Browsing by Department "Marine Biology"
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(2013-02-04)Lake Botanisk, a small isolated body of water in Copenhagen, Denmark, has remained relatively undisturbed for four centuries, making its sediments an excellent historical archive of past deposition rates of atmospheric ...
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(1984)This study compared the erosion/accretion rates of five shoreline types surrounding Galveston Island and Pelican Island, Texas. The shoreline types examined included sandy beach, mud flat, salt marsh, shell beach, and mud ...
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS are a family of anthropogenic pollutants that consists of approximately 1200 structurally related chemical compounds. PFAS were discovered accidentally over 70 years ago by a ...
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(1984)A laboratory approach to quantify food preferences in penaeid shrimp is developed in this study. Direct visual observations from beneath the experimental tanks provided accurate data with which to assess relative attractivity ...
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(2022-12-09)In response to changing temperature and rainfall regimes, mangroves are expanding their range edges poleward and increasing areal coverage at the range edge. The coast of Texas encompasses a large portion of the black ...
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(2013-09-25)The effects of anthropogenic noise on acoustic communication among cetaceans have become an increasing concern because cetaceans use acoustic communication as a major part of their interactions. Human contribution to the ...
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(2021-07-07)Warsaw grouper (Hyporthodus nigritus) and snowy grouper (H. niveatus) are deepwater grouper (F. Epinephelidae) found in the western Atlantic Ocean from the northern eastern seaboard of the United States of America to the ...
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(2017-05-30)The purpose of this study was to validate the vertebral band pair deposition rate for Common Threshers (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (NEPO). Vertebrae of 37 Common Threshers marked with oxytetracycline ...
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(2021-04-26)Cryptobenthic fishes (CFs) occupy a critical functional group in the trophodynamics of their respective ecological system. The percomorph suborder Blennioidei encompasses ~900 species in size families of mostly tropical ...
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Enhydra lutris nereis, otherwise known as the Southern Sea Otter, has been listed as threatened since 1977. The initial reasoning for their listing was the population deficit due to hunting in the era of fur trading and ...
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Balaenopterids are among the largest animals to have lived on earth, yet they are often the most elusive to research. Despite their size, we are still discovering new populations. As technology and the sciences converge, ...
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(2013-04-03)Little is known about the distribution of black corals in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Of thirty-nine species of black coral documented in the Western Atlantic, thirty have been previously documented by various studies ...
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(2020-07-24)Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) are an invasive marine fish that were introduced off the coast of Florida in the 1980s and became the first established marine fish species to have invaded the Atlantic ...
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(2012-07-16)The numerous benefits that wetlands provide make them essential to ecosystem services and ecological functions. Historically, wetland losses have been caused by natural and anthropogenic changes. In Texas, nearly 50% of ...
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(2020-11-13)Tunas are an ecologically and economically important group of fishes, and have received attention by numerous researchers for decades. Despite decades of research, their phylogenomic relationships and evolutionary history ...
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(2013-09-26)Dolphins in many parts of the world follow fishing boats to eat fish and invertebrates stirred into the water column by them, and so do the dolphins that frequent Galveston Bay and the Galveston Ship Channel. These individuals ...
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(2016-05-06)A behavioral ecology perspective on cetaceans in the Southern California Bight (SCB) can contribute to science-based adaptive management in the context of expanding anthropogenic activities. Objectives were to (1) identify ...
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(2014-04-19)The objective of this study is to establish a protection strategy for common bottlenose dolphins in the Galveston, Texas area based on quantifiable behavioral patterns. This area is subjected to regular vessel traffic ...
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(2019-09-02)Diverse benthic and pelagic habitats develop in coastal estuarine settings from land-to-ocean physicochemical gradients, such as variations in salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients like carbon, and water circulation. ...
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(2018-12-05)Studies on larvae and juvenile fishes during the first few months of life are limited for many pelagic species despite the fact that biological data on these stages are needed to better assess and monitor recruitment ...