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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 ...

TorpeDNA: a fit-for-purpose eDNA sampling device for marine biodiversity monitoring across applications and scales.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity monitoring by enabling species detection from microbes to megafauna without direct observation or capture. Yet most marine eDNA collection syst...

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...

Seafood consumption could help fill nutrition gaps in Brazil.

Seafood plays a vital yet underexplored role in addressing nutritional deficiencies in tropical countries. Despite Brazil's vast coastline and marine biodiversity, seafood contribution to human nutrit...

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...

Leveraging Microbes for Sustainable Development Goal 14 Progress.

To promote sustainable use of marine resources, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14): Life Below Water aims to alleviate the threats of marine pollution, habitat degradation, un...

Cryopreservation of Marine Invertebrates: From Sperm to Organismal Cryopreservation.

Marine invertebrates constitute the vast majority of marine biodiversity, and they are extremely diverse and play a key role in marine ecosystems, thus playing an important role at the socioeconomic l...

eDNA reveals extraordinary fish diversity in the Urauchi River, Iriomote Island, Japan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Robust biodiversity monitoring is essential for the management of UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites; yet, systematic assessments of ichthyofaunal communities remain limited. Here, we apply environme...

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...

Environmental DNA metabarcoding complements bottom trawling and detects fish species beyond recorded ranges in the Chukchi Borderland, Central Arctic Ocean.

Global climate change is profoundly altering Arctic marine biodiversity, yet baseline data on fish assemblages in the central Arctic Ocean remain critically scarce. The Chukchi Borderland-a Pacific-At...

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,...

Environmental Risk Assessment as a Tool to Enhance Maritime Spatial Planning in the Mediterranean Sea: The Case Study of the Gulf of La Spezia (North-Western Italy).

Maritime Spatial Planning is a pivotal tool for the sustainable development of coastal areas and the implementation of the blue economy. It requires a spatially explicit environmental risk assessment,...

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...

New species and suborder records reveal unusually high thaliacean (Chordata, Tunicata) diversity in the South China Sea.

In the context of global biodiversity decline, the monitoring and assessment of marine biodiversity have gained increasing importance. Thaliacea, a group of filter-feeding gelatinous zooplankton, play...

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.

Assessing the state of deep-sea biological knowledge and charting a path for scientific research in Barbados.

For Small Island Developing States, including those in the Caribbean, the deep sea remains a challenging ecosystem to study as it requires expensive technology and specialised expertise. The deep-sea ...

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...