Most estuarine ecology textbooks have included the so-called Remane diagram which is
derived from German studies in the Baltic Sea region during the early part of the 20th …

Historic and ongoing sediment contamination adversely affects estuaries, among the most
productive marine ecosystems in the world. However, all estuaries are not the same, and …

Salinity is a major factor controlling the distribution of biota in aquatic systems, and most
aquatic multicellular organisms are either adapted to life in saltwater or freshwater …

Biological invasions in marine environment are the lesser known aspect of global change.
However, recent events which occurred in the Mediterranean Sea demonstrate that they …

A model to estimate the ecological status and identify restoration targets of transitional and
coastal waters was developed. Marine benthic macrophytic species (seaweeds …

The utilization of polychaetes in descriptive ecology is reviewed in the light of recent
research especially concerning the biota hard bottom environments. Polychaetes, often …

European brackish water seas (Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov, Caspian Sea) are
subject to intense invasion of non-indigenous species (NIS). In these seas, salinity is the …

Estuaries, rias, fjords, coastal lagoons, bahiras, river mouths, tidal creeks, deltas and similar
coastal environments are often regarded as a single broad conceptual class.'Brackish',' …

For some of their occupants, estuaries represent spatially discrete habitats, isolated from
each other by barriers to dispersal or physiological tolerance. We present contrasting …

Estuaries, rias, fjords and lagoons (collectively called transitional waters, TW) are highly
important ecosystems both for their high productivity but also as sites of urban and industrial …