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Assessing benthic health of hard substratum macrobenthic community using soft bottom indicators and their relationship with environmental condition
... for soft bottom communities and employed for hard substratum communities in this ...hard bottom communities as BENTIX index in Bhosphorus Strait communities (Kalkan et ...
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Structure and diversity of shallow soft-bottom benthic macrofauna in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)
... of major taxonomic groups, which are then used as surro- gates for total macrofauna (Olsgard et al. 2003; Giangrande et al. 2005). This latter procedure has been most often carried out on polychaetes and molluscs (Belan ...
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An illustrated key to the soft-bottom caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the Iberian Peninsula and remarks to their ecological distribution along the Andalusian coast
... that soft bottoms had been scarcely explored in comparison with other ...of soft-bottom taxa together with the abiotic ...in soft bottoms, especially biodetritics and sediments from deep sea, ...
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The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast
... Abstract The present study provides updated information on amphipod assemblages of the southern Portuguese coast, the most south-western part of continental Europe. The inXuence of depth and sediment type on the spatial ...
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Effects of patch size and position above the substratum during early succession of subtidal soft-bottom communities
... natural bottom (actively or passively) or their ability to crawl over the container ...natural bottom or a combination of mechanisms) or the height to which soft- bottom macrofauna can rise ...
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Sublittoral soft bottom communities and diversity of Mejillones Bay in northern Chile (Humboldt Current upwelling system)
... Oxygen saturation was identiWed to be the ecological master factor modulating sublitoral soft-bottom communi- ties in the Humboldt Current during EN (Tarazona et al. 1988a, b, 1996; Gutiérrez et al. 2000; ...
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Soft-bottom crustacean assemblages in Mediterranean marine caves: the cave of Cerro Gordo (Granada, Spain) as case study
... to soft-bottom communities, but until now possible changes in soft substrate assem- blages along the gradient of shallow submarine caves have not been ...
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Broad-scale patterns of abundance of non-indigenous soft-bottom invertebrates in Denmark
... Finally, it is important to emphasize that grab-samples have been collected throughout the world, bridging >50 years of monitoring programs and scientiWc investiga- tions across institutions, nations and biogeographic ...
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Community dynamics of intertidal soft-bottom mussel beds over two decades
... on soft bottoms can be classified as autogenic ecosystem engineers, being a habitat distinctly different from the surrounding tidal flats (Jones et ...2003). Soft bottom intertidal mussel beds in the ...
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Interactions in soft bottom benthic communities: Quantitative aspects of behaviour in the surface deposit feedersPygospio elegans (Polychaeta) andMacoma balthica (Bivalvia)
... The feeding mode of both species and the tube-building of P. elegans are assumed to affect community structure by interactions with other species. The weight of tubes of P. [r] ...
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Mass mortality in two common soft-bottom invertebrates,Hydrobia ulvae andCorophium volutator-the possible role of trematodes
... affected other species as well as the population of C. volutator in the silty trench. Selective predation by migratory shorebirds, which forage at the study site in.. large numbers d[r] ...
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The Bivalve Mollusc Abra ovata: Role in Succession of Soft Bottom Communities on Newly Flooded Area of the Caspian Sea
... The next succession stage in Abra ovata communities of Sulaksky Bay does not quite agree with the pattern typical of solid substrates including experimental plates [32]-[35]. On the one hand, the community develop- ment ...
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In-situ investigations on the echinodermAsterias rubens as a predator of soft-bottom communities in the western Baltic Sea
... 12" Asterias rubens: Theoretical feeding duration (h) for several sea-star size classes (upper class limits given above the curves in cm) in reiation to clam size (cm).. Ange[r] ...
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Aspects of the ecology and zoogeography of fishes from soft bottom habitats of the Tasmanian shore zone
... The principal aims are summarised by the following: to provide a simple classification and description of habitats of coast l sedimentary environments to ascertain the validity of these [r] ...
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Habitat-Associated Soundscapes and their Potential Role as a Settlement Cue for Estuarine Larvae.
... off-reef soft bottom sounds, indicating that the bivalve larvae can distinguish and respond to the soundscape characteristics of their settlement habitat (Lillis et ...
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Trophic relationships among scorpaeniform fishes associated with gas platforms
... on soft-sediment bottoms act as attractors for many species, thus increasing biodiversity in the surrounding marine environment (Fabi et ...both soft-bottom dwelling species, which are also found in ...
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Caprellid assemblages (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in shallow waters invaded by Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea from southeastern Spain
... onised soft sediments and dead matte of Posidonia ocea- ...rocky bottom habitat, on sandy and muddy sub- strata and on dead matte of Posidonia ...sandy bottom that is colonised by ...and soft ...
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Characterization of Recent Concepts in Soft Bitopological Space
... 1999. Soft topology was introduced by Shabir and Naz [13] in ...introduced soft limit points, soft Hausdroff space ...of soft interior, soft exterior and soft ...defined ...
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Vol 8, No 9 (2017)
... of soft sets as a new mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainties and has shown several applications of this theory in solving many practical problems in various disciplines like as economics, engineering, ...
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Soft g-Closed Sets in Soft Topological Spaces
... of soft sets as a new mathematical tool for dealing uncertainty, which is completely a new approach for modeling vagueness and ...uncertainties. Soft Set Theory has a rich potential for application in ...
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