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Factors influencing wintering turfgrass field use in Atlantic brant

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Atlantic brant Branta bernicla hrota increasingly use turfgrass fields, such as baseball fields and golf courses, throughout their wintering range. Most studies have focused on their primary food source, submerged aquatic vegetation, while studies of other goose species worldwide have examined field use in different contexts, including agricultural ...
David J. Weber, Christopher K. Williams, Theodore C. Nichols, Joshua C. Stiller   +3 more
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Climate Change and Intertidal Wetlands

Biology, 2013
Intertidal wetlands are recognised for the provision of a range of valued ecosystem services. The two major categories of intertidal wetlands discussed in this contribution are saltmarshes and mangrove forests. Intertidal wetlands are under threat from a
Pauline M. Ross, Paul Adam
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Mobile consumers influence the shoreward edge of intertidal seagrass ecosystems

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Ecological paradigms suggest that the environmentally stressful edge of a habitat is determined by physical factors. The work finds that, counter to these paradigms, an environmentally stressful edge can also be impacted by biotic interactions and are more complex than suggested.
Stephanie R. Valdez, Carter S. Smith, Catherine L. Brenner, Avery B. Paxton, Brian R. Silliman   +4 more
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Hydrodynamic gradients affect facilitation in soft sediment communities

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study extends ecological theory on facilitation to marine soft‐sediment systems and offers insight into the functional role of habitat‐forming infauna. Abstract Positive species interactions, or facilitation, are fundamental drivers of ecological community assembly and stability.
Rebecca V. Gladstone‐Gallagher, Judi E. Hewitt, Caleb J. Crosbie, Richard Bulmer, Kelly Carter, Vonda Cummings, Emily J. Douglas, Joanne I. Ellis, Georgina J. L. Flowers, Sarah F. Hailes, Jenny R. Hillman, Fabrice Stephenson, Simon F. Thrush, Li Hao Yeoh, Conrad A. Pilditch   +14 more
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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
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Preliminary Evidence for the Amplification of Global Warming in Shallow, Intertidal Estuarine Waters. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Over the past 50 years, mean annual water temperature in northeastern U.S. estuaries has increased by approximately 1.2°C, with most of the warming recorded in the winter and early spring.
Autumn Oczkowski, Richard McKinney, Suzanne Ayvazian, Alana Hanson, Cathleen Wigand, Erin Markham   +5 more
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Metabolome Diversity Enhances Resistance of Intertidal Clams to Thermal Stress

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Meretrix species are widely distributed intertidal bivalves in China with significant ecological and economic importance, which are sensitive to thermal stress. Our results showed that thermal environments of clam habitats shaped metabolome diversity, which can enhance the resistance of intertidal clams to thermal stress.
Zhi Hu, Xiang‐Tao Wei, Xiaonie Lin, Linxuan Ma, Tianzhe Zhang, Yunwei Dong   +5 more
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SIBES: Long-term and large-scale monitoring of intertidal macrozoobenthos and sediment in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Scientific Data
The Wadden Sea is the world’s largest intertidal area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Macrozoobenthic invertebrates perform key ecological functions within intertidal areas by regulating nutrient cycles, decomposing organic matter, and providing food ...
Allert I. Bijleveld, Paula de la Barra, Hailley Danielson-Owczynsky, Livia Brunner, Anne Dekinga, Sander Holthuijsen, Job ten Horn, Anne de Jong, Loran Kleine Schaars, Adrienne Kooij, Anita Koolhaas, Hidde Kressin, Felianne van Leersum, Simone Miguel, Luc G. G. de Monte, Dennis Mosk, Amin Niamir, Dorien Oude Luttikhuis, Myron A. Peck, Theunis Piersma, Reyhaneh Roohi, Léon Serre-Fredj, Marten Tacoma, Evaline van Weerlee, Bas de Wit, Roeland A. Bom   +25 more
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Linking Intertidal and Subtidal Food Webs: Consumer-Mediated Transport of Intertidal Benthic Microalgal Carbon.

PLoS ONE, 2015
We examined stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios for a large variety of consumers in intertidal and subtidal habitats, and their potential primary food sources [i.e., microphytobenthos (MPB), phytoplankton, and Phragmites australis] in a coastal bay
Chang-Keun Kang, Hyun Je Park, Eun Jung Choy, Kwang-Sik Choi, Kangseok Hwang, Jong-Bin Kim   +5 more
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Morphological and Morphometric Characterisation of Selected Camarodont Sea Urchin (Echinoidea: Camarodonta) Pedicellariae (Paracentrotus lividus, Psammechinus miliaris and Echinus esculentus)

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pedicellariae are small appendages on the surface of the echinoid test, involved in defence, cleaning, and locomotion. Pedicellariae in three species of camarodont sea urchins common in UK waters (Paracentrotus lividus [Lamarck, 1816], Psammechinus miliaris [P.L.S Müller, 1771] and Echinus esculentus [Linnaeus, 1758]) are the focus of this ...
H. C. Reinardy, R. Marton, C. Allen, E. Mitchell, L. Brunner, A. D. Hughes, R. A. Jenner   +6 more
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