Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

The biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (B–EF) relationship has become of main interest in
the last few decades, mostly because of the worldwide increase in species extinctions …

Recent reductions in sea ice cover and thickness in the Arctic will lead to changes in food
supplies for benthic consumers. We experimentally assessed responses of two common …

Sediment is recognized as a major environmental sink for contaminants, including
engineered nanoparticles (NPs). Consequently, sediment-living organisms are likely to be …

Ecosystem consequences of biodiversity change are often studied from a species loss
perspective, while the effects of invasive species on ecosystem functions are rarely …

Competition between large and small species for the same food is common in a number of
ecosystems including aquatic ones. How diversity of larger consumers affects the access of …

We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of drifting algal
conglomerates on meiofauna and how its response to the presence of various macrobenthic …

Accumulating evidence shows that increased biodiversity has a positive effect on ecosystem
functioning, but the mechanisms that underpin this positive relationship are contentious …

Foraging macrofauna, such as the sand dollar Encope emarginata, can modify sediment
properties and affect spatial distribution patterns of microphytobenthos and meiobenthos at …

We conducted a microcosm experiment to evaluate the capability of fauna inhabiting or
being transported by drifting filamentous algae to colonize defaunated sediment. We …