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Evaluation of suitable nursery areas for penaeid shrimps in shallow water systems in southern Mozambique
(2017-10-09)
Tropical shallow water habitats such as estuaries, mangrove forests and seagrass beds are important nursery areas for juveniles of many commercially important species including penaeid shrimp. Penaeids are one of the most ...
From Sea to Society - Climate Change, Microbial Community Interactions and Assessing Climate Risk on Society
(2017-11-11)
Unicellular organisms, microalgae and bacteria, less than one millimeter in size make the
world go round. Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria, for example, plays an inevitable role
contributing 50-85% to the world’s oxygen ...
Phenotypic and Genotypic responses in the planktonic diatom Skeletonema marinoi - Effects of Natural Processes and Anthropogenic Stressors
(2017-11-06)
Diatoms are one of the most diverse and abundant phytoplankton taxa and are highly important as primary producers, accounting for nearly half of the marine primary production and constituting the base in the marine food ...
Seagrass Wasting Disease Impact of abiotic factors and chemical defense
(2017-12-04)
Eelgrass, Zostera marina, is the dominant seagrass species in the northern hemisphere, and forms large meadows that provide several important ecosystem services. In the 1930s about 90% of the Z. marina populations in the ...
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - What Diversity? Which Functioning?
(2017-05-12)
We share our planet with an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic species and an uncountable number of bacteria and archaea. But that amazing diversity is under threat from overexploitation, habitat destruction and climate ...
Ocean circulation in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica
(2017-05-30)
The increase of mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a significant contribution to global sea level rise. The most rapid changes are occurring in the Amundsen Sea area, where the thinning of the floating glaciers is ...