Remote sensing of ocean fronts in marine ecology and fisheries

IM Belkin - Remote sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a concise review of the remote sensing of ocean fronts in marine
ecology and fisheries, with a particular focus on the most popular front detection algorithms …

Anticyclonic eddies aggregate pelagic predators in a subtropical gyre

MC Arostegui, P Gaube, PA Woodworth-Jefcoats… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Ocean eddies are coherent, rotating features that can modulate pelagic ecosystems across
many trophic levels. These mesoscale features, which are ubiquitous at mid-latitudes, may …

Up to what extent can we characterize ocean eddies using present‐day gridded altimetric products?

A Amores, G Jordà, T Arsouze… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The most common methodology used to detect and characterize mesoscale eddies in the
global ocean is to analyze altimetry‐based sea‐level gridded products with an automatic …

Mesoscale eddies release pelagic sharks from thermal constraints to foraging in the ocean twilight zone

CD Braun, P Gaube… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Mesoscale eddies are critical components of the ocean's “internal weather” system. Mixing
and stirring by eddies exerts significant control on biogeochemical fluxes in the open ocean …

Mesoscale eddies modulate the dynamics of human fishing activities in the global midlatitude ocean

Q Xing, H Yu, H Wang, S Ito, F Chai - Fish and Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent fishing activities are causing overfishing, destroying the habitat of marine life, and
threatening global marine biodiversity. Understanding the dynamics of fishing activities and …

Oceanic mesoscale eddy detection method based on deep learning

Z Duo, W Wang, H Wang - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Oceanic mesoscale eddies greatly influence energy and matter transport and acoustic
propagation. However, the traditional detection method for oceanic mesoscale eddies relies …

Mesoscale eddies structure mesopelagic communities

A Della Penna, P Gaube - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mesoscale eddies play a key role in structuring open ocean ecosystems, affecting the entire
trophic web from primary producers to large pelagic predators including sharks and …

Mesoscale eddies influence the movements of mature female white sharks in the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea

P Gaube, CD Braun, GL Lawson, DJ McGillicuddy Jr… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Satellite-tracking of mature white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) has revealed open-
ocean movements spanning months and covering tens of thousands of kilometers. But how …

Global trends of fronts and chlorophyll in a warming ocean

K Yang, A Meyer, PG Strutton, AM Fischer - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean fronts affect phytoplankton and higher trophic levels, including commercially
important fisheries. As the oceans warm, uncertainty remains around the trends in fronts …

Eddy impacts on abundance and habitat distribution of a large predatory squid off Peru

P Jin, Y Zhang, Y Du, X Chen, R Kindong, H Xue… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The pelagic cephalopod species jumbo flying squid Dosidicus gigas is ecologically and
economically important in the Humboldt ecosystem off Peru. This squid species is sensitive …