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Some aspects of synoptic to subseasonal variability of currents in the southern Japan/East Sea (JES) were investigated using high-resolution current measurements and reanalysis model products. Current measurements were made at multiple moorings containing acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) deployed during MJES (Mixing in the Japan/East Sea, 2021–2022) and LINKS (Linkages of Asian Marginal Seas, 1999–2000) programs. MJE...
Remote Sensing With Machine Learning to Monitor Seagrass Meadows: Long‐Term Trends in Tauranga Harbour, New ZealandNARA Subscribed
Seagrass meadows play critical roles in coastal ecosystems by stabilising sediments, supporting biodiversity and sequestering carbon, yet monitoring their recovery at scale is often constrained by the lack of scalable and repeatable approaches. This study applies an open‐source remote‐sensing framework to track long‐term changes in Zostera muelleri in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand, from 1959 to 2024. Using supervised machine l...
Genomic Structure and Demographic History of the Brown Fur Seal: From the Ice Age to Current IsolationNARA Subscribed
Aim Arctocephalus pusillus (the brown fur seal) has historically experienced population fluctuations associated with glacial cycles and anthropogenic exploitation. Previous mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and microsatellite analyses suggested a post‐glacial population expansion in A. pusillus , followed by allopatric divergence that resulted in two extant subspecies: the Australian (AFS, A. p. doriferus ) and Cape (CFS, A. p. pusill...
Acute increases in temperature linked with marine heatwaves have been occurring with increasing frequency around New Zealand. Additionally, as rainfall rates vary in association with climate change, the salinity regimes in estuaries are changing, often with more frequent pulses of low salinity events. These physical changes in the environment can lead to sublethal stress and changes in the distribution of marine organisms. Ech...
Fan shells (Family Pinnidae) have high ecological importance but are facing global declines including in New Zealand. Given the scarcity of data regarding the degree of these losses, understanding current population spatial extents and distributional drivers is needed for restoration management. A subtidal towed underwater camera survey was conducted at 62 sites to elucidate Atrina zelandica extent in Tauranga Harbour, Bay of...
Expansion of extractive industries to deep‐sea environments will lead to increased stresses on seafloor ecosystems. We examined changes in environmental parameters following direct and indirect experimental benthic disturbance using a modified plough on the Chatham Rise (∼450 m water depth), Aotearoa/New Zealand. Measurements included sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), nutrient fluxes, macro‐infauna community compos...
Beyond Genetic Indicators: How Reproductive Mode and Hybridisation Challenge Freshwater Mussel ConservationNARA Subscribed
Genetic diversity is a fundamental aspect of biodiversity, yet it is rarely assessed and monitored in conservation practice. Unionid freshwater mussels exemplify the dramatic loss of biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems, yet genomic data for these ecologically important species remain scarce. Here, we conducted a high‐resolution population genomics study of all Anodonta species in Switzerland, with a focus on two species with...
Sex‐Linked Differentiation in Commercially Exploited Fishes: Rethinking Population Structure in Dynamic Marine EnvironmentsNARA Subscribed
Understanding how genomic structure links with ecological and evolutionary processes is critical for forecasting species responses to dynamic marine environments, especially in commercially exploited marine species, where fishing pressure can impact genomic integrity. Here we investigate Merluccius paradoxus , a commercially exploited demersal fish that appears to be undergoing a range expansion along the southern African coas...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the cumulative effects of multiple stressors on marine bivalvesNARA Subscribed
Bivalves play a key role in coastal ecosystems and provide society with many ecosystem services. Anthropogenic activities produce a multitude of interacting stressors which can cause unexpected responses in the physiology, behaviour, condition, development, reproduction and survival of bivalves. Responses can be (1) additive: the response is the sum of the effect of individual stressors, (2) synergistic: the combined effect is...
Environmental pollution due to mismanaged anthropogenic litter is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today. To reduce existing environmental burdens of litter, clean-up events have increased in popularity. Here, we report on the results of the Clean Shores, Great Lakes project, in which we conducted 69 volunteer-based clean-ups along the Tanzanian shorelines of the African Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, and N...
Voxel-wise insights into early Alzheimer’s disease pathology progression: the association with APOE and memory declineNARA Subscribed
Longitudinal investigation of the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype’s impact on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarker progression, focusing on amyloid beta (Aβ) accumulation and gray matter (GM) atrophy, integrating cognitive decline and baseline levels. Longitudinal florbetapir-PET and T1-weighted MRI data from 100 cognitively normal (CN) and mild cognitive impaired (MCI) participants both with considerable global Aβ accumulation...