the benthos in Gulf Mexico, because they provide structural complexity to associated species fish and invertebrates, serve as proxies for environmental conditions on millennial time scales. In large colonies black coral Leiopathes glaberrima have been estimated be over 2000 years old. As such, vulnerable disturbance slow recover from adverse interactions with anchors, fishing gear, sedimentation, oil gas extraction, sampling. There is a growing...
Orbicellid corals are threatened primary reef-building throughout the Caribbean in shallow and mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs), yet a poor understanding of where they occur limits population monitoring management. The goals this study were to predict suitable habitat for orbicellid species identify how abiotic environmental factors constrain that on eastern Puerto Rico Shelf. probability occurrence Orbicella annularis O. faveolata/O. franksi (combined) from depths Shelf was predicted...
Abstract The pelagic larval duration ( PLD ) period of fish can influence dispersal, recruitment, and population connectivity, thereby potentially informing best strategies for fisheries management. Computer models were used to simulate the dispersal larvae three species, representing a range s, from Pacific island Guam neighboring islands 9‐year (2004–2012) gain insight into management these species. species included two springtime spawners with shorter longer scribbled rabbitfish Siganus...