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Camilla Bertolini, Edouard Royer and Roberto Pastres
Effects of climatic changes in transitional ecosystems are often not linear, with some areas likely experiencing faster or more intense responses, which something important to consider in the perspective of climate forecasting. In this study of the Venic...
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Sujay S. Kaushal, William H. McDowell, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Tamara A. Newcomer Johnson, Paul M. Mayer, Kenneth T. Belt and Michael J. Pennino
The structure, function, and services of urban ecosystems evolve over time scales from seconds to centuries as Earth?s population grows, infrastructure ages, and sociopolitical values alter them. In order to systematically study changes over time, the co...
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Humberto Pereira, Magda C. Sousa, Luís R. Vieira, Fernando Morgado and João M. Dias
The Minho and Lima estuaries, separated by approximately 20 km, are two important transitional systems from the NW Atlantic Portuguese coast. Considering their contrasting characteristics, the present work aims to investigate climate change impacts in sa...
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Maurizio Pinna, Francesco Zangaro, Benedetta Saccomanno, Chiara Scalone, Fabio Bozzeda, Lucia Fanini and Valeria Specchia
In order to halt the loss of global biodiversity and considering the United Nations Decade for Ocean Conservation Agenda, increasing efforts to improve biomonitoring programs and assessment of ecosystem health are needed. Aquatic environments are among t...
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Chiara Facca, Francesco Cavraro, Piero Franzoi and Stefano Malavasi
Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States in the framework of the European Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitat Dire...
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Mikhail S. Golubkov, Vera N. Nikulina, Alexei V. Tiunov and Sergey M. Golubkov
Knowledge of carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios in organic matter and their changes is important when studying nutrient cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Relationships between d13C and d15N values of suspended particulate organic matter (POM), water tempera...
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Jiseon Choi and Hyunjin An
While a large sum of timber stock in private forests, especially broadleaved forests, has been ignored by their owners, a rising global concern about climate change and ecosystems has led to a renewed interest in natural broadleaved forest management str...
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Alexander I. Kopylov, Dmitriy B. Kosolapov, Anna V. Romanenko, Elena A. Zabotkina and Andrey F. Sazhin
The structure and productivity of planktonic microbial communities in the ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic seas are significantly dependent on freshwater input. During the study, we determined the spatial distribution of the abundance, biomass, and prod...
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Jae-Won Yoo, Yong-Woo Lee, Mi-Ra Park, Chang-Soo Kim, Sungtae Kim, Chae-Lin Lee, Su-Young Jeong, Dhongil Lim and Sung-Yong Oh
An ecological index of macrobenthic communities is an important tool for assessing the biological quality of habitats and ecosystems. We tested the performance of the inverse function of the Shannon?Wiener evenness proportion (ISEP) with data from the en...
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Tiago M. Condé, Niro Higuchi and Adriano J. N. Lima
Illegal selective logging and forest fires occur on a large scale in the northern Brazilian Amazon, contributing to an increase in tree mortality and a reduction in forest carbon stock. A total of 120 plots of 0.25 ha (30 ha) were installed in transition...
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