Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our
global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine …

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Human society is dependent on nature,, but whether our ecological foundations are at risk
remains unknown in the absence of systematic monitoring of species' populations …

The health of the ocean, central to human well-being, has now reached a critical point. Most
fish stocks are overexploited, climate change and increased dissolved carbon dioxide are …

Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen
science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for years to …

Microplastic pollutants occur in marine environments globally, however estimates of seafloor
concentrations are rare. Here we apply a novel method to quantify size-graded (0.038–4.0 …

Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem
services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures …

The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living
resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health …

A literature review was conducted to investigate marine global and local extinctions and
their drivers; the review followed the PRISMA-EcoEvo guidelines. The data extracted was …

Plankton are the base of marine food webs, essential to sustaining fisheries and other
marine life. Continuous Plankton Recorders (CPRs) have sampled plankton for decades in …