Meso-zooplankton plays a vital role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems, and some of
the taxa provide biological indications for the monitoring of environmental and climate …

Iridocytes, containing multiple stacks of proteinaceous platelets and crystalized guanine,
alternating with thin cytoplasm sheets, are specialized cells that act as multilayer nano …

Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation has recently been recognized as a major stressor for marine
vertebrates, particularly fish confined to aquaculture cages. Here, the harmful effects of UVB …

Understanding the environmental conditions that trigger Pseudo-nitzschia bloom formation
and domoic acid (DA) production is critical as the frequency and severity of these toxic …

Dive computers have the potential to provide depth resolved temperature data that is often
lacking especially in close to shore, but spatiotemporal assessment of the robustness of this …

The aim of this study is to analyze the annual zooplankton succession at a coastal station in
Patagonia (Argentina), with special emphasis on copepods and their potential preys, using …

The near-surface layer of the ocean is a habitat in which plankton are subjected to very
different stresses to those in deeper layers. These include high turbulence and illumination …

The accuracy of traditional methods to sample planktonic microcrustaceans depends on two
assumptions: that organisms are alive during sampling and that all carcasses can be …

The subclass Copepoda is an important driving force in linking the lower trophic to higher
trophic levels in aquatic ecosystems. Despite their ecological importance in marine waters …

Seasonal variation in plankton community structure (phytoplankton and zooplankton),
chlorophyll a and some physico-chemical properties of Rabigh Lagoon were studied during …