The present article presents a historical overview and key findings in the studies of
microphytobenthos (MPBs) in Korea, supporting a biodiversity of the Korean tidal flats. The …

Increasing inputs of terrigenous sediments from anthropic land use change elevates water
column turbidity, reducing light availability to benthic primary producers that sustain …

Although estuarine microphytobenthos (MPB) is frequently exposed to excessive light and
temperature conditions, little is known on their interactive effects on MPB primary …

Cell motility is one of the most conspicuous traits of pennate diatoms. They use it to respond
to a wide range of environmental factors, actively exploiting spatial heterogeneities and …

Diatoms are an extraordinarily diverse, evolutionarily successful, and ecologically important
group of single-cell algae. Diatoms of the group of the pennates are particularly important in …

Diatoms live in a diverse range of aquatic habitats with species being either free floating
(planktonic) or attached to underwater structures (benthic). Ancestrally, diatoms are thought …

Sediment-inhabiting microphytobenthos (MPB) is dominated by raphid pennate diatoms that
use vertical migration (VM) and the xanthophyll cycle (XC) as main photoprotective …

Microphytobenthos communities of different sediment types were investigated in intertidal
flats of the coastal area around La Rochelle (Pertuis Charentais, France) in July 2014 and …

Behavioral and physiological responses to light are the two major mechanisms by which
natural microphytobenthic assemblages adapt to the intertidal environment and protect …

Microphytobenthos (MPB) inhabiting intertidal flats of estuaries form highly productive
diatom-dominated biofilms. The capacity to sustain such high photosynthetic activity under …