Establishing management programs to preserve the benthic communities along the NW
Pacific and the Arctic Ocean (AO) requires a deep understanding of the composition of …

Gill surface area (S) and respiration (R) in juvenile and adult crustaceans scale with their
body weight (W) such that S∝ R∝ Wd, with d ranging mostly between 0.6 and 0.9, but …

Abstract The northwestern Pacific Ocean is one of the hotspots of species richness and one
of the high endemicity areas of the World Ocean. However, large-scale biodiversity patterns …

The coral reefs are the most diverse marine ecosystem in the world. Considering its
contribution as a natural resource for humanity and global biodiversity, it is critical to …

Biodiversity patterns of marine crustaceans are still unknown in many locations or might
have been overlooked due to our knowledge gaps, despite increasing sampling and data …

Polychaeta and Sipuncula are abundant inhabitants of benthic marine habitats and have
been increasingly sampled in the Northwest Pacific (NWP). However, polychaete and …

IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: Chapter 2. Trends and status of alien and
invasive alien species Page 1 University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Natural …

Climate change is triggering shifts in species distribution eventually altering communities'
biogeography. The composition of a community in terms of its species' ecological niche …

Decapods are one of the most diverse crustacean orders, with around 17,500 extant species
[1] of those morphotypes that are most easily identifiable as crustaceans, shrimps, crayfish …

In past decades, non-native species invasion has emerged as one of the leading drivers of
biodiversity loss in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems globally. In aquatic ecosystems …