Extreme marine environments cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface and offer many
opportunities for investigating the biological responses and adaptations of organisms to …

Technological advances throughout different fields of research have enhanced our
understanding of biodiversity, especially for meiofaunal organisms, which are notoriously …

Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific
community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global …

Meiofauna are an important component of deep-sea benthic communities because they are
highly abundant and play an important role in the sediment. This review describes trends in …

Publisher Summary This chapter throws the attention on the meiobenthos of the deep
northeast Atlantic. The main purpose of this chapter is to summarize new results from an …

Meiofauna research has seen an increased ecological emphasis in the last ten years. The
period prior to 1970 was primarily descriptive but current research is directed more toward …

Meiofaunal organisms are mobile multicellular animals that are smaller than macrofauna
and larger than microfauna. The size boundaries of meiofauna are generally based on the …

Due to the lack of empirical data, meiofauna are often underestimated as prey for freshwater
animals and are commonly regarded as trophic dead ends. Here we present a synthesis of …

Meiofauna are organisms that pass through a 1-mm sieve but are retained on a 20–45-µm
sieve, depending on the author and sampling site, and typically reside in the space between …

Meiofauna are known to live on hard substrates in association with periphytic and epiphytic
algae and attached epibiota; however, the abundance, diversity and colonizing abilities of …