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An Analysis of Multiple Stressors on Resident Benthic Communities in a California Agricultural Stream

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2018
This 3-year study (2015-2017) was designed to characterize benthic communities (macroinvertebrates) and physical habitat in an agriculturally dominated waterbody in the Central Coast area of California (Santa Maria River).
Lenwood W Hall, Ronald D Anderson, William D Killen, Raymond W Alden   +3 more
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Wave exposure as a predictor of benthic habitat distribution on high energy temperate reefs

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015
The new found ability to measure physical attributes of the marine environment at high resolution across broad spatial scales has driven the rapid evolution of benthic habitat mapping as a field in its own right.
Alex eRattray, Daniel eIerodiaconou, Timothy eWomersley, Timothy eWomersley   +3 more
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Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Starfish play essential ecological roles as predators and ecosystem regulators; however, detailed developmental descriptions exist for only a handful of species, none of which are from the Mediterranean Sea. Results In this study, we provide the first full account of the development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata ...
Silvia Caballero‐Mancebo, Laurent Gilletta, Janet Chenevert, Stefania Castagnetti   +3 more
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Stochastic and deterministic processes influencing mountain mire diatom communities across spatial scales

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how deterministic and stochastic processes influence the shape of microorganism community assembly across different spatial scales is essential for disentangling biodiversity patterns. Mires are nutrient‐poor and heterogeneous wetlands that form isolated habitats supporting highly diverse diatom assemblages, particularly in mountainous ...
Fernanda Gonzalez‐ Saldias, Angel Rain‐ Franco, Joan Gomà, Jorge García‐ Girón, Aaron Pérez‐ Haase   +4 more
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Do diatoms dominate benthic production in shallow systems? A case study from a mixed seagrass bed

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2020
We report an assessment for determining the contribution by diatoms to community productivity and respiration within a coastal benthic ecosystem with multiple autotrophs.
T. Erin Cox, Just Cebrian, Marnie Tabor, Laura West, Jeffrey W. Krause   +4 more
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Community‐level egg and larval trait interactions with the Amazon River plume determine its role as a dispersal barrier

Ecography, EarlyView.
The Amazon River plume (ARP) functions as a dynamic and porous biogeographic barrier whose permeability to larval dispersal depends on the interplay between species' biological traits and oceanographic processes. Using biophysical modeling combined with a dual analytical framework, namely a multivariate regression tree (MRT) and a generalized additive ...
Ramon B. Santos, Nelson A. Gouveia, Douglas F. M. Gherardi   +2 more
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Continental scale metagenomics reveals Microcystis‐induced synchrony among aquatic taxa is exacerbated by trophic cascades

Ecography, EarlyView.
Harmful Microcystis proliferation severely threatens aquatic ecosystems globally, but its impacts on food‐web stability remain poorly understood. Here, we analyzed 1309 metagenomic samples from freshwater ecosystems across China to investigate how Microcystis abundance affects synchrony among taxa in multi‐trophic food webs (from bacteriophages to ...
Lemian Liu, Siqi Zhu, Xiaoqin Huang, Wenjia Hu, Lixiang Luo, Xiusong Pan, Jianfeng Chen   +6 more
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Spatial heterogeneity of coral reef benthic communities in Kenya.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Spatial patterns of coral reef benthic communities vary across a range of broad-scale biogeographical levels to fine-scale local habitat conditions. This study described spatial patterns of coral reef benthic communities spanning across the 536-km coast ...
Juliet Furaha Karisa, David Obare Obura, Chaolun Allen Chen   +2 more
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Marine Macroalgae as a Safe Healthy Food While Meeting Food Security Challenges Arising From Climate Changes

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Planned harvesting and processing of marine macroalgae could meet future global food needs and mitigate fuel‐originated carbon dioxide responsible for climate change. Microalgal foods are nutritious and safe. The utilization of macroalgae would avoid environmental problems arising from the release of overgrowing macroalgae caused by heatwaves, which ...
Upali Samarajeewa
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Viruses in the sediments around the trenches harbor diverse survival mechanisms

iMetaOmics, EarlyView.
Deep‐sea trenches are the deepest and most isolated environments in the global ocean but the diversity and adaptation of the viral communities remain poorly characterized. In this study, 5563 viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) were identified from sediments of the Yap Trench and Western Caroline Basin.
Yue Su, Hao Yu, Shujuan Sun, Kaiyang Zheng, Ziyue Wang, Chen Gao, Guangxue Li, Xiaoshou Liu, Hongbing Shao, David Paez‐Espino, Andrew McMinn, Yantao Liang, Min Wang   +12 more
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