Hidden ecosystem function of rabbitfishes? Siganus fuscescens feeds on the soft coral, Sarcophyton sp.
Published in Coral Reefs
Hidden ecosystem function of rabbitfishes? Siganus fuscescens feeds on the soft coral, Sarcophyton sp.
Spatial and temporal variability of coastal benthic communities in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Sal...
Published in Oceanology
Studies were performed in 2009 in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Salma Strait (Karelian coast, the White Sea). The macrobenthic communities were studied for a number of stations where previous observations were performed in 1953–1954. The communities where the bivalve mollusks Arctica islandica and, to a lesser extent, Serripes g...
“New” benthic community dominated by Oweniidae (Polychaeta, Oweniidae) at the Murman coast: Structure and causes of appe...
Published in Doklady Biological Sciences
An experimental test of the effect of the abalone Haliotis midae on benthic community composition
Published in Marine Biology
The South African abalone Haliotis midae is a commercially valuable species, but its numbers are seriously depleted due to illegal fishing. Overfishing not only affects the targeted species, but also potentially influences the integrity and functioning of the ecosystem through associated changes in community composition. We assessed the herbivorous...
Giant protists (xenophyophores and komokiaceans) from the Clarion-Clipperton ferromanganese nodule field (eastern Pacifi...
Published in Biology Bulletin Reviews
Our investigations are consistent with those of earlier authors in showing that giant testate protists (xenophyophores and komokiaceans) are key groups among the deep-sea mega- and macro-benthos, dominating in density and biomass in some areas of the World Ocean. Analyses of 38600 seafloor photographs, and fauna from 30 box-corers, taken in the Rus...
Relationship Between Bifenthrin Sediment Toxic Units and Benthic Community Metrics in Urban California Streams
Published in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
The objective of this study was to use ecologically relevant field measurements for determining the relationship between bifenthrin sediment toxic units (TUs) (environmental concentrations/Hyalella acute LC50 value) and 15 benthic metrics in four urban California streams sampled from 2006 to 2011. Data from the following four California streams wer...
Alveopora japonica beds thriving under kelp
Published in Coral Reefs
In situ remediation of contaminated sediments using thin-layer capping : efficiency in contaminant retention and ecologi...
Hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs) often reside in sediments sorbed to particles, most tightly to particles with high content of organic carbon. If persistent, such pollutants can accumulate in the sediment for many years and constitute a contamination risk for sediment-living organisms and organisms at higher trophic levels, including humans....
Changes in the macrobenthic communities of the Gudauta Oyster Bank
Published in Oceanology
Twenty-nine benthic invertebrate species were registered for the Gudauta Bank in the depth range of 8–32 m in 1990. The shallow-water biocenose was defined for the depths of less than 10 m, the biocenoses of Anadara inaequivalvis and A. inaequivalvis-Upogebia pusilla occupied the depths of 10–30 m; and the biocenosis of Pitar rudis was found for th...
Acropora muricata mortality associated with extensive growth of Caulerpa racemosa in Magoodhoo Island, Republic of Maldi...
Published in Coral Reefs
