Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jessica H. Whiteside +3 more
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Will improving wastewater treatment impact shorebirds? Effects of sewage discharges on estuarine invertebrates and birds [PDF]
Human communities often discharge wastewaters into estuaries, influencing their organic and pollutant loading, benthic community and trophic structure.
Ait Alla +45 more
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Saxitoxin (STX) group toxins consist of a set of analogues which are produced by harmful algal blooms (HABs). During a HAB, filter-feeding marine organisms accumulate the dinoflagellates and concentrate the toxins in the tissues.
Javiera Oyaneder-Terrazas +3 more
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Environmental controls on the stable isotopic composition of Mercenaria mercenaria: Potential application to paleoenvironmental studies [PDF]
We have investigated the environmental controls of seasonally resolved records of oxygen and carbon isotopes of modern Mercenaria mercenaria bivalves collected live from five coastal sites along the east coast of North America.
Aharon +47 more
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Metallothioneins in Arctic Bivalves
In the framework of an International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS) Project on biodiversity and adaptation strategies of Arctic coastal marine benthos, research was focused on the role of metallothioneins as a possible indicator of the effect on animals and ...
Amiard-Triquet, C. +4 more
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Bivalves aquaculture is already considered a very sustainable for of food production and might become an essential pillar on which to develop future global food security.
Daniela Summa +4 more
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Saxitoxin (STX) and its analogues produced by toxic dinoflagellates accumulate in bivalves, and routine monitoring of bivalves is important to prevent cases of human poisoning.
Ryuichi Watanabe +7 more
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Dilution of seawater affects the Ca2 + transport in the outer mantle epithelium of crassostrea gigas [PDF]
Varying salinities of coastal waters are likely to affect the physiology and ion transport capabilities of calcifying marine organisms such as bivalves.
Altshuler +76 more
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Mangarara Formation: exhumed remnants of a middle Miocene, temperate carbonate, submarine channel-fan system on the eastern margin of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand [PDF]
The middle Miocene Mangarara Formation is a thin (1–60 m), laterally discontinuous unit of moderately to highly calcareous (40–90%) facies of sandy to pure limestone, bioclastic sandstone, and conglomerate that crops out in a few valleys in North ...
Armstrong BD +25 more
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The study of the relationships between growth patterns, energy reserves and reproduction, and their interdependency with environmental variables is crucial to increase the knowledge of the physiological processes regulating the recruitment and survival ...
Vanessa Moschino +7 more
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