Copper is essential for healthy cellular functioning, but this heavy metal quickly becomes toxic when supply exceeds demand. Marine sediments receive widespread and increasing levels of copper contamination from antifouling paints owing to the 2008 global ban of organotin-based products. The toxicity of copper will increase in the coming years as seawater pH decreases and temperature increases....

Abstract Multidimensional niche differentiation might increase the stability of coexistence by reducing overall overlap which have implications on dynamics biological invasions. The oligohaline Baltic Seais inhabited three native and one invasive corophiid amphipod species. These filter feeding crustaceans differ in their substrate preferences salinity optima could potentially allow robust coex...

Plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. metamorphose when they change from a pelagic to a benthic habitat during settlement. The effect of developmental stage (i.e. before, during and after metamorphosis) on the vulnerability of reared plaice was tested in laboratory experiments with the epibenthic brown shrimp Crangon crangon as predator. The developmental effect was studied in the presence and absenc...