Tong, Jianfeng Xue, Minghua Zhu, Zhenhong Wang, Weiqi Tian, Siquan
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) is an important commercial fish in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Accurate target strength (TS) underpins acoustic stock assessment but the TS of S. japonicus is still poorly understood. In this study, the Kirchhoff-ray mode (KRM) model was used to estimate the TS of S. japonicus and its relationship with sound wave ...
Gao, Xueqin Lee, Shing Yip
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Sesarmid crabs play an important role in mangrove biogeochemical processes due to their leaf-eating and burrowing activities. How leaf-eating mangrove crabs meet their nitrogen (N) needs remains a puzzle, as N-poor leaf litter (
Wang, Heng Zhao, Wenfei Liu, Xiaoyu Gang, Debao Zuo, Rantao Han, Lingshu Chang, Yaqing Ding, Jun
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The sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius is one of the most economically important echinoids harvested from northeast Pacific Ocean coastal waters. The gonads of sea urchins have high nutritional value and are primarily a candidate source of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). PUFAs are essential for human health, and the biological synthesis ...
Tort Castro, Beatriu Prieto González, Rocío O’Callaghan, Seán A. Dominguez Rein-Loring, Paula Degollada Bastos, Eduard
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Ship strikes are a widespread conservation issue for many cetacean species globally. Population level impacts depend on the occurrence and severity of collisions, which may lead to life altering injuries or fatalities. Such impacts are a major concern for large, long-lived, and reproductively slow species like the fin whale. Since 2014, a seasonal ...
Douglas, Tristan J. Schuerholz, Goetz Juniper, S. Kim
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Vegetated coastal ecosystems can contribute greatly to long-term carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission mitigation, providing a strong argument for their protection and restoration. We investigated carbon sequestration in the Cowichan Estuary, a temperate estuary on Vancouver Island, Canada, in relation to habitat type (salt marsh, eelgra...
Yasuda, Nina Inoue, Jun Hall, Michael R. Nair, Manoj R. Adjeroud, Mehdi Fortes, Miguel D. Nishida, Mutsumi Tuivavalagi, Nat Ravago-Gotanco, Rachel Forsman, Zac H.
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Recurring outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) severely damage healthy corals, especially in the Western Pacific Ocean. To obtain a better understanding of population genetics of COTS and historical colonization across the Pacific Ocean, complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced from 243 individuals collected in 11 reef regions. Our res...
Zeidan, Sara Walker, Jennifer Else, Brent G. T. Miller, Lisa A. Azetsu-Scott, Kumiko Walker, Brett D.
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The Canadian Arctic is warming at three times the rate of the rest of the planet and the effects of climate change on the Arctic marine carbon cycle remains unconstrained. Baffin Bay is a semi-enclosed, Arctic basin that connects the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Labrador Sea to the south. While the physical oceanography of surface Baffin Bay is...
Chen, Chung-Chi Wang, Jih-Terng Huang, Chih-Yen Hsieh, Hung-Yen Tew, Kwee Siong Meng, Pei-Jie
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Algal blooms over the past years have caused considerable worldwide impacts on marine ecology, aquaculture, recreational activities, and human health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop indices for evaluating the nutritional status of seawater as a means of predicting algal blooms. A long-term water quality monitoring dataset from Dapeng...
Shinohara, Masanao Yamada, Tomoaki Akuhara, Takeshi Mochizuki, Kimihiro Sakai, Shin’ichi
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Recently, the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) measurement, which utilizes an optical fiber itself as a sensor, becomes popular for various fields and is being applied to seismic observations. The shortest spatial sampling of DAS observations reaches a few meters, and the total measurement distance becomes greater than 50 km. A high temporal samp...
Kim, Sung Hoon Kim, Bo Kyung Lee, Boyeon Son, Wuju Jo, Naeun Lee, Junbeom Lee, Sang Heon Ha, Sun-Yong Kim, Jeong-Hoon La, Hyoung Sul
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The spatio-temporal distributions of the epipelagic mesozooplankton community in the western Ross Sea region marine protected area (RSR MPA) were investigated. Mesozooplankton surveys were conducted in February 2018, January 2019, and March 2020 from an approximate depth of 200 m to address the essential environmental factors influencing the mesozo...
