Sands, Chester J. Goodall-Copestake, William P. Stöhr, Sabine Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E. Convey, Peter O’Hara, Timothy D. Martín-Ledo, Rafael
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Accurate knowledge of geographic ranges of species is essential for effective conservation management. Species with large distributions and good connectivity are presumed to be resilient to adverse localized/regional conditions, whereas those with small ranges and, thus, smaller population sizes are more likely to be vulnerable. The rich benthic as...
Niemi, Andrea Bluhm, Bodil A. Juul-Pedersen, Thomas Kohlbach, Doreen Reigstad, Marit Søgaard, Dorte H. Amiraux, Rémi
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
The polymer-facilitated flux of ice algae on Arctic shelves can initiate benthic activity and growth after the nutritionally constrained winter period. Lipid-rich ice algae are readily consumed by benthos and those entering the sediment can benefit deposit feeders. Ice algae assimilated by benthic organisms cascade up multiple trophic levels within...
Lehuen, Amélie Rose-Marie, Oulhen Zhengquan, Zhou Jaco De, Smit Lennart Van, Ijzerloo Francesco, Cozzoli Tjeerd, Bouma Francis, Orvain
Bioturbation in estuarine environments describes all sediment reworking processes implied in sediment transport. However, modelling at large spatial and temporal scales remains a challenge because of the need to consider the fauna at the community level, and because animal behaviour is highly seasonal. Bioturbation processes can be linked to the ac...
Charles, François Labrune, Céline Lantoine, François Lescure, Lyvia Munaron, Jean-Marie Amouroux, Jean-Michel Labatut, Paul Le Loc’h, François
Due to its extensive continental shelf, the Gulf of Lion, situated in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, plays a crucial role in providing ecological services amidst various natural and anthropogenic pressures. Exposed to the impacts of climate change and suitable for marine energy development projects, the conservation of marine biodiversity in t...
Verma, Pankaj Pandey, Vikas Seleyi, Seyieleno C. Alagarsamy, Abirami Dharani, Gopal
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Deep sea bacterial communities demonstrate remarkable adaptability to high-pressure environments coupled with low temperatures which has sparked curiosity about their diversity and exceptional metabolic pathways. Additionally, bacteria in the deep sea exert a substantial influence over various biogeochemical processes. To date, we have relatively v...
Lelièvre, Yann Specq, Léa Lamy, Thomas Boyé, Aurélien Downey, Rachel V. Saucède, Thomas
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Sub-Antarctic coastal marine ecosystems harbor rich and diverse benthic communities. Despite their ecological uniqueness and vulnerability to global changes, studies on benthic communities remain limited. Using underwater video-imagery, we investigated the taxonomic and functional diversity of benthic communities associated with hard substrates at ...
Schnier, Jannik Hasemann, Christiane Mokievsky, Vadim Martínez Arbizu, Pedro Soltwedel, Thomas
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Frontiers in Marine Science
As an expansion of a time-series study on meiobenthos in the Arctic deep sea, the diversity of free-living nematode communities along nine stations along a bathymetric transect was investigated morphologically in taxonomic and functional regards (feeding-type composition, life-history traits, tail-shape composition) and compared with previous studi...
Hanim, N Siregar, N A Saputra, R T Widayati, K A Farajallah, A
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The west coast of Sumatra is a water area with a high potential for fishery products. One of the areas, (i.e., Sibolga City) is a national fishery center in Indonesia. The high productivity of these waters is supported by the presence of keystone species in nature, one of which is the crab (infraorder Brachyura). This study aims to record brachyura...
Vivó-Pons, Antoni Blomqvist, Mats Törnroos, Anna Lindegren, Martin
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Ecology letters
Our understanding of the community assembly processes acting on non-indigenous species (NIS), as well as the relationship with native species is limited, especially in marine ecosystems. To overcome this knowledge gap we here develop a trait-based approach based on the functional distinctiveness metric to assess niche overlap between NIS and native...
Chauvel, Nathan Raoux, Aurore Schlicklin, Ferdinand Weill, Pierre Dezileau, Laurent Dauvin, Jean-Claude Pezy, Jean-Philippe
The seabed of the English Channel (EC) corresponds to an extensive network of paleo-valleys,partly filled at the present-day with coarse sediments, reaching sometimes several metres thick,which represent an important source of accessible aggregates. The extraction of theseaggregates is currently experiencing significant growth along the French coas...
