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Long Chen, Feng Li, Wenrou Huang, Zhi Li and Mingguang Chen
A large fraction of mercury contaminant in the environment is from industrial production, and it potentially impairs human health once entering the food chain. Millions of people reside in the Pearl River Delta region, and water quality in the estuary di...
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Haoran Liu, Kehui Xu, Bin Li, Ya Han and Guandong Li
Machine learning classifiers have been rarely used for the identification of seafloor sediment types in the rapidly changing dredge pits for coastal restoration. Our study uses multiple machine learning classifiers to identify the sediment types of the C...
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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Kristina M. Chomiak, Wendy A. Owens-Rios, Carmella M. Bangkong, Steven W. Day, Nathan C. Eddingsaas, Matthew J. Hoffman, André O. Hudson and Anna Christina Tyler
Plastic debris is a growing threat in freshwater ecosystems and transport models predict that many plastics will sink to the benthos. Among the most common plastics found in the Laurentian Great Lakes sediments are polyethylene terephthalate (especially ...
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Bithy Khatun, Md. Abu Sayed Jewel, Md. Ayenuddin Haque, Sumaiya Akter, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Mohammed Fahad Albeshr and Takaomi Arai
Macro-benthos is commonly considered an indicator for evaluating the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Earlier research from sub-tropical mangrove estuaries, however, has primarily relied on conventional taxonomic methods to determine the pattern of macro-...
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Caterina Stamouli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Eleni Voultsiadou
Sponge assemblages play a significant role in the functioning of the Mediterranean benthic ecosystem. The main goal of this study was to investigate the diversity and distribution of poorly known sponge communities in the mesophotic and deep-sea substrat...
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Diego Carreira-Flores, Puri Veiga, Jesús Fernández-Gutiérrez, Pedro T. Gomes and Marcos Rubal
Scavenging fauna plays an integral role in ecosystem functioning, nutrient cycling and circulating organic matter. Thus, baseline data of scavenger assemblages on the NW coast of the Iberian Peninsula that provides information on the abundance of species...
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Alexei V. Chernyshev and Neonila E. Polyakova
To date, a total of 23 valid species of heteronemerteans belonging to 15 genera have been recorded in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters. The ribbon worm Heteronemertes longifissa (Hubrecht, 1887) is the only heteronemertean species reported to have bipol...
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Kyeong-Tae Lee, Garance Perrois, Hyun-Sung Yang, Taeho Kim, Sun Kyeong Choi, Do-Hyung Kang and Taihun Kim
This study was carried out to determine the levels of resistance and resilience of kelp forests to large-scale physical disturbances. Our study site, Seongsan, Jeju Island, was impacted by super typhoon ?Hinnamnor?. Before the typhoon, Seongsan had shown...
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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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