Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics

M Hirschfeld, C Dudgeon, M Sheaves… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background The interplay of animal dispersal and environmental heterogeneity is
fundamental for the distribution of biodiversity on earth. In the ocean, the interaction of …

Cross-basin and cross-taxa patterns of marine community tropicalization and deborealization in warming European seas

G Chust, E Villarino, M McLean, N Mieszkowska… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ocean warming and acidification, decreases in dissolved oxygen concentrations, and
changes in primary production are causing an unprecedented global redistribution of marine …

Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems

A Borja, M Elliott, PVR Snelgrove, MC Austen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Human activities, both established and emerging, increasingly affect the provision of marine
ecosystem services that deliver societal and economic benefits. Monitoring the status of …

Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size

E Villarino, JR Watson, B Jönsson, JM Gasol… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Global patterns of planktonic diversity are mainly determined by the dispersal of propagules
with ocean currents. However, the role that abundance and body size play in determining …

What and where? Predicting invasion hotspots in the Arctic marine realm

J Goldsmit, CW McKindsey, RW Schlegel… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The risk of aquatic invasions in the Arctic is expected to increase with climate warming,
greater ship** activity and resource exploitation in the region. Planktonic and benthic …

Urban park soil microbiomes are a rich reservoir of natural product biosynthetic diversity

Z Charlop-Powers, CC Pregitzer, C Lemetre… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Numerous therapeutically relevant small molecules have been identified from the screening
of natural products (NPs) produced by environmental bacteria. These discovery efforts have …

Climate regime shifts and biodiversity redistribution in the Bay of Biscay

G Chust, M González, A Fontán, M Revilla… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global ocean warming, wave extreme events, and accelerating sea-level rise are
challenges that coastal communities must address to anticipate damages in coming …

Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species

LA Henry, CG Mayorga-Adame, AD Fox, JA Polton… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Highly connected networks generally improve resilience in complex systems. We present a
novel application of this paradigm and investigated the potential for anthropogenic …

Metazoan diversity and seasonality through eDNA metabarcoding at a Mediterranean long-term ecological research site

I Di Capua, R Piredda, MG Mazzocchi… - ICES Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Metabarcoding of environmental DNA has provided striking insights into marine microbial
diversity. With this approach, we assessed the diversity of metazoan assemblages and their …

Pan‐regional marine benthic cryptobiome biodiversity patterns revealed by metabarcoding autonomous reef monitoring structures

JK Pearman, G Chust, E Aylagas, E Villarino… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) have been applied worldwide to
characterize the critical yet frequently overlooked biodiversity patterns of marine benthic …