Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Food, fear and physics drive collective behaviour in the ocean's pelagic zone

Abstract Understanding how complex, coordinated patterns arise in animal groups has been an important theme in behavioural ecology, revealing much about the mechanisms of the evolution of behaviour. While fish schools are a well-known example, they represent just one case among n...

Distant water fishing and its effects on domestic food security

Governments around the world have identified distant water fleets (DWFs) as a key threat to ecosystem health, domestic economic opportunities, and food security. With a high prevalence of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies in countries where DWFs operate, the aquatic f...

Preliminary investigation into the maternal‐embryo stable isotope dynamics and nutrient routing in an oophagous elasmobranch, the Common Thresher Shark ( Alopias vulpinus )

Abstract Two opportunistic sampling events were used to analyse the isotopic composition of different tissue constituents (protein and lipid) to explore maternal investment routing pathways from pregnant Common Thresher Sharks ( Alopias vulpinus ) to their near‐term embryos. Prot...

A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications – version four

Abstract. A global in situ dataset for validation of satellite products from the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI) is presented. This version of the compilation, with data starting in 1996, extends to 2025, which is important for the validation of recent algorit...