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Ming-Cheng Hu, Yu-Qing Guo, Yi-Jia Shih, Kai Liu, Chun-Xue Li, Fen-Fen Ji and Ta-Jen Chu
The invasion of Spartina alterniflora is one of the main threats faced by mangrove wetlands in Quanzhou Bay, Fujian. To effectively manage S. alterniflora, mangrove plants (Kandelia obovata, Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Rhizophora stylos...
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Jimin Lee, Jong Hak Shin and Cheon Young Chang
Two marine halacarids, Copidognathus levicostatus n. sp. and C. vicinus Bartsch, 1997, belonging to the C. gibbus group, have been recorded based on both sexes from the microhabitat of intertidal and sublittoral rocks on the coast of South Korea. Copidog...
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Oceanne E. Himmighofen, Maria Holzmann, Inés Barrenechea-Angeles, Jan Pawlowski and Andrew J. Gooday
The abyssal Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) hosts vast, commercially valuable seafloor deposits of polymetallic nodules. Foraminifera (testate protists) dominate benthic communities in this region. Here, we present a taxonomic survey, combining mor...
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Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Barbara Fiasca, Mattia Di Cicco, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Agostina Tabilio Di Camillo, Simone Crisante and Diana Maria Paola Galassi
Abundance?Biomass Comparison (ABC) models, first described for marine benthic macrofauna, have been applied successfully to other marine and terrestrial/freshwater fauna but never to ecotonal communities. In particular, to our knowledge, ABC models have ...
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Cristina Gioia Di Camillo, Giorgia Luzi, Afghan Danial, Luciano Di Florio, Barbara Calcinai, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Jéssica Luana Santana Mendonça de Oliveira, Agnese Fumanti and Carlo Cerrano
The macrofauna in the intertidal zone of sandy beaches provides the trophic connectivity between land and sea, by linking microbiome, meiofauna, and megafauna, representing a food source for several terrestrial animals, including shorebirds and mammals. ...
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Clare Bradshaw, Anna-Lea Golz and Kerstin Gustafsson
The combined effects of ocean warming and contaminants on marine ecosystems are poorly understood. In this study, we exposed model ecosystems comprising typical shallow coastal Baltic Sea communities to elevated temperature (+5 °C) and the flame retardan...
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Adrian G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund, Inga Mohrbeck and Craig R. Smith
Recent years have seen increased survey and sampling expeditions to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), central Pacific Ocean abyss, driven by commercial interests from contractors in the potential extraction of polymetallic nodules in the region. Part of...
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Simón Astiz, Francesco Sabater
We examined the effects of the discharge from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) on the interstitial water chemistry and structure of the hyporheos in two sections of the La Tordera stream, one upstream and one downstream of the effluent from the treatm...
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