The relationships between functional linkages within communities and community dynamics are fundamental to biodiversity-stability relationships. By teasing apart the hidden layers within artificial neural networks (ANNs), we developed webs defining how functional groups influence each other's temporal dynamics. ANNs were based on 15 years of bimonthly monitoring of macrobenthic communities on t...

A detailed ichnological analysis has been conducted, for the first time, of Arenazzolo and Trubi formations Caltanissetta Basin in Sicily. Aim this is to evaluate paleoenvironmental changes affecting macrobenthic tracemaker communities during re-flooding Mediterranean at end Messinian Salinity Crisis. The uppermost Formation characterized by a scarcity trace fossils, probably related high energ...

Understanding the distribution of biodiversity along environmental gradients allows us to predict how communities respond natural and anthropogenic impacts. In fjord ecosystems, overlap strong salinity temperature provides with opportunity assess spatial variation abiotic gradients. However, in Northern Chilean Patagonia (NCP), a unique at same time threatened system, macrobenthic is still poor...