Marine management areas provide a key tool for efforts towards sustainable development,
reconciling socio-economic goals with those for biodiversity conservation. Decisions about …

Translational ecology defines a collaborative effort among scientists and stakeholders to
rapidly translate environmental problems into action. This approach can be applied in a …

In many marine ecosystems small pelagic fish exert a crucial role in controlling the dynamics
of the community, mainly due to their high biomass at intermediate levels of the food web …

Methods that supplement optical instruments with bait, such as baited remote underwater
video (BRUV), are used worldwide to detect and quantify marine life. Optical instruments …

The coastal intertidal ecosystem of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, one of the
largest and most important in West Africa, sustains a considerable proportion of the …

Small pelagic fishes play important ecological roles in marine ecosystems, constitute some
of the most economically valuable fisheries resources, and play a vital role in West African …

The goals of this study were to generate baseline population dynamics parameters for Gulf
of Mexico crevalle jack Caranx hippos and examine the foraging habits of Mississippi and …

We present the first assessment of the diet of the blackchin guitarfish Glaucostegus
cemiculus (Geoffroy Saint‐Hilaire, 1817) for West Africa using DNA metabarcoding on …

Competition, predation and facilitation shape community structure. Yet facilitative behaviour
is poorly studied, especially in marine ecosystems. We investigated the diet and foraging …

Despite their importance for fisheries, livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, shelf
ecosystems in West Africa are poorly known. Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) and Royal …