Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

Intense tourism and human activities have resulted in habitat destruction in sandy beach
ecosystems with negative impacts on the associated communities. To investigate whether …

Abstract Changes in species' abundance have been used as indicators of environmental
and anthropogenic disturbances. However, sublethal, eg, diet, changes should be detected …

Predator-prey interactions are critical in ecological communities. As the wild resources of
Pacific abalone are on the verge of exhaustion, efforts to reveal the effects of predation by …

The objective of this study was to analyze the presence of plastic debris in the digestive tract
contents of Micropogonias furnieri, the most important demersal fish species from the …

Starfish are important predators that may shape rocky shore communities, but their
ecological role in unconsolidated substrate communities is still poorly known. We assessed …

Stranding combined with mass-mortality events of sandy-beach organisms is a frequent but
little-understood phenomenon, which is generally studied based on discrete episodes. The …

Sea stars are major predators of marine invertebrates, in particular, mollusks. Data on the
diet composition and the size structure of sea stars in the NW Atlantic Ocean are limited …

Tivela mactroides is an important fishery resource for local artisanal fishermen in Brazil and
the establishment of management programmes for this species requires information about …

In marine soft-bottom environments, the availability of hard substrates may strongly influence
the reproduction of benthic species. Most marine gastropods attach egg capsules to any …