Abstract Purpose Plant microbial biostimulants, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), enhance nutrient concentration in fruits, including tomato. However, field studies on tomato AMF inoculation are scarce. species belonging to Gigasporaceae and Glomeraceae families known vary life-history strategies may determine differential effects plant benefits residue decomposition. Despite this, th...

The recent focus on carbon trading has intensified interest in 'Blue Carbon'-carbon sequestered by coastal vegetated ecosystems, particularly seagrasses. Most information on seagrass carbon storage is derived from studies of a single species, Posidonia oceanica, from the Mediterranean Sea. We surveyed 17 Australian seagrass habitats to assess the variability in their sedimentary organic carbon ...

In the Antarctic seas, where hard substrates are scarce, presence of secondary bio-substrates formed by calcareous organisms is an essential condition to increase epibiosis and therefore diversity sessile benthic fauna. The aggregations stylasterid hydrozoa, with their branched carbonate structures, example a habitat defined as ‘deep marine animal forest’. three-dimensional made these corals su...

Wrack inputs can supply the bulk or sole source of primary production on some beaches and can provide an important potential food source and site for nutrient regeneration. In this chapter, the incorporation of wrack into beach and nearshore ecosystems was assessed via two pathways; decomposition and incorporation into trophic webs. Wrack decomposition was assessed using litterbags containing w...