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David Bailey

@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk
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Marine biologist at the University of Glasgow

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Open Seas @open-seas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Scottish Government's consultation on protecting inshore Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features is open. We've pushed for this for years, it's a real chance to restore Scotland's seas. Have your say now 👇 bit.ly/3Tpz9SK
A breaking news announcement from Open Seas states that the Scottish Government has opened a consultation on protecting its inshore seas. The background shows a scenic view of the sea with distant hills.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
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AI is making everything worse
The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 04/06/2026
I think the scale of university building projects is getting out of hand....
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 07/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE - The Papua New Guinea Courier's view on today's Welsh, Scottish and local elections. More in my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🔥 Sunday School: THE HEAT IS ON 🌡️ 🕍 Golders Green: Anger is not a plan. 🍦 Does a hot summer mean riots? 👩🏽‍🦰 There's something about Rayner. @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social discuss the week's news. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1MFh...
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Sunday School: The heat is on
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · May 3 · 1h
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The Naturally Speaking Podcast @naturally-speaking.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New Naturally Speaking Podcast! Episode 102 – A Field Course on Tropical Marine Biology Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/04/18/e...
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Episode 102 – A Field Course on Tropical Marine Biology
In this episode Dr. Dave Bailey and undergraduate students Youssra Bennadji and Lauren Wilson speak with Naturally Speaking’s John Smout and Caroline Sharp about some of the aspects of the Tropical…
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.
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Marine Conservation Institute @savingoceans.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Scientists are calling on UN Member States to fully implement UNGA Resolution 61/105 and protect vulnerable marine ecosystems, including seamounts, from destructive bottom-contact fishing. Eligible scientists may sign in their personal capacity: stateoftheocean.org/seamoun...
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 17/02/2026
Our latest paper showing how fish use the underwater seascape, showing the importance of a diverse mixture of substrata in nursery areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Graeme Cullen @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Dr Charlotte Hopkins @uniofhull.bsky.social and Dr Neil Burns (UofG SES)
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The Naturally Speaking Podcast @naturally-speaking.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New Naturally Speaking Podcast! It's our 100th episode! Thank you to all who have contributed to allow us to reach this milestone! EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/02/01/e...
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EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems
In this episode Dr. Oskar Brattstrom and undergraduate students Bridget Nielsen and Katie Mulholland speak with Naturally Speaking’s Anders Erlandson, Caroline Sharp and Taya Forde about some…
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring. I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
might watch this video 100 times before the day is over
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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New PhD opportunity - which I'm delighted to be co-supervising! 'From Catch to Kitchen: Learning from Recreational Anglers to Diversify UK Seafood Choices' www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #seafood #angling #fisheries #recreationalfishing #sustainability @thembauk.bsky.social Please share!
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Iapetus DTP @iapetusdtp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen
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Scottish Environment LINK @scotlink.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Scot Gov delays marine protection (again) until AFTER May 2026 election Lines on a map are NOT protection! Destructive bottom trawling continues in our protected areas, devastating vital habitats. The costs of this delay are severe. Read more: www.scotlink.org/environment-... #savescottishseas
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 20/11/2025
We have a great PhD project in partnership with British Antarctic Survey and Viking Cruises to study the underwater seascape of Antarctica. Full training and additional pay for time at sea @bas.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Closing Jan 5th 2026 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 07/11/2025
We're almost at the end of the training week of the @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Tropical Marine Biology field course in the beautiful Red Sea. More updates and pictures to follow. @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofglifesci.bsky.social
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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 20/10/2025
A big thank you to all the staff and 3rd year Zoology and Marine & Freshwater Biology students who took part in the marine biology field course at FSC Millport! @dommccafferty.bsky.social @tashamilne.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 17/09/2025
Victoria Paterson and I are abseiling off a building here at the University of Glasgow to raise money for student expeds. This is to help disadvanaged students take up these amazing, life changing opportunities @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/page/paterso... We'd appreciate you support
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Jan Lindström @jlindstrom.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Glasgow university’s Zoology degree retains its top position in the Guardian university 2026 rankings, for the 4th year in a row! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgmvls.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/theg...
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Tasha Milne @tashamilne.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Seascape ecology of juvenile gadoid nursery areas | Royal Society Open Science
Availability of juvenile fish habitat provision can impact recruitment. This study focused on identifying which environmental variables characterize the juvenile habitats of three commercially important gadoid species: Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock ...
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Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme @strandings.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🐬🐳 Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
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An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 25/07/2025
I found this article on neurodiversity in conservationists very moving and encouraging, for professional and personal reasons. www.theguardian.com/environment/... We've got more to do to do on ethnic diversity, and inclusion of people from more disadvantged backgrounds, but this is a good story
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‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature
Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 22/07/2025
We have a 12 month Marine and Freshwater teaching position in our School. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... Closing date 11th August. Interest in teaching on our Tropical Marine Biology course, would be great, but not essential. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Questions to @jlindstrom.bsky.social
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 03/07/2025
Some good conservation news. The Scottish Government has closed >20 MPAs to wrasse fishing. This is a direct result of our team’s research and the tireless efforts of @siftscotland.bsky.social
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Deep Sea Conservation Coalition @deepseaconserve.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bottom trawling continues to destroy vulnerable marine ecosystems. 95+ scientists have signed a letter calling on States & @UN to fully implement existing commitments to protect seamounts from destructive fishing practices. Are you a scientist? Add your name ⬇️ @oceanipso.bsky.social
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Scientists Call for Urgent Protection of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Join scientists in calling for immediate action for full implementation of existing commitments to protect deep-sea biodiversity.
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 20/06/2025
I don't know how many times I've registered for Elsevier's Editorial Manager system, or linked my Orcid to it, it has never worked properly. Maybe they could spend part of their billion dollars of profit on fixing it. I know, not the biggest problem in the world today
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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🌿Last week, MASTS held a 2day workshop with @scotlandbnz.bsky.social‬ on Coastal and Marine Natural Capital Markets. Participants explored how Scotland’s coastal and marine science community can provide evidence to assess the feasibility, risks, and opportunities of natural capital markets.
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Dr Laurence H. De Clippele @ldeclippele.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New paper alert! Worldwide Soundscapes: metadata from 12,343 PAM sites across land, sea, freshwater & even underground. This is the first global synthesis of acoustic biodiversity monitoring. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021 #AcousticEcology #PAM #BiodiversityMonitoring #Ecology
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Rachel Mawer @rmawer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New paper! We estimated the reproductive timing of the critically endangered #flapperskate by making use of a pre-existing #citizenscience photo ID database 📸 with @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @jathorburn.bsky.social Paper ⏩ doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... & summary below ⏬
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Tasha Milne @tashamilne.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our new paper on marine mapping and biodiversity, using a combination of underwater imaging techniques: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org
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A novel use of Stereo Baited Remote Underwater Video and Drop-Down Video for biodiversity and marine landscape mapping and prediction
To make the best-informed decisions on managing marine resources whilst also restoring biodiversity, the creation and analysis of benthic maps is highly valuable. This study focuses on benthic mapping...
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 21/02/2025
Some amazing pictures to cheer up your timeline www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures
The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life
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Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts
An inspirational Darwin quote: "How I shall enjoy getting back to Down with renovated health, if such is to be my good fortune, & resuming the beloved Barnacles." -Charles Darwin 28 March 1849An inspirational Darwin quote: "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship." -Charles Darwin 24 October 1852
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 07/02/2025
In a shock development* when asked whether whole MPAs should be closed to fishing, or just zones within them "The consultation revealed a fundamental divide between advocates of conservation and industry stakeholders when it came to zonal or full site measures." www.gov.scot/publications... */s
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Fisheries management measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): consultation analysis
Analysis of responses to the consultation on proposed fisheries management measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The consultation sought input on implementing management mea...
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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 05/02/2025
New job opening for a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome within the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Closing date 4th March 2025. More information here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo...
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Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome
Job Purpose To make a substantial and positive contribution to the strategic direction of the School/College through leading and contributing to research of international standard, high quality tea...
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Richard Reeve @richardreeve.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@uofglasgow.bsky.social Maths&Stats / GES / @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social have several funded PhD studentships in Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions for UK and international students starting in October - www.exageo.org - deadline Monday 17th February.
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ExaGEO DLA – Be part of the solution
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 17/01/2025
Great to see our research on wrasse used to inform this investigation. Our work with @naturescot.bsky.social found that wrasse are "typical species" of protected reef features, and as such needed to be monitored and safeguarded environmentalstandards.scot/our-work/our...
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Wrasse Fishing Activities Case Summary - Environmental Standards Scotland
Consideration of the current arrangements in respect of wrasse fishing activities on protected areas and species in Scotland. Case Reference: IESS.24.029
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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#PhD opportunity: Last chance - applications close on Monday 13th January! @benciotti.bsky.social 🏖️🐟
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Another fully-funded PhD via @netgain.bsky.social: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Led by Flurina Wartmann, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Deadline 31 Jan
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David Bailey @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · 07/01/2025
New paper led by Eric Schneider at Cape Eleuthera Institute on acoustic methods of pelagic fish tracking around a scientific FAD link.springer.com/article/10.1... @innovasea.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @shaunkillen.bsky.social #openaccess
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Determination of distance away and depth of transmitters relative to a vertical acoustic telemetry array in the open ocean - Animal Biotelemetry
Background Many ecologically and commercially important species occur in the epipelagic marine environment and have been observed to spend a considerable amount of time associating with surface struct...
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