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Reading scientific articles is fundamental for researchers, not only to keep pace with advances in their field, but also to know those giants on whose shoulders they are standing. In this sense, Courchamp and Bradshaw (2018) recently proposed a list of 100 seminal papers deemed to be of major importance in ecology, thus providing a general 'must-re...
The rapid urban population growth and coastal infrastructure development worldwide add dimensionality and complexity to the management process in sandy shores, and therefore the development of beach quality indices that take into account the increasing role of urbanization are particularly relevant. This work analyses the potential of human populat...
Sandy beaches combine a highly documented ecological relevance with a widely acknowledged human development potential. Management of these mainly physically-driven ecosystems is a complex task that relies primarily on ranking protocols for site assessment, which is a procedure dependent on expert perceptions. This approach fails to address the syst...
Climate change impacts on fishery resources have been widely reported worldwide. Nevertheless, a knowledge gap remainsvfor the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean—a global warming hotspot that sustains important industrial and small-scale fisheries. By combining a trait-based framework and long-term landing records, we assessed species’ sensiti...
Urbanization is a major anthropogenic alteration that involves dramatic changes in environmental conditions. Urban heat island (UHI) is a thermic phenomenon where urban-associated
modified conditions increase local air and surface temperatures, affecting ecosystem processes
and services, human health and well-being, and has been linked to social-ec...
Sandy beaches provide a variety of ecosystem services that support human well-being at coastal areas. These ecosystems are highly dynamic and primarily defined by the interaction between waves, tides and wind regimes. High variability makes beaches vulnerable to physical modifications and climate change, jeopardizing ecosystems functions. This has...
El descarte es una de las mayores problemáticas asociadas con pesquerías y puede tener efectos socioeconómicos y ecológicos profundos. Sin embargo, aún existe una gran incertidumbre acerca de la magnitud de los descartes y cómo éstos cambian en el tiempo. Los lineamientos internacionales promueven una reducción del descarte para poder lograr la met...
Sandy beaches comprise 31% of the ice free coasts of the world, providing a variety of ecosystem services essential to support human well-being, particularly protection against erosion and extreme climatic events. These highly dynamic environments are controlled principally by wave energy, tides and grain size, generating complex morphodynamic patt...
Spatial and temporal environmental heterogeneity influences biodiversity distribution patterns and dynamics on sandy beaches. In these ecosystems, the microscale vertical distribution adds a dimension to the analysis of biological and physical processes, whose ecological patterns have been rarely described. An intensive across-shore sampling in a d...
Structural and functional changes in a sandy beach ecosystem in the southwestern Atlantic (Barra del Chuy, Uruguay) were assessed by contrasting four Ecopath trophic models and performing temporal dynamic simulations using Ecosim. Each model (1982, 1989, 1996 and 2012) represents a historical period of a clam fishery in which regulatory structure,...
Este trabajo analizó las relaciones largo-masa, crecimiento en talla, variaciones en masa y dinámica de consumo del saco vitelino de embriones de Mustelus schmitti extraídos de hembras capturadas por la flota pesquera artesanal del puerto de La Paloma (34°39'S, 54°10'W, Uruguay) durante 2006 y 2007. Las diferencias en largo total y masa total entre...
In this work we analyzed the spatial and seasonal variation of length distribution, sexual proportion and mature dominance for Atlantoraja cyclophora and A. castelnaui, at the Uruguayan continental shelf. There were significant differences in total length (TL) composition between sexes, being females bigger than males for both species. Atlantoraja...
This study analyses the seasonal fisheries and sexual proportion of the narrownose smooth-hound Mustelus schmitti from the Uruguayan oceanic coast. The maximum catches took place during the fall. Of a total of 2105 individuals, 1483 were males and 622 females, being females larger than males. Females were dominant at maximum depths of 50 m (inner s...
This study analyses the seasonal fisheries and sexual proportion of the narrownose smooth-hound Mustelus schmitti from the Uruguayan oceanic coast. The maximum catches took place during the fall. Of a total of 2105 individuals, 1483 were males and 622 females, being females larger than males. Females were dominant at maximum depths of 50 m (inner s...