Biomonitoring is a significant method for evaluating aquatic life forms and their
environments. The longer the process continues, the results of it become more precise …

During the last six decades, the water level of the Aral Sea, once one of the largest lakes in
the world, has experienced a major human-driven regression followed by significant …

Coastal marine pollution from sewage pipes, waste discharges, can seriously affect intertidal
organisms. Therefore, the aim of this study is to know if the structuring algae in the Canary …

Aquatic animals can often undergo substantial physiological responses to salinity; however,
associated lipid/fatty acid alterations to their various tissues have received little attention. To …

Environmental gradients have emerged as important barriers to structuring populations and
species distributions. We set out to test whether the strong salinity gradient from the marine …

The rockpool shrimp Palaemon elegans is an ecologically important crustacean species
within the European coastline fauna. In the present study, genetic diversity and population …

For several years, the prawn Palaemon adspersus population was studied in a hypersaline
lake (Crimea) for the first time. P. adspersus is a more halotolerant species than previously …

The mud crab Scylla olivacea is a well-known commercially and ecologically important
species that inhabits intertidal mangroves. These mud crabs spend juvenile and adult …

New observations are presented on the distribution of Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 in
the Gulf of Finland and in the Archipelago Sea. P. elegans has spread and become …

Alien species are altering ecosystems around the globe. To predict and manage their
impacts, the underlying mechanisms need to be understood. This is challenging in …