Worldwide, coastal systems provide some of the most productive habitats, which potentially influence a range of marine and terrestrial ecosystems through the transfer of nutrients and …
Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of …
Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …
Mangroves, the only woody halophytes living at the confluence of land and sea, have been heavily used traditionally for food, timber, fuel and medicine, and presently occupy about …
Nutrient loading to coastal bay ecosystems is of a similar magnitude as that to deeper, river- fed estuaries, yet our understanding of the eutrophication process in these shallow systems …
Cycling of organic carbon in the ocean has the potential to mitigate or exacerbate global climate change, but major questions remain about the environmental controls on organic …
Aim To investigate how reef fish trophic structure responds to latitudinal changes, using a simple model: the extensive Brazilian coast. Location Six Brazilian tropical and subtropical …
Understanding matter circulation in the biosphere constitutes one of the fundamental research objectives for ecologists. Stocks of materials, their distribution, and their fluxes …
Abstract “[F] or most of the past 50 My, Caribbean seagrass communities have had to withstand heavy, sustained grazing pressure from several sympatric lineages of large …