Blue carbon ecosystems in Brazil: Overview and an urgent call for conservation and restoration

MO Soares, LEA Bezerra, M Copertino… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we discuss knowledge and gaps regarding blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) in
Brazil, considering the urgency to apply protection actions and policies to safeguard their …

Trophic connectivity and basal food sources sustaining tropical aquatic consumers along a mangrove to ocean gradient

MC Claudino, ALM Pessanha, FG Araújo… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Variations in the relative importance of autotrophic sources to aquatic consumers along
environmental gradients and the trophic role of mangrove-derived detritus to marine coastal …

Importance of terrestrial subsidies for estuarine food webs in contrasting East African catchments

KG Abrantes, A Barnett, TR Marwick, S Bouillon - Ecosphere, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known on the degree to which terrestrial organic matter delivered to tropical
estuaries contributes to estuarine consumers. Here, stable isotope analysis is used to …

Hydrologic pulsing promotes spatial connectivity and food web subsidies in a subtropical coastal ecosystem

AM Garcia, KO Winemiller, DJ Hoeinghaus… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Resource pulsing is a widespread phenomenon, but its effects on ecosystem dynamics are
often difficult to predict. Hydrological pulsing, in particular, is known to influence the structure …

[HTML][HTML] Multivariate approaches to assess the drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate communities and biotic indices in a highly urbanized fluvial-estuarine system

KS Yao, YJ He, PJ Van den Brink, YN Dai, Y Yang… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban estuaries are amongst the most severely altered systems worldwide and undergo a
wide range of ecological crises such as habitat destruction, nutrient enrichment and …

Feeding ecology and basal food sources that sustain the Paradoxal frog Pseudis minuta: a multiple approach combining stomach content, prey availability, and stable …

S Huckembeck, D Loebmann, EF Albertoni, SM Hefler… - Hydrobiologia, 2014 - Springer
In the present study, we investigated ontogenetic diet shifts, feeding strategy, prey
preferences, and basal food sources that sustain the Paradoxal frog (Pseudis minuta) based …

Spatial diet overlap and food resource in two congeneric mullet species revealed by stable isotopes and stomach content analyses

AFS Garcia, AM Garcia, SR Vollrath, F Schneck… - Community …, 2018 - Springer
Food partitioning among coexisting species in different habitats remains an important
research topic in trophic ecology. In this work, we combined carbon and nitrogen stable …

The interplay between terrestrial organic matter and benthic macrofauna: Framework, synthesis, and perspectives

JCF Pardo, AE Poste, H Frigstad, CO Quintana… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems are shaped by physical, chemical, and biological drivers, which affect the
quality and quantity of basal energy sources, with impacts that cascade to higher trophic …

Stable isotopes reveal temporal and between-habitat changes in trophic pathways in a southwestern Atlantic estuary

MC Claudino, PC Abreu, AM Garcia - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2013 - int-res.com
Studies on food web structure in estuaries based on stable isotopes have usually not taken
spatiotemporal variations in the isotopic variability of food web components into account. We …

[KNJIGA][B] Fish, sediment and dams in the Mekong: how hydropower development affects water productivity and food supply

E Baran, E Guerin, J Nasielski - 2015 - cgspace.cgiar.org
The Mekong River is home to the largest inland fishery in the world, which is due in part to its
exceptional sediment and nutrie Page 1 The Mekong River is home to the largest inland …