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Diversity-Production Relationships Of Fish Communities In Freshwater Stream Ecosystems, Bonnie J. E. Myers, C. Andrew Dolloff, Jackson R. Webster, Keith H. Nislow, Andrew L. Rypel
Diversity-Production Relationships Of Fish Communities In Freshwater Stream Ecosystems, Bonnie J. E. Myers, C. Andrew Dolloff, Jackson R. Webster, Keith H. Nislow, Andrew L. Rypel
Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series
Aim Ecological relationships between species richness and biomass production are increasingly thought to be pervasive across the globe. Yet, diversity-production relationships have not been explored extensively for freshwater fish communities even though fisheries production provides key services to humans. Our aim was to evaluate the diversity-production relationship of fish communities inhabiting freshwater streams across the Appalachian Mountain range and examine how diversity-production relationships varied across streams possessing different thermal signatures. Location Our study area included 25 freshwater stream ecosystems spanning from Vermont to North Carolina in the United States. Twenty sites were located in Maryland south to Tennessee and North …
Spatial Connectivity And Drivers Of Shark Habitat Use Within A Large Marine Protected Area In The Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary, Austin J. Gallagher, Oliver N. Shipley, Maurits P. M. Van Zinnicq Bergmann, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Craig P. Dahlgren, Michael G. Frisk, Lucas P. Griffin, Neil Hammerschlag, Sami Kattan, Yannis P. Papastamatiou
Spatial Connectivity And Drivers Of Shark Habitat Use Within A Large Marine Protected Area In The Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary, Austin J. Gallagher, Oliver N. Shipley, Maurits P. M. Van Zinnicq Bergmann, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Craig P. Dahlgren, Michael G. Frisk, Lucas P. Griffin, Neil Hammerschlag, Sami Kattan, Yannis P. Papastamatiou
Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as potentially important conservation tools for the conservation of biodiversity and mitigation of climate impacts. Among MPAs, a large percentage has been created with the implicit goal of protecting shark populations, including 17 shark sanctuaries which fully protect sharks throughout their jurisdiction. The Commonwealth of the Bahamas represents a long-term MPA for sharks, following the banning of commercial longlining in 1993 and subsequent designation as a shark sanctuary in 2011. Little is known, however, about the longterm behavior and space use of sharks within this protected area, particularly among reef-associated sharks for which the …