Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) support diverse communities of marine organisms with changes in community structure occurring along a depth gradient. In recent years, MCEs have gained attention due to their depths that provide protection from natural and anthropogenic stressors and their relative stability over evolutionary time periods, yet ecological structures of fish assemblages in MCEs ...

THEMATIC SECTION Humans and Island Environments Invasive alien species on islands: impacts, distribution, interactions and management JAMES C. RUSSELL ∗1 , 2 , 3 , JEAN-YVES MEYER 4 , N I CK D . H O LME S 5 AND SHYAMA PAGAD 6 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand, 2Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019...

A software was developed in the framework of the GEOWOW project for computing the mean of the output of an ensemble of climate change models from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparaison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The ensemble mean for the time projections of the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) under climate change and the corresponding climatology were computed: t...

Foreword There is a great need for more knowledge of the effects on the marine environment of discharges to the sea from the offshore oil and gas industry. The long-term effects in particular are of great interest, as we know very little about them. More knowledge is thus essential if the authorities are to be able to control the development of this sector and to coordinate the exploitation of ...

Chemical cues constitute much of the language of life in the sea. Our understanding of biotic interactions and their effects on marine ecosystems will advance more rapidly if this language is studied and understood. Here, I review how chemical cues regulate critical aspects of the behavior of marine organisms from bacteria to phytoplankton to benthic invertebrates and water column fishes. These...

This paper studies a model of memory. The model takes into account that memory capacity is limited and imperfect. We study how agents with such memory limitations, who have very little information about their choice environment, play games. We introduce the notion of a Limited Memory Equilibrium (LME) and show that play converges to an LME in every generic normal form game. Our characterization...

Large-scale transitions between alternative states in ecosystems are known as regime shifts. Once described as healthy and dominated by various marine predators, the Black Sea ecosystem by the late 20th century had experienced anthropogenic impacts such as heavy fishing, cultural eutrophication, and invasions by alien species. We studied changes related to these "natural experiments" to reveal ...

Marine Geomatics Research Lab, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Centre for Fisheries and Ecosystem Research, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Marine Habitat Mapping Group, Departments of Geography and Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Department ...

Planners are being called on to prioritize marine shorelines for conservation status and restoration action. This study documents an approach to determining the management strategy most likely to succeed based on current conditions at local and landscape scales. The conceptual framework based in restoration ecology pairs appropriate restoration strategies with sites based on the likelihood of p...