Sediment contamination remains a global problem, particularly in transitional waters such as
estuaries and coastal lagoons, which are the recipients of chemicals from multiple near-and …

We analyzed published downcore microfossil records from 150 studies and reinterpreted
them from an ecological degradation perspective to address the following critical but still …

Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield
records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia …

Analysis of the spatial distribution of the dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in 19 surface
sediment samples collected from 3 Buzzards Bay (Massachusetts, USA) embayments …

The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD), a new regulation aiming to achieve
and maintain a clean and well-managed water environment, refers to phytoplankton as one …

Sediments from the Black Sea, a region historically dominated by forests and steppe
landscapes, are a valuable source of detailed information on the changes in regional …

Local pelagic and sympagic primary production are usually the base of the Arctic food webs,
and can be the main inputs of organic matter to the benthos. In order to characterize the …

Increasing eutrophication and seasonal anoxia in bottom water in the Changjiang Estuary
and its adjacent waters has progressed in recent decades, caused by elevated …

This paper presents a study of changes in eutrophication over the past 100years in a fertile
estuary. The Danish estuary Mariager Fjord is a long, narrow sill-fjord with a permanently …

Despite its major role as a global climate regulator, little is known about the recent evolution
of the North Atlantic Ocean, especially prior to the fifties, principally because of the lack of …