Aquatic Organisms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 20th Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO 20): Global issues and fundamental mechanisms caused by pollutant stress in marine and freshwater organisms. 
  • A meta-analysis of seaweed impacts on seagrasses: generalities and knowledge gaps. 
  • A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas. 
  • An assessment of the occupational and environmental health needs in seven Southeastern European and West-Central Asian countries. 
  • Biodiversity: not just lots of fish in the sea. 
  • Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. 
  • Crab regulation of cross-ecosystem resource transfer by marine foraging fire ants. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Different routes to the same ending: comparing the N-glycosylation processes of Haloferax volcanii and Haloarcula marismortui, two halophilic archaea from the Dead Sea. 
  • Estimating resource acquisition and at-sea body condition of a marine predator. 
  • Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Habitat cascades: the conceptual context and global relevance of facilitation cascades via habitat formation and modification. 
  • Hide and seek in the open sea: pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures. 
  • How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems. 
  • Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances at deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems: a review. 
  • Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. 
  • Love at First Taste: Induction of Larval Settlement by Marine Microbes. 
  • Marine mammal zoonoses: a review of disease manifestations. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. 
  • Microplastics in oysters Saccostrea cucullata along the Pearl River Estuary, China. 
  • Multivariate analysis of attachment of biofouling organisms in response to material surface characteristics. 
  • Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov. 
  • Positive Interactions in the Coral Macro and Microbiome. 
  • Protect the deep sea. 
  • Pulmonary ventilation-perfusion mismatch: a novel hypothesis for how diving vertebrates may avoid the bends. 
  • The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals. 
  • The effect of aggregation on visibility in open water. 
  • The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians. 
  • Unoccupied Aircraft Systems in Marine Science and Conservation 
  • Use of a novel sediment exposure to determine the effects of triclosan on estuarine benthic communities. 
  • Vision and the light environment. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society