Cape dwarf eelgrass Zostera capensis is the most abundant seagrass in South Africa, with
some isolated populations occurring along the East African coastline. Providing numerous …

Tub gurnard, Chelidonichthys lucerna (Linnaeus, 1758), is a Mediterranean-Atlantic benthic
species usually captured as by-catch by Portuguese traditional fisheries and considered the …

The presence of multiple habitat types results in differences in provision types and functions
for a number of fish species along tropical estuaries, which use these ecosystems as …

Seagrass habitats provide structural complexity in coastal estuarine and marine
environments, which offer fish optimal foraging grounds and refuge from predation …

Coastal and estuarine nurseries are composed of habitats with different biotic and abiotic
features. Quantifying the contribution of different habitats within nurseries to juvenile fish …

Episodic river flooding has the capacity to 'reset'estuaries and redirect these systems on a
new path towards some sort of dynamic physical and biological equilibrium. A major river …

The identification and development of locally significant conservation actions require
comprehensive and current ecological species information. Logistically this can be difficult …

The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, has a broad geographic distribution encompassing
coastal waters of the eastern USA and Gulf of Mexico, but intraspecific patterns of habitat …

Long-term temporal studies have been used to assess the effects of climate change on
mysid populations and their complex ecological interplay within heterogeneous ecosystems …

Understanding estuarine diversity patterns is crucial to highlight the ecological value of
coastal ecosystems for fish assemblages. To increase our knowledge, we investigated the …