Inorganic nutrient availability affects organic matter fluxes and 1 metabolic activity in the soft coral genus Xenia 2 3 Vanessa N. Bednarz, Malik S. Naumann, Wolfgang Niggl and Christian Wild 4 5 Coral Reef Ecology Group (CORE), University of Bremen & 6 Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), 7 Fahrenheitstr. 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany 8 9 10 *corresponding author, E-mail: vanessa.bedn...

Despite the promise of hematological parameters and blood chemistry in monitoring the health of marine fishes, baseline data is often lacking for small fishes that comprise central roles in marine food webs. This study establishes blood chemistry and hematological baseline parameters for the pinfish Lagodon rhomboides, a small marine teleost that is among the most dominant members of near-shore...

Thomas W. Pike*, Bjørn Bjerkeng, Jonathan D. Blount, Jan Lindström and Neil B. Metcalfe Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK; Nofima Marine AS (formerly Akvaforsk, Institute of Aquaculture Research AS), N-6600 Sunndalsøra, Norway; and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, School of Bi...

B. S. Keitt, D. A. Croll, G. R. Howald, and N. Biavaschi 1 Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas A. C., Av. Del Puerto #375 interior 30, Frac. Playa Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, México. 2 Island Conservation and Ecology Group, University of California Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA. 3 Island Conservation and Ecology Group – Canada, 1485 Crawford Road, Kelowna, BC V1W3A9 C...

A theoretical and quantitative framework of first principles would benefit estuarine and coastal ecologists in search of predictions to enhance our understanding and management of marine resources. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology describes a possible unifying theory for ecology, including mechanistically derived equations that predict scaling exponents observed in empirical, allometric relation...

The effects of biomanipulation on the biogeochemistry, carbon isotopic composition and pelagic food web relations of a shallow turf lake B. M. Bontes, R. Pel, B. W. Ibelings, H. T. S. Boschker, J. J. Middelburg, and Ellen van Donk Centre for Limnology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, KNAW, P.O. Box 1299, 3600 BG Maarssen, The Netherlands Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands In...

Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Coastal Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skolgatan 6, Öregrund 742 42, Sweden Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Turistgatan 5, Lysekil 453 30, Sweden Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 106A Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 8544...

territorial display Terry J. Ord*, David C. Collar and Thomas J. Sanger Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, and the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052 Australia; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95060 USA; and Museum of...

*Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03801, USA; Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, The University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Entomology, The University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Department of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biolog...

Bob Steneck is professor of marine biology, oceanography and marine policy in University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences. He is a marine ecologist whose ‘laboratories’ include coral reefs in the Caribbean and Indopacific oceans and kelp forests of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. He has published over 150 scientific papers on topics including lobsters, sea urchins, fish, corals...