Multi-year passive acoustic monitoring of coastal dolphins along the Israeli Mediterranean shallow shelf reveals the impact of marine fish farms and trawling patterns on their habitat utilization.

Dolphin preference and usage of various habitats along the Israeli shallow coastal shelf were investigated between 2019 and 2021 with passive acoustic monitoring devices. A hurdle model was used to examine the dolphins' visiting probability (chance of detection) and visit duration (length of stay once detected) across habitats, with diel cycle and season as explanatory variables. The influence of spatiotemporal prohibitions placed on trawler activity was also examined.

Are we ready to track climate-driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? - A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data.

Marine biota are redistributing at a rapid pace in response to climate change and shifting seascapes. While changes in fish populations and community structure threaten the sustainability of fisheries, our capacity to adapt by tracking and projecting marine species remains a challenge due to data discontinuities in biological observations, lack of data availability, and mismatch between data and real species distributions. To assess the extent of this challenge, we review the global status and accessibility of ongoing scientific bottom trawl surveys.

Preliminary Results from a Prospective Study Comparing White Blood Cell and Neutrophil Counts from a Laboratory to Those Measured with a New Device in Patients with Breast Cancer.

Background/aim: If blood tests were performed at home, unnecessary trips of patients for chemotherapy could be avoided. The HemoCue® WBC DIFF device was tested at home by 14 patients with breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: A total of 42 measurements of white blood cell (WBC) and neutrophil counts with the device at home were compared to laboratory measurements performed within 3 hours.

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene.

Motivation: The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series.

Remarkable size-spectra stability in a marine system undergoing massive invasion.

The Mediterranean Sea is an invasion hotspot, with non-indigenous species suspected to be a major driver behind community changes. We used size spectra, a reliable index of food web structure, to examine how the influx of Red Sea fishes into the Mediterranean Sea has impacted the indigenous species community. This is the first attempt to use changes in the size spectra to reveal the effect of biological invasions.