🧪🦤🌐 Lonati et al. found groups of endangered North Atlantic #rightwhales feeding in diverse oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Time of day, month & depth were some variables that influenced what was on the menu! bit.ly/meps_772_21

🧪🦤🌐 Fish in the Curonian Lagoon (Baltic Sea) are maturing at smaller sizes as waters warm. Long-term data (1949–2023) show rapid, species-specific shifts in growth, supporting the temperature-size rule. #ClimateChange #Fisheries #TSR #BalticSea #CuronianLagoon bit.ly/meps_771_123

🧪🦤🌐 Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle? bit.ly/meps_771_71

🧪🦤🌐 The herbivorous sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii removes macroalgae & creates barrens. Understanding density-dependent processes governing its abundance will assist with addressing the challenges it poses in some jurisdictions in south-eastern Australia. bit.ly/meps_771_55

🧪🦤🌐 Investigating Raja Ampat marine lakes, we observed how higher temperatures and increased terrestrial runoff in coastal ecosystems can cause biodiversity loss and simpler food webs. bit.ly/meps_771_15

🧪🦤🌐 Dolphinfish tracked along Australia’s east coast showed high mobility, moving with temperature shifts. Strategically placed fish aggregation devices in optimal ocean conditions can boost fishing and reveal coastal movement patterns. bit.ly/meps_770_155

🧪🦤🌐 Recruitment of the 2011 yr-class of Mesocentrotus nudus after the Tohoku Tsunami was high at max. tsunami height (northern Miyagi). Relative abundance was high due to the tsunami eliminating pre-2011 yr-classes. Highest growth rate was up to 1 yr old. bit.ly/meps_770_99

🧪🦤🌐 Predators shape ecosystems. In Sydney reefs, large male Eastern Blue Groper dominated Centrostephanus rodgersii predation across all urchin sizes. Restoring predator size and diversity may be key to managing urchin overgrazing. bit.ly/meps_770_83

🧪🦤🌐 We examined kelp cover & urchin densities in relation to turf proliferation (Tasmanian temperate reefs). When kelps are lost, competitive release allows turfs to establish. However, turf persistence appears dependent on elevated urchin herbivory. bit.ly/meps_770_15

🧪🦤🌐 Threats to seabirds span across international borders, and risk assessments must operate at the same scale. We use citizen science data from Canada and the US to assess risks from ship activity faced by coastal waterbirds in the Salish Sea. bit.ly/meps_769_197 birdscanada.bsky.social

🧪🦤🌐 How is partial migration maintained in Japanese seabass? Individual dietary specialization in river migrants may increase resource availability within contingents, supporting persistence in potential resource-limited river habitats. bit.ly/meps_769_169

🧪🦤🌐 Climate change is shifting U.S. fisheries. Rising ocean temperatures are driving more warm-water species in catches, especially in the Northeast. Regional differences highlight the need for adaptive, place-based management. bit.ly/meps_769_125

🦤🌐🧪 Results from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study show a striking 27-year increase in deep-sea fish larvae in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, likely due to food web changes, and seasonal and developmental changes in fish assemblage composition. bit.ly/meps_769_107

🧪🦤🌐 Model analyses and observations suggest marine predator distributions in the Salish Sea are influenced by tidal dynamics and ocean conditions. bit.ly/meps_769_23

🌐🦤🧪 🦑 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