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Seamounts are hotspots of pelagic biodiversity in the open ocean by Morato, Telmo, Hoyle, Simon D, Allain, Valerie, Nicol, Simon J

“…The identification of biodiversity hotspots and their management for conservation have been hypothesized as effective ways to protect many species. There has…”
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A Model of Mercury Distribution in Tuna from the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Influence of Physiology, Ecology and Environmental Factors by Houssard, Patrick, Point, David, Tremblay-Boyer, Laura, Allain, Valérie, Pethybridge, Heidi, Masbou, Jeremy, Ferriss, Bridget E, Baya, Pascale A, Lagane, Christelle, Menkes, Christophe E, Letourneur, Yves, Lorrain, Anne

“…Information on ocean scale drivers of methylmercury levels and variability in tuna is scarce, yet crucial in the context of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) inputs…”
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Trends in tuna carbon isotopes suggest global changes in pelagic phytoplankton communities by Lorrain, Anne, Pethybridge, Heidi, Cassar, Nicolas, Receveur, Aurore, Allain, Valérie, Bodin, Nathalie, Bopp, Laurent, Choy, C. Anela, Duffy, Leanne, Fry, Brian, Goñi, Nicolas, Graham, Brittany S., Hobday, Alistair J., Logan, John M., Ménard, Frederic, Menkes, Christophe E., Olson, Robert J., Pagendam, Dan E., Point, David, Revill, Andrew T., Somes, Christopher J., Young, Jock W.

“…Considerable uncertainty remains over how increasing atmospheric CO2 and anthropogenic climate changes are affecting open‐ocean marine ecosystems from…”
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Ecological connectivity between the areas beyond national jurisdiction and coastal waters: Safeguarding interests of coastal communities in developing countries by Popova, Ekaterina, Vousden, David, Sauer, Warwick H.H., Mohammed, Essam Y., Allain, Valerie, Downey-Breedt, Nicola, Fletcher, Ruth, Gjerde, Kristina M., Halpin, Patrick N., Kelly, Stephen, Obura, David, Pecl, Gretta, Roberts, Michael, Raitsos, Dionysios E., Rogers, Alex, Samoilys, Melita, Sumaila, Ussif Rashid, Tracey, Sean, Yool, Andrew

“…The UN General Assembly has made a unanimous decision to start negotiations to establish an international, legally-binding instrument for the conservation and…”
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Behavioral and trophic segregations help the Tahiti petrel to cope with the abundance of wedge-tailed shearwater when foraging in oligotrophic tropical waters by Ravache, Andreas, Bourgeois, Karen, Weimerskirch, Henri, Pagenaud, Angélique, de Grissac, Sophie, Miller, Mark, Dromzée, Sylvain, Lorrain, Anne, Allain, Valérie, Bustamante, Paco, Bylemans, Jonas, Gleeson, Dianne, Letourneur, Yves, Vidal, Éric

“…Two species breeding in sympatry are more likely to coexist if their ecological niches are segregated either in time, space or in trophic habits. Here, we…”
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Biogeography of Micronekton Assemblages in the Natural Park of the Coral Sea by Receveur, Aurore, Vourey, Elodie, Lebourges-Dhaussy, Anne, Menkes, Christophe, Ménard, Frédéric, Allain, Valerie

“…Mesopelagic resources are central to the ecosystem but remain poorly studied mainly due to the lack of observations. This paper investigated the assemblages of…”
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Low occurrence rates of ubiquitously present leptocephalus larvae in the stomach contents of predatory fish by Miller, Michael J, Dubosc, Jeff, Vourey, Elodie, Tsukamoto, Katsumi, Allain, Valerie

“…Abstract Leptocephali, the larvae of eels, grow to large sizes and are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical oceans. Their role in oceanic food webs…”
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Trawling damage to Northeast Atlantic ancient coral reefs by Hall-Spencer, Jason, Allain, Valerie, Fosså, Jan Helge

“…This contribution documents widespread trawling damage to cold–water coral reefs at 840–1300 m depth along the West Ireland continental shelf break and at 200…”
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Can Stomach Content and Microbiomes of Tuna Provide Near Real-Time Detection of Ecosystem Composition in the Pacific Ocean? by Trujillo-González, Alejandro, Li, Teng, Potts, Joanne, Nicol, Simon, Allain, Valerie, Godwin, Sam C., Vourey, Elodie, Portal, Annie, Kumasi, Brian, Usu, Thomas, Rodrigo, Allen, Gleeson, Dianne

“…This preliminary study used DNA metabarcoding to test whether the stomach content and gut microbiome of tuna could be a viable near real-time monitoring tool…”
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A Response to Scientific and Societal Needs for Marine Biological Observations by Bax, Nicholas J., Miloslavich, Patricia, Muller-Karger, Frank Edgar, Allain, Valerie, Appeltans, Ward, Batten, Sonia Dawn, Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro, Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Chiba, Sanae, Costa, Daniel Paul, Duffy, J. Emmett, Dunn, Daniel C., Johnson, Craig Richard, Kudela, Raphael M., Obura, David, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Simmons, Samantha Elisabeth, Tyack, Peter Lloyd

“…Development of global ocean observing capacity for the biological EOVs is on the cusp of a step-change. Current capacity to automate data collection and…”
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Interaction between coastal and oceanic ecosystems of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean through predator-prey relationship studies by Allain, Valerie, Fernandez, Emilie, Hoyle, Simon D, Caillot, Sylvain, Jurado-Molina, Jesus, Andréfouët, Serge, Nicol, Simon J

“…The Western and Central Pacific Ocean sustains the highest tuna production in the world. This province is also characterized by many islands and a complex…”
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Analyzing pelagic food webs leading to top predators in the Pacific Ocean: A graph-theoretic approach by Dambacher, Jeffrey M., Young, Jock W., Olson, Robert J., Allain, Valérie, Galván-Magaña, Felipe, Lansdell, Matthew J., Bocanegra-Castillo, Noemí, Alatorre-Ramírez, Vanessa, Cooper, Scott P., Duffy, Leanne M.

“…This work examined diet data from studies of top pelagic predators from three large regions of the equatorial and South Pacific Ocean. Food webs of each of…”
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The coral sea: physical environment, ecosystem status and biodiversity assets by Ceccarelli, Daniela M, McKinnon, A David, Andréfouët, Serge, Allain, Valerie, Young, Jock, Gledhill, Daniel C, Flynn, Adrian, Bax, Nicholas J, Beaman, Robin, Borsa, Philippe, Brinkman, Richard, Bustamante, Rodrigo H, Campbell, Robert, Cappo, Mike, Cravatte, Sophie, D'Agata, Stéphanie, Dichmont, Catherine M, Dunstan, Piers K, Dupouy, Cécile, Edgar, Graham, Farman, Richard, Furnas, Miles, Garrigue, Claire, Hutton, Trevor, Kulbicki, Michel, Letourneur, Yves, Lindsay, Dhugal, Menkes, Christophe, Mouillot, David, Parravicini, Valeriano, Payri, Claude, Pelletier, Bernard, Richer de Forges, Bertrand, Ridgway, Ken, Rodier, Martine, Samadi, Sarah, Schoeman, David, Skewes, Tim, Swearer, Steven, Vigliola, Laurent, Wantiez, Laurent, Williams, Alan, Williams, Ashley, Richardson, Anthony J

“…The Coral Sea, located at the southwestern rim of the Pacific Ocean, is the only tropical marginal sea where human impacts remain relatively minor. Patterns…”
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Spatial and temporal variability of zooplankton off New Caledonia (Southwestern Pacific) from acoustics and net measurements by Smeti, Houssem, Pagano, Marc, Menkes, Christophe, Lebourges-Dhaussy, Anne, Hunt, Brian P. V., Allain, Valerie, Rodier, Martine, de Boissieu, Florian, Kestenare, Elodie, Sammari, Cherif

“…Spatial and temporal distribution of zooplankton off New Caledonia in the eastern Coral Sea was studied during two multidisciplinary cruises in 2011, during…”
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Corrigendum: A Response to Scientific and Societal Needs for Marine Biological Observations by Bax, Nicholas J., Miloslavich, Patricia, Muller-Karger, Frank Edgar, Allain, Valerie, Appeltans, Ward, Batten, Sonia Dawn, Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro, Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Chiba, Sanae, Costa, Daniel Paul, Duffy, J. Emmett, Dunn, Daniel C., Johnson, Craig Richard, Kudela, Raphael M., Obura, David, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Simmons, Samantha Elisabeth, Tyack, Peter Lloyd

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A rare oasis effect for forage fauna in oceanic eddies at the global scale by Receveur, Aurore, Menkes, Christophe, Lengaigne, Matthieu, Ariza, Alejandro, Bertrand, Arnaud, Dutheil, Cyril, Cravatte, Sophie, Allain, Valérie, Barbin, Laure, Lebourges-Dhaussy, Anne, Lehodey, Patrick, Nicol, Simon

“…Oceanic eddies are recognized as pivotal components in marine ecosystems, believed to concentrate a wide range of marine life spanning from phytoplankton to…”
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Enhanced seamount location database for the western and central Pacific Ocean: Screening and cross-checking of 20 existing datasets by Allain, Valérie, Kerandel, Julie-Anne, Andréfouët, Serge, Magron, Franck, Clark, Malcolm, Kirby, David S., Muller-Karger, Frank E.

“…Seamounts are habitats of considerable interest in terms of conservation and biodiversity, and in terms of fisheries for bentho-pelagic and pelagic species…”
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Nitrogen isotopic baselines and implications for estimating foraging habitat and trophic position of yellowfin tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans by Lorrain, Anne, Graham, Brittany S., Popp, Brian N., Allain, Valérie, Olson, Robert J., Hunt, Brian P.V., Potier, Michel, Fry, Brian, Galván-Magaña, Felipe, Menkes, Christophe E.R., Kaehler, Sven, Ménard, Frédéric

“…Assessment of isotopic compositions at the base of food webs is a prerequisite for using stable isotope analysis to assess foraging locations and trophic…”
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The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges by Young, Jock W., Hunt, Brian P.V., Cook, Timothée R., Llopiz, Joel K., Hazen, Elliott L., Pethybridge, Heidi R., Ceccarelli, Daniela, Lorrain, Anne, Olson, Robert J., Allain, Valerie, Menkes, Christophe, Patterson, Toby, Nicol, Simon, Lehodey, Patrick, Kloser, Rudy J., Arrizabalaga, Haritz, Anela Choy, C.

“…We review present understanding of the spatial and temporal diet variability (trophodynamics) of a range of pelagic marine top predators, at both early and…”
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Tuna longline fishing around West and Central Pacific seamounts by Morato, Telmo, Hoyle, Simon D, Allain, Valerie, Nicol, Simon J

“…Seamounts have been identified as aggregating locations for pelagic biodiversity including tuna; however the topography and prevailing oceanography differ…”
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