Marine Biodiversity Patterns and Processes, Assessment, Threats, Management and Conservation - Queiroga, H.; Cunha, M.R.; Cunha, A.; Moreira, M.H.; Quintino, V.; Rodrigues, A.M.; Serôdio, J.; Warwick, R.M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Patterns And Processes -- The relationship between phytoplankton diversity and community function in a coastal lagoon -- Ascendency as ecological indicator for environmental quality assessment at the ecosystem level: a case study -- Phytoplankton seasonality in a highly stratified karstic estuary (Krka, Adriatic Sea) -- Factors controlling phytoplankton blooms in a temperate estuary: nutrient limitation and physical forcing -- The near-bottom layer as an ecological boundary in marine ecosystems: diversity, taxonomic composition and community definitions -- Seasonal and spatial patterns of distribution of subtidal benthic invertebrate communities in the Mondego River, Portugal - a poikilohaline estuary -- Benthic ecology of semi-natural coastal lagoons, in the Ria Formosa (Southern Portugal), exposed to different water renewal regimes -- Inter-annual variability of soft bottom macrofaunal communities in two Ionian Sea lagoons -- Spatial patterns of benthic macroinvertebrates in intertidal areas of a Southern European estuary: the Tagus, Portugal -- Structure and dynamics of a benthic invertebrate community in an intertidal area of the tagus estuary, western portugal: a six year data series -- Spatial and environmental factors affecting the distribution of the main decapod crustacean prey species in the NW Mediterranean -- Probing diversity in the plankton: using patterns in Tintinnids (planktonic marine ciliates) to identify mechanisms -- Fish assemblages in different shallow water habitats of the Venice Lagoon -- The effect of zostera noltii, spartina maritima and scirpus maritimus on sediment pore-water profiles in a temperate intertidal estuary -- Biogeographic patterns of intertidal macroinvertebrates and their association with macroalgae distribution along the Portuguese coast -- Seasonal variations of cystoseira barbata (stackhouse) C. Agardh frond architecture -- Epifaunal inventory of two shipwrecks from the Belgian Continental Shelf -- Assesment -- Using asymmetrical designs for environmental impact assessment of unplanned disturbances -- Threats -- Mass mortality of coral reef ascidians following the 1997/1998 El NiñO event -- Changes in the range of some common rocky shore species In Britain - A Response To Climate Change? -- Effects of dredging activities on population dynamics of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile in the Mediterranean sea: the case study of Capo Feto (SW Sicily, Italy) -- The colonisation of human-made structures by the invasive alga Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides in the north Adriatic Sea (Ne Mediterranean) -- Immediate effects of experimental human trampling on mid-upper intertidal benthic invertebrates at the Asinara Island MPA (NW Mediterranean) -- Imposex in Hexaplex trunculus at some sites on the North Mediterranean Coast as a base-line for future evaluation of the effectiveness of the total ban on organotin based antifouling paints -- Environmental effects of marine fish pond culture in the Ria Formosa (Southern Portugal) -- Time-series evolution of toxic organisms and related environmental factors in a brackish ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea -- Management and Conservation -- Assessing the sensitivity of seabed species and biotopes - the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) -- Characterisation of the European Marine Sites in South West England: the Fal and Helford candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC) -- Macrobenthic colonisation of artificial reefs on the southern coast of Portugal (Ancão, Algarve) -- The benthic impacts of the Loch Linnhe Artificial Reef.
Keywords: Nature conservation; Biodiversity; Aquatic ecology .; Nature Conservation; Biodiversity; Freshwater & Marine Ecology