NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Impact of an Environmental Index of Recruitment on the Stock Assessment for Petrale Sole ( Eopsetta jordani Lockington, 1878) in the California Current Ecosystem

ABSTRACT Stock assessments provide key scientific input for managing fisheries. Age‐structure information is important for these assessments because it provides the foundation for estimating recruitment, which impacts estimates of future spawning biomass and other assessment para...

Physiological responses of Atlantic surfclams (Spisula solidissima) to moderate ocean acidification across thermal regimes

Understanding marine organismal responses to co-occurring climate stressors is critical for predicting changes in ecosystems and commercial fisheries. The Atlantic surfclam supports a major commercial fishery in the Northeastern United States, where ocean warming and acidificatio...

A unifying theory for the evaluation of conditional Akaike information for mixed-effects models

{Simulation studies are conducted to assess the accuracy of our method for evaluating the conditional AIC and its model selection performance across a wide range of mixed-effects models. The proposed approach provides a valuable tool for model selection in the context of mixed-ef...

Satellite telemetry suggests significant regional variation in post-fledging survival of Adélie penguins

Abstract Post-fledging periods represent one of the most vulnerable stages for juvenile seabirds. Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae must quickly develop foraging skills while minimizing predation risk immediately after fledging. In the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region, where popu...

Population-level impacts of reducing artificial light at night across an entire migratory corridor

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a widespread anthropogenic pollution that poses challenges for wildlife in nearly every ecosystem on planet Earth. Although there has been substantial progress on understanding the effects of ALAN on animal physiology and behaviour, few studies...

Coastal North America In Situ Chlorophyll and Optical Dataset

Abstract. Chlorophyll is a crucial climate variable and remotely sensed satellite chlorophyll estimates are essential to understanding large-scale biological processes. Current ocean color chlorophyll algorithms, however, are less accurate in optically complex inland and coastal...

Thermal bottlenecks constrain early-life survival of native fish in regulated rivers

Climate change is reshaping thermal regimes worldwide, threatening species whose early development depends on narrow temperature ranges. Yet directly linking warming to reproductive failure in wild populations remains intractable, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. We developed...

Will work for sardines: 20 years of animal-borne ocean observing by Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tagging Facility

The world’s ocean stores ~90% of the excess heat generated by anthropogenic global warming, making sustained ocean observations essential for understanding physical, biological and climate processes. Here, we describe how the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Taggi...

A collaborative e-library for stressor-response functions to improve the science underlying salmonid management

Stressor-response functions quantify relationships linking environmental stressors to biological responses, underpinning salmonid life-cycle models, restoration planning, regulatory policy, and cumulative effects assessments. Despite their importance, these stressor-response func...