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Abstract Estimates of home range sizes for marine fishes are essential for designing and assessing the effects of spatial wildlife conservation policies and management interventions. However, in situ studies of marine species movement are challenging and often expensive, resulting in a paucity of data on the home range size of the vast majority of marine fishes. Here, we develop a set of new datasets, which we have collectively named Marine Fish Movement, that synthesises published empirically evaluated home ranges reported for adult marine fishes that interact with fisheries and leverage these data to estimate home range sizes for unstudied species. The empirical data contain estimated home range sizes (km2) for 193 species across 63 family groups from 179 studies published between 1971 and 2022. We use a random forest regression model to estimate home range sizes (km2) for 664 fished marine species currently lacking home range estimates. Marine Fish Movement can inform spatial interventions including the design and management of marine protected areas and dynamic fisheries management to meet sustainability goals.

We study the Schr\"odinger equation $\left(\mathrm{Q}_{\varepsilon}\right)$: $- \varepsilon^{2(p-1)} \Delta_p v + V(x)\, |v|^{p-2} v - |v|^{q-1}v = 0$, $x \in \mathbb{R}^N$, with $v(x) \rightarrow 0$ as $|x| \rightarrow+\infty$, for the infinite case, as given by Byeon and Wang for a situation of critical frequency, $\displaystyle \{x\in \mathbb{R}^N \, / \: V(x) = \inf V = 0\} \neq \emptyset$. In the semiclassical limit, $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$, the corresponding limit problem is $\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$: $\Delta_p w+|w|^{q-1} w=0$, $x \in \Omega$, with $w(x)=0, x \in \partial \Omega$, where $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^N$ is a smooth bounded strictly star-shaped region related to the potential $V$. We prove that for $\left(\mathrm{Q}_{\varepsilon}\right)$ there exists a non-trivial solution with any prescribed $\mathrm{L}^{q+1}$-mass.Applying a Ljusternik-Schnirelman scheme, shows that $\left(\mathrm{Q}_{\varepsilon}\right)$ and $\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$ have infinitely many pairs of solutions. Fixed a topological level $k \in \mathbb{N}$, we show that a solution of $\left(\mathrm{Q}_{\varepsilon}\right)$, $v_{k, \varepsilon}$, sub converges, in $\mathrm{W}^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ and up to scaling, to a corresponding solution of $\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$. We also prove that the energy of each solution, $v_{k,\eps}$ converges to the corresponding energy of the limit problem $\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$ so that the critical values of the functionals associated, respectively, to $\left(\mathrm{Q}_{\varepsilon}\right)$ and $\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$ are topologically equivalent.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a key tool for achieving goals for biodiversity conservation and human well-being, including improving climate resilience and equitable access to nature. At a national level, they are central components in the U.S. commitment to conserve at least 30% of U.S. waters by 2030. By definition, the primary goal of an MPA is the long-term conservation of nature; however, not all MPAs provide the same ecological and social benefits. A U.S. system of MPAs that is equitable, well-managed, representative and connected, and includes areas at a level of protection that can deliver desired outcomes is best positioned to support national goals. We used a new MPA framework, The MPA Guide, to assess the level of protection and stage of establishment of the 50 largest U.S. MPAs, which make up 99.7% of the total U.S. MPA area (3.19 million km2). Over 96% of this area, including 99% of that which is fully or highly protected against extractive or destructive human activities, is in the central Pacific ocean. Total MPA area in other regions is sparse – only 1.9% of the U.S. ocean excluding the central Pacific is protected in any kind of MPA (120,976 km2). Over three quarters of the non-central Pacific MPA area is lightly or minimally protected against extractive or destructive human activities. These results highlight an urgent need to improve the quality, quantity, and representativeness of MPA protection in U.S. waters to bring benefits to human and marine communities. We identify and review the state of the science, including focal areas for achieving desired MPA outcomes and lessons learned from places where sound ecological and social design principles come together in MPAs that are set up to achieve national goals for equity, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation. We recommend key opportunities for action specific to the U.S. context, including increasing funding, research, equity, and protection level for new and existing U.S. MPAs.

Secuencias 3 a 6 de La Intérprete, de Juan Mayorga.

Discurso de ingreso de Juan Mayorga a la Real Academia de Doctores de España.

The Amazon Basin is at the center of an intensifying discourse about deforestation, land-use, and global change. To date, climate research in the Basin has overwhelmingly focused on the cycling and storage of carbon (C) and its implications for global climate. Missing, however, is a more comprehensive consideration of other significant biophysical climate feedbacks [i.e., CH4, N2O, black carbon, biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), aerosols, evapotranspiration, and albedo] and their dynamic responses to both localized (fire, land-use change, infrastructure development, and storms) and global (warming, drying, and some related to El Niño or to warming in the tropical Atlantic) changes. Here, we synthesize the current understanding of (1) sources and fluxes of all major forcing agents, (2) the demonstrated or expected impact of global and local changes on each agent, and (3) the nature, extent, and drivers of anthropogenic change in the Basin. We highlight the large uncertainty in flux magnitude and responses, and their corresponding direct and indirect effects on the regional and global climate system. Despite uncertainty in their responses to change, we conclude that current warming from non-CO2 agents (especially CH4 and N2O) in the Amazon Basin largely offsets—and most likely exceeds—the climate service provided by atmospheric CO2 uptake. We also find that the majority of anthropogenic impacts act to increase the radiative forcing potential of the Basin. Given the large contribution of less-recognized agents (e.g., Amazonian trees alone emit ~3.5% of all global CH4), a continuing focus on a single metric (i.e., C uptake and storage) is incompatible with genuine efforts to understand and manage the biogeochemistry of climate in a rapidly changing Amazon Basin.

To develop more accurate global carbon (C) budgets and to better inform management of human activities in the ocean, we need high-resolution estimates of marine C stocks. Here we quantify global marine sedimentary C stocks at a 1-km resolution, and find that marine sediments store ∼ 3117 (3006–3209) Pg C in the top 1 m (more than twice that of terrestrial soils). Sediments in abyss/basin zones account for 75% of the global marine sediment C stock, and 52% of that stock is within the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zones of countries. Currently, only ∼2% of sediment C stocks are located in highly to fully protected areas that prevent the disturbance of the seafloor. Our results show that marine sediments represent a large and globally important C sink. However, the lack of protection for marine C stocks makes them highly vulnerable to human disturbances that can lead to their remineralization to CO2, further aggravating climate change impacts.

Dans cette présentation, Juan Mayorga propose de revenir sur la question de la violence dans son théâtre. En partant de sa pièce Himmelweg, il revisite quelques-unes de ses productions dramatiques pour nous donner quelques clés de compréhension de son œuvre. Il le fait néanmoins toujours en dialoguant avec son récepteur (lecteur, spectateur, critique, spécialiste ou théoricien, etc.) tant il est convaincu qu’une œuvre sait des choses que son auteur ne connaît pas.

Hubo pensadores que supieron leer en su tiempo signos de la catástrofe venidera. No eran profetas sino finos analistas. Nos referimos a Rosenzweig, Benjamin y Kafka. Rosenzweig denunció en el "idealismo" de la filosofía que viene desde Jonia y llega hasta Jena la tendencia a un totalitarismo que la convertía en potencialmente en una "ontología de la guerra". Benjamin dejó constancia de la ambigüedad radical del concepto de progreso, tan fundamental para el pensamiento ilustrado. La barbarie, en general, y el fascismo, en particular, no son lo opuesto al progreso sino una de sus posibilidades. Esa fatal posibilidad es, para la víctima, la norma. Kafka capta anticipadamente la reducción fascista del hombre a nuda vida en la recurrente animalización de sus personajes, así como la negación del otro en sus personajes víctimas de la incomunicación.