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Douglas J. McCauley
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessDynamic interplay: disentangling the temporal variability of fish effects on coral recruitment
Ecosystems around the world are continuously undergoing recovery from anthropogenic disturbances like climate change, overexploitation, and habitat destruction. Coral reefs are a prime example of a threatened ...
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Open AccessDeep learning enables satellite-based monitoring of large populations of terrestrial mammals across heterogeneous landscape
New satellite remote sensing and machine learning techniques offer untapped possibilities to monitor global biodiversity with unprecedented speed and precision. These efficiencies promise to reveal novel ecolo...
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Open AccessSpatial ecology of male hippopotamus in a changing watershed
The obligate dependency of the common hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, on water makes them particularly vulnerable to hydrological disturbances. Despite the threats facing this at-risk species, there is a la...
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Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms
Understanding which species and ecosystems will be most severely affected by warming as climate change advances is important for guiding conservation and management. Both marine and terrestrial fauna have been...
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Open AccessResetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems
What did coral reef ecosystems look like before human impacts became pervasive? Early efforts to reconstruct baselines resulted in the controversial suggestion that pristine coral reefs have inverted trophic p...
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Conservation: smart advocacy needs data
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Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health
Christopher Golden and colleagues calculate that declining numbers of marine fish will spell more malnutrition in many develo** nations.
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Open AccessFrom wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems
Human impact on biodiversity usually is measured by reduction in species abundance or richness. Just as important, but much more difficult to discern, is the anthropogenic elimination of ecological interaction...
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Nature: McCauley replies
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Selling out on nature
With scant evidence that market-based conservation works, argues Douglas J. McCauley, the time is ripe for returning to the protection of nature for nature's sake.
