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Qiuying Han, Wenxue Che, Hui Zhao, Jiahui Ye, Wenxuan Zeng, Yufeng Luo, Xinzhu Bai, Muqiu Zhao and Yunfeng Shi
Eutrophication due to aquaculture can cause the decline of seagrasses and impact their carbon storage capacity. This study explored the effects of aquaculture on the sediment organic carbon (SOC) in Thalassia testudinum seagrass beds using enzyme activit...
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Samar Gourav Pati, Biswaranjan Paital and Dipak Kumar Sahoo
Effects of varied sediment and physico-chemical properties of water on allantoin content in tissues of Scylla serrata and its role in antioxidant homeostasis were investigated. Tissues of crabs were sampled from different coastal natural habitats of S. s...
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Thilagavathi Rajendiran, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Banajarani Panda and Vetrimurugan Elumalai
The quality of groundwater has been severely impacted by urbanization around coasts. The change in climate and land use patterns has deteriorated the quality and availability of groundwater. One of the main issues in contemporary groundwater quality rese...
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Simone Cappello, Francesco Smedile, Gabriella Caruso, Sabrina Patania, Alessia Lunetta and Maurizio Azzaro
Within the Svalbard archipelago, Kongsfjorden is an important marine ecosystem that is recognised as one of the main representative Arctic glacial fjords. Prokaryotic organisms are key drivers of important ecological processes such as carbon fluxes, nutr...
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Ansgar Gruber and Linda K. Medlin
Photosynthesis allows for the formation of biomass from inorganic carbon and therefore greatly enhances the amount of organic material on planet Earth. Especially, oxygenic photosynthesis removed a major bottleneck in the formation of biomass by utilisin...
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Kre?imir Maldini, Neven Cukrov, Kristina Pikelj, Natalija Matic and Marina Mlakar
The Cetina River Basin (CRB) belongs to a Dinaric karst area (Croatia). According to the obtained results on water and sediment quality, the Cetina River reaches the sixth goal of Sustainable Development (source of drinking water). Together with the CRB ...
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Yuliya Koudryashova, Tatiana Chizhova, Pavel Zadorozhny, Anna Ponomareva and Alena Eskova
The concentrations of 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the sediment of the Tatar Trough were studied. Despite the increase in PAH concentrations over recent decades, which is likely the result of the handling and transportation of fossil fue...
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Bernardo Duarte, Alexandra Baeta, João Carlos Marques and Isabel Caçador
Atmospheric CO2 enrichment, which is caused to a large extent by anthropogenic activities, is known to interfere with sediment microbial communities via plant rhizospheres. The present work aimed to evaluate this interaction in Spartina maritima ((Curtis...
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Alexey A. Maximov and Nadezhda A. Berezina
The development of sensitive indicators reflecting the state of the environment is an important issue for the monitoring of marine ecosystems. The spionid polychaete Marenzelleria arctia and pontoporeiid amphipod Monoporeia affinis are common macrobenthi...
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Elizaveta Agafonova, Ekaterina Novichkova, Alexander Novigatsky, Marina Kravchishina, Alexey Klyuvitkin and Anton Bulokhov
This paper presents the diatom and palynomorph data from a sediment trap deployed in the northern part of the East Barents Sea for an annual cycle from August 2017 to August 2018. The average monthly fluxes of diatoms and dinoflagellate cysts in the phot...
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