This article analyses the pressures on seahorses and explores conservation responses. It
focuses on seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) but also considers pipefishes and seadragons …

Seahorses, widely recognized as a unique genus within aquatic species, are exploited
globally across traditional medicine, aquarium, and curio industries. Notwithstanding their …

Economic activities in coastal wetlands are often perceived as incompatible with nature
conservation. This negative perception stems from the visible impacts resulting from a …

This work presents a standard and unified procedure for assessment of environmental risks
at the contaminant source level in port aquatic systems. Using this method, port managers …

Urban estuaries are amongst the most severely altered systems worldwide and undergo a
wide range of ecological crises such as habitat destruction, nutrient enrichment and …

The feeding diversity of subtidal samples of macroinvertebrates from Ria Formosa was
estimated with Shannon–Wiener information index and complementary evenness. The …

Estuaries and coastal lagoons are naturally stressed and highly variable ecosystems, and
are also frequently exposed to strong anthropogenic pressures. Such pressures can be …

The coastal zone in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Argentina is declared as a common
resource. However, since the touristic boom started in the 1960s, these countries have not …

Indices based on macrobenthic responses to disturbance remain to be adequately tested for
the detection of spatial variability by robust sampling designs. We present herein a …

Estuaries vary considerably in geomorphology, hydrology and in the properties of
sediments. Structure of benthic communities may respond to the interaction of these …