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Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2004
Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global loss exceeding 35% (ref. 1). Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves, but the importance of these nurseries to reef fish population dynamics has not been ...
Alasdair J. Edwards   +33 more
core   +4 more sources

Factors structuring estuarine and coastal fish communities across Japan using environmental DNA metabarcoding

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Estuarine and coastal ecosystems are important habitats for many fish species. Large-scale patterns of estuarine and coastal fish communities can be affected by geographical factors, such as water temperature and latitude, that limit or allow fish ...
Manabu Kume   +10 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Design and evaluation of 16S rRNA sequence based oligonucleotide probes for the detection and quantification of Comamonas testosteroni in mixed microbial communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Background The β-proteobacterial species Comamonas testosteroni is capable of biotransformation and also biodegradation of a range of chemical compounds and thus potentially useful in chemical manufacturing and bioremediation.
Bathe, Stephan, Hausner, Martina
core   +1 more source

Land Cover Change in Northern Botswana: The Influence of Climate, Fire, and Elephants on Semi-Arid Savanna Woodlands

open access: yesLand, 2017
Complex couplings and feedback among climate, fire, and herbivory drive short- and long-term patterns of land cover change (LCC) in savanna ecosystems.
John Tyler Fox   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

8. Fish community

open access: yesZoology and Ecology, 2014
The changes in fish community and population parameters (abundance, biomass and fish growth) in Lake Drūksiai as a cooler of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) were investigated. In view of ecological processes taking place in the lake, the following three stages were distinguished as being of great importance for the species composition ...
Vytautas Kesminas, Andrius Steponėnas
openaire   +1 more source

Spatial patterns of reef fishes and corals in the thermally extreme waters of Qatar

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Persian Gulf is a thermally extreme environment in which reef corals have adapted to survive through temperature ranges that would be lethal to corals from other regions.
Jessica Bouwmeester   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Environmental Education and Communication Project on Migratory Fishes and Fishing Communities [PDF]

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2021
This study aims at evaluating the environmental education (EE) and communication intervention for the valorization of migratory fish resources in an estuary of northern Portugal. The EE component intervention was implemented among Middle School pupils of that region.
Sara Costa Carvalho   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Campylobacter in aquatic and terrestrial mammals is driven by life traits: A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionCampylobacter spp. infections are responsible for significant diarrheal disease burden across the globe, with prevalence thought to be increasing.
Michael R. Brooks   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Stream Size Really Explain Biodiversity Patterns in Lotic Systems? A Call for Mechanistic Explanations

open access: yesDiversity, 2017
Understanding drivers of biodiversity is a long-standing goal of basic and applied ecological research. In riverine systems, there remains a critical need to identify these drivers as efforts to manage and protect rivers grow increasingly desperate in ...
Ross Vander Vorste   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of the abiotic drivers of abundance of nearshore Arctic fishes

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Fish are critical ecologically and socioeconomically for subsistence economies in the Arctic, an ecosystem undergoing unprecedented environmental change.
Noah S. Khalsa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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