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  • Hard clam walking: Active horizontal locomotion of adult Mercenaria mercenaria at the sediment surface and behavioral suppression after extensive sampling
    Personal Author:
    Tettelbach, S. T.; Europe, J. R.; Tettelbach, C. R. H.; Havelin, J.; Rodgers, B. S.; Furman, B. T.; Velasquez, M.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(3): e0173626.
    Description:
    Locomotion of infaunal bivalve mollusks primarily consists of vertical movements related to burrowing; horizontal movements have only been reported for a few species. Here, we characterize hard clam walking: active horizontal locomotion of adults (up...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.92 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • A systematic review of ecological attributes that confer resilience to climate change in environmental restoration
    Personal Author:
    Timpane-Padgham, B. L.; Beechie, T.; Klinger, T.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(3): e0173812.
    Description:
    Ecological restoration is widely practiced as a means of rehabilitating ecosystems and habitats that have been degraded or impaired through human use or other causes. Restoration practices now are confronted by climate change, which has the potential...
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    Filetype[PDF - 2.76 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding assays to detect invasive invertebrate species in the Great Lakes
    Personal Author:
    Klymus, K. E.; Marshall, N. T.; Stepien, C. A.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(5): e0177643.
    Description:
    Describing and monitoring biodiversity comprise integral parts of ecosystem management. Recent research coupling metabarcoding and environmental DNA (eDNA) demonstrate that these methods can serve as important tools for surveying biodiversity, while ...
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    Filetype[PDF - 4.97 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Decadal-scale variation in diet forecasts persistently poor breeding under ocean warming in a tropical seabird
    Personal Author:
    Tompkins, E. M.; Townsend, H. M.; Anderson, D. J.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(8): e0182545.
    Description:
    Climate change effects on population dynamics of natural populations are well documented at higher latitudes, where relatively rapid warming illuminates cause-effect relationships, but not in the tropics and especially the marine tropics, where warmi...
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    Filetype[PDF - 2.84 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Relative importance of population size, fishing pressure and temperature on the spatial distribution of nine Northwest Atlantic groundfish stocks
    Personal Author:
    Adams, C. F.; Alade, L. A.; Legault, C. M.; O'Brien, L.; Palmer, M. C.; Sosebee, K. A.; Traver, M. L.;
    Published Date:
    2018
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2018; 13(4): e0196583.
    Description:
    The spatial distribution of nine Northwest Atlantic groundfish stocks was documented using spatial indicators based on Northeast Fisheries Science Center spring and fall bottom trawl survey data, 1963-2016. We then evaluated the relative importance o...
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    Filetype[PDF - 4.05 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • How survival curves affect populations’ vulnerability to climate change
    Personal Author:
    Halley, J. M.; Van Houtan, K. S.; Mantua, N.;
    Published Date:
    2018
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2018; 13(9): e0203124.
    Description:
    Human activities are exposing organisms not only to direct threats (e.g. habitat loss) but also to indirect environmental pressures such as climate change, which involves not just directional global warming but also increasing climatic variability. S...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.65 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Ecological interactions between Gulf of Mexico snappers (Teleostei: Lutjanidae) and invasive red lionfish (Pterois volitans)
    Personal Author:
    Marshak, A. R.; Heck, K. L.; Jud, Z. R.;
    Published Date:
    2018
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2018; 13(11): e0206749.
    Description:
    Indo-Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have invaded the western Atlantic, and most recently the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM), at a rapid pace. Given their generalist habitat affinities and diet, and strong ecological overlap with members of t...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.25 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Estimates of Abundance and Trend of Chilean Blue Whales off Isla de Chiloe, Chile
    Personal Author:
    Vernazzani, B. G.; Jackson, J. A.; Cabrera, E.; Carlson, C. A.; Brownell, R. L.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(1): e0168646.
    Description:
    Since 1970, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) have been seen feeding in the waters off southern Chile during the summer and autumn (December to May). Investigation of the genetic, acoustic and morphological characteristics of these blue whales show...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.97 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining
    Personal Author:
    Jones, D. O. B.; Kaiser, S.; Sweetman, A. K.; Smith, C. R.; Menot, L.; Vink, A.; Trueblood, D.; Greinert, J.; Billett, D. S. M.; Arbizu, P. M.; Radziejewska, T.; Singh, R.; Ingole, B.; Stratmann, T.; Simon-Lledo, E.; Durden, J. M.; Clark, M. R.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(2): e0171750.
    Description:
    Commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules could have a major impact on the deepsea environment, but the effects of these mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems are very poorly known. The first commercial test mining for polymetallic nodules ...
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    Filetype[PDF - 3.41 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Comparative growth rates of cultured marine dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium and the effects of temperature and light
    Personal Author:
    Klueter, A.; Trapani, J.; Archer, F. I.; McIlroy, S. E.; Coffroth, M. A.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(11): e0187707.
    Description:
    Many dinoflagellate microalgae of the genus Symbiodinium form successful symbioses with a large group of metazoans and selected protists. Yet knowledge of growth kinetics of these endosymbionts and their ecological and evolutionary implications is li...
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    Filetype[PDF - 3.50 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Offshore Habitat Preference of Overwintering Juvenile and Adult Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata, and the Relationship to Year-Class Success
    Personal Author:
    Miller, A. S.; Shepherd, G. R.; Fratantoni, P. S.;
    Published Date:
    2016
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2016; 11(1): e0147627.
    Description:
    Black sea bass (Centropristis striata) migrations are believed to play a role in overwinter survival and connectivity between juvenile and adult populations. This study investigated oceanographic drivers of winter habitat choice and regional differen...
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    Filetype[PDF - 3.39 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Patterns of cetacean vaginal folds yield insights into functionality
    Personal Author:
    Orbach, D. N.; Marshall, C. D.; Mesnick, S. L.; Wursig, B.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(3): e0175037.
    Description:
    Complex foldings of the vaginal wall are unique to some cetaceans and artiodactyls and are of unknown function(s). The patterns of vaginal length and cumulative vaginal fold length were assessed in relation to body length and to each other in a phylo...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.37 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • The importance of standardization for biodiversity comparisons: A case study using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) and metabarcoding to measure cryptic diversity on Mo’orea coral reefs, French Polynesia
    Personal Author:
    Ransome, E.; Geller, J. B.; Timmers, M.; Leray, M.; Mahardini, A.; Sembiring, A.; Collins, A. G.; Meyer, C. P.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(4): e0175066.
    Description:
    The advancement of metabarcoding techniques, declining costs of high-throughput sequencing and development of systematic sampling devices, such as autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS), have provided the means to gather a vast amount of divers...
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    Filetype[PDF - 5.85 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Trends in spatial patterns of heavy metal deposition on national park service lands along the Red Dog Mine haul road, Alaska, 2001–2006
    Personal Author:
    Neitlich, P. N.; Hoef, J. M. V.; Berryman, S. D.; Mines, A.; Geiser, L. H.; Hasselbach, L. M.; Shiel, A. E.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(5): e0177936.
    Description:
    Spatial patterns of Zn, Pb and Cd deposition in Cape Krusenstern National Monument (CAKR), Alaska, adjacent to the Red Dog Mine haul road, were characterized in 2001 and 2006 using Hylocomium moss tissue as a biomonitor. Elevated concentrations of Cd...
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    Filetype[PDF - 18.73 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Estimating blue whale skin isotopic incorporation rates and baleen growth rates: Implications for assessing diet and movement patterns in mysticetes
    Personal Author:
    Busquets-Vass, G.; Newsome, S. D.; Calambokidis, J.; Serra-Valente, G.; Jacobsen, J. K.; Aguiniga-Garcia, S.; Gendron, D.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(5): e0177880.
    Description:
    Stable isotope analysis in mysticete skin and baleen plates has been repeatedly used to assess diet and movement patterns. Accurate interpretation of isotope data depends on understanding isotopic incorporation rates for metabolically active tissues ...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 7.75 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas
    Personal Author:
    Joyce, T. W.; Durban, J. W.; Claridge, D. E.; Dunn, C. A.; Fearnbach, H.; Parsons, K. M.; Andrews, R. D.; Ballance, L. T.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(10): e0185113.
    Description:
    Dive capacity among toothed whales (suborder: Odontoceti) has been shown to generally increase with body mass in a relationship closely linked to the allometric scaling of metabolic rates. However, two odontocete species tagged in this study, the Bla...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 11.80 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Migratory behavior of eastern North Pacific gray whales tracked using a hydrophone array
    Personal Author:
    Guazzo, R. A.; Helble, T. A.; D'Spain, G. L.; Weller, D. W.; Wiggins, S. M.; Hildebrand, J. A.;
    Published Date:
    2017
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2017; 12(10): e0185585.
    Description:
    Eastern North Pacific gray whales make one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling from their summer feeding areas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas to their wintering areas in the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico. Although a signifi...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 14.27 MB]
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    06/30/2020
  • Large Salt Dust Storms Follow a 30-Year Rainfall Cycle in the Mar Chiquita Lake (Cordoba, Argentina)
    Personal Author:
    Bucher, E. H.; Stein, A. F.;
    Published Date:
    2016
    Source:
    PLoS One. 2016; 11(6): e0156672.
    Description:
    Starting in 2006, a new source of intense salt dust storms developed in Mar Chiquita (Cordoba, Argentina), the largest saline lake in South America. Storms originate from vast mudflats left by a 30-year expansion-retreat cycle of the lake due to chan...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 2.61 MB]
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    06/30/2020