Despite the extensive and rapidly growing literature on microplastics in oceans coastal seas, little information exists microplastic distribution through salinity gradient. This study is first one to evaluate gradient of a highly stratified estuary. A total 910 particles were collected from 12 different sampling events Krka River estuary, Croatia. The number detected ranged 389 surface layer 63...

We have investigated the seasonal cycle of nutrients, chlorophyll a, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), and dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC and POC) for 10 stations in the Belgian coastal zone. Special attention was given to phosphorus speciation, i.e. dissolved inorganic and organic phosphorus (DIP and DOP) and particulate inorganic and organic phosphorus (PIP and POP). Spatial an...

The ice edge of the Barents Sea east of Svalbard is an area where the warm, salty water of the North Atlantic (AtW) interacts with cold, less dense, saline Arctic water (ArW) and the water produced by melting ice (MIW). Many of the CTD profiles (CTD stands for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) obtained in this region by Norwegian Polar Institute expeditions in 1999 and 2007 contain layers that ar...

Citrus is grouped under the salt sensitive crops. Mycorrhizal fungi, a symbiotic relationship between plant roots and beneficial fungi, are supposed to impart the stress tolerance in the host plants. The stress tolerance improved due to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi (AM fungi) colonization can be attributed to enhanced mineral nutrition. In the present study the efforts are made to evaluate the ...

Remane's species-minimum concept, which states that the lowest number of taxa occurs at the horohalinicum (5-8psu), was tested by investigating macroalgal diversity on hard substrates along the natural salinity gradient in the Baltic Sea. Field data on species occurrence and abundance were collected by SCUBA diving along 10 transects of the Finnish, Swedish and German coasts, covering a salinit...

Distributions of temperature (T ) and salinity (S) and their relationship in the oceans are the result of a balance between T–S variability generated at the surface by air–sea fluxes and its removal by molecular dissipation. In this paper the role of different motions in setting the cascade of T–S variance to dissipation scales is quantified using data from the North Atlantic Tracer Release Exp...