Mangrove Ecology, Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie GmbH, Bremen, Germany, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States, Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 4 Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Yerseke, Netherlands, Climate Sciences, Alfred Wegener Institute Helm...

Azaspiracids (AZA) are polyether marine toxins that accumulate in various shellfish species and have been associated with severe gastrointestinal human intoxications since 1995. This toxin class has since been reported from several countries, including Morocco and much of western Europe. A regulatory limit of 160 microg AZA/kg whole shellfish flesh was established by the EU in order to protect ...

The anthropogenic rise in atmospheric CO(2) is driving fundamental and unprecedented changes in the chemistry of the oceans. This has led to changes in the physiology of a wide variety of marine organisms and, consequently, the ecology of the ocean. This review explores recent advances in our understanding of ocean acidification with a particular emphasis on past changes to ocean chemistry and ...

Scientists have documented the general decline in the health of marine ecosystems. The human impacts on marine ecosystems are forcing resource agencies and scientists to rethink how society manages ocean and coastal systems. Since the 1960s, the scientific and intellectual basis of an ecosystem-based approach to manage and restore landscapes has been developing with state and federal resource a...

The behavioral and chemical ecology of marine organisms that possess tetrodotoxin (TTX) has not been comprehensively reviewed in one work to date. The evidence for TTX as an antipredator defense, as venom, as a sex pheromone, and as an attractant for TTX-sequestering organisms is discussed. Little is known about the adaptive value of TTX in microbial producers; thus, I focus on what is known ab...

Rose and Caron (2007) have compiled a comprehensive data set of individual growth rates of planktonic protists in an attempt to answer a fundamental question in marine ecology: ‘‘Why are blooms of phytoplankton such common events in the ocean?’’. They reach the interesting conclusion that, because the temperature dependence of the growth rate of heterotrophic protists is much stronger than that...