Aquatic ecologists face challenges in identifying the general rules of the functioning of
ecosystems. A common framework, including freshwater, marine, benthic, and pelagic …

Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Abstract Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific
names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and …

An intricate network of interactions between organisms and their environment form the
ecosystems that sustain life on earth. With a detailed understanding of these interactions …

Hypoxia is a common occurrence in aquatic habitats, and it is becoming an increasingly
frequent and widespread environmental perturbation, primarily as the result of …

Temporal baselines are needed for biodiversity, in order for the change in biodiversity to be
measured over time, the targets for biodiversity conservation to be defined and conservation …

We analyzed the effects of sewage discharge on a subtropical estuary by comparing the
functional diversity of intertidal macroinvertebrate assemblages in contaminated with non …

Biological traits analysis (BTA) provides insight into causes and consequences of
biodiversity change that cannot be achieved using traditional taxonomic approaches …

Polar marine regions are facing rapid changes induced by climate change, with
consequences for local faunal populations, but also for overall ecosystem functioning, goods …

The recently increased interest in marine trait-based studies highlights one general demand–
the access to standardized, reference-based trait information. This demand holds especially …