Non-indigenous species (NIS) can impact marine biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. Once introduced into a new region, secondary dispersal is limited by the physiology of the organism in relation to the ambient environment and by complex interactions between a suite of ecological factors such as presence of predators, competitors, and parasites. Early prediction of dispersal poten...

Invasion biology research has identified two juxtaposing behavioural traits, aggressiveness and sociality, that may both increase the success of species invasions. Highly aggressive invaders can out-compete native species for resources, while social gregarious invaders can tolerate high conspecific density. In order to tease apart the effects of aggressive versus social tendencies on the succes...

FPLC o f crude cell extracts o f Chlorella kessleri reveals tw o protein fractions w ith phos­ phoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity. Their m ole m asses, 955 kD a and 543 kD a, suggest that they are dimer and m onom er o f the same enzym e. Further data, how ever, indicate that they are m ore likely tw o different iso-form s o f phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase: A ttem pts to in­ terconvert both...

The use of alga biomass for biogas generation has been studied for over fifty years but until today, several distinct features, like inefficient degradation and low C/N ratios, limit the applicability of algal biomass for biogas production in larger scale. In this work we investigated a novel, one-stage combined cultivation/fermentation strategy including inherently progressing nitrogen starvat...

Occurrence and distribution of larval and juvenile fish was investigated in nearshore waters of the southeastern Caspian Sea including the Gorgan Bay. Samples were collected during seven surveys using a fine mesh beach-seine in five sampling sites from July 2014 to June 2015. A total of 15500 individuals mostly juvenile were captured, representing 18 species from 8 families. Most juveniles belo...

Research objective was to identify the specific features of distribution microelements (zink, manganese, lead, cadmium) in organs and tissues black-backed shad Alosa kessleri (Grimm, 1887) Dolginsky herring braschnikowii (Borodin, 1904) caught Caspian Sea. Accumulated fish concentrations exceeding maximum permissible limits, heavy metals pose a danger human health. Sampling carried out by stand...

The current study proposes a simple monodimensional model to estimate the linear growth rate of photosynthetic microorganisms in flat-plate photobioreactors (FPPBRs) during batch cultivation. As a model microorganism, Chlorella kessleri was cultivated photoautotrophically in FPPBRs using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the light sources to provide unidirectional irradiation in the photobioreact...