Browsing by Department "Marine Science and Conservation"
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A meta-analysis of the value of marine protected areas for pelagic apex predators
(2015)A vast range of theoretical and empirical studies now suggests that MPAs can conserve marine biodiversity and, under some circumstances, increase fishery yields. However, despite the importance of pelagic apex predators ... -
A Multi-Modal Approach for Investigating the Physiological Responses to Breath-Holding in Diving Mammals
(2023)The ocean environment poses several adversities to usual mammalian function. Perhaps most consequential to life is the lack of air underwater. For marine mammals, like whales and dolphins, that are required to perform breath-hold ... -
A Social and Ecological Evaluation of Marine Mammal Take Reduction Teams
(2014)There have been few efforts to evaluate the actual and perceived effectiveness of environmental management programs created by consensus-based, multi-stakeholder negotiation or negotiated rulemaking. Previous evaluations ... -
A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
(2020)Despite decades of study, the question of how to achieve sustainable small-scale fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of ... -
Acoustic Ecology of Sea Turtles: Implications for Conservation
(2012)An understanding of sensory ecology, how animals receive and respond to their environment, can be a powerful tool for the conservation of endangered species because it can allow us to assess the potential success of actions ... -
Advancing Drone Methods for Pinniped Ecology and Management
(2022)Pinniped species undergo a life history, unique among marine mammals, that includes discrete periods of occupancy on land or ice within a predominantly marine existence. This makes many pinniped species valuable sentinels ... -
Analysis of Net Primary Production Models and Observations in the Tropical Pacific Ocean and Their Relationship with Fisheries Yield
(2017)Primary production regulates fisheries yield, but testing the degree to which it is so is complicated by our limited ability to measure and model net primary production in the ocean. Herein, I analyze primary production ... -
Analyzing Hydrodynamic Properties of the North Atlantic Right Whales with Computer Solutions
(2020)Animals experience hydrodynamic forces (lift, drag, and side) and moments (pitching, yawing, and rolling) as a result of motion in an aqueous medium. Under selective pressure, most cetaceans, including porpoises, dolphins, ... -
Behavioral Ecology of the Western Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
(2015)Social structure is a key determinant of population biology and is central to the way animals exploit their environment. The risk of predation is often invoked as an important factor influencing the evolution of social structure ... -
Biological and Physical Factors Affecting the Natural History and Evolution of Encapsulated Development
(2016)The evolution of reproductive strategies involves a complex calculus of costs and benefits to both parents and offspring. Many marine animals produce embryos packaged in tough egg capsules or gelatinous egg masses attached ... -
Coral Decline and Reef Habitat Loss in the Caribbean: Modeling Abiotic Limitations on Coral Populations and Communities
(2017)Coral reef habitats are well-known for biodiversity, yet are declining worldwide due to multiple stressors from local to global scales. Scleractinian corals, as foundation species, contribute to building the three-dimensional ... -
Coral-associated Crabs and Macroalgae Alter Disease Spread in Branching Corals on the Great Barrier Reef
(2020)Disease is an important driver of coral loss regionally and is projected to become more severe as temperatures increase around the world. Although there has been substantial research into the abiotic factors (e.g. temperature, ... -
Culture, Capture, and Disease: Shrimp Production in the Age of Industrial Aquaculture
(2019)This dissertation focuses on the relationship of industrial shrimp aquaculture and shrimp diseases, with an emphasis on the agency of disease in shaping the history of shrimp production. Shrimp aquaculture is concentrated ... -
Data to Decision in a Dynamic Ocean: Robust Species Distribution Models and Spatial Decision Frameworks
(2016)Human use of the oceans is increasingly in conflict with conservation of endangered species. Methods for managing the spatial and temporal placement of industries such as military, fishing, transportation and offshore energy, ... -
Distribution and Conservation of the Antillean Manatee in Hispaniola
(2016)Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) were heavily hunted in the past throughout the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR), and are currently listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In most WCR ... -
Diverse Ways of Knowing in Water Quality Conservation in North Carolina
(2013)Diverse ways of knowing have been recognized by scholars in many disciplines to contribute creative perspectives and novel problem-solving approaches. In the environmental sciences, those dependent on natural resources and ... -
Ecological Controls on Prochlorococcus sp. Diversity, Composition, and Activity at High Taxonomic Resolution
(2016)Although there are many examples of microbial biogeography, few microbes have been studied at high taxonomic resolution over large spatial scales. As a result, the environmental and ecological processes that drive niche ... -
(En)gendering Change in Small-Scale Fisheries Science and Policy
(2021)Increasingly the challenges of environmental governance are understood as global in nature and scope. Within fisheries, industrial fisheries have long been the global priority in fisheries science, policy instruments, and ... -
Estimating the Cost of Locomotion in Common Bottlenose Dolphins: Calibration, Validation, and Application to Study the Impacts of Disturbance
(2021)Estimates of the energetic costs of locomotion (COL) are necessary to understand one of the potential impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on marine mammals. A new generation of biologging devices has enabled the measurement ... -
Exploring Mechanisms of Bacterial Adaptation to Seasonal Temperature Change
(2016)This research examines three potential mechanisms by which bacteria can adapt to different temperatures: changes in strain-level population structure, gene regulation and particle colonization. For the first two mechanisms, ...
