Since colonial times, anthropogenic effects have eroded Chesapeake Bay’s health, resulting in an increase in the extent and severity of hypoxia (≤2 mg O2 l−1), adversely affecting community structure and secondary production of macrobenthos in the Bay and its tributaries. The influence of hypoxia on macrobenthic communities is well documented, but less well known is the regulatory effect of hyp...

Macrobenthos taxonomic and functional diversity are key indicators of ecosystem health. River–lake ecotones macrobenthos habitats. However, we don’t fully understand biodiversity patterns in these ecotones. We studied water environment, sediment heavy metal contents, community, which sampled simultaneously from 29 sampling sites along the Fu River–Baiyangdian Lake gradient Northern China with f...

The influence of the ENSO cycle on marine fauna and flora has only recently been given the attention it deserves. The very strong 1997–1998 El Niño and its obvious effects on marine biota was a key point in ENSO research, but unfortunately few quantitative data about the 1997–1998 El Niño itself are available. To gather information about the effect of ENSO on the macrobenthos, we performed a bi...

The Ulleung Basin of the East Sea is a biological hotspot, but studies on macrobenthos therein are lacking. To evaluate species diversity and community structure in Basin, we conducted survey from 2017 to 2021. A total 262 was detected by survey, average habitat density 243 individuals/m2. biomass 43.7 g/m2, Shannon Wiener’s index 2.3 (0.69–3.61). dominant were polychaetes Terebellides horikosh...

Fjords play an important role in carbon cycling and sequestration, but the burial of organic matter sediments strongly depends on composition macrobenthic communities. We studied three deep, sub-Arctic fjords located northern Norway to assess community differentiation neighbouring underlying environmental drivers. The have relatively deep depositional basins (370–570 m), they differ sill depth ...