Browsing Biological & Environmental Sciences by Publisher "American Association for the Advancement of Science"

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    • Diplomacy for the world's hottest sea 

      Al-Mudaffar Fawzi, Nadia; Fieseler, Clare M.; Helmuth, Brian; Leitão, Alexandra; Al-Ainsi, Mehsin; ... more authors ( American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2022 , Article)
      Countries that border the Persian or Arabian Gulf [hereafter, “Gulf ”] are adopting ambitious global commitments to protect their marine environments. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to protecting 30% of its ...

    • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology 

      Andrzejaczek, Samantha; Lucas, Tim C.D.; Goodman, Maurice C.; Hussey, Nigel E.; Armstrong, Amelia J.; ... more authors ( American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2022 , Article)
      Knowledge of the three-dimensional movement patterns of elasmobranchs is vital to understand their ecological roles and exposure to anthropogenic pressures. To date, comparative studies among species at global scales have ...

    • Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa 

      Ren, Guangpeng; Zhang, Xu; Li, Ying; Ridout, Kate; Serrano-Serrano, Martha L.; ... more authors ( American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2021 , Article)
      Cannabis sativa has long been an important source of fiber extracted from hemp and both medicinal and recreational drugs based on cannabinoid compounds. Here, we investigated its poorly known domestication history using ...

    • Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays 

      Simpfendorfer, Colin A.; Heithaus, Michael R.; Heupel, Michelle R.; MacNeil, M. Aaron; Meekan, Mark; ... more authors ( American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2023 , Article)
      A global survey of coral reefs reveals that overfishing is driving resident shark species toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch (shark and ray) assemblages. Our species-level analysis revealed ...