Systematic comparisons of the ecology between functionally similar fish species from freshwater and marine aquatic systems are surprisingly rare. Here, we discuss commonalities and differences in evolutionary history, population genetics, reproduction and life history, ecological interactions, behavioural ecology and physiological ecology of temperate and Arctic freshwater coregonids (vendace a...

There is a clear bias in the literature on island ecology towards terrestrial rather than marine systems, which have remained comparatively poorly studied. Marine populations are typically open, and local production may have little impact on local recruitment, such that long-distance dispersal is an important determinant of population ecology. Since oceanic islands form discrete patches of habi...

The QFASA model uses several sources of data, each of which requires careful consideration by the researcher (Iverson et al. 2004). We evaluated the sensitivity of QFASA diet estimates to the following model inputs: prey species included (prey library), fatty acid (FA) subsets, and calibration coefficients (CC). We did this by repeatedly estimating diets for all seals (harp seals Pagophilus gro...

INTRODUCTION The study of marine ecosystems has become a hot research topic in recent times. In fact, the number of manuscripts including the words “marine ecosystems” published since 1970 has immensely increased reaching between 1100 and 1500 articles per year in the past five years (Figure 1). Based on the keywords used in these manuscripts, the most frequent topics can be grouped into: (i) m...

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1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Princeton NJ, 08544, USA. 2. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany. 3. Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. 4. Marine Population Modeling Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XH, Scotland, UK. 5....

Within the international IceAGE project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology) some leucothoid amphipods (Crustacea) were collected, among them a rather small new species, belonging to the "Leucothoe spinicarpa-clade."

b Department of Ecology and Marine Resources, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas 10 (CSIC), Eduardo Cabello 6, 36208 Vigo, Spain 11 *Corresponding author: Tel. and fax: +34.982.254.681; e-mail: 12 [email protected]. 13 14

A central question of marine ecology is, how far do larvae disperse? Evidence is accumulating that the probability of dispersal declines rapidly with distance. This provides an incentive for communities to manage their own fish stocks and cooperate with neighbors.