The importance of marinas as infrastructures for recreational boating is increasing
substantially. However, information on their soft-bottom benthic communities, a key tool for …

Amphipods are considered a sensitive group to pollution but here different levels of
sensitivity were detected among species, by analysing the impact of five sewage outfalls …

For many years, the world's coastal marine ecosystems have received industrial waste with
high nitrogen concentrations, generating the eutrophication of these ecosystems. Different …

The impacts of two Antarctic stations in different regions, on marine sediment macrofaunal
communities were compared: McMurdo, a very large station in the Ross Sea; and Casey, a …

This review covers selected 2012 articles on the biological effects of pollutants and human
physical disturbances on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems and habitats …

Estuaries are one of the most impacted coastal environments globally, subjected to multiple
stressors from urban, industry and coastal development. With increasing anthropogenic …

The Gulf of Guinea belongs to the most scarcely sampled marine basins in the oceans of the
world. We have analyzed diversity and distribution patterns of cumacean communities on …

We assessed the influence of different organic matter (OM) inputs associated with
terrigenous/freshwater allochthonous and sewage derive on bioturbation and irrigation …

We assessed the effects of 40 ocean outfalls on adjacent macrobenthic invertebrates. Data
were obtained from a review of gray and peer-review literature. Different parameters …

Biotic indices have been developed to summarise information provided by benthic
macroinvertebrates, but their use can require specialized taxonomic expertise as well as a …