Over 50 million cubic meters of mining tailings were released in the Rio Doce basin after the
collapse of the Fundão dam (Samarco) in November 2015. Predicting significant impacts on …

Salt marshes form true ecotones between land and sea fauna and flora that have adapted to
an environment that is both aquatic and terrestrial in nature. Despite the extreme and sharp …

1.1 Background Since sediments are the ultimate repository of most of the contaminants that
enter Australia s waterways, it is appropriate that regulatory attention address the ecological …

Increasing evidence indicates that spatial and temporal patterns in ecological systems are
not independent of the scale of measurement. In this study we used a hierarchical sampling …

DNA-derived measurements of biological composition have the potential to produce data
covering all of life, and provide a tantalizing proposition for researchers and managers. We …

Abstract The Wadden Sea is a shallow coastal region, with a large area of sedimentary tidal
flats that extends from The Netherlands to Denmark and has been declared a site of …

Processes interacting across scales of space and time influence emergent patterns in
ecological systems, but to obtain strong inference and empirical generalities, ecologists …

Using modern computer based search engines we were able to assemble, review, and
document the rise of the concept of scale in benthic ecology. In the early literature the term …

The concept of trophic level is particularly relevant in order to improve knowledge of the
structure and the functioning of an ecosystem. A precise estimation of fish trophic levels …

Freshwater inflow is a driver of the functioning of estuaries, and average salinity is usually
measured to identify the effects of inflow in salinity-zone habitats. However, salinity …