Marine provinces, founded on contrasting floras or faunas, have been recognized for more
than 150 years but were not consistently defined by endemism until 1974. At that time …

Aim To present an updated database of fish species recorded on south‐western Atlantic reef
environments and to explore the ecological drivers of the structure, the latitudinal gradient of …

Abstract Knowledge about the ecology of bottlenose dolphins in the Southwestern Atlantic
Ocean is scarce. Increased by-catch rates over the last decade in coastal waters of southern …

Climate change, fishing, and invasion by alien species are the drivers of global change that
mainly affect Patagonian marine fish assemblages. In this chapter, we reconstructed the …

We present a checklist of 278 species of reef fishes recorded along the coastline of Santa
Catarina state, the southernmost limit of distribution of tropical ichthyofauna on the coast of …

Identifying sources of sampling variation and quantifying their magnitude is critical to the
interpretation of ecological field data. Yet, most monitoring programs of reef fish populations …

According to life-history theory, limited resources can result in trade-offs between costly
physiological functions. Particularly, it can be expected that individuals present lower …

Since the introduction of Undaria into Nuevo Gulf, Argentina, around 1992, this alien
seaweed has now colonized different sites over 700 km of coast, forming dense seasonal …

Assemblages of roving herbivores were consistently different between eastern, warmer,
sheltered sites and western, colder, more wave‐exposed sites. At eastern sites, detritivorous …

Bottom trawl fishing is the most used worldwide gear generating large amounts of discards
due to bycatch of a variety of species. Shrimp fisheries are recognized for their high …