Tropical marine ecosystems are under mounting anthropogenic pressure from overfishing and habitat destruction, leading to declines in their structure and function on a global scale. Although maintaining connectivity among habitats within a seascape is necessary for preserving population resistance and resilience, quantifying movements of individuals within seascapes remains challenging. Traditi...

Landscape scale conservation planning efforts have been in place for the past several decades to maintain biodiversity. Objectives of past efforts have been to identify areas to create reserves based on species diversity, land ownership, and landscape context. Risk analysis has not often been included in these spatial analyses. Datasets such as the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis (SWReGAP) are ...

Studies of deep-sea benthic communities have largely focused on particular (macro) habitats in isolation, with few studies considering multiple habitats simultaneously in a comparable manner. Compared to mega-epifauna and macrofauna, much less is known about habitat-related variation in meiofaunal community attributes (abundance, diversity and community structure). Here, we investigated meiofau...

The use of urban green spaces, including gardens, in pollinator conservation initiatives, excites significant public interest but advice on effective plants frequently relies qualitative data. This study considered responses to specific nectar sugar characteristics determine if they offer the potential for selection candidate plants. Pollinator feeding 60 plant species at National Botanic Garde...

The Java Trench is the only subduction trench in Indian Ocean that extends to hadal zone (> 6,000 m water depth), and except for sevenbenthic trawls acquired around 1950s, there has been little no sampling at depths undertaken since. In 2019, we undertook a 5-day expedition comprising scientific dive using full ocean depth-rated submersible, DSV Limiting Factor , seven hadal-lander deplo...