The copepod Acartia tonsa appeared in Europe in the first half of the 20th century and
colonized progressively European seas and estuaries, possibly transferred from North …

Oil contamination is an environmental hazard to marine ecosystems, but marine organism
tolerance to oil after many generations of exposure remains poorly known. We studied the …

R isk assessment is one of the most important and most frequent tasks required of those
working with sexual offenders. Formal risk assessments are needed for many important …

Variations in mesozooplankton abundance and community structure in response to water
quality improvement and to variations in hydro-climatic conditions were studied in the inner …

The Gironde is the largest estuary of South-West Europe and is one of the best monitored
estuarine systems in the world. This macrotidal estuary is characterized by a low biodiversity …

The dynamics of the copepods A. tonsa and A. lilljeborgii were described for the first time in
the Taperaçu Estuary. The acartiids were collected using plankton nets (200 μm) in June …

The zooplankton abundance and composition of the Patos Lagoon Estuary (PLE) reflects
the local hydrological regime with alternating periods of flood, freshwater run-off and mixing …

Knowledge of in situ copepod diet diversity is crucial for accurately describing pelagic food
web structure but is challenging to achieve due to lack of an easily applicable methodology …

Global change has become a major driving force of both terrestrial and marine systems.
Located at the interface between these two realms, estuarine ecosystems are probably the …

Mysid shrimps are an important component of estuarine food webs because they play a key
role in energy transfer as intermediate prey. We investigated the seasonal, tidal and depth …