{"id":620,"date":"2021-02-05T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/?page_id=620"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:34:37","slug":"banks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/projects\/banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecology and oceanography of banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>Ecology and oceanography of shallow banks and coastal seamounts<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_622\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-622\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/hannibal_crabs-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannibal Seamount. \u00a9 Jes\u00fas Pineda. All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shallow banks are ecological hotspots, in the sense that densities of key species are elevated. Our lab investigates the ecology of shallow banks and coastal seamounts. The emphasis is in investigating the physical-biological processes that cause aggregation of zooplankton, planktivorous fish, and their predators, as well as the zonation of seamounts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our current research on shallow banks and seamounts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physical and biological processes that cause elevated densities of zooplankton, zooplanktivorous fish, and their predators in shallow banks. <a href=\"http:\/\/science.whoi.edu\/labs\/pinedalab\/PDFdocs\/Pineda_et_al_2015.pdf\">Prey aggregation by internal waves and foraging and distributional response by fish and large vertebrates.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DIstribution of fish and small sharks in nonlinear internal waves.<\/li>\n<li>Aggregation of zooplankton, zooplanktivosour fish, and pelagic predators mediated by hydraulic jumps.<\/li>\n<li>Ecology and oceanography of Hannibal seamount, a coastal tropical seamount. See <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanmediainstitute.org\/hannibal\">webpage (scroll down!) and video (click!)<\/a> of our cruise to Hannibal seamount in the <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanmediainstitute.org\/hannibal\">Ocean Media Institute website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/Hannibal_OcMedia-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/1770\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patchiness, population dentisy, and behavioral observations of a galatheoid anomuran crab swarm<\/a> (click the title for the web site, and here for a <a href=\"http:\/\/science.whoi.edu\/labs\/pinedalab\/PDFdocs\/Pineda_et_al_PeerJ_2016.pdf\">PDF<\/a>). See below for the video of the press release, and the swarm of <em> Pleuroncodes planipes<\/em>.Video of the press release,12 April 2016 \n<p>Crab swarm at Hannibal seamount, 18 April 2015. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table width=\"16\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The Dalio Foundation, Inc. supported this work.<\/p>\n\t<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>Collaborators included Victoria Starczak, Annette Govindarajan, H\u00e9ctor M. Guzman (STRI), Yogesh Girdhar, Rusty C. Holleman, Jim Churchill, Hanumant Singh and Dave Ralston<\/p>\n\t<h3>Select Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/03\/Pineda_et_al_PeerJ_2016.pdf\">A crab swarm at an ecological hotspot: patchiness and population density from AUV observations at a coastal, tropical seamount<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/03\/Pineda_L__O_2019.pdf\">Response of small sharks to nonlinear internal waves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/03\/Pineda_et_al_2015.pdf\">Whales and waves: Humpback whale foraging response and the shoaling of internal waves at Stellwagen Bank<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecology and oceanography of shallow banks and coastal seamounts Shallow banks are ecological hotspots, in the sense that densities of key species are elevated. Our lab investigates the ecology of shallow banks and coastal seamounts. 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