Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• High-impact marine heatwaves attributable to human-induced global warming
• Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystems
• The global fisheries subsidies divide between small- and large-scale fisheries

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – October 2020

This issue explores:

• Planning for success: Leveraging two ecosystem models to support development of an Antarctic marine protected area
• Coral Reefs of the High Seas: Hidden Biodiversity Hotspots in Need of Protection
• Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – September 2020

This issue explores:

• Thermal displacement by marine heatwaves
• The immunogenetics of sexual parasitism
• Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the High Seas

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – August 2020

This issue explores:

• The role of ecosystems in mitigation and management of COVID-19 and other zoonoses
• Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining
• End overfishing and increase the resilience of the ocean to climate

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – July 2020

This issue explores:

• Rights of Nature: Perspectives for Global Ocean Stewardship
• Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming
• Coral reef islands can accrete vertically in response to sea level rise

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – June 2020

This issue explores:

• Microplastic contamination in east Antarctica sea ice
• Effects of a deep-sea mining experiment on seafloor microbial communities and functions after 26 years
• Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – May 2020

This issue explores:

• Changes in fish communities due to benthic habitat shifts under ocean acidification
• Failures in the design and implementation of management plans of Marine Protected Areas: An empirical analysis for the North-east Atlantic Ocean
• Failures in the design and implementation of management plans of Marine Protected Areas: An empirical analysis for the North-east Atlantic Ocean

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – April 2020

This issue explores:

• Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica
• Illicit trade in marine fish catch and its effects on ecosystems and people worldwide
• Adjacency and due regard: The role of coastal States in the BBNJ treaty

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – March 2020

This issue explores:

• Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs
• Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades
• Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protection area targets

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – February 2020

This issue explores:

• Mobile Protected Areas for Biodiversity on the High Seas
• Oxygen Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem – Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions
• Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – January 2020