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Supporting Fisheries Management With Genomic Tools: A Case Study of Kingklip (Genypterus capensis) Off Southern Africa
Kingklip, Genypterus capensis, is one of southern Africa’s most valuable demersal fisheries resources, with a wide geographic distribution spanning South …
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Variation in Seagrass Carbon Stocks Between Tropical Estuarine and Marine Mangrove-Fringed Creeks
Seagrass and associated blue carbon ecosystems are important carbon sinks and hence understanding their spatial and temporal variability is vital …
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Exploring Temporal Variability in the Southern Benguela Ecosystem Over the Past Four Decades Using a Time-Dynamic Ecosystem Model
This paper presents a new, updated, temporally-dynamic Ecosim model for the Southern Benguela (1978-2015) by capturing recent advancements in our …
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Investigating Waves and Temperature as Drivers of Kelp Morphology
Macroalgal morphological variation is determined to a large extent by a combination of environmental factors, with wave exposure and temperature …
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Regional Movements of Reef Manta Rays (Mobula alfredi) in Seychelles Waters
The decline in numbers of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) throughout their range has highlighted the need for improved information …
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Efficient Modeling of Complex Sandy Coastal Evolution at Monthly to Century Time Scales
With large-scale human interventions and climate change unfolding as they are now, coastal changes at decadal timescales are not limited …
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Using Structured Decision-Making Tools With Marginalised Fishers to Promote System-Based Fisheries Management Approaches in South Africa
Fishers, and the communities they support face a range of challenges brought on by complexity and uncertainty in their social-ecological …
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No Place Like Home? High Residency and Predictable Seasonal Movement of Whale Sharks Off Tanzania
Highly mobile marine megafauna species, while widely distributed and frequently threatened, often aggregate in distinct localized habitats. Implementation of local …
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Evidence of Overfishing in Small-Scale Fisheries in Madagascar
Small-scale fisheries are an important source of food, income and cultural identity to millions of people worldwide. Despite fishers observing …
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Northern Benguela Merluccius paradoxus Annual Growth From Otolith Chronologies Used for Age Verification and as Indicators of Fisheries-Induced and Environmental Changes
In this study we develop a 32-year (1982–2013) otolith biochronology of the commercially important deepwater hake Merluccius paradoxus in the …
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Deriving a Proxy for Iron Limitation From Chlorophyll Fluorescence on Buoyancy Gliders
Chlorophyll fluorescence, primarily used to derive phytoplankton biomass, has long been an underutilized source of information on phytoplankton physiology. Diel …
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Long-Term Change of Demersal Fish Assemblages on the Inshore Agulhas Bank Between 1904 and 2015
Without baseline data from near pristine assemblages, measures of ecosystem change may be significantly underestimated. A unique historical dataset provided …
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Zooplankton-Mediated Fluxes in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic
Zooplankton organisms are a central part of pelagic ecosystems. They feed on all kinds of particulate matter and their egested …
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A Global Review of Vessel Collisions With Marine Animals
Concern about the effects of maritime vessel collisions with marine animals is increasing worldwide. To date, most scientific publications on …
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Marine Microbial Community Composition During the Upwelling Season in the Southern Benguela
The microbial communities of the southern Benguela upwelling region were sampled quarterly through one year, with sampling for prokaryotes taking …
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Significance Assessment of Amphora coffeaeformis in Arsenic-Induced Hemato- Biochemical Alterations of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus)
The heavy metals have different adverse impacts on different life stages of fish species with attempts to use natural antioxidants …
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Satellite Ocean Color Based Harmful Algal Bloom Indicators for Aquaculture Decision Support in the Southern Benguela
The aquaculture industry of southern Africa faces environmental threats from harmful algal blooms (HABs), which have the potential to cause …
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GliderTools: A Python Toolbox for Processing Underwater Glider Data
Underwater gliders have become widely used in the last decade. This has led to a proliferation of data and the …
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Multidisciplinary Observing in the World Ocean’s Oxygen Minimum Zone Regions: From Climate to Fish — The VOICE Initiative
Multidisciplinary ocean observing activities provide critical ocean information to satisfy ever-changing socio-economic needs, and require coordinated implementation. The upper oxycline …
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Old Tools, New Ways of Using Them: Harnessing Expert Opinions to Plan for Surprise in Marine Socio-Ecological Systems
With globally accelerating rates of environmental disturbance, coastal marine ecosystems are increasingly prone to non-linear regime shifts that result in …