Browsing by Author "Rowe, Gilbert"
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Gailey, Glenn Andrew (2013-05-14)The western North Pacific population of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) is critically endangered of extinction. The population size is estimated to be 131 individuals with 31 reproductive females. Throughout their ...
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Nuttall, Marissa F (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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Meinert, Corinne Rae (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 ...
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Alsept, Karen Sue (2012-10-19)In Galveston Bay, Texas, the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is found throughout the bay both intertidal along mudflats and subtidal where their self-built reefs extend vertically deeper. The eastern oyster is an ...
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Diving Behavior, Habitat Associations, and Sensory Modalities for Prey Detection in Elephant Seals McGovern, Kristen Ann (2018-03-12)I used video and movement data obtained from animal-borne video and data recorders (VDRs) and histological data obtained from vibrissal pads of elephant seals to address the questions: When, where, how, and on what prey ...
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Sharma, Jyotsna; Baguley, Jeffrey; Bluhm, Bodil A.; Rowe, Gilbert; Briffa, Mark (PloS One, 2011)
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Lee, Hannah Alyssa (2017-05-09)With climate change, future storm frequencies and intensities and El Niño events are expected to increase. These have the potential to cause flooding within the Galveston Bay (Texas) watershed as well as other locations. ...
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Kuslich, James (2013-09-25)The Flower Garden Banks consist of two salt domes raised above the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 190 km southeast of Galveston, Texas. With mean annual temperature variations of 18 to 32°C and relatively ...
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Carvalho, Russell G (2013-04-23)This dissertation addresses large-scale trends in composition, density, taxonomic and functional diversity in deep-sea benthic polychaete communities in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The study includes samples from two major ...
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Kim, Jongsun (2018-07-06)The coastal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and Coastal Sea off Korea (CSK) both suffer from eutrophication and/or hypoxia, both of which are driven mainly by humans. We compared two different regions with different nitrogen input ...
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Ammons, Archie Wood (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The ecological forces that drive community structure of deep-sea benthic communities are poorly understood, yet such communities rival in biological complexity those of coral reefs or rainforests. Using components of the ...
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Walker, Raven Delaney (2016-05-02)The National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) began compiling commercial catch statistics and their respective wholesale values in 1950; however, scientists and mangers know many fish species were heavily impacted prior ...
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Horne, Courtney Leigh (2012-07-16)Mass coral spawning represents a nutrient input to coral reef systems that for Pacific reefs has been shown to stimulate pelagic and benthic processes. If phytoplankton in the water column over the reef are able to utilize ...
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Shepard, Alicia Kail (2015-08-13)It is predicted that ubiquitous marine microbial communities adapt to shifts in their immediate environment that are reflected in changing community abundance, structure, production, interactions and functions. This study ...
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Davis, Ian Patrick (2018-06-01)Sea otters are generalist predators that feed on benthic megainvertebrates in littoral waters of the North Pacific. Because of their elevated metabolism, they consume up to 24% of their body weight daily and have a strong, ...
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Richards, Travis Mark (2020-07-22)The deep-pelagic ocean is the largest but least studied ecosystem on Earth. As natural resource extraction and fisheries expand into the deep pelagic, there is increased need for comprehensive, ecosystem-based management ...