Ramos-Oliveira, Catarina Sampaio, Leandro Rubal, Marcos Veiga, Puri
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PeerJ
Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecosystem engineer that provides habitat and generates environmental heterogeneity, increasing local biodiversity. Moreover, it is an economically important species representing 14% of the global production of marine bivalves. Natural drivers and the increase of anthropogenic pressures, such as sediment stress, influ...
Edwards, Rachel Rossiter, Lucy Nagarajan, Rajarathinavelu Lea, Stephen E. G.
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Wetlands
Habitat characteristics and microhabitat of organisms pose a number of choices to foraging species, for example where and how to search for prey, which prey to select and what foraging technique to employ. Predators can enhance the profitability of foraging by adapting their strategies flexibly in relation to prey characteristics and environmental ...
Brown, Bianca R. P. Nunez, Joaquin C. B. Rand, David M.
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Animal Microbiome
BackgroundNatural populations inhabiting the rocky intertidal experience multiple ecological stressors and provide an opportunity to investigate how environmental differences influence microbiomes over small geographical scales. However, very few microbiome studies focus on animals that inhabit the intertidal. In this study, we investigate the micr...
Martinell, Jordi Juilleret, Jérôme Domènech, Rosa
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Facies
Fossil bioerosion traces at a new site of Les Bez (Jura Department) and those already known from Verrières-de-Joux (Doubs Department) in the central French Jura record an ancient Miocene cliffed shoreline cut into Lower Cretaceous limestones. Both localities are at about 900 m above the present sea level. Caulostrepsis, Gastrochaenolites and Circol...
Barrientos, Sara Barreiro, Rodolfo Cremades, Javier Piñeiro-Corbeira, Cristina
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Marine environmental research
A distortion of coastal communities has been reported along the European Atlantic in recent years. In NW Spain, the lack of studies focusing on long-term changes was resolved when several common perennial seaweeds were shown to have diminished in occurrence between 1998/99 and 2014. To ascertain whether their decline reflected a genuine long-term t...
Fernández-Aldecoa, RG Ladah, LB Morgan, SG Dibble, CD Solana-Arellano, E Filonov, A
Various physical mechanisms are implicated in the transport of zooplankton to the outer edge of the surf zone, which is the final barrier before reaching the adult habitat of many meroplanktonic organisms. To explore these physical mechanisms, we measured the abundance of zooplankton in the surf zone hourly for 3 consecutive days during strong inte...
Monaco, Cristián J. McQuaid, Christopher D.
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Biological Invasions
Predicting the spread of invasive species in a warming world calls for a better understanding of the mechanisms behind the relative performance of both invasive and indigenous species as recipient communities can offer biotic resistance. A particularly important functional trait in this context is reproductive potential. The Mediterranean mussel My...
Gusmao, Joao Bosco Sandrini-Neto, Leonardo Lana, Paulo
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Hydrobiologia
Hard bottoms can negatively affect the surrounding infauna by hosting predatory fauna and modifying local hydrodynamics and sedimentation rates. Considering that these effects depend on the distance to the hard bottoms, we expected that the infaunal structure and recolonization would change accordingly. We assessed whether the distance from a rocky...
Mantelatto, Marcelo Checoli Cruz, Igor Cristino Silva Creed, Joel Christopher
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Marine environmental research
Kaminski, Hayley L Fry, Brian Warnken, Jan Pitt, Kylie A
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Marine pollution bulletin
Nutrient loading from sewage wastewater discharge contributes to the eutrophication of coastal waters. Wastewater from the Gold Coast, Australia is discharged into the Gold Coast Seaway (GCS) for 13.5 h d-1 primarily on the ebbing tide to disperse wastewater seawards. Nitrogen stable isotopes were used to assess how effectively the tidally staged r...
