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Victor Alekseev, Hans-Uwe Dahms, Jiang-Shiou Hwang and Natalia Sukhikh
Invertebrates in tropical ecosystems are generally considered to have little or no need for a dormant phase due to the stability of the habitat. However, resting stages of aquatic organisms are occasionally found here as well. This fact increases the pos...
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Sang Lyeol Kim, Hyung Gon Lee, Yosup Park and Ok Hwan Yu
Pollution associated with marine debris is of global ecological concern, as it threatens wildlife and local economies. Submerged marine debris alters local benthic species composition and community characteristics. The study site of Jaguri, Jeju Island, ...
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Victor Pavlovich Chelomin, Andrey Alexandrovich Mazur, Valentina Vladimirovna Slobodskova, Sergey Petrovich Kukla and Nadezda Vladimirovna Dovzhenko
Microplastic pollution of the aquatic environment is one of the most serious environmental problems today. The potential environmental risks of such particles have become growing concerns in recent years, as direct or indirect exposure to these particles...
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Minju Kim, Jung-Hoon Kang and Dongsung Kim
The dispersal of organisms in an isolated environment of a hydrothermal vent remains unclear. Here, we provide direct evidence that meroplanktonic larvae may migrate thousands of meters above the ocean floor. The morphological quantitative measurements o...
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Mary Grace Sedanza, Hee-Jin Kim and Cyril Glenn Satuito
The potential use of the sea anemone Aiptasiomorpha minuta as an agent for controlling biofouling on cultured oysters and the optimum culture conditions for its mass culture were evaluated. Field experiments showed that nineteen species (eight phyla), in...
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Nadezda Vladimirovna Dovzhenko, Victor Pavlovich Chelomin, Andrey Alexandrovich Mazur, Sergey Petrovich Kukla, Valentina Vladimirovna Slobodskova, Aleksandra Anatolievna Istomina and Avianna Fayazovna Zhukovskaya
The ingress of nanoparticles of metal oxides and microfragments of synthetic polymers (microplastics) into a marine environment causes unpredictable consequences. The effects of such particles cannot be predicted due to a lack of ecotoxicological informa...
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Jinfeng Ding, Yunmei Sun, Changfei He, Jingxi Li and Fengmin Li
The ubiquitous presence of microplastics in bivalve mollusks and related risks have raised particular concerns. In this study, the available data on the abundance and polymer type of microplastics in bivalves from twenty-two countries were extracted to c...
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Aleksandr Zolotnitsky, Nataliy Sytnik, Sergei Chernyi and Natalya Logunova
The influence of the area of artificial substrates (collectors) on the biological parameters of populations of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck) during their cultivation in the Black Sea has been investigated. For growing mollusks, four types o...
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George E. Mustoe and Graham Beard
Calcite-mineralized wood occurs in marine sedimentary rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia at sites that range in age from Early Cretaceous to Paleocene. These fossil woods commonly have excellent anatomical preservation that resulted from a permi...
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Marta Solé, José-Manuel Fortuño, Mike van der Schaar and Michel André
Global change is the origin of increased occurrence of disturbance events in natural communities, with biological invasions constituting a major threat to ecosystem integrity and functioning. The apple snail (Pomacea maculata) is a freshwater gastropod m...
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