Walker Lake, a hydrologically closed, saline, alkaline lake located along the western margin of the Great Basin of western United States, has experienced a 77% reduction in volume and commitment drop in lake level as a result of anthropogenic perturbations and climatic fluctuations over the last century. The history of lake-level change in Walker Lake has been recorded instrumentally since 1860...

The East China Sea is part of the Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific zoogeographic province and, as such, has a high biodiversity and many tropical and subtropical biotic elements. Nevertheless, many invertebrate groups from this area remain poorly studied. Ostracods are one of them, especially those belonging to the subclass Myodocopa. In this paper we provide the first data on a diverse myodoco...

The thickest section of Early Jurassic strata known from onshore Ireland (total thickness 566 m) is reported the Ballinlea-1 well (Rathlin Basin) situated on north coast Northern Ireland. A biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental assessment presented for this largely based calcareous benthic microfossils (foraminifera ostracods). Waterloo Mudstone Formation (Lias Group) has previously receiv...