Increasing attention is being paid to estuarine benthic community conservation and restoration globally. In this study, a GIS-based habitat suitability index (HSI) model was utilized to estimate Perinereis aibuhitensis (Grube, 1878) carrying capacity in estuarine wetlands of the Zhimai River, eastern China. Eight parameters were investigated, including sand content, salinity, pH, and petroleum ...

s Research Symposium January 2008 Graduate Student Association Department of Natural Resources Cornell University Mark Bain Hydro Peaking and Green Energy: St. Marys River, Ontario and Michigan Hydropower is a clean, flexible, and renewable energy source but its global benefits can come with significant local impacts and environmental losses. The use of hydropower facilities to track variations...

Ganesaratnam K. Balendiran, Frank Schnütgen, Giovanna Scapin, Torsten Börchers, Ning Xhong, Kap Lim, Roseline Godbout, Friedrich Spener and James C. Sacchettini Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2128. Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Wilhelm Klemm-Straße 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany. present address: Institut de Genetique e...

Aquatic ecosystems in eastern China are suffering threats from heavy metal pollution because of rapid economic development and urbanization. Heavy metals in surface sediments were determined in five different aquatic ecosystems (river, reservoir, estuary, lake, and wetland ecosystems). The average Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn concentrations were 0.716, 118, 37.3, 32.7, 56.6, and 204 mg/kg, respec...

Globally distributed, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is found in a range of offshore and coastal habitats. Using 15 microsatellite loci and mtDNA control region sequences, we investigated patterns of genetic differentiation among putative populations along the eastern US shoreline (the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, and Charleston Harbor, South Carolina) (microsatellite analyses: n ...

A chub of previously ambiguous identity from the Boljunscica and Pazincica rivers (south-eastern Istra Peninsula) was studied and compared with geographically close Squalius squalus, Squalius zrmanja, and Squalius janae recently described from the Dragonja River drainage in the Adriatic Sea basin in Slovenia. It was shown that the chub from the south-eastern Istra Peninsula differs from all kno...