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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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Xiang Liu, Jin Zhang, Wenqing Shi, Min Wang, Kai Chen and Li Wang
Understanding the drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure is fundamental for adequately controlling pollutants and managing ecosystems under global change. In this study, the abundance and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates, as well as thei...
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Long Chen, Feng Li, Wenrou Huang, Zhi Li and Mingguang Chen
A large fraction of mercury contaminant in the environment is from industrial production, and it potentially impairs human health once entering the food chain. Millions of people reside in the Pearl River Delta region, and water quality in the estuary di...
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Tao Tang, Shuhan Guo, Lu Tan, Tao Li, Ryan M. Burrows and Qinghua Cai
Although most lotic ecosystems are groundwater dependent, our knowledge on the relatively long-term ecological effects of groundwater discharge on downstream reaches remains limited. We surveyed four connected reaches of a Chinese karst stream network fo...
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Kimio Hirabayashi, Masaaki Takeda, Norihiko Yoshida, Kazuya Yoshizawa, Futaba Kazama
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Viviana M. Gamboa Sojo, Caterina Morigi, Leonardo Langone and Renata G. Lucchi
The objective of this study was to reconstruct the last century?s climatic oscillations in the Arctic region around the Fram Strait using high-resolution analysis of foraminiferal assemblages as proxies for surface and deep-water mass properties. In this...
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Jian Liang, Meng-Yuan Shu, Hai-Rui Huang, Chae-Woo Ma and Seon-Kyu Kim
As the global population continues to grow, sandy beaches, one of the most valuable ecosystems, have been widely impacted by human activities. Therefore, to develop policies for the conservation and management of sandy beaches, the impact of human activi...
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Nu?a Cukrov, Neven Cukrov and Dario Omanovic
To study the processes that govern the post-depositional mobility of metals in the estuarine sediment, five sediment cores were sampled in the Krka River estuary (Croatia). The obtained concentration ranges in the pore water were 0.057?49.7 µM for Fe, 0....
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Brianna LeFebre, Phil Saye and James S. Henkel
Coral reef rehabilitation in the Caribbean is of major ecological and economic importance in the West Indies. Local organizations in Grenada constructed a cement pyramid artificial reef structure with rugosity (termed ?The Pyramid?) and placed a number o...
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Carolina Bracho-Villavicencio, Helena Matthews-Cascon, Marc García-Durán, Xavier Vélez, Nicola Lago, Laura Busquier and Sergio Rossi
Suitable colonization materials are a pursued target in marine restoration programs. Known for making nutrients available while reducing pollutants and the risk of pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems, Biochar and Bioferment materials of organic origin we...
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