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 …

An improved algorithm for detecting mesoscale ocean fronts from satellite observations: Detailed mapping of persistent fronts around the China Seas and their long …

Q Xing, H Yu, H Wang, S Ito - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Mesoscale fronts are highly energetic ocean processes that dominate local biogeochemical
processes and air-sea interactions and exert significant effects on ocean dynamics, ecology …

Sub-frontal niches of plankton communities driven by transport and trophic interactions at ocean fronts

I Mangolte, M Lévy, C Haëck, MD Ohman - Biogeosciences, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Observations and theory have suggested that ocean fronts are ecological hotspots,
associated with higher diversity and biomass across many trophic levels. The hypothesis …

Footprints of Atlantification in the vertical distribution and diversity of gelatinous zooplankton in the Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean)

MK Mańko, M Gluchowska… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gelatinous zooplankton (GZ), here understood as pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores, are
an important component of marine ecosystems. Their diversity and distribution reflect local …

Diversity and assembly of planktonic protist communities in the Jeju Strait, Korea

J Min, KY Kim - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study examined planktonic protists—microbial eukaryotes with cell sizes between 2 and
200 µm—to understand their diversity, assembly processes, and co-existence patterns in …

Oceanic fronts shape biodiversity of gelatinous zooplankton in the European Arctic

MK Mańko, M Merchel, S Kwasniewski… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oceanic fronts constitute boundaries between hydrologically distinct water masses and
comprise one of the most productive regions of the world's ocean. Fronts associated with …

Patchiness of plankton communities at fronts explained by Lagrangian history of upwelled water parcels

S Gangrade, I Mangolte - Limnology and Oceanography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The transport of plankton by highly dynamic (sub) mesoscale currents—often associated
with fronts and eddies—shapes the structure of plankton communities on the same time …

Interannual variability of gelatinous mesozooplankton in a temperate shelf sea: greater abundance coincides with cooler sea surface temperatures

AP Long, D Haberlin, O Lyashevska… - ICES Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although gelatinous zooplankton are an important component of marine ecosystems,
gelatinous mesozooplankton that are< 2 cm are underrepresented in monitoring …

Food web structure in relation to environmental drivers across a continental shelf ecosystem

A Walters, M Robert, P Cresson… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantification of the physical and biological factors that influence the spatial structuring of
food webs is central to inform effective resource management. We used baseline‐corrected …

Unexpected diversity and novel lineages in the cosmopolitan genus Nanomia (Cnidaria: Siphonophorae: Physonectae)

A Hosia, L Martell, MK Mańko, SHD Haddock… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Integrated use of molecular and morphological methods reveals unexpected diversity in the
cosmopolitan siphonophore genus Nanomia. Species delimitation analyses based on COI …