🌐🦤🧪 🦑 Illex argentinus, a key species in global squid fisheries, has distinct spawning groups revealed through statolith chemistry. Our research shows the need for international cooperation to manage this highly migratory species. #SquidScience #Fisheries bit.ly/meps_769_073

🧪🦤🌐 New study quantifies how body size and condition affect fasting endurance in right whales. Southern right whales can fast ~17 months, but a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale may only survive ~50 days. #RightWhales #MarineScience bit.ly/meps_768_99

🧪🦤🌐 We assessed ecoacoustic indices (ACI & snap rate) across depths, sites & seasons in coral reefs around Okinawa Island 🐠🔊. Despite clear spatiotemporal patterns, links to fish & benthic functional groups were weak, limiting their use as ecosystem proxies. bit.ly/meps_768_1

🧪 We assessed ecoacoustic indices (ACI & snap rate) across depths, sites and seasons in coral reefs around Okinawa Island, Japan 🐠🔊. Despite clear spatiotemporal patterns, links to fish and benthic functional groups were weak, limiting their use as ecosystem proxies. bit.ly/meps_768_1

🦤🌐🧪 We assessed ecoacoustic indices (ACI & snap rate) across depths, sites & seasons in coral reefs around Okinawa Island, Japan 🐠🔊. Despite clear spatiotemporal patterns, links to fish & benthic functional groups were weak, limiting their use as ecosystem proxies. bit.ly/meps_768_1

🦤🌐🧪 We observed unique rockfish mating behaviors, including urinations and vocalizations. Moreover, dominant males have large urine bladder to store urine. These findings offer new insights into rockfish reproduction, and are valuable for future studies. bit.ly/meps_767_121

🦤🌐🧪 Loss of large females has unexpectedly serious effects on reproduction by altering female reproductive traits. Preservation of female reproductive traits while maintaining the population size structure should be an important goal for the sustainable resource management. doi.org/10.3354/meps...

🦤🌐🧪 Sponges are highly efficient bacterivores, but do not filter all bacteria equally. Our new paper reveals that certain bacterial phylotypes evade capture, a process that reduces microbial diversity on the reef. #sponges #microbiology bit.ly/meps_767_13

🦤🌐🧪 Essential habitats in the middle of the ocean! Nursery areas of threatened tope and smooth hammerhead sharks in the mid-Atlantic Azores archipelago. bit.ly/meps_766_73

🦤🌐🧪 How much do #greenturtles influence #seagrass ecosystems? A field exclosure experiment combined with a global meta-analysis revealed that grazing effects are context-dependent—varying across seagrass parameters & seagrass type. bit.ly/meps_766_57 @jslefche.bsky.social @alexaputillo.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Restoring Ecklonia radiata kelp forests in New Zealand with Green Gravel. Site selection and attachment techniques prove key to improving restoration outcomes. bit.ly/meps_766_43

🦤🌐🧪 Depth & upwelling reshape annelid communities: SACW pulses spark trait overdispersion on Brazil’s inner shelf, while deep, coarse sediments keep it offshore. Timing upwelling is key for monitoring & conservation. #MEPS #Upwelling bit.ly/meps_765_53

🦤🌐🧪 Mangrove expansion onto intertidal oyster reefs was found to be associated with reef acidification and loss of oyster shell mass. These findings indicate mangroves can negatively impact oysters, potentially degrading reef habitats over time. bit.ly/meps_765_17

🦤🌐🧪 Pacific oysters thrive with the right phytoplankton. Our 10-year study shows that non-harmful diatoms, such as Skeletonema, Asterionellopsis glacialis, and Thalassiosiraceae, promote growth, unlike other diatoms or dinoflagellates. bit.ly/meps_764_53

🦤🌐🧪 Our Bayesian #IntegratedPopulationModel revealed key insights into Baltic #RingedSeal population dynamics, responses to sea ice loss, and interactions with human activities, offering essential guidance for monitoring and management efforts. bit.ly/meps_764_213 @rececochange.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Drones, photogrammetric measurement techniques, photo-identification, and an individual-based multivariate model were used in this study to estimate growth dynamics of bottlenose dolphins living in the fiords of southwestern Aotearoa/New Zealand. bit.ly/meps_763_197 @leahmcrowe.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Identifying trophic units of the Fuegian sprat (Sprattus fuegensis), a key forage species in the SW South Atlantic, is crucial to understand its ecological role, improve management strategies, and support conservation efforts. bit.ly/meps_763_97

🦤🌐🧪 Atlantic bluefin tuna diet meta-analysis reveals environmental, spatial, temporal, and biological drivers. bit.ly/meps_763_127

🦤🌐🧪 Tracking movements of invasive green crabs with an acoustic telemetry positioning system in a Maine estuary quantifies home ranges & assess how movements vary with reproductive status & environmental conditions. bit.ly/meps_763_41 @nathanbfurey.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Ecosystem modelling of the Barents Sea applying hot climate scenarios resulted in a community shift towards northeast in the 2090s. In contrast, under cool and intermediate scenarios, spatial patterns became similar to the present after 2050. bit.ly/meps_763_1

🦤🌐🧪 Video is a common gear to survey fish in structured habitats, but it is often assumed that video detects all species present. The authors used a paired sampling approach to show that video detection for reef fish species was never perfect bit.ly/meps_761_163 fishyn8.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Inshore South African Bryde’s whales show within-population foraging plasticity. Individual whales use different modes of lunge-feeding, at different depths and within the same feeding dive, revealing how whales optimize the depth and time of a foraging event bit.ly/meps_761_115

🦤🌐🧪 How do corals time reproduction in equatorial reefs? A study at Lankayan Island, Malaysia, shows how seasonal light cycles synchronize coral gametogenesis. Understanding these cues helps predict coral resilience to climate change! bit.ly/meps_761_49

🦤🌐🧪 New study uses passive and active acoustics with oceanographic sampling to examine how cetaceans are impacted by prey responses to the physical environment, offering insights into predator–prey dynamics and informing management strategies bit.ly/meps_762_111

🦤🌐🧪 White sharks are on the rise in Atlantic Canadian waters! Our new study reveals an increase in their presence since 2019, with migration probabilities up to 3.7x higher and their seasonal stay extending by over 20 days bit.ly/meps_761_145

🦤🌐🧪 We characterized neonatal growth patterns in harbour seal pups in the St. Lawrence Estuary. We found that neonatal growth is nonlinear. Males are born heavier than females and large pups at birth tend to gain more mass than small pups bit.ly/meps_761_129

🦤🌐🧪 Tropical #CoralReefs host rich hidden biodiversity. Our study shows how deterministic & stochastic processes shape sessile #cryptobenthic communities at multiple spatial scales around Réunion Island—key insights for reef conservation! #Betadiversity #ARMS bit.ly/meps_761_21

🦤🌐🧪 Meese et al. investigate drivers of habitat use and potential energy channels supporting Atlantic stingrays in a subtropical estuary. bit.ly/meps_760_117

🦤🌐🧪 Does oyster aquaculture affect underwater grass habitat? A new study shows sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It depends on the strength of a site's waves and currents and how much the aquaculture gear dampens these physical forces. Read the full article at: bit.ly/meps_760_17

🦤🌐🧪 Compared to two other Gulf of Mexico shipwrecks, the Deepwater Horizon wreckage hosts a community with unique organisms. We propose wreck age, depth, & the presence of oil as potential factors influencing community assemblage bit.ly/meps_760_1 @sydneymcdermott.bsky.social @drcraigmc.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 New MEPS publication: Using photo identification to determine demographics, fishery interactions and behavioral associations for oceanic whitetip sharks around Hawaii. Read the full article at bit.ly/meps_759_51

🦤🌐🧪 Discover the effects of noise on blue mussel larvae, which are of immense economic and ecological importance. Noise from shipping promoted development in suboptimal habitats with higher metabolic costs. bit.ly/meps_759_35

🦤🌐🧪 Sea ice decreased substantially along the Antarctic Peninsula in 2019-2023, which likely caused substantially increased brown macroalgal cover and biomass. These are likely to have major implications for carbon flow to benthic communities. bit.ly/meps_759_17

🦤🌐🧪 🌱 Greater Caribbean #manatees have stuck to a seagrass-rich diet for 30+ years, despite habitat modifications. A new #IsotopeAnalysis in bones🦴 & plants🌿 identifies and helps conserve critical feeding grounds for manatees in Quintana Roo, Mexico bit.ly/meps_758_179

🦤🌐🧪 Family dynamics are changing, and can offshore drilling be the cause? Our study describes the genetic structure of Gulf of Mexico #spermwhales and reveals a change across time, coincident with the #DeepwaterHorizon oil spill bit.ly/meps_758_161 bsky.app/profile/lani... bsky.app/profile/wild...

🦤🌐🧪 Juvenile oyster survival sharply declined at shrimp densities of 50–100 shrimp m² through sediment reworking burying the oysters (Willapa Bay). This result informs commercial harvest strategies and management of vulnerable oyster populations bit.ly/meps_758_61 @wwh.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Minke whales feeding in the Jacques Cartier passage over summer are predominantly pregnant females. From 2007–2015 pregnancy rates remain stable despite fluctuating prey availability, suggesting some resilience to environmental change @smruecophys.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 #Gillnetting in Brazil's #coastalwaters #impacts diverse fishes. Our study in the East and South Brazilian Shelves reveals trait variation, with size selectivity and environmental conditions influencing functional diversity in this fishery bit.ly/meps_758_125

🦤🌐🧪 🦈 Tracking the migrations of 4 coastal shark species along the U.S. SE coast revealed how sea surface temperature influences their movements. This provides a critical benchmark for future shifts as oceans warm. #ClimateChange #MarineEcology bit.ly/meps_758_103 @factnetwork.bsky.social

🦤🌐🧪 Greenhouse gas fluxes were quantified on a temperate beach on #Zosteramarina wrack alone, on sediment, and sediment alone. Patterns of emission and uptake were highly date-specific, highlighting the complexity of #GHGflux drivers bit.ly/meps_757_199

🦤🌐🧪 We studied the feeding habits/piscivory of #yellowfintuna Thunnus albacares larvae reared in the laboratory. Findings are discussed in relation to the ontogenetic development and larval behavior in the environment, bringing new insights to the ecology of yellowfin tuna. bit.ly/meps_757_161

🦤🌐🧪 Intertidal species may be more closely adapted to terrestrial than aquatic thermal environments, which greatly influences their vulnerability to climate change. bit.ly/meps_757_99

🦤🌐🧪 Climate change implications on future distribution of pelagic squid in the Southern Ocean. bit.ly/meps_757_85

Resilience of the octocoral Muricea laxa to heat stress depends on thermal stability and exposure time. Prolonged or fluctuating heat stress reduces survival, emphasizing the need to consider thermal context in coral resilience studies bit.ly/meps_757_71

🌐🧪🦤 The intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus experiences drastic fluctuations in oxygen in the wild (continuous oxygen sensor data), and is remarkably resistant to long-term hypoxia and anoxia (laboratory fitness tests and respirometry) bit.ly/meps_757_53

🌐🧪🦤 This study completes multiple-stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) on #Adéliepenguin chick-bone collagen to characterize differences in foraging behaviour among 15 colony locations across the #RossSea region. bit.ly/meps_756_127 meganreaves.bsky.social shannonpowers.bsky.social

Can electronic monitoring boost sustainable fishing? We tested electronic monitoring in Portugal's crustacean trawl fishery, identifying 2182 demersal chondrichthyans with <1% unrecognized. A promising step for marine conservation! 🌊🦈 #FisheriesScience #Bycatch bit.ly/meps_756_83

🌐🧪🦤 Reproduction in fish is sensitive to warming, but how its plasticity is shaped by the timing and duration of warming remains unclear. Prolonged heat exposure post-maturation partly mitigated impacts, but developmental warming left lasting declines in fecundity. bit.ly/meps_756_95

🦤🌐🧪 Countless #sharkeggs contribute to the #foodwebs of chemosynthetic #coldseep ecosystems in the deep Southeastern Mediterranean. Using amino acid stable isotopes, the authors uncover the unexpected trophic interactions hidden in the depths bit.ly/meps_756_71

🌐🧪🦤 Does intraspecific trait variation, phenotypic (caused by euendolithic corrosion) or genotypic (with two lineages with distinct behaviours), influence the habitat quality offered by the native brown mussel to associated macrofauna in South Africa?