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Paulo Torres, Ander Larrea Llopis, Carlos Sousa Melo and Armindo Rodrigues
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal particularly susceptible to mobilization by anthropogenic and natural processes. The volcanic nature of oceanic islands in the Macaronesia geographical region such as the Azores archipelago, located near the Mid...
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Michele Arienzo and Carlo Donadio
Microplastics, MPs, in aquatic environments pose serious threats when associated with other pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, PHs. This review is a continuation of an earlier paper on the role of MPs as containers and carriers of heavy metals, HMs, pe...
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Lucía Soliño, Sea-Yong Kim, Alfredo López, Pablo Covelo, Sara Rydberg, Pedro Reis Costa and Sandra Lage
The neurotoxin ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a non-proteinogenic amino acid produced by several species of both prokaryotic (cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic (diatoms) microorganisms, has been proposed to be associated with the development of neurodegen...
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Shuo-Fang Liu, Tzu-Chieh Lee, Maggie McMillin, Yuan-Tai Li, Yun Li and Yuan-Chin Hsu
Microplastics are the biggest pollutants in marine ecosystems. Each year, over 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans. Via microbes, microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food webs. It is therefore important to create a way to remove micro...
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Jieun Kim, Hee-Young Yun, Eun-Ji Won, Hyuntae Choi, Seok-Hyeon Youn and Kyung-Hoon Shin
Despite their crucial roles in transporting primary productions in marine food webs, the trophic dynamics of zooplankton throughout the seasons have rarely been studied. In this study, four dominant zooplankton taxa with phytoplankton size composition an...
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Jane B. Weinstock, Lourdes Vargas and Rachel Collin
Ocean deoxygenation, warming, and acidification resulting from global change and increasing nutrient inputs are major threats to marine ecosystems. Despite this, spatial and temporal patterns of oxygen availability and their impacts on marine life are un...
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Michele Arienzo, Luciano Ferrara and Marco Trifuoggi
This review is a follow-up to a previous review published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineeringon the issues of accumulation, transport, and the effects of microplastics (MPs) in the oceans. The review brings together experimental laboratory, math...
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Pham Van Hieu, Nguyen Thi Hoang Ha, Luu Viet Dung and Koji Omori
Mangrove forests are important in providing habitats for complex communities of terrestrial and marine fauna. Moreover, they are recognized as highly productive ecosystems in providing nutrients to mangrove food webs or exporting them to nearby coastal w...
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Eva Leu, Thomas A. Brown, Martin Graeve, Jozef Wiktor, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Melissa Chierici, Agneta Fransson, Sander Verbiest, Ane C. Kvernvik and Michael J. Greenacre
Assessing the relative importance of sea ice algal-based production is often vital for studies about climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems. Several types of lipid biomarkers and stable isotope ratios are widely used for tracing sea ic-associ...
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Muhamad Afiq Akbar, Asmat Ahmad, Gires Usup and Hamidun Bunawan
Dinoflagellates are essential components in marine ecosystems, and they possess two dissimilar flagella to facilitate movement. Dinoflagellates are major components of marine food webs and of extreme importance in balancing the ecosystem energy flux in o...
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