Martha Nizinski's research while affiliated with NOAA Fisheries and other places

... Estuarine emergent wetlands (both native and invasive sub-classes) were assessed separately in the Mid-Atlantic and New England because biogeographic differences in coastal wetlands and/or the rate of SLR could result in differential climate vulnerabilities for this habitat. Deep sea coral and sponge habitats were split between the Gulf of Maine and the areas farther offshore on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf, slope, submarine canyons, and seamounts to assess potential differences in climate vulnerability associated with coral and sponge habitat density, depth, biodiversity, population genetics, and anthropogenic drivers such as impacts from fishing gear [65,[94][95][96][97][98]. ...

... Given species' geographic locations and environmental information, the ecological niche modeling approach such as MaxEnt, random forest, and generalised additive modeling (Phillips et al., 2006;Melo-Merino et al., 2020;Valavi et al., 2022), have been widely used as powerful tools for predicting current and future species distributions. The most commonly used climatic RCP scenarios, such as minimum 2.6, moderate 4.5, and extreme 8.5 carbon emissions (IPCC, 2014), are generally used to predict the future climatic suitability of species across space (Elith et al., 2011;Saeedi et al., 2017;Freeman et al., 2013;Bargain et al., 2017;Kinlan et al., 2020;Pittman and Brown., 2011;Simões et al., 2021). Coral reefs are considered one of the most important and fastestresponding indicators of climate change, as they bleach and perish during marine heat waves (Roberts and Cairns., 2014;Hughes et al., 2018;Guan et al., 2020;Guo et al., 2020;Anthony et al., 2020;Chen, 2021). ...

... Moreover, fixation of the gelatinous medusae and the soft-bodied polyps can lead to shrinkage and deformation of fragile specimens leading to distortion of morphological diagnostic features (Häussermann, 2004;Schuchert, 2012;Holst and Laakmann, 2014;Holst et al., 2019). Molecular genetic techniques have been widely tested and applied for identification and differentiation of cnidarian species (Holst and Laakmann, 2014;Moura et al., 2018;Holst et al., 2019;Bucklin et al., 2021). However, not in all groups, standard fragments such as the COI barcode regions are fully informative on species level (Brugler et al., 2018;Schuchert, 2020). ...

... Estuarine emergent wetlands (both native and invasive sub-classes) were assessed separately in the Mid-Atlantic and New England because biogeographic differences in coastal wetlands and/or the rate of SLR could result in differential climate vulnerabilities for this habitat. Deep sea coral and sponge habitats were split between the Gulf of Maine and the areas farther offshore on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf, slope, submarine canyons, and seamounts to assess potential differences in climate vulnerability associated with coral and sponge habitat density, depth, biodiversity, population genetics, and anthropogenic drivers such as impacts from fishing gear [65,[94][95][96][97][98]. ...

... Indeed, Blanes Canyon's higher dynamism promotes diversity (both for bacterial and archaeal taxa pools) and community heterogeneity. The complex topography and strong, variable currents characterising submarine canyons enhance marine landscape diversity at regional scales, providing singular habitats to a highly diverse fauna (Huvenne and Davies, 2014;Fernandez-Arcaya et al., 2017;Ismail et al., 2018). In Blanes Canyon, high-rank taxa showed similar profiles to the open slope, but only 37% of the OTUs were shared. ...

... Munidopsis similis was described from southern New England and recorded from the Middle Atlantic Bight, West of Iceland and the Gulf of Mexico (Smith 1885;Hansen 1908;Wenner 1982;Coykendall et al. 2017). Marin (2020) described a new taxon, M. asiatica, from the Bering Sea, reported as morphologically and genetically very similar to M. similis (see Marin 2020). ...

... Only a few species of Alpheus occur in temperate or cool-temperate waters, occurring as far north as eastern Russia and northern Japan, or as far south as New Zealand and southern Chile (Banner and Banner, 1982;Kim and Abele, 1988;. A number of species occur in deep water, well below 100 m and down to at least 1000 m (Anker and Nizinski, 2011;Scioli and Anker, 2020). They also occupy a wide variety of microhabitats, ranging from coral reef crevices, burrows in mud or sand, spaces under rocks, coralline algae, mangrove roots, tide pools etc.; some species are well-known bioeroders of both living and dead corals (Banner and Banner, 1982;Werding, 1990;Anker et al., 2006;Anker and De Grave, 2016). ...

... The deep sea has long been considered to be fairly homogeneous with broad distributions of deep-sea species across large areas (McClain & Hardy, 2010), but though the deep sea is large, it is not abiotically or biologically uniform . The deep sea hosts distinct biological communities that have adapted to the abiotic conditions in each deep water habitat, including submarine canyons (Fernandez-Arcaya et al., 2017;Quattrini et al., 2015) seamounts (Clark et al., 2010;Morato et al., 2008;Shank, 2010), hydrothermal vents Van Dover, 2021) and cold-water coral reefs (Roberts et al., 2009). However, the ability to fully interrogate the abiotic preferences of biological communities has only recently emerged, thanks to burgeoning technology that is only now becoming more accessible Ramirez-Llodra et al., 2010;Webb et al., 2010) Modern access to the deep sea has started to yield large basin-wide datasets (e.g. ...

... Rising temperatures and ocean acidification are negatively impacting shallow and deep sea corals [16,17,64]. Loss of live coral cover is related to decreases in abundance of a number of fish species; the magnitude of decline has been associated with the dependence on live coral [64][65][66][67]. ...

... This is peculiar because echinoderms, and especially echinoids, are rarely reported living at seeps (e.g. Carney, 2010;Pawson et al. 2015) or as fossils from ancient seeps (e.g. Kato et al. 2017;Brezina et al. 2022). ...