Michael Hoffmann, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Ariadne Angulo, Monika Böhm et al.
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496 , published online 26 October) review quantitative scenarios that have been developed for four main areas of concern: species extinctions, species abundances a...
Frederick T. Short, Beth Polidoro, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world’s coastal oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species, playing a critical role in the equilibrium of coastal ecosystems and human livelihoods. For the first time, the probability...
Ricardo Betancur‐R, Richard E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned fishes, traditionally referred to as percomorphs, whose uncertain relationships have plagued ichthyologist...
Axel Hochkirch, Melanie Bilz, Catarina Ferreira, Anja Danielczak et al.
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge and minimizing extinction rates is the goal of several multilateral environmental agreements. Policy decisions require comprehensive, spatially explicit information on species' distributions and threats. We present an analysis of the conservation status ...
Colleen Corrigan, Jeff Ardron, Mia T. Comeros‐Raynal, Erich Hoyt et al.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how criteria to identify important marine mammal areas (IMMAs) could be developed, and nested in existing global criteria. This process would consider 134 species of marine mammals. Particular attention is given to two suites of global criteria to identify areas importan...
Beginnings: My first experience of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) was at Northwestern University; the business meeting was trying to decide whether its name should be “the Society for Existential Philosophy and Phenomenology” or “the Society for Phenomenology and Exi...
Christi Linardich, Gina M. Ralph, Kent E. Carpenter, Neil A. Cox et al.
The greater Caribbean biogeographic region covered in this report (representing 38 countries and territories) encompasses an outstanding marine bony shorefish richness of approximately 1,360 species, with many (53%) being endemic. This report provides an overview of the conservat...
Daniel Kapp, Shaun Carpenter, Angelina Ferguson, Kent Denmark et al.
Objective: To assess real-world effectiveness of Innovamatrix™, a dehydrated porcine placental extracellular matrix (PPECM), in chronic wounds refractory to 30 days of optimized standard-of-care (SOC) therapy. Methods: Multicenter retrospective analysis of 72 chronic wounds (18 diabetic foot ulcers ...
Rachel Cohn
FisheriesVolume 48, Issue 5 p. 183-184 Section News Recreating Labels, Sustaining Fishing Communities Rachel M. Cohn, Corresponding Author Rachel M. Cohn [email protected] Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Rd, Kingston, RI, 02881Search for more papers by this...
J. A. Chandler, John Stewart, J. Mawson, R. A. W. Rhodes et al.
Theories of Local Economic Development. Edited by Richard D. Bingham and Robert Meir. Newbury Park CA, Sage, 1993. Pp. 319. £20.50 pb. Policy and Change. Edited by Randall Smith and Jane Raistrick. Saus Publications. 1994, Pp.442, £14.95 pb. Economic Development Work Book ‐ Briefings on Key Economic...