Marine megafauna has always elicited contrasting feelings. In the past, large marine
animals were often depicted as fantastic mythological creatures and dangerous monsters …

Major macroevolutionary events in the history of the oceans are linked to changes in
oceanographic conditions and environments on regional to global scales. Even small …

Intergenerational loss of information about the abundance of exploited species can lead to
shifting baselines, which have direct consequences for how species and ecosystems are …

Recreational fisheries are diverse in scale, scope, and participation worldwide, constituting
an important ecosystem service of marine and freshwater ecosystems. Management of these …

An image can encode date, time, location and camera information as metadata and implicitly
encodes species information and data on human activity, for example the size distribution of …

As a discipline, marine historical ecology (MHE) has contributed significantly to our
understanding of the past state of the marine environment when levels of human impact …

This chapter explores the fishery and biological implications of exploiting aggregating
marine fishes, their general importance to subsistence, commercial, and recreational …

Caribbean coral reefs are becoming structurally simpler, largely due to human impacts. The
consequences of this trend for reef-associated communities are currently unclear, but …

Long-term phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominated reef systems are well
documented in the Caribbean. Although the impact of coral diseases, climate change and …

Commoditization of marine resources has dramatically increased anthropogenic footprints
on coastal and ocean systems, but the scale of these impacts remain unclear due to a …