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View article: The role of mangroves in early-life trophic interactions supporting fishery production in the Galapagos
The role of mangroves in early-life trophic interactions supporting fishery production in the Galapagos Open
Mangrove nurseries are crucial for fishery production, supplying energy and nutrients via leaf organic matter in food webs. Recent stable isotope studies emphasize the nutritional value of mangrove detritus, especially for leaf-eating crab…
View article: To stay or to go: resource diversity alters the dispersal behavior of sympatric cryptic marine nematodes
To stay or to go: resource diversity alters the dispersal behavior of sympatric cryptic marine nematodes Open
Animals can use specific environmental cues to make informed decisions about whether and where to disperse. Patch conditions are known to affect the dispersal behavior of animals, but empirical studies investigating the impact of resource …
View article: Short-term microplastic effects on marine meiofauna abundance, diversity and community composition
Short-term microplastic effects on marine meiofauna abundance, diversity and community composition Open
Background Due to the copious disposal of plastics, marine ecosystems receive a large part of this waste. Microplastics (MPs) are solid particles smaller than 5 millimeters in size. Among the plastic polymers, polystyrene (PS) is one of th…
View article: Life on every stone: Characterizing benthic communities from scour protection layers of offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea
Life on every stone: Characterizing benthic communities from scour protection layers of offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea Open
The scour protection layer (SPL) is a layer of large stones placed around man-made structures in the marine environment, preventing sediment scouring while also providing new hard substrate and potentially increasing the structural complex…
View article: Temperature-driven dynamics: unraveling the impact of climate change on cryptic species interactions within the <i>Litoditis marina</i> complex
Temperature-driven dynamics: unraveling the impact of climate change on cryptic species interactions within the <i>Litoditis marina</i> complex Open
Anthropogenic climate change and the associated increase in sea temperatures are projected to greatly impact marine ecosystems. Temperature variation can influence the interactions between species, leading to cascading effects on the abund…
View article: Resource diversity mitigates the effects of intraspecific competition in co-occurring cryptic nematode species
Resource diversity mitigates the effects of intraspecific competition in co-occurring cryptic nematode species Open
Intraspecific competition and resource diversity are considered major drivers of niche differentiation, which are expected to promote population niche expansion by driving individuals to feed on alternative resources and/or by enhancing in…
View article: Understanding the impact of sand extraction on benthic ecosystem functioning: a combination of functional indices and biological trait analysis
Understanding the impact of sand extraction on benthic ecosystem functioning: a combination of functional indices and biological trait analysis Open
Marine aggregates have been intensively extracted in the North-East Atlantic over the past decades. This study aimed to assess the effect of sand extraction on benthic ecosystem functioning using a combination of biological traits and func…
View article: Fisheries measures protect European seabass groups with distinct habitat use differently
Fisheries measures protect European seabass groups with distinct habitat use differently Open
We investigated the movements of European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax, to understand habitat use and connectivity to evaluate how individual seabass are protected by the spatiotemporal fisheries restrictions in place. We tagged seabass w…
View article: Ocean acidification and warming modify stimulatory benthos effects on sediment functioning: An experimental study on two ecosystem engineers
Ocean acidification and warming modify stimulatory benthos effects on sediment functioning: An experimental study on two ecosystem engineers Open
Many macrofauna have a stimulatory effect on sediment functioning through their burrowing, feeding and irrigation activities. Here, we investigated the single and combined effect of ocean acidification and warming on the stimulatory effect…
View article: N2O production by mussels: Quantifying rates and pathways in current and future climate settings
N2O production by mussels: Quantifying rates and pathways in current and future climate settings Open
Blue mussels ( Mytilus edulis ) are an abundant and economically important species across the North Sea. Partly because of their potent filter feeding and associated shell biofilm, they are able to influence and alter the surrounding marin…
View article: Acoustic and archival technologies join forces: A combination tag
Acoustic and archival technologies join forces: A combination tag Open
Technological advances are key to maximizing the information potential in electronic tagging studies. Acoustic tags inform on the location of tagged animals when they are in the range of an acoustic receiver, whereas archival tags render c…
View article: Structurally stable but functionally disrupted marine epi-microbial communities under a future climate change scenario: impact on the nitrogen cycle : The raw sequencing data
Structurally stable but functionally disrupted marine epi-microbial communities under a future climate change scenario: impact on the nitrogen cycle : The raw sequencing data Open
Raw sequencing data in FASTQ format associated to the article "Structurally stable but functionally disrupted marine epi-microbial communities under a future climate change scenario: impact on the nitrogen cycle" are deposited here. A meta…
View article: Sampling errors and variability in video transects for assessment of reef fish assemblage structure and diversity
Sampling errors and variability in video transects for assessment of reef fish assemblage structure and diversity Open
Video monitoring is a rapidly evolving tool in aquatic ecological research because of its non-destructive ability to assess fish assemblages. Nevertheless, methodological considerations of video monitoring techniques are often overlooked, …
View article: Microbiome Differentiation Among Coexisting Nematode Species in Estuarine Microhabitats: A Metagenetic Analysis
Microbiome Differentiation Among Coexisting Nematode Species in Estuarine Microhabitats: A Metagenetic Analysis Open
Resource partitioning is a mechanism for niche differentiation which can facilitate coexistence of species at local scales. Insights into resource use and niche differentiation of functionally similar and/or taxonomically closely related s…
View article: Hindcasting Ecosystem Functioning Change in an Anthropogenized Estuary: Implications for an Era of Global Change
Hindcasting Ecosystem Functioning Change in an Anthropogenized Estuary: Implications for an Era of Global Change Open
Understanding how altered hydrodynamics related to climate change and anthropogenic modifications affect ecosystem integrity of shallow coastal soft-sediment environments requires a sound integration of how species populations influence ec…
View article: A Multi-Faceted Approach to Understand How Resource Diversity Can Mediate the Coexistence of Cryptic Marine Nematode Species
A Multi-Faceted Approach to Understand How Resource Diversity Can Mediate the Coexistence of Cryptic Marine Nematode Species Open
Based on the principle of competitive exclusion, species occupying the same ecological niche cannot stably coexist due to strong interspecific competition for resources. Niche diversification, for instance through resource partitioning, ma…