Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) represents a significant, yet
ultimately unknown amount of global marine debris, with serious environmental and …

Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

Coastal wetlands trap plastics from terrestrial and marine sources, but the stocks of plastics
and their impacts on coastal wetlands are poorly known. We evaluated the stocks, fate, and …

The ingestion of plastics appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom with
risks to individuals, ecosystems and human health. Despite growing information on the …

Managing ecosystems for multiple ecosystem services and balancing the well-being of
diverse stakeholders involves different kinds of trade-offs. Often trade-offs involve …

Aim A large body of knowledge exists on individual anthropogenic threats that have an
impact on marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea, although we know little about how …

The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

The accumulation and trophodynamics of organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) and
their metabolites were investigated in the estuarine food web of the Pearl River, China. The …

Marine species are moving rapidly in response to warming, often in different directions and
with variations dependent on location and depth. Given the current impetus to increase the …