• Blondeau-Patissier D, Schroeder T, Clementson LA, Brando VE, Purcell D, Ford P, Williams DK, Doxaran D, Anstee J, Thapar N, Tovar-Valencia M (2017) Bio-Optical properties of two neigboring coastal regions of tropical Northern Australia: The Van Diemen Gulf and Da n Harbour. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 114 

  This study focuses on the seasonal and spatial characterization of inherent optical properties and biogeochemical concentrations in the Van Diemen Gulf and Darwin Harbour, two neighboring tropical coastal environments of ...
• Meekan M, Austin CM, Tan MH, Wei NWV, Miller A, Pierce SJ, Rowat D, Stevens G, Davies TK, Ponzo A, Gan HM (2017) iDNA at sea: Recovery of Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Whale Shark Copepod (Pandarus rhincodonicus) confirms global population structure. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 420 

  The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is an iconic and endangered species with a broad distribution spanning warm-temperate and tropical oceans. Effective conservation management of the species requires an understanding of the ...
• Lonborg C, Cuevas LA, Reinthaler T, Herndl GJ, Gasol JM, Moran XAG, Bates NR, Alvarez-Salgado XA (2017) Corrigendum: Depth dependent relationships between temperature and ocean heterotrophic prokaryotic production (vol 3: 90, 2016). Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 91 
• Robson NA, Hetzel Y, Whiting S, Wijeratne S, Pattiaratchi CB, Withers P, Thums M (2017) Use of particle tracking to determine optimal release dates and locations for rehabilitated Neonate Sea Turtles. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 173 

  Sea turtles found stranded on beaches are often rehabilitated before being released back into the wild. The location and date of release is largely selected on an informal basis, which may not maximize the chance of survival. ...
• Carrea C, Burridge CP, Wienecke B, Emmerson LM, White D, Miller KJ (2019) High vagility facilitates population persistence and expansion prior to the Last Glacial Maximum in an antarctic top predator: The Snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea). Journal of Biogeography 46(2): 442-453 

  Aims Pleistocene glacial cycles have had profound effects on the distribution and genetic diversity of high latitude species, which can vary with species-specific traits, such as vagility. Demographic responses of antarctic ...
• Fink A, den Haan J, Chennu A, Uthicke S, de Beer D (2017) Ocean acidification changes abiotic processes but not biotic processes in coral reef sediments. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 73 

  In coral reefs, sediments play a crucial role in element cycling by contributing to primary production and the remineralization of organic matter. We studied how future ocean acidification (OA) will affect biotic and abiotic ...
• Hoogenboom MO, Frank GE, Chase TJ, Jurriaans S, Alvarez-Noriega M, Peterson K, Critchell K, Berry KLE, Nicolet KJ, Ramsby B, Paley AS (2017) Environmental drivers of variation in bleaching severity of Acropora species during an extreme thermal anomaly. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 376 

  High sea surface temperatures caused global coral bleaching during 2015-2016. During this thermal stress event, we quantified within- and among-species variability in bleaching severity for critical habitat-forming Acropora ...
• Quigley KM, Bay LK, Willis BL (2017) Temperature and water quality-related patterns in sediment-associated Symbiodinium communities impact symbiont uptake and fitness of juveniles in the genus Acropora. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 401 

  The majority of corals acquire their photo-endosymbiont Symbiodinium from environmental sources anew each generation. Despite the critical role that environmental availability of Syrnbiodinium plays in the potential for ...
• McKinnon AD, Duggan S, Logan M, Lonborg C (2017) Plankton respiration, production, and trophic state in tropical coastal and shelf waters adjacent to Northern Australia. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 346 

  In a changing ocean, tropical waters can be instructive as to the potential effects of climate induced changes on marine ecosystem structure and function. We describe the relationships between planktonic community respiration ...
• Chakravarti LJ, Negri AP, van Oppen MJH (2019) Thermal and herbicide tolerances of chromerid algae and their ability to form a symbiosis with corals. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 173 

  Reef-building corals form an obligate symbiosis with photosynthetic microalgae in the family Symbiodiniaceae that meet most of their energy requirements. This symbiosis is under threat from the unprecedented rate of ocean ...
• Bax NJ, Appeltans W, Brainard R, Duffy JE, Dunstan P, Hanich Q, Davies HH, Hills J, Miloslavich P, Muller-Karger FE, Simmons S, Aburto-Oropeza O, Batten S, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Checkley D, Chiba S, Fischer A, Garcia MA, Gunn J, Klein E, Kudela RM, Marsac F, Obura D, Shin YJ, Sloyan B, Tanhua T, Wilkin J (2018) Linking capacity development to GOOS monitoring networks to achieve sustained ocean observation. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 346 

  Developing enduring capacity to monitor ocean life requires investing in people and their institutions to build infrastructure, ownership, and long-term support networks. International initiatives can enhance access to ...
• Kelly LA, Heintz T, Lamb JB, Ainsworth TD, Willis BL (2016) Ecology and pathology of novel plaque-like growth anomalies affecting a reef-building coral on the Great Barrier Reef. Frontiers in Marine Science 3: 151 

  Here we identify ecological and structural characteristics of a novel plaque-like growth anomaly (GA) at outbreak levels in a population of the staghorn coral, Acropora muricata, on the Great Barrier Reef. The smooth ...
• Lee MA, Nguyen FT, Scott K, Chan NYL, Bakh NA, Jones KK, Pham C, Garcia-Salinas P, Garcia-Parraga D, Fahlman A, Marco V, Koman VB, Oliver RJ, Hopkins LW, Rubio C, Wilson RP, Meekan MG, Duarte CM, Strano MS (2019) Implanted nanosensors in marine organisms for physiological biologging: Design, feasibility, and species variability. ACS Sensors 4(1): 32-43 

  In recent decades, biologists have sought to tag animals with various sensors to study aspects of their behavior otherwise inaccessible from controlled laboratory experiments. Despite this, chemical information, both ...
• Zinke J, D'Olivo JP, Gey CJ, McCulloch MT, Bruggemann JH, Lough JM, Guillaume MMM (2019) Multi-trace-element sea surface temperature coral reconstruction for the southern Mozambique Channel reveals teleconnections with the tropical Atlantic. Biogeosciences 16: 695-712 

  Here we report seasonally resolved sea surface temperatures for the southern Mozambique Channel in the SW Indian Ocean based on multi-trace-element temperature proxy records preserved in two Porites sp. coral cores. ...
• Lonborg C, Cuevas LA, Reinthaler T, Herndl GJ, Gasol JM, Moran XAG, Bates NR, Alvarez-Salgado XA (2016) Depth dependent relationships between temperature and ocean heterotrophic prokaryotic production. Frontiers in Marine Science 3: 90 

  Marine prokaryotes play a key role in cycling of organic matter and nutrients in the ocean. Using a unique dataset (>14,500 samples), we applied a space-for-time substitution analysis to assess the temperature dependence ...
• West AG, Waite DW, Deines P, Bourne DG, Digby A, McKenzie VJ, Taylor MW (2019) The microbiome in threatened species conservation. Biological Conservation 229: 85-98 

  As global biodiversity continues to reduce at an alarming rate, threatened species are increasingly being brought under intensive management or into captivity. However, current conservation management programmes are often ...
• Zhang WP, Ding W, Li YX, Tam C, Bougouffa S, Wang RJ, Pei BT, Chiang HY, Leung P, Lu YH, Sun J, Fu H, Bajic VB, Liu HB, Webster NS, Qian PY (2019) Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential. Nature Communications 10: 517 

  Recent big data analyses have illuminated marine microbial diversity from a global perspective, focusing on planktonic microorganisms. Here, we analyze 2.5 terabases of newly sequenced datasets and the Tara Oceans metagenomes ...
• Heupel MR, Papastamatiou YP, Espinoza M, Green ME, Simpfendorfer CA (2019) Reef Shark Science - Key Questions and Future Directions. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 12 

  The occurrence of sharks on coral reefs has been well documented for decades, especially since the advent of SCUBA diving. Despite this, it is only within the last decade that substantial research effort has been directed ...
• Reed EV, Cole JE, Lough JM, Thompson D, Cantin NE (2019) Linking climate variability and growth in coral skeletal records from the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 38(1): 29-43 

  The remoteness of the northern Great Barrier Reef makes observations of environmental change and coral health sparse, but provides opportunities for paleoclimate and paleoecology proxies to contribute new insights into ...
• Thorbjornsen SH, Moland E, Simpfendorfer C, Heupel M, Knutsen H, Olsen EM (2019) Potential of a no-take marine reserve to protect home ranges of anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta). Ecology and Evolution 9(1): 417-426 

  The extent to which no-take marine reserves can benefit anadromous species requires examination. Here, we used acoustic telemetry to investigate the spatial behavior of anadromous brown trout (sea trout, Salmo trutta) in ...

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