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Judith S. Weis
While there are numerous papers on microplastics (mps) being published every week, there is a need for improvement for the field to mature. The papers reporting numbers found in water bodies cannot be compared because there are no standard methods for co...
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Junbo Zhang, Chonglan Ren, Hu Zhang, Fang Yin, Shuo Zhang, Rong Wan and Daisuke Kitazawa
The dynamic predator?prey relations in the food web are vital for understanding the function and structure of ecosystems. Dietary estimation is a research hotspot of quantitative ecology, providing key insights into predator?prey relationships. One of th...
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Anna Visconti, Rossana Caroni, Ruth Rawcliffe, Amedeo Fadda, Roberta Piscia and Marina Manca
Functional-based approaches are increasingly being used to define the functional diversity of aquatic ecosystems. In this study, we proposed the use of d13C and d15N stable isotopes as a proxy of zooplankton functional traits in Lake Maggiore, a large, d...
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Anna Visconti, Rossana Caroni, Ruth Rawcliffe, Amedeo Fadda, Roberta Piscia and Marina Manca
Functional-based approaches are increasingly being used to define the functional diversity of aquatic ecosystems. In this study, we proposed the use of d13C and d15N stable isotopes as a proxy of zooplankton functional traits in Lake Maggiore, a large, d...
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Roberta Piscia, Emanuela Boggio, Roberta Bettinetti, Michela Mazzoni and Marina Manca
Interest in Stable Isotopes Analyses (SIA) is increasing in freshwater ecology to better clarify ecosystems? functioning. By measuring carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures, food sources and organism trophic levels can be tracked, providing quantitativ...
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Luca Appolloni, Alberto Pagliarani, Adele Cocozza di Montanara, Francesco Rendina, Luigia Donnarumma, Domenico Ciorciaro, Federica Ferrigno, Floriana Di Stefano, Roberto Sandulli and Giovanni Fulvio Russo
The effectiveness of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) is strongly related to its zoning design, management, and surveillance, and fish communities are considered indicators of conservation effects. Posidonia oceanica beds and fish assemblages were studied h...
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Maria Maidanou, Panayota Koulouri, Paraskevi K. Karachle, Christos Arvanitidis, Drosos Koutsoubas and Costas Dounas
This study investigates the trophic diversity of fishes living in a meadow of Caulerpa prolifera on a bimonthly basis between May 2006 and April 2007 in a semi-enclosed coastal marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea (Elounda Bay, Crete Island). The st...
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Eva Leu, Thomas A. Brown, Martin Graeve, Jozef Wiktor, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Melissa Chierici, Agneta Fransson, Sander Verbiest, Ane C. Kvernvik and Michael J. Greenacre
Assessing the relative importance of sea ice algal-based production is often vital for studies about climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems. Several types of lipid biomarkers and stable isotope ratios are widely used for tracing sea ic-associ...
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Jiongqing Huang, Huaxian Zhao, Shu Yang, Xinyi Qin, Nengjian Liao, Xiaoli Li, Qiuyan Wei, Wenjing Li, Gonglingxia Jiang, Nan Li and Pengbin Wang
Mycoplankton are an important component of marine ecosystems and play a key role in material cycling and energy flow in marine ecosystems. In this study, high-throughput sequencing of the 18S rDNA gene was employed to investigate the community structure ...
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Svetlana A. Murzina, Viktor P. Voronin, Dmitry G. Bitiutskii, Aleksej V. Mishin, Svetlana N. Khurtina, Dmitry I. Frey and Alexei M. Orlov
The present study is the attempt to combine oceanologic measurements and biochemical analysis, which is as possible to implement on board as in a laboratory with chosen certain statistics to reveal trophic conditions and the environment state in which An...
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Julieta Hernández-López, Omar Cervantes, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz and Rubén Ricardo Guzmán-Reyna
Coastal ecosystems are attractive sites for tourism. In the central Pacific coast of Mexico in the La Boquita coastal system (LBCS), consisting of a beach and a coastal lagoon, the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model was implemented for t...
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Ewa M. Furmanczyk, Eligio Malusà, Dawid Kozacki and Malgorzata Tartanus
The impact of living mulches established with three officinal plants (Alchemilla vulgaris, Fragaria vesca and Mentha x piperita) on the soil bacterial microbiome and activity, the nematodes population, and the nutrient status of an organic apple orchard ...
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Xinxin Lu, Yan Liu and Yawen Fan
The Lalin River Basin (LLRB) is a major drainage basin in northeastern China, that has been significantly influenced by agricultural activities. This study focused on exploring diatom taxonomic composition linked to environmental factors at the taxonomic...
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Christine Coelho, Birgit Heim, Saskia Foerster, Arlena Brosinsky and José Carlos De Araújo
We analyzed chlorophyll-a and Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) dynamics from field measurements and assessed the potential of multispectral satellite data for retrieving water-quality parameters in three small surface reservoirs in the Brazilian s...
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Anna G. N. Meissner, Meghan K. Carr, Iain D. Phillips, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
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Modern river ecosystems undergo constant stress from disturbances such as bank stabilization, channelization, dams, and municipal, agricultural, and industrial water use. As these anthropogenic water requirements persist, more efficient methods of charac...
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Lucía Soliño, Sea-Yong Kim, Alfredo López, Pablo Covelo, Sara Rydberg, Pedro Reis Costa and Sandra Lage
The neurotoxin ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a non-proteinogenic amino acid produced by several species of both prokaryotic (cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic (diatoms) microorganisms, has been proposed to be associated with the development of neurodegen...
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Raquel Pérez-Reverón, Sergio J. Álvarez-Méndez, Rebecca Magdalena Kropp, Adolfo Perdomo-González, Javier Hernández-Borges and Francisco J. Díaz-Peña
Around one million metric ton of plastics is produced worldwide daily. Plastic contamination is aggravated when the particles reach sizes between 5 mm and 1 µm, giving rise to microplastics, which are omnipresent in the environment, especially in agroeco...
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Elena Robakiewicz, Daniela de Matos, Jeffery R. Stone and Annett Junginger
Diatoms, a common siliceous alga, are effective paleoclimate and pollution indicators. They have been used in northern, eastern, and southern Africa as such because of well-documented ecologies of many taxa. In southwestern Africa, however, the country o...
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Georgios Fytianos, Efthimia Ioannidou, Anna Thysiadou, Athanasios C. Mitropoulos and George Z. Kyzas
The aim of this paper is to present information gathered from studies regarding the current status and challenges of microplastics (MPs) in Mediterranean coastal counties. MPs are considered emerging pollutants, and their effect on fish and on the final ...
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Hamdhani Hamdhani, Drew E. Eppehimer, David Walker and Michael T. Bogan
Chlorophyll-a measurements are an important factor in the water quality monitoring of surface waters, especially for determining the trophic status and ecosystem management. However, a collection of field samples for extractive analysis in a laboratory m...
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