Field surveys have reported a global shift in harbour porpoise distribution in European waters during the last 15 years, including a return to the Atlantic coasts of France. In this study, we analyzed genetic polymorphisms at a fragment of the mitochondrial control region (mtDNA CR) and 7 nuclear microsatellite loci, for 52 animals stranded and by-caught between 2000 and 2010 along the Atlantic...

Research on methods for representing natural objects and phenomena by computer graphics (CG) has been steadily broadening the scope of represented objects in recent years. Among such research, visual simulation of rocky scenery is an important issue that has a wide range of applications related to visual contents, such as in landscape simulation. In the early days of research on terrain scenery...

On July 2010, a single specimen of Pteragogus pelycus was captured by gillnets along the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt (approximate position 31°14′N, 29°55′E) between 15 and 25 m of depth. This observation represents the first confirmed record of this species from the North African coasts.

More than half of the fish biomass coastal rocky reefs depends on zooplankton; however, trophic basis estuarine assemblages remains unknown. We quantified (i.e. basal energy sources) community inhabiting three habitat types (seagrass, natural reef and artificial reef) in two estuaries, compared with sites. Fish were surveyed Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs) species abundance, richness cla...

The decapod fauna in the intertidal zone of rocky shores Chile is highly diverse, especially along northern and central mainland coasts, where influence cold Humboldt Current results high productivity. One most abundant species these ecosystems Cyclograpsus cinereus Dana, 1851. aim present study, carried out spring summer seasons between 2018 2020, was to determine spatial distribution patterns...

On 30 October 2020, an Mw = 7.0 earthquake struck the eastern Aegean Sea. It triggered environmental effects (EEEs) on Samos Island detected by field surveys, relevant questionnaires, and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) analysis. The primary EEEs in comprise coseismic uplift imprinted rocky coasts port facilities around surface ruptures northern Samos. secondary were mainly obs...