The Amazon River plume, a barrier to animal dispersal in the Western Tropical Atlantic

E Giachini Tosetto, A Bertrand, S Neumann-Leitão… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersal of marine organisms can be restricted by a set of isolation mechanisms
including hard barriers or hydrological features. In the Western Atlantic Ocean, the Amazon …

The environmental drivers of benthic fauna diversity and community composition

H Saeedi, D Warren, A Brandt - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Establishing management programs to preserve the benthic communities along the NW
Pacific and the Arctic Ocean (AO) requires a deep understanding of the composition of …

Is ocean energy an alternative in developing regions? A case study in Michoacan, Mexico

JV Hernández-Fontes, ML Martínez… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
In many parts of the world, renewable energy is being considered as an alternative to supply
electricity to communities in developing regions. However, even though various …

Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids

L Victorero, S Samadi, TD O'Hara, M Mouchet… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Delineating biogeographical regions can provide important insights into the processes
shaping large‐scale species distribution patterns. Here we aimed to 1) identify global …

Environmental matching reveals non-uniform range-shift patterns in benthic marine Crustacea

MVP Simões, H Saeedi, ME Cobos, A Brandt - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Empirical and theoretical studies suggest that marine species respond to ocean warming by
shifting ranges poleward and/or into deeper depths. However, future distributional patterns …

Global biodiversity and biogeography of mangrove crabs: Temperature, the key driver of latitudinal gradients of species richness

S Sharifian, E Kamrani, H Saeedi - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangroves are ideal habitat for a variety of marine species especially brachyuran crabs as
the dominant macrofauna. However, the global distribution, endemicity, and latitudinal …

[PDF][PDF] Biodiversity and biogeography of the abyssal and hadal Kuril-Kamchatka trench and adjacent NW Pacific deep-sea regions

A Brandt, S Brix, T Riehl, M Malyutina - Progress in Oceanography, 2020 - academia.edu
A total of four expeditions to the Northwest (NW) Pacific were conducted between 2010 and
2016 as a German-Russian collaborative enterprise for the study of patterns and processes …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Crustaceans of the Northwest Pacific Ocean: Species richness and distribution patterns

H Knauber, K Kohlenbach, A Brandt, H Saeedi - Journal of Sea Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity patterns of marine crustaceans are still unknown in many locations or might
have been overlooked due to our knowledge gaps, despite increasing sampling and data …

Species composition comparisons and relationships of Arctic marine ecoregions

JM Alfaro-Lucas, C Chaudhary, A Brandt… - Deep Sea Research Part …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the context of rapid climate change, a better understanding of the Arctic Ocean (AO)
biodiversity patterns is of paramount importance. Here, we integrated and quality controlled …