A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges

MJ Costello, M Coll, R Danovaro, P Halpin, H Ojaveer… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The Census of Marine Life (2000–2010) was the largest global research programme on
marine biodiversity. This paper integrated the findings of reviews of major world regions by …

Brazilian coral reefs in a period of global change: A synthesis

ZMAN Leão, RKP Kikuchi, BP Ferreira… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Brazilian coral reefs form structures significantly different from the well-known reef models,
as follows:(i) they have a growth form of mushroom-shaped coral pinnacles called" …

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in marine mammals and seabirds in Peru

M Leguia, A Garcia-Glaessner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A/H5N1 viruses (lineage 2.3. 4.4 b) are rapidly
invading the Americas, threatening wildlife, poultry, and potentially evolving into the next …

Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America

RE Reis, JS Albert, F Di Dario… - Journal of fish …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The freshwater and marine fish faunas of South America are the most diverse on Earth, with
current species richness estimates standing above 9100 species. In addition, over the last …

An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth

RL Moura, GM Amado-Filho, FC Moraes… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Large rivers create major gaps in reef distribution along tropical shelves. The Amazon River
represents 20% of the global riverine discharge to the ocean, generating up to a 1.3× 106 …

Seaweeds: an opportunity for wealth and sustainable livelihood for coastal communities

C Rebours, E Marinho-Soriano… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The European, Canadian, and Latin American seaweed industries rely on the
sustainable harvesting of natural resources. As several countries wish to increase their …

Spatio-temporal variation of anthropogenic marine debris on Chilean beaches

V Hidalgo-Ruz, D Honorato-Zimmer… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
We examined the hypothesis that in an emerging economy such as Chile the abundances of
Anthropogenic Marine Debris (AMD) on beaches are increasing over time. The citizen …

Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity

G Canonico, PL Buttigieg, E Montes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living
resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health …

Pelagic provinces of the world: A biogeographic classification of the world's surface pelagic waters

MD Spalding, VN Agostini, J Rice, SM Grant - Ocean & Coastal …, 2012 - Elsevier
Off-shelf waters cover 66% of the planet. Growing concerns about the state of natural
resources in these waters, and of future threats have led to a growing movement to improve …

Large-scale patterns of benthic marine communities in the Brazilian Province

AW Aued, F Smith, JP Quimbayo, DV Candido… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
As marine ecosystems are influenced by global and regional processes, standardized
information on community structure has become crucial for assessing broad-scale …