DNA metabarcoding is a promising method to increase cost and time efficiency of marine monitoring. While substantial evidence exists that bulk samples adequately reflect diversity patterns macrobenthos, the potential eDNA in ethanol preservative benthic for biodiversity monitoring remains largely unexplored. We investigated species detection from four distinct macrobenthic communities North Sea...

The impact of pesticides on macrobenthos communities was studied on two aquatic environments in Northern Italy; River Meolo, a site exposed to agricultural pollution, and River Upper Livenza a low pollution reference site. Colonisation of artificial substrates was compared throughout the productive season. The relevance of multiple environmental stressors other than pesticides (e.g. oxygen depl...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects fish cage culture on Macrobenthic in southern Caspian Sea. Samples were collected two offshore farms with four floating polyethylene cages a production 60 tons for 5 months 2015. Sampling performed macrobenthos, physicochemical, and sediment January, March, May, August at depths shade, 50, 100, 1000 m three geographical directions (east, west...

Four cruises in the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow off Yantai, China, April August of 2020, collected data on species composition community structure characteristics macrobenthos these sea areas. Temporal spatial changes dominant macrobenthic between were also analyzed. The M-AMBI environmental used to assess benthic ecological quality coastal waters Yantai. results revealed differences status t...

The ecotoxicological effects of oil spill from the grounded vessel MV River Princess on the intertidal benthic organisms of Sinquerim-Candolim beach at Goa were investigated. An intertidal expanse of 1 km on either side of the grounded vessel was selected to evaluate the concentration of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) in the sediment and its effects on the composition, abundance and diversit...