Search Results - "Ashford, Oliver S"

Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction by Levin, Lisa A., Wei, Chih‐Lin, Dunn, Daniel C., Amon, Diva J., Ashford, Oliver S., Cheung, William W. L., Colaço, Ana, Dominguez‐Carrió, Carlos, Escobar, Elva G., Harden‐Davies, Harriet R., Drazen, Jeffrey C., Ismail, Khaira, Jones, Daniel O. B., Johnson, David E., Le, Jennifer T., Lejzerowicz, Franck, Mitarai, Satoshi, Morato, Telmo, Mulsow, Sandor, Snelgrove, Paul V. R., Sweetman, Andrew K., Yasuhara, Moriaki

“…Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of…”
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Lineage-specific molecular probing reveals novel diversity and ecological partitioning of haplosporidians by Hartikainen, Hanna, Ashford, Oliver S, Berney, Cédric, Okamura, Beth, Feist, Stephen W, Baker-Austin, Craig, Stentiford, Grant D, Bass, David

“…Haplosporidians are rhizarian parasites of mostly marine invertebrates. They include the causative agents of diseases of commercially important molluscs,…”
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Enhancing Human Health and Wellbeing through Sustainably and Equitably Unlocking a Healthy Ocean's Potential by Fleming, Lora E, Landrigan, Philip J, Ashford, Oliver S, Whitman, Ella M, Swift, Amy, Gerwick, William H, Heymans, Johanna J, Hicks, Christina C, Morrissey, Karyn, White, Mathew P, Alcantara-Creencia, Lota, Alexander, Karen A, Astell-Burt, Thomas, Berlinck, Roberto G S, Cohen, Philippa J, Hixson, Richard, Islam, Mohammad Mahmudul, Iwasaki, Arihiro, Praptiwi, Radisti A, Raps, Hervé, Remy, Jan Yves, Sowman, Georgina, Ternon, Eva, Thiele, Torsten, Thilsted, Shakuntala H, Uku, Jacqueline, Ockenden, Stephanie, Kumar, Pushpam

“…A healthy ocean is essential for human health, and yet the links between the ocean and human health are often overlooked. By providing new medicines,…”
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Investigating the environmental drivers of deep‐seafloor biodiversity: A case study of peracarid crustacean assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean by Ashford, Oliver S., Kenny, Andrew J., Barrio Froján, Christopher R. S., Horton, Tammy, Rogers, Alex D.

“…The deep‐sea benthos covers over 90% of seafloor area and hosts a great diversity of species which contribute toward essential ecosystem services. Evidence…”
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On the Influence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Habitats on Peracarid Crustacean Assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation Regulatory Area by Ashford, Oliver S., Kenny, Andrew J., Barrio Froján, Christopher R. S., Downie, Anna-Leena, Horton, Tammy, Rogers, Alex D.

“…Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are considered hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the deep sea, but are also characterised by a high…”
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Localised climate change defines ant communities in human‐modified tropical landscapes by Boyle, Michael J. W., Bishop, Tom R., Luke, Sarah H., Breugel, Michiel, Evans, Theodore A., Pfeifer, Marion, Fayle, Tom M., Hardwick, Stephen R., Lane‐Shaw, Rachel Isolde, Yusah, Kalsum M., Ashford, Imogen C. R., Ashford, Oliver S., Garnett, Emma, Turner, Edgar C., Wilkinson, Clare L., Chung, Arthur Y. C., Ewers, Robert M., Allen, Daniel

“…Logging and habitat conversion create hotter microclimates in tropical forest landscapes, representing a powerful form of localised anthropogenic climate…”
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Phylogenetic and functional evidence suggests that deep-ocean ecosystems are highly sensitive to environmental change and direct human disturbance by Ashford, Oliver S, Kenny, Andrew J, Barrio Froján, Christopher R S, Bonsall, Michael B, Horton, Tammy, Brandt, Angelika, Bird, Graham J, Gerken, Sarah, Rogers, Alex D

“…An understanding of the balance of interspecific competition and the physical environment in structuring organismal communities is crucial because those…”
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Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps by Ashford, Oliver S., Guan, Shuzhe, Capone, Dante, Rigney, Katherine, Rowley, Katelynn, Cordes, Erik E., Cortés, Jorge, Rouse, Greg W., Mendoza, Guillermo F., Sweetman, Andrew K., Levin, Lisa A.

“…As biodiversity loss accelerates globally, understanding environmental influence over biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships becomes crucial…”
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A new Southern Ocean species in the remarkable and rare amphipod family Podosiridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) questions existing systematic hypotheses by Ashford, Oliver S, Horton, Tammy, Roterman, Christopher N, Thurston, Michael H, Griffiths, Huw J, Brandt, Angelika

“…Abstract The amphipod family Podosiridae is unusual in that it combines morphological elements of the disparate families Podoceridae and Eusiridae. Here, we…”
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Deep-sea benthic megafaunal habitat suitability modelling: A global-scale maximum entropy model for xenophyophores by Ashford, Oliver S., Davies, Andrew J., Jones, Daniel O.B.

“…Xenophyophores are a group of exclusively deep-sea agglutinating rhizarian protozoans, at least some of which are foraminifera. They are an important…”
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A chemosynthetic ecotone—“chemotone”—in the sediments surrounding deep‐sea methane seeps by Ashford, Oliver S., Guan, Shuzhe, Capone, Dante, Rigney, Katherine, Rowley, Katelynn, Orphan, Victoria, Mullin, Sean W., Dawson, Kat S., Cortés, Jorge, Rouse, Greg W., Mendoza, Guillermo F., Lee, Raymond W., Cordes, Erik E., Levin, Lisa A.

“…Ecotones have been described as “biodiversity hotspots” from myriad environments, yet have not been studied extensively in the deep ocean. While…”
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Phylogenetic and functional evidence suggests that deep-ocean ecosystems are highly sensitive to environmental change and direct human disturbance by Ashford, Oliver S., Kenny, Andrew J., Froján, Christopher R. S. Barrio, Bonsall, Michael B., Horton, Tammy, Brandt, Angelika, Bird, Graham J., Gerken, Sarah, Rogers, Alex D.

“…An understanding of the balance of interspecific competition and the physical environment in structuring organismal communities is crucial because those…”
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