We discuss possible causal factors for the decline in intertidal invertebrate populations
around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) after the 2011 Great East Japan …

Where sea urchin harvest has been so intense that populations have drastically regressed,
concerns have arisen about the effectiveness of harvesting management. According to the …

Globally, key predators such as lobsters are thought to control urchins. In south-eastern
Australia, the role of Sagmariasus verreauxi (eastern rock lobster) as a key predator of the …

Intertidal mussels (Mytilus spp.) and their benthic invertebrate predators were monitored
annually for 25 years at 10 sites within Lough Hyne Marine Reserve in southwest Ireland …

In recent years, recurrent sea urchin mass mortalities in the Canary Islands have been
registered. These mortality-related events have decimated 93% of the eastern Atlantic …

Dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations of the fully marine Lough Hyne, SW Ireland, were
sampled in biologically different habitats between 2014 and 2019 to investigate the …

A study of four-armed plutei (96 h post-fertilization) of a commercially valuable sea urchin,
Strongylocentrotus intermedius (A. Agassiz, 1864), showed a significant variability of larvae …

Snapshot assessments of species, which live for a number of years, are often misleading if
they are conducted at an inappropriately short temporal scale. Densities of the trochid …

Lough Hyne (LH) Marine Nature Reserve in Ireland is a globally recognised biodiversity
hotspot that hosts mesophotic-like communities in shallow water, however, major changes …

Abstract A twenty-five year (1994–2018) survey at 10 rocky sites within Lough Hyne Marine
Reserve (SW Ireland) showed that, despite considerable spatial and temporal patchiness …