Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are …
A Ridall, J Ingels - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nematodes are among the most abundant organisms on Earth, and have important roles in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Free-living marine nematodes have been …
T Moens, U Braeckman, S Derycke… - Handbook of Zoology …, 2013 - degruyter.com
To the public at large, the phylum Nematoda is mostly known by its pathogenic species, causing some of the most infectious diseases in humans and animals and more crop losses …
Water is the essence of life on earth and totally dominates the chemical composition of all organisms. The ubiquity of water in biota, as the fulcrum of biochemical metabolism, rests on …
Estuarine meiofauna communities have been only recently considered to be good indicators of ecological quality, exhibiting several advantages over macrofauna, such as their small …
Meiofauna are the metazoan component of the benthos, and also include large protozoans (eg foraminifera). They are defined by their body size (44-1000 μm) and are the most …
Marine organisms belonging to meiofauna (size range: 20–500 μm) are amongst the most abundant and highly diversified metazoans on Earth including 22 over 35 known animal …
Nematodes are among the most successful metazoans inhabiting the Earth and they are pivotal components as in terrestrial as in aquatic (both in marine and freshwater) …
The ecotoxicological effects of beta-blockers (ie Diltiazem and Bisoprolol) and their interactions with the microplastic polyvinyl chloride on marine meiofauna were tested in …