Surface currents in oceanic environments are of crucial importance because they transport momentum, heat, salt, and tracers over large distances that regulate both the local and large-scale climate conditions, and because they contribute to the Lagrangian displacement of floating material, ranging from living resources to marine pollution. In recent decades, the understanding of surface current...

Land reclamation has played a significant role in the urban development process in coastal areas in many countries. Over the last 20 years, land reclamation has gained much popularity especially along coastal areas of the south and east China due to rapid development of industry and urbanization. While reclamation provides valuable land, it also creates various engineering, environmental and ec...

After his BSc. in mechanical engineering Jeljer Hoekstra (1962) graduated in applied mathematics at Twente University in 1988. As a draft dodger he stayed shortly at the Dutch meteorological office and somewhat longer at the faculty of philosophy at Twente University. Thereafter, he was employed by the ministry of public works where he learned what silt was and how it could be modelled. Two yea...

HEMPTINNE, J.-L., A.F.G. DIXON & E. WYSS 2003. Biological control of the rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea (Passerini) (Homoptera: Aphididae): learning from the ecology of ladybird beetles. Pp. 33-41 in A.O. SOARES, M.A. VENTURA, V. GARCIA & J.-L. HEMPTINNE (Eds) 2003. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Ecology of Aphidophaga: Biology, Ecology and Behaviour of Aphidophagous ...

Genomics-enabled applications are becoming increasingly common in conjunction with research in marine ecology. In this Theme Section, we review the success of cases where techniques used to profile gene expression have been used to gain new insight into 3 areas of research: symbioses in marine invertebrates, physiological responses to environmental conditions, and examining the determinants of ...

Determining spatio-temporal distributions of fish populations is of interest to marine ecology, in general, and to fisheries science in particular. Genetic mixed-stock analysis is routinely applied in several anadromous fishes for determining migratory routes and timing but has rarely been used for marine fishes, for which population differentiation is commonly weak and the method presumably le...

M. E. S. Bracken ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA 93923-2525, USA. – H. Hillebrand, Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Schleusenstrasse 1, DE-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany. – E. T. Borer and E. W. Seabloom, Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota, M...