BACKGROUND Professional divers are exposed to physiological effects of increased ambient pressure and may be exposed to hazards like carcinogens in polluted breathing gas and water. Consequences in terms of adverse health effects and mortality have been debated for many years. AIM The aim of this study was to compare the risk of cancer in Norwegian professional divers to that of the general p...

Management authorities seldom have the capacity to comprehensively address the full suite of anthropogenic stressors, particularly in the coastal zone where numerous threats can act simultaneously to impact reefs and other ecosystems. This situation requires tools to prioritise management interventions that result in optimum ecological outcomes under a set of constraints. Here we develop one su...

Inshore ship detection is an important task in several fields, for example, maritime transportation, supervision, and port management. However, due to the diversified categories locations of different ships interference complex surroundings, capturing discriminative characteristics multi-scale inshore accurate still challenging. Here, anchor-guided attention refinement network (AARN) proposed a...

Aim Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has demonstrated its applicability as a highly sensitive biomonitoring tool across small spatial and temporal scales in marine ecosystems. However, it rarely been tested large or biogeographical barriers. Here, we scale up eDNA metabarcoding, test ability to detect major biogeographic break evaluate use regional Australia. Location North-western Austra...

Bioerosion on inshore reefs is expected to increase with global climate change reducing reef stability and accretionary potential. Most studies investigating bioerosion have focused external grazers, such as parrotfish urchins, whose biomass more easily measured. Yet, cryptic endolithic bioeroders macroboring (worms, sponges bivalves) microboring taxa (fungus algae) the potential be dominant so...