Underwater image super-resolution plays an important role in marine exploration, as it aims to recover clearer and higher-resolution images from degraded low-resolution observations. However, in underwater environments, this task is particularly challenging due to non-uniform spectral attenuation and particle scattering. Underwater, red light fades quickly, leading to color distortion and loss of details. To address this while...

The field of underwater image processing has gained significant attention recently, offering great potential for enhanced exploration of underwater environments, including applications such as underwater terrain scanning and autonomous underwater vehicles. However, underwater images frequently face challenges such as light attenuation, color distortion, and noise introduced by artificial light sources. These degradations not o...

Organisms often acquire physiological and morphological modifications to conquer ecological challenges when colonizing new environments which lead to their adaptive evolution. However, deciphering the genomic mechanism of ecological adaptation is difficult because ecological environments are often too complex for straightforward interpretation. Thus, we examined the adaptation of a widespread songbird—the rufous‐capped babbler...

Hypoxia and upwelling co-occur in the summer, and well-mixed water typically reaches the subsurface in the East China Sea (ECS), especially off the Changjiang River estuary. The impact of upwelling on hypoxia and, therefore, on the ecosystem in the ECS is not known. This study demonstrates both positive and negative effects of upwelling on hypoxia and its impact on the ecosystem. With upwelling, the spatial extent of hypoxic w...

In contrast to other seagrass meadows where seawater carbonate chemistry generally shows strong diel variations with higher pH but lower partial pressure of CO 2 ( p CO 2 ) during the daytime and lower pH but higher p CO 2 during nighttime due to the alternation in photosynthesis and respiration, the seagrass meadows of the inner lagoon (IL) on Dongsha Island had a unique diel pattern with extremely high pH and low p CO 2 acro...

The atmospheric partial pressure of CO 2 ( p CO 2 ) has been increasing dramatically since the beginning of the industrial revolution and about 30% of the CO 2 produced by anthropogenic activities was absorbed by the ocean. This led to a perturbation of the seawater carbonate chemistry resulting in a decrease of the average surface ocean pH by 0.1 and termed ocean acidification (OA). Projections suggest that p CO 2 may reach 9...