Louise K. Blight

TL;DR: Six regional case studies are reviewed as examples of recent research and management activities relating to ocean noise in a variety of taxonomic groups, locations, and approaches, and a brief bibliometric analysis places them into the broader historical and topical context of the peer-reviewed ocean noise literature as a whole.

TL;DR: This article found plastic particles in the stomachs of 8 of the 11 species of seabirds caught as bycatch in the pelagic waters of the eastern North Pacific (41-50°N, 131-134°W).

TL;DR: A major mid-1980s shift in ecological structure of significant portions of the Southern Ocean was partially due to the serial depletion of fish by intensive industrial fishing, rather than solely to climate factors as previously hypothesized as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Investigations in recent years of the ecological structure and processes of the Southern Ocean have almost exclusively taken a bottom-up, forcing-by-physical-processes approach relating various species' population trends to climate change, prompting questions about the almost complete shift in paradigms that has occurred and whether it is leading Southern Ocean marine ecological science in an instructive direction.

TL;DR: The outcome of 2 workshops is described to establish a list of important questions, which, if answered, would substantially improve the ability to conserve and manage the world’s marine resources.