Biology Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology Human impacts Pollution
Wake-up Call: Global Oceans in Big Trouble!
Our global oceans are in a state of crisis. A new report from the WWF paints a bleak picture: human…
Category: Conservation
Conservation Ecology Fisheries
Big Fishing on (Important) Little Fish
Forage fish may be little as individuals, but their big schools have a big impact on marine ecosystems. They serve…
Biology Conservation Ecology
Fear and Floating in the Atlantic
Does fear of predation alter sea turtle behavior? Researchers put an ecological model to the test by using large-scale movement…
Book Review Conservation Coral Ecology Fisheries
Switching it up: When do predation and habitat control damselfish abundance?
Another tale of how the loss of predators due to overfishing might impact coral reefs, but this one has a…
Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology
The benefits of warmer parents, and who’s your mama … when you’re a coral
Why some coral can take the heat better than others is in their DNA.
Biology Book Review Conservation
Using Robots to Track Sea Turtles
A new technique using underwater robots may be able to teach us about sea turtle behaviors in the wild.
Coastal Management Conservation Ecology
The True Value of Fish Nurseries
Estuaries (where freshwater and seawater mix) are used as nursery grounds to raise many species of young fish around the…
Conservation Fisheries Human impacts technology
Technology for Turtles: TurtleWatch Program to Protect Sea Turtles and Assist Fishermen
A technology that both benefits fishermen and helps prevent sea turtle bycatch? Yes, please! The great news is that it…
Biochemistry Biology Coastal Management Conservation Fisheries Genetics
Protecting Hometown Herring
River herring are anadromous fish, which means they live most of their life in the ocean but spawn in freshwater…
Coastal Management Conservation
Taiwan creates “Facebook” for sea turtles!
Photo ID databases have been used to estimate population sizes for zebras, cheetahs, whales, sharks dolphins, turtles and more. This…
Coastal Management Conservation Fisheries
Open-ocean oddity: why isn’t increased prey abundance helping bluefin tuna?
For an apex marine predator like bluefin tuna, increased abundance of prey species should be beneficial. So why then is…
Conservation Genetics Human impacts
Long live the seagrass! The relationship between human disturbance and genetic diversity
The Mediterranean seagrass plays very important ecological functions but human disturbances are thought to be one of the main causes…
Book Review Conservation Ecology
Leaving the nursery: fish migration between juvenile and adult habitats
Many fish utilize different habitats as adults than they do as juveniles, but little research has shown how they make…
Book Review Climate Change Conservation Evolution Ocean Acidification
Coral Reef Restoration Through Human-Assisted Evolution
Coral reefs populations are declining. Is it possible that we could help restore coral reefs by speeding up their evolutionary…
Conservation Fisheries
Survival at different stages of the fishing process informs management strategies for the silky shark
Knowing that a species has low survival rates after encountering a fishing vessel is useful. But knowing exactly what about…
Conservation Fisheries Policy
Protecting Well-Traveled Fishes: A New Approach
Fisheries managers have begun a shift from attempting to protect individual fish species to protecting entire ecosystems. Marine Protected Areas…
Conservation Ecology
Busy penguins strive to find an energy balance.
Penguins find a way to balance the extra work of the breeding season while still finding time to go diving…
Biology Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Fisheries Human impacts
Best laid plans of lobsters and men: More disease prevalent in marine protected areas
Everyone usually agrees that establishing more protected areas in our oceans will help overfished populations recover. But what if that's…
Book Review Conservation Human impacts
There are plenty of fish in the sea! ….or are there?
Tigers, pandas, and orangutans are the poster children of endangered species, but marine animals have started to join their ranks.…
Biology Conservation Ecology Evolution Invasive Species
Risking It All For Love: Courtship behavior by a reef fish makes it vulnerable to lionfish predation
Paper: Black, A.N., S.R. Weimann, V.E. Imhoff, M.L. Richter, and M. Itzkowitz. 2014. A differential prey response to invasive lionfish,…