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Environmental Sciences
Trine Bekkby, Ragnhild Ryther Grimm Torstensen, Lars Andreas Holm Grunfeld, Hege Gundersen, Stein Fredriksen, Eli Rinde, Hartvig Christie, Mats Walday, Guri Sogn Andersen, Marijana S. Brkljacic, Luiza Neves, Kasper Hancke
Summary: The growing demand for food has sparked increased interest in seaweed farming worldwide. This study aimed to compare the communities hosted by a kelp farm and wild kelp forests. The results showed that the kelp farm had lower taxa abundance and richness, as well as a lower biodiversity, compared to the wild kelp forests.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Nina M. Whitney, Alan D. Wanamaker, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Beverly J. Johnson, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, Karl J. Kreutz
Summary: Warming in the Gulf of Maine, western North Atlantic, since the late 1800s reversed a 900-year cooling trend, likely as a result of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, according to ocean temperature and water mass reconstructions from bivalves and climate model simulations.
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Review
Oceanography
David W. Townsend, Neal R. Pettigrew, Maura A. Thomas, Stephen Moore
Summary: We analyzed a 19-year time series of mooring data and in situ nitrate data collected in the Jordan Basin in the Gulf of Maine. The analyses confirmed previous findings that the Gulf of Maine has been warming due to air-sea heat fluxes. The warming is primarily attributed to changes in advective heat fluxes from neighboring shelf and slope regions, leading to a new baseline of warmer temperatures and higher salinities in the Gulf.
PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Keri A. Baugh, Jooke Robbins, Irvin R. Schultz, Gina M. Ylitalo
Summary: Contaminant studies in cetaceans provide information about pollutant levels and patterns. Due to reproductive factors, studies usually focus on male cetaceans. However, understanding contaminant burdens in female cetaceans is important for assessing potential impacts.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Thomas J. Trott
Summary: This study examined the similarity of macroinvertebrate species assemblages from exposed rocky headlands in the Gulf of Maine to understand the mesoscale patterns and their relationship with environmental factors. The study found that species assemblage similarity was correlated with latitude, and there was a distinct grouping of sampling sites separating two Gulf regions. Species turnover accounted for a large portion of the regional dissimilarity, with molluscs and crustaceans contributing the most. Satellite-derived temperatures explained a significant amount of the regional variation. These findings suggest that hydrographic features and associated environmental conditions influence community dynamics and shape the dissimilarity between Gulf regions.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Isabel C. Gil-Garcia, Adela Ramos-Escudero, M. S. Garcia-Cascales, Habib Dagher, A. Molina-Garcia
Summary: This paper presents a multi-criterion decision-making approach for optimal off-shore wind location assessment by integrating fuzzy geographical information systems. The methodology involves prioritizing different locations and alternatives through an analytic hierarchy process and comparing with a fuzzy geographical information system solution. A case study in the Gulf of Maine includes a statistical evaluation of wind resources and a design proposal for a 1 GW offshore wind power plant using a variable speed wind turbine prototype.
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Oceanography
Alessia C. Ciraolo, Paul V. R. Snelgrove, Christopher K. Algar
Summary: Many biological and physical variables affect microbes at the sediment-water interface, which in turn affects the fate and residence time of organic matter in the marine environment. The microbial diversity and its influence on organic matter remineralization rates in deep-sea sediments need further study.
DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Yuqiu Wei, Dongsheng Ding, Ting Gu, Tao Jiang, Keming Qu, Jun Sun, Zhengguo Cui
Summary: Based on a systematic analysis of biological and environmental parameters in the Bohai Sea over the past three years, this study suggests that marine plankton communities in coastal ecosystems respond differently to current environmental changes, with an increase in phytoplankton and a decrease in zooplankton. The effect of acidification and warming favors phytoplankton over zooplankton, while water eutrophication, salinity, and heavy metals have diverse consequences on the dynamics of both phytoplankton and zooplankton. Furthermore, interactions between acidification and warming are predicted to lead to a decrease in both phytoplankton and zooplankton in the future.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Carla Perez-Mon, Beat Stierli, Michael Ploetze, Beat Frey
Summary: Global warming in mid-latitude alpine regions is affecting the permafrost microbiome, leading to changes in microbial abundance and composition, potentially impacting soil carbon dynamics.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Review
Oceanography
Fabio Favoretto, Carlos Sanchez, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
Summary: Marine communities globally are being affected by gradual warming and extreme heatwaves, leading to shifts in species' geographic range. This has impacts on economies, food supply, and health. This study focuses on the Gulf of California and reveals how a known ecological boundary shifted northward due to warming and more frequent heatwaves, resulting in the homogenization of environmental conditions and reconfiguration of rocky reefs communities.
PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Jeremy Borderieux, Jean-Claude Gegout, Josep M. Serra-Diaz
Summary: Climate warming leads to changes in understorey plant community composition, favoring warm-adapted species and reducing cold-adapted species. Previous studies have shown a lag between understorey plant temperature index (CTI) and climate warming rates, which can be partly explained by local tree canopy cover. This study investigates the role of landscape-scale forest cover in influencing CTI.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Felipe Torquato, Mustafa H. Omerspahic, Pedro Range, Steffen S. Bach, Rodrigo Riera, Radhouane Ben-Hamadou
Summary: Oil and gas platforms serve as artificial habitats for marine organisms, with fouling communities showing vertical stratification and higher frequency in the 35-60 meter depth interval. There is a slight structural difference among platforms of different ages, with older platforms hosting a greater number of functional groups.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, Camille Meeussen, Leen Depauw, Emiel De Lombaerde, Sanne Govaert, Thomas Vanneste, Jorg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Cristina Gasperini, Per-Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, Jan Plue, Federico Selvi, Fabien Spicher, Jaime Uria-Diez, Kris Verheyen, Pieter Vangansbeke, Pieter De Frenne
Summary: The study found that understorey plant communities did not show significant responses to warming treatment, but had stronger impacts from light treatment, especially from fast-colonizing generalists. Forest structure played a crucial role in mediating the response to light addition and had clear impacts on functional traits and total plant cover. Short-term experimental warming had minimal effects, suggesting a time-lag in understorey species' response to climate change.
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Engineering, Environmental
Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Kjell Nedreaas, Mats Huserbraten, Even Moland
Summary: The article proposes the fishery driven predator release as the cause for the largest grazing event ever observed in the NE Atlantic, discussing the overgrazing of kelp forests due to sea urchin bloom and likely depletion of predatory coastal fish stocks by coastal fisheries modernization. It hypothesizes the importance of coastal predatory fish in regulating sea urchins and the necessity of a local population dynamics perspective in managing coastal ecosystems.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sohaib Alahmed, Lauren Ross, Sean M. C. Smith
Summary: This research investigates the influence of estuary hydrodynamics on the residence time and transport rates of estuarine water pollution. The study finds that complex coastal morphometry can affect these mechanisms. The results show that the residual flow has a stronger control in wide and simple estuaries, while narrow channels and complex geomorphic features increase the tidal excursion. These findings are significant for the management and monitoring of particle transport and pollution dynamics in estuaries.
ESTUARIES AND COASTS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Jon D. Witman, Robert W. Lamb, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes
ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS
(2015)
Article
Ecology
Alejandro Perez-Matus, Fernando Sanchez, Juan C. Gonzalez-But, Robert W. Lamb
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2016)
Article
Ecology
Alejandro Perez-Matus, Fernando Sanchez, Juan C. Gonzalez-But, Robert W. Lamb
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2016)
Article
Ecology
Natalia S. Winkler, Maite Paz-Goicoechea, Robert W. Lamb, Alejandro Perez-Matus
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2017)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Juan P. Quimbayo, Murilo S. Dias, Michel Kulbicki, Thiago C. Mendes, Robert W. Lamb, Andrew F. Johnson, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Juan J. Alvarado, Arturo A. Bocos, Carlos E. L. Ferreira, Eric Garcia, Osmar J. Luiz, Ismael Mascarenas-Osorio, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Fabian Rodriguez-Zaragoza, Eva Salas, Fernando A. Zapata, Sergio R. Floeter
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Robert W. Lamb, Franz Smith, Anaide W. Aued, Pelayo Salinas-de-Leon, Jenifer Suarez, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Roxanna Smolowitz, Cem Giray, Jon D. Witman
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Fiona L. Beltram, Robert W. Lamb, Franz Smith, Jon D. Witman
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Robert W. Lamb, Franz Smith, Jon D. Witman
Letter
Critical Care Medicine
Adam Edward Lang, Aleksandra Yakhkind, Robert W. Lamb, Kathleen M. Stack
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Italo Fernandez-Cisternas, Jorge Majlis, M. Isidora avila-Thieme, Robert W. Lamb, Alejandro Perez-Matus
Summary: Ecological interactions among reef fishes on two oceanic islands with high rates of endemism show that species composition, density, and abundance impact the type and strength of interactions. Endemic species play a significant role in the interaction networks, and the relative frequency of positive and agonistic interactions varies with species density and richness.
Article
Ecology
Lillian J. Tuttle, Robert W. Lamb, Allison L. Stringer
Summary: Cleaning symbioses on coral reefs involve mutualistic interactions between cleaner and client fish, where cleaners remove parasites from clients. The study shows that learned avoidance behavior can protect cleaners from predation by invasive predators, highlighting the importance of behavioral plasticity in mediating species interactions in marine ecosystems.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daniel L. Preston, Robert W. Lamb
Summary: The study found that trout aquaculture affects dissolved oxygen and nitrogen concentrations in surrounding mountain stream water, with these effects dissipating further downstream from the fish farms. Additionally, total dissolved phosphorus concentrations in stream water increase downstream from trout farms.
RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Sofia Castell y Tickell, Natalie H. N. Low, Robert W. Lamb, Margarita Brandt, Jon D. Witman
Summary: Sea stars in Galápagos have diverse diets and play important roles as consumers in benthic ecosystems. Different species show distinct feeding habits and have different ecological impacts on prey, highlighting the importance of understanding their functional roles for ecosystem management.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
(2022)