Top predator status and trends: ecological implications, monitoring and mitigation strategies to promote ecosystem-based management

CM Fortuna, T Fortibuoni, J Bueno-Pardo… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The conservation and management of marine ecosystems hinge on a comprehensive
understanding of the status and trends of top predators. This review delves into the …

Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas

LR Abucay, P Sorongon-Yap… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Available information and potential data gaps for non-fish marine organisms (cnidarians,
crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs, sponges, mammals, reptiles, and seabirds) covered by …

A new avenue for Bayesian inference with INLA

J Van Niekerk, E Krainski, D Rustand, H Rue - Computational Statistics & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) has been a successful
approximate Bayesian inference framework since its proposal by Rue et al.(2009). The …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

M Coll, M Ortega-Cerdà, Y Mascarell-Rocher - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic starting at the end of 2019 impacted many human
activities. We analysed the abrupt reduction in fishing pressure of the mixed small-scale and …

The ocean decade: a true ecosystem modeling challenge

JJ Heymans, A Bundy, V Christensen, M Coll… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The UN declared the 2021–2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable
Development (Ocean Decade). The Ocean Decade's vision is to “develop scientific …

Advancing global ecological modeling capabilities to simulate future trajectories of change in marine ecosystems

M Coll, J Steenbeek, MG Pennino… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Considerable effort is being deployed to predict the impacts of climate change and
anthropogenic activities on the ocean's biophysical environment, biodiversity, and natural …

Addressing the cumulative impacts of multiple human pressures in marine systems, for the sustainable use of the seas

A Borja, M Elliott, H Teixeira, V Stelzenmüller… - Frontiers in Ocean …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Human activities at sea have increased, causing subsequent degradation of ocean health
and affecting ecosystem services and societal goods and benefits. Climate change further …

A trophic latitudinal gradient revealed in anchovy and sardine from the Western Mediterranean Sea using a multi-proxy approach

E Bachiller, M Albo-Puigserver, J Giménez… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
This work combines state-of-the-art methods (DNA metabarcoding) with classic approaches
(visual stomach content characterization and stable isotope analyses of nitrogen (δ 15N) …

Parallelized integrated nested Laplace approximations for fast Bayesian inference

L Gaedke-Merzhäuser, J van Niekerk, O Schenk… - Statistics and …, 2023 - Springer
There is a growing demand for performing larger-scale Bayesian inference tasks, arising
from greater data availability and higher-dimensional model parameter spaces. In this work …

Expected contraction in the distribution ranges of demersal fish of high economic value in the Mediterranean and European Seas

E Ben Lamine, A Schickele, E Goberville… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fisheries and aquaculture are facing many challenges worldwide, especially adaptation to
climate change. Investigating future distributional changes of largely harvested species has …