Article
Ecology
Sarah Ohayon, Itai Granot, Jonathan Belmaker
Summary: The study found that there may be edge effects within marine protected areas, resulting in 60% smaller populations of fish and invertebrates at the borders compared to the core areas.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Tim R. McClanahan
Summary: The study in Kenya examined the long-term consequences of managing overfished fisheries through gear restrictions or closures. The research found that while both interventions showed positive responses in catch per unit effort (CPUE) trends, the changes were more sustained in the closure-adjacent landing sites compared to the gear-restricted sites. This highlights the potential benefits of closures in preventing suboptimal yields and fisheries collapse in nearshore East African reefs.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
A. Justin Nowakowski, Steven W. J. Canty, Nathan J. Bennett, Courtney E. Cox, Abel Valdivia, Jessica L. Deichmann, Thomas S. Akre, Sara E. Bonilla-Anariba, Sebastien Costedoat, Melanie McField
Summary: This study provides quantitative evidence that marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mesoamerican region deliver co-benefits for fish and people, as indicated by higher fish abundances and improved well-being indicators near MPAs.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Yutong Li, Jianyue Ji
Summary: This study establishes an evaluation index system for marine fisheries using the DPSR model, and analyzes the vulnerability of marine fisheries in China based on data from 10 coastal regions. The results show significant direct effects between economic efficiency, ecological pollution, and vulnerability of marine fisheries, as well as negative effects between industrial structure, environmental regulation, and vulnerability. Spatial spillover effects are also observed, with positive spillover effects from economic efficiency, environmental regulation, and ecological pollution, and negative spillover effects from industrial structure.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Benn J. Hanns, Tim Haggitt, Nick T. Shears
Summary: Fisheries stock assessments based on fisheries dependent data often have high uncertainty. This study proposes using marine reserves as a proxy for unfished biomass to assess stock status. The study shows that lobster populations in fished areas adjacent to marine reserves have significantly lower catch rates and biomass compared to unfished levels, suggesting that marine reserves can provide valuable information for stock assessments.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson, James R. Watson
Summary: Climate change is altering the biogeochemical conditions of the ocean, leading to the emergence of novel environmental conditions within very large marine protected areas (VLMPAs). By 2100, a significant portion of the ocean and VLMPAs are expected to contain novel conditions, with pH conditions becoming novel by 2030. Management strategies for VLMPAs will need to be adjusted to account for these changing environmental conditions.
Article
Oncology
Gregory A. Abel, Haesook T. Kim, Andrew Hantel, David P. Steensma, Richard Stone, Anand Habib, Vincent T. Ho, Martha Wadleigh, Areej El-Jawahri, Edwin P. Alyea, Daniel J. DeAngelo, John Koreth, Joseph H. Antin, Robert J. Soiffer, Corey Cutler
Summary: The study found that in advanced MDS patients, early HCT or for adverse risk disease significantly improved survival, while the effect was not as significant for patients with standard risk disease and severe cytopenia.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samantha Cope, Brendan Tougher, Jessica Morten, Cory Pukini, Virgil Zetterlind
Summary: Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely used for conserving marine resources. A study used an autonomous vessel monitoring system to continuously monitor five nearshore California MPAs and found potential illegal fishing activity occurring at all sites, although most of the activity was just outside the MPAs and in the near vicinity. The study suggests a high level of compliance with regulations and awareness of MPA boundaries, and highlights the importance of continuous monitoring at a high spatial and temporal resolution.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Magdalena de la Mora, Nathan J. Bennett, Stuart Fulton, Adrian Munguia-Vega, Cristina Lasch-Thaler, Mariana Walther-Mendoza, Jose Alberto Zepeda-Dominguez, Elena Marie Finkbeiner, Alison L. Green, Alvin Suarez, Amy Hudson Weaver, Ana Luisa R. Figueroa Carranza, Armando Vega Velazquez, Calina Zepeda, Celerino Montes, David Antonio Fuentes Montalvo, Fiorenza Micheli, Hector Reyes-Bonilla, Iliana Chollett, Ines Lopez-Ercilla, Juan Francisco Torres Origel, Leonardo Vazquez-Vera, Maria del Carmen Garcia-Rivas, Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros, Maria Jose Espinosa-Romero, Mirian Martin Ruiz, Nur Arafeh-Dalmau, Ollin T. Gonzalez-Cuellar, Oswaldo Huchim, Salvador Rodriguez Van Dyck
Summary: This paper discusses a participatory process to co-produce biophysical, socio-economic, and governance principles for marine reserves design and management in Mexico. The integrative approach aims to achieve more effective, equitable, inclusive, and robust marine policies and practices. The process includes convening a coordination team, reviewing science, holding multi-stakeholder workshops, developing principles, and promoting their uptake and application in policy and practice.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Management
M'hamed Gaigi, Vathana Ly Vath, Simone Scotti
Summary: This paper studies a harvesting management problem under the constraints of a no-take area. By using mathematical modeling and dynamic programming theory, the optimal strategy for solving the problem is characterized. The study emphasizes that setting up a reserve area not only protects the ecological environment, but also promotes the economic development of the fishing industry.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Hunter S. Lenihan, Sean P. Fitzgerald, Daniel C. Reed, Jennifer K. K. Hofmeister, Adrian C. Stier
Summary: The contribution of marine reserves to adjacent fisheries through spillover is uncertain and context-dependent. This study conducted over a ten-year period in the Northern Channel Islands of southern California found that the establishment of no-take marine reserves led to substantial increases in lobster abundance and biomass within the reserves, as well as significant spillover of adult lobsters across reserve borders.
Article
Ecology
Ilyass Dahmouni, Rashid U. Sumaila
Summary: Marine protected areas (MPAs) cover approximately 8% of the world's oceans and are effective in mitigating the negative effects of overfishing. However, less than 2% of the ocean is designated as exclusive no-take zones. The implementation of MPAs is crucial for their success, and their number and size are expected to increase in the future.
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Paolo Roberto Domondon, Raquel Sanchez Tirona, Steve Box, Robert Pomeroy
Summary: Specifying user rights and devolving fisheries management decisions to local fishers and communities has been proven effective in enhancing fisheries management. Rare's Fish Forever program supports legal and functional community rights-based management, ensuring exclusive access rights to coastal fisheries through managed access with reserves. Establishment and implementation of managed access with reserves involve a mix of legal, regulatory, and institutional pathways, such as partnerships with leaders and community engagement, local champions, and scaling up from experience.
Article
Allergy
Frederic de Blay, Alina Gherasim, Tomas B. Casale, Virginie Doyen, David Bernstein
Summary: If allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is to be considered as a treatment option for allergic asthma, it must undergo the same developmental steps as other antiasthmatic drugs. Subcutaneous immunotherapy appears to have a clinical and significant effect on the early asthmatic response to mite, cat, and birch and grass pollens in children and adults. Using a biologic to improve the patient's lung functions and asthma control before initiating AIT can transform unsuitable candidates for AIT into appropriate candidates. Polysensitized patients with rhinitis and Global Initiative for Asthma class 2 to class 4 asthma appear the most likely to be good responders to AIT.
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Matthew S. Savoca, Alexandra G. McInturf, Elliott L. Hazen
Summary: Research has found that hundreds of marine fish species worldwide have ingested plastic debris, with ingestion rates increasing over time. The ingestion of plastic by marine fish is influenced by geographical, ecological, and behavioral factors, pointing to species and regions in urgent need of further study.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alan R. Baudron, Gretta Pecl, Caleb Gardner, Paul G. Fernandes, Asta Audzijonyte
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Lucy M. Robinson, Martin P. Marzloff, Ingrid van Putten, Gretta Pecl, Sarah Jennings, Sam Nicol, Alistair J. Hobday, Sean Tracey, Klaas Hartmann, Marcus Haward, Stewart Frusher
Review
Fisheries
Catarina N. S. Silva, Cecilia Villacorta-Rath, Laura N. Woodings, Nicholas P. Murphy, Bridget S. Green, Klaas Hartmann, Caleb Gardner, James J. Bell, Jan M. Strugnell
REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES
(2019)
Article
Fisheries
Adrian Linnane, Anthony D. M. Smith, Richard McGarvey, John E. Feenstra, Janet M. Matthews, Klaas Hartmann, Caleb Gardner
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Cassandra A. Price, Klaas Hartmann, Timothy J. Emery, Eric J. Woehler, Clive R. McMahon, Mark A. Hindell
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sean R. Tracey, Klaas Hartmann, Jaime McAllister, Jeremy M. Lyle
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Retraction
Ecology
Lucy M. Robinson, Martin P. Marzloff, Ingrid van Putten, Gretta Pecl, Sarah Jennings, Sam Nicol, Alistair J. Hobday, Sean Tracey, Klaas Hartmann, Marcus Haward, Stewart Frusher
Summary: The article was retracted due to confidentiality reasons to protect the privacy of an individual, with agreement from all authors.
Article
Ecology
Lucy M. Robinson, Martin P. Marzloff, Ingrid van Putten, Gretta Pecl, Sarah Jennings, Sam Nicol, Alistair J. Hobday, Sean Tracey, Klaas Hartmann, Marcus Haward, Stewart Frusher
Article
Fisheries
Hugues P. Benoit, Jeff Kneebone, Sean R. Tracey, Diego Bernal, Klaas Hartmann, Walt Golet
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ryan D. Day, Quinn P. Fitzgibbon, Robert D. McCauley, Klaas Hartmann, Jayson M. Semmens
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Cassandra A. Price, Timothy J. Emery, Klaas Hartmann, Eric J. Woehler, Ross Monash, Mark A. Hindell
Summary: The study found that the breeding performance of short-tailed shearwaters is influenced by both large-scale climate indices and local environmental conditions. There is variability in adult body mass and breeding participation among different colonies, with these factors being affected by climate conditions in the previous year. Breeding success, on the other hand, is influenced by climate conditions in the preceding three to four months and local weather conditions during breeding.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
Brett Stacy, Paul Burch, Philippe E. Ziegler, Katherine A. Cresswell, Klaas Hartmann, Richard M. Hillary
Summary: Unreported catch has a significant impact on fisheries assessments, leading to underestimated biomass depletion risks. When unreported catch exceeds twice reported catch, the estimation model may fail to detect declining biomass in a timely manner. Estimating the total quantity of unreported catch and the number of unreported tagged fish is more critical than tracking trends.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Cecilia Villacorta-Rath, Bridget S. Green, Caleb Gardner, Nick P. Murphy, Carla A. Souza, Jan M. Strugnell
Summary: This study investigated the morphological and genetic differences in recently settled southern rock lobster recruits on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The findings suggest that the larval dispersal history may play a role in determining the phenotype of settlement recruits.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Nicholas J. Hill, Caleb Gardner, Malcolm Haddon, Klaas Hartmann, L. Richard Little, Jeremy M. Lyle, Bradley R. Moore