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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nonprofit•Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States•
About: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a nonprofit organization based out in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Mantle (geology). The organization has 5685 authors who have published 18396 publications receiving 1202050 citations. The organization is also known as: WHOI.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the concentration of dissolved 230Th and231Pa in sediment traps deployed in the Sargasso Sea (Site S2), the north equatorial Atlantic (site E), and the northern equatorial Pacific (Site P) as well as in particles collected by in situ filtration at Site E.
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Trinity College, Dublin1, University of Queensland2, Max Planck Society3, University of Southern Denmark4, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution5, University of Amsterdam6, University of Exeter7, University of Maryland, College Park8, University of Cape Town9, Hangzhou Normal University10, Radboud University Nijmegen11, Centre national de la recherche scientifique12, Princeton University13, University of California, Santa Cruz14, Hokkaido University15, National Autonomous University of Mexico16, Fisheries and Oceans Canada17, University of Sydney18, University of Plymouth19, Duke University20
TL;DR: The compadre Plant Matrix Database version 3.0 is introduced, an open‐source online repository containing 468 studies from 598 species world‐wide, with a total of 5621 matrices, a similarly data‐rich and ecologically relevant resource for plant demography.
Abstract: Summary 1 Schedules of survival, growth and reproduction are key life-history traits Data on how these traits vary among species and populations are fundamental to our understanding of the ecological conditions that have shaped plant evolution Because these demographic schedules determine population
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University of Western Australia1, Spanish National Research Council2, Griffith University3, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton4, Western Washington University5, Hiroshima University6, University of British Columbia7, Yale University8, California Institute of Technology9, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution10, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center11, University of Southern Mississippi12
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that the proliferation of artificial structures, associated with the exponential growth in shipping, aquaculture, and other coastal industries, and coastal protection, provides habitat for jellyfish polyps and may be an important driver of the global increase in jellyfish blooms.
Abstract: Jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) blooms appear to be increasing in both intensity and frequency in many coastal areas worldwide, due to multiple hypothesized anthropogenic stressors. Here, we propose that the proliferation of artificial structures – associated with (1) the exponential growth in shipping, aquaculture, and other coastal industries, and (2) coastal protection (collectively, “ocean sprawl”) – provides habitat for jellyfish polyps and may be an important driver of the global increase in jellyfish blooms. However, the habitat of the benthic polyps that commonly result in coastal jellyfish blooms has remained elusive, limiting our understanding of the drivers of these blooms. Support for the hypothesized role of ocean sprawl in promoting jellyfish blooms is provided by observations and experimental evidence demonstrating that jellyfish larvae settle in large numbers on artificial structures in coastal waters and develop into dense concentrations of jellyfish-producing polyps.
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TL;DR: Gas chromatography demonstrates the presence of No. 2 fuel oil in the sediments of the affected area and in whole oysters Crassostrea virginica and in the adductor muscle of the scallop Aequipecten irradians.
Abstract: A spill of 650,000 to 700,000 l of No. 2 fuel oil has contaminated the coastal areas of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (USA). Gas chromatography demonstrates the presence of this oil in the sediments of the affected area. Two months after the accident, essentially unchanged oil is still being released from the sediments. The presence of the same pollutant is demonstrated in whole oysters Crassostrea virginica and in the adductor muscle of the scallop Aequipecten irradians. A presumably biochemical modification leads to a gradual depletion of the straight chain and, to a lesser extent, of branched chain hydrocarbons. This does not result in detoxification, as the more toxic aromatic hydrocarbons are retained in the organisms several months after the accident. Scallops from an uncontaminated area contain hydrocarbons in lesser amounts and of very different molecular weight and type distribution; they are accountable entirely from biological sources.
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TL;DR: Mark-recapture statistics to a catalog of photographically identified individuals were applied to obtain the first statistically rigorous estimates of survival probability for the North Atlantic northern right whale population, finding an upper bound on the expected time to extinction is 191 years.
Abstract: The North Atlantic northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is considered the most endangered large whale species. Its population has recovered only slowly since the cessation of commercial whaling and numbers about 300 individuals. We applied mark-recapture statistics to a catalog of photographically identified individuals to obtain the first statistically rigorous estimates of survival probability for this population. Crude survival decreased from about 0.99 per year in 1980 to about 0.94 in 1994. We combined this survival trend with a reported decrease in reproductive rate into a branching process model to compute population growth rate and extinction probability. Population growth rate declined from about 1.053 in 1980 to about 0.976 in 1994. Under current conditions the population is doomed to extinction; an upper bound on the expected time to extinction is 191 years. The most effective way to improve the prospects of the population is to reduce mortality. The right whale is at risk from entanglement in fishing gear and from collisions with ships. Reducing this human-caused mortality is essential to the viability of this population.
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Roberto Romero | 151 | 1516 | 108321 |
Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
Timothy J. Mitchison | 133 | 404 | 66418 |
Xiaoou Tang | 132 | 553 | 94555 |
Jillian F. Banfield | 127 | 562 | 60687 |
Matthew Jones | 125 | 1161 | 96909 |
Rodolfo R. Llinás | 120 | 386 | 52828 |
Ronald D. Vale | 117 | 342 | 49020 |
Scott C. Doney | 111 | 406 | 59218 |
Alan G. Marshall | 107 | 1060 | 46904 |
Peter K. Smith | 107 | 855 | 49174 |
Donald E. Canfield | 105 | 298 | 43270 |
Edward F. DeLong | 102 | 262 | 42794 |
Eric A. Davidson | 101 | 281 | 45511 |
Gary G. Borisy | 101 | 248 | 38195 |