River deltas and estuaries belong to the most significant coastal landforms on our planet
and are usually very densely populated. Nearly 600 million people live in river deltas …

Rugulopteryx okamurae is a species of brown macroalgae belonging to the Dictyotaceae
family and native to the north-western Pacific. As an Invasive Alien Species (IAS), it was first …

The growing anthropogenic pressure near estuarine areas is evidence of the relevance of
these systems to human well-being, especially because of their delivery of essential …

Understanding the connectivity among seascape habitats is an important emerging topic in
marine ecology and coastal management. Mangroves are known to provide many …

Microphytobenthos (MPB) provides important ecosystem functions and services, contributing
significantly to the total primary production in shallow coastal ecosystems. However …

The algorithms of Novoa et al. and Gons et al. were recalibrated and applied to Sentinel2
data to retrieve suspended particulate matter (SPM) and chlorophyll a (chl a) concentration …

Microphytobenthic (MPB) biofilms play significant roles in the ecology of coastal mudflats,
including provision of essential food resources to shorebird species. In these ecosystems …

Microphytobenthos (MPB) contributes significantly to estuarine primary production, so that
quantifying its biomass is crucial for assessing their ecosystem functioning. Conventional …

Seagrass meadows are monitored in the frame of several environmental programs
worldwide, including the Water Framework Directive (WFD), to evaluate the ecological status …

Microphytobenthos (MPB) are central to benthic tidal flat ecological networks. Large-scale
information on total MPB biomass is difficult to obtain from traditional in-situ measurements …