Marine protected areas (MPAs) are used in ecosystem-based management (EBM) to increase the abundance and biomass of targeted species and protect their ecosystems by restricting certain human activities. Marine reserves (i.e. no-take MPAs) aim to achieve this by prohibiting harvest in the area. While MPAs are currently evaluated through assessments...
Keywords: cabezon; Scorpaenichthys marmoratus; recruitment; recruitment rate; otolith asymmetry; larval fish mortality; developmental success; survivorship; time-series; SMURF; Standard Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes; sea surface temperature; SST
Rockfishes (Sebastes) are important species for commercial and recreational fishing, as well as evolutionary and ecological research. It can be impractical to identify the sex of rockfishes using visual identification or lethal dissection, and the sex-determination systems of these species have not been studied extensively. The aim of this research...
Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) is an important commercial species along the west coast of North America, and its population dynamics are highly influenced by interactions between environmental variability and early life history distribution. However, the distribution of the early larvae stages of Dungeness crab offshore is poorly known. To fill...
Keywords: common murre; Uria aalge; nestling; colony; Northern California Current System; nCCS; diet; prey; northern anchovy; Engraulis mordax; rockfish; Sebastes; Pacific sand lance; Ammodytes hexapterus; smelt; Osmeridae; opportunistic foraging; Triangle Island, British Columbia; Tatoosh Island, Washington; Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, Oregon; Devil's Slide Rock, California; Castle Rock National Wildlife...
Keywords: humpback whales; feeding grounds; genetics; breeding group; Distinct Population Segments; DPS; DNA profiles; Monterey, California; Central America DPS; Megaptera novaeangliae; genotyping; microsatellite; population