Temporal variation may have diverse impacts on range limits

RD Holt, M Barfield… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental fluctuations are pervasive in nature, but the influence of non-directional
temporal variation on range limits has received scant attention. We synthesize insights from …

Saving the sea cucumbers: Using population genomic tools to inform fishery and conservation management of the Fijian sandfish Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra

KT Brown, PC Southgate, CA Hewavitharane, MM Lal - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The sea cucumber Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra, known as sandfish, is a high-value
tropical echinoderm central to the global bêche-de-mer (BDM) trade. This species has been …

Isopycnal mixing

R Abernathey, A Gnanadesikan, MA Pradal… - Ocean mixing, 2022 - Elsevier
Stirring in the neutral (ie, isopycnal) direction drives isopycnal mixing, which acts to
homogenise tracers along the neutral plane. Isopycnal mixing does not directly enter the …

Biodiversity and distribution of Isopoda and Polychaeta along the Northwestern Pacific and the Arctic Ocean

H Saeedi, A Brandt, NL Jacobsen - Biodiversity Informatics, 2022 - journals.ku.edu
Abstract The northwestern Pacific Ocean is one of the hotspots of species richness and one
of the high endemicity areas of the World Ocean. However, large-scale biodiversity patterns …

Priority coral conservation areas under global warming in the Amami Islands, Southern Japan

H Abe, NH Kumagai, H Yamano - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Coral reef ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate change. The Amami Islands in
Southern Japan were selected as the study area. It is important to select areas that should …

Regional-scale genetic differentiation of the stony coral Desmophyllum dianthus in the southwest Pacific Ocean is consistent with regional-scale physico-chemical …

LP Holland, AA Rowden, JS Hamilton, MR Clark… - Deep Sea Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep-sea corals are diverse and abundant in New Zealand's EEZ and the southwest Pacific
Ocean. We assessed genetic diversity and gene flow of the deep-sea scleractinian (stony …

Hatching distribution, abundance, and losses to freshwater diversions of longfin smelt inferred using hydrodynamic and particle-tracking models

E Gross, W Kimmerer, J Korman, L Lewis… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
The distribution of larval fishes is influenced by where they hatch and their movements after
hatching. In the San Francisco Estuary, the threatened longfin smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys …

Impact of the use of different temperature‐dependent larval development functions on estimates of potential large‐scale connectivity of American lobster

BK Quinn, J Chassé, R Rochette - Fisheries Oceanography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The way in which the effect of temperature on the development rate of crustacean larvae is
simulated in larval dispersal models potentially impacts the inferences made about …

Macrocystis pyrifera forest development shapes the physical environment through current velocity reduction

K Elsmore, KJ Nickols, T Ford, KC Cavanaugh… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
Marine forests of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera create biogenic habitat spanning the
water column, within which hydrodynamic conditions can differ strongly from those outside …

Molecular ecology of a shallow water shrimp, Acetes sibogae sibogae Hansen 1919: Evidence for strongly limited gene flow across the western Pacific

E Hardianto, J Fukuchi, Y Hanamura… - Marine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The shallow water shrimp Acetes sibogae sibogae is an ecological and economically
important organism in the Asian region. We assessed the genetic diversity and population …