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Oceans, Volume 2, Issue 1

March 2021 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,012 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2021

A high-quality hydrographic CTD and Argo float data was used to study the property changes along the westward branch of the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) in the northeast Atlantic between 1981 and 2018. In this period, the temperature and salinit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,391 Views
20 Pages

5 March 2021

We carried out a rock magnetic study of two deep-sea gravity cores from the Demerara Rise, NE South America. Our previous studies provided radiocarbon and paleomagnetic chronologies for these cores. This study presents detailed rock magnetic measurem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,587 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2021

Marine biomineralization is a globally important biological and geochemical process. Understanding the mechanisms controlling the precipitation of calcium carbonate [CaCO3] within the calcifying fluid of marine organisms, such as corals, crustose cor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,508 Views
18 Pages

Consistency Is Critical for the Effective Use of Baited Remote Video

  • Robyn E. Jones,
  • Ross A. Griffin,
  • Roger J. H. Herbert and
  • Richard K. F. Unsworth

3 March 2021

Baited remote underwater videos (BRUV) are popular marine monitoring techniques used for the assessment of motile fauna. Currently, most published studies evaluating BRUV methods stem from environments in the Southern Hemisphere. This has led to stri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,247 Views
13 Pages

Severe Heat Stress Resulted in High Coral Mortality on Maldivian Reefs following the 2015–2016 El Niño Event

  • Pia Bessell-Browne,
  • Hannah E. Epstein,
  • Nora Hall,
  • Patrick Buerger and
  • Kathryn Berry

3 March 2021

Coral cover worldwide has been declining due to heat stress caused by climate change. Here we report the impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño mass coral bleaching event on the coral cover of reefs located on central and northern atolls of the Maldives. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,651 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2021

There is increasing concern over anthropogenically driven changes in our oceans and seas, from a variety of stressors. Such stressors include the increased risk of storms and precipitation, offshore industries and increased coastal development which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,811 Views
13 Pages

12 February 2021

Accelerated coastal erosion and elevated risks of flooding due to global warming put enormous burden on the ecosystems and economic health of coastal communities. Optimal policies to lessen these negative impacts require an estimation of their costs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,617 Views
17 Pages

Canopy Accumulation: Are Seagrass Meadows a Sink of Microplastics?

  • Richard K. F. Unsworth,
  • Alex Higgs,
  • Bettina Walter,
  • Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth,
  • Isabella Inman and
  • Benjamin L. Jones

12 February 2021

A growing body of research is documenting the accumulation of microplastics within marine sediments around the world. The hydrodynamic influences of seagrasses in coastal environments are shown to increase sedimentation of finer particles and as a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,207 Views
23 Pages

Ocean Circulation Drives the Variability of the Carbon System in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic

  • Nathalie Lefèvre,
  • Carlos Mejia,
  • Dmitry Khvorostyanov,
  • Laurence Beaumont and
  • Urbain Koffi

8 February 2021

The carbon system in the eastern tropical Atlantic remains poorly known. The variability and drivers of the carbon system are assessed using surface dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), alkalinity (TA) and fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) measured in the 12° N–12...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,399 Views
21 Pages

Structure and Dynamics of the Ras al Hadd Oceanic Dipole in the Arabian Sea

  • Adam Ayouche,
  • Charly De Marez,
  • Mathieu Morvan,
  • Pierre L’Hegaret,
  • Xavier Carton,
  • Briac Le Vu and
  • Alexandre Stegner

4 February 2021

The Ras al Hadd oceanic dipole is a recurrent association of a cyclone (to the northeast) and of an anticyclone (to the southwest), which forms in summer and breaks up at the end of autumn. It lies near the Ras al Hadd cape, southeast of the Arabian...

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