This issue explores:
- Remote submerged banks and mesophotic ecosystems can provide key habitat for endangered marine megafauna
- Top predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem
- Counting Nemo: anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris identify species by number of white bars
Welcome to the February 2024 issue of the OneOcean Science Mailout.
This beginning of this week marked the 1 year anniversary of a historic milestone in ocean conservation! On March 4 2023, governments reached agreement on the High Seas Treaty text. Since then, 88 countries have signed and 2 countries have ratified the Treaty.
In this edition we present three new papers on the theme of marine biodiversity. These are focused on:
- The importance of remote submerged banks as foraging areas for critically endangered marine turtles.
- A significant ecological success story as the recovery of sea otter populations in a California estuary inadvertently protect salt marshes from erosion through their voracious appetite for shore crabs.
- A new discovery that clownfish can count up to three stripes on other fish, helping them recognize potential threats to their anemone home and territory.
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