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Jia-Qiao Wang, Jun Li, Yi-Jia Shih, Liang-Min Huang, Xin-Ruo Wang and Ta-Jen Chu
Species richness is the most basic concept of diversity and is crucial to biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries. To understand the fish species richness of the Minjiang Estuary and its adjacent waters, eight documents and surveyed data were...
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Darren Thornbrugh, Dana Infante and Yinphan Tsang
The biodiversity of stream fishes is critically threatened globally, and a major factor leading to the loss of biodiversity is anthropogenic land use in stream catchments, which act as stressors to stream fishes. Declines in the biodiversity of stream fi...
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Caterina Stamouli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Eleni Voultsiadou
Sponge assemblages play a significant role in the functioning of the Mediterranean benthic ecosystem. The main goal of this study was to investigate the diversity and distribution of poorly known sponge communities in the mesophotic and deep-sea substrat...
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Jatdilok Titioatchasai, Komwit Surachat, Ekkalak Rattanachot, Piyalap Tuntiprapas and Jaruwan Mayakun
Seagrass ecosystems have been declining, and restorations are conducted in many parts of the world to compensate for habitat loss and restore the ecosystem services seagrasses provide. Assessment of transplantation success requires the monitoring of the ...
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Teng Wang, Peng Zhang, Shufei Zhang, Qingxia Liu, Xiuli Liao, Yiyong Rao, Honghui Huang and Bin Xie
After more than ten years of offshore wind farm (OWF) construction, the total installed capacity of China ranks first in the world. The effect of OWF on fish communities?to attract or banish?differs among fish species and wind farms. Studies on the effec...
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Barbara Mikac, Marco Abbiati, Michele Adda, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Andrea Desiderato, Marco Pellegrini, Cesare Saccani, Eva Turicchia and Massimo Ponti
A sediment bypassing plant based on innovative jet pump, ejectors, has been tested in the first-of-a-kind demo application at the harbor of Cervia (Italy, Northern Adriatic Sea). The ejector is a jet pump aimed to reduce sediment accumulation in navigati...
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Alen Soldo, Igor Glavicic and Marcelo Kovacic
Coralligenous habitat is considered as one of the most important special habitat types in the Mediterranean; however, due to its inaccessibility, little is known about it, although it is considered as one of the Mediterranean?s richest habitats in terms ...
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Nicolas Vidal, Susanne L. Amsinck, Vítor Gonçalves, José M. Neto Azevedo, Liselotte S. Johansson, Kirsten S. Christoffersen, Torben L. Lauridsen, Martin Søndergaard, Rikke Bjerring, Frank Landkildehus, Klaus P. Brodersen, Mariana Meerhoff and Erik Jeppesen
Disentangling the effects of climate change on nature is one of the main challenges facing ecologists nowadays. Warmer climates forces strong effects on lake biota for fish, leading to a reduction in size, changes in diet, more frequent reproduction, and...
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Anthi Oikonomou and Konstantinos Stefanidis
Disentangling the main drivers of species richness and community composition is a central theme in ecology. Freshwater biodiversity patterns have been poorly explored; yet, it has been shown that different freshwater biota have different, often contrasti...
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Gabriel Gonino, Evanilde Benedito, Vivian de Mello Cionek, Maria Teresa Ferreira and João Manuel Oliveira
Multimetric indices are considered a low-cost and rapid means of assessing ecological integrity in streams. This study aimed to develop a fish-based Index of Biotic Integrity (N3S-IBI) in an agricultural region within the domains of the Atlantic rainfore...
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