Derelict crab pots (“ghost pots”) cause bycatch mortality, habitat degradation, and lost harvest in shallow coastal ecosystems. Existing detection and recovery programs rely on expert operators and high-cost sonar, limiting coverage and reproducibility. Here, we present GhostVision, an open-source framework that integrates low-cost consumer side-scan sonar with modern object-detection models to enable scalable, rapid post-proc...

A fundamental gap in climate change vulnerability research is an understanding of the relative thermal sensitivity of ectotherms. Aquatic insects are vital to stream ecosystem function and biodiversity but insufficiently studied with respect to their thermal physiology. With global temperatures rising at an unprecedented rate, it is imperative that we know how aquatic insects respond to increasing temperature and whether these...

Plant species richness ( PSR ) increases nutrient uptake which depletes bioavailable nutrient pools in soil. No such relationship between plant uptake and availability in soil was found for phosphorus (P). We explored PSR effects on P mobilisation [phosphatase activity ( PA )] in soil. PA increased with PSR . The positive PSR effect was not solely due to an increase in C org concentrations because PSR remained significant if r...