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Fabri-Ruiz S, Baudena A, Moullec F, Lombard F, Irisson JO, Pedrotti ML. Mistaking plastic for zooplankton: Risk assessment of plastic ingestion in the Mediterranean sea. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 856:159011. [PMID: 36170920 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Floating plastic debris is a pervasive pollutant in seas and oceans, affecting a wide range of animals. In particular, microplastics (<5 mm in size) increase the possibility that marine species consume plastic and enter the food chain. The present study investigates this potential mistake between plastic debris and zooplankton by calculating the plastic debris to zooplankton ratio over the whole Mediterranean Sea. To this aim, in situ data from the Tara Mediterranean Expedition are combined with environmental and Lagrangian diagnostics in a machine learning approach to produce spatially-explicit maps of plastic debris and zooplankton abundance. We then analyse the plastic to zooplankton ratio in regions with high abundances of pelagic fish. Two of the major hotspots of pelagic fish, located in the Gulf of Gabès and Cilician basin, were associated with high ratio values. Finally, we compare the plastic to zooplankton ratio values in the Pelagos Sanctuary, an important hotspot for marine mammals, with other Geographical Sub-Areas, and find that they were among the larger of the Western Mediterranean Sea. Our results indicate a high potential risk of contamination of marine fauna by plastic and advocate for novel integrated modelling approaches which account for potential trophic transfer within the food chain.
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- S Fabri-Ruiz
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France; DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAE, Institut Agro, Nantes, France.
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
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- Department of Coastal Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, the Netherlands
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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Yousefi M, Naderloo R. Global habitat suitability modeling reveals insufficient habitat protection for mangrove crabs. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21713. [PMID: 36522394 PMCID: PMC9755133 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26226-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Mangrove crabs are important components of mangrove forests however their large scale habitat suitability and conservation received little attention. The Metopograpsus thukuhar/cannicci species complex is a mangrove dwelling species occurs in the Indo-Pacific mangrove forests. Since identifying the complex suitable habitat is critical for its conservation, we modeled global habitat suitability of the complex within marine biogeographic realms and estimated representation of the complex suitable habitats within marine protected areas. We found that the complex' largest and smallest suitable ranges are located in Central Indo-Pacific and Temperate Southern Africa realms, respectively. Only 12.5% of the complex suitable habitat is protected. The highest proportion of the complex' protected suitable habitat (22.9%) is located in Western Indo-Pacific realm while the lowest proportion of the complex' protected suitable habitat (1.38%) is located in Central Indo-Pacific realm. Suitable unprotected habitats of the complex identified in this study have high priority for conservation and should be included in marine protected areas to ensure species conservation. Our results show that species distribution models are practical tools to study marine species distribution across large spatial scales and help marine conservation planning.
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- Masoud Yousefi
- grid.46072.370000 0004 0612 7950School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455 Iran
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- grid.46072.370000 0004 0612 7950School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455 Iran
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Nolan V, Gilbert F, Reed T, Reader T. Distribution models calibrated with independent field data predict two million ancient and veteran trees in England. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2022; 32:e2695. [PMID: 35732507 PMCID: PMC10078183 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Large, citizen-science species databases are powerful resources for predictive species distribution modeling (SDM), yet they are often subject to sampling bias. Many methods have been proposed to correct for this, but there exists little consensus as to which is most effective, not least because the true value of model predictions is hard to evaluate without extensive independent field sampling. We present here a nationwide, independent field validation of distribution models of ancient and veteran trees, a group of organisms of high conservation importance, built using a large and internationally unique citizen-science database: the Ancient Tree Inventory (ATI). This validation exercise presents an opportunity to test the performance of different methods of correcting for sampling bias, in the search for the best possible prediction of ancient and veteran tree distributions in England. We fitted a variety of distribution models of ancient and veteran tree records in England in relation to environmental predictors and applied different bias correction methods, including spatial filtering, background manipulation, the use of bias files, and, finally, zero-inflated (ZI) regression models, a new method with great potential to investigate and remove sampling bias in species data. We then collected new independent field data through systematic surveys of 52 randomly selected 1-km2 grid squares across England to obtain abundance estimates of ancient and veteran trees. Calibration of the distribution models against the field data suggests that there are around eight to 10 times as many ancient and veteran trees present in England than the records currently suggest, with estimates ranging from 1.7 to 2.1 million trees compared to the 200,000 currently recorded in the ATI. The most successful bias correction method was systematic sampling of occurrence records, although the ZI models also performed well, significantly predicting field observations and highlighting both likely causes of undersampling and areas of the country in which many unrecorded trees are likely to be found. Our findings provide the first robust nationwide estimate of ancient and veteran tree abundance and demonstrate the enormous potential for distribution modeling based on citizen-science data combined with independent field validation to inform conservation planning.
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- Life SciencesUniversity of NottinghamNottinghamUK
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Guillaumot C, Belmaker J, Buba Y, Fourcy D, Dubois P, Danis B, Le Moan E, Saucède T. Classic or hybrid? The performance of next generation ecological models to study the response of Southern Ocean species to changing environmental conditions. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Charlène Guillaumot
- Marine Biology Lab Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles Belgium
- Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS Université Bourgogne Franche‐Comté Dijon France
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- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel
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- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel
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- ESE, Ecology and Ecosystem Health, INRAE Rennes France
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- Marine Biology Lab Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles Belgium
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- Marine Biology Lab Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles Belgium
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- Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS Université Bourgogne Franche‐Comté Dijon France
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- Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS Université Bourgogne Franche‐Comté Dijon France
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Using correlative and mechanistic niche models to assess the sensitivity of the Antarctic echinoid Sterechinus neumayeri to climate change. Polar Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-021-02886-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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El‐Gabbas A, Van Opzeeland I, Burkhardt E, Boebel O. Static species distribution models in the marine realm: The case of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean. DIVERS DISTRIB 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- Ahmed El‐Gabbas
- Ocean Acoustics Group Alfred‐Wegener‐Institut (AWI) Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany
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- Ocean Acoustics Group Alfred‐Wegener‐Institut (AWI) Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany
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- Ocean Acoustics Group Alfred‐Wegener‐Institut (AWI) Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany
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- Ocean Acoustics Group Alfred‐Wegener‐Institut (AWI) Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany
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Fabri-Ruiz S, Navarro N, Laffont R, Danis B, Saucède T. Diversity of Antarctic Echinoids and Ecoregions of the Southern Ocean. BIOL BULL+ 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062359020060047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lorenz Simões F, Contador-Mejías T, Rendoll-Cárcamo J, Pérez-Troncoso C, Hayward SAL, Turner E, Convey P. Distribution and Habitat Preferences of the Newly Rediscovered Telmatogeton magellanicus (Jacobs, 1900) (Diptera: Chironomidae) on Navarino Island, Chile. INSECTS 2020; 11:E442. [PMID: 32674412 PMCID: PMC7412013 DOI: 10.3390/insects11070442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The habitat of the intertidal flightless midge Telmatogeton magellanicus (Jacobs, 1900) is described for the first time from the northern coast of Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Additionally, we report the first observations of adult behaviour in the wild. We delineate the species' distribution across three tidal zones (high, mid and low), and identify substrate characteristics that favour the presence of the midge. The mid-tide zone was the key habitat utilized by T. magellanicus, with lower densities in the low-tide zone and no presence in the high-tide zone. There was a strong association between the presence of larvae and filamentous algae, especially Bostrychia spp. and, to a lesser extent, Ulva spp., as well as between larvae and the presence of larger, more stable boulders. As a result, the species' overall distribution was widespread but patchy. We suggest that the main limiting factor is the relative humidity experienced in different habitats. One of the most striking features of the behavioural observations during data collection was the extremely active adults, which suggests high energy expenditure over a very short period of time. This may be due to the limited time available to find mates in a single low-tide period, when adults have about three hours after emerging from the pupa to complete mating and oviposition before inundation by the tide. The data presented here provide a baseline for future studies on this species' ecology, phenology, physiology and general biology.
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- Felipe Lorenz Simões
- British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
- Department of Zoology, University Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK;
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- Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, Wankara Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Freshwater Ecosystems Laboratory, Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams 6350000, Chile; (T.C.-M.); (J.R.-C.); (C.P.-T.)
- Millennium Nucleus of Invasive Salmonids, INVASAL, Concepción 4030000, Chile
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- Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, Wankara Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Freshwater Ecosystems Laboratory, Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams 6350000, Chile; (T.C.-M.); (J.R.-C.); (C.P.-T.)
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- Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, Wankara Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Freshwater Ecosystems Laboratory, Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams 6350000, Chile; (T.C.-M.); (J.R.-C.); (C.P.-T.)
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- Department of Zoology, University Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK;
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Selecting environmental descriptors is critical for modelling the distribution of Antarctic benthic species. Polar Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02714-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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