Artificial reefs have been employed to promote enrichment of degraded habitats communities and support local fisheries. To better evaluate the performance artificial reefs, simultaneous comparisons with relatively undisturbed natural nearby are essential. With inclusion stable isotope method characterize compare ecosystem functioning for two reef systems, both trophic structure flow at an a eva...

Segara Anakan Lagoon is a unique and distinctive area where most of the ecosystem dominated by mangrove ecosystems. Some fauna makes as place for feeding ground, nursery ground spawning example macrozoobenthos. Its sessile nature biota used bioindicator an area. The forest currently under pressure due to process sedimentation conversion functions residents. Therefore, this study aims determine ...

Quantification of key pathways sustaining ecosystem function is critical for underpinning informed decisions on development approvals, zoning and offsets, ecosystem restoration and for meaningful environmental assessments and monitoring. To develop a more quantitative understanding of the importance and variation in food webs and nutrient flows in tropical estuaries, we investigated the spatio-...

In this study, for the first time, using similar methods, we compared the population density and distribution across different substrate types of Limnoperna fortunei andDreissena polymorpha, as well as their impacts on the composition of benthic communities. Data on L. fortunei were obtained in Rio Tercero Reservoir, Argentina, whereas studies on D. polymorpha were conducted in North America an...

The outer western Crimean shelf of the Black Sea is a natural laboratory to investigate effects of stable oxic versus varying hypoxic conditions on seafloor biogeochemical processes and benthic community structure. Bottom-water oxygen concentrations ranged from normoxic (175 μmol O2 L ) and hypoxic (< 63 μmol O2 L ) or even anoxic/sulfidic conditions within a few kilometers’ distance. Variation...

Warwick (2014; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 505:295−298) suggests that my claim that the biology of marine metazoan benthos may scale continuously with body mass (Bett 2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 487:1−6) is an overstatement. His alternative hypothesis is that there is a ‘step-change’ in allometric relationships between the meioand macrobenthos. I continue to propose that simple null hypotheses for standing s...