Assessment of benthic diversity and estuarine ecological quality is becoming increasingly important. Estuaries are not only highly productive variable environments, but they also areas high anthropogenic perturbations. In this study, macrofauna were sorted, identified analyzed from a freshwater-dominated tropical estuary along the Bay Bengal to assess their community structure, distribution fun...

This study was undertaken to determine the relationships between the biomass, morphometry, and density of short shoots (SS) of the tropical seagrass Thalassia testudinum and the physical-environmental forcing in the region. Seasonal sampling surveys were undertaken four times in Bahia de la Ascension, a shallow estuary in the western Mexican Caribbean, to measure plant morphology and environmen...

HE WATER quality characteristics and some heavy metals cations (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu and Pb) of Damietta estuary and in front of Mediterranean coastal shoreline were evaluated through four successive cruises (February 2008 to November 2008). Twelve sites were selected from the two sectors. The results obtained showed that serious deterioration of quality of water at Damietta estuary compared with Med...

under the contemporary scenario of global climate change and increasing coastal eutrophication, baseline studies of phytoplankton diversity and distribution in relation to habitat conditions constitute the first approach to evaluate potential shifts at the base of the food webs. here we present data of phytoplankton species composition and environmental variables in winter 2006 in a temperate ...