Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

Cellulose is utilized as a nutritional source by various organisms. For a long time it was
believed that only protozoa, bacteria, and fungi, in addition to plants and photosynthetic …

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, a large tsunami developed and struck
the Pacific coast of eastern Japan. To assess the immediate impacts of the tsunami on …

A huge tsunami is one of the greatest disturbance events in coastal benthic communities,
although the ecological consequences are not fully understood. Here we examined the …

The morphology of two Pseudopolydora species, P. cf. reticulata and P. achaeta are
reported from Japan for the first time. Pseudopolydora cf. reticulata was collected from …

In coastal lagoons, many studies indicated that macrozoobenthic assemblages undergo
marked temporal fluctuations as related to the strong environmental variability of these …

Gamo Lagoon (Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan), a shallow brackish lagoon, was struck by
a 7.2-m-high tsunami on 11 March 2011. In order to assess the tsunami-induced changes in …

The present study aimed to assess short-term effects of intertidal bait digging on
macrobenthic assemblages of two south Iberian Atlantic coastal systems: the Ria Formosa …

We conducted a one-year survey of macrozoobenthic community structure at 5 stations in a
eutrophic canal in inner Tokyo Bay, focusing on the impacts of hypoxia, sediment H 2 S, and …

Influences of sediment types on recolonization of estuarine macrozoobenthos were tested
using enclosures in a hypertrophic lagoon. Three types of azoic sediment, sand (S), sulfide …