• The results of this multi-approach field study are informative for spatial planning and provide important insight into how commercially and ecologically important species use aquaculture facilities. (int-res.com)
  • On the flip side, they are an important source of food for many marine species, as well as people. (seeker.com)
  • Given the rapid proliferation of anthropogenic activities at sea 1 , 10 , being able to quantify the associated noise impacts on these ecologically and commercially important species will be critical for the next decade. (nature.com)
  • Other important colonizers included non-coral invertebrates (especially branching gorgonians and sponges), pest species (bioeroding and encrusting sponges, gorgonians, hydrozoan corals, colonial anemones and tunicates), and crustose coralline algae. (livingoceansfoundation.org)
  • Low abundances of a number of important broadcast spawning species, including isolated colonies of M. annularis (complex), Diploria spp. (livingoceansfoundation.org)
  • Stocks of commercially valuable sea cucumber species have declined in most tropical countries, which supply majority of the global demand. (frontiersin.org)
  • Today, over 200 species of macroalgae are wild harvested for various industries [ 29 ], but only a dozen are currently commercially cultivated [ 15 , 30 , 31 ]. (plos.org)
  • Salmonids are a very important species to British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. (bcit.ca)
  • We present experiments that examined the metamorphosis, growth, and survivorship of larvae from three species of commercially and ecologically valuable shellfish (Mercenaria mercenaria, Argopecten irradians, and Crassostrea virginica) at the levels of CO2 projected to occur during the 21st century and beyond. (neracoos.org)
  • All are important to ensure the conservation of Arctic species, ecosystems and the services they provide. (arcticbiodiversity.is)
  • My co-Principle Investigators, Dr. Mya Brietbart and Dr. Ian Hewson, and I are prospecting for novel viruses in dominant and ecologically important zooplankton species using metagenomic sequencing approaches and through amplification and sequencing of genes conserved among groups of invertebrate viruses. (washington.edu)
  • They essentially enable us to identify important areas of habitat by describing the relationship between the spatial distribution pattern of a species and the attributes of their physical environment. (oregonstate.edu)
  • In this study, I compared the benthic invertebrate communities between exotic cattail stands and native vegetation stands at 25 paired sites. (bcit.ca)
  • We found that RocRM can be used as an alternative energy expenditure proxy in a slow-moving benthic invertebrate. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sponges are aquatic sessile (sedentary) invertebrates. (microbiologynote.com)
  • but applications to aquatic invertebrate reproductive health is non-existent. (frontiersin.org)
  • My research focuses on fish and other aquatic invertebrates and has ranged from investigating the mechanisms of toxicity of environmental chemicals using (epi)genomics approaches to understanding disease susceptibility within aquaculture. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Benthic Assessment provides benthic cover estimates for ecologically important cover types/groups (e.g., macroalgae, turf algae, crustose coralline algae, corals, sponges, sand/sediment, etc.) using a 1-stage stratified random survey design in hardbottom and coral reef habitats less than 30m in depth. (noaa.gov)
  • Sponges are found in a variety of marine and freshwater environments and play important ecological roles in their ecosystems. (microbiologynote.com)
  • Sponges are ecologically, commercially, and evolutionarily significant. (microbiologynote.com)
  • Conserving the remaining prairie potholes is important not only to maintain waterfowl populations, but also to improve both surface and groundwater availability for agricultural purposes, including grazing and crop irrigation. (nwf.org)
  • Larval exchange is considered ecologically relevant if the demography of local populations is impacted by the transport between two sites ( Cowen and Sponaugle, 2009 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • This is a prime example of how land use change can drastically alter spider, and other invertebrate, populations. (mawscience.com)
  • Ecologically , they serve as apex predators, keeping prey populations in check. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Coral reefs, including deepwater corals, and sponge grounds are some of the most important marine ecosystems on the planet, creating structures that provide shelter, food, and nursery habitat to other invertebrates and fish. (noaa.gov)
  • This impacts the entire ecosystems, including the invertebrates. (mawscience.com)
  • Macroinvertebrates play important roles in food chains, trophic dynamics, and nutrient cycling and are potentially at risk from this invasion. (bcit.ca)
  • However, their developments have been opposed by the fishing industry because of concerns regarding the impacts of pile driving vibrations during constructions on commercially important marine invertebrates, including bivalves. (nature.com)
  • Marine invertebrates are increasingly recognized as sound-sensitive and thus to anthropogenic noise. (nature.com)
  • Among marine invertebrates, bivalves can detect both water- and substrate-borne vibrations through their abdominal sense organs and statocysts 8 . (nature.com)
  • Ocean acidification, characterized by elevated pCO2 and the associated decreases in seawater pH and calcium carbonate saturation state (Ω), has a variable impact on the growth and survival of marine invertebrates. (neracoos.org)
  • 5. Advance the protection of large areas of ecologically important marine, terrestrial and freshwater habitats, taking into account ecological resilience in a changing climate. (arcticbiodiversity.is)
  • Build upon existing and on-going domestic and international processes to complete the identification of ecologically and biologically important marine areas and implement appropriate measures for their conservation. (arcticbiodiversity.is)
  • Hurricane Irma took a devastating toll on incubating sea turtle nests in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge , one of the most important loggerhead and green turtle nesting sites in the world, according to new estimates from the UCF Marine Turtle Research Group. (constantinealexander.net)
  • Below, she describes why understanding viral loads in zooplankton is so important in order to better understand the dynamics of marine food webs. (washington.edu)
  • Mesozooplankton are critical components of marine food webs as the primary consumers of phytoplankton, as prey for upper trophic level predators including commercially important fish, and by mediating carbon transfer from the atmosphere to the ocean interior through fecal matter deposition. (washington.edu)
  • Why is not yet understod but ecologists' concept of 'stability' may need to be changed as many stocks (including invertebrates) are 'stable' in their oscillations. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • Whilst not everyone's favourite group of animals, spiders play a variety of important ecosystem roles. (mawscience.com)
  • Today, ex situ seed banking is important for the preservation of heirloom strains, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration, and diverse research applications. (plos.org)
  • They are also fed upon by other commercially important predatory fishes, such as billfishes, mackerels, and sharks. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet, there are better ways to feed your aquarium fishes, both nutritionally and ecologically. (aquariumswest.com)
  • Though not commercially important themselves, these forage fish support artisanal fisheries and local markets worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • And some of those reefs in southern Oregon are really important to local community members and to commercial fisheries. (pewtrusts.org)
  • All these animals are widespread in freshwater swamp forests and the most important protein and fat sources for adult fish to spawn, for juveniles to grow, and for adolescents to fatten up for their long migrations back to their spawning grounds further upstream. (aquariumswest.com)
  • Multiple mutations affecting embryonic development have been induced by chemical and insertional mutagenesis resulting in the identification of genes with important roles in development in Drosophila [ 23 - 25 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Gut microbial communities play important roles in nutrient management and can change in response to host diets. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They are an important food source for oceanic 'blue-water' fish. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • Fish that consume earthworms benefit from the high protein content these invertebrates provide. (furkidz.co.za)
  • This taxonomic atlas illustrates the demersal and benthic invertebrates and fish observed in video transects made from 378 to 2765 m water depth in the rugged Southern California Borderland. (escholarship.org)
  • Conversely, crustose coralline algae (CCA), an important cue for recruitment, was more abundant on Grand Cayman. (livingoceansfoundation.org)
  • And birders, as well as hunters, use the prairie potholes region as a destination for finding birds.Sweeping across five states (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa) and three Canadian provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), North America's prairie potholes are an important habitat and natural resource of the Great Plains grasslands. (nwf.org)
  • On a broader scale, the designation of closely related clusters and incorporation of habitat requirements to dispersal data provided critical input for the delineation of ecologically meaningful management units for sea cucumbers within the region. (frontiersin.org)
  • Environmental variables such as water depth and slope do not necessarily influence the habitat use patterns of top predators directly, but we can use them in our models as proxies for more important ecological determinants of habitat use that are more difficult to collect data for, such as the distribution of their prey. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The largest invertebrate on Earth, the giant squid is just plain big -- the largest ever found was 59 feet (18 meters) long. (seeker.com)
  • The present thrust of the program is to provide juvenile indices of relative abundance of recreationally, commercially, and ecologically important finfish and invertebrates. (wm.edu)
  • An important part of this project will be to publish and publicise our findings, to provide an evidence base for related practice/policy recommendations, and to raise awareness of the issue. (scottishforestrytrust.org.uk)
  • Sediment cores were analyzed for invertebrate abundance, biomass, and Shannon Wiener diversity index, and it was found that biomass and abundance were lower in exotic cattail when compared to native vegetation, however, there was no difference in diversity. (bcit.ca)
  • One of the most important challenges is the restoration of complex, multilayer forests representing the potential natural vegetation. (researchgate.net)
  • The partial community recovery implies that ecologically relevant diet changes (e.g., seasonality and migration) open up gut niches that may be filled by previously abundant microbes or replaced by different symbiont lineages, which has important implications for the integrity and specificity of long-term avian-symbiont associations. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Further, the length of the conservation period has also an important role in cost-efficiency whereas the discount rate plays only a minor role in this study context. (scitechnol.com)
  • A flexible gut microbiome that accommodates changing diets may be important for the evolutionary success of birds, but our knowledge of associations with diet changes remains sparse. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Results from this study indicate that reef spacing and horizontal extension are important factors to consider when designing an artificial reef program, especially those that target juvenile Red Snapper. (bioone.org)
  • It is a difficult, but important question to answer, as it may tell us an even bigger story about how human activities are changing the ocean. (seeker.com)