Results 21 to 30 of about 355 (171)

Integrating ocean observations across body‐size classes to deliver benthic invertebrate abundance and distribution information

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 692-706, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Invertebrate animals living at the seafloor make up a prominent component of life globally, spanning 10 orders of magnitude in body size over 71% of Earth's surface. However, integrating information across sizes and sampling methodologies has limited our understanding of the influence of natural variation, climate change and human activity ...
Henry A. Ruhl, Brian J. Bett, Jeroen Ingels, Adrian Martin, Andrew R. Gates, Andrew Yool, Noëlie M.A. Benoist, Ward Appeltans, Kerry L. Howell, Roberto Danovaro   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Change in the community structure and organic carbon content of meio- and macrobenthos between tidal flat and salt marsh areas colonized by Spartina alterniflora in the Bahía Blanca estuary (SW Atlantic)

Scientia Marina, 2023
Salt marshes are regarded as among the most productive coastal ecosystems, important “blue carbon” sinks and a support for benthic communities with large abundances, whose structure may be strongly influenced by salt marsh vegetation.
Leandro J. Reyna Gandini, Flavia A. Funk, Paula D. Pratolongo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biases and distribution patterns in hard‐bodied microscopic animals (Acari: Halacaridae): Size does not matter, but generalism and sampling effort do

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 29, Issue 7, Page 821-833, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim The interplay between distribution ranges, species traits and sampling and taxonomic biases remains elusive amongst microscopic animals. This ignorance obscures our understanding of the diversity patterns of a major component of biodiversity.
Iñigo Rubio‐López, Fernando Pardos, Diego Fontaneto, Alejandro Martínez, Guillermo García‐Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meiofauna communities in exposed sandy beaches on the Galician coast (NW Spain), six months after the Prestige oil spill: the role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Scientia Marina, 2010
The effect of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on Galician sandy beach ecosystems, six months after the Prestige oil spill, was evaluated using the meiobenthos at a higher taxon level as an indicator. Meiobenthos community structure, environmental
Puri Veiga, Celia Besteiro, Marcos Rubal
doaj   +1 more source

Disentangling the Effect of Seasonal Dynamics on Meiobenthic Community Structure From River Matla of Sundarbans Estuarine System, India

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
In estuarine sediment, meiobenthos serve as an excellent candidate to perform a range of ecosystem services. However, even though the taxonomic sufficiency of meiobenthos in detecting spatiotemporal gradients is well recognized, very little is known ...
Moumita Ghosh, Sumit Mandal
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of farming non-indigenous scallop Argopecten irradians on benthic ecosystem functioning: a case-study in Laizhou Bay, China

Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2018
The farming of the non-indigenous bay scallop Argopecten irradians in coastal waters generates large amounts of biodeposits that potentially change the trophic pathways and quality of the benthic food web at lower trophic levels such as meiobenthos.
Huang, Q, Olenin, S, Sun, S, De Troch, M
doaj   +1 more source

Schizorhynchia Meixner, 1928 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) of the Iberian Peninsula, with a description of four new species from Portugal

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
During several sampling campaigns in the regions of Galicia and Andalusia in Spain and the Algarve region in Portugal, specimens of twelve species of schizorhynch rhabdocoels were collected.
Stefan Gobert, Marlies Monnens, Lise Eerdekens, Ernest Schockaert, Patrick Reygel, Tom Artois   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biogeographical Distribution of River Microbial Communities in Atlantic Catchments. [PDF]

Environ Microbiol Rep
We discovered different factors affecting river microbial communities (RMC) diversity and composition across Atlantic catchments in Europe. Prokaryote diversity was mainly influenced by topography and geology, while eukaryotic groups were driven by land use and cover.
Goldenberg-Vilar A, Morán-Luis M, Vieites DR, Álvarez-Martínez JM, Silió A, Mony C, Varandas S, Monteiro SM, Burgess D, Cabecinha E, Barquín J.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Species and Functional Diversity of Deep-Sea Nematodes in a High Energy Submarine Canyon

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Gaoping Submarine Canyon (GPSC) off southwestern Taiwan is a high energy canyon connected to a small mountain river with extremely high sediment load (∼10 kt km–2 y–1).
Jian-Xiang Liao, Chih-Lin Wei, Moriaki Yasuhara, Moriaki Yasuhara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Sample Fixation on Specimen Identification in Biodiversity Assemblies Based on Proteomic Data (MALDI-TOF)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
Recently, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry has been used to reliably identify taxonomically difficult harpacticoid copepods from sediment samples. In agreement with former studies, a negative impact of short storage periods was stated.
Sven Rossel, Sven Rossel, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Pedro Martínez Arbizu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source