Seagrasses comprise some of the most heterogeneous landscape structures of shallow-
water estuarine/marine ecosystems in the world. However, while knowledge at the …

Biotic interactions involving mosquito larvae are context dependent, with effects of
interactions on populations altered by ecological conditions. Relative impacts of competition …

Habitat complexity is one of the most important factors structuring biotic assemblages, yet we
still lack basic understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Although it is one of the primary …

Articles and cited as justification for the protection and conservation of these areas.
Nonetheless, the nursery-role concept has rarely been stated clearly, even in papers that …

Over the centuries, land reclamation, coastal development, overfishing and pollution have
nearly eliminated European wetlands, seagrass meadows, shellfish beds, biogenic reefs …

The vast majority of published papers concerning seagrass meadows contain statements to
the effect that seagrass beds serve as important nurseries for many species. We reviewed …

We investigated the role of freshwater macrophytes as refuge by testing the hypothesis that
predators capture fewer prey in more dense and structurally complex habitats. We also …

Threespine sticklebacks, small fish with a circumglobal distribution in coastal marine and
freshwater of the northern hemisphere, present a remarkable scope of variation in body and …

Lake water quality and ecosystem services are normally maintained by several feedbacks.
Among these are nutrient retention and humic production by wetlands, nutrient retention and …

Habitat fragmentation is increasingly common on land and in the sea, leading to small,
isolated habitat patches in which ecological processes may differ substantially from those in …