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Riding the Storm: Microeukaryote Community Responses to Hurricane Disturbance. [PDF]

J Eukaryot Microbiol
ABSTRACT Sandy beaches are dynamic ecosystems where terrestrial and marine organisms coexist, resulting in diverse communities where microeukaryotes (protists, microalgae, and meiofauna) are key drivers. Understanding their diversity patterns and responses to stressors is essential for elucidating ecological processes, yet information on this subject ...
Rivera-Zizumbo AA, Velez P, Tapia-Torres Y, Servín-Garcidueñas LE, Lagunas-Calvo O, Gasca-Pineda J.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Potential long-term disturbance associated with beach nourishment - insights and observations from Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Outer Banks, North Carolina

Heliyon, 2023
The longer-term ecosystem impacts associated with a beach nourishment project conducted in 2014 were studied on an ocean beach on the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Paul Paris, Anya Leach, D. Reide Corbett
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Criteria for coastwide crab condition sampling

“Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program.” Crabs molt every year. After they molt, their shells are soft and are not filled out with meat. It takes weeks for the crabs to fill out.
Dahlstrom, Walter, Dungeness Crab Scientific Committee. Sub-Committee on Crab Condition Studies, Stewart, Nelson E., Snow, C. Dale, Tegelberg, Herb   +4 more
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Low Densities of the Ghost Crab Ocypode quadrata Related to Large Scale Human Modification of Sandy Shores

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Sandy beaches are the most common ecosystems of coastal regions and provide direct and indirect essential services for millions of people, such as coastal protection, fishing, tourism, and recreational activities.
Carlos A. M. Barboza, Carlos A. M. Barboza, Gustavo Mattos, Abílio Soares-Gomes, Ilana Rosental Zalmon, Leonardo Lopes Costa   +5 more
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Individual Laterality in Ghost Crabs (Ocypode saratan) Influences Burrowing Behavior [PDF]

Symmetry, 2021
Behavioral handedness is known to enhance an individual’s handling capabilities. However, the ecological advantages in brachyuran crustaceans remain unclear, despite the Ocypode species having been studied extensively. Thus, in this study, we analyzed the laterality of the endemic Red Sea ghost crab on one beach in Eilat, Israel.
Reuven Yosef, Michal Daraby, Alexei Semionovikh, Jakub Z. Kosicki   +3 more
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Response of Ocypode quadrata to storm waves on an urbanized sandy beach

Ocean and Coastal Research, 2021
Extreme climate events cause major disturbances to the fauna of sandy beaches. For abiotic-controlled species, storm waves play a significant role in controlling populations.
Fernanda Ramos Fernandes de Oliveira, Leonardo Querobim Yokoyama   +1 more
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Physical constraints on sand crab burrows: Mechanical properties of wet sand explain the size and spatial distributions of burrows on beaches.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The diameter and vertical depth of sand crab tunnels in sandy beaches are usually restricted to a few centimeters scale and several tens of centimeters, respectively.
Ayuko Shinoda, Shin-Ichi Fujiwara, Hirofumi Niiya, Hiroaki Katsuragi   +3 more
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Occurrence of ghost crabs Ocypode spp., in the eastern Cape [PDF]

South African Journal of Zoology, 1980
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First known trace fossil of a nesting iguana (Pleistocene), The Bahamas.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Most species of modern iguanas (Iguania, Iguanidae) dig burrows for dwelling and nesting, yet neither type of burrow has been interpreted as trace fossils in the geologic record.
Anthony J Martin, Dorothy Stearns, Meredith J Whitten, Melissa M Hage, Michael Page, Arya Basu   +5 more
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Larval development of Austinixa bragantina (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) reared in the laboratory

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009
The zoeal and megalopal stages of Austinixa bragantina Coelho, 2005, a small pinnotherid crab found in association with ghost shrimps Callichirus major (Say, 1818) and Lepidophthalmus siriboia Felder & Rodrigues, 1993 in the northeastern region of the ...
Jô de Farias Lima
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