Urbanization alters the environmental characteristics of aquatic ecosystems, often reducing
the availability and quality of habitats for animals. Improving the condition of urban …

The canopy-forming fucoid Cystoseira spp. provide biogenic structure, food and shelter for
many organisms including fishes on Mediterranean nearshore rocky reefs. Infralittoral …

Patchy, non-random associations of species with habitats and of consumers with particular
types of food are commonly found in the ecological literature. In many cases, these patterns …

Amplification processes are an essential component of the collective phenomena observed
in social and gregarious species. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that a weak …

Despite a long history of work on relationships between area and number of species, the
details of mechanisms causing patterns have eluded ecologists. The general principle that …

The Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea invaded the river Rhine in the Netherlands and
Germany in the 1990s. It was first recorded in Switzerland (Basel) in 1995. We examined the …

Rocky shore communities are often influenced by near-shore coastal upwelling. For
macrofauna in algal turf, these effects may be caused directly by well-studied bottom-up …

Megalopae of several crab species exhibit active habitat selection when settling. These
megalopae usually select structurally complex habitats which can provide refuge and food …

Marine macroalgae harbour abundant and diverse assemblages of epifauna. Patterns of
distribution and abundance of epifauna, which are often variable in space and time, differ …

There is considerable concern about conservation of biodiversity in highly disturbed and
urbanized environments, although a very large proportion of biodiversity (ie the small and …