The Ecology of Sandy Shores provides the students and researchers with a one-volume
resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore …

Biological effects of magnetic fields have been studied in many animals and plants. The
magnetic fields were of a wide intensity range and, as alternating fields, of a wide frequency …

How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites
over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a …

The present paper assesses the use of the supralittoral amphipod Talitrus saltator as a
bioindicator of the effects of human trampling on the supralittoral sandy band. Samplings in …

In the first half of this century, taxes were considered the best models for working out the
rules of stimulus-response systems. The interest for tactic behaviours suddenly disappeared …

Four species of talitrid amphipods (Orchestia montagui Audouin, 1826, Orchestia
stephenseni Cecchini, 1928, Orchestia xylino sp. nov. and Talitrus saltator (Montagu, 1808)) …

We investigated the navigational capabilities of the world's largest land-living arthropod, the
giant robber crab Birgus latro (Anomura, Coenobitidae); this crab reaches 4 kg in weight and …

Sandy beaches are characterised by heterogeneously distributed food sources both in time
and space. The major energy supply is derived from marine subsidies in the form of beach …

The relationship between the chronometric system of compensation for the apparent
movement of the sun and that for the moon has been the subject of several, never proven …

Ocean sandy beaches are prime sites for human recreation. The integrity of these
ecosystems may suffer greatly from tourism-related pressures. Behavioural adaptations of …