Climate Change Ecology Fisheries Always follow your gut, or in this case, follow the fish guts Following the guts of fish species is sometimes the best way to track small, mobile crustacean prey.
Physiology Icefish can’t keep their cool in warm water The Antarctic climate is changing, and the increasing temperature is wreaking havoc on the physiology of endemic species. Will icefish,…
Biology Ecology Parasitism Better Together: Mutualisms contribute to reef fish recruitment All other things being equal, would you rather live where mutually beneficial relationships are available or where they aren’t? Well,…
Ecology Fisheries I’ll stand guard for you! When it comes to helping each other out, it turns out that some fishes are better at it than we…
Evolution The coelacanth and its leftover lung The coelacanth keeps surprising us! Rediscovered off the South African coast in 1938, these animals were once thought to have…
Fisheries Counterfeit fish: the extent of seafood mislabeling in the United States Media coverage of a seafood mislabeling study in the U.S. has popularized the 2013 finding that one-third of U.S. seafood…
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…
Biology Coral Ecology Fisheries Human impacts Sponges Out of Control: Another Effect of Overfishing When you think about threats to coral reefs, you don’t think “Sponges!”, do you? But you might come up with…
Coastal Management Ecology Human impacts Do fish communities need natural shorelines, or are artificial structures ok? Due to coastal development and natural erosion, shoreline fish communities are stressed. Several versions of artificial structures have been built…
Book Review Climate Change Fisheries North Sea fish stick to warming shallows rather than cooling off at depth Models based on historical survey data indicate that with long term warming trends, fish distributions in the North Sea will…
Biology Physiology The first evidence of a warm blooded fish Fish are cold blooded, right? Their body temperature is regulated by the temperature of the surrounding water. Well, this may…
Climate Change Physiology Offspring inherit trait developed in parents Damselfish offspring inherit a trait developed by parents raised in warmer temperatures.
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 Fisheries Growth of a deep-sea predatory fish is affected by surface current strength A deep-water predatory fish is found to have faster growth rates when productivity is enhanced by the Leeuwin Current along…
Book Review Climate Change Ecology Seagrass The Northward Expansion: Tropical Fish Settling the Temperate Seagrass Prairie How will northward shifting tropical species interact with the temperate habitats they encounter? An example from seagrass habitat in the…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries Too much acid in the mahi: Ocean acidification and larval dolphinfish How will increased atmospheric carbon dioxide affect your dinner? Larval dolphinfish (or, 'mahi mahi') are apparently very sensitive to increased…
Biology Ecology Fisheries One fish, two fish, red fish… glow fish? Biofluorescence of coral is well studied, but in this paper, Sparks et al. aimed to investigate the little known details…
Ecology Fisheries How Coral Size Influences Fish Size Many fish find a coral colony to host in, living their whole life in that same coral. They must pick…
Biology From sea to glowing sea: many fish are found to biofluoresce Bioluminescence, or light generation, has long caught our eye in the dark ocean water, but researchers have recently discovered how…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries Fish follow climate velocities through space and time We expect marine species to respond to climate change by either adapting or changing geographical ranges. But observed shifts in…