—The degradation and destruction of estuarine habitats threaten the organisms that depend on these habitats for food and shelter. Gags Mycteroperca microlepis reside on rocky reefs for most of their lives but initially settle and rear in estuarine habitats before moving to offshore reefs. Gag populations have declined to the point where some consider them vulnerable to extinction, and the recov...

Animals pollinate 87% of the world’s flowering plant species. Therefore, how pollinators respond to human-induced land-use change has important implications for plants and the species that depend on them. Here, we synthesize the published literature on how land-use change affects the main groups of pollinators: bees, butterflies, flies, birds, and bats. Responses to land-use change are predomin...

The Florida manatee is regularly exposed to high volumes of vessel traffic and other human-related noise because of its coastal distribution. Quantifying specific aspects of the manatee's acoustic environment will allow for a better understanding of how these animals respond to both natural and human-induced changes in their environment. Transmission loss measurements were made in 24 sampling s...