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Thecacera sesama sp. nov. (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from Taiwan, evident from morphology and phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase I gene.

Thecacera sesama Chan & Lee, sp. nov. (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) is described from north-eastern Taiwan based on an integrative taxonomic approach combining morphological and molecular data. The new ...

Seasonal variation pattern in the co-occurrence networks and assembly processes of the fish communities in the northwestern Pacific.

The northwestern Pacific (NWP) encompasses diverse oceanographic regimes, with the confluence of the warm Kuroshio and the cold Oyashio forming a seasonally shifting ecotone characterized by strong en...

Economic Costs of Biological Invasions in Marine Systems.

Marine systems worldwide are suffering escalating impacts from biological invasions, with increasing threats projected for the future. Despite substantial financial investments in managing marine inva...

Detecting stabilizing dynamics in biased biodiversity time series using Haar fluctuation analysis.

Characterizing how biodiversity has changed through Earth's history and uncovering the processes that have driven those changes remain a significant challenge. Haar fluctuation analysis, a recently de...

Annotated checklist of the invertebrate macrozoobenthos from Mauritanian marine shallow-water habitats.

From 2020 to 2024, The Institut Mauritanien de Recherches Océanographiques et des Pêche (IMROP) and the Senckenberg Research Institute conducted five joint expeditions, exploring the marine biodiversi...

Fishing trawlers drive the fine-scale daytime distribution of bottlenose dolphins at the Tiber River estuary (Western Mediterranean Sea).

Fisheries can strongly alter marine ecosystem dynamics, influencing the ecology and behaviour of top predators such as cetaceans. At the Tiber River estuary (Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean), bo...

Bioluminescence-Based Ecotourism and Bioentrepreneurship: A Review of Opportunities and Challenges.

Bioluminescent organisms represent a largely untapped resource at the interface of biodiversity, bioentrepreneurship, and sustainable ecotourism. Although bioluminescence is well studied biologically,...

Effects of extreme hydrological disturbances on the resilience, resistance, and functional redundancy of fish assemblages in a subtropical estuary.

Hydrological dynamics are fundamental drivers of estuarine ecosystem structure and functioning, directly regulating fish assemblage abundance, species richness and functional redundancy. Using a 24-ye...

Biodiversity of natural versus planted mangrove forests across latitudes in Guangdong China with seven new records and potential new species.

Mangrove ecosystems in Guangdong Province, China, are vital for their ecological services and biodiversity, yet comprehensive assessments of their species diversity remain limited. A biodiversity surv...

Hidden biodiversity costs of a deep-sea mining moratorium.

Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas.

Increasing global demand for nickel, an essential metal in low-carbon technologies and stainless steel, is driving a surge in mining in strongholds of tropical biodiversity. We use a global mine-by-mi...

Twenty years of marine systematic conservation planning: a global scoping review for good practices.

Human activities are exerting increasing pressure on the ocean, threatening marine biodiversity and the many benefits it provides to people. Allocating adequate space to enable the sustainable and equ...

Enhancing Role of Nitrogen Fixation in Biogeochemical Cycles of the Pacific Arctic.

The Arctic Ocean is warming rapidly, prompting increased attention to the ecosystem's response to sea-ice loss and the influx of organisms from lower latitudes. Recent studies have shown that these ex...

Rethinking Artificial Reefs to Accelerate and Upscale Marine Biodiversity Recovery.

Artificial reefs (ARs), a form of anthropogenic intervention in marine habitats, have a long history of deployment and continue to proliferate worldwide. Based on a comprehensive literature review and...

Marine metabolomics for bioactive material discovery: current trends, challenges, and future perspectives.

Marine metabolomics has emerged as a powerful approach for elucidating the chemical basis of marine biodiversity, ecological interactions, and organismal responses to environmental change. By profilin...

Marine Algae and Neuroprotection: Unlocking the Therapeutic Potential Against Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are recognized by the World Health Organization as the second leading cause of mortality worldwide, and their prevalence continues to rise at an alarming rate. Curren...

An expert-curated dataset of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) distribution across the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) are key habitat-forming organisms in deep-sea ecosystems, yet their diversity and distribution remains poorly understood. This work presents the first comprehe...

Hidden in Plain Sight: Decades of Industrial-Scale Fishing in the Ocean's Twilight Zone.

There is a common misconception among ocean scientists and policy makers that mesopelagic (200-1000 m) food webs are an unexploited "final frontier" of living marine resources. It is true that there a...

Aligning observation to action: Integrated monitoring for tropical seascape conservation and restoration.

Tropical coastal ecosystems are rapidly degrading due to climate change and local pressures, while current monitoring efforts remain fragmented, habitat specific, and disconnected from management. Thi...

Confirmation of Spurilla braziliana (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in the Southwest Atlantic: Morphology, Phylogeny, and Distribution.

AbstractNudibranchs of the genus Spurilla (Aeolidiidae) are currently represented worldwide by five species: S. braziliana, S. croisicensis, S. dupontae, S. neapolitana, and S. sargassicola. Two of th...