Article
Soil Science
Yakun Zhang, Daniel D. Saurette, Tahmid Huq Easher, Wenjun Ji, Viacheslav Adamchuk, Asim Biswas
Summary: This study compared common sampling designs for digital soil mapping (DSM) and analyzed the prediction accuracy and spatial distribution of different designs. The results showed that sampling designs with good spatial coverage or feature space coverage can provide high prediction accuracy in DSM.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Narayanan Natarajan, Mangottiri Vasudevan, Shafiqur Rehman
Summary: The study investigated the appropriateness of nine probability distribution models for wind speed distribution at 10 sites in Tamil Nadu, India. It found that the generalized extreme value distribution and Kumaraswamy distribution performed well and can be preferred for wind resource assessment.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Salvador Arenas-Castro, Neftali Sillero
Summary: A cost-effective and sustainable framework for monitoring species-specific habitat changes across scales was developed using ecological niche models and satellite remote sensing data. Trend analysis showed decreasing habitat suitability for most species across regional and continental scales, with amphibians and reptiles being the most affected groups. The framework can detect changes in habitat suitability regardless of spatial scale, providing a promising tool for biodiversity monitoring and risk assessment.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Anais Charbonnel, Patrick Lambert, Geraldine Lassalle, Eric Quinton, Antoine Guisan, Lise Mas, Guillaume Paquignon, Marie Lecomte, Marie-Laure Acolas
Summary: This study investigates the distribution of the critically endangered European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) and identifies key factors influencing its habitat selection. The results suggest that bathymetry, temperature, salinity, bottom current velocity, and distance to the source population are important predictors of A. sturio distribution, while substrate type has little influence. The most suitable marine areas for A. sturio are predicted to be along the French Atlantic coast, the Seine and Somme bays, the Rhine delta, and certain coastal areas in the Cantabrian Sea.
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Fateh Moezzi, Hadi Poorbagher, Soheil Eagderi, Jahangir Feghhi, Carsten F. Dormann, Sabah Khorshidi Nergi, Kaveh Amiri
Summary: The study investigated the distribution of Caspian Kutum and identified the environmental drivers affecting its habitat characteristics, highlighting the importance of factors like sea surface temperature, bottom slope, aerosol optical thickness, and distance to rivers in informing management plans for both commercial and conservation purposes.
REGIONAL STUDIES IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chiara M. Bertelli, William G. Bennett, Harshinie Karunarathna, Dominic E. Reeve, Richard K. F. Unsworth, James C. Bull
Summary: Habitat suitability modelling (HSM) is increasingly used for decision making in conservation management and restoration efforts in oceans. This study used high-resolution Delft-3D modelled wave height data to improve HSM outputs for predicting suitable areas for seagrass growth. The findings revealed significant differences in fine-scale predictions and highlighted the increased importance of wave energy as a predictor variable compared to low resolution data.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Elina Bennetsen, Sacha Gobeyn, Gert Everaert, Peter Goethals
Summary: Global river systems are under pressure due to human development, with the European Union proposing ecological status as the endpoint for management interventions. This paper introduces a novel method that combines monitoring data to identify key stressors in river systems and define management scenarios. By disassembling ecological status into individual components and using habitat suitability models, the method aims to optimize sustainable decisions in river management.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kamil Konowalik, Agata Nosol
Summary: The study investigates the influence of different datasets on ecological niche modeling, showing that both local and general datasets can produce useful predictions for species distribution ranges. Results indicate the potential of using manually georeferenced archival sources in reconstructions aimed at establishing species' ecological niches.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Kun Guo, Sijia Yuan, Hao Wang, Jun Zhong, Yanqing Wu, Wan Chen, Chaochao Hu, Qing Chang
Summary: Climate change can have a significant impact on the distribution and diversity of species. The Chinese fire-bellied newt is a near-threatened species in East-central China due to habitat destruction, degradation, and illegal trade in pet markets. This study used bioclimatic data and modeling algorithms to predict the species' habitat suitability and potential range shifts under climate change scenarios, highlighting the importance of precipitation and temperature in shaping their distribution. The results could inform conservation and management strategies for amphibians in East China.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mar Bosch-Belmar, Stefano Piraino, Gianluca Sara
Summary: Temperature influences biological processes and can affect metabolism, tolerance limits, distribution patterns, and the spread of non-indigenous and outbreak-forming species. This study examined the thermal tolerance of Pennaria disticha, a colonial benthic cnidarian, to predict its potential colonization in different habitats across the Mediterranean Sea under future warming scenarios. The findings indicate a potential expansion of P. disticha in the Western and Central Mediterranean.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Ellen Bowler, Veronique Lefebvre, Marion Pfeifer, Robert M. Ewers
Summary: Habitat fragmentation is a key area of research in conservation biology, yet studies often lack sufficient data to consider the correlation among multiple fragmentation metrics and spatial autocorrelation among sample sites. A new computational method has been developed to optimize the placement of sample sites in fragmented landscapes, minimizing over- or under-sampling of fragmentation metrics. This method is flexible enough to handle various types of fragmentation metrics and habitat types, and can improve data quality and representativeness in landscape-scale biodiversity sampling and monitoring.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Susan Anyosa, Jo Eidsvik, Oscar Pizarro
Summary: Constructing efficient spatial sampling designs is crucial for monitoring and understanding large-scale environmental processes. In-situ sampling tends to be sparse for mapping purposes, requiring careful construction of experimental designs. An approach using hierarchical Bayesian logistic regression model and approximate closed form expressions is proposed for mapping spatial presence-absence variables. The approach is extended to adaptive designs considering limited computation resources and time restrictions. Simulation studies show that the approximations are accurate and efficient, and an application in benthic habitat mapping demonstrates the effectiveness of the suggested approach.
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mia Wege, Horst Bornemann, Arnoldus Schytte Blix, Erling Sverre Nordoy, Louise Biddle, Marthan Nieuwoudt Bester
Summary: By conducting the largest tracking study on Ross seals to date, it was found that these seals prefer to forage in specific water temperature ranges and are sensitive to environmental factors such as sea-surface temperature, ice edge distance, and mixed-layer depth. Climate change may impact Ross seal habitat by reducing foraging costs through receding ice edge and shallower mixed layer depth, but may also decrease habitat suitability due to increased current speeds and sea-surface temperatures. The response of Ross seals to climate change will be regionally specific and dependent on prey response and their own behavioral plasticity for future success.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sydney Otten, Sascha Caron, Wieske de Swart, Melissa van Beekveld, Luc Hendriks, Caspar van Leeuwen, Damian Podareanu, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Rob Verheyen
Summary: The researchers investigate the use of generative modeling to simulate physical events, utilizing generative machine learning models to efficiently generate events with accurate distributions. By buffering density information and using Variational Autoencoders, they are able to construct an effective method for data generation that is computationally less expensive and can help detect anomalies in the process.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Weiqi Liu, Shaoxiu Ma, Kun Feng, Yulai Gong, Linhao Liang, Mitsuru Tsubo
Summary: Drought monitoring is essential for evaluating the impact of drought and choosing appropriate mitigation strategies. The suitability of drought indices varies across different regions due to varying drivers of drought. The study focuses on exploring suitable indicators for agricultural drought monitoring in the Shiyang River Basin, a closed water cycle system in China's Gansu Province.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Lori N. Ivan, Doran M. Mason, Hongyan Zhang, Edward S. Rutherford, Tim Hunter, Shaye Sable, Aaron T. Adamack, Kenneth Rose
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2020)
Article
Limnology
Grace K. Saba, Adrian B. Burd, John P. Dunne, Santiago Hernandez-Leon, Angela H. Martin, Kenneth A. Rose, Joseph Salisbury, Deborah K. Steinberg, Clive N. Trueman, Rod W. Wilson, Stephanie E. Wilson
Summary: This study synthesizes the contribution of fishes to carbon flux in the ocean, highlighting significant methodological variations and observational gaps. Recommendations include adopting methodological standards, improving measurements of fish biomass and fluxes, and strengthening linkages between observations and models to decrease uncertainty and increase confidence in estimations of fish-based carbon flux.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Limnology
Dimitrios Politikos, Dimitrios Kleftogiannis, Kostas Tsiaras, Kenneth A. Rose
Summary: MovCLUfish is a new analysis tool that uses data mining to identify patterns from the trajectories of fish individuals, providing detailed information about fish behavior and spatial distributions through spatial clustering and pattern mining.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kristy A. Lewis, Kenneth A. Rose, Kim de Mutsert, Shaye Sable, Cameron Ainsworth, Damian C. Brady, Howard Townsend
Summary: This study aimed to use two different food web models in a coordinated manner to assist resource managers in assessing the ecological effects of a large-scale marsh restoration project.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Raleigh R. Hood, Gary W. Shenk, Rachel L. Dixon, Sean M. C. Smith, William P. Ball, Jesse O. Bash, Rich Batiuk, Kathy Boomer, Damian C. Brady, Carl Cerco, Peter Claggett, Kim de Mutsert, Zachary M. Easton, Andrew J. Elmore, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Lora A. Harris, Thomas F. Ihde, Lara Lacher, Li Li, Lewis C. Linker, Andrew Miller, Julia Moriarty, Gregory B. Noe, George E. Onyullo, Kenneth Rose, Katie Skalak, Richard Tian, Tamie L. Veith, Lisa Wainger, Donald Weller, Yinglong Joseph Zhang
Summary: The Chesapeake Bay is the largest, most productive, and most biologically diverse estuary in the continental United States, but it is negatively impacted by excessive nutrient and sediment inputs from human activities. The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique partnership created to guide and promote restoration efforts, with a focus on improving simulation of watershed inputs and estuarine water quality to enhance local nutrient and sediment management plans. Effective collaborations among stakeholders and transparent processes are emphasized for successful modeling system improvements and better communication of outcomes.
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2021)
Review
Oceanography
Grant C. Pitcher, Arturo Aguirre-Velarde, Denise Breitburg, Jorge Cardich, Jacob Carstensen, Daniel J. Conley, Boris Dewitte, Anja Engel, Dante Espinoza-Morriberon, Georgina Flores, Veronique Garcon, Michelle Graco, Marilaure Gregoire, Dimitri Gutierrez, Jose Martin Hernandez-Ayon, Huai-Hsuan May Huang, Kirsten Isensee, Maria Elena Jacinto, Lisa Levin, Alberto Lorenzo, Eric Machu, Lander Merma, Ivonne Montes, Naqvi Swa, Aurelien Paulmier, Michael Roman, Kenneth Rose, Raleigh Hood, Nancy N. Rabalais, Anne Gro V. Salvanes, Renato Salvatteci, Sonia Sanchez, Abdelfettah Sifeddine, Abdoul Wahab Tall, Anja K. van der Plas, Moriaki Yasuhara, Jing Zhang, Z. Y. Zhu
Summary: The Anthropocene epoch has seen a decline in oxygen concentrations and expansion of oxygen-depleted environments due to human activities. Case studies highlight the complexity of factors influencing oxygen concentrations, requiring system-specific models for understanding and predicting future changes.
PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jerome Fiechter, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Kenneth A. Rose
Summary: The study predicts changes in sardine population dynamics and catch in the California Current system by coupling downscaled earth system models to fish and fishing fleet models. It shows that sardine biomass exhibits low-frequency variability over the 21st century, with a poleward shift driven by thermal habitat preference. The magnitude of poleward displacement varies noticeably under different warming conditions, impacting catch in different regions of the California Current system.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Dubravko Justic, Villy Kourafalou, Giulio Mariotti, Songjie He, Robert Weisberg, Yannis Androulidakis, Christopher Barker, Annalisa Bracco, Brian Dzwonkowski, Chuanmin Hu, Haosheng Huang, Gregg Jacobs, Matthieu Le Henaff, Yonggang Liu, Steven Morey, Jeffrey Nittrouer, Edward Overton, Claire B. Paris, Brian J. Roberts, Kenneth Rose, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Jerry Wiggert
Summary: Transport processes are important factors that modulate the estuarine and coastal geomorphology, biogeochemistry, water quality, and coastal food webs in river-dominated shelves of the Gulf of Mexico. These processes control the fate of river-borne sediments, nutrients, and carbon, influencing issues such as land loss, eutrophication, hypoxia, harmful algal blooms, and coastal acidification. Furthermore, transport of pollutants such as pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, and oil into estuaries and coastal systems is also influenced by these processes. The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) has provided significant opportunities to study transport processes in the region and improve understanding for more accurate forecasting and response strategies in the event of environmental disasters such as oil spills.
ESTUARIES AND COASTS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Klaus B. Huebert, Kenneth A. Rose, R. Christopher Chambers
Summary: Scaling the effects of elevated CO2 on marine fauna to population responses through an individual-based model of winter flounder revealed that warming negatively impacted population abundance, while reduced larval growth had the largest single impact among tested CO2 effects. A combination of assumed CO2 effects led to a significant reduction in annual recruitment and spawning stock biomass, with CO2 effects amplifying the decrease in population productivity with warming in Recovery simulations. This analysis represents an initial step towards extrapolating from laboratory effects of ocean acidification to ecologically significant scales.
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
D. Politikos, K. A. Rose, E. N. Curchitser, D. M. Checkley, R. R. Rykaczewski, J. Fiechter
Summary: The study reveals that climate change significantly impacts the distribution and productivity of marine fish species. Warm and cool conditions have different effects on recruitment of anchovy in the California Current System. The research highlights the need for further theoretical and empirical studies on how anchovy responds to changing climate.
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2021)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Rebecca G. Asch, Johnna M. Holding, Darren J. Pilcher, Sara Rivero-Calle, Kenneth A. Rose
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Marilaure Gregoire, Veronique Garcon, Hernan Garcia, Denise Breitburg, Kirsten Isensee, Andreas Oschlies, Maciej Telszewski, Alexander Barth, Henry C. Bittig, Jacob Carstensen, Thierry Carval, Fei Chai, Francisco Chavez, Daniel Conley, Laurent Coppola, Sean Crowe, Kim Currie, Minhan Dai, Bruno Deflandre, Boris Dewitte, Robert Diaz, Emilio Garcia-Robledo, Denis Gilbert, Alessandra Giorgetti, Ronnie Glud, Dimitri Gutierrez, Shigeki Hosoda, Masao Ishii, Gil Jacinto, Chris Langdon, Siv K. Lauvset, Lisa A. Levin, Karin E. Limburg, Hela Mehrtens, Ivonne Montes, Wajih Naqvi, Aurelien Paulmier, Benjamin Pfeil, Grant Pitcher, Sylvie Pouliquen, Nancy Rabalais, Christophe Rabouille, Virginie Recape, Michael Roman, Kenneth Rose, Daniel Rudnick, Jodie Rummer, Catherine Schmechtig, Sunke Schmidtko, Brad Seibel, Caroline Slomp, U. Rashid Sumalia, Toste Tanhua, Virginie Thierry, Hiroshi Uchida, Rik Wanninkhof, Moriaki Yasuhara
Summary: GO(2)DAT aims to establish a global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas to support advanced data analysis and biogeochemical model development, enhance understanding and forecasting capabilities of ocean O-2 changes and deoxygenation trends, and drive the development of climate and ocean health indicators.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chubin Weng, Mengzhen Xu, Fakai Lei, Kenneth A. Rose
Summary: Summary: The naked carp population in Qinghai Lake has significantly declined due to overfishing and other ecological stresses. Using artificial reproduction can effectively restore the population, but factors such as post-release survival rate and genetic diversity need to be considered.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Elizabeth D. LaBone, Kenneth A. Rose, Dubravko Justic, Haosheng Huang, Lixia Wang
Summary: The hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico varies spatially and temporally, with exposure to sublethal dissolved oxygen concentrations affecting fish growth and fecundity. Simulation results showed that fish had higher exposure to hypoxia, while spatial variability in sublethal DO concentrations had contrasting effects on sublethal exposure.
Article
Fisheries
Jose C. Sanchez-Garrido, Jerome Fiechter, Kenneth A. Rose, Francisco E. Werner, Enrique N. Curchitser
Summary: The study revisited and analyzed a 50-year historical simulation of a climate-to-fish ecosystem model for anchovy and sardine populations off NW Africa. The analysis revealed that adult abundances of anchovy and sardine were correlated over interannual and decadal time scales, driven by environmental and life stage-specific factors. Changes in anchovy abundance were primarily influenced by larval survival, prey availability, and upwelling strength, while sardine abundance was controlled by age-1 growth and egg production via prey availability. Despite different diet preferences, both populations responded positively to higher plankton biomass and colder ocean temperatures. The study also found potential links between climate variability modes and anchovy and sardine dynamics, with anchovy more connected to the AMO and sardine to the NAO.
FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
Miguel Petrere Jr, Davi Butturi-Gomes
Summary: This short communication aims to raise awareness about the misuse of confidence intervals in Ecology and Fisheries statistical models that ignore the lack of independence.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Peter-John F. Hulson, Benjamin C. Williams
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of considering ageing error and growth variability on the determination of input sample size (ISS) in statistical catch-at-age assessment models. The results show that including these sources of uncertainty decreases the ISS determined through bootstrap methods. This indicates that there is more variability in age composition and conditional age-at-length data than previously accounted for. Including these sources of uncertainty improves the estimation of ISS and subsequently improves the quality of stock assessment models.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Jason M. Cope
Summary: Fishery resource assessment is a complex and challenging task, but with the use of different analysis methods and tools, effective management guidance can be provided even with limited data and resources.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Regina L. Cunha, Joana I. Robalo, Sara M. Francisco, Ines Farias, Rita Castilho, Ivone Figueiredo
Summary: Recent advances in genomics have greatly contributed to the assessment of fish stocks by providing precise identification of genetic boundaries. This study used a genotyping-by-sequencing approach to reveal the existence of an additional genetic cluster of blackspot seabream in the northeast Atlantic, which was not previously identified. Factors such as ocean circulation patterns and local upwelling may play a role in the genetic differentiation observed in this study.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Huihua Lee, Mark N. Maunder, Kevin R. Piner
Summary: Estimating growth is important for fish population assessment. Integrated assessment models and the influence of misfitting size composition data have renewed interest in how growth is modeled. The available data types control how the length-at-age relationship is estimated. Estimating length-at-age is complex due to multiple sources of biological variability and difficulties in obtaining representative samples.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
A. Ladino, I. Perez-Arjona, V. Espinosa, M. Chillaron, V. Vidal, L. M. Godinho, G. Moreno, G. Boyra
Summary: This study examines the acoustic properties of skipjack tuna and Atlantic mackerel, both bladderless pelagic fish species, and explains the significant differences observed. The research shows that the differences in material properties of their tissues predict a more than 10 dB greater reduced target strength in skipjack compared to mackerel at certain frequencies.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Nelly Pena-Cutimbo, Cristel Cordero-Maldonado, Clara Ortiz-Alvarez, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Jeffrey C. Mangel
Summary: Bycatch is a global problem for marine megafauna. This study assessed the bycatch interactions of the Peruvian artisanal purse-seine fishery in 2019 and found that all taxa groups were affected by bycatch. Dusky dolphins, guanay cormorants, and eagle rays were the most frequently reported bycatch species.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Jen-Ming Liu, Po-Yuk So
Summary: The set-net fishery is an environmentally friendly fishery posing little risk to the marine ecosystem. This study identified ocean temperature, sea surface factors, and climatic factors as the main factors affecting the installation of set-nets.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Fisheries
Josie L. Palmer, Carina Armstrong, Hasan D. Akbora, Damla Beton, Cigdem Caglar, Brendan J. Godley, Kristian Metcalfe, Meryem Ozkan, Robin T. E. Snape, Annette C. Broderick
Summary: Small-scale fisheries are vital for global food security and cultural heritage, but the lack of information hampers effective management and mitigation of ecological impacts. This study provides the first comprehensive overview of the small-scale fishery fleet in Northern Cyprus. The fleet operates mainly over the continental shelf, using static and demersal gear types, and catches a diverse range of species, some of which are threatened. The findings can be used to improve fisheries management and conservation measures.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2024)