Despite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the
world's most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming …

Mangrove forests are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems on the planet,
despite limited nitrogen (N) availability. Under such conditions, animal-microbe associations …

Distribution of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) in the Pearl River estuary, China,
was investigated during two cruises in August 2009 and January 2010. TEPcolor …

The change in the community structure of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton, and in the
degree of coupling between them as well as the environmental conditions, have substantial …

Heterotrophic bacterial and phytoplankton biomass, production, specific growth rates, and
growth efficiencies were studied in the Northern region of the Cananéia–Iguape estuarine …

Neste trabalho são registrados os equinodermos (exceto Holothuroidea) obtidos durante a
execução do projeto" Marine Environmental Evaluation of the Todos os Santos Bay …

Estuaries function as “bioreactors” for fluvial materials in which microbial, biogeochemical,
and ecological processes transform organic matter and nutrients prior to export to coastal …

The objective of this study is to compile the inventory of nearly 100 years of research about
the phytoplankton species cited for the coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. A state-of-the …

Dark carbon fixation (DCF) is considered an important energy source in aquatic
environments, although it has been neglected for a long time. DCF is known to be relevant in …

Abstract In the Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve (MMFR), the role of microzooplankton (20–
200 μm) grazing on phytoplankton as a channel for carbon transfer to higher trophic levels …