Ecosystems are shaped by physical, chemical, and biological drivers, which affect the quality quantity of basal energy sources, with impacts that cascade to higher trophic levels. In coastal, shelf, marine habitats, terrestrial-derived organic matter (ter-OM) can be a key driver ecosystem structure function. Climate change is expected alter land–ocean connectivity in many regions, broad range p...

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on Journal blog. Marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles are facing growing pressures from extreme natural events human activities, resulting in a rapid loss of biodiversity changes to functioning food webs (Rees, 2012). This is particularly true benthic webs, which often spatially fragmented inhabited by rare, endangered, or endemic fau...

Horizontal (geographic) and vertical (geonemic) spatial distribution of the integral properties of a large multispecies assemblage (1306 species of fish and invertebrate with body size ≥ 1 cm) from northwest Pacific sea bottom is investigated. There are total number and biomass, average animal size (mean individual weight), species diversity (Shannon’s index) and its components: species richnes...

Predation by adults of the amphipod Monoporeia affinis on the plantigrade postlarval stage of the bivalve Macoma balthica was studied in the laboratory. We confirmed that M. affinis consumes small M. balthica. Amphipods offered 14C-labelled postlarvae took up the radioactive tracer, while those presented Rhodamine B-stained postlarvae acquired gut contents fluorescing strongly in orange, wherea...

11 The fate of benthic bacterial biomass in benthic food webs is a topic of major importance 12 but poorly described. This paper describes an alternative method for evaluation of bacterial 13 grazing rate by meiofauna and macrofauna using bacteria pre-enriched with stable isotopes. 14 Natural bacteria from the sediment of an intertidal mudflat were cultured in a liquid medium 15 enriched with 1...

The composition and distribution of the benthic macroinvertebrate community in a lagoon fish-pond system in the Bay of Cadiz. Spain, were studied by taking monthly samples at 4 sites during 1991. A total of 29 macroinvertebrate species, representing 16 orders. were identified. Gastropods, amphipods and chironomid larvae dominated the macrofauna in term of numbers of individuals, while in biomas...

This study evaluated pollution levels in water and sediments of Península de Paraguaná and related these levels with benthic macrofauna along a coastal area where the largest Venezuelan oil refineries have operated over the past 60 years. For this, the concentration of heavy metals, of hydrocarbon compounds and the community structure of the macrobenthos were examined at 20 sites distributed al...

11 The fate of benthic bacterial biomass in benthic food webs is a topic of major importance 12 but poorly described. This paper describes an alternative method for evaluation of bacterial 13 grazing rate by meiofauna and macrofauna using bacteria pre-enriched with stable isotopes. 14 Natural bacteria from the sediment of an intertidal mudflat were cultured in a liquid medium 15 enriched with 1...