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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Anastasiia Blaginina, Daria Balycheva, Ekaterina Miroshnichenko, Larisa Ryabushko, Sergey Kapranov, Sophia Barinova and Denis Lishaev
Rocky seabeds, as an integral part of ecotopes in marine ecosystems, are actively inhabited by diatoms and cyanobacteria. It is currently unknown whether the element contents in the surface layer of seabed rocks affect the epilithon species composition a...
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Kyeong-Tae Lee, Garance Perrois, Hyun-Sung Yang, Taeho Kim, Sun Kyeong Choi, Do-Hyung Kang and Taihun Kim
This study was carried out to determine the levels of resistance and resilience of kelp forests to large-scale physical disturbances. Our study site, Seongsan, Jeju Island, was impacted by super typhoon ?Hinnamnor?. Before the typhoon, Seongsan had shown...
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Luca Appolloni, Alberto Pagliarani, Adele Cocozza di Montanara, Francesco Rendina, Luigia Donnarumma, Domenico Ciorciaro, Federica Ferrigno, Floriana Di Stefano, Roberto Sandulli and Giovanni Fulvio Russo
The effectiveness of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) is strongly related to its zoning design, management, and surveillance, and fish communities are considered indicators of conservation effects. Posidonia oceanica beds and fish assemblages were studied h...
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Francisco Pozo-Solar, Marcela Cornejo-D?Ottone, Roberto Orellana, Carla Acuña, Cecilia Rivera, Polette Aguilar-Muñoz, Céline Lavergne and Verónica Molina
Coastal zones are ecosystems that are sensitive to climate change and anthropogenic pollution, resulting in a potential loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services through eutrophication and nutrient imbalances, among others. The coastal El Sauce catchme...
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Emanuele Somma, Antonio Terlizzi, Maria Costantini, Madalena Madeira and Valerio Zupo
The successions of benthic communities over time are strongly influenced by the first colonizers, because surface associations are facilitated by modifications to the adhesive properties promoted by primary colonizers, such as bacteria, protozoans, diato...
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Di Li, Longfei Liang, Qidi Dong, Ruijue Wang, Tao Xu, Ling Qu, Zhiwei Wu, Bingyang Lyu, Shiliang Liu and Qibing Chen
The urban water environment is seriously affected by human activities. Rivers in highly industrialized areas, which often carry various types of industrial pollutants, such as metals and nutrients, are especially affected. In this study, the water qualit...
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Hassan Alzahrani, Abdelbaset S. El-Sorogy, Saleh Qaysi and Fahad Alshehri
Coastal environments need continuous environmental risk assessment, especially with increasing coastal development and human activities. The present work evaluates the distribution, contamination, and environmental risk of potentially toxic elements (PTE...
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David Smyth and Louise Kregting
For the tidal energy industry to move forward to commercialisation, understanding the interaction between the environment and tidal energy converters (TEC) is essential. The benthic environment may be particularly vulnerable to development by changing th...
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