Coastal marshes are submitted to huge management due anthropogenic pressure and thus, it is essential preserve their biodiversity, ecological functions the ecosystem services they can provide. This study investigates diversity abundance of planktonic communities (heterotrophic prokaryotes, heterotrophic protists, microphytoplankton metazooplankton). The aim this provide a first quantitative inv...

A new species of Tantulocarida was found off the coast of Disko Island, West Greenland. The new species, Arcticotantulus kristenseni sp. nov., is exclusively found on an as yet undescribed species of Bradya Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) caught at depths of 200 m off the coast in muddy sediments. A total of 44 individuals were found, and 38 were examined by use of LM and SEM; these repre...

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A sediment quality triad (SQT) assessment was made of the impact of copper mine tailings disposal on littoral meiofaunal assemblages in the Atacama region of northern Chile. This situation is unusual in that the disposal is direct into the high-energy coastal system and not via a river estuary or other low-energy environment. This situation also allows for the examination of the impact of coppe...