While Robertson Davies (1985) was not discoursing on the mechanisms controlling larval
settlement of soft-sediment invertebrates when he wrote the poignant phrase,“… science is …

Coastal hypoxia (defined here as< 1.42 ml L− 1; 62.5 μM; 2 mg L− 1, approx. 30% oxygen
saturation) develops seasonally in many estuaries, fjords, and along open coasts as a result …

Spatial and temporal environmental heterogeneity in lotic ecosystems can be quantitatively
described and identified with characteristic levels of ecological organization. The long-term …

The ever increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance
to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the …

Analyses of deltaic facies successions highlight recurring ichnological patterns that reflect a
variety of physicochemical stresses imposed upon infaunal organisms by the interaction of …

The significance of large motile predators in controlling the distribution and abundance of
the macrobenthic invertebrates within the sediments (the infauna) in a shallow subtidal sand …

The effects of pollution by organic matter, oil or industrial waste on marine communities are
remarkably similar. Diversity values fall, biomass and numbers of organisms initially rise and …

Summary 1 In 1934, Adolf Remane constructed a diagram to describe changes in the
number of species along a full salinity gradient within the Baltic. Despite fundamental …

The feeding behavior of six species of spionid polychaetes (Paraprionospio pinnata
(Ehlers), Polydora ligni Webster, Scolecolepides viridis (Verrill), Spiophanes bombyx …

For many millennia mankind has been disturbing natural ecosystems in order to enhance
productivity. Primitive agriculturalists have em ployed slashing and burning; ad vanced …