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Something Old, Something New; Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Taking Notes from Nature’s Greatest Designs

There are a surprising number of lessons that you can glean from a crab scuttling sideways. Looking at life from a completely different angle is exactly how nature solves its toughest challenges.

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Froese, R., H. Winker, G. Coro, M.L.D. Palomares, A.C. Tsikliras, D. Dimarchopoulou, K Touloumis, N. Demirel, G. Vianna, G. Scarcella, R. Schijns, C. Liang and D. Pauly. 2023. New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method. Acta Icthyologica et Piscatoria 53:173-189.

Sumaila, U.R., C. De Fontaubert and M.L.D. Palomares. 2023. How overfishing handicaps resilience of marine resources under climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science 10.

Muller, J., N. Houben, and D. Pauly. 2023. On being the wrong size, or the role of body mass in fish kills and hypoxia exposure. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106(7):1651-1667.

Fredston, A.L., W.W.L. Cheung, T.L. Frolicher, Z.J. Kitchel, A.A. Maureaud, J.T. Thorson, A. Auber, B. Merigot, J. Palacios-Abrantes, M.L.D. Palomares, L. Pecuchet, N.L. Shackell and M.L. Pinsky. 2023. Marine heatwaves are not dominant driver of change in demersal fishes. Nature 621(7978):324-329.

Abucay, L.R., P. Sorongon-Yap, K. Kesner-Reyes, E.C. Capuli, R.B. Reyes Jr., E. Daskalaki, C. Ferrà, G. Scarcella, G. Coro, F. Ordines, P. Sánchez-Zulueta, G. Dakalov, S. Klayn, L. Celie, M. Scotti, D. Grémillet, C. Lambert, G. Gal, M.L.D. Palomares, D. Dimarchopoulou and A.C. Tsikliras. 2023. Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas. Frontiers of Marine Science.

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