While Robertson Davies (1985) was not discoursing on the mechanisms controlling larval
settlement of soft-sediment invertebrates when he wrote the poignant phrase,“… science is …

One of the major goals of community ecology is to understand how in-teractions among the
resident organisms affect their distribution and abun-dance. For terrestrial and rocky …

The tidal coastline presents a fascinating ecological world. Rocky shores with their recurrent
zonation of algae and sessile invertebrates demonstrate the orderliness of nature …

There is a growing threat of habitat change in estuarine and coastal regions, yet there are
few models that enable ecologists and resource managers to forecast the response of …

Climate change will not only shift environmental means but will also increase the intensity of
extreme events, exerting additional stress on ecosystems. While field observations on the …

Processes important in the development of subtidal seagrass beds composed of Thalassia
testudinum, Syringodium filiforme, Halodule wrightii, and many rhizophytic algal species …

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

The mining sector is growing in parallel with societal demands for minerals. One of the most
important environmental issues and economic burdens of industrial mining on land is the …

An important ecological issue is develo** an understanding of how patterns and
processes vary with scale. We designed a field experiment to test how differences in the …

Responses to disturbance of estuarine infauna were studied to test the hypothesis that
seasonality, the estuarine environmental gradient and sediment composition would …