Data on fecundity of Corophium multisetosum from Areão (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal) are analysed by non linear regression to quantify the relationship between brood size (N(e)) and head length (L(h), in mm), water temperature (T, in degrees Celsius) and salinity (S, in psu). The aim of the analysis is to obtain a simple line N(e)=a+bL(h), in which the slope (b) and the y intercept (a) are function...

− On the tidal flat of the western part of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay, the macrozoobenthos of the upper flat is characterised by an assemblage of the Macoma balthica community. The dominant species are M. balthica, Nereis diversicolor and Corophium volutator. A field monitoring during a 1-year period along a four-stations transect perpendicularly to the shore showed that biotic interactions affe...

Natural ecosystems can show regular spatial vegetation patterns, which develop from small-scale ecological interactions. Some studies suggest that grazers can play a major role in controlling vegetation distribution in ecosystems with regular vegetation patterns, but the distribution of grazers and the effects of grazing on vegetation in spatially patterned ecosystems remains poorly understood....

Bioturbation is a central transport process for ecosystem functioning, especially in large soft sediment habitats like the Wadden Sea. The amphipod C. volutator dominant bioturbator Sea, due to its great abundance and almost continuous particle movement. Expedition or loss of bioturbation activity could thus hold ramifications functioning within sediments, carbon sequestration nutrient recyclin...