Published in Global change biology
Climate-forced ice losses are increasing potential for iceberg-seabed collisions, termed ice scour. At Ryder Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) sea ice, oceanography, phytoplankton and encrusting zoobenthos have been monitored since 1998. In 2003, grids of seabed markers, covering 225 m2 , were established, surveyed and replaced annually to measur...
Antarctica currently undergoes strong and contrasted impacts linked with climate change. While the West Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions in the world, resulting in sea ice cover decrease, the sea ice cover of East Antarctica unexpectedly tends to increase, possibly in relation with changes in atmospheric circulation. C...
AimTo describe and analyse asteroid biogeographic patterns in the Southern Ocean (SO) and test whether reproductive strategy (brooder versus broadcaster) can explain distribution patterns at the scale of the entire class. We hypothesize that brooding and broadcasting species display different biogeographic patterns.LocationSouthern Ocean, south of ...
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Published in Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research
During the present investigation, Girgaon, Marine Drive, Haji Ali and Gorai Creek in Mumbai were selected for biodiversity assessment following a protocol for natural geography in shore areas. Fifty nine macrobenthic molluscs, arthropods, coelenterates and echinoderms at these sites were recorded. The maximum density of gastropods and clams was obs...
Published in Palaeontology
Understanding how regional ecosystems respond to sea-level and environmental perturbations is a main challenge in palaeoecology. Here we use quantitative abundance estimates, integrated within a sequence stratigraphic and environmental framework, to reconstruct benthic community changes through the 13 myr history of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway in ...
Offshore wind farms potentially have an effect on the benthic ecosystem. Given the plans for large-scale development of offshore wind farms on the Dutch Continental Shelf (DCS), understanding these effects is relevant for policy and regulations regarding these developments. Because studying the effects of offshore wind farms on the benthic ecosyste...
Benthos onderzoek aan offshore windparken wordt uitgevoerd om inzicht te krijgen in de lange termijn effecten van de aanwezigheid van een windmolenpark (en de uitsluiting van visserij daarbinnen) op de benthische gemeenschappen van de zachte bodems en tevens hoe de benthische gemeenschappen op het geïntroduceerde hard substraat zich hebben ontwikke...
Suppleties van zand op vooroever of strand worden in opdracht van Rijkswaterstaat uitgevoerd om de Nederlandse kust tegen erosie te beschermen en om voldoende zand in het kustfundament te houden. Een groot deel van de suppleties vindt plaats in of nabij de kuststrook die binnen de Natura2000 regelgeving wordt beschermd, de Noordzeekustzone. Het is ...
The objective of the research presented in this thesis was to understand the patterns of benthic biodiversity on reefs in the North Sea. To gain this understanding, I studied which species are present on natural and artificial reefs, what environmental and biotic variables influence the presence and absence of a selection of these species and one o...
