[HTML][HTML] Conserving threatened marine species and biodiversity requires 40% ocean protection

T Jefferson, MJ Costello, Q Zhao, CJ Lundquist - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Global prioritisation of where to locate Marine Protected Areas (MPA) has not considered
both a comprehensive range of measures of biodiversity as well as threatened species …

Environmental matching reveals non-uniform range-shift patterns in benthic marine Crustacea

MVP Simões, H Saeedi, ME Cobos, A Brandt - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Empirical and theoretical studies suggest that marine species respond to ocean warming by
shifting ranges poleward and/or into deeper depths. However, future distributional patterns …

An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand

F Stephenson, T Brough, D Lohrer… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
The waters of Aotearoa New Zealand span over 4.2 million km 2 of the South Pacific Ocean
and harbour a rich diversity of seafloor associated taxa. Due to the immensity and …

Biogeography in the deep: Hierarchical population genomic structure of two beaked whale species

AB Onoufriou, OE Gaggiotti, NA de Soto… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on Earth, yet little is known about the processes
driving patterns of genetic diversity in its inhabitants. Here, we investigated the macro-and …

[HTML][HTML] Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic

KA McQuaid, AEH Bridges, KL Howell… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has become a priority for many states wanting to
develop national blue economy plans and meet international obligations in response to the …

Time to refine the geography of biodiversity hotspots by integrating molecular data: The Mediterranean Basin as a case study

J Perret, O Cobelli, A Taudière, J Andrieu… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Three decades ago, worldwide biodiversity hotspots were founded on the distributions of
continental plants and vertebrates. Here, we question the timeliness of refining the …

[HTML][HTML] crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets

M Chevalier - Climate of the Past, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
Statistical climate reconstruction techniques are fundamental tools to study past climate
variability from fossil proxy data. In particular, the methods based on probability density …

[HTML][HTML] Upper Bathyal Pacific Ocean biogeographic provinces from octocoral distributions

N Summers, L Watling - Progress in Oceanography, 2021 - Elsevier
Biogeographical classification schemes such as the Marine Ecoregions of the World
(MEOW) have been developed for continental shelf depths. The lack of faunal data in the …

Reply to 'Dissimilarity measures affected by richness differences yield biased delimitations of biogeographic realms'

MJ Costello, P Tsai, AKL Cheung, Z Basher… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recently, we classified the oceans into 30 biogeographic realms based on species'
endemicity. Castro-Insua et al. criticize the choices of dissimilarity coefficients and clustering …

Arctic benthos in the Anthropocene: Distribution and drivers of epifauna in West Greenland

SR Maier, NH Arboe, H Christiansen… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Albeit remote, Arctic benthic ecosystems are impacted by fisheries and climate change. Yet,
anthropogenic impacts are poorly understood, as benthic ecosystems and their drivers have …